Conference Session

Research Infrastructure in STEM Disciplines

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Carlotta Berry, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Cordelia Brown, Purdue University; Ingrid St. Omer, University of Kentucky; Stephanie Adams, University of Nebraska-Lincoln; Michael Smith, National Society of Black Engineers

Tagged Divisions

Minorities in Engineering

implemented in the classroom.This paper will present a survey and analysis of data collected from graduate and undergraduatestudents via the National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE) online membership portal. TheNSBE membership includes approximately 10,000 collegiate students, 3,500 pre-collegestudents and 4,500 technical professionals. The large number and diverse set of students whoaccess NSBE Online (NOL) provides an opportunity to gain insight into the preferences of theAfrican American engineering student. The survey contained ten (10) questions concerning thestudents’ learning preferences and classroom techniques such as team projects, pop quizzes,individual questioning, and active learning activities.The data collected from this body of

Conference Session

Research Infrastructure in STEM Disciplines

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jacqueline Fairley, Georgia Institute of Tehnology; Jill Auerbach, Georgia Institute of Technology; Adrianne Prysock, Georgia Institute of Technology; Leyla Conrad, Georgia Institute of Technology; Gary May, Georgia Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Minorities in Engineering

10 Program Oral Research Presentations/Written Report Assessment Submissions/Post-Program Survey Table 1: 2007 SURE Program Assessment, Logistics, and Research Skills Seminars.Assessment and Evaluation Evaluation of the 2007 SURE program was conducted on-site using pre-and post-surveys. The surveys consisted of a 13 question pre-program survey (in Appendix E), anda 35 question post-program survey (in Appendix F). The pre-program survey was administered to the student participants during the firstweek of the program (week 1) at the orientation session by the SURE AssessmentDirector. Results from the pre-program survey described the student participant’s initialthoughts about attending

Conference Session

Improving the Teaching Skills of Graduate Students

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Erin Crede, Virginia Tech; Maura Borrego, Virginia Tech

Tagged Divisions

Graduate Studies

first and second semester during the second year of your GTF program? 3. How do you balance your teaching and research interests?Faculty Mentors: 1. What impact has the GTF program had on __[fellows]_ ’s success? 2. What benefits do you see in this program? How might the GTF program be improved?C. Data Analysis Constant Comparative method 18 was used to systematically analyze the data and arrive atconclusions. Based on the results from the first year assessment, and highlighted in othersources 11, 13, 14 we developed an initial visual representation of the coding scheme. This visualrepresentation was created to begin grouping the interview comments into general categories,and to determine the

Conference Session

MET Papers 2

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Orlando M, Ayala, Old Dominion University; Otilia Popescu, Old Dominion University; Vukica M. Jovanovic, Old Dominion University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

participation rate was76.92% in Spring 2015. The total number of students in each semester was: 34, 62, 47, and 56for Spring 2015, Fall 2015, Spring 2016, and Fall 2016 respectively. The survey was a variant ofthe surveys used to study the impact Personal Responses Systems implementation in classrooms,such as for clikers 13 and Polleverywhere online system 14. There were few initial demographicalquestions that were not used in this study. There were two general questions: 1) how often didthey watch the pre-recorded lectures? With the options being: Never, Sometimes, Most of thetime, or Always, and 2) what is your overall GPA? With the options being: between 4.0 and 3.5,between 3.5 and 3.0, between 3.0 and 2.5, or Below 2.0. Then, the survey included 15

Conference Session

Thermodynamics, Fluids, and Heat Transfer II

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ahmed Cherif Megri, University of Wyoming

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

AC 2011-2609: CAPSTONE COURSE: HVAC SYSTEMS DESIGN AT UNI-VERSITY OF WYOMINGAhmed Cherif Megri, University of Wyoming Dr. Ahmed Cherif Megri, associate professor of architectural engineering at the University of Wyoming (UW), teaches several HVAC and energy courses. Dr. Megri is also teaching a course titled ”Compre- hensive Performance of Building Envelope and HVAC Systems” for Summer School at UW, and ”Smoke and Fire Dynamics” during summer session at Concordia University, Canada. His research areas include airflow modeling, zonal modeling, energy modeling, and artificial intelligence modeling using the support vector machine learning approach. Prior to his actual position at UW, he was an assistant professor and

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade for Teaching I

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jessica Yellin, University of Washington; Yi-Min Huang, University of Washington; Jennifer Turns, University of Washington; Charity Tsuruda, University of Washington

Tagged Divisions

New Engineering Educators

that were not available on the web at the time ofwriting. Page 11.1219.6FindingsThis section first discusses some general comments about the search for teaching portfolioactivities at the institutions that we sampled. The results of this search are summarized in theAppendix as Table 1. The rest of this section will describe the findings represented in the tableand discuss observations about the findings such as the purpose of the teaching portfolio activity,the format of the activity, and program influences. Specific information regarding the teachingportfolio activities at the institutions profiled in this section may be found through the

Conference Session

Perspectives and Approaches to Teaching Simulation and Design-Based Courses

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Richard Turton P.E., West Virginia University

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

developing the 3-D immersive training Page 23.82.2system that allows students to experience a complete chemical plant in a virtual environment.The 3-D-ITS is linked to the OTS and allows students or other operators to navigate through thevirtual plant, to operate equipment, to make process changes, to observe process trends, to “seeinto” operating equipment, and to experience emergency situations. The potential for using suchsystems in chemical engineering education will be discussed.Structure of the Process Simulation CourseThe process simulation course was taught as a technical elective to 10 students (5 undergraduatesand 5 graduates) in the Spring

Conference Session

Training and Mentoring of Graduate Teaching Assistants

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Raslinda Ghazali, Purdue University; Heidi A. Diefes-Dux, Purdue University, West Lafayette

Tagged Divisions

Graduate Studies

tasks.1 In addition to classroomteaching, GTAs have other responsibilities such as holding office hours, grading, helpingstudents, answering questions, and attending lecture. Further, the role of GTAs may varyfrom one institution to another, and from one course to another, depending on thecurricular approach taken by the particular institution or course.In a study on curricular approaches conducted under the National Science Foundation(NSF) it is recommended that the essence of engineering, which includes the iterativeprocess of designing, predicting performance, building, and testing, should be taughtstarting in the first year of a degree program.2 While technical excellence is essential forengineering students, it is also essential for

Conference Session

Research on the First Year I

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rhonda Kowalchuk, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale; Tarnisha Green, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale; Robert Ricks, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale; John Nicklow, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale

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First-Year Programs

increase enrollment.The COE paid for housing, meals, and books for participants in the Summer Bridge Program.However, participants were required to cover the following expenses: (1) transportation to andfrom campus, (2) weekend meals (though several cookouts were sponsored by the COE) (3)entertainment, and (4) miscellaneous expenses (laundry, school supplies, phone calls, etc.).Participants were also required to sign an agreement which stated that they would comply withall of the rules and guidelines of the Summer Bridge Program. A participant not following theguidelines may be asked to go home for the remainder of the summer session and return at thebeginning of the fall semester

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Mariano Savelski; Stephanie Farrell; Robert Hesketh; C. Stewart Slater

health and the environment [1]. In arecent conference this definition of green engineering was more broadly defined as transforming Page 9.1281.1existing engineering disciplines and practices to those that lead to sustainability. GreenEngineering incorporates development and implementation of products, processes, and systems Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2004, American Society for Engineering Educationthat meet technical and cost objectives while protecting human health and welfare and elevatingthe protection of the biosphere as a

Conference Session

Internet Programming and Applications

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Mark Wickert; Gregory Plett

Session 2258 Web-Assisted Learning via On-Line Course Supplements Gregory L. Plett, Mark A. Wickert University of Colorado at Colorado SpringsAbstractIn many courses, supplemental materials might be made available to the student to assist learning.These include, but are not limited to: printed lecture notes, audio and video files of lectures,homework hints, homework solutions, worked example problems, sample tests and computercode to implement or demonstrate some theory learned. An efficient means to distribute thesematerials to the students is via the world-wide-web.Our

Conference Session

International Engineering Education II

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Waddah Akili

founded early on in Cairo and Alexandria, Egypt; and inBeirut Lebanon. Shortly after World War II, colleges of engineering were established in Iraq,and Syria. (1) Engineering colleges (schools) in Egypt and Iraq were influenced largely by the British system.The colleges in Lebanon and Syria paralleled the French views in engineering education. Thesole exception then, was the Engineering School at the American University of Beirut (AUB).Founded after World War One, AUB was looked after by a consortium comprised of colleges onthe East Coast of the USA. (1)As for the Arab Gulf Region, the renaissance of higher education in general and engineering inparticular, began in earnest in the early 1960s when universities were founded in Riyadh andJeddah

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Diana Dabby

Session 1661 Heroes for the Renaissance Engineer: Leonardo, Nabokov, Bach, and Borodin Diana Dabby Franklin W. Olin College of EngineeringAbstractFranklin W. Olin College of Engineering has attracted a student applicant pool gifted in science,mathematics, and the creative arts (theater, music, writing, and the fine arts). These burgeoningRenaissance engineers, already used to multitasking their various talents, fully expect to continuetheir interests in college, perhaps augmenting them as well. Dual talents in art and scienceregularly manifest themselves on

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering: Curricula and Courses

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Simin Hall, Virginia Tech; Catherine T. Amelink, Virginia Tech; Deyu Hu, Virginia Tech

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

developmentleads to reduced errors associated with haphazard instructional design and development andfewer technical support issues. These benefits are coupled with quality standards that aredesigned to create sustainable and efficacious eLearning systems that result in higher levels oflearning and eLearner satisfaction, and improved understanding of instructional design andonline teaching among faculty.B. 1. Planning Phase of Online courses: role of self-regulationThe design of our nuclear courses was associated with mapping the current face-to-face or videoconferencing lecture course into an online format to ensure alignment across the associatedcourse objectives, activities, technology used, feedback mechanisms, assessments, and other keycomponents

Collection

1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Ben Erwin

Session 1280K-12 Education and Systems Engineering: A New Perspective Ben Erwin Tufts University Center for Engineering Educational Outreach Page 3.385.1 In a classroom in the suburbs of Boston, a class of first-graders are designing snow removal equipment out of LEGO Dacta materials. Before breaking up into groups, they are having a class discussion about different types of equipment - shovels, plows, front-end loaders, etc. One boy raises his hand and says "Can we make up

Conference Session

Qualitative Research Methods

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James L. Huff, Harding University; H. Ronald Clements, Harding University

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

participant, we analyzed theinterview transcript using IPA, a qualitative research method that provides the researcher with atool to generate coherent insight on complex psychological experiences. In this paper, we presentseven themes that demonstrate how the student’s frustration experience was connected to hisidentity formation, experience in shame, and maladaptive help-seeking behaviors.Introduction: I was frustrated particularly with the fact that I guess some of the stuff was ambiguous to me, and probably because I wasn’t paying the most attention in class. Um, but, it was frustrating because, um, it was hard to find the guy’s [instructor’s] number, it was hard to email the teacher sometimes, normally he would—he

Conference Session

Flipped, Blended, Online, Oh My

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Kimberly Warren, University of North Carolina at Charlotte; Meagan Padro, University of North Carolina at Charlotte; Chuang Wang, University of Macau

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

were interested in whether the PFC instructional model couldincrease the level of learning and/or depth of comprehension of difficult concepts in this course.They also collected a wealth of interview and survey data to evaluate student perceptions andchallenges associated with this delivery method. The following conclusions can be advancedfrom this study:1. While students were generally satisfied with the level of engagement, had positive interactions with the instructor, and valued the course notes regardless of group, the treatment group students felt like they benefited from interacting with their peers after watching the video content, and they valued their ability to get convenient help from the instructor inside the flipped

Conference Session

Knowing Our Students, Part 2

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Russell Korte, University Of Minnesota; Karl Smith, University of Minnesota

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

transfer students. And, as a supplement to the quantitative data,we conducted a series of six focus groups—two each for non-transfer women, non-transfer men,and mixed gender transfer students. These groups helped enrich the quantitative informationobtained by the surveys.Survey InstrumentsA multi-disciplinary research team from CAEE designed a questionnaire based on an extensivereview of previous research related to undergraduate students’ in general and engineeringstudents in particular (see Eris et al. for a detailed description of the development of theinstrument).17 The questionnaire attempted to measure student perceptions on 24 differentvariables (see Table 1), such as intent to major in engineering; intent to practice, study, or

Collection

2021 ASEE Pacific Southwest Conference - "Pushing Past Pandemic Pedagogy: Learning from Disruption"

Authors

Duc Hoai Tran, CSULB; Hen-Geul Yeh

interested in applying digital signal processing techniques for detecting faults in power system.Prof. Hen-Geul Yeh Hen-Geul Yeh received the B.S. degree in engineering science from National Chen Kung University, Tai- wan, ROC, in 1978, and the M.S. degree in mechanical engineering and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of California, Irvine, in 1979 and 1982, respectively. Since 1983, he has been with the Electrical Engineering department at California State University, Long Beach (CSULB), USA, and served as the department Chair since 2016. In addition to his technical and engineering excel- lence, he was selected as a NASA JPL Summer Faculty Fellow twice, in 1992 and 2003, respectively, and

Conference Session

Thermodynamics, Fluids and Heat Transfer II

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Yeow Siow, University of Illinois, Chicago

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

teams)throughout the course of the project. The mentoring, and guiding, effort is crucial in achievingthe learning objectives,16 and may be fulfilled by the already-existing office hours, supplementalinstructions, recitation sessions, or planned in-class activities. The project's flexibility means it issuitable for both conventional or flipped model of instruction.The impact of this project is measured by the following methods: 1). Quantitative analysis offinal exam data, including comparison with a control group consisting of multiple terms whereno such project was incorporated. 2). End-of-course student comments. 3.) Anecdotal evidence.The topics to be unified are: • Property relations for ideal gas • Property relations for

Conference Session

A Technology Potpourri I

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Reg Pecen, Sam Houston State University; Faruk Yildiz, Sam Houston State University; Megan Gibson

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

2016. He also served as a Chair of Energy Conservation and Conversion Division at American Society of Engineering Education (ASEE). Dr. Pecen holds a B.S in EE and an M.S. in Controls and Computer Engineering from the Istanbul Technical University, an M.S. in EE from the University of Colorado at Boulder, and a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Wyoming (UW, 1997). He served as a graduate assistant and faculty at UW, and South Dakota State University. He served on UNI Energy and Environment Coun- cil, College Diversity Committee, University Diversity Advisory Board, and Graduate College Diversity Task Force Committees. His research interests, grants, and more than 50 publications are in the areas

Conference Session

Graduate Student Writing and Communication

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kelly J. Cunningham, University of Virginia

Tagged Divisions

Graduate Studies

. 39, no. 1, pp. 38-42, 1996.[9] M. L. Kreth, "A Survey of the Co-op Writing Experiences of Recent Engineering Graduates," IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication, vol. 43, no. 2, pp. 137- 152, 2000.[10] D. Al-Othmany and M. S. Ali, "How to be an Effective Technical Writer?," International Journal of Engineering Pedagogy (iJEP), vol. 2, no. 3, 2012.[11] P. M. Ross, S. Burgin, C. Aitchison, and J. Catterall, "Research Writing in the Sciences - Liminal Territory and High Emotion," Journal of Learning Design, vol. 4, no. 3, pp. 14- 27, 2011.[12] L. McAlpine and C. Amundsen, "To Be or Not to Be? The Challenges of Learning Academic Work," in Doctoral Education: Research-Based Strategies for

Conference Session

Enhancing K-12 Mathematics Education with Engineering

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Donna Diaz, Clemson University; Pam King, Clemson University

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

implementation.IntroductionEnabling students from the earliest grades to develop confidence and competence in mathematicsprepares them for a competitive job market and makes higher education more accessible. Failureto advance in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) “gate keeper”courses is by far the leading cause of low numbers of Americans who are prepared to entertechnical jobs out of high school or to enter engineer/technical degree programs at universities inthis country. Preparing students to enter the job market or degree programs with mathematicalconfidence and competence not only increases their own personal opportunities, but it alsocontributes to the advancement of a well-prepared and competent American citizenry.Consequently, STEM preparation

Conference Session

Mentoring Minorities: Effective Programs, Practices, and Perspectives

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert G. Ryan, California State University, Northridge; Nathan Durdella, California State University, Northridge; Teodoro Navarro

Tagged Divisions

Minorities in Engineering

application with responses in one columnand a coding category or categories in an adjacent column. Here, responses were interpreted andlarger patterns and trends (i.e., networks) identified. Finally, the themes that emerged weredescribed through narration. Page 24.21.7Assessment of Academic AchievementResults of data analysis point to general trends in student achievement for Cohort 1. (Cohort 1was the first group of 30 CSUN students admitted to the program in the Fall 2011 semester.)Overall, we found that student participants recorded higher per-term units completed, per-termand cumulative GPAs, and next-term persistence rates compared to their non

Conference Session

Robotics in Education

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Carlotta Berry, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education

startposition to goal location. The robot‟s obstacle avoidance and move to goal behaviors were usedto move through the list of goals points until the robot arrived at the final destination. Thealgorithm used an eight-neighborhood so that the robot could move diagonally however; a four-neighborhood would have also worked. The test arena was 6 ft x 6 ft with 1 ft x 1 ft obstacles.The configuration space was an occupancy grid divided into 6” x 6” squares, where free spacewas denoted by „0‟s and occupied space by „99‟s. The students designed a scheme to representthe robot‟s start position and goal location such that these values were specified at run time.During the demonstration, the students were given the world map, generated the wavefront andplanned

Conference Session

Expert Advice on Instructional Methods

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Felder

problems whosesolution requires the knowledge and skills normally taught in the course, and then having themwork through the following steps, usually in teams: 1. Define the problem. 2. Build hypotheses to initiate the solution process. 3. Identify what is known, what must be determined, and what to do. 4. Generate possible solutions and decide on the best one. 5. Complete the best solution, test it, and either accept it or reject it and go back to Step 4. 6. Reflect on lessons learned.The instructor serves primarily as a consultant, lecturing only when the need for new materialarises in the context of the problem. A related but less formal instructional approach is project-based learning, which meansthat most of the

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship Education for Engineers

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Crowe; Sally Schwartz; Mary Marrs; Luis Occeña; Jose Zayas-Castro; Douglas Moesel; Cathleen Burns; Bin Wu

students. The objective is to motivate students to enroll in course 1 in their sophomoreyear and to continue until completing the sequence. Every student who completes the sequencewill receive a certificate signed by the Deans of Engineering and Business.Table 1 depicts the ten skills agreed upon by the team to be developed throughout the coursesequence. These skills are based on the needs identified by stakeholders, work done in similarendeavors and the interdisciplinary population of students. This skills set encompasses technical,analytical and people-oriented attributes and draws upon the fundamentals of theory and practicein business, communications and engineering. Since students come from different disciplines andbackgrounds, it can be

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Berrisford Boothe; Todd Watkins; John Ochs

Session 2554 Creating a Truly Multidisciplinary Entrepreneurial Educational Environment John B. Ochs, Todd A. Watkins and Berrisford W Boothe Department of Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics/Economics Department/Department of Arts and Architecture Lehigh University, Bethlehem PA 18015-3085AbstractIn our age of technological growth and change, the role of the engineer has evolved from lonespecialist to team player, from internally focused to globally aware, from reactionary toentrepreneur. The entrepreneur has created much of our social wealth. The characteristics of

Conference Session

Issues and Answers in Mathematics Education

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Peter J. Sherman, Iowa State University

Tagged Divisions

Mathematics

sample space for X is S X  {0 (no) , 1 ( yes ) } . Let the parameter p  Pr[ X  1] .Use the formula E ( X )   x  f ( x) dx to prove that the theoretical mean of X, [denoted as E(X) SX= μX], is equal to the parameter p.This problem in its generic form was included in the first exam. The form provided here wasgiven in the second (10-week) exam. It had been discussed using progressively moremathematical notation since the first day of the course. Specifically, it had been noted since day-1 that a random variable is an action, that when performed can result in more than one possiblenumber, and that the sample space is simply the set of the possible numbers that could result.[Note: There was no mention of the more

Conference Session

Outcome Assessment, Quality, and Accreditation

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Mohammed Zribi; Mohammad Al-Ansary; Ibrahim Nashawi; Haitham Lababidi; Faridah Ali; Aziz Tayfun; Adel Aly; Andreas Christoforou; Ahmet Yigit

Session 3560 Outcome Assessment and Evaluation of Engineering Education at Kuwait University Andreas P. Christoforou, Mohammad D. Al-Ansary, Ahmet S. Yigit, Aziz Tayfun, Adel A. Aly, Haitham Lababidi, Faridah Ali, Ibrahim S. Nashawi, Mohamed Zribi College of Engineering and Petroleum Kuwait University P.O. Box 5969, Safat 13060 KuwaitAbstractThe initial stages of development and implementation of assessment plans for engineeringprograms at