Conference Session

Curricular Issues in Computer-Oriented Programs

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Phil Rawles, Purdue University; Anthony Smith, Purdue University; Raymond Hansen, Purdue University; Jeffrey Sprankle, Purdue University

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Information Systems

engineering curriculum, a new course was created anddesigned to provide students with a deep understanding of routing protocols and switchingtechnologies. Course content builds upon subject matter taught in previous courses, including thenew data communication and networking course and the redesigned routing design andimplementation course. Education will revolve around carrier-class routing technologies,including label switching and advanced BGP implementations. In addition, students will learnabout some of the more advanced options available with Interior Gateway Protocols, such asOSPF and EIGRP. On the local area network side, core switching topics such as Spanning Treeand switch /router redundancy protocols will be reinforced and expanded

Conference Session

Civil Engineering Division (CIVIL) - ASCE Collaborations

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Timmy Elwin Kipfmiller III, United States Military Academy; Alexander Tucker, United States Military Academy; Charles James Richardson Reeves, United States Military Academy; Nicholas Ryan Parker, United States Military Academy; Scott M. Katalenich, United States Military Academy

Tagged Topics

Diversity

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Civil Engineering Division (CIVIL)

Leadership 3. Quality of Life Quality of Life 4. Resource Allocation Resource Allocation 5. Natural World Natural World 6. Greenhouse Gas Emissions Climate and Resilience 7. Resilience 8. Life-Cycle Cost Analysis (LCCA) (LCCA is covered in Leadership, Credit LC3.3: Conduct a Life-Cycle Economic Evaluation)Literature ReviewThe use of Envision within civil engineering curriculum is not new; however, most literaturefocuses on using the rating system and case studies of actual projects to facilitate studentlearning.Educators have leveraged Envision within the

Conference Session

International Division Technical Session 7

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Dhinesh Balaji Radhakrishnan, Purdue University; Jennifer Deboer, Purdue University, West Lafayette

Tagged Topics

Diversity

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International

learning content. However, during the month of November (Table 1), researchersand industry officials from Quanser discussed pushing the platform beyond their preconceivedexpectations. During their conversation, the new approach of using the tablet and the platform asa tool to actually perform engineering tasks and activities was conceived. As part of an ongoingeffort, the platform was used to begin coding simulations as a way to represent engineeringconcepts. The first simulation that was developed is shown in Figure 3. It demonstrates theconcept of access to water. The simulation comprises a solar panel that powers two water pumpsof different capacities. The first water pump is used to transport water from a natural waterreservoir to an

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1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Spradling; Robert Hayes; Ahmad Zargari

1Session 3563 Curriculum Development in Manufacturing Technology:A Survey of Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME) College Fellows Ahmad Zargari, Robert Hayes, Robert Spradling Morehead State UniversityIntroduction Shortly after the end of World War II, American manufacturers diverted theirconsiderable military manufacturing capabilities into the production of consumer goods.At that time, the worldwide demand for American products was strong and U.S. firmsproduced almost half of all the manufactured goods sold in the world. During the past 20 years, America’s manufacturing leadership

Conference Session

Two-year College Potpourri

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ali Zilouchian, Florida Atlantic University; Nancy Romance, Florida Atlantic University; Dana Hamadeh, Palm Beach State College; Annie Laurie Myers, Broward College; Michael Vitale, East Carolina University

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Diversity

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Two-Year College

Paper ID #22120University – State College Curriculum Model for Student Success in Engi-neering and Computer Science ProgramsDr. Ali Zilouchian, Florida Atlantic University Dr. Ali Zilouchian is currently the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and a professor in the College of Engineering and Computer Science at Florida Atlantic University. He is also currently the Director of ”CAPTURE” program which is related to increasing pipeline, graduation rate as well as future jobs in the State of Florida related to STEM graduates especially Computer Science and Engineering fields. His recent projects have been funded by DOE

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1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael B. Cutlip; Mordechai Shacham

is still dis-appointingly low. A recent survey by Jones4 has indicated that “Across the country,computers are usually not used effectively in undergraduate engineering sciencecourse. Often they are not used at all. Problem solving approaches and calculationmethods are little influenced by the availability of computers.” What are the reasonsfor this low level of computer use? Part of the answer is that educators are not famil-iar enough with these relatively new computational tools that integration into theircourses is challenging. Another possible aspect is that the packages are not as userfriendly and easy to use as they claim to be. Many chemical engineering departments now select one or several interactivecomputational packages to be

Conference Session

FPD1 -- Implementing a First-Year Engineering Course

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jenny Lo, Virginia Tech; Vinod Lohani, Virginia Tech; Odis Griffin, Virginia Tech

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First-Year Programs

” atVirginia Tech is discussed. The implementation team consisted of seven faculty members and 21students (graduate and undergraduate). About 1200 students were enrolled. The format wassuccessfully piloted in spring 2005. Examples of new activities include introduction of a systemsapproach, hands-on engineering experiments for fitting empirical functions, students’presentations on contemporary issues, discussion of the attributes of “The Engineer of 2020,”learning from seniors’ study abroad experiences, and object oriented approaches for problemsolving. In addition, a 5-week sustainable development design project was introduced. With thedesire to increase student participation in the large classrooms and determine students’ priorawareness, faculty

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2022 ASEE St. Lawrence Section Annual Conference

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Suguang Xiao, Clarkson University; Robert J Schneider, Clarkson University; Erik Backus, Clarkson University

to meet certain outcomes, among them are: ● “an ability to identify, formulate, and solve complex engineering problems …”; ● “an ability to apply engineering design to produce solutions that meet specified needs with consideration of public health, safety, and welfare, as well as global, cultural, social, environmental, and economic factors”; and ● “an ability to acquire and apply new knowledge as needed, using appropriate learning strategies ” [7].The use of the aforementioned SDL and PBL approaches support these outcomes directly and can providemeaningful data as part of the continuous improvement assessment process that ABET requires [7].BackgroundThe problem topic was discovered in 2016 with an initial

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2010 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

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Bill Lorenz; Pritpal Singh

, ethical and social justice considerations. This is a truly distinctive approach to our 1 Fall 2010 Mid-Atlantic ASEE Conference, Villanova University, October 15-16, 2010program compared to existing, more traditional programs. To ensure the breadth of understanding thatwe wish to impart to our students, the core courses were structured so that the first two coursesprovide the technical education and the third course provides the broader context (although this is alsowoven into the first two courses as well).Our new inter-disciplinary Master’s degree in Sustainable Engineering was launched in December2010. The program is available to all engineering and science disciplines and is

Conference Session

IE Enrollment/Curriculum Development

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Susan Freeman

Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright©, American Society for Engineering EducationThe Course: Introduction to Industrial EngineeringThe Industrial Engineering (IE) Curriculum at Northeastern University has changed a number oftimes of the last 10 years. One major change occurred in 2003 when the University transitionedfrom a quarter system to a semester system. The semester is 14 weeks long, versus the 10 weekquarter. Therefore, the course needed to be designed appropriately. Before semesters, the coursemost resembling Introduction to IE was entitled Work Design. Work Design was taught in theMiddler year (NU is a five year school, and the Middler year is between the Sophomore andJunior years

Conference Session

Pre-College Engineering Education Division Poster Session

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2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Kenneth Berry, Southern Methodist University

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Pre-College Engineering Education

Engineering Education Center, and Caruth Institute of Engineering Education. He specializes in Engineering, STEM, and Project Based Learning instruction. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 Computer Science and Computational Thinking Across the Early Elementary Curriculum (Work in Progress)In 2016 Amazon announced an extensive search to identify a home for its second headquarters,HQ2. Our city, Dallas, TX was near the top of the list for most of the competition. However,when the final choice was announced two years ago, Dallas lost to Washington, D.C. and NewYork City. According to the Dallas Mayor, who was an active member of the

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2013 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

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Andrew Siefert; Jonathan Hoy; Keith Christman; Kevin R. Anderson

SUBMITTED TO THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR ENGINEERING EDUCATION PACIFIC SOUTHWEST SECTION CONFERENCE UCR, APRIL 18-20, 2013 Using Arduino Microcontroller Based Robot Projects to Teach Mechatronics in a Hands-On Mechanical Engineering Curriculum Andrew Siefert, Jonathan Hoy, Keith Christman, Dr. Kevin R. Anderson, P.E. California State Polytechnic University at Pomona Mechanical Engineering Department Mechatronics and Robotics Laboratory

Conference Session

Capstone Courses in Construction

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mohsin K. Siddiqui, King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals; Sulaiman Dawood Alrasheed, Saudi Aramco; Abdul Rahman Mohammed, King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals; Azfar Amaan, King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals; Waheed Hussain Aljaroudi P.E.; Abdullah Ahmed Al-Jughaiman, King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals; Fayez Mohsen Alsaikhan, King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals; Bahir Mohamad Alhashem

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Construction

of studies have explored how best toachieve such integration. Wang conducted a comprehensive survey of sustainability inconstruction education and has identified a number of challenges 5. A key challenge is that,unlike other CEM disciplines, the definition of what constitutes as sustainability is quite variable.The approaches adopted by various institutions that explicitly address sustainability as a part ofthe curriculum are also very diverse in nature. The emphasis of the incorporation has largelybeen in the building construction area whereas engineering construction projects have receivedminimal attention. At the end of the study, Wang 5 reported his experiences in offering a specialcourse in sustainability in construction.Although such

Conference Session

Innovations in Design within BME Curricula

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Naomi C. Chesler, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Christopher L. Brace, University of Wisconsin; Willis J. Tompkins, University of Wisconsin, Madison

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Biomedical

describe the process by which we make improvements to ourcurriculum through the assessment process. Finally, we suggest aspects of our approach thatmay be useful in more traditional BME curricula.Introduction:In the United States, accreditation is a non-governmental, peer-review process that is designed toassure the quality of higher education programs. The Accreditation Board for Engineering andTechnology, Inc. (ABET) is the organization responsible for monitoring, evaluating andcertifying the quality of engineering, engineering technology and engineering-related highereducation programs in the United States1. In 2000, new outcomes-based criteria wereestablished called EC2000 or EC. As a condition for accreditation, which is entirely voluntary

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1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Jack Swearengen; Hakan Gürocak

Manufacturing from SME; internship and research experiences; and extra-curricular and other program-specific activities.SUMMARYA new Bachelor of Science degree program in Manufacturing Engineering program has beenintroduced at Washington State University branch campus in Vancouver, Washington. Thecampus is located in the rapidly growing Portland (OR) – Vancouver (WA) Metropolitan Regionin which a robust manufacturing sector also resides. The new degree program is best portrayedas mechanical engineering applied to manufacturing. Origination and development of thecurriculum is described, along with the approach to future accreditation. Industrial participationhas been important for curriculum and program development. As an example, WSU and

Conference Session

Manufacturing Division Poster Session

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jeremy Li, University of Bridgeport

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Manufacturing

current engineering classes, some necessary curriculum and teaching reformsare needed. A new course titled “Manufacturing Strategy and Lean Manufacturing” hasbeen developed at University of Bridgeport to provide our graduate students with theknowledge to face today’s challenges. The instructor brings the extensive US industrialand engineering experiences to the class and all the advanced technology proceduresintroduced and discussed in the class can be applied to the industries to improve the plantperformance in manufacturing flow, organizational functions, process control, metricsand logistics. Although this course was taught at the mechanical and manufacturingengineering majors, it can also be applied to the most areas of US industrial

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Manufacturing Engineering Technology

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Andrew Otieno; Clifford Mirman

applications. There are cases win which PLC courses have been developed to address theneeds of specific types of engineering students, for instance electrical engineering students9 orindustrial engineering students10, to cite a few examples. In addition, innovative approaches havebeen utilized to enhance instruction in the area of PLC’s by using web-based instruction andmulti-media simulation11. Despite all of the advances and developments in the instruction ofPLC’s, educators need to develop PLC courses which include both the programming basics andadvanced applications involving integration with sensors and other components such as visionand robotics.1.2 Technology Curriculum Structure at Northern Illinois University The NIU Manufacturing

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1996 Annual Conference

Authors

Samuel S. Lee; R. Narasimhan; M. Lewis Temares

the new environment,especially with regard to study habits, prioritization of tasks, and time management. Many students fail their firstcalculus course and lose interest in engineering. Many students who have successfully completed themathematics sequence are still unable to apply their math skills in solving physical problems (i.e., wordproblems). Several initiatives have been taken to help students adjust, such as proactive advising, earlyintervention, peer counseling, tutoring and the “Freshman Forgiveness Program.” All these efforts haveproduced some positive results. However, to educate students effectively and provide them with an engineeringeducation for a changing world, the entire curriculum requires careful review and re-design with

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1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Peter A. Koen; Pankaj Kohli

ofTechnology engineering graduates in the last 3 years (1994, 1995, and 1996) in order to betterdetermine the industry skill set required of recent alumni. The most important attributes, in orderof priority, were problem solving, ability to design and conduct experiments, recognition of theneed to engage in life-long learning, understanding of professional and ethical responsibility andan ability to function on multi-disciplinary teams. Of less importance were depth and breath ofengineering science indicating that the new curriculums will need to emphasize the “softerskills.” Recent graduates attribute prioritization were nearly identical to their supervisors whichfurther reinforces the relative importance of the attributes previously indicated

Conference Session

Systems Engineering Division Technical Session 1

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Runing Zhang P.E., Metropolitan State University of Denver; Aaron Brown, Metropolitan State University of Denver; Jeno Balogh, Metropolitan State University of Denver

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Systems Engineering

c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015Baccalaureate Program of Sustainable System Engineering – Objectives and Curriculum Development Runing Zhang1, Aaron Brown1, Jeno Balogh1 Department of Engineering Technology Metropolitan State University of DenverAbstractWhile post-graduate sustainable programs have been very well developed in universities, untilrecently, baccalaureate education in sustainability has been largely underrepresented. With thesuccess of the post-graduate programs in a wide range of individual sustainable developmentareas, such as environmental sustainability, sustainable manufacturing, infrastructuresustainability

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ruth E. H. Wertz, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Student

pedagogicaltheories into practice through the development of a new online engineering course. As a second-semester student in an engineering education doctoral program I was given the opportunity todevelop a new graduate-level course for an online Master of Civil Engineering (MCE) program.Concurrently, I was enrolled in an Engineering Education course, Content, Assessment, andPedagogy: An Integrated Engineering Design Approach (CAP) and a Curriculum and Instructioncourse, Advanced Issues in Distance Education (AIDE). This combination of coursework andemployment provided an ideal opportunity to immediately apply course concepts to a real-worldproblem.The purpose of this paper is to reflect on the process of translating theoretical course concepts toa new

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2024 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Kaycie Lane; Jason Hawkins

concepts fromthe course are directly tied to engineering applications, even at a basic level in freshmen and sophomorelevel courses [4], [5], [8]. At the University of Nebraska- Lincoln (UNL), the implementation of a new“design spine” curriculum embeds Python programming in the second semester sophomore class titledCIVE 202: Civil Engineering Analysis II. The design spine was created to integrate students into major-specific courses every semester within a four-year program, encourage relationship building amongststudents and to teach industry-level skills identified by the department’s advisory board and futureemployers that are becoming critical for young engineers entering the workforce. CIVE 202 wasstructured as an open-sourced coding class

Conference Session

Engineering and Public Policy Division Technical Session 2

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Heywood, Trinity College-Dublin

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Engineering and Public Policy

Paper ID #8689Higher Technological Education and British Polict Making: A lost opportu-nity for curriculum change in engineering educationDr. John Heywood, Trinity College-Dublin John Heywood MA MSc LittD (Dublin) M.Litt (Lanacaster). Professorial Fellow Emeritus of Trinity College – The University of Dublin and formerly Professor and Director of Teacher Education in the University (1977 – 1996). In addition to a higher doctorate he is the holder of a Masters degree in engineering education (MSc). He is a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society, a Fellow of the American Society for Engineering Educa- tion, a Senior

Conference Session

Implementing the Civil Engineering Body of Knowledge into Courses and Curricula

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Matthew Roberts, University of Wisconsin-Platteville; Christina Curras, University of Wisconsin-Platteville; Philip Parker, University of Wisconsin-Platteville; Michael Penn, University of Wisconsin-Platteville; Max Anderson, University of Wisconsin-Platteville

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Civil Engineering

his M.S and Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in 1975 and 1980 respectively. His teaching responsibilities are in the environmental engineering area. He has conducted research on solid waste, surface water quality, teaching methodology, and curriculum development. He serves as a consultant on potable water system design, stormwater management, and on-site wastewater treatment. Page 12.213.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007 An Innovative Infrastructure Curriculum for 21st Century Civil EngineeringAbstractA new curriculum has been developed by the

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2018 ASEE Zone IV Conference

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Kyle Frederick Larsen P.E., Eastern Washington University; Nm A Hossain, Eastern Washington University; Hani Serhal Saad, Eastern Washington University; Abolfazl Amin, Utah Valley University; Heechang Bae, Eastern Washington University

understanding statistical analysismethodology.Another paper5 entitled “Elements of an Activity-Based Statistics Course for Engineers,”describes an ongoing project at Western Michigan University (WMU) which has theover-riding goal of making statistics "come alive" in an undergraduate engineering statisticscourse. Based upon the success stories reported in the literature, several faculty members fromthe Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering (IME) felt that there was a needand opportunity to change the traditional lecture approach of the department’s undergraduateengineering statistics course to a more dynamic style that included relevant and interestingmaterial. Evidence gathered from students regarding this new course structure was

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2023 Rocky Mountain Section Conference

Authors

Austin Hayes; Vani Sundaram; Graham Williams; Shreya Venkatesh; Claire Isenhart; Antonio Yervez; Celesse Myles; Vera Sebulsky; Kaushik Jayaram; Marina Vance; Gregory Whiting

the United States 3 . Case studieson teacher adoption of PBL are favorable with an educator’s belief that “STEM integration willgive students a variety of 21st century skills they can develop 4 .”Field trips can be a vital tool for cementing classroom learning. In language comprehension,immersion in the culture fosters heightened lingual learning 5 . In engineering education, field tripsoffer the opportunity for students to connect abstract math and science concepts to real worldapplications. Unfortunately, in the educational curriculum, field trips are typically consideredone-off learning experiences 6 . While this model still results in exposure to new experiences, fieldtrip experiences that complement the classroom curriculum can result in

Conference Session

Practice II: Curricular Innovations

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Amir Behbahanian, Utah State University; Erin L. Davis, Utah State University; Nick A. Roberts, Utah State University

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Educational Research and Methods

thermophysical properties, and advanced thermal management. Prof. Roberts is also interested in engineering education, specifically on understanding the role of, adopting, and creating open educational resources for the engineering curriculum. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 Open Educational Resources in the Undergraduate Engineering Curriculum: A Materials Science Case Study Amir Behbahanian1 , Erin L. Davis2 , Spencer Wendel1 , and Nick A. Roberts1 1 Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering 2 Merrill-Cazier Library Utah State

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Carrie Girstantas; William Scherer

Session #2793 Pedagogical Choices in Engineering Curriculum: Traditional and Weekend Format Master’s Degree Programs Carrie E. Girstantas, William T. Scherer University of VirginiaIntroduction One way to meet the increasing demand for experienced and educatedprofessionals in engineering and technology based fields is the formation of degreeprograms that are concurrent with full time professional work, such as “weekend degreeprograms”. Academic institutions have a challenge to balance the demand for presentingthe most current research in a rapidly changing and growing work place

Conference Session

International Initiatives, Partnerships,Teaching Strategies, and Collaborative Networks

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Fanyu Zeng, Indiana Wesleyan University

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International

proposing solutions and even havenegative impacts on their professional achievements.This course development research is a new addition to a curriculum development research by theauthor. The research identifies Chinese student’s weaknesses and discovers that successfulexperience from American engineering education programs can be used as a remedy. Thesolution is to integrate successful teaching delivery methods from American engineeringcurricula into Chinese engineering curricula.The research first addresses importance of communication in modern work place andprofessional career and concludes communication training is crucial in any engineering program.A number of new student learning methods and team activities are selected for a

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2022 ASEE Gulf Southwest Annual Conference

Authors

Shield B Lin, Prairie View A&M University

software simulation of dynamic systems funded by NASA Johnson Space Center through CACI company. Dr. Lin is a registered Professional Engineer in the State of Texas. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2022 1 Session XXXXFinite Element Analysis and Design as a Degree Requirement in Undergraduate Mechanical Engineering Curriculum Shield B. Lin Mechanical Engineering Department Prairie View A&M University