Conference Session

Research Related to Learning and Teaching Engineering in Elementary Classrooms

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Pamela S. Lottero-Perdue, Towson University

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

experience for teachers and students is impacted by anumber of mediating variables, addressed extensively in the literature. Seminal work by Adams& Cessna, 16 validated repeatedly in the literature, used extensive interview data with co-teachingpairs to identify essential components for successful co-teaching. 10 One of those is the need for Page 22.329.3co-teachers to have their own expertise, professional knowledge and credentials (mentionedpreviously). Ideally, co-teachers should have a similar set of beliefs about teaching and learning(e.g., about teacher responsibilities), and should discuss and negotiate any differences in thesebeliefs

Collection

2022 CIEC

Authors

Marilyn Dyrud

Copyright ©2022, American Society for Engineering Education ETD 335Cases have three distinct advantages over more traditional teaching practices. First, as narratives,they engage students on an intellectual and emotional level. Jonathan Gottschall, author of TheStorytelling Animal, explains, “Humans live in a storm of stories. We live in stories all day long,and dream in stories all night long. We communicate through stories and learn from them. Wecollapse gratefully into stories after a long day at work. Without personal life stories to organizeour experience, our own lives would lack coherence and meaning” [6]. More recent researchexplores the emotional

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

James Globig

assigningcasework or other scenarios with ‘cookbook’, ‘doing the right thing’ solutions. More oftenthan not, ethical decision making is about pursuing multiple ‘good’ solutions simultaneouslyand then selecting the solution most just for all persons (or issues) involved.” 7Richard Conway 13 also provided some applicable advice: 1. Provide relevant cases--if the cases don't seem plausible you won't engage the students. 2. Ask questions to facilitate reflection, especially on the nuances of the case. Page 6.199.9 Proceedings of the 2001 American Society of Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition Copyright 2001, American

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division Technical Session 7

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Andrea T. Kwaczala, Western New England University; Robert Gettens, Western New England University; Denine A Northrup, Western New England University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

Paper ID #34692Using Rapid Prototyping to Realize Design: Mindset and EngineeringSelf-EfficacyDr. Andrea T. Kwaczala, Western New England University Andrea Kwaczala is an assistant professor at Western New England University in the biomedical engineer- ing department. She teaches Biomechanics, Biomedical Engineering Laboratory Courses, Senior Design and Prosthetic and Orthotic Design. She focuses on hands-on labs centered on student engagement and project based learning. She works in collaboration with Shriners Hospitals for Children where her re- search focuses in the design of assistive technologies to help people with

Conference Session

Laboratories and Computer Simulation in BME

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joe Tranquillo; Daniel Cavanagh

Tagged Divisions

Biomedical

the authors’ personal experiences,signals and systems courses taught solely from the perspective of math lose the vitalconnections that students should make between theory and application.In the spring of 2006, we offered a junior-level project-based course in BiomedicalSignals and Systems (BMEG 350). The course integrated a number of novel teachingtechniques that have been implemented in other courses and presented elsewhere astheoretical concepts. This paper illustrates how these techniques may be combined toenhance the effectiveness of a specific course. The general approach is to engage studentsin a number of progressive hands-on activities that strengthen their ability to apply coursematerial to novel situations. A more practical purpose

Conference Session

Assessment and Its Implications in IE

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Mary Anderson-Rowland

, and to draw conclusions.Keywords: Evaluation, Assessment, Data Analysis, Statistical TestingI. IntroductionMany university and college budgets are strained. There is not enough money to go around tocomfortably support all of the programs worthy of funding. Terms such as accountability,productivity, responsiveness, efficiency, results, impact, and leveraging are used as toughdecisions are made to fund and to continue programs. Engineering schools today are engaged inmany activities outside of the classroom. Major issues include recruitment, retention,graduation, and K-12 Outreach Programs. To fund these programs, tough decisions needs to bemade by engineering deans on how much money goes to support outreach and retention alongwith hiring

Conference Session

Pre-college Engineering Education Division Poster Session

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

D. Raj Raman, Iowa State University; Monica H. Lamm, Iowa State University; Sriram Sundararajan, Iowa State University; Kristina Maruyama Tank, Iowa State University; Anne T. Estapa, Iowa State University

Tagged Divisions

Pre-College Engineering Education Division

know about the national 2.0 3.0 0.9 1.0 science standards related to Design... I would like to be able to teach my students to understand the... Design process. 3.53 5.0 0.6 1.5 Use and impact of Design, Engineering and 3.51 5.0 0.7 1.5 Technology Science underlying Design, Engineering 3.46 4.9 0.4 1.4 and Technology. Types of problems to which Design, 3.54 5.0 0.6 1.5 Engineering, and Technology should be… Process of communicating technical 3.38 4.9 0.4 1.5 information.Table 2: Excerpted results from pre/post surveys on

Conference Session

Computers in Education 4 - Online and Distributed Learning I

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mia Taylor, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Danny Mathieson, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Leanna House, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Chris North

undergraduate level. In Be the Data, studentsembodied data points and physically moved in a room to interact with WMDS. For example, in adataset about animals, each student represented an animal and their physical location in theworkshop room was projected onto a large screen with Andromeda. Then, if a student movedfrom one side of the room to the other, their corresponding animal data point would move in theAndromeda projection as well. Collectively, classes would answer questions such as “Whatcharacteristics differentiate good pets from bad pets?” Data from these events suggested that thestudents were engaged and enabled to learn about high­dimensional data and analytics.While Be the Data proved a successful collaborative use of Andromeda, Be the

Conference Session

BME Assessment and the VaNTH ERC

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Steven Schreiner, Western New England College; Judy Cezeaux, Western New England College; Diane Testa, Western New England College

Tagged Divisions

Biomedical

, political, ethical, health and safety, manufacturability, and sustainability (3d) an ability to function on multi-disciplinary teams, (3e) an ability to identify, formulate, and solve engineering problems, (3f) an understanding of professional and ethical responsibility, (3g) an ability to communicate effectively, (3h) the broad education necessary to understand the impact of engineering solutions in a global, economic, environmental, and societal context, (3i) a recognition of the need for, and an ability to engage in life-long learning, (3j) a knowledge of contemporary issues, (3k) an ability to use the techniques, skills, and modern engineering tools necessary for engineering practice, (8a) a knowledge of

Conference Session

Engineering Practice for a Moral World

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gene Moriarty, San Jose State University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Ethics

different company working on part of a new device. Each group can discussthe Virtue Ethics of individual engineers. Then representatives from each group can form a teamof professionals who will dialog about the Conceptual Ethics of the companies involved. Thenthe entire class can join a conversation of the social world within which the engineered productcan be assessed from the point of view of Material Ethics.IntroductionOn one hand, engineers have an affinity for mathematics. A control systems engineer, forexample, is constantly manipulating matrices of numbers in various sorts of vector/matrixequations. On the other hand, although the need for engineers to engage with some kind ofengineering ethics is growing in the contemporary era, engineers

Conference Session

Using Computers, Software, and Writing to Improve Mathematical Understanding

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

N. Jean Hodges, Virginia Commonwealth University, Qatar

Tagged Divisions

Mathematics

experiences in English courses,most American students come to regard writing as a formal, public communication thatdemonstrates not only one‟s mastery of the topic or field written about but also one‟s mastery ofthe English language requirements for formal writing. In this form of writing, one is concernedwith the polished, final product.In this research, the polished, final product is not the type of writing used or recommendedbecause the intention is to use writing as a tool for learning math. To emphasize this use, thefocus is not on both the math and the English, as would be required for a formally writtendocument, because requiring students to master two competencies (i.e., math and English)reduces the total mental focus available for either

Conference Session

K-8 Engineering & Access

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Malinda Zarske; Rene Reitsma; Martha Cyr; Nancy Shaw; Michael Mooney; Jacquelyn Sullivan; Paul Klenk

A third-grade student tests theteacher you are working with is accountable, or if strength of his spaghetti andcompliance with K-12 educational standards baffles you, toothpick structure in a fun,then the TeachEngineering digital library collection was hands-on engineering activity.created for you!The NSF-supported TeachEngineering digital library collection is a powerful resource for thosein K-12 or higher education, industry and professional communities wanting to engage youngstudents in the joys and creativity of an engineering future. In partnership with K-12 teachers, theinitial collection was developed and classroom-tested by engineering students and faculty fromfour engineering

Conference Session

Off the Beaten Path

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kathy Schmidt Jackson, Pennsylvania State University; Randy L. Vander Wal, Pennsylvania State University

Tagged Divisions

New Engineering Educators

, there is a strong negative impact on their ability to learn fromtextbooks8 and a correlation exists between students' reading habits in general and their tendencyto read textbooks during their studies.9Despite the body of evidence suggesting that students do not read textbooks as intended, thereare indicators that students expect textbooks in their courses. A study of engineering studentsrevealed that despite their rather basic reading skills and minimal amount of time they allocatedfor reading textbooks, most of these students attributed importance of textbooks to their successin a course.8 Some research indicates that students find textbooks easier to read than primarysource material.10 Two recent studies of higher education students found a

Conference Session

Topics in Computing and Information Technologies II

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Richard G. Helps, Brigham Young University

Tagged Divisions

Computing & Information Technology

andBriggs developed the MBTI tests for understanding preferences, and successors to the MBTItest3 are still widely used to today. Similarly David Kolb’s experiential learning theory4 promotesmultimodal learning based on a cycle of concrete experience, reflective observation, abstractconceptualization and active experimentation. All of these experiential learning modes can beenhanced by engaging the students with interactions with hardware modules. Small low-costcomputing platforms, such as the Arduino microcontroller and related devices, provide a way tophysically encapsulate many of the learning concepts related to IT and students can program,control and interact with these systems in a very direct physical fashion, involving not only sightbut

Collection

2003 GSW

Authors

Amir Karimi

engineering tools necessary for engineering practice (g) an ability to communicate effectivelyD “diverse career skills” (d) an ability to function on multi-prepare students with the diverse skills needed disciplinary teamsto be successful engineers (h) broad education necessary to understand the impact of engineering solutions in a global and societal context (i) a recognition of the need for, and an ability to

Conference Session

Capstone Design Courses I

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Farid Farahmand, Sonoma State University; Kirsten M. Ely, Sonoma State University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

expected to learn about design process and methodology, team buildingand project management, as well as, formulation of design problems and alternative solution.Over the past two decades engineering programs nationwide have developed several differentapproaches to satisfying these ABET objectives [11]. The authors in [5], for example, explorethe various impacts of single versus multi-semester long capstone projects. Multidisciplinaryteams and projects develop communication, teamwork, and project management skills, inaddition to engineering skills [6]-[7]. Service-learning pedagogy in the capstone course hasgained considerable popularity over the past decade and focuses student teams on solvingsocietal problems in partnership with a non-profit

Conference Session

Innovative Strategies for Enhancing Engineering Education Across Diverse Learning Environments

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Aya Mouallem, Stanford University; Trisha Kulkarni, Stanford University; Sheri D. Sheppard, Stanford University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer Engineering Division (ECE)

education [46], [47], [48],[49].To hone in on the importance of adopting autoethnography in an ECE educational context, wepostulate that this method can uncover and emphasize the lived curriculum by BLV students inECE education [50], [51], [52]. In reality, even with extensive prior planning, educators anddisability support officers (DSOs) cannot fully predict the impact of their accessibility measureson the realistic experience of an incoming BLV student to an introductory ECE course. Thisdifference between the educators’, DSOs’, and students’ expectations and experiences gives riseto the aforementioned lived curriculum. We believe that autoethnography can afford educatorsand DSOs a deeper understanding of the reality of being a BLV student in an

Conference Session

Civil Engineering Division (CIVIL) - ASCE Collaborations

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Timmy Elwin Kipfmiller III, United States Military Academy; Alexander Tucker, United States Military Academy; Charles James Richardson Reeves, United States Military Academy; Nicholas Ryan Parker, United States Military Academy; Scott M. Katalenich, United States Military Academy

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering Division (CIVIL)

World (NW), and Climate Resilience (CR).Within each category, every credit has multiple levels of achievement that represent a broadspectrum of performance goals ranging from slight improvements beyond conventional practicesto restoration and conservation of communities and the environment. This unique ENV SPframework allows engineers to quantify difficult sustainability challenges that surroundsustainable development while enhancing progress tracking and the identification of possibletrade-offs amidst myriad complex engineering problems. The five credit categories are brieflysummarized below.Quality of LifeWithin Envision’s framework, the Quality of Life category focuses on the impact of projects andsustainability on a community and how people

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Phillip McReynolds; Andras Gordon; Andrew Lau; Richard Devon

).Given that individual ethics concerns the behavior of individuals, our use of it in the curriculumfocuses directly on the behavior of the students. And in the spirit of active learning, we let themfigure it out. They develop the “norms of engagement” for their team and they assess eachothers respect for, and compliance with, these norms. This way they have ownership, the ruleshave legitimacy, and their teammates will be policing them. We intend to extend this approachto the management of the project itself by allowing the students to develop project managementstructure and processes with ethics very much on the table.Social EthicsSocial ethics focus on the social arrangements that are made for making the decisions abouttechnology rather than on

Collection

2010 ERC

Authors

Thomas W Peterson

:  –  Increase the engagement of faculty and students across  all disciplines in the innovation and entrepreneurship  process;  –  Increase the impact of the most promising university  innovations through commercialization, industry alliances,  and start­up formulation; and  –  Develop a regional community that supports the  “innovation ecosystem” around the university. National Nanotechnology  Initiative •  Nanomaterials and nanodevices  – Computing  – Communications  – Sensing  – Energy (for example, solar) •  Nanosystems  Uptake of C70 •  Nanomanufacturing  nanoparticles and their  aggregation within a rice

Collection

2010 ERC

Authors

Thomas W Peterson

:  –  Increase the engagement of faculty and students across  all disciplines in the innovation and entrepreneurship  process;  –  Increase the impact of the most promising university  innovations through commercialization, industry alliances,  and start­up formulation; and  –  Develop a regional community that supports the  “innovation ecosystem” around the university. National Nanotechnology  Initiative •  Nanomaterials and nanodevices  – Computing  – Communications  – Sensing  – Energy (for example, solar) •  Nanosystems  Uptake of C70 •  Nanomanufacturing  nanoparticles and their  aggregation within a rice

Conference Session

Curricular Issues in Computing and Information Technology Programs II

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bushra Tawfiq Chowdhury, Virginia Tech; Sam Blanchard, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Kirk W Cameron; Aditya Johri, George Mason University

Tagged Divisions

Computing & Information Technology

gaining traction in the educational community, the term parallelization/parallelcomputing is also being incorporated within general curriculum initiatives. For example, at the K-12 level, the concept of “parallelization” is being introduced to students as they “organizeresources to simultaneously carry out tasks to reach a common goal”[10, p. 9]. Suggestive curriculumactivities by the Computational Thinking teachers’ resources in K-12 are shown in Table1. Concept Definition Grades PK to 2 Grades 3 to 5 Grades 6 to 8 Grades 9 to 12 Parallelization Organize Based on a set Teachers Student teams Describe the [10, p. 9] resources to of criteria, break facilitate in

Conference Session

ME Division Technical Session 2 - Harnessing AI and Machine Learning to Transform ME Education

Collection

2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Harrison Zimmerman Brown, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Reza Ebadi, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering Division (MECH)

ChatGPT, Anthropic’s Claude, and Google’s Gemini).Notwithstanding the inaccuracy of the responses, the conversation suggested some promisingcapabilities. For instance, with instructive prompts by the user, the models were able to reducetheir error percentages significantly.Thermodynamics is one of the early core courses that students in Mechanical Engineering,Chemical Engineering, and Aerospace Engineering, among others take. This study aims to developa GPT-based model focused on thermodynamics using publicly available resources, such assubstance properties. Once proven successful, the model can be adopted by other institutions andadapted to similar courses.KeywordsArtificial Intelligence, Thermodynamics, AI1 IntroductionThermodynamics is one of

Conference Session

Aerospace Division (AERO) Poster Session

Collection

2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Christian . Janke ., Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University - Worldwide; Yuetong Lin, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University - Worldwide; Ghazal Barari, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Aerospace Division (AERO)

Aeronautical University and has since expanded her research to include engineering education, with a focus on developing innovative virtual labs, active learning strategies, and simulation tools to enhance student engagement and learning in online environments. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2025 From Drones to Airplane – Lessons Learned from Uncrewed Aviation for Teaching Innovative and Sustainable Electric Aviation PropulsionAbstractThe adoption of electric propulsion in aviation is poised to significantly impact aerospaceeducation and influence recruitment, student retention, and technical training in aerospace andaeronautics programs. Electric

Collection

2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

Keith M. Gardiner

of the problems that their1998, followed by a course on Sustainability in 2003 – these profession requires them to solve. There is inevitably aare now offered alternate years, as is the “Agility…” course. A requirement to understand the needs and be capable ofmajority of students take classes spread over 3-4 years, with communicating with accountants, planners, and a phalanx ofoccasional on-campus students taking 3 or 4 semesters. A web non-technical associates, not forgetting cultural and globalsite displays the 30 credit curriculum [12]. considerations and factors. Context here involves many ideas – as Adam Davidson

Conference Session

Mobile Robotics in Education

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Gabriel Ferrer; Ann Wright; Andrew Wright

. BrickOS12 (formerly LegOS) is an operatingsystem based on the Linux kernel that allows the user to program in C or C++ . Therehave also been developments in using Java programming language to program the RCXbricks13. Since the Hendrix course will take place over a standard length semester, therewill be time for more instruction of physical principles, programming skills, and new topicssuch as robotics in literature and the basics of artificial intelligence.The new Hendrix course will have several small design assignments, culminating in a largeassignment at the end of the course. The final project will be displayed at an exhibitionopen to the Hendrix community and documented on student-generated web pages. Thecourse will be presented annually

Collection

2009 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

Thomas J. Impelluso

to hire a lecturer to support additional sections. As of this writing, the originallaboratory has been removed and the space is now utilized for other classrooms.5.2 Plateau Instruction The author of this paper engaged students in several personal discussions about theirlearning experiences and these are summarized herein. This section is entirely anecdotal, verypersonal, and without reference to the literature. It reports on feelings and thoughts expressed bystudents. It seems that students are able to approach their high school studies in a disintegratedway. Consider Biology: the material and the textbooks are cleanly segregated; information issequentially presented on the digestive system, the cardiac system, the muscular

Collection

2015 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Pritpal Singh; Amanda Kelly; Kathy Nazar

skillsSpring 2015 Mid-Atlantic ASEE Conference April 10-11, 2015 Villanova UniversityFigure 4. Students’ self-reported responses of their ethics and values as related to anentrepreneurial mindsetFigure 5 shows the students’ self-reported assessment on how they feel they compare with theirpeers in a number of areas. In this chart the students feel very confident about their team work,leadership, persistence, and problem solving and communication skills relative to their peers.The areas in which they feel least confident are tolerance for ambiguity and willingness to takerisks.Spring 2015 Mid-Atlantic ASEE Conference April 10-11, 2015 Villanova UniversityFigure 5. Self-reported students’ abilities relative to their peersFor those students who have taken

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Amy Kramer P.E., Ohio State University; Bailey Braaten, Ohio State University; Rachel Louis Kajfez, Ohio State University; Emily Dringenberg, Ohio State University

Tagged Topics

Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

how ability is constructed withinengineering classrooms via even the most mundane, day-to-day interactions [7]. As such, thebeliefs that students hold about smartness and how they identify as smart can impact whochooses to pursue engineering, through what pathways they engage, and who persists inengineering degree programs.The overall objective of this study is to understand what, if any, patterns exist in the beliefs aboutsmartness and self-identities of undergraduate engineering students across institutionalizedpathways. Specifically, this three-year qualitative study aims to answer the following researchquestions: 1) What do students believe about smartness and engineering, and 2) how do studentsexpress their self-identities as smart and

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Omar Ashour, Pennsylvania State University, Behrend College; James Devin Cunningham, Carnegie Mellon University; Christian Enmanuel Lopez, Lafayette College; Conrad Tucker, Carnegie Mellon University

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Manufacturing Systems Lab.” .[9] S. Credille, “Auburn University automotive lab teaches manufacturing using Legos,” General News, 2012. .[10] L. Freina and M. Ott, “A literature review on immersive virtual reality in education: state of the art and perspectives,” in Conference proceedings of »eLearning and Software for Education« (eLSE), 2015, pp. 133–141.[11] J. M. Loomis, “Presence in virtual reality and everyday life: Immersion within a world of representation,” Presence Teleoperators Virtual Environ., vol. 25, no. 2, pp. 169–174, 2016.[12] J. A. Bennett and C. P. Saunders, “A Virtual Tour of the Cell: Impact of Virtual Reality on Student Learning and Engagement in the STEM Classroom †,” J. Microbiol. Biol. Educ., vol