Conference Session

Biomedical Engineering Division Poster Session

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Carly Eressy, University of Texas at Austin; Brittain Sobey, University of Texas at Austin; Margo Cousins, University of Texas at Austin

response rate of 93%.Question #38 identified a perceived weakness in the program curriculum as students citedtechnical skills, programming languages, and/or computational skills were lacking in theirinterviews for jobs. In fall 2018, the UGCC implemented course updates to better preparestudents for industry jobs in these areas. Upper-level programming languages and numericalmethods immediately applicable in modern industry settings—Python, C++, and MATLAB—replaced a more basic machine learning language in two of the BME degree requirements. Oneof these two required courses is typically taken in the first year of the program and the other inthe second year. The classes of 2019 and 2020 missed the improved version of the two coursesso it makes sense

Conference Session

Mechanical Engineering Technical Session: Assessment and Accreditation: Making the Grade!

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Vallorie Peridier, Temple University

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

the CI Memo with implications for SOattainment and follow-up tasks. So, in addition to the documentation of assessments, ourProgram’s Continuous Improvement documentation includes the following:• CI Memos for every SO 1-7 committee meeting• CI Memos for Department meetings• CI Memos for departmental industrial advisory committee meetings• CI Memos for College and/or Department Retreats• CI Memos for Department semester review of course sections6. Develop a comprehensive archive for assessment and continuous improvement.This section describes our Program’s assessment/CI digital archive. The archive was initiallyimplemented solely as a compliance device for Criterion 4, but it has since proved so useful thatnow it hard to imagine

Conference Session

Two-year College Division: Authors Address Transfer Matters-Part II

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kim Goodwin Roberts, North Carolina State University; Tuere Bowles, North Carolina State University; Jerome P. Lavelle, North Carolina State University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Two Year College Division

legislature charged a committee withoptimizing the plan in 2014.While strategic plans, enrollment plans and articulation agreements are significant first steps inthe evolution of effective transfer programs, they are insufficient alone. Various analyses ofarticulation agreements highlight that the primary questions raised include “should theagreements focus on the transfer of particular courses, a block of courses, or an entireprogram?”1 Four-year engineering institutions argue that engineering courses evolve withtechnology, making standard articulation of such courses problematic. Even if non-engineeringcourses are the primary focus of articulation (ex. general education courses), community collegesand four-year institutions are constantly updating

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Susan J.S. Lasser; Ronnie Chrestman; Matthew Ohland

beneficialfor minority student development. In addition to the value of adding to the base of evidencesupporting the use of this model, the result of this study is significant because of the breadth ofoutcomes and the length of the period studied. The study compares the performance of programparticipants to a control group of minority students from the same cohorts and with a similarmatriculation profile in terms of age and of a predicted grade point ratio based on SAT / ACTscores, high school rank in class, and quality of high school.Black student retention and the Treisman approach to improving itHigh failure rates in introductory college mathematics courses, notably among underrepresentedstudents, have been of concern for many years.1,2 Table 1

Conference Session

Student Assessments and Tests

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Chinedu Alexander Emeka; Craig Zilles, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Matthew West, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Geoffrey L. Herman, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Timothy Bretl, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods Division (ERM)

intheir stress levels about a course. The following student quote is representative of thissentiment. There was always much less stress [with second-chance testing]. In the back of my mind, I always knew that there was a retake and there’s an opportunity to actually improve upon that grade, so overall the stress is much less and I could actually devote the time and effort I wanted to actually learning the material properly to do on the quiz, rather than just pure memorization.This sentiment of stress reduction was prevalent even for those who rarely used second-chancetesting. Merely knowing that the option was available was beneficial to students. I thought it was a very good option to have [second-chance exams

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Martha Zola; Angelo Perna; Vladimir Briller; Raymond Calluori

measures ofacademic performance. The data were collected for 456 Engineering students who participated inthe Entering Student Surveys in Fall of 1999 and 2000. Since the Entering Students for the lastthree years have consistently ranked career oriented goals high, the research suggests that theextrinsically motivated goals are more likely related to a high level of commitment andsuccessful Freshman academic performance.The implications of these findings will be relevant in the faculty advisement of students. Thestudents will be better served in matching their goals and course selection, which will ultimatelylead to improved learning.IntroductionThe paper is a part of a larger study on retention and graduation (Zola, 2000). Its purpose is toassist

Conference Session

Sustainable Product Development and Manufacturing

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Guanghsu A. Chang, Minnesota State University, Mankato; William R. Peterson, WRP Associates

Tagged Divisions

Manufacturing

manufacturing knowledge, 3. Guide the students to simplifying the product structure through a comprehensive consideration and instant feedback in both manufacturing and design viewpoints, 4. Encourage the students to investigate best practices in assembly design and welcome new design concepts and solutions, 5. Help the students create alternative designsBy applying the DFA model, the students can systematically create their own designs andidentify many assembly difficulties. This paper also offers an example of improving productassembly efficiency.Overview of Manufacturing Engineering Technology program at MSUMany Manufacturing Engineering Technology curricula include both product design andmanufacturing processes courses. These

Conference Session

Computing and Information Technology Division (CIT) Technical Session 5

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Wookwon Lee, Gannon University; Joseph Mendez; Naveen Kumar Manimaran

Tagged Divisions

Computing and Information Technology Division (CIT)

, and configure them as needed, our CPSplatform is nearly ready for its initial field test on a football field. The overall development effortshave provided us with a great deal of insights on how we may apply our learning during thedevelopment phase to the curriculum improvement in cyber engineering. In this paper, we presentdetails of our effort in developing a 1/5th-scale electric autonomous vehicle as a CPS platform froman AutoRally years after the DARPA project was completed. Also, using our cyber engineeringcurriculum as an example, we present a set of mappings of technical coverage between the CPSplatform and core courses in cyber engineering.2. Overview of 1/5th Autonomous Vehicle Platform Figure 1 shows (a) the key components of our

Conference Session

High-School Engineering Education

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jan DeWaters, Clarkson University; Susan Powers, Clarkson University

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

the classroom and point to theneed for additional data to clarify the results. When asked to self-assess their learning, 84% ofthe students said they learned a lot or a quite a bit about energy issues. Responses to open-endedquestionnaire items indicate that the course increased (81% of the) students’ awareness of theneed to conserve energy; 54% indicated that they are more aware of the implications of their ownenergy use on the overall energy problems; 20% say they are more aware of, and troubled by,Americans’ overconsumption of energy resources; and 60% reported positive changes in theirenergy consumption behaviors. These preliminary results suggest that the project-basedcurriculum is effective for promoting student learning, but the

Conference Session

Design for the Environment

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Douglas Gabauer, Virginia Tech; Tim Bayse, Virginia Tech; Janis Terpenny, Virginia Tech; Richard Goff, Virginia Tech

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

Engineering Education, Associate Professor, and Assistant Head of the Department of Engineering Education at Virginia Tech. An award winning teacher, his main areas of research and teaching are design and design education. Page 12.865.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007 Improving Engineering Design Instruction through Lessons Learned from FIRST Lego League MentoringAbstractEngineering design courses at the undergraduate level pose substantial challenges to novice aswell as veteran faculty, especially when implementing open-ended design problems to facilitatestudent learning. This paper

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Ho; Jack Hopper; David Cocke; Daniel Chen; Carl Yaws; Kuyen Li; John Gossage

provides tools to help students conceptualizedproblems, explore the influence of relevant parameters, and test fundamental engineeringprinciples. The aim of our Course, Curriculum, and Laboratory Improvement project is to meldthe problem-based learning pedagogy with CAMS to produce students with an in-depthunderstanding of the fundamentals of chemical engineering as well as the ability to use computersimulation packages effectively in the workplace. The approach used here is to integrate the useof CAMS throughout the entire chemical engineering curriculum. The Accreditation Board ofEngineering and Technology’s Engineering Criteria 2000 framework will be followed to evaluatethe outcome of this project. This reform process will beneficially affect

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Kenneth Reid

courses with a straight lecture andlab format. 8, 9,10VI. ConclusionWhy go to the effort to incorporate these techniques if little improvement was measured in thisstudy? It must be noted that this improvement, while small, was very short-term improvement(one-half of one semester). A number of other advantages are evident: first, these students nowshould have a learning community of their peers - a valuable asset when the explanation fromthe instructor doesn’t “click”. Also, it is anticipated that students who were involved in theactive classroom will perform better in class and in the future. There have been manypublications on active and/or collaborative teaching techniques, which have payoffs that occurmore long-term.11 Further data will be

Collection

2010 North Midwest Section

Authors

Robert W. Williams; Salam F. Rahmatalla

effectively in written, oral, and graphical forms. At The University of Iowa, a reorganization of the undergraduate Civil & EnvironmentalEngineering in 2005 included combining a 3.0 semester-hour (s.h.) senior level elective lecturecourse entitled “Construction Materials” with a 1.0 s.h. required laboratory class entitled“Experiments in CEE” into a single required 3.0 s.h. lecture and lab course entitled “CivilEngineering Materials”. This newly integrated course required lab experiments that would tie inconceptually and chronologically with the lecture. At the time, the lab space required almostcomplete redevelopment after a building renovation had eliminated a high-ceiling structuraltesting laboratory and movement into a space with 15

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Brock LaMeres, Montana State University; Carolyn Plumb, Montana State University; Fred Cady, (Retired) Montana State University

AC 2010-415: IMPROVED STUDENT LEARNING OF MICROPROCESSORSYSTEMS THROUGH HANDS-ON AND ONLINE EXPERIENCE:Brock LaMeres, Montana State University Brock J. LaMeres is an Assistant Professor in the electrical and computer engineering department at Montana State University (MSU). LaMeres teaches and conducts research in the area of digital systems and engineering education. LaMeres is currently studying the effectiveness of online delivery of engineering education including the impact of remote laboratory experiences. LaMeres’ research group is also studying the effective hardware/software partitioning using reprogrammable fabrics. This work involves exploiting the flexibility of modern FPGAs to

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Monika Neda, University of Nevada, Las Vegas; Blanca Rincon; Alok Pandey, College of Southern Nevada; Claudia Mora Bornholdt, College of Southern Nevada; Vanessa W. Vongkulluksn Ph.D., University of Nevada, Las Vegas; Rachidi Salako, University of Nevada, Las Vegas; John William Howard, College of Southern Nevada; Daniel Sahl, University of Nevada, Las Vegas

Tagged Topics

Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

engineering and science who have been identified asneeding additional math instruction are placed in a co-requisite section of a pre-calculus course,Math 126E (3 credits) pre-calculus with the co-requisite component Math 26B (2 credits atUNLV and 3-credits at CSN). In 26B students are expected to study concepts that will help themcatch up with the needed math to perform well in Math 126 E (Pre-calculus). Thus, in a co-requisite pre-calculus course, students spend an additional two hours with the instructor with theintent to remediate Algebra. Current literature review of innovations and interventions thatintend to improve the outcomes in mathematics points to active learning, hands-on projects,comic book-like interventions, mentoring programs, use of

Conference Session

Electrical and Computer Engineering Laboratory and SoC Developments

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sandip Das, Kennesaw State University; Craig Chin, Kennesaw State University; Sheila Hill, Kennesaw State University

simulation components intolaboratory experiments of an analog electronics course [8]. They found that student grades as wellas student attitudes towards the course improved compared to course sections that did not includethe simulation components. In another study, investigators used a problem-based learningapproach to lab design called CLABS [9-11]. This model used prelab exercises that includedsimulation and pre-calculation of values as well as laboratory exercises that tied concepts andtheories to realistic projects. Survey evaluations show that the CLABS laboratory exercises wererated positively for all components of the model.Student experiences in applying the engineering design approach is an essential part of an electricalengineering program

Conference Session

Engineering Design Graphics Division (EDGD) Technical Session 2

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Qi Dunsworth, Pennsylvania State University; Dean Q. Lewis, Pennsylvania State University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Design Graphics Division (EDGD)

Paper ID #43482A Targeted Approach to Improving Spatial Visualization Skills of First-YearEngineering StudentsDr. Qi Dunsworth, Pennsylvania State University Qi Dunsworth is the Director of the Center for Teaching Initiatives at Penn State Erie, The Behrend College. She holds a master’s degree in Communication Studies and a Ph.D. in Educational Technology. She supports faculty in their effort to improve pedagogy, course design, and interdisciplinary curricula.Mr. Dean Q. Lewis, Pennsylvania State University Dean Lewis has served as an assistant teaching professor in mechanical engineering in the School of Engineering at

Conference Session

First-year Programs Division: Retention

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jerome P. Lavelle, North Carolina State University; Matthew T. Stimpson, North Carolina State University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

minimum standard  Raise Program  Standing in matriculation standards/expectations process  Establish std. processes  Improve communications Support Course options  E102/E102 and E201  Maintain connections  E122  Intentional reflection  E144/E145 Active advising  Proactive intervention  Early identification

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Sharyn L. Switzer; Chris S Ray

interestfrom the students to write their letters correctly the first time. When asked, “Do you believe thatthe use of Readability Statistics has improved your overall writing?” 39 indicated a positiveresponse, 16 indicated in the negative, and 17 were undecided. Several comments from studentsindicated that re-writing their initial letters to conform to the requested levels was very difficult.Regarding the time spent in reviewing and evaluating student writing, the instructor believes thatrequiring the student use of Readability Statistics has resulted in a time savings of 40-50 percentfrom previous semesters. In previous semesters, evaluating and reviewing student writing tookapproximately 12 per week. During the course of the semester of this study

Conference Session

Materials Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Nicole Johnson-Glauch, California Polytechnic State University; Lauren Anne Cooper, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Trevor Scott Harding, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Materials

methods.Quantitative methods consisted of pre- and post- course surveys to measure changes in students’levels of self-efficacy beliefs. Self-efficacy was measured with a 17-item validated instrumentcommonly used to measure general self-efficacy [22]. We used the Shapiro-Wilks test to verifythe normality of the data before conducting a paired t-test to determine the effect of the actionplan assignment on students’ self-efficacy. We used a p value of 0.05 as our basis for statisticalsignificance for both tests. In our survey, we also included six demographics questions such asethnicity, gender, socio-economic status, transfer student status, and employment status.Qualitative methods consisted of a content analysis of the students’ finalized “Action Plan

Conference Session

Computer-Based Data Acquisition Systems

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Hoffmann

Improving Data Acquisition and Reduction in a First-Year-Student Laboratory Experiment Michael Hoffmann The Ohio State UniversityAbstract The College of Engineering at The Ohio State University requires all engineeringstudents to complete introductory courses in engineering as part of their academic experience.The courses are usually taken during a student’s first year and follow either a standard twocourse track or an honors three course track. Courses in each track have both lecture andhands-on laboratory components. For the second course of the standard track,four-member-teams of students must design and build

Conference Session

Learning Strategies

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Yareni P. Lara-Rodríguez, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus; Rafael Jose Baez, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus; Pedro O. Quintero, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus

Tagged Divisions

Manufacturing

during the Summer 2020 semester. These sessions will consist of at least3 spaced training sessions before the scheduled session class (traditional). The periodic trainingwill be one training session per week for the “experimental” section, and it will be comparedwith the “control” section. The student's feedback pointed out that more training sessions couldhelp to improve the approach to achieve the targeted tolerance dimensions. Therefore, a feedbacksurvey will be implemented for the Summer 2020 cohort.Bibliography[1] Y. Weinstein, C. R. Madan, and M. A. Sumeracki, “Teaching the science of learning.,” Cogn. Res. Princ. Implic., vol. 3, no. 1, p. 2, 2018.[2] S. H. K. Kang, “Spaced Repetition Promotes Efficient and Effective Learning

Conference Session

Mentoring Graduate Students for Success

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Steven Beyerlein; Robert Drew; Matthew Walker; Karl Rink; Dan Gerbus; Dan Cordon; Edwin Odom

skills outside of the undergraduatecurriculum. These skills are typically left to be developed on the job or by the students and manytimes developed poorly else these would not be problems occurring in industry. Theseprofessional skills are addressed and unsystematically developed through group projects andnecessity. Seldom are projects or development lessons directly addressing these skills conductedwhere effective approaches may be learned. The skills are considered byproducts of groupprojects. An engineer with a graduate degree is expected to have all of these skills, yet graduateprograms do little to develop these skills directly.To address these issues and to improve the graduate experience, a relatively informal group,Idaho Engineering

Conference Session

Lab Experiments & Other Initiatives

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Anderson; Lance Perez; Jerald Varner

senior levels. The four courses are in the systems area with an emphasison communications systems. This paper summarizes our experience with the ISSL in terms ofimplementation and utilization and its effect on student learning.Laboratory Motivation and ImplementationThe ISSL at UNL is integrated into four separate three credit hour courses that are taught at thejunior and senior levels in the undergraduate curriculum. The laboratory experience is part of thethree credit hours and does not replace any existing laboratory courses. The four courses are: 1. ELEC 304 Signals and Systems: The primary objective of this junior level course is to teach students time domain and transform analysis of continuous and discrete linear systems

Conference Session

NSF Grantees’ Poster Session

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Hatice O. Ozturk, North Carolina State University; Dianne Raubenheimer, Meredith College; Alina N. Duca, NC State University; H. Joel Trussell, North Carolina State University

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees Poster Session

], withstudents with access to interactive online materials scoring significantly higher on tests thanstudents in control groups without access to such materials [15, 16, 14]. A similar effect has beenseen in mathematics classes, where students who completed web-based homework assignmentsperformed significantly higher on final exams than did control groups [16, 17]. Furthermore,there is recent research about e-learning, studying whether the adaptive e-learning contentdelivered can help improve student performance. The results obtained confirm that studentswho receive learning content that was tailor-made to their background learn more than theirpeers who received material which was mismatched to their background [18, 19].Exploring this approach, the

Conference Session

Engineering Technology Pedagogy 1

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Immanuel Edinbarough P.E., University of Texas Rio Grande Valley; Jesus A. Gonzalez-Rodriguez, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

taken by the UTRGV to create and run the industrial certifications are workin progress and the relevant data will be collected and analyzed in due course. The assessment ofthe operational strengths and weaknesses of the program after a complete implementation will beconducted. To assess the effectiveness of implementation strategies and timeliness of meetingtargeted tasks, the following sources will be utilized: § Interviews with students, and instructional faculty § Feedback from the Industry partnersConclusionThe primary outcome of the project implemented at UTRGV is to equip ET students withindustry recognized certifications approved by primary certifying entities such as NIMS,FANUC, SIEMENS, and Hexagon Manufacturing Intelligence to face

Conference Session

Capstone Design III

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stacy S. Wilson, Western Kentucky University; Mark E. Cambron, Western Kentucky University; Michael L. McIntyre, Western Kentucky University

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

Sequence with Industrial Project Management TechniquesIntroductionThe Western Kentucky University Electrical Engineering Program requires each student tocomplete a senior capstone experience. Project management techniques were incorporated as aresult of the program assessment process. Throughout the years of offering these courses, thestudent performance has continued to improve. However, it was noted that students continued tostruggle with setting project milestones and faculty had not given adequate intermediatefeedback to students during the year. Therefore it was determined through the course assessmentthat more formal milestone development and appraisal should be incorporated into the courses.In order to address the

Collection

2009 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Josh Coffman; Sachin S. Terdalkar; Joseph J. Rencis; Jiancheng Liu; Ashland O. Brown

Finite Element Learning Module for Improving Knowledge of Fatigue using Commercial Software Josh Coffman1, Jiancheng Liu2, Ashland O. Brown2, Sachin S. Terdalkar1, Joseph J. Rencis1 1 University of Arkansas, Fayetteville; 2University of the PacificAbstractFinite element (FE) active learning modules have been developed for various undergraduateengineering courses. These FE learning modules are used to introduce basic and complexengineering problems to enhance student learning of the theory and fundamentals of the finiteelement method. A review of educational literature reveals that fatigue and finite elements arenot addressed

Collection

2009 Northeast Section Meeting

Authors

Josh Coffman; Jiancheng Liu; Ashland O. Brown; Sachin S. Terdalkar; Joseph J. Rencis

Finite Element Learning Module for Improving Knowledge of Fatigue using Commercial Software Josh Coffman1, Jiancheng Liu2, Ashland O. Brown2, Sachin S. Terdalkar1, Joseph J. Rencis1 1 University of Arkansas, Fayetteville; 2University of the PacificAbstractFinite element (FE) active learning modules have been developed for various undergraduateengineering courses. These FE learning modules are used to introduce basic and complexengineering problems to enhance student learning of the theory and fundamentals of the finiteelement method. A review of educational literature reveals that fatigue and finite elements arenot addressed

Conference Session

Professional Papers

Collection

2025 ASEE Southeast Conference

Authors

Kenneth Marek, Mercer University

Tagged Topics

Professional Papers

, and new feedback provided by the software tool allows additionalimprovements to be made to the experiment. These include obtaining a larger number of timeconstant values, on which to perform better statistical analyses, as well as facilitating additionalinquiries into the experimental data on multiple cognitive levels. This paper discusses thepurpose, function, and effectiveness of the tool, including estimates of time saved. It alsodiscusses how the additional experimental analysis improvements, made possible by the newsoftware tool, impact student understanding and course learning outcomes.Introduction:One of the experiments in the junior level experimental methods laboratory course at MercerUniversity’s mechanical engineering program