Conference Session

Impact of Community Engagement on Students

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Hoda Baytiyeh, American University of Beirut (Beirut)

Tagged Divisions

Community Engagement Division

Lebaneseengineering institutions and an active engagement of the engineering community in planning andpreparing for future earthquakes. Senior students attending engineering colleges in Lebanon(n=378) were surveyed to: assess their awareness and preparedness to earthquakes, to ascertainwhether there is a link among their awareness and preparedness, and to determine howengineering educational programs have affected their current awareness and preparedness.Although the findings indicate satisfactory seismic risk awareness across the majority ofparticipants, a poor level of earthquake preparedness was revealed. The role of engineeringinstitutions and organizations has insignificant influence on both awareness and preparedness ofparticipants. This article calls

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division Technical Session 3

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sampson Addo, University of the District of Columbia; Pawan Tyagi, University of the District of Columbia; Eva Mutunga, University of the District of Columbia

Future WorkIn this study we set out to assess the level of awareness of engineering graduate students aboutinnovation commercialization in an HBCU. Our findings from the analysis of responses fromparticipants of the study, indicate low level of awareness and understanding of innovationcommercialization as a concept and its processes.Based on the smaller sample size who participated in this study from one HBCU, we believe thatfuture studies should be a large study involving both undergraduates and graduates fromdifferent HBCUs. In such a large study, it will be essential to include demographical data in thesurvey.To conclude, we recommend that HBCUs leadership may initiate programs within theirinstitutions targeted at promoting the culture of

Collection

1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert A. Johnson; J. Shawn Addington

Session 1332 Incorporating the Design and Use of Surveys with Other Engineering Assessment Methods under Criteria 2000 Guidelines J. Shawn Addington, Robert A. Johnson Department of Electrical Engineering Virginia Military InstituteAbstractStudent surveys, including course evaluations, exit surveys, and alumni surveys, continue toprovide a valuable means of evaluating engineering curricula. Under the new ABETEngineering Criteria 2000 assessment guidelines, each engineering program must demonstrateachievement in a number of “program outcomes”, determined by both the

Conference Session

Student Recruitment and Retention in ET Programs and Labs in ET Programs

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Matthew Turner, Purdue University (Statewide Technology); Rustin Webster, Purdue University, New Albany; Danielle Reynolds; Timothy Cooley, Purdue University New Albany; Andrew McCart , Purdue Polytechnic; Joseph F Dues Jr., Purdue Polytechnic New Albany

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

their robot design, coding, problem solving, etc.GoPros and smartphones were in constant use by everyone, providing a large pool of video material theinterns could use to create their final “news release”. Current CGT students assisted the interns with theediting process to create their final output. A representative video can be viewed at:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAQeJ9ZC5BQData AnalysisPrior to participating in PMTM, students were asked to complete a survey that contained Likert-stylequestions assessing both familiarity and interest in the academic program offerings at Purdue Polytechnicand qualitative questions regarding students’ interest in STEM programs in general. After participating inPMTM, a second survey was distributed to

Collection

1997 Annual Conference

Authors

Saleh M. Sbenaty

, anddetermines the relative abundance of each type of ion present19. Detection of impurities in theorder of a few parts per trillion, in many applications, has made the mass spectrometer anessential tool in the industrial, environmental, medical, scientific, and law enforcement fields.Quadrupole mass spectrometer (QMS), in particular, has several advantages over other analyzersamongst which are the relative low cost, small size, lack of magnetic field, and the large massand pressure ranges20. This paper describes gas analysis procedure for power transformer fault prediction anddiagnosis using a QMS. A vacuum system for the quadrupole analyzer and a gas introductionsystem were designed and built. A method for the extraction of the dissolved gases in oil

Conference Session

Exemplary Outreach Programs in Engineering Education

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Pamela Lottero-Perdue, Towson State University

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

taught in the SEAS Club. 5. The EiE curriculum was not exhaustively implemented. The number of worksheets that students were asked to complete was relatively small compared to worksheets provided in the EiE curriculum. The completion of worksheets generally resulted in a reduction of Page 14.319.7 student interest (thus potentially creating motivation to leave the club). 6. Attendance was ‘spotty’ due to summer vacations and other issues.The list of ways in which SEAS was unlike school begins with “it was not compulsory.” Withinthe first two weeks of the six-week program, two children from the older group dropped out.Each child

Conference Session

Women in K-12 Engineeering & Outreach Programs

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tirupalavanam Ganesh, Arizona State University; John Thieken, Arizona State University

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

, Page 15.735.2students needed to figure out how their desert tortoise robot would move—with legs or wheels,with the use of motors and gears.Pre- and post-assessments were administered at the beginning and the end of the unit. The pre-assessment was accomplished using open-ended questions that were designed to access whatstudents already knew about the topics in general prior to the project-based learning experience.The same assessment was used after the project so students could share their knowledge afterexperiencing the project-based challenge. Assessments were analyzed to determine what impactthe program had on average student learning and connections made to the natural and mechanicalsciences. Raw scores were converted into percents and

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nathan Klingbeil, Wright State University; Kuldip Rattan, Wright State University; Michael Raymer, Wright State University; David Reynolds, Wright State University; Richard Mercer, Wright State University; Anant Kukreti, University of Cincinnati; Brian Randolph, University of Toledo

Engineer of the Year in 2005. Page 13.1285.2© American Society for Engineering Education, 2008 The WSU Model for Engineering Mathematics Education: A Multiyear Assessment and Expansion to Collaborating InstitutionsAbstract The inability of incoming students to advance past the traditional first-year calculussequence is a primary cause of attrition in engineering programs across the country. As a result,this paper will describe an NSF funded initiative at Wright State University to redefine the wayengineering mathematics is taught, with the goal of increasing student retention, motivation andsuccess in engineering. The WSU approach begins with the development of a novel first

Conference Session

Engineering Libraries Division (ELD) Technical Session 4

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Uri Feldman, Wentworth Institute of Technology; Callie Cherry, Wentworth Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Libraries Division (ELD)

evaluating information and asking criticalquestions of the information they encounter. The instructor then proposed that students couldapply the CRAAP test framework to evaluating technologies. Students were encouraged toconfirm that an AI tool is as reliable as any other type of resource used in their research. Theywere asked to consider the following questions ahead of the second session: • Where does an AI tool get its information? • How is an AI tool programmed to function?Next, students were asked to create their own ChatGPT account and use it to experience howgenerative large language model AI (LLM AI) systems work. In small groups and as a wholeclass, students discussed how to create effective prompts, and how ChatGPT responds to

Conference Session

Pre-College Engineering Education Division Technical Session 15

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Nicole Alexandra Batrouny, Tufts University; Kristen B. Wendell, Tufts University; Chelsea Joy Andrews, Tufts University; Tejaswini S. Dalvi, University of Massachusetts, Boston; Christine M. Kelly

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Pre-College Engineering Education

was made of one large wooden board, three wheels, and a rope handle. The rope was tiedaround the board behind the front wheel. When the rope was pulled, it got stuck in the frontwheel and the cart would not move in the correct direction. The plants then slid off and fell to theground. Students were provided with a picture of this scenario and asked to circle the part(s) ofthe cart that caused the problems. They were then asked to propose changes to fix each issue andsupport those proposed changes with a brief explanation. Figure 1. Example of the assessment task image, with student markings showing problems they identified with the system.Data AnalysisWe collected the responses and began our data analysis by

Collection

1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Barbara Olds

lectures rated the course at least “above average,” 42 percentof the students in the combination sections did. Approximately the same percentages (32 forlarge lectures, 37 for combination sections) rated the course “average,” but 51 percent rated thelarge lectures “below average” while 21 percent of those in the small sections did. One clearadvantage of the small sections is the students’ opportunity to discuss course content regularly.We continue to experiment with various configurations; in the spring of 1998 two 40-personlectures were used in addition to a large lecture. Recitation sizes continued at 20. The relativeeffectiveness of the 40 person sections will be assessed as the decision is made about how to bestconfigure the course for the

Conference Session

Materials Division (MATS) Technical Session 1

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ryan Barlow, zyBooks; Adrian Rodriguez, zyBooks; Lauren Fogg; Linda Ratts, Wiley; Yasaman Adibi, zyBooks; Jenny Welter, Wiley; Mary Fraley, Michigan Technological University

Tagged Divisions

Materials Division (MATS)

2023 student responses to theresponses of each Fall 2023 course individually. Those results are included in Appendix A. Thep-values were obtained for each Likert scale item and for each course comparison. The p-valueswere compared to an α-value of 0.05 to test for statistical significance. The Cohen's d effect sizewas also calculated to show how much of a difference existed between the responses of thestudents using the zyBook and the students using WileyPLUS. In general, a Cohen's d of around0.2 is considered a small effect size, while 0.5 is considered a medium effect size and 0.8 isconsidered a large effect size.The survey results for the PANAS scale questions about emotions were also analyzed. Eachresponse was assigned a number (1 = A few

Conference Session

Experiential and Service Learning

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Margaret Bailey, Rochester Institute of Technology; Elizabeth DeBartolo, Rochester Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

studio rather than a typicalcollege classroom. Faculty from areas such as fine arts and architecture who use studio spacesextensively in their curriculum recognize a relationship between the physical space and thesubject taught. Therefore, they find design studios to serve as ideal environments for designeducation [4].Assessment PracticesIn 2002, the MSD program began as a small pilot project and has evolved into a college-wideinitiative, involving four departments. This growth has been accompanied by annual programassessments based on feedback from the MSD program director, faculty advising team, andinformal student feedback. Ideally, assessment methods are applied consistently year to year andshould be part of an integrated program of

Conference Session

Medley of Undergraduate Programming and Pedagogies

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Calvin Sophistus King, MCET; Venugopalan Kovaichelvan, TVS Institute for Quality and Leadership

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

Education(AICTE), set up the National Board of Accreditation (NBA) to assess the quality of programsoffered by engineering institutions in India. NBA has made it mandatory for engineeringinstitutions to adapt an Outcome Based Education (OBE) framework for their curriculumdesign, delivery and assessment. Around 2400 undergraduate engineering programs hadaccreditation from NBA in 2020 (one third of the total number of engineering and technologyprograms in the country) [3]. The rejection rate in the accreditation of engineering programsin 2019 was around 20% as reported in the annual report of 2019 by NBA [4]. AICTEmandates various reforms at the macro level. For example, it stresses on addressing graduateattributes of the Washington Accord in

Conference Session

Robot Mania!

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Austin Talley, University of Texas, Austin; Richard H. Crawford P.E., University of Texas, Austin; Christina Kay White, Columbia University; Kristin L. Wood, University of Texas, Austin

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

response to: (1) research that shows females and other traditionallyunderrepresented groups are more attracted to and interested in design challenges thathave a relationship to broader impacts on humanity and (2) indications that participantsneed more insight into how engineering can be integrated into their classrooms. A main goal of evaluating the evolution and impact of this program on STEMeducation is to understand the effect of the changes in content and approach in relation tothe improved efficacy of the teachers. The evaluation is based on teachers’ responses todaily surveys on the design-based/project-based aspects of the PDI. The evaluation alsoincludes open-ended question assessment throughout the institute and end-of

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David B. Benson, Kettering University

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees

of one of these concepts at an early stage in a student’seducation can lead to a cascade of failures or difficulties that resonate throughout their academiccareer. Although a program of study is designed so that students entering a given class havesuccessfully completed all of the pre-requisite course material to attempt the class, student recalland understanding of prior content varies. A longitudinal study is in progress to assess studentabilities and growth in these key threads. Current research has identified and mapped a number of central content and skilltrajectories that are present in engineering education, focusing primarily on science and mathcontent/skills essential to Mechanical Engineering. Several of these key content

Conference Session

ECCD Technical Session 4: Energy and Analysis

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Hitesh D. Vora, Oklahoma State University; Pragya Niraula, Oklahoma State University; Amrit Sunil Chugani, Oklahoma State University; Nilesh Anil Baraskar, Oklahoma State University; Anusha Sunil Saraf, Oklahoma State University; Michael L. McCombs, Oklahoma State University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Energy Conversion and Conservation

mechanical side of Morrill's original vision for universities that serve the generalpopulation rather than only the social elite.Keywords: Industrial Assessment Center, Land-Grant Mission, Energy Assessments, EnergyAudits, Service learning1. Introduction1.1 Industrial assessment centersIndustrial Assessment Centers (IACs) were created by the Department of Commerce in 1976 inresponse to the Arab Oil Embargo and rising energy costs [1]. The program is provided at nocharge exclusive to small and medium-sized manufacturing facilities to cut back on unnecessarycosts from inefficient energy use through energy assessment. Large manufacturers are expectedto fund themselves for such energy cutting measures and are excluded from the program.Historically, the

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rachel Vitali, University of Michigan; Noel C. Perkins, University of Michigan; Cynthia J. Finelli, University of Michigan

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Fall 2018 semesters (a small section of 19 students) hadthe Level 3 intervention (Student Created Projects). This was to assess how to implement thisintervention in the large sections in the Winter/Spring 2019 semester as effectively as possible.Figure 2: Timeline describing when the interventions (Control, Demonstrations, PrescribedExperiments, and Student Created Projects) are being implemented in this project. Green boxesdenote completed intervention levels and yellow boxes denote intervention levels that areongoing. Each greyscale box represents a semester indicating many sections and how manystudents enrolled in the course.A previously conducted pilot study [14] provided the foundation for this project’s hypothesesthat this intervention

Collection

1997 Annual Conference

Authors

Jens Jorgensen; Lueny Morell de Ramírez; José L. Zayas; John Lamancusa

others is the strong partnershipwhich was created between industry and academe. The curriculum reform involvedrepresentatives from nearly 90 companies, both large and small who have taken significantresponsibility in assuring that the topics and the focus of the new courses are relevant andgermane to companies in both the civilian and defense sectors. Faculty have consulted with ourindustry partners about the roles of concurrent engineering, industry experts have visited theacademic partners to advise about entrepreneurial issues, and many industrially-based seniordesign projects have been tackled in Year 2 by students in the MEEP Partnership.From the assessment data that has been analyzed to date, we may conclude that there is a highdegree of

Collection

2023 ASEE GSW

Authors

Huseyin Bostanci; Nourredine Boubekri

) was established recently aspart of a national program sponsored by the Office of Manufacturing and Energy Supply Chains(MESC) of the Department of Energy (DOE). IACs are currently located at 37 universities acrossthe country. The mission of the UNTIAC is to assist small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) inmanufacturing sector in North Texas region (a) increase energy efficiency, maximize productivity,and minimize waste; (b) train engineering students with professional skills in these areas; and (c)provide outreach and education opportunities to nonparticipating SMEs.According to the National Association of Manufacturers1, Texas’ manufacturing sector produces$244B worth of goods exports in 2019 (73.8% of total goods exported), and represents

Conference Session

Programmatic Issues in Physics or Engineering Physics Programs

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jeff Jalkio, University of St. Thomas; Arnold Weimerskirch, University of St. Thomas

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Physics & Physics

the results of those actions. Finally, at the course level, we haveprocesses to encourage annual improvements in individual courses and to obtain data fromindividual courses for use in the assessment of program educational outcomes. By linking theselevels together we have been able to reduce the faculty workload involved in assessmentactivities while maintaining a high degree of faculty involvement.IntroductionA wide variety of models have been proposed and used for assessing the quality of educationalprograms but much of this work has been performed independent of the large body of researchregarding quality improvement in industrial settings1. While clearly the industrial and academicenvironments differ and each provides unique challenges

Conference Session

Practice III: Multimedia Learning

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Faye Linda Wachs, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona; Juliana Lynn Fuqua, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona; Paul Morrow Nissenson, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona; Angela C. Shih, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona; Michael Pavel Ramirez, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona; Laura Queiroz DaSilva, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona ; Nguyen Nguyen; Cheyenne Romero, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

sectionshad the opportunity to earn 0.75% for participating in a focus group. In the experimental section,the worst concept quiz and worst calculation quiz could be dropped, and there were opportunitiesto earn small amounts of extra credit in weekly Team Battles. At the end of the course, theinstructor added roughly 2% to the experimental sections’ overall scores before assigning lettergrades. However, the instructor added roughly 3.5% to the control sections’ overall scores beforeassigning letter grades to help level the playing field – it was determined that the Team Battlebonus opportunities and dropping of quizzes helped the experimental section by about 1.5% onaverage.Table 1: Percentage of course grade for each assessment and criteria for

Conference Session

The Nature of Innovation and Entrepreneurship Session 4

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Emil H. Salib, James Madison University; Eric Vincent Walisko, James Madison University

Tagged Divisions

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

Page 24.1028.7their work teams, especially considering the current trend of work moving to mobile, technologyand web projects in the hands of small, nimble and entrepreneurial startups or startups-likegroups within large companies.By setting strict project guidelines and deadlines, students in the course are pushed to new limitsof intellectual learning, effort, and time-management. Creating a classroom structure that mirrorsthe rapid software/product development environment helps at least expose students to importanttrends in programming languages, libraries, hardware, and development platforms as well as end-to-end work in a relatively small group. The class size ranging between 10 and 15 students withsub-teams of 3 to 5 members resembles a

Conference Session

New Programs and Textbooks in BME

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Robin Adams; Mary Lidstrom; Kjell Nelson; Jeffrey Bonadio; David Stahl; Cynthia Atman

. This paper describes thecontent, implementation, and assessment strategies of the first two course offerings, anddescribes the key initial findings.IntroductionScientific and technological advances during the 20th century have shifted the emphasis of theUS economy from manufacturing to information, communication, and high technology.Continuing US economic and technological leadership will rely in part on engineers who canrecognize, understand, and integrate new developments in information technology,nanotechnology, and the life sciences. Engineering education programs must be responsive tothese trends and adapt existing curricula to train new generations of engineers who are able tofulfill the changing needs of our society.A significant growth

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Ron Pigott; Bill Karr

. Thus the assessment as it stands may underestimate the value added by the department.Nonetheless, the assessment has provided some useful information. For example, it was foundthat there was a significant difference between program options in the area of computerprogramming skills. The electrical/electronics students scored highest with construction studentsscoring lowest. This result might have been expected, but after some review, we decided that weneeded to make some changes in the computer programming experiences for our constructionstudents. As time goes on, it is expected that this assessment will become more accurate.Structuring the Portfolio A large part of the motivation for this self-assessment structure is the

Conference Session

Engineering Professional Development for K-12 Teachers – I

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Leyla Conrad, Georgia Institute of Technology; Edward Conrad, Georgia Institute of Technology; Jill Auerbach, Georgia Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

education course at Georgia Tech. He received his Ph.D. degree in Physics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1983.Jill Auerbach, Georgia Institute of Technology Jill Auerbach is a Senior Academic Professional in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology. As the Coordinator of Assessment and Student Retention and Recruitment in the School, she is responsible for accreditation and program review requirements and assessment of several special academic programs. In addition, Jill directs programs that promote student retention and success, especially among underrepresented, female and transfer student cohort groups. Her educational

Collection

1997 Annual Conference

Authors

Jens Jorgensen; Lueny Morell de Ramírez; José L. Zayas; John Lamancusa

@me.washington.eduFile:papers/asee97-session2313.docTable 1. MEEP's Overall Assessment Design MatrixTask Goals and Objectives Stakeholders Student Faculty Industrials/others Develop a new interdisciplinary, practice-based Curriculum which emphasizes the interdependencyof manufacturing and design, in a business environment X X XCurriculum Development Develop a new paradigm for coalition-wide course development, sharing andexport to the academic community at-large X X Integrate these new courses into the permanent academic programs of the respective universities X X X Facilitate and encourage the inclusion of more design/manufacturing content into existing

Conference Session

Faculty & Program Exchanges: Internationalizing, Collaborations, Interactions

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Vinod Lohani, Virginia Tech; Ricky Castles, Virginia Tech; Gary Riggins, Virginia Tech

Tagged Divisions

International

exercises.Details of LabVIEW instruction and assessment data are given in [8].Engineering Ethics Module: It is not common to formally include engineering ethics instructioninto engineering programs in India. The authors shared their experiences of covering engineeringethics into freshman engineering program at Virginia Tech with the faculty participants.Engineering freshmen at Virginia Tech are expected to demonstrate an understanding ofprofessional ethics and application to real-life situations upon successful completion of afreshman engineering course. Students are assigned textbook readings on ethical theories, ethicscase studies and videos (Incident at Morales and Gilbane Gold) and are engaged in in-classdiscussion of ethics scenarios published in

Conference Session

BME Laboratory Courses and Experiences

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Timothy Allen, University of Virginia; Jeffrey Saucerman, University of Virginia; Jason Papin, University of Virginia; Shayn Peirce-Cottler, University of Virginia

Tagged Divisions

Biomedical

module (three teams total). The bulk of the grade for eachstudent came from three oral “mini-comprehensive” exams and a final written exam.Oral “mini-comprehensive” exams: The small size of the class (N=9) afforded us the opportunityto evaluate the students using an oral exam format. Each of the three modules concluded with anoral midterm exam, which served in lieu of a written midterm or module lab report. Sincestudents in our program already receive extensive experience writing lab reports and givingformal presentations in other classes throughout the major, we felt that an oral exam formatwould be the optimal method by which to truly assess each student team’s understanding of themodule. These exams, which lasted 45 minutes each, gave the

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nathan Klingbeil, Wright State University; Kuldip Rattan, Wright State University; Michael Raymer, Wright State University; David Reynolds, Wright State University; Richard Mercer, Wright State University

101 for initially underpreparedstudents. It will also summarize the scope of a recent NSF CCLI Phase 3 award, which includespilot adoption and assessment of the WSU model by a total of 15 institutions across the country.The goal of this initiative is to effect a transformative and nationwide change in the wayengineering mathematics is taught.The WSU Model This section provides an overview of the WSU model for engineering mathematicseducation, which involves three primary components: 1) The development of EGR 101, a novelfreshman-level engineering mathematics course; 2) A large-scale restructuring of theengineering curriculum, where students can advance in the program without having completed atraditional freshman calculus sequence; 3