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2002 ASEE North Midwest Section Conference

Authors

James N. Almquist; D. Joanne Wilson

Changes in Freshman Engineering Students Bring Changes to Introductory Engineering Courses James N. Almquist D. Joanne Wilson General Engineering Department UW-PlattevilleAbstract: All freshmen interested in engineering at UW-Platteville take both of our twocredit courses: Introduction to Engineering and Engineering Computer Graphics. In thispaper, we discuss the changes we have made to these courses in response to the changeswe are seeing with respect to the incoming students. The two biggest changes are thatmany students are starting their academic careers at lower math levels

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2013 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

Tammy Yut-Ling Chan; Gustavo Borel Menezes

improve their work throughout thequarter.Key features of the courses included: 1) Dedicated class time was dedicated for students andinstructors to work together; 2) Teamwork enabled students, under time pressure, to analyzeengineering problems, formulate solutions, program, write, and prepare presentations; 3)Engineering problems were solved with widely-available software; and 4) Teams competed toproduce the best course manual for next year’s course.Preliminary results from surveys showed that students felt more confident and knowledgeablewhen presenting technical information, writing their reports, and using computer tools in theirsubsequent courses. They also used these skills later in their senior design projects. Compared totheir peers who

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2009 GSW

Authors

Kendrick Aung; Ryan Underdown P.E.

recognizetheir learning style. Campers participated in interactive demonstrations to gain insight to howstudents learn. Researchers at PSU discussed their innovative research in engineering. Campersasked probing questions and generated a stimulating discussion on a wide variety of topicsincluding nano-technology and how science integrates with engineering. Some detaileddiscussions of topics used in the camp were described below.Bicycle of Yesterday and Today LabIn this lab session, the main purpose is to provide some engineering knowledge and hands-onactivities related to design and analysis of a bicycle. The students were already exposed totopics such as simple machines, and the lab provided further knowledge relating simplemachines to different parts

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2023 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Oghenetega A. Obewhere; Karen A. Cerda; Rajesh Keloth; Shudipto K. Dishari

. Organize virtual team-building activities to foster a sense of community and collaboration: Virtual team-building activities are an excellent way to foster a sense of community and collaboration among participants in a virtual camp. It also promotes an inclusive environment for all participants. We started each camp session with icebreaker questions which allowed the students to share a little bit about themselves and/or their experiences. We realized that this helped ease them into the business of the day and encouraged their full participation. 6. Offer technical support to address issues that may arise. 7. Establish a feedback system to gather inputs from participants: We prepared anonymous

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2008 GSW

Authors

August Allo; Carol Costello

Session 13-1 Targeted Recruitment of Disadvantaged Students:The Multiplier Effect of Senior Electrical Engineering Design Demonstrations August Allo, Carol Costello Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of Texas at San Antonio AbstractAlthough the importance of Electrical and Computer Engineering is recognized as one of thecritical areas for producing technically competitive graduates, recruitment of students to this areapresents a challenge. In part, this is due to the fact that Electrical and

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2007 St.Lawrence Section Meeting

Authors

Jason Salonga

affinity than most would think, an affinity rooted in design. I the medium; let us refer to this as pre-production. Students would then proceed to research, de-claim that good engineering designers, like good visual artists, have the ability to generate and sign, and produce their artwork; let us refer to this as production. Upon completion, all projectsdevelop ideas, have strong technical skills, and are aware of the significant works in their field. would be exhibited and then critiqued by the class and professor; let us refer to this as post-Although their tools, techniques, objectives, and constraints may differ, their underlying proc- production. These three stages would cycle with each studio project

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2007 North Midwest Section Meeting

Authors

Michael P. Hennessey

as atype of modern system dynamics, in which CAD and animation are brought in for significantvisualization to enhance understanding of mechanical systems that incorporate motion as well asto appeal to a wide audience, some of whom may not be technically oriented. This paperdescribes such a course and its advantages. Sample student project work is shown thatemphasizes applied mathematical modeling, CAD modeling, modeling and simulation usingMATLAB® and Simulink®, and animation of specific scenarios of interest using SolidWorks®with the Animator add-on. Projects show-cased include: (1) the zero-friction skiingbrachistochrone problem, (2) the kinematic car with both front and rear wheel steering, (3) theN-pendulum chain approximation of a

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2011 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Radian Belu

connectedrenewable or hybrid energy systems. During the second part of the quarter the students arerequired to design, via a project a hybrid power systems, integrating wind, PV and energystorage systems to provide power for a specific load. The project is handled by a team of 3 to 4students. The project is part of the final grade of the students, and is complementary to the finalexam. The students are free to make the team based on their preferences and mutual interests.They are required to make a 10-min presentation on the project topic during the final exam weekof the quarter. The outline of the course includes (ten 3-hour lectures/units): 1. Basic principles of energy generation 2. Introduction to renewable energy systems 3. Electric machines

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2010 North Midwest Section

Authors

Thomas F. Quinn; Ronald H. Brown; George F. Corliss

reality that the bestengineering decisions are not always the best business decisions, and vice-versa. Issues of cost,scalability, competitiveness, and others often force compromises into what might otherwise bethe most elegant engineered solutions possible. An engineer new to the workplace might feel abit disillusioned seeing how solutions are designed to meet multiple, often non-technical,objectives.There’s also the thorny matter of customers with their own wants and needs, their own businessobjectives, and their own varying levels of competency and available technical support – messyissues that don’t often intrude into an engineer’s education. Delivering and supportingengineered products into customers’ hands to generate value for their

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2008 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

NADIYE O. ERDIL; KOENRAAD E. GIESKES

same material as was being asked in the traditional sections, were completely dedicated tosolid models and drawings of a water mill. In the first class, the students were split up into five teams offour people. Each group was assigned a particular component of a water mill, e.g., the support, the wheel,the bucket, etc., and asked to generate a solid model of these components with dimensions that wereprovided. The second week, all groups were asked to create technical drawings of their assignedcomponents. During the week following the trip, the students were asked to combine all the separate partsof the mill into an assembly of the water mill.The trip to the Wagner Mill took place on a Saturday morning and consisted of students

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2004 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Cathryne Stein

Botball are threefold: 1. to create more technically literate students and teachers; 2. to encourage more students to go into science, engineering, math, and related fields; 3. to use robotics to engage students in engineering, science, and math, and help them understand how and why they can use the tools of math and science to do important and creative work.Botball uses the activities of robot programming, design, and construction as well aswebsite development to get students excited about being on the creative side oftechnology.Our strategy in pursuing these goals involves providing both a short and long termapproach towards improving the effectiveness of schools in teaching science, math, andtechnology. Specifically, we

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2014 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Lethia Jackson; Courtney Lamar; Quincy Brown; Velma Latson

) TABLE II Monday Online safety Introductions LEGO Learn Phase Outline HTML 5 HTML 5 Robots Day Topic/Technology Online 1 General Online Safety Guidelines Hosting Developing Basic Web Pages (HTML5) Tuesday JavaScript 3D Printing LEGO 2 JavaScript Makey Online Robots MakeyMakey Makey safety Arduino 3 Raspberry Pi LilyPad Python

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2025 Northeast Section Conference

Authors

Jun Zhang; Peter Cavanaugh; Dan Tenney

educational andFramework) to mitigate technological risks introduced by AI technological implementation. It involves changing mindsets,and other services. adopting new learning platforms, ensuring transparency in AI Pedagogical and educational practices: it is important for systems, building relevant competencies, and implementingboth student and faculty that not only leverage AI tools for supportive policies. Together, these steps can lead to moreimproving learning experience but also cultivate the ability to adaptive, reliable, and non-intrusive teaching and learningcritically evaluate AI-generated content while maintaining experiences. Table 1 is a list of

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2011 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Paul G. Ranky

industrial engineering,engineering quality management, project management, concurrent / simultaneous greenproduct / process design, visual lean factory management, and continuous professionaleducation. 557IntroductionMillennial generation students are interested in an integrated, simultaneously analytical,computational, interactive, as well as practical, real-world-focused, customized education.They expect a large number of choices, because they understand the power of simulation.They are very visually focused, because this is the video gaming generation. They wantpersonalized, customized products, processes and service, and their education process isnot an exception. They look for technical details, and want

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2011 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

Angela Beck; Jim Helbling

quality of the various design projects improvedbut also the frequency and severity of interpersonal conflicts has been minimized.The fourth and final activity is an open work session. During this activity students are free towork on their tasks, whether analyzing, manufacturing, testing, or documenting; both instructorsare available throughout the work session to help with either technical or communication tasks.If team members are having trouble working together, then this time is also used to meetprivately with the students in question in order to mediate these conflicts. This addition ofconflict mediation is one of the key improvements to this team-teaching configuration as will bediscussed in the following section.Key Alterations and

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2008 GSW

Authors

Cheryl L. Willis

Session 11-1 Using the Labor Market Information System to Inform Continuous Program Improvement Efforts Cheryl L. Willis Information and Logistics Technology Department University of Houston AbstractThe federal government has recognized the need to coordinate efforts of key government agencies; educationalproviders; and private business to build a common approach to workforce and economic development. Thisapproach to build a

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2008 GSW

Authors

Mohan A. Ketkar; Nripendra N. Sarker

, techniques,skills and modern tools of their disciplines”.Three performance criteria listed below were developed for this outcome group. 1. Students are able to solve problems using current software used in the discipline (such as Matlab, Autocad, Multisim, Pspice, .NET, C++ compiler, etc) 2. Students are able to utilize the latest available hardware/equipment used in the discipline (such as signal generators, oscilloscope, computer hardware) 3. Students are able to utilize latest problem solving and design techniques and methods in their discipline (such as numerical techniques and the design process)Performance Criteria ‘b’TAC Criterion 2, Outcome ‘b’ states, “an ability to apply current knowledge

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2013 GSW

Authors

Amit Oza; Gary Coleman; Lex Gonzalez; Bernd Chudoba; Paul Czsyz

Saturday Morning Session 1 - Student Solution Space Screening of a Hypersonic Endurance Demonstrator Amit Oza, Gary Coleman, Lex Gonzalez, Bernd Chudoba Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department University of Texas at Arlington Paul Czysz Hypertech Concepts LLC St. Louis, MO AbstractThe Solution Space Screening for a Hypersonic Endurance Demonstrator program was atwo and one-half month study to: Demonstrate the Aerospace Vehicle Design (AVD) Laboratory

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2021 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Mostafa Elsaadany; Timothy J. Muldoon; Raj R. Rao

Engineering courses based on instructors’ experiences andpost-hoc reviews of students’ evaluations. Several students reported a lack of quality internetconnection to follow course announcements, watch the video lectures, interact with theirclassmates or course instructor, and work on assignments. Other students exhibited a lack ofdigital literacy despite having access to both quality internet access and computers. Digitalliteracy widely misidentified and often referred to as device literacy- is the ability to obtain,assess, and generate information using information and communication technologies [1]. Beingdigitally literate requires the possession of both cognitive and technical skills. Based on thisdefinition, we observed many students who

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2013 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

Liang Li Wu; Anis Hammoudeh; Gregory Washington

and the increase in the number of cell-phone users went from two per 1,000people in 1990 to over 500 per 1,000 people today. Furthermore, due the globalized market,engineering industries, which cannot compete globally, are not likely to survive domestically1.To be successful internationally, one is required to have cultural and economic expertise as wellas solid technological background. Thus, the engineering education encounters shiftingparadigm of how to train our next generation to be global leaders in the field, not onlyengineering ready, also culturally ready.While the Henry Samueli School of Engineering was initiating future international programs toeducate our students on a dynamic pathway, an incident occurred on campus has altered

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2018 ASEE Conferences - Conference for Industry and Education Collaboration / San Antonio proceedings

Authors

Claudio Brito; Melany Ciampi

– Proceedings of the 2018 Conference for Industry and Education Collaboration Copyright ©2018 American Society for Engineering Education Session ETD 526International Institute of Education is a bold and resilient source of innovation in highereducation [1].EDUCATIONAL ASPECTS OF CONTEMPORARY HIGH EDUCATIONNo doubt that work environment has been changing drastically and it takes place worldwide andtoday millions of professionals are also unemployed, even in advanced economies. On the otherhand, businesses in advanced economy countries claim that they often are not able to findworkers with the required skills. It is a fact that this is a

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2002 ASEE North Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Traci Kelly

; those student have come from all of the engineering disciplines,business, journalism, technical communication, art, sociology, political science, and otherdisciplines. I would like to speak generally about the difference between service learning andvolunteerism first, then speak to the University of Wisconsin (UW) efforts, and finallymove specifically to the segment of the UW program called “Information Systems,”where I am a co-advisor/instructor with Dr. Fred Bradley of Material ScienceEngineering. By using the Information Systems (IS) EPICS teams as examples, I wouldlike to explore some of the complexities of designing a class and project that serves sucha multiplicity of needs, both for students, clients, and instructors.Service

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2022 CIEC

Authors

Sabah Abro

and Education Collaboration Copyright ©2022, American Society for Engineering Education ETD 445When professional engineers and engineering technology graduates join on-the-job training orprofessional development sessions, it is clear that a considerable portion of them cannot makethe connection between what they studied and what is being discussed in quality trainingprograms. There are few reasons for that:• Related courses are taught in abstract (purely mathematical) way.• Instructors are not engineers, or they do not have enough expertise in the industrial applications of the topics.• Classes are not clustered into

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2008 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Christi L. Patton

were used in the design project and allowed opportunities for discussion within smallergroups of students. The remainder of this paper will focus on the self-paced portion of thecourse.All TU students have access to Vista. Most teachers use this as a repository of handouts andcourse supplements, or to post grades throughout the semester. However, it has many additionalcapabilities and is designed to manage entire online courses or as a supplement to moretraditional courses. For ChE 1013, the instructor created 26 modules incorporating (1)videotaped lessons, (2) links to supplemental online materials, (3) online quizzes, and (4)homework assignments. Each lesson had a due date. After the due date, students couldcomplete the work with a 2% per

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2011 North Midwest Section

Authors

Daniel N. Pope

with thecapabilities and use of the ANSYS software. Students were expected to perform varioustutorials available on the ANSYS Customer Portal5 and at Cornell Uni e i SimCafe eb i e6and present a summary of the techniques and tools that they learned about in each tutorial. Theywere also prompted to access materials appropriate to their individual project from the ANSYSCustomer Portal5 and Resource Library7. Several lab sessions where used to review meshingincluding structured and unstructured meshes. Figure 1 shows examples used in the lab of anunstructured mesh (Fig. 1a) and a structured mesh (Fig. 1b) for axisymmetric flow over acylinder. Proceedings of the 2011 North Midwest Section ConferenceThe coursework

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2012 St.Lawrence Section Meeting

Authors

Brian Surgenor

afford such courses, given that they are expensive in terms of bothtime and money ?” This paper reviewed the offering of the course in Mechatronics anddiscussed the underlying resource issues. The only recommendation is that both students (andinstructors) need to continue to lobby on behalf of such courses. The effort is worth it.References1. Grose, T.K. “”Hot Courses” What Wows the Facebook Generation ?”, ASEE Prism, Summer, 2011.2. Simcock, A.L., “Making Courses Attractive by the Phased Introduction of Industry Problems”, Proc. European Society for Engineering Education (SEFI), Aalborg, Denmark, June 30-July 1, 2008.3. Goff, R.M., "The Art of Creating an Active Learning Environment", ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings, Session

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2017 Gulf Southwest Section Conference

Authors

Ilse Nava-Medina; Angie Hill Price; Mathew Kuttolamadom

thatthey had some hours to spare each week committed to a research project. Regarding research topics,the only trepidation was along the lines of their own technical capabilities/skills pertaining to theresearch project, and especially since this was their generally first experience with research. Oncethe major ‘fears’ were alleviated that included self-competency concerns and the uncertaintiesinvolved, the students were excited to get started and get the major equipment/safety training done. Proceedings of the 2017 ASEE Gulf-Southwest Section Annual Conference Organized by The University of Texas at Dallas Copyright © 2017, American Society for Engineering Education

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2014 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Shanelle M. Harris; LeeRoy Bronner

approach that seeks tovalidate a problem solution, the Alloy Language is presented. Implementation Problem Solution Index Terms— Alloy Language, Object-Oriented Analysis Maintenance(OOA), Object-Oriented Models (OOM), Set Theory,Specification Language, System Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Fig. 1: Standard System Development Life CycleZ-language The planning phase determines the high levels of the projectI. INTRODUCTION used to generate goals. System analysis defines

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2013 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Ralph Belton; Ahmet Zeytinci

students were informed in the field that their findings would have to be summarized andpresented to the community stake holders. The faculty introduced the studio problem statementand that the students will present their solutions and findings. 2The students were forced to compare their problem statement with the reality on the ground.They were asked to consider how the seven area of design consideration related to the actualconditions in the field: 1. Identification of the issues and problems 2. Establishment of the parameters 3. Visual Inspection of the field problems 4. General earthquake design principles 5. Feasibility considerations (Cost and technical) 6

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AEE Journal

Authors

Ryan Solnosky P.E.; Joshua Fairchild

show correlations between theresults and other technical assignments.Key words: Team dynamics, cross-disciplinary Teams, multi-source Feedback INTRODUCTION Many engineering students do not know how to approach large complex systems due to theirexposure to idealistic examples (ASCE 2004). Additionally they not capable of providing criticalFALL 2017 1 ADVANCES IN ENGINEERING EDUCATION Survey Tools for Faculty to Quickly Assess Multidisciplinary Team Dynamics in Capstone