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2010 ASEE Zone 4 Conference

Authors

David Lanning; Wahyu Lestari; Shirley Waterhouse

expected to become reasonably competent at operating certainlaboratory equipment, such as wind tunnels, load frames, and scanning electron microscopes(SEM), to which they would receive minimal exposure at many other universities, and thismakes Embry-Riddle unique in this regard.Within this context, the authors wrote a successful proposal to the National Science Foundation(NSF) to fund the creation of a laboratory-based course on materials and structural failure. Theemphasis is on failure modes and related issues that especially pertain to the aerospace industry,primarily because of the overall emphasis on the aerospace industry generated at Embry-RiddleAeronautical University. The course syllabus is influenced by the technical skills and

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2013 North Midwest Section Meeting

Authors

Andy S. Peng; Robert Nelson; Cheng Liu; Ahmet Turkmen; Wei Shi; Jia-Ling Lin

part of the higher education systems[1]. Internettechnologies have had a significant impact on the recent development of engineering educationsystem[2]. In recent years, many institutions have deployed numerous online courses. Some ofthese online courses completely replace the need for traditionally in classroom courses. Whilethese online courses provide flexible scheduling and different learning experiences toengineering students, they generally lack the required interactive activities and precious face-to-face time between the course instructor and students. Meanwhile, the growth of computerengineering student enrollments coupled with budgetary constraints is challenging institutions toeffectively serve their students. Furthermore, the

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2008 GSW

Authors

Mohamad H. Ahmadian

• Analyzing and evaluating arguments, interpretations or beliefs • Synthesizing subject-matter insights and knowledge The Capstone CourseThe course enables students to: (1) complete two projects based on their field of interest, (2)prepare an effective written technical report, (3) plan and produce presentation materials whichmost effectively communicate the intended message for their technical oral presentation, and (4)apply concepts and practices of their field of experience to develop and effectively present their Proceedings of the 2008 ASEE Gulf-Southwest Annual Conference The University of New Mexico – Albuquerque Copyright © 2008

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2012 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Lisa Anneberg; Harold Josephs

engineeringdepartment to come to the US university [LTU] for one term concentrating on their seniorproject. The mechanics of this program has been previously detailed [2-4]. Additionally, therehave been a number of student surveys taken to assess the Chinese students’ perceived value ofthe English taught in the eight courses versus the technical content of the courses [1]. However,it is thought that the results of these survey instruments may be inaccurate and misleading, givenProceedings of the 2012 Midwest Section Conference of the American Society for Engineering Educationthe cultural differences of Chinese students and their inexperience and therefore are a bit wary ofthe survey results. It is noteworthy to observe that the exchange students who spent a

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2015 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

Thais da C. L. Alves

interdisciplinary teams sessions and field trips Engage in community Participate in training Participate in general Manage the chapter

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2018 Gulf Southwest Section Conference

Authors

Jorge Leon; Angie Hill Price; Mathew Kuttolamadom

the degree program currently seen related to the content beyond advanced technologies.being developed at TAMU. Further, a brief assessment of The curriculum for the MSET at Wayne State Universitythe potential job market awaiting the graduates from this [4] incorporates problem solving skills with communicationprogram, as well as the expected student demand was and project management. The Purdue University onlinepresented. Future work includes continued refinement of Master of Science in Engineering Technology program [1]the curriculum and other program details by drawing upon emphasizes more general objectives such as “design andthe best attributes of currently offered similar programs. guide

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2002 ASEE North Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Mani Mina

electrical engineering,we can identify the following general characteristics that can be viewed as unfavorablefor development of life-long learners. Please note that the identified characteristics arehighly related and in many cases, by redirecting students’ efforts, an unfavorablecharacteristic can become a great asset. 1. They are not challengeable. In general, the students are not willing to accept challenges. When things are hard and the first sign of an unacceptable grade or class performance is seen, the first reaction of many students is to panic and quit. This usually manifests itself in a change of the field of study as well as dropping the class, changing schools, or just not working on classes any more and accepting the

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2023 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Chun-Hsing Ho; Nyawa Allieu

redundant in participating in class activities. We immediately tookaction to address the obstacle and bring students back on track.MethodsWith the support of the School’s Director, we made the following adjustments.1. Rearrange lecture room: we worked with the staff to reserve two classrooms for laboratory practice. The lecture delivery method was rearranged with 30-50% lecture presentations and 50-70% laboratory practices depending on the student’s learning progress2. Readjust lecture pathing: we reallocated the percentage of lecture presentations and lab practice by reducing course presentations and increasing the Q&A sessions. The direction of lecture delivery was switched right away to mainly focus on lab practice which allowed us

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2011 North Midwest Section

Authors

Waddah Akili

meant that each of the seven groups would take charge of twocases in terms of: presentation, provision of additional supplementary information when needed,and documenting generated discussion that proceeded presentation. The three 50 minute sessionsper week were apportioned as follows: The first session was primarily devoted to thepresentation of the selected case by the assigned group, followed by a short question and answerperiod. During the second session, an open discussion, guided by the instructor, would be gearedtowards relevant technical and nontechnical issues that had a bearing on the case. In this secondsession, all seven groups that made up the class contributed to the discussion. In the thirdsession, an invited speaker, a

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2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

Nicholas S. Rosasco; Dane Brown

the dispute over the shutdown of the U.S. Department ofcryptologic strategies, including the Caesar cipher and Justice, an event for which Anonymous [11] has takenconventional digital symmetric implementation, was used to responsibility, then followed. The definition of the termhighlight the cumbersome need for an in person meeting prior “distributed denial of service” was then offered as a rhetoricalto use. Then, the command line interface (“gpg –gen-key”) question, immediately followed by a question of how muchfor the SSL software suite was used to generate a technical expertise was needed to accomplish this.public/private key pair [9], and the key-use-enabled editor With

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2024 CIEC

Authors

Alexander Wyglinski

ETD 335 Experiential PhD: A 21st Century Approach to Pursuing a PhD While Working in Industry Alexander M. Wyglinski Worcester Polytechnic InstituteIntroductionThe Experiential PhD experience enables individuals working full-time in industry tosimultaneously pursue a PhD degree either part-time or full-time on a topic that mayoverlap/supplement activities being conducted in their workplace. Such a doctoral experiencecan achieve multiple positive outcomes for the employee/PhD student, employer, and PhDfaculty advisor, namely (1) the employee

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2008 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

Elizabeth J. Brauer; Karen L. Jarratt-Snider; Fonda Swimmer

attending college in sessions attended byboth participants and parents. We discuss the high school classes best suited for an engineeringmajor, particularly the math and science classes, as well as the expected grade point average foradmission. Next we give an overview of the application process and the requirements such asACT or SAT. Finally, we discuss financial aid and potential sources for funds.In addition to the daily program activities, evening activities are offered throughout the week.The evening activities are social and cultural activities, offering the participants opportunities tohave a little fun, and also to learn about the contributions to engineering generated from diversecultures, including those from Indigenous peoples, and

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2023 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Kaycie Lane; Logan Perry

project. Additional activities included individual and groupanalyses of a design scenario, guided activities designed to simulate client engagement inpractice, and peer-review sessions where students gave each other feedback on their designs.Results indicate that the designed activities help students move from a high-level understandingof each design factor to a more nuanced understanding of how to apply the design factors towater and wastewater projects specifically. Students showed an increase in confidence in theirdesign from a technical perspective but increases in confidence are confounded by students’newfound awareness of “appropriateness”. The pilot data and activities in this study generatedsufficient data to evaluate the research

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2009 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Raluca I. Rosca

ofsessions. Eight people, including the author, participated in at least one of the diversity sessionsor used ETPP materials to complete their diversity statement, and seven of them answered theexit survey and interview of the 2005 ETPP-UF study. Out of these, two were post-doctoralassociates and six were engineering graduate students; six were women and two were men; threewere U.S. citizens or permanent residents and 5 were international students/post docs; four wereWhite, three Asian and 1 Hispanic.Diversity Sessions (ETPP-UF): ‘International Group’ Discussions, Fall 2004The first diversity session of the Fall 2004 offering had four participants: two post-doctoralassociates and two graduate students; two women and two men; two Taiwanese, 1 Indian

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2009 Northeast Section Meeting

Authors

Raluca I. Rosca

ofsessions. Eight people, including the author, participated in at least one of the diversity sessionsor used ETPP materials to complete their diversity statement, and seven of them answered theexit survey and interview of the 2005 ETPP-UF study. Out of these, two were post-doctoralassociates and six were engineering graduate students; six were women and two were men; threewere U.S. citizens or permanent residents and 5 were international students/post docs; four wereWhite, three Asian and 1 Hispanic.Diversity Sessions (ETPP-UF): ‘International Group’ Discussions, Fall 2004The first diversity session of the Fall 2004 offering had four participants: two post-doctoralassociates and two graduate students; two women and two men; two Taiwanese, 1 Indian

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2007 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Adriana Popescu

opening bank accounts. In addition,they are introduced to other administrators and organizations on campus. Since 2005, the Library is one ofthe organizations which participate in the program every year with a formal presentation followed by asite seeing tour and visit to all campus libraries. This session is the first opportunity for representatives ofthe library staff to introduce themselves to the international undergraduate population and for the studentsto learn about the role that the library plays in the learning process. The librarians participating in thisevent have themselves been international students in US or in other countries, therefore they can veryeasily connect and relate to the students’ experiences. Besides the general

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2013 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Tom C. Roberts; Shagun Sharma

tuition rates.In the mid-1990’s the Dean’s Office worked with electrical and computer engineering faculty to createand implement a one hour sophomore level required course “DEN 275: Introduction to Personal and Pro-fessional Development” – enrollments increased. The course content was designed to meet ABET a-kcriteria. Student Learning Outcomes (SLO’s) included: Understand and apply personal and professional development concepts in leadership, teamwork, and continuous quality improvement. Learn about and apply the basic concepts of several personal assessment tools. Practice technical writing and oral communications skills. Develop a personal plan for improvement.Civil engineering soon followed and

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2008 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Richard J.H. Gash; David Fedroff

that class size be limited to 18 students. With a reinforced concrete course of 57students this year, the course consisted of 4 sections of about 14-15 students each. The course meets for40 lessons of 55 minutes each and also for 8 lab sessions lasting 2 hours each. On Lesson 1 the instructors challenged their students to design and mix their own concrete. Amajority of the students had never made concrete or had any experience with slag, fly ash or silica fume.The class began with a brief introduction to LEED and a discussion of the potential for SCMs to helpreinforced concrete structures achieve certification. The students divided into four groups (3 or 4 studentsper group) and set to work. Each group usedthe 3:2:1 heuristic for

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2008 Northeast Section Meeting

Authors

Richard J.H. Gash; David Fedroff

that class size be limited to 18 students. With a reinforced concrete course of 57students this year, the course consisted of 4 sections of about 14-15 students each. The course meets for40 lessons of 55 minutes each and also for 8 lab sessions lasting 2 hours each. On Lesson 1 the instructors challenged their students to design and mix their own concrete. Amajority of the students had never made concrete or had any experience with slag, fly ash or silica fume.The class began with a brief introduction to LEED and a discussion of the potential for SCMs to helpreinforced concrete structures achieve certification. The students divided into four groups (3 or 4 studentsper group) and set to work. Each group usedthe 3:2:1 heuristic for

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2008 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

Richard J.H. Gash; David Fedroff

that class size be limited to 18 students. With a reinforced concrete course of 57students this year, the course consisted of 4 sections of about 14-15 students each. The course meets for40 lessons of 55 minutes each and also for 8 lab sessions lasting 2 hours each. On Lesson 1 the instructors challenged their students to design and mix their own concrete. Amajority of the students had never made concrete or had any experience with slag, fly ash or silica fume.The class began with a brief introduction to LEED and a discussion of the potential for SCMs to helpreinforced concrete structures achieve certification. The students divided into four groups (3 or 4 studentsper group) and set to work. Each group usedthe 3:2:1 heuristic for

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2025 PNW Section Annual Meeting

Authors

Katherine Kuder; Joshua Hamel; Yen-Lin Han; Wesley Lauer; Michael Marsolek; Agnieszka Miguel; Teodora Shuman

waswell-received by students.Programs also ensure sociotechnical content is woven throughout the curriculum. CivilEngineering organized workshops on sociotechnical curricula, defining sociotechnical contentand providing examples of integrating it into technical courses. All programs engaged in theuniversity's strategic initiative, Revise and Reimagine Our Curriculum (RRC), to preparestudents to address societal challenges such as racial and economic justice, climate change, andthe impact of technology on society. Computer and Electrical Engineering is developing modulesrelated to these topics to include in technical courses. All students take general education coursesthat include diversity, equity, and inclusion topics that are important to our

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

Authors

John Allen; Keith Berube; Brett Ellis

. Proceedings of the 2018 Conference for Industry and Education Collaboration Copyright ©2018, American Society for Engineering Education Session ETD 425One challenge of adding significant electrical elements to MET capstone projects is the lack ofelectrical subject matter within the MET curriculum. The MET curriculum consists of 41 totalcourses (128 total credit hours) of which 4 courses (14 credit hours) specifically addresselectrical topics. The four courses specifically addressing electrical topics are: 1. PHY 108 “Technical Physics II” (4 credits) ‒ electromagnetic topics from a physics perspective; 2. COS 120 “Introduction to

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2003 GSW

Authors

W. Conway Link; Carlos G. Spaht

may be financially disadvantaged and those who arefirst generation college bound. In the eleven years of LaPREP, approximately 80% of itsmore than 300 participants have been minority students and have come from virtuallyevery middle school in the Shreveport-Bossier area.Each summer 30 first-year participants join with approximately 25 returning second yearparticipants for a summer of intellectually stimulating work and fun on the LSUScampus. Students successfully completing the first summer session with a 70% or betteraverage are eligible for the second summer session in 2004.The topics studied over two summer sessions include:• Engineering• Logic• Algebraic Structures• Probability and Statistics• Problem Solving• Technical

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

Authors

Barry Lunt

Conference for Industry and Education Collaboration Copyright ©2018 American Society for Engineering Education Session ETD 506 Occasional or incidental 21 80.8% Occasional or incidental 8 33.3% Ongoing 2 7.7% Ongoing 0 0.0% Organized program or 1 3.8% Organized program or 0 0.0% subcommittee subcommittee The next five questions had to do with the extent to which IABs were involved inplacement, providing internships

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2005 GSW

Authors

Rafic Bachnak; Korinne Caruso; cody ross; Carlton Prewitt

IndustryThe food industry has made great strides in using technologically sophisticatedequipment. Technology has resulted, among other things, in greater diversity of foodproducts and a more competitive domestic food industry with more export opportunities.It is imperative, however, that the supply of technically competent professionals beincreased so that U.S. manufacturing plants remain competitive in the current worldenvironment. Technicians, technologists, and engineers play an important role inemploying and using technology. They are responsible for the design, testing,maintenance, and operation of various machines and systems such as conveyers,compressors, generators, microcontrollers, programmable logic controllers,microcomputers, processing

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2021 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Robert C. Knox; Robert W. Nairn

preparing the students to actively participate (attendance is required) at the Career Fair. As noted in Table 1 presentations on resume development and Career Services are offered early in the Fall semester, which help prepare students to derive maximum benefit from the Career Fair. Capstone Experience Class (Spring Semester) The Spring semester Capstone Experience course (Table 3) is a three-credit hour class. The first deliverable for the course is revision of the DRAFT Project Documents submitted at theTable 3: Generic Syllabus for Capstone Experience CourseACTIVITY TOPIC WEEKWorking Review Session Introduction

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2010 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Don Malzahn; Lawrence Whitman; Zulma Toro-Ramos; Julie-Ellen Acosta

requires graduates tocomplete three of six activities (Whitman, et al. 2007): • Undergraduate Research • Cooperative Education/Internship • Global Learning/Study Abroad • Service Learning • Leadership • Multi-Disciplinary EducationThese activities were identified through the National Academy of Engineering’s “The Engineerof 2020: Visions of Engineering in the New Century” and ABET Criterion 3 (Table 1). Theresulting interest in technical and civic leadership, points to the “maturing” of the engineeringprofession. “As technological innovation plays an ever more critical role in sustaining thenation’s economic prosperity, security, and social well-being, engineering practice will bechallenged to

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AEE Journal

Authors

Cheryl Bodnar; Matthew Markovetz; Renee Clark; Zachari Swiecki; Golnaz Irgens; Naomi Chesler; David Shaffer

2017 1 ADVANCES IN ENGINEERING EDUCATION Influence of End Customer Exposure on Product Design within an Epistemic Game Environment INTRODUCTION Success following graduation now requires more than just technical savvy from engineeringstudents (Byers et al., 2013). Adaptability, effective teamwork, creativity, and recognition of currentmarket-based needs and future opportunities are requisite skills in the repertoire of an engineeringgraduate (Bodnar, Clark, and Besterfield

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2005 GSW

Authors

Kambiz Farahmand; Kai Jin

utilizing Black Board and WebCT. The program started with facultytraveling over the weekend to one of the plants centrally located and lecturing Fridaysand Saturdays. To meet the goals set by the assessment committee, a set of features wereset forth for the curriculum development2,3. The main objective was to have a programthat provides a sound technical knowledge and solid background in the following areas: 1. Mathematics 2. Computer information systems 3. Computer Aided Design in Industrial Engineering 4. Computer Aided Design in Electrical Engineering 5. Manufacturing process, quality control, and safety 6. Economic awareness and management science 7. Research project in a major area

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2021 Northeast Section Meeting

Authors

Courtney D. Giles

opportunities for students to practice keyskills common to the CEMS disciplines, including technical communication, teamwork, andproblem-solving. In addition, the course would introduce students to each of the College’s tenacademic programs, campus resources, advising, and provide opportunities for cohort-buildingduring a semester when most general education courses occur in other colleges. In Spring 2020,feedback was gathered via department-led discussions and a multi-disciplinary working groupwas formed to develop the course learning objectives and assessment strategies forimplementation in Fall 2020.Course Structure: Learning outcomes focused on the Design-Thinking process, effective andinclusive teamwork, technical communication, self-reflection