Conference Session

Instructional Innovations in Architectural Engineering Education

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ronald Miers, Western Carolina Univeristy; George Ford, Western Carolina University

Tagged Divisions

Architectural

years it was donatedto the village of Highlands. The structure received renovations and additions over the years whenit became the regional hospital for the area. Upon the recent completion of the new regionalhospital the Peggy Crosby Center became a not for profit establishment for the community. Itcurrently houses a computer training center, day care center, used bookstore, Red Cross offices,and a catering business, along with other use groups. During the fall of 2008, members of thePeggy Crosby Board of Directors approached the faculty of the Construction Managementprogram to assist them with needed updates and renovations for their building. The facultyprovided plans, estimates and recommendations for a various number of issues. This

Conference Session

Women in Engineering Division Technical Session 6

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Chrysanthe Demetry, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Elizabeth Long Lingo, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Women in Engineering

. work to deliver on universityYear 1: Spring • Search for new Provost concludes with selection of an external candidate mission, distinctiveness, and strengthsYear 1-2: • PTF engages in fact-finding in five areas: 1) Assoc-Full promotion criteria and;Jan-Oct 2) promotion procedures for tenured faculty; 3) dissatisfaction of Associate Professors; 4) dissatisfaction of women; 5) issues with promotion for full-time non-tenure track faculty • PTF issues report to GC and PC with findings from focus groups with women, Associate Professors, and non-tenure track

Collection

1997 Annual Conference

Authors

David M. Woodall

issue has left the public with the perception thatthere is no acceptable solution. While Europe and Japan are well on their way to the long termstorage of spent nuclear fuel waste, the US vacillates on storage options and plans another in along series of studies.Under the pressure of declining enrollments and the opportunities offered by faculty retirementsto reallocate faculty positions to more compelling technical areas, many nuclear engineeringdepartments have in recent years been abolished. The nuclear engineering faculty have oftenbeen merged into larger departments and programs have usually been retained, but sometimesonly at the graduate level. Some examples of universities with well-recognized nuclearengineering departments which have

Collection

1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Albert L. McHenry; Lakshmi Munukutla, Arizona State University

Page 3.450.2protracted struggle at the University of Minnesota among others. The pro and con argumentshave triggered anger on both sides. Some faculty members have even used the issue to enhancetheir research credentials by providing fresh research data and proposed solutions for both sides.In general, the debate is leading to the development of broad-based knowledge of the elements ofacademic life and the faculty’s role in it.Through the years, the level of understanding of faculty life appears to have decreased withincreased faculty research involvement. Hence, universities, especially research universities,become very concerned when legislators and governing board members seek to minutely controlthe mix of faculty responsibilities and

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tiago Forin, Rowan University; Stephanie Farrell, Rowan University; Harriet Hartman, Rowan University; Kauser Jahan, Rowan University; Stephanie Lezotte, Rowan University; Savanna Dautle, Rowan University; Adriana Trias Blanco, Rowan University; Theresa Bruckerhoff

, particularly STEM fields and graduate education. Her research has been published in Journal of Diversity in Higher Education, School Science and Mathematics, Journal of Professional Issues in Engineering Education and Practice, Journal of Applied Research in Higher Education, Improving Schools, and William and Mary Educational Review. She has taught master’s and doctoral courses in higher education leadership as well as undergraduate reading, writing, and literature courses in both New Jersey and Alaska since 2005.Adriana C Trias Blanco (Assistant Professor)Theresa Fs Bruckerhoff (Project Evaluator) © American Society for Engineering Education, 2022 Powered by

Conference Session

Future Directions of Continuing Professional Development

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stephen W. Crown, University of Texas, Pan American; Arturo A. Fuentes, University of Texas, Pan American; Robert A. Freeman, University of Texas, Pan American

Tagged Divisions

Continuing Professional Development

relevant to the challenge; to share ideas with fellow participants; and to appreciate which ideas are “new” and to revise their list. Difficulty: Faculty work in groups to address their challenge however given the typical Page 25.1030.4 diversity of faculty in the workshops they are rarely working on the same lecture topic. There is a need to connect faculty with other faculty who are teaching similar lecture content and attempting to implement CBI.  Multiple perspectives (Community and knowledge centered): The participant is asked to elicit ideas and approaches concerning the challenge from “experts

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Curricular Design and Assessment

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Hsiao-Wen Wang, National Cheng Kung University; Bart J.A. van Bueren, National Cheng Kung University

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

master’s certificate program on circular economy from both theperspectives of faculty and students. A circular economy taskforce, supported by NationalCheng Kung University, was set up during the fall of 2016 to boost the ongoing efforts forsustainability, with an aim of developing an international and multidisciplinary certificateprogram to enhance students’ capacity for solving multidisciplinary problems through real-world issues and cross-disciplinary team experiences. The taskforce is represented by facultymembers from different departments as the university seeks for a holistic integrated approach.At various departments, courses are modified to shift focus to the circular economy approach;and new circular economy courseware is being developed

Conference Session

Graduate Student Experiences

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Norton, University of Michigan; Reginald Rogers, University of Michigan

Tagged Divisions

Graduate Studies

from cheating to theimposter syndrome, and turns it into an hour long discussion to generate ideas on how to combatthese issues in the classroom. Teach Talk is also used as a catalyst to increase membership in thestudent chapter. While we have run into several hurdles getting the program off the ground, wefeel it become very popular as we tweak its offering to match the interest of the graduatestudents.Future directionsThe current student membership is concerned about the future but has conflicting opinionstowards the best course. There are two main lines of thought. The first is that the current formatof offering essentially service activities is most appropriate and that we simply need to redirectour energies towards creating new activities

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Kauser Jahan; Douglas Cleary

developed following a review of other capstone courses describedin literature. Open-ended design projects are developed with assistance from industry advisorsand presented to the students at the start of the course. The students then spend two semesterspreparing solutions to the problems. The first year the course was offered went much asexpected based on the instructors’ previous experiences. Students complained of vagueinstructions, too much work, and lack of experience. However, additional student concerns withfairness and inequitable workloads were expressed. Refinements to the project selection processand course administration were made to address these concerns.1. IntroductionThe relative newness of the Civil and Environmental Engineering

Conference Session

BME Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Timothy Johnson; Stephen Quint

enthusiastically embraced at both institutions, andincluded significant commitment of institutional resources for the realization of that vision. Differences in faculty promotion, tenure, salary, and responsibilities between theintuitions are being addressed with the view of effecting an academically cohesive departmentthat is part of two university cultures. Also, logistical problems including parking, facilitation ofjoint faculty meetings, seminars, the curricula and common courses, recruitment, review, andadmission of students, degree requirements and the diploma have presented challenges.Administrative concerns, such as grant F&A apportionment, sharing of resources, and researchand teaching space are being addressed. However, the two

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Ray M. Haynes; Earl C Keller; Donald (Don) E. White; A Reza Pouraghabagher

. • Turf / Boundary Issues. Some knowledge and skill areas are taught by both the College of Engineering and the College of Business, or by more that one discipline in a college. Thus, conflicts over who is most qualified and should cover what subjects will arise. Be prepared to face conflicts. • Tenure Metrics. Often the measures used to drive an untenured faculty towards attaining tenure (i.e., publications) are not consistent with the requirement for increased collaboration with industry and with faculty outside the untenured faculty’s discipline. • Critical Colleagues. Faculty moving in a new direction diverging from that of the past can expect to encounter much criticism from traditional colleagues

Conference Session

First-Year Programs Division Technical Session 1: Evolving First Year Programs

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ryan W. Krauss, Grand Valley State University; Nicholas A. Baine, Grand Valley State University

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs Division (FYP)

engineering specialty they want to pursue [3].Concerning methodology, some redesign efforts have been guided by significant input fromstudents, utilizing surveys or focus groups [3, 4]. Other redesign efforts have focused more oninput from faculty [1]. In the work presented in this paper, student input was primarily anecdotalor pulled from comments in student course evaluations.The motivation for redesigning the first-year experiences tends to include increasing retention,improving scalability as a program grows, reducing the number of credit hours committed to thefirst year, or a commitment to continuous improvement [1, 3, 4]. In this work, the faculty teamredesigning the sequence was primarily concerned with student success and retention while

Collection

1997 Annual Conference

Authors

Josef Rojter

continental Europe, new separate structures were constructed earlyin the 19th century to accommodate post-baccalaureate engineering education. In Britain theempirical tradition of Universities facilitated the entry of engineering as an extension of theexisting schools and faculties of science.Australia had inherited the British educational traditions. Though not all formal engineeringeducation was delivered through the University system. In the state of Victoria in particular,a second string of engineering education was provided at the turn of the century. Thetechnical colleges, admitted students at the mid-secondary school level and providedpractical based education.The diplomats of these colleges had lower status than university graduates in

Conference Session

Engineering Leadership Development Constituent Committee Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Anton E. Bowden, Brigham Young University; Gregg Morris Warnick, Brigham Young University; Spencer P. Magleby, Brigham Young University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Leadership Development Division

management, and new mechanism technologies. He teaches design at the graduate and undergraduate level, and is interested in educational partnerships with industry and international issues in design. As associate dean of undergraduate studies he has promoted and supported the structuring and expansion of leadership development and international programs. He is an active member of ASME and ASEE. Page 24.874.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2014 Longitudinal Evolution of an Inclusive, College-Wide Integrated Engineering Leadership

Collection

1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Susan Montgomery

students seem satisfied with the new system.Some of the concerns involve our inability to match student interest and advisor backgrounds TABLE 1 - STUDENT OPEN COMMENTS ABOUT THE ADVISING PROCESSSOPHOMORESSo far, I like the new advising system. My advisor was able to give me the name and emailaddress of a professor with whom I am doing an independent study. He also made me aware ofsome technical elective options that I was unfamiliar with.I’m interested in going into Medicine. I was supposedly grouped with an advisor who had someknowledge of Medical Schools, Admissions procedures. However, my advisor did not knowreally anything that had to do with medical school.Teach the faculty members which courses we need to take before sending us to

Conference Session

Engineering and Public Policy Pioneering Courses

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jacqueline Isaacs, Northeastern University; Christopher Bosso, Northeastern University; Carol Barry, University of Massachusetts-Lowell

Tagged Divisions

Engineering and Public Policy

expectations concerned students’ analytical and writing skills,although the faculty recognized that the level of writing might not be up to the norm expectedwith political science or philosophy graduate students, who are more accustomed to writing ingeneral and about relatively abstract material in particular. The faculty expected that moststudents would be able to describe the basic argument in the article and to connect issues raisedin class lectures to Bennett’s themes, but would have a more difficult time thinking about otherkinds of issues and, more critically, considering the essential role of government in addressingnew technology. Finally, we expected foreign students to have more difficulty on some of theseissues given the U.S. centric nature

Conference Session

Culture, Society, and Co-op

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ralph Ocon, Purdue University Calumet; Opal McFarlane, Purdue University Calumet

Tagged Divisions

Cooperative & Experiential Education

anunderstanding of the various leadership situations they may encounter in the workplace.For success in these supervisory roles, students must develop leadership skills in order toeffectively respond to different supervisory situations. Fortunately, faculty can facilitatethe development of leadership skills for students.Additionally, as the number of female engineering and technology students entering theworkforce increase, they will also be confronted with the responsibility of performingleadership roles. As the paper will explain, women supervisors face additional challengesthat influence how they should respond to various situations. The paper will provide ideason how engineering and technology faculty can incorporate leadership concerns into

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Natalie Mello

sendingstudents to all parts of the globe. Current national opinion is that universities owe their studentsmore attention to risk management and care when students travel as part of their academicexperience. 9 With the recent unfortunate tragedies that have occurred in Costa Rica, India,Guatemala and Japan involving students on some form of “study abroad”, more attention isbeing paid to how these experiences are managed by the institutions. 10-14II. WPI’s Global Perspective ProgramIn 1970, WPI adopted a new curriculum, called the WPI Plan. The WPI Plan replaced atraditional, course-based technical curriculum with a project-based program emphasizingteamwork, communication, and the integration of technical and societal concerns. Among thedegree

Conference Session

Innovative Methods to Teach Engineering to URMs

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stephen Crown, University of Texas, Pan American; Arturo Fuentes, University of Texas, Pan American; Constantine Tarawneh, University of Texas, Pan American; Robert Freeman, University of Texas, Pan American; Hashim Mahdi, University of Texas, Pan American

Tagged Divisions

Minorities in Engineering

coming for advising. The tutorial movie should answer their basic questions. http://crown.panam.edu/advising/index.htmld. Students that need a co or prerequisite waiver should request a letter from the Department Chair or the U.G. program director who will approve the request with input from the appropriate faculty member(s). Only under exceptional circumstances will a pre-requisite waiver be granted. Faculty members are encouraged to take advantage of the advisement meeting with the student to accomplish the rest of the student advising objectives (monitoring, mentoring, and information). The advising information form promotes discussion about student concerns and helps the advisor monitor student performance

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Natalie A. Mello

curriculum with a project-based program emphasizingteamwork, communication, and the integration of technical and societal concerns. Among thedegree requirements of this program are three substantive projects: one in the humanities andarts, one in the student's major area of study, and one that explores the interrelationship betweensociety and technology. This last project, the Interactive Qualifying Project or IQP, is aninterdisciplinary project, equivalent in credit to three courses, in which small teams of studentswork with faculty advisors to address problems at the society/technology interface; often theseproblems are proposed by public and private agencies and organizations.Another aspect of the curriculum that was impacted by the plan was the

Conference Session

Integrating Engineering Ethics into the Curriculum

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Edward Glynn, Villanova University; Frank Falcone, Villanova University; Mark Doorley, Villanova University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Ethics

-wide requirement, as the college had decided toempower each department in the college to determine what would be pedagogically best for itsmajors. Despite the lack of a college-wide requirement, each department addressed the issue inthe same fashion: each curriculum had an ethics elective wherein the student must chose a coursefrom a select list developed by the department. Most of the courses on the respective lists weretaught by non-engineering faculty in the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences. One course,required by the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Engineering in theHumanistic Context, is taught either by one engineer or team-taught by an engineer and aphilosopher.A study was prepared to identify the “best

Conference Session

Professional Skills and the Workplace

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ashley Ater Kranov, Center for Teaching, Learning & Technology; Robert Olsen, Washington State University; Carl Hauser, Washington State University; Laura Girardeau, Washington State University

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

. • Each of the other programs is working individually with the assessment specialists to address areas of concern. • The associate dean would like to see each program identify a core 300-level course where the ABET professional skills can be overtly developed. Page 13.32.12 • The curricular debrief will continue each spring semester. Each year, new faculty will join the original faculty raters to assess the curricular debrief performance as part of on- going faculty development. In the future, professional sponsors and/or advisory board members or other external stakeholders will be invited to

Conference Session

Tech Session 6: Transformative Practices in Evolving Learning Environments

Collection

2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Erick C. Jones Jr., The University of Texas at Arlington; Kendra Lee Wallis, The University of Texas at Arlington; Mengqi Monica Zhan; Na-Li Kim, The University of Texas at Arlington; Ann M.L. Cavallo, The University of Texas at Arlington; Andrew Clark, The University of Texas at Arlington

Tagged Divisions

Environmental Engineering & Sustainability Division (ENVIRON)

challenges, successes, and planned improvements to enhance facultyengagement and program effectiveness.IntroductionThe EOP framework and institutionalization grant perfectly aligns with one of the five strategicthemes at UTA: Sustainable Communities. To advance sustainability efforts, UTA has launcheda concentrated effort to promote sustainability by developing committees for staff, research, andteaching on sustainability, converting the Faculty Advisory Network for Sustainability (FANS)into a formal Professional Learning Community (PLC) for sustainability, and introduced newcertificates, programs, and majors with a strong sustainable focus. Additionally, UTA has beenmodernizing its approach to meet ABET criteria by developing new rubrics to assess

Conference Session

Mentoring, Advising, and Facilitating Learning

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Thomas F. Schubert Jr. P.E., University of San Diego; Frank G. Jacobitz, University of San Diego; Ernest M. Kim, University of San Diego

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

]. On the other hand, logical methods are database-oriented [10] [11]. Shah, Smith,and Vargas-Hernandez [12] developed assessment measures to assess ideation effectiveness. Theiroutcome-based metrics are based on quantity, quality, novelty, and variety.This paper is a first evaluation of this novel approach to office hours. The intent of this firststudy is to evaluate student preferences concerning receiving faculty assistance in the areas ofhomework, additional examples, questions about the lectures, preparation for examinations, andacademic advising.2. Use of the ideation spaceEach of the three faculty involved divided the USD requirement for at least five weekly officehours between the faculty office and the SMSE ideation space: • One

Conference Session

Sustainable Engineering

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David Pines, University of Hartford; Brian Gallant, University of Hartford

Tagged Divisions

Environmental Engineering

faculty has supported a multidiscipline group of students’ initiative toperform an extracurricular design project for a developing community by including relevanttopics in their courses and through a series of special seminars. The design project that wasselected by a team of University of Hartford and Wesleyan University students was to assistAbheyur village, which is located about 30 km from New Delhi, India, with some severe potablewater issues. Assessment by faculty and students of this extracurricular approach with coursesupport indicated that a more structured approach was required. The current approach onlyprovided the students with the minimal technical background in sustainability and appropriatetechnologies, and did not at all address

Conference Session

Systems Engineering Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Fazleena Badurdeen, University of Kentucky; Dusan Sekulic, University of Kentucky; Bob Gregory, University of Kentucky College of Engineering; Adam Brown, University of Kentucky; Hai Fu, University of Kentucky

Tagged Divisions

Systems Engineering

faculty expertise and lecture content: A number ofthe faculty-related issues could be attributed to the limited time available for the faculty team toget to know each other’s expertise, teaching style and lecture contents. A team of individualswho have collaborated on other efforts before would be ideal for a project of this nature. Inpractice, however, it is rare (if not outright impossible) to find faculty from four differentcolleges with prior experience working together. So was the case with the team working on thisproject; while some had collaborated before, others were new. This meant that, the faculty, too,had to go through the different phases of team development—forming, storming, norming andperforming, as they are commonly known—for

Conference Session

Continuing Professional Development Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Diane L. Zemke, Independent Researcher; Steven C. Zemke, Gonzaga University

Tagged Divisions

Continuing Professional Development

issue becomes one ofapprenticing faculty in place as they acquire and implement new and effective pedagogies intheir current courses.Potential obstacles to adopting new pedagogiesHaving some competency in the science of learning and the science of instruction is required foreffective teaching.3 Yet, engineering faculty often receive little exposure to this domain. Ingraduate school PhD candidates are appropriately focused on becoming experts in their chosenengineering domain. While some schools do provide basic instruction to their graduate studentsin how to teach, becoming an excellent instructor is understandably a secondary focus. Few Page

Collection

2005 GSW

Authors

Charles D. Parker; B. Neal Whitten

of students do not go into pure research or academia. There issignificant need to include practical experiences and components into the engineeringcurriculum3. Unfortunately many engineering educators do not have the necessarypractical experience to relay this to their students or the practical experience theeducators do possess has become outdated. PREVALANCE OF LACK OF PRACTICAL EXPERIENCEOnce a professor has gained a faculty position it can be difficult to obtain new practicalexperience. Tenure-track faculty members are most concerned with meeting therequirements for tenure prescribed by their university. Most tenure requirements call forteaching, research, and service. In an ideal world faculty should perform work in allthree areas4

Collection

2011 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Ted E. Batchman

have tried to duplicate. ABET is now international as well as most of ourengineering societies. We have been a leader over the past half century and have established thefoundations for engineering programs in many countries. The changes to the accreditation criteriain 2000 focus on continuous improvement but were reluctantly accepted by some faculty. Often thecomment was heard, “Don’t fix it, if it is not broke.” We were able to move past the discussionstage and early detractor’s arguments into the stage where the accreditation criteria is beingevaluated and improved. The goal of improving the quality of our graduates builds strongprograms for the future. We still have issues to deal with concerning public perception of qualityand legislators

Conference Session

Improving the Teaching Skills of Graduate Students

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Adam Melvin, North Carolina State University; Lisa Bullard, North Carolina State University

Tagged Divisions

Graduate Studies

graduate student humor o A relaxed environment where the facilitator highlights issues specific to that topic in the context of advice or personal stories • Alternate between facilitators based on expertise o The faculty member handles such topics as teaching and writing lesson plans o The TA addresses issues like holding office hours and working in a team of TAs • Continually encourage the attendees to speak up and share their own words of wisdom or horror storiesWhat the Attendees Take HomeThe ultimate goal of this training session is for the new TAs to have learned something from allof our stories and advice. To qualify what the attendees learned in the session, we end with afinal