Conference Session

Newly Developed Engineering Courses

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Anoop Desai, Georgia Southern University; Phil Waldrop, Georgia Southern University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

be pursued withoutdegradation of the environment, society or the economy. Recently, an effort was undertaken at auniversity in the southeast United States to develop a course on global sustainability andinnovation. It has been obvious for some time now that the earth has finite natural resources thatcannot be replenished. Such resources include crude oil and natural gas, metal ores, naturalhabitat and clean and potable water. Not only is the situation not improving, it has been gettingworse over time. This is no longer an issue of purely academic interest. It has managed tobecome a mainstream concern. In view of this fact, the authors felt that the time was opportuneto offer a course on conservation and sustainability. Offering a global

Conference Session

Capstone Design III

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

concerns exposed during the assessment process, the following changeswere implemented: • Require each team to create a Project Management Workbook; and • Implement Score Card Rating System for Design Reviews.Embedded in this sequence are several mechanisms for students to report their work and togarner feedback from the faculty. These include status meetings, design reviews, and the projectworkbook. Project management techniques were incorporated into the design reviews throughthe score card rating system and the throughout the workbook. After these changes wereimplemented, faculty and student assessment were used to modify and revise this process. Thispaper includes a discussion of the initial changes to the senior project

Conference Session

Curricula of the Past, Present, and Future

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Amy Banzaert, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; John Duffy, University of Massachusetts-Lowell; David Wallace, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

needs that fits directly with the course goals, the experience of working on real needs typically exposes students to many other aspects of the problem, motivating them to learn new material and helping them recognize the need to do so continually, if they are to solve real problems.(j) a knowledge of contemporary issues Interaction with community partners and the

Conference Session

Professional Development from a Distance

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Deborah L. Helman, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Ryan J. Kershner, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Diana Wheeler, MA-LIS, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Amy L. Kindschi, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Steven M. Cramer, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Sandra Shaw Courter, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Moira Lafayette, University of Wisconsin, Madison

Tagged Divisions

Continuing Professional Development

AC 2011-1372: IMPLEMENTING AN EFFECTIVE SUPPORT MODELFOR INNOVATION IN ENGINEERING EDUCATION AND TECHNOLOGY-ENHANCED LEARNINGDeborah L. Helman, University of Wisconsin, Madison Deborah Helman is the Director of Wendt Commons, which provides teaching, learning, information and media services in the College of Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Prior to assum- ing responsibility for this new organization, she led the staff of the CoE’s Wendt Library in providing engineering library services.Ryan J. Kershner, University of Wisconsin, MadisonDiana Wheeler, MA-LIS, University of Wisconsin, MadisonAmy L Kindschi, University of Wisconsin, Madison Amy Kindschi, MLS, Head of Faculty and Student Services at UW

Conference Session

FPD IX: Research on First-year Programs Part III

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stanley M. Forman, Northeastern University; Susan F. Freeman, Northeastern University

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

taught and mixed department so as to get across section of opinion without attempting to elicit responses from the entire engineeringfaculty. The expectation is that the results of the survey will help guide further work to validateissues and search for effective teaching methodologies.The SurveyThe survey used is shown in Appendix A. The survey was done using the online survey toolSurveyMonkey®. The survey gathered basic demographic data from engineering facultyrespondents and then asked 4 key questions: What non-technical skills do students need?, Whatskills are they lacking?, What skills do faculty attempt to teach or instill? and How do facultyaccomplish that result? The survey was mindfully kept simple and direct to avoid issues such

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Brian Manhire

," The Chronicle of Higher Education, 16 January 1998. URL: http://chronicle.com/che-data/articles.dir/art-44.dir/issue-19.dir/19a01201.htm29. Randal C. Archibald, "Payback Time: Give Me an 'A' or Else," The New York Times, 24 May 1998. URL: http://www.nytimes.com/library/review/052498students-evaluate-review.html30. A. G. Greenwald, "Validity concerns and usefulness of student ratings," American Psychologist, 52, 1997, 1182-1186.31. A. G. Greenwald and G. M. Gillmore, "Grading leniency is a removable contaminant of student ratings," American Psychologist, 52, 1997, 1209-1217.32. A. G. Greenwald and G. M. Gillmore, "No pain, no gain? The importance of measuring course workload in student ratings of instruction," Journal of

Conference Session

Track 2 - Session II - Curriculum Development

Collection

2013 ASEE International Forum

Authors

Imin Kao, Stony Brook University (SUNY); Yacov A. Shamash, Stony Brook University; ChoonHo Kim, SUNY Korea

Tagged Topics

Curriculum Development

a collaborative establishment. Yale University in 2011 started a liberal artscollege in Singapore, called the Yale-NUS College, awarding degrees of the National Universityof Singapore (NUS), not a Yale degree. A total of 150 students were admitted in 2013. In anannouncement in March 2011 [8], President Levin wrote “with the enthusiastic support of theYale Corporation, we have reached agreement with the National University of Singapore (NUS)to create a new liberal arts college that we hope will become a model for Asia.” In an article ofthe Yale Alumni Magazine in May/June 2012, a Yale College Faculty Resolution dated April 5,2012, expressed their concern “regarding the history of lack of respect for civil and politicalrights in the state of

Conference Session

Design Teams 2

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Peter Schuster, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Brian P. Self, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Eltahry Elghandour, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Lauren Anne Cooper, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

similar skillsbut are deployed to work on very different design challenges? In our capstone course, werecently compared two approaches to team formation: Student-formed and faculty-formedteams. The results of this comparison are reported in a separate paper. This year, informed bythese results, we implemented a new hybrid team-forming process designed to retain the studentagency resulting from student-formed team while addressing some of the concerns of thisapproach.This paper summarizes relevant team-forming research and results from our past approaches toforming teams. Then we describe the hybrid approach implemented this year and analyze thepreliminary results obtained after one quarter of student teamwork (including student surveysfocus

Conference Session

Teaching Dynamics

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kristi J. Shryock, Texas A&M University; Arun R. Srinivasa, Texas A&M University, Department of Mechanical Engineering; Jefferey E. Froyd, Texas A&M University

Tagged Divisions

Mechanics

understanding, how conceptual understanding can beassessed, what are common alternative explanations that learners offer for physical phenomena,and how learners can be influenced, so that their explanations reflect common scientificunderstanding4. Duit maintains an active bibliography for this field that contains over 8000references5.Evaluating how mathematics from the first year is used downstream in the engineeringcurriculum is not new. In 1974, the Committee on Curricular Emphasis in Basic Mechanics(CCEBM) was formed out of concern within the Mechanics Division of ASEE for the quality ofinstruction in basic mechanics. This led to the development of an extensive national survey andpreparation of a readiness skills test for students entering their

Conference Session

Viewing Engineering Education through the Lens of Social Science: A Candid Dialogue on Race and Gender

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

William H. Robinson III, Vanderbilt University; Ebony O. McGee, Vanderbilt University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Minorities in Engineering

efforts across the campus. Professor Chapman works with the Pforzheimer Learningand Teaching Center on faculty development and student achievement issues and withacademic departments as they conduct searches for new faculty members. In addition, sheleads special projects on behalf of the provost's office. Dr. Jomo Mutegi, Associate Professor of Science Education, School of Education, Indiana University-Purdue University IndianapolisDr. Mutegi’s research agenda, which addresses the underrepresentation of AfricanAmericans in science and science-related careers, consists of three lines of scholarship. Inthe first, he explores students’ science knowledge as a factor that influences careerdecisions. In the second line of scholarship, he explores

Conference Session

Transitioning to an Academic Career

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

William Loendorf

demanded far more effort than the first, but the experience gained proved to beinvaluable and was fully utilized. The skills directly transferred from actual engineering andmanagerial experiences were once again applied to the education process with great success.Being proficient in planning, scheduling, organizing, exploring, controlling, mentoring,communicating, leading, budgeting, administrating and allocating scarce resources madecompleting the tasks possible. It wasn’t easy but the hard work was rewarded with a wonderfuland inspiring year.This paper describes the trials, tribulations, successes and lessons learned during the second yearas a full-time engineering educator. The results may be of great benefit to new faculty membersalong with

Conference Session

ENT-3: Transforming Engineering Curriculum through Entrepreneurial Approaches

Collection

2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Anna K. T. Howard, North Carolina State University at Raleigh; Katherine Saul, North Carolina State University at Raleigh; Nathalie Lavoine, North Carolina State University at Raleigh

Tagged Divisions

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division (ENT)

in renewable nanomaterials, sustainability and innovation. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2025 Introducing the Entrepreneurial Mindset into Classes at NC State UniversityAbstractIntroducing a new initiative at a large campus like NC State University is challenging; key hurdlesinclude showing how the initiative builds on existing efforts without replacing them, introducingfaculty to the new ideas, creating buy-in, and providing an incentive for engagement. As a newmember of the Kern Entrepreneurial Engineering Network (KEEN), our goal was to introduce theEntrepreneurial Mindset (EM) to faculty across the College of Engineering, provide guidance onhow to apply those ideas in classroom content

Conference Session

Engineering Design: Implementation and Evaluation

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Xaver Neumeyer, Northwestern University; Ann McKenna, Northwestern University

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

, very few studies have explored the role that team conflict has onstudents’ team performance in the context of engineering design education 3, 6.The current work addresses student and faculty perspectives on team conflict as well asconflict-management strategies. Understanding the mechanics and potential beneficialeffects of team conflict offers new insights for engineering educators who emphasizeteamwork in their courses or design projects.Past and current models of team interaction and conflictThe predominant model of group development synthesized by Tuckman describesdifferent stages of group development: forming, storming, norming, performing as wellas adjourning 7. However, the issue of team conflict has not been specifically addressedin

Conference Session

NSF Grantees: RED 1

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Yen-Lin Han, Seattle University; Kathleen E. Cook, Seattle University; Gregory Mason P.E., Seattle University; Teodora Rutar Shuman, Seattle University; Jennifer A. Turns, University of Washington

Tagged Topics

Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

in this project and to change this culture together.Current status:a. Obtained a shared vision. Because a shared vision is an important foundation for a culture,significant efforts were devoted to obtaining a shared vision of “Engineering with Engineers.”Focusing on how "Engineering with Engineering” could improve undergraduate education unitedthe faculty. Brainstorming produced ideas that led to new curriculum. In the “critical doing” ofdeveloping this new curriculum, faculty examined the current system, identified issues to beaddressed, and built the shared vision. Students’ input on the meaning of “Engineering withEngineers” also was solicited.b. Revised department mission. A department vision day was held for faculty to discuss andupdate

Conference Session

Design in Engineering Education Division (DEED) - Accessibility and Empathy in Engineering Education

Collection

2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Zahra Saghafi, University of Guelph; Julie Vale, University of Guelph; Russell Kirkscey, Pennsylvania State University; Jennifer Howcroft, University of Waterloo

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education Division (DEED)

faculty who expressed these types of concerns identified as male.3.2.5 Faculty Perspectives on ChallengesThe qualitative data underscored specific challenges that faculty face in integrating values intocapstone design courses. Resource constraints were a recurring issue, with limited lecture timefrequently mentioned as barrier to developing comprehensive values-based modules.Additionally, some faculty noted difficulties in engaging students with values-based topics,particularly when these were presented as abstract concepts rather than practical applications.That said, some faculty are finding ways to holistically incorporate values despite the barriersand challenges, e.g., “by teaching capstone using a studio model we can include more of

Collection

1998 Annual Conference

Authors

P. Hirsch; J.E. Colgate; J. Anderson; G. Olson; D. Kelso; B. Shwom

fostering a positive and supportive group identity in the freshman class. In EDC, students experience group work or teamwork on two levels: they are involved in groups of their own and they see the faculty interacting as a group across disciplines, departments, and gender. This level of interaction is highly unusual in a university setting—and beneficial to all parties concerned. The new model of group interaction is especially useful to faculty who have not had much personal contact with students and to women and under-represented minorities, who have more models in this course structure and more opportunities to speak and take leadership roles.11-13• Early introduction to technical communication EDC is an improvement in

Conference Session

Engineering Physics and Physics Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Teresa Larkin, American University; Shams El-Adawy; Victoria Vogel, American University

to better support and retain their current workforces. For example, the pandemichas forced organizations and individuals to rethink work-life integration as they haveattempted to achieve a new balance in what is often referred to as the new normal. Thoughneither academic nor industry STEM fields have yet found gender parity in their respectiveworkforces, through a cross-sector comparison, this paper will address a fundamental shiftthat needs to occur in the way effort and performance is measured to retain and return femaletalent into the STEM pipeline. It is both timely and critical to take more immediate action toaddress gender-related DEI issues and their impact both pre- and post-pandemic on women inPhysics and STEM career

Conference Session

Capstone Design II

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Perry Parendo, University of St. Thomas; Jeff Jalkio, University of St. Thomas

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

a key. Beyond financial considerations, the sponsor is important. Do they value thelearning aspect, are they timely in their dealings, do they expect to attend the reviews, can theyallow space to the students to do the work, and do they have the potential or history of hiring ourstudents for internships or full time positions.Faculty is involved during the identification process. Early in the summer, they will indicate anyquestions, issues, or concerns regarding the projects being pursued. A few weeks before classesstart, the projects are screened or prioritized with faculty input following our selection criteria.More projects than desired are presented to students. Seeing this additional information providesgreater insight by the faculty

Conference Session

Modern Teaching Strategies in Engineering

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Dirk Joel-Luchini Colbry, Michigan State University

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer Engineering Division (ECE)

softwareprojects and is specifically designed to enable multiple authors to work together on any text-based file format. There are many online repository management systems that can help git usersshare their files; the most common one is github [4], but there are many others such as gitlab [5]and bitbucket [6]. For the Jupyter notebook tutorial repositories described in this paper, studentsuse our university-hosted gitlab instance. Each student in the class automatically has an accountin this gitlab that is linked to their student ID, which makes tracking and grading assignmentsmuch simpler.The SCHOLAR methodology involves a five-step cycle, each assigned as a course task: 1. Generate a new Tutorial and issue a pull request. Students pick a software

Collection

2024 South East Section Meeting

Authors

Tanjina Afrin, Virginia Military Institute; Matthew K Swenty P.E., Virginia Military Institute; Rebekah L Martin, Virginia Military Institute; Charles D Newhouse P.E., Virginia Military Institute

Environmental EngineeringDepartment restructured its lab courses, replacing the previous system with a two-lab sequencefor third-year students. The change aimed to address scheduling challenges and cover additionalcore topics in civil engineering. After three years, the changes were assessed based on facultyand students' feedback. The new sequence has proven effective in reducing scheduling conflicts,enhancing coverage of engineering mechanics, structural engineering, and environmentalengineering, and involving more faculty in the lab workload. Students appreciate the hands onexperiences and find the labs beneficial in integrating knowledge across classes. However,challenges include stricter pre-requisite requirements and eliminating some previous lab

Conference Session

Women in Engineering Division Technical Session 7

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Sinéad C Mac Namara, Syracuse University; Anne E Rauh, Syracuse University; Michelle M Blum, Syracuse University; Natalie Russo, Syracuse University; Melissa A Green, Syracuse University; Shikha Nangia, Syracuse University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Women in Engineering

demonstrating one’s impact, and universityprocedures and policies related to promotion and tenure.In the post-promotion phase of Group discussions have been increasingly focused on: navigatinguniversity politics; defining individual career success going forward; pivoting research to longerterm and larger scale goals; managing larger teams; members’ respective contributions touniversity leadership issues; and evaluating service obligations/opportunities to ensure they alignwith longer term goals.The Cohort ModelOther models for faculty mentoring include those that are discipline-specific and those that focuson more senior colleagues mentoring junior (one of the authors, for example, has three assignedmentees among her departmental junior colleagues

Collection

2024 ASEE North East Section

Authors

Susan Freudzon, Fairfield University

introduced to the NationalSociety of Professional Engineers Code of Ethics [1] and actively participate in thoughtfuldiscussions based on a selection of engineering ethical case studies. As students progress throughthe four-year curriculum, they delve into a variety of ethical discussions and case studiesintegrated into their engineering courses. This gives students the opportunity to explore ethicalsituations that may vary across different areas of study within their field. Additionally, byspreading the ethics modules across the four year curriculum, students are exposed to a breadthof topics and hear the perspectives from different groups of students and faculty. During thesenior design capstone course, students research the ethical issues related

Collection

2010 North Midwest Section

Authors

D. A. Rogers; O. R. Baiocchi

applicant and for thesubsequent award of tenure. Measured in terms of teaching, research, and service, theseexpectations are rapidly becoming common throughout the educational world. These standardsdetermine the working environment and even the lifestyle of college and university facultymembers today.There are some very important issues regarding tenure which really should be subjects ofseparate studies. The first is whether or not we should have tenure in our institutions at all. Thesecond is the issue of the relationship between tenure and diversity in faculty hiring andretention. Both of these topics are worthy of extensive study and discussion, but we will reservethis for another occasion. Proceedings of the 2010 ASEE North

Collection

1996 Annual Conference

Authors

Merl Baker

day. Like the first, it too rests on a radical transformation of many of our institutions of learning. Like the first, it too involves a cooperative effort of the federal and state governments, as well as of the private sector of American life. And, like the first, it too involves a new form of technology transfer, anew way of bringing the lessons of the library and the laboratory to bear on the economy of the nation. Dr. Bloustein offers a challenge to faculty and administrators to respond to new demand in higher education inresearch, eduction, training, and national involvement. The redirection’s of Ph.D. programs proposed in this paper areprompted by changing national priorities and employer needs, and

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Scott White; Kirsten Lowrey; George M. Bodner; Dawn Del Carlo; Ala Samarapungavan; William C. Oakes

major.Theoretical UnderpinningsPhenomenology is a naturalistic research paradigm that guides research concerned with understandingthe meaning of human experience (Marton, 1996; van Manen, 1990). It is a philosophical researchtradition that has been influenced by the work of Husserl, Schutz and Merleau-Ponty (Polkinghorne,1983; van Manen, 1990). This grounding in philosophy means that issues concerning the truth ofresearch results are central to phenomenology. An alternative research framework known asphenomenography has been proposed that, at first glance, might appear a special case ofphenomenology. Phenomenography arises from an empirical research tradition, however, and isconcerned with the utility of research results rather than considerations

Collection

1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Katherine E. Scales; Michael S. Leonard; Donald E. Beasley

- Analyze Existing Curriculum, Stage 4 - Design NewCurriculum, and Stage 5 - Implement New Curriculum (see Figure 1 below). Continuouscurriculum improvement is attained with planned, periodic recycling through Stage 2 to Stage 5addressing the curriculum as a whole, and by formal techniques for improving course conduct(how a course is taught) and course content (what is taught in a course).A. Stage 1 - PreparationThis stage is the key component of the Curriculum Renewal Methodology. The steps in thisstage include: leadership commitment and gaining faculty support, creating a Curriculum Page 3.446.22 Ibid. STAKEHOLDER

Collection

1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Susan M. Montgomery

- Gender issues in teaching engineering - Race issues in teaching engineering - Testing and grading - Cheating, discipline, and ethics - Evaluation of teaching Academic Career Planning - Obtaining a faculty position - Professional concerns (2 sessions) Page 4.9.2 - Wrap upMy preparation for the course consisted of a literature survey and gathering of materials frompast workshops. Students were expected to arrive prepared to discuss the day’s topic, and onlya small amount of class time was spent presenting material. A homework problem

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Kristen Larson; Jeffrey Newcomer

the firsttime armed with only a packet of lecture notes and a recollection of the professors that they hadfound to be most engaging and a vague plan for emulating them. In a situation such as this,material coverage and mere survival become classroom priorities. It is easy for new faculty tooverly concentrate on the academic content of each lecture, not concerning themselves with thecontext in which the classroom resides. Comfortably and confidently creating a dynamic learningenvironment takes more than just command of course material. To be happy and effective in theclassroom, new faculty need to address two issues outside of the classroom: how teaching fitswith personal priorities and career goals, and how teaching is valued and supported in

Collection

1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Tom Gasque Smith; Deanna E. Ramey

assessments ofstudent writing often seem, at best, subjective, and, at worst, biased.Tutor/consultants who engage engineering faculty and students in conversation use theseconversations as starting points for discussing writing, not as non-writing issues ancillary to theconstruction and design of a student lab report or faculty grant proposal. When, after thequestions of a non-expert tutor, a student writer says, “What I meant to write was ‘. . .’”, thestudent views the new statement as found words. But the tutor views such moments as createdknowledge. Whether the knowlege is created or the words are found, this movement fromimplicit to explicit expression in texts occurs more quickly when consultants/tutors are familiarwith the micro- and macro

Conference Session

Information Literacy in First-year Courses and Co-curricular Experiences

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Brianna B. Buljung, Colorado School of Mines; Leslie Light, Colorado School of Mines

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Libraries

iterative project.” In their observation, if teams take the time to work on milestoneassignments and revisit content, they are more likely to have a successful final product.From the pilot faculty perspective, there are several benefits to utilizing the reinforcement lesson.These include another touch point for content that faculty view as important and an opportunityfor students to practice new skills. However, there are also costs to adding an additional lesson tothe already busy course schedule. As one interviewee noted, “There was a lot going on with thatcheck-in and it diffused their focus as compared to other check-ins. We should try to keep thecheck-ins to three things maximum.” The most significant issue the research team will have