Conference Session

Architectural Engineering Division Technical Session 3

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ryan Solnosky, Pennsylvania State University; Robert Leicht, Pennsylvania State University; Ziyi Wang, Pennsylvania State University

learning quality. These three objectives for the review arose from a series of discussions across the different optionconcerns in the ABET CQI review process and combined broader department level discussion to revisit thecapstone course design. While the concerns were raised from more than one faculty perspective, challengediscussions specific to the team vs. individual approach was an ever-present conversation from the initiationof the team model. From the perspective of the new approach, there was enough agreement that bothmethods had merit but that the course needed to be structured to allow for ensuring effective individualstudent outcomes while also meeting the future needs of industry and graduates entering team

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Design Projects

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jason Forsyth, York College of Pennsylvania; Nicole Hesson, York College of Pennsylvania

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

that may be useful for other institutions if they incorporate PBSLinto their capstone experience. First, there were concerns on the part of administrators andfaculty members about an increased faculty workload to implement and sustain PBSL projects.Second, interest for becoming involved with PBSL projects differed among stakeholders. Third,there were logistical issues in transitioning from traditional competition-based capstone projectsto PBSL capstone projects. These issues varied between stakeholder groups.The remainder of this paper is organized as follows: Section 2 outlines related work in seniordesign and PBSL. To better situate the reader to our experience Section 3 discusses the currentand historical state of capstone design at our

Conference Session

Programs and Pedagogies

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David Elizandro, Tennessee Technological University; Angelo A. Volpe, Tennessee Technological University; David H. Huddleston, Tennessee Technological University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Management

AbstractBroadly stated, accountability for a regional university is value created versus cost.Value reflects social and economic needs of the community, state, and region. Cost ofcreating value is cost of implementation strategies to achieve institutional goals. The state’shigher education coordinating board, a university board, and faculty senate are proxiesfor engaging community, state, and regional stakeholders in institutional accountability.Complex endogenous and exogenous challenges require an effective means for allocatingresources within the organization, monitoring effectiveness of institutional strategies, and, asnecessary, adapting strategies to ensure institutional accountability.This paper examines these issues and recommends an

Collection

1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Sandra D. Yeigh

initiated into solving in-depth problems.B. Internet and News Analysis: Although the order of magnitude estimation is interesting atfirst, it is difficult to make a research problem out of it. Public policy takes this challenge onestep further by establishing a critical link between energy and the environment. This linkage Page 4.352.2becomes more relevant and interesting as the student-faculty team probes real and societalenergy issues. Examine the front page of a major newspaper. Law suits, debates, hearings,business mergers, and accidents appear daily because the use of energy and the environmentcould not be controlled. If our society were not so

Conference Session

Engineering Technology Division (ETD) Technical Session 5

Collection

2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stephen Andrew Wilkerson P.E., York College of Pennsylvania; Yargo Teixeira Gomes de Melo, York College of Pennsylvania; Tamara Schwartz, York College of Pennsylvania; Dean Zeller, York College of Pennsylvania

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology Division (ETD)

-leddiscussions focusing on three primary areas: (1) the impact of AI on the workplace, specificallyaddressing concerns such as “Will I have a job?” (2) future developments in AI and what’s next,and (3) the convergence of AI with other emerging technologies. After introductions, panelistsshared their personal journeys with AI, leading into in-depth discussions of these key themes,followed by an engaging Q&A session with students and faculty.This paper presents faculty observations, insights from student surveys, and reflections on theoverall experience. It underscores the significance of the forum for our college community andexplains why such discussions are both timely and essential. Testimonials and survey responsesprovide further context

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Diana G. Somerton; Craig W. Somerton

concern with the lack of design in the lower division. It has beenproposed by the department Chairperson that ME 371 be converted over to a sophomore levelcourse. A task force has been appointed by the department Chairperson to address this issue.ME 2000 Process Review and Feedback ProcessFor the 1997-98 year, a number of issues were identified that need to be addressed. A current statusof these issues is provided below.Incorporating ME 2000 and the coordinator position into the department bylaws: If the departmentis serious in its implementation of ME 2000 and its continuing development, then the process andits coordinator should be formally established in the department’s bylaws. Proposals on this issuesare under consideration by the faculty

Conference Session

Global Engineering in an Interconnected World

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Natalie Mello, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; David DiBiasio, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Richard Vaz, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Tagged Divisions

International

concerns. Student preparation for the experience includes formalcoursework taught by WPI faculty, and orientation/cultural preparation taught by WPIprofessional staff. The same staff handles health and travel issues, risk management, and re-entryissues. 11, 12, 13To gain an understanding of the social, professional, and cognitive growth demonstrated bystudents as a result of their global experience, WPI employs a variety of research and assessmenttools for program evaluation. The multilevel, multi-temporal assessment process includes a fairlywell developed and comprehensive program-level assessment, a new faculty-level assessment,and frequent student-level evaluations. Here we will focus on the assessment of the junior levelinterdisciplinary

Conference Session

STS Perspectives on Engineering Education

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Atsushi Akera, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

also do this in a way that stilldraws attention to the process of faculty deliberation and shared governance.So one of the issues that first came to the foreground was the question of “staff environment.”This matter was initially brought up by Killian (then the Executive Vice President and specialassistant to President Compton), but quickly caught the imagination of a faculty troubled byoverloaded working conditions and the postwar year-round teaching schedule. This translatedquickly into a concern about the “pace” of work, and how this was not conducive to thecontemplative and reflective process necessary for truly creative scholarship.19 As suggested byStratton midway into their investigation, “MIT is indeed a factory, set among other

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

R. Mark Worden; Daina Briedis

the investment of faculty time in this type of course, particularly ifa large number of students take the course. Ercolano2 has also cited this concern in hisdescription of several interdisciplinary courses taught across the U.S. This is an issue that willbe evaluated in future offerings of the MBL course.VI. ConclusionsIt is clear that several issues exist in offering courses in “multidisciplinarianism” such as thosedescribed both in this paper and by Ercolano. However, the need for individuals with training inmultidisciplinary team skills is great both in academia and industry. The MBL course has shownpreliminary successes in developing these skills. We anticipate that additional offerings of theMBL lab course with the associated

Conference Session

Professionally Oriented Graduate Program

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Raymond Willis; Duane Dunlap

agriculture. Graduates of RPI oftenplayed important roles in developing these. 8 This approach expanded rapidly after thepassage of the Morrill Land Grant Act in 1862. 9Early engineering schools maintained close working relationships with both theirgraduates and with other practicing engineers and managers. Professors heldsimultaneous or intermittent positions in government and industry. Through both choiceand necessity, the new schools drew on outside groups for faculty. Practicing engineersand managers also played important roles in the development of the professions ofengineering and management and in the development of professional societies - CivilEngineers in 1852, Mining Engineers in 1871, Mechanical Engineers in 1880. 10 To cite afew examples

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Terrence Kelly; Aaron Cowin

primary objective was to evaluate the impact to thedepartment of obtaining TAC/ABET accreditation. The committee’s evaluation of TAC/ABETwas occurring at the same time that TAC was considering sweeping changes to the criteria foraccrediting engineering technology programs. These changes were identified as proposed changesand published in the last several pages of the document that specified the criteria for accreditingengineering technology programs for the evaluations during the 2000-2001 accreditation cycles.Further in the proposed changes it was stated that the new criteria (ET2K) would not be fullyimplemented until Fall of 2004.7 The specifics of the evaluation criteria were not of issue to theaerospace technology faculty. The greater issue

Collection

2007 North Midwest Section Meeting

Authors

K. R. Haapala; M. J. Hutchins; J. L. Rivera; V. Kumar; A. R. Clarke; T. D. Eatmon; R. A. Harris; M. H. Durfee; J. R. Mihelcic; D. R. Shonnard; J. W. Sutherland

highlight fundamentaldifferences in attitudes towards societal issues, environmental concerns, and industrial activities.Rarely do the discussions promote convergence on approaches or key concepts. To harmonize Proceedings of the 2007 ASEE North Midwest Sectional Conference 2the views and attitudes of disparate fields across campus, establish a common working language,and nurture the development of science base in support of sustainability, faculty, staff, andstudents at Michigan Technological University (MTU) formed the Sustainable Futures Institute(SFI) in 2003. SFI education, research, and outreach activities consider both the policy

Conference Session

Measuring Success of Graduate Program Components

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Phillip Sanger, Western Carolina University; Ken Burbank, Western Carolina University

Tagged Divisions

Graduate Studies

comprehensive peer review. Can the economic advantage of job creation besufficient proof of scholarly achievement?Comprehensive universities now have major roles in the economic vitality of their regions. Asthe scholarship of application becomes an accepted and desirable form of scholarship for tenure-track faculty, uniform measures of success are necessary.IntroductionThis paper seeks to develop a rationale for the scholarship of application within the context ofengagement for the purposes of economic development. The issues that will be explored are:1) Why is it important for faculty to be engaged with the community at large and to whatpurpose?2) If it is accepted that engagement is important, how does it fit in the metrics by which tenuretrack

Conference Session

Professional Papers

Collection

2025 ASEE Southeast Conference

Authors

Hai T Ho, Kennesaw State University; Scott J. Tippens, Kennesaw State University

Tagged Topics

Professional Papers

outlines the proposedframework, a future "Phase-2" study will report on the program’s implementation and outcomes.By integrating mentorship, hands-on learning, and industry engagement, this initiative aims toset a new standard for student development and retention.IntroductionRetention of engineering students is a crucial concern for higher education institutions. Manystudents, particularly in rigorous fields like computer engineering, face challenges such asacademic pressures, lack of belonging, and unclear professional pathways [1], [2]. At theauthor’s university, the CPE department seeks innovative approaches to address these issues,aiming to improve retention and graduation rates [3], [4].This paper introduces a comprehensive onboarding

Conference Session

Educational Research and Methods Potpourri I

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sohum Sohoni, Oklahoma State University; Donald P. French, Oklahoma State University; YoonJung Cho, Oklahoma State University

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

concerns about teaching issues.Beginning GTAs are viewed as „Senior Learners‟ because they have more expertise in the Page 22.1097.5subject matter than most undergraduate students, but still identify themselves more with studentsrather than with faculty. These GTAs at the first stage of development are mainly concerned withhow to survive and avoid making mistakes and thus tend to focus on issues like getting betterevaluations from both students and supervisors. As GTAs gain more teaching experience, theybecome „Colleagues in Training‟ and their concerns tend to switch to issues like teaching skillsor teaching methods. Finally, more seasoned GTAs

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Y. Ofoli; Mackenzie Davis; Craig W, Somerton

summer semester of2000, six students completed their mentored teaching experience during the fall semester of2000, and eight students will complete their mentored teaching experience during the summersemester of 2001. Thus, sixteen students will have earned their College Teaching Certificate bythe end of the first year of the program.A companion program in the College of Natural Science at MSU touts its primary purpose asmaking its doctoral graduates more competitive for teaching jobs. However, the College ofEngineering program takes a slightly different perspective. Certainly, one of the challengesfaced by a new faculty member is balancing the initiation of a research program and competentlyand effectively teaching courses. In many cases, this

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Macy Reynolds; Joseph Untener

syllabus that has no extra time to introduce writing or to respond to yet anotherassignment. These issues will be debated in the department, but when there is no other means toaddress the need for writing, the faculty will have to work to both incorporate writing into thecurriculum and evaluate it so that the student will continue to improve.ConclusionAs with any new method of building a structure, the tools must be tailored to fit the job. If thetool is not working efficiently, it must be re-tooled until it adapts to the task at hand. Using aweb tool to help teach writing is a new approach and the site will necessarily go through changesboth to content and structure as it is used and evaluated. Some students and faculty will use itmore than

Conference Session

Equity, Culture & Social Justice in Education Division (EQUITY) Technical Session 4

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Pheather R. Harris, University of California, Irvine; Dianne G. Delima, University of California, Irvine

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Culture & Social Justice in Education Division (EQUITY), Equity

racial identities and exclusionary practices in STEM collectively play a role in the disparity concerning persistence and retention of students of color in their major. By not interrogating their biases and viewpoints on student success and the ways institutional and departmental culture can inhibit the academic persistence of students of color, faculty cannot make significant strides toward changing their curriculum and classroom environment to be inclusive and equitable (see [22]-[23] for examples of these points). Professional development opportunities that have pushed STEM faculty to interrogate their biases have been found to be effective in intentionally addressing the learning barriers students of color

Collection

1996 Annual Conference

Authors

John K. Brown

will likely dominate in the program, it will be available toundergraduates from across the university. Likewise, Engineering, Commerce, and Government will providethe bulk of the teaching staff, but faculty from other units are also participating actively. The curricular structure of the program seeks to leverage student’s experience in their major fields withsignificant exposure to courses that are truly interdisciplinary in their focus and methodologies. The programopens with two new synthetic courses, each to be team taught. The first, “Technology and the ProductDevelopment Lifecycle,” is a micro-level course combining concerns from engineering and commerce. Thesecond introductory offering is “Science and Technology Public Policy

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Maura Borrego, Virginia Tech

. Would they have the technical expertise to have Ph.D. faculty accept them as full participants in the college? There is a real concern of people having appropriate credentials for the university and college positions.A different set of respondents felt that the main issue for Ph.D. candidates being considered forstaff positions would be over-education: Person would be over qualified for diversity, retention staff, advising. Over-qualified for diversity or retention roles. I believe they are "overqualified" for the types of activities that dominate question 6. I don't think that the PhD in engineering education would be a significant advantage over the MS noted in previous set of questions.For the types

Conference Session

Thinking About the Engineering Curriculum

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Peter H. Meckl, Purdue University; Marc H. Williams, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Carolyn Percifield, Purdue University; Monica E. Cardella, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Michael T. Harris, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Leah H. Jamieson, Purdue University, West Lafayette

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

responses and Table 5 presents asummary of the success factors identified in the responses.Table 4: Barriers in curricular change encountered by survey respondents Barrier Frequency Inertia, resistance, fear of change 34 Resources 31 Concerns about quality, rigor & consistency 29 Faculty, staff, admin., student buy-in 26 Faculty development/new competencies 22 Bureaucracy: policies, paperwork, approvals 21 Differing views

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Warren R Hill

background necessary to develop an appropriate process.IntroductionWeber State University has recently mandated post-tenure review for all tenured faculty. We inthe College of Applied Science and Technology have been struggling with the issue of how to dothese reviews such that they will serve the best interests of both the faculty and the institution.The purpose of this paper is to examine some of the whys and wherefores of post-tenure reviewespecially as it might relate to engineering technology faculty. This in turn might provide ways forprograms to improve their review processes or provide and approach for starting a post-tenurereview process. If an institution is going to do post-tenure review, one of the major concerns isalways how to make

Conference Session

Computer-Supported Pedagogy and Assessment

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jim Sosnowski, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; Julie M Baker, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; Olivia Arnold, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; Mariana Silva, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; David Mussulman, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; Craig Zilles, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; Matthew West, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education Division (COED)

concerns that the CBTF-providedcalculator was so antiquated that it was potentially negatively impacting student examperformance. We therefore engaged in a process of gathering student and faculty input to learnmore about concerns and preferences. Based on this input, during Summer 2023, we replaced ourexisting calculators with TI-34 MultiView scientific calculators.5.3 Course Scheduling Policy ChangesA final area of policy change involves the scheduling of course exams. As a new service offeredon campus, the scheduling philosophy was built around a principle that prioritized incorporatingnew courses into the CBTF. That was useful for giving everyone who was interested someresources in the CBTF, but the policy also meant that returning courses

Conference Session

TC2K and Assessment

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Peter Shull; John Wise

. Faculty were requested to make weekly entries during thesemester. After a logon page, faculty are shown a list of their current courses (Figure 1.).Figure 1. Sample List of Courses Page 9.573.2 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering EducationFrom this page, faculty can easily determine if any entries are due or past due. Clicking on thecourse title takes the user into that particular course (Figure 2.).Figure 2. Sample Course Data PageIn order to check a previous week’s entry or to make a new entry, the

Collection

1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert P. Hesketh; C. Stewart Slater

an FTIR. The afternoon of day five was spent on curriculum development issues. Cooperative learning and planningsessions were conducted to brainstorm approaches to innovate the engineering curriculum withthe new ideas and concepts learned at this workshop. Several sessions were lead by Drs. Slaterand Hesketh on where to integrate novel processes in the curriculum. A special sessionaddressed New Jersey Initiatives in Freshman Programs with talks by Rowan and New JerseyInstitute of Technology faculty. Workshop follow-up activities and dissemination plans werediscussed

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session II

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ann F. McKenna, Arizona State University, Polytechnic Campus; Nadia N. Kellam, Arizona State University; Micah Lande, Arizona State University, Polytechnic Campus; Samantha Ruth Brunhaver, Arizona State University, Polytechnic Campus; Shawn S. Jordan, Arizona State University, Polytechnic Campus; Jennifer M Bekki, Arizona State University, Polytechnic Campus; Adam R Carberry, Arizona State University; Jeremi S London, Arizona State University, Polytechnic Campus

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Polytechnic School to establish anunderstanding of the engineering program culture and dynamics to assess the catalysts andbarriers to fostering a risk seeking culture. The current activities include: 1) creating proceduresfor sharing data across sub teams to help inform other aspects of the project, 2) developing andpiloting interview protocols, and 3) developing and testing a coding book.!!Very early into this aspect of the project, the team became aware of a few issues that needed tobe addressed to ensure proper research protocol. The interviews are structured as narrativeinterviews, which tend to elicit personal accounts and stories of the interviewee. The potential forrevealing personal information raised concern that faculty may not be

Conference Session

Improving the Teaching Skills of Graduate Students

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Erin Crede, Virginia Tech; Maura Borrego, Virginia Tech

Tagged Divisions

Graduate Studies

faculty mentors was concerned about the lack of a "socialcomponent of the program", and recognizing the time and effort that the fellows had put in.Other suggestions included having an "end of program social" recognizing the fellows that had Page 14.975.8completed the program, and to "give the new fellows a chance to meet." Another fellowcommented that although she "didn’t feel isolated", more interaction with the other fellowswould “help with the sense of community."B. Preparation for a Faculty Career Mentored teaching experiences are certainly an important part of preparing for a facultycareer, and were the most obvious outcome of the GTF

Conference Session

Recruiting, Retention & Advising

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Whalen; Susan Freeman; Beverly Jaeger; Bala Maheswaran

for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright 2005, American Society for Engineering EducationTo achieve success, other elements have also contributed. One component is an assigned pair ofCourse Coordinators from the Gateway Faculty who are responsible for conducting biweeklymeetings of all instructors and for managing any issues that arise concerning course curriculum,teaching media, physical facilities, and scheduling. In addition, there are now 5 faculty dedicatedto teaching freshmen who understand and enjoy the challenges of teaching these students intransition. All of the Gateway Faculty have attended teaching workshops and have won variousteaching awards. Their commitment to teaching and

Conference Session

NSF Grantees: RED 2 / Civil Eng

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Tiago R. Forin, Rowan University; Stephanie Farrell, Rowan University; Kauser Jahan P.E., Rowan University; Stephanie Lezotte, Rowan University; Beena Sukumaran, Rowan University; Harriet Hartman, Rowan University; Ralph Alan Dusseau P.E., Rowan University; Theresa F.S. Bruckerhoff, Curriculum Research & Evaluation, Inc.; Sarah K. Bauer, Rowan University

Tagged Topics

Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

ofsome issues they were facing and how effective our transfer mentoring group was for helpingstudents through their difficulties. The researchers will use this second round of interviews as ameans to increase the amount of critical student voices. This allows the researchers to make acase for the students who feel overlooked and improve the quality of their education. As withprevious years CEE faculty are still developing their own inclusive curriculum content. Aresearcher is running another round of student content development independent studies. Thereare students from outside the CEE Department that are taking the course and developing theirown global discipline-specific examples. Once the new content is developed, conversations willoccur

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering Division Technical Session - NAE Grand Challenges, Graduate Students, Sustainability, and Makerspaces

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kavitha Chandra, University of Massachusetts Lowell; Trina Kershaw, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth; Susan Tripathy, University of Massachusetts Lowell; Max Denis, University of the District of Columbia; Jorge Allen, University of Massachusetts Lowell; Hong Liu, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth; Tzuyang Yu, University of Massachusetts Lowell; Charles Thompson, University of Massachusetts Lowell

, especially if it’s something that I taught in classand they come in and present it to me.” Another faculty member pointed out the chronologicaldifferences in age between some faculty members and students: “They’re 20 years old and we’relike 60.”2) Communication between students of diverse backgrounds. Faculty and industry professionalswere concerned with how to make sure misunderstandings don’t arise, especially given thediversity of the project teams, and also potential issues with online communication andcollaboration. As noted by [10], partnerships need to address issues of inclusivity, power, andidentity. Doing so promotes productive collaboration [21].3) Time availability and management. Faculty were concerned that students don’t have time