Conference Session

Developing Systems Engineering Curricula

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alice Squires; Robert Cloutier

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Systems Engineering Constituent Committee

Evaluating the Effectiveness of Classroom Discussion Approaches Used in the Remote Delivery of Systems Engineering Education
Abstract
This paper addresses the effectiveness of classroom discussion approaches used in theremote online delivery of graduate level systems engineering education at the StevensInstitute of Technology during the Fall 2009 semester. Twenty-two unique systemsengineering graduate level core and elective courses, covering systems engineeringcurriculum content in three of the five levels of the evolved INCOSE graduate systemsengineering reference curriculum, were offered in thirty-two course sections over the 15-week Stevens Webcampus semester. We measured effectiveness of the classroomdiscussion approaches used

Collection

2023 Fall Mid Atlantic Conference: Meeting our students where they are and getting them where they need to be

Authors

Gang Liu, University of Pittsburgh at Bradford

indicated thatadopting OERs does not necessarily improve the academic performance of the students, or thedifferences are not statistically significant [5], [19]-[25]. One research shows that the overallacademic performance in one of the OERs-adopted business courses is worse than the contrastgroup using traditional textbooks [25].Meanwhile, OERs have kept improving in the past decades with the contribution of OER-supporting organizations, faculties and students [27]. Some of the OERs are designed to deploythe most effective ways by integrating the feedback and implementing the research results incognitive science, through which to help the students to get better understanding of criticalconcepts [28]. They usually keep updating within a shorter

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jianyu Dong, California State University, Los Angeles; Nancy Warter-Perez, California State University, Los Angeles

that are not directly related to CPBL (e.g. knowledge outcome # 4,#5, #9 and #10), the pre and post survey results showed relatively smaller improvement. Theleast improvement occurred in the general skill outcomes (skill outcomes #1, #2, #3). This wasexpected since these skills were not directly reinforced by the course content. Also there waslimited room for improvement since the students’ self-ranking was high in the pre-survey. Insummary, the analysis of the pre/post results demonstrated that the CPBL is quite effective inhelping the students to understand course material and to develop design skills. This conclusionwas reinforced by both the faculty observation of the students’ performance and the results ofstudent satisfaction survey (as

Conference Session

Promoting Technical Communication Skills

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Vicki V. May P.E., Dartmouth College; David Alexander Macaulay

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

Paper ID #28655The Way Things Work: Sketching and Building to Improve VisualCommunication and Spatial Reasoning SkillsDr. Vicki V. May P.E., Dartmouth College Vicki V. May, Ph.D., P.E., is an Instructional Professor of Engineering in the Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth. Her research focuses on engineering education and K-12 outreach. She teaches courses in solid mechanics, structural analysis, and design at Dartmouth. Prior to relocating to the east coast, Professor May was an Associate Professor of Architectural Engineering at the California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo.David Alexander

Conference Session

Engineering Management Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ekaterina Koromyslova, South Dakota State University; Alexander Koromyslov, South Dakota State University

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Engineering Management

Paper ID #26107An Advanced Teaching Methodology to Improve Student Learning Outcomesin Core Discipline Content and Soft SkillsDr. Ekaterina Koromyslova, South Dakota State University Dr. Ekaterina Koromyslova is an Assistant Professor in Operations Management. She teaches several courses, including Operations and Supply Chain Management, Manufacturing Cost Analysis, and Deci- sion Making in Management. She has several years of industry experience as an analyst-consultant for manufacturing companies and as a leading manager in supply chain and logistics. Her research inter- ests are in engineering education, including

Collection

2007 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

Nhut Tan Ho

courses, a freshman orientation course, astudent study center; and structured study groups. Significantly, the MEP model originated atCalifornia State University, Northridge (CSUN) and spread nationwide.While these measures have been effective, their impact has reached a diminishing point. Giventhe projected imperative need for increased minority representation in STEM professions, thereis a critical need for new methods to further improve students’ learning and retention. A highlypromising approach is to use an innovative undergraduate education initiative pioneered by theMassachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) called Conceive-Design-Implement-Operate(CDIO)18,19,20 as the basis to redesign curriculum and to implement active and

Conference Session

Design Teams 1

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Amy Trauth, University of Delaware; Marcia Gail Headley, University of Delaware; Sara Grajeda, University of Delaware; Dustyn Roberts P.E., University of Pennsylvania; Jenni Buckley, University of Delaware

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

PhD (2006) in Mechanical Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley, where she worked on computational and experimental methods in spinal biomechanics. Since 2006, her research efforts have focused on the development and mechanical evaluation of medical and rehabilitation devices, particularly orthopaedic, neurosurgical, and pediatric devices. She teaches courses in design, biomechanics, and mechanics at University of Delaware and is heavily involved in K12 engineering edu- cation efforts at the local, state, and national levels. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020INDIVIDUAL DESIGN EXPERIENCE IMPROVES STUDENT SELF-EFFICACY ON TEAM-BASED ENGINEERING DESIGN

Conference Session

T1A: Readiness 1

Collection

2019 FYEE Conference

Authors

Nicholas A Meisel, The Pennsylvania State University; Sarah C Ritter, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Christopher McComb, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Jessica Dolores Menold, Pennsylvania State University, University Park

Tagged Topics

FYEE Conference - Paper Submission

communication. Such forms of communication should be emphasized throughout the project, so that students learn how to effectively communicate concepts and final results through formative feedback. This can include i) written reports, memos, and emails, ii) oral presentations, and iii) visual artifacts.3. APPLICATION OF THE FRAMEWORK: CASE STUDY EXAMPLES A successful EDSGN 100 project is one that is carefully curated to integrate the field guide’skey characteristics with the content from the course modules. Such a project will expose first-yearstudents to a comprehensive learning experience where they can develop their professionalengineering skills. The proposed flow for applying the framework is shown in Figure 2 and isdemonstrated

Conference Session

Design in BME Poster Session

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David McStravick, Rice University; Marcia O'Mallley, Rice University

Tagged Divisions

Biomedical

to the project. In an attempt toreverse this trend and have more beneficial interdisciplinary design experiences for our students,our mechanical engineering and materials science program has adopted principles of cooperativelearning to improve team performance, increase knowledge acquired, and promote trulyinteractive experiences in the capstone design course. This paper will highlight the revisions tothe course and will use one project (the Medi-Fridge) as a case study for the effectiveness ofthese implementations.As an example project for these course revisions, this year a group of senior engineering students(three mechanical engineering and two electrical engineering students) worked on a method tokeep medication cool for extended

Conference Session

NSF Grantees' Poster Session

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees Poster Session

’ team skills. • How to schedule and adjust activities to be more efficient and effective given the tight course schedule in a 10-week quarter system. It is always a big challenge to find a good balance between direct instruction (lectures) and active learning components (in-class projects and inquiry-based learning activities). It is clear that our first year plan of project activities was not perfect. For instances, we embedded six in-class projects in CS470, and student focus group reported insufficient lecture time to cover certain topics in class. Based on careful evaluation of course materials as well as the assessment findings, the PIs have improved the organization of curriculum. More

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Camilla Saviz, University of the Pacific; Abel Fernandez, University of the Pacific; Michael Golanbari, University of the Pacific; Rahim Khoie, University of the Pacific; Kyle Watson, University of the Pacific

First Year Engineering StudentsAbstractAnalysis of retention data in engineering programs at the Pacific School of Engineering andComputer Science revealed that only 45 to 50 percent of students entering as freshmen actuallygraduated from engineering programs in 2003 and 2004, and that up to 30 percent had left duringtheir first year. A new program implemented in Fall 2005 is focused on improving retention of,and the quality of learning by first year engineering students. The program has been integratedwithin the context of the core "Introduction to Engineering" course taken by all engineeringmajors, leveraging the small school environment found at Pacific. Program components include apeer mentoring/tutoring program, math assessment tests

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering Division (MULTI) Technical Session 6

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Karl D. Schubert, University of Arkansas; Lee Shoultz; Shantel Romer, University of Arkansas

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering Division (MULTI)

: applying continuous improvement practicesand realizing that, in a sense, the program is in start-up mode (as in an entrepreneurial start-up)and therefore we need to be nimble and willing to evolve the program as we improve it andexpand it.As we have grown, we have also seen an increase in the number of students transferring fromother majors within the institution and from other colleges and universities. These includestudents who have courses that may satisfy some courses in our curriculum, particularly theintroductory programming courses (Python, R, Object Oriented Programming). This hasmotivated us to develop a course equivalency list which benefits the students and our academicadvisors.More on these topics in the next sections.Program

Conference Session

International Division Technical Session 3 - Humanitarian Design

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Awatef Ergai, Kennesaw State University; Shane Peterson; Ginny Zhan, Kennesaw State University; Sabine Smith

human factors, cognitive, and systems engineering tools to optimize the integration of humans in healthcare systems by designing human- centered processes and developing new tools to improve patient safety and healthcare quality in addition to engineering education.Shane D Peterson Shane D. Peterson (Ph.D., Washington University in St. Louis) is an Assistant Professor of German at Kennesaw State University in metro Atlanta. From 2015-18, he was a faculty member in the Eurotech dual-degree (Engineering & German Studies) program and living-learning community at the University of Connecticut. He regularly teaches a course on German for professional purposes.Ginny Zhan Dr. Ginny Q. Zhan is a professor of Psychological

Conference Session

Energy Conversion and Conservation Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Matthew R. Aldeman, Illinois State University

Tagged Divisions

Energy Conversion and Conservation

wood, wooden dowel rods, shelfsupport brackets, screws, pairs of ceramic and neodymium magnets, and thirty feet of 24 AWGmagnet wire. Students are encouraged to iteratively test and improve their designs. Thegenerators are tested by attaching an electric drill to the input shaft of the generator, and theoutput is measured with an oscilloscope. The design objective is to maximize the output voltageof the machine. After some experimentation, the instructor for the course has set a benchmark of300 mV as the target voltage output. Some students have achieved output voltages of more than3V. The assessment method consists of two parts: i) a quantitative assessment of the machine’soutput voltage compared to the 300 mV benchmark, and ii) a qualitative

Conference Session

Environmental Engineering Division Technical Session 2: Innovative Approaches for Teaching Environmental Engineering

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Joe Dallas Moore, Carnegie Mellon University; Turner Cotterman, Carnegie Mellon University; James Wynn, Carnegie Mellon University

Tagged Divisions

Environmental Engineering

we discuss NO CHANGE course outcomes for engineering education pedagogy. the relevance of this course to other MADE environmental grand challenges. We are unsure exactly what the reviewer is asking us to do. 1 In the Discussion, comment on how you could improve We have discussed our study limitations CHANGE MADE and extend data collection in future iterations in order to and have provided reflections on how we learn more about the cognitive and

Conference Session

Technology and Learning

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephen Silliman; Leo McWilliams; Kevin Abbott; G. Christopher Clark

improved student response to lectures and improved retention4. Assessment, both formal and informal, has shown significant dichotomy of student opinionregarding this application of the ARS. One group of students felt that the ARS had little netvalue to learning. In contrast, another group indicated that the regular use of the ARS had apositive impact on the course (to the point that one student indicated that use of the ARS was aprimary motivation to “get up early to attend” this class which meets from 12:50 – 1:40 !).Overall, use of the ARS, in the absence of other new technologies, has had a positive effect onthe learning environment4. The second technology utilized is a Tablet PC (TPC), combined with NetSupport Manager®software, that can

Conference Session

Track 1 - Session 2

Collection

2014 ASEE International Forum

Authors

Henry Griffith, Wright State University; Riad Ajami, Director, Center for Global Business, WSU; Angela Griffith

Tagged Topics

Curriculum and Lab Development

parameterized content deliverysystems in the course redesign process.The research described herein presents a description of such efforts for the purpose of redesigningthe preparatory course within the WSU engineering mathematics pathway. Customization ofsystem parameters for an international cohort of over 60 students from Saudi Arabia and Kuwaithas produced successful results in the form of improved student satisfaction and performance.Further research is ongoing in an attempt to leverage the significant data capacity of the ALEKSsoftware system in order to provide optimization at the student level, thereby increasing processagility and ensuring optimal effectiveness. In addition, an expansion of the efforts described hereinregarding the examination

Conference Session

Women in Engineering: Faculty/Curriculum

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Heidi Diefes-Dux; Brenda Capobianco; Judith Zawojewski; Margret Hjalmarson; P.K. Imbrie; Deborah Follman

Engineering”, we now seekto address the questions: "What more needs to be done to improve female students’ interest andpersistence in engineering?" and "How can we better understand the reasons that female studentsleave engineering despite good academic performance?" Our aim is to (1) incorporateinnovations into engineering education that may be more supportive of women students and (2)research the implementation of these innovations in the education environment that is present infoundational undergraduate engineering courses. This dual focus has provided a unique way ofapproaching issues of gender inequity for female students in the Purdue Engineering program.The innovation that we are implementing consists of small technical team, realistic

Conference Session

Engineering Technology Division (ETD) Technical Session 6

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ravi C. Manimaran, Department Chair, Engineering Technology, Austin Peay State University; Ali Haider, Austin Peay State University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology Division (ETD)

assessment and evaluation are systematically utilized as inputfor the program’s continuous improvement actions (involving the constituents). (3) As part of theCI process, during spring and fall 2022, department faculty led by the main author, performed aperiodic review and revision of the course description, pre-requisite, and degree requirements ofall the course offerings in the three BS in ET/ABET Programs. (4) Documented evidence ofimplemented action items demonstrating that feedback from the regional industry / IAB wassystematically utilized as input for the program’s continuous improvement actions.The full paper is aimed at elucidating all the four strategies (1- 4) deployed in the efficaciousimplementation and attainment of ABET Criterion 4 CI

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tom Carter, College of Dupage; Cory Dicarlo; Susan Fenwick; Marcia Frank, College of Dupage; Richard Jarman, College of Dupage

scholarship wasslightly more demanding that the application process for standard financial aid. This additionaldemand, however slight, may have required the S-STEM students to be more motivated andorganized. We argue that the dominant cause was “intrusive advising” or personal attention ofSuccess Coach worked as suggested by the Guided Pathways model. This idea is supported thedata in the first two rows of table 4. The Success Coach was hired in March of 2017 and so hadno effect on the students taking courses in the fall of 2016 and only minimal effect of thestudents taking courses in the spring of 2017. While the S-STEM student has a slightly highersuccess rate during those two terms may be explained by the two reasons stated above, it is

Conference Session

Unique Laboratory Experiments & Programs

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Hyun Kim

strengthening the capstonedesign courses improved the ratings in recent years, students have not been fully confident intheir design ability, especially designing and conducting their own experiments. These surveyresults are also consistent with the findings and observation of the author who has beencontinuously teaching Senior-level laboratory courses for the last twenty years. The authorcontends that there are two major reasons that prevent students from adequately developing theability and skills. The first one is limited training due to insufficient exposure in handling open-end experiments, and the other is lack of opportunity in reviewing and improving imperfectexperiments due to their own mistakes and/or inferior equipment by devising new

Conference Session

Engaging Community through STEM partnerships

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert Schaffer, Santa Clara University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Community Engagement Division

Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Engagement in Practice: Using STEM Outreach as a Platform to Improve Social Awareness and Learning SkillsIntroductionSTEM Outreach in the Community is a course taught at Santa Clara University (SCU) with thegoal of satisfying SCU’s Experiential Learning for Social Justice (ELSJ) requirement andproviding an avenue for SCU students to make a difference in the local community. The courseconsists of an outreach component where students teach engineering lessons after school at localpartner sites to 20-25 at-risk K-12 students. Most partners have students from 4th-6th grade as it isan ideal time for STEM outreach [1]. In addition to benefiting the K-12 students, STEM outreachhas also been shown

Collection

2024 South East Section Meeting

Authors

Amy Borello Gruss, Kennesaw State University ; Nicholas Anthony Clegorne

Tagged Topics

Diversity

manystudents still need development in the interpersonal skills necessary for teamwork and teamefficiency. This research proposes that the low-stakes activity of Visual Thinking Strategies(VTS) can be used as a tool to practice communication and active listening. VTS is a tool forobservers to have guided interactions with artwork and has shown to promote observation andlistening skills in participants in the medical field, though little research has been done on theimpact in the engineering field. This research found that implementing VTS activities in a smallpilot course was an effective way to increase students' preference towards teamwork, asmeasured by the Collective Orientation instrument. This shows 16 out of 22 participantsincreased their

Collection

1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert L. Green

DevelopmentYoung engineering graduates can find themselves in leadership roles very early in their careers.They may be project team leaders, quality improvement process team leaders, or officers in theArmed Forces. It is also very likely that, as they progress in their careers, they will need to begood leaders since "40% of industrial executives and 34% of all top corporate managers in theUnited States have engineering backgrounds" (Bennett 1996).There are many excellent reference books on leadership and Kouzes and Posner’s "TheLeadership Challenge" is an especially effective one. Engineering students can benefitsignificantly from many of the leadership development exercises suggested by Kouzes andPosner. Engineering instructors should consider the

Conference Session

ECE Distance Education

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Zekeriya Aliyazicioglu, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona; Phyllis R. Nelson, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona; Shailesh Sujanani, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona; Jolly Kuo, Cal Poly Pomona

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Electrical and Computer

, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, California 91768, USA.AbstractStudent success in electrical engineering is built on mastery of foundational circuit analysisconcepts such as Kirchhoff's laws and the Thevenin and Norton theorems. However, the coursein which these concepts are taught comes very early in the student's post baccalaureate career.Many students at this level have not yet developed sufficient skills such as effective note taking,building conceptual frameworks that integrate new ideas with existing knowledge, and the needto utilize concepts from prerequisite courses. This paper describes web-based supplementalstudy aids which are being developed at our university. Students may utilize these study aids toreview and practice

Collection

2010 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Kevin R. Lewelling

Using In-Class Teamwork Learning Modules in Digital Systems to Improve Conceptual Understanding Kevin R. Lewelling University of Arkansas - Fort Smith 5210 Grand Avenue, Fort Smith, AR 72913-3649AbstractThe pedagogy associated with using in-class Teamwork Learning Modules (TLMs) has beenused to improve understanding of key concepts in Digital Systems. TLMs can be incorporatedinto current Digital Systems courses with minimal changes to existing curriculum. The processis based on students working with each other to solve digital systems problems while providingrapid feedback from the instructor needed to strengthen proper

Conference Session

First-year Programs Division Technical Session 4: The Best of the All: FPD Best Papers

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mary A. Fraley, Michigan Technological University; A. J. Hamlin, Michigan Technological University; Amber Kemppainen, Michigan Technological University; Gretchen L. Hein, Michigan Technological University

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

Paper ID #11812Using Pre-Lesson Materials and Quizzes to Improve Student Readiness andPerformanceMs. Mary A. Fraley, Michigan Technological University Mary Fraley is a Lecturer in the Department of Engineering Fundamentals at Michigan Technological University. Her research interests include online/blended learning methods, first-year engineering courses and program development.Dr. A. J. Hamlin, Michigan Technological University AJ Hamlin is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Engineering Fundamentals at Michigan Technolog- ical University, where she teaches first-year engineering courses. Her research interests include

Conference Session

Engineering Design Graphics Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Dan G. Dimitriu, San Antonio College; Dana Corrina Dimitriu, University of Texas at San Antonio

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Design Graphics

Paper ID #28748A Simple Method Allowing Students to Improve Their 3-D VisualizationSkillsDr. Dan G. Dimitriu, San Antonio College Dan G. Dimitriu has been practicing engineering since 1970 and taught engineering courses concurrently for more than 20 years at various institutions. In 2001, he joined San Antonio College full-time as the Coordinator of its Engineering program. He has been involved with several engineering societies and became a member of the Two-year College Division of ASEE in 2002. His research interests are in engineering graphics, 3-D Visualization, fuel cells, plastics, and engineering education. He

Conference Session

Systems Engineering Division Technical Session 4

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Pablo Biswas, Texas A&M International University; Runchang Lin, Texas A&M International University

Tagged Divisions

Systems Engineering

the study described the insights into the effectiveness of the course designand facilitation and correlated these with participant satisfaction, and argues for using acombination of methods when studying discussion forums in online courses. Similar studies arecarried out by Park and Bonk22 with applied synchronous learning communication in education.According to the previous findings, a need for an interactive application that will serve as the Page 24.147.5active communication port between professors and the students of TAMIU outside the classperiod became very crucial. Also, the need to improve early college students’ courseperformance in

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alice Squires, Stevens Institute of Technology; Mike Pennotti, Stevens Institute of Technology; Dinesh Verma, Stevens Institute of Technology

the constraints of a live classroom, without being able to leveragethe advantages of the new medium. We believe the online education environment has fargreater potential than the traditional classroom environment for effectively incorporatingauditory, visual, and kinesthetic stimuli that address the various developed models oflearning while remaining asynchronous in format. The first step toward this end is todevelop a framework for online learning that can be used anywhere, at any time. Wehave previously defined this framework and have shown that we can provide equivalentlearning with comparable student feedback and a manageable instructor course load in anasynchronous online version of our graduate course – Fundamentals of