Conference Session

Program Level Assessment

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Lawrence Feick; Larry Shuman; Katherine Thomes; Bopaya Bidanda

, Sumitomo, and Yasuda) into the newer keiretsu that go beyond a typical industrial conglomerate by focusing on vertical relationships of closely linked suppliers would be studied. Visits could include a study tour of a keiretsu and to its smaller suppliers that are lower on the ‘manufacturing’ chain.Two courses engineering courses were then designed, one of which was cross-listed through theCollege of Business Administration.IE 1661: Global Manufacturing Systems Engineering.This course presented the development and application of modern manufacturing engineeringprinciples, methods, and tools, using the Pacific Rim ports as a field laboratory. Students firstacquired knowledge of basic manufacturing process and principles, learning the

Conference Session

Design Thinking and Creativity

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nicholas D. Fila, Iowa State University; Seda McKIlligan, Iowa State University; Kelly Guerin, Iowa State University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

current instructor and had taught the course forseveral years. He provided expertise on course operation, content knowledge and pedagogicalcontent knowledge related to the course, insight on computer engineering students, and served asa co-designer (both a designer and user of the eventual redesigned course). Sydney was a pastinstructor and original developer of the course. She provided complementary expertise related tothe course and served as the project leader for the overarching departmental initiative. Freddieadded expertise in student reflection, and through his unique instructional approach, a uniqueperspective on the electrical engineering students who took the class. Beth served as the keydesign thinking expert and advocate on the team

Conference Session

Construction Engineering Division Technical Session 5

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

John Tingerthal P.E., Northern Arizona University; Nicholas Tymvios, Bucknell University; Rachel Mosier P.E., Oklahoma State University; Kimberly Grau Talley P.E., Texas State University

Tagged Divisions

Architectural Engineering, Construction Engineering

be perceived as cumbersome by students. Slack can also be used for collaboration andcommunication. Faculty felt that some of these additional software tools would be best implemented atthe beginning of the semester to be most effective. As this topic was part of the spring discussion,reflections were based on mid-semester changes. Universities provided support through online tips andtricks for both faculty and students. Some tips included student engagement techniques.Faculty used tablets on stacks of books with second logins to create at home document cameras.Universities loaned students laptops in cases where students did not have adequate resources.Universities provided hot spots or left spaces open for students without internet services

Collection

1997 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Engelken

faculty. Their favor can be invaluable.33. Play as active a role as superiors will allow in the selection of all new staff and faculty.Screen, interview, and select very carefully. A mistake here can have serious ramifications.34. Do not succumb to every fad and jump on every bandwagon. Develop a longer “timeconstant.” Don’t assume that just because some “educator” proposes some new theory or methodthat it will work for higher engineering education. Remember the “new math” and “televisioninstruction.” Computers are here to stay in engineering education but they are only a tool. Thechalkboard/lecture/question and answer method has been so well established for so long because

Conference Session

Global Engineering in an Interconected World

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Juan Lucena

supporting it and he thinks Ishould support a tool that I created. Especially since I am willing to do it in over time. (Arneson2000: 15)Organizational change creates opportunities to fulfillment. Not all engineers dislike and/or resistorganizational change. Bob Schoenhals, a software engineer in his fifties, has come to accept theever-changing organization of his work because it supports a good life based on the principles ofthe Church of Latter Day Saints. Bob is employed under the category of engineer at a majoraerospace company although he received a degree in liberal arts. His knowledge of foreignlanguages allows him to do reasonable well writing code in different computer languages.According to Bob, learning a foreign language and learning a

Conference Session

First-Year Programs Division Technical Session 7: Teamwork, Reflection, and Wellness

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Chamille Lescott, Northwestern University; Emma Tevaarwerk, Northwestern University

Some options: communication, decision- team challenge making, timely deliverables, work- 2) Personal planning of a quality, work-equity specific way to effect change Reality: Concerning this teamwork 3) Identification of other goal, what might not be working? What resources is working? 4) Development of a strategic Options: What can you do to effect plan change? What can the team do to

Conference Session

Sustainability in Civil Engineering

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Noah Salzman, Boise State University; Bhaskar C. S. Chittoori, Boise State University; Sondra M. Miller, Boise State University; Thomas A. Robbins

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

successfully implemented sustainability concepts into CE freshman and sophomorecourses, as well as a general engineering freshman course. Schools like The University of Texasat Arlington have developed multidisciplinary senior design projects with a sustainability focus.Aurandt and Butler [7] successfully introduced sustainability concepts into core engineeringcourses while maintaining the original course objectives, but noted a general absence ofeducational materials and learning tools available to integrate sustainability into the core courses.Allen et al. [8] conducted a survey that demonstrated that universities were then offering a totalof 64 sustainability-focused courses in civil, architectural, and/or environmental engineering.However, most of

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Frank Pietryga

Session Number ______ Solving Differential Equations Using MATLAB/Simulink Frank W. Pietryga, P.E. University of Pittsburgh at JohnstownAbstractDuring the sophomore year, the mechanical and civil engineering technology students arerequired to complete a course in computer systems, programming and applications. The selectedsoftware package for this course was MATLAB designed and developed by the Mathworks 1.Each student was provided with a student version of the programming software. After theintroductory material had been covered, the latter part of the course was used to solve

Collection

2023 Rocky Mountain Section Conference

Authors

Angela Bielefeldt; Joan Tisdale; Katherine Ramos; Mike Soltys

; female ENGstudents reported less pre-collegiate engineering experience. The engineering identity andbelonging of male PIE students, male ENG students, and female ENG students were notsignificantly different. The results show the importance of not making assumptions about theexperiences, confidence, and motivation of students who failed to be admitted into engineering.The entry survey was a good tool to help the faculty to better understand our students.INTRODUCTIONAdmission into many engineering colleges around the country is a competitive process, andsome students who apply are not admitted. Some universities will admit these students into othercolleges and therefore students may opt to enroll at the university and try to transfer in later

Conference Session

IT-based Instructional Technologies

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Peng Li, East Carolina University

Tagged Divisions

Information Systems

, VMware Workstation was replaced bymore lightweight VirtualBox in fall 2008. On the server VM1, a stripped down version of YUMrepository and a local ftp repository of lab files (including network traces and source codes ofopen source security tools) were pre-installed. As demonstrated in Table 2, the total size of alllab files was reduced to 578 MB. If a student did not have broadband Internet access, the lab filescould be delivered on a CD-R to her/him by mail. Then the student could install the VMs onher/his personal computer and complete all labs.Meanwhile, we tried out two bonus lab projects with Virtual Computing Lab (VCL)10. VCL wasa remote access service and image management system developed at North Carolina StateUniversity. Through the

Conference Session

Capstone Design Courses I

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Farid Farahmand, Sonoma State University; Kirsten M. Ely, Sonoma State University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

expected to learn about design process and methodology, team buildingand project management, as well as, formulation of design problems and alternative solution.Over the past two decades engineering programs nationwide have developed several differentapproaches to satisfying these ABET objectives [11]. The authors in [5], for example, explorethe various impacts of single versus multi-semester long capstone projects. Multidisciplinaryteams and projects develop communication, teamwork, and project management skills, inaddition to engineering skills [6]-[7]. Service-learning pedagogy in the capstone course hasgained considerable popularity over the past decade and focuses student teams on solvingsocietal problems in partnership with a non-profit

Conference Session

Assessment in EM Education

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Bianey Ruiz; Stephanie Adams

Session 3242 Attitudes Toward Teamwork and Team Effectiveness in Higher Education Bianey Ruiz, MS and Stephanie Adams, PhD University of Nebraska-LincolnBackground Recent trends in business have pointed to teamwork as an important tool in businesssuccess and this has prompted organizations to start looking for teamwork skills in their newemployees. They expect that their new employees at least possess the basic understanding ofwhy teamwork skills are important to their organization. As a result, the business environment has put pressure

Conference Session

Misconceptions

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Chris Venters, Virginia Tech; Lisa DuPree McNair, Virginia Tech; Marie C Paretti, Virginia Tech

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

be taught, developed through practice, and assessed. However, if we areto believe that procedural knowledge must be supported by conceptual knowledge and vice-versa[13] , then statics instructors must be more deliberate in the development of instructional tools thatalso promote the development of relevant conceptual knowledge.The findings presented indicate that the process problems used this study are a potentiallyeffective way of promoting the development of conceptual knowledge in students, particularlyfor those who might not seek it out on their own. By eliciting reflection and self-explanation, theproblems provide a way for students to connect their problem solving procedure to relevantcontent knowledge, allowing for a deeper

Conference Session

Biomedical Engineering Division (BED) Poster Session

Collection

2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Steve Warren Ph.D., Kansas State University; Charles Carlson, Kansas State University

Tagged Divisions

Biomedical Engineering Division (BED)

. Warren was a Principal Member of the Technical Staff at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, NM. He directs the KSU Medical Component Design Laboratory, a facility partially funded by the National Science Foundation that provides resources for the research and development of distributed medical monitoring technologies and learning tools that support biomedical contexts. His research focuses on (1) plug-and-play, point-of-care medical monitoring systems that utilize interoperability standards, (2) wearable sensors and signal processing techniques for the determination of human and animal physiological status, and (3) educational tools and techniques that maximize learning and student interest. Dr. Warren is a

Collection

2023 ASEE North Central Section Conference

Authors

Craig J. Gunn, Michigan State University

– a touchstone and tool of creative exploration thatinforms visual discovery. It fundamentally enables the visualization and development ofperceptions and ideas. We are constantly asking our students to define problems, speak them out,and write them down. But not all students can use these tools in the best way. These studentsneed to start by seeing on paper ideas that my come to life as they draw them.The assignment in the engineering class my simply be to draw anything at the beginning or endof class. Take no more than 3 minutes. Have the students concentrate on what they would justlike to get down on paper. This may actually be little more than a stick figure or the logo of afavorite team. But it also may be more than that. I have included

Conference Session

First-Year Programs: Virtual Instruction in the First Year III

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

AJ Hamlin, Michigan Technological University; Amber Kemppainen, Michigan Technological University; Amanda Marie Singer, Michigan Technological University; Nathan D. Manser, Michigan Technological University; Michelle E. Jarvie-Eggart, Michigan Technological University; Ken Thiemann, Michigan Technological University

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

. First, we wanted to maintain an active,collaborative environment, which led us to choose a synchronous delivery model via Zoom forthe Studio Sessions. Additionally, several faculty members experimented with a secondaryplatform such as Discord to allow students to have a method for communicating with each otherboth during and outside of the synchronous class time. The LEAP Sessions also moved to asynchronous delivery model via Zoom and training was quickly developed so that all 49 LEAPLeaders in the FYE program were trained in this new model by the end of spring break.To support the faculty and students, the university held a series of Online Education Sessions tohelp deliver timely information to faculty as they rapidly transitioned to remote

Conference Session

Software Engineering Constituent Committee Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Dan Tappan, Eastern Washington University

Tagged Divisions

Software Engineering Constituent Committee

because the subject matter, pedagogical approach, and environment forcestudents outside of their comfort zone, where they cannot rely on their generally inexperienced,brute-force problem-solving strategies to construct a solution. In particular, it contributes tounderstanding how to develop a mental model of the unfamiliar real-world problem space, whichultimately maps through many transformations to the virtual-world solution space insoftware.12,18 The final product was a multiagent continuous time-stepped simulation in whichstudents in a junior-level software engineering course played the computer science roles ofanalyst, designer, implementer, and tester, as well as multiple user roles. The structure of thispaper establishes the foundation

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Narayanan Komerath

6hours per week, with the number of hours varying widely between students, weeks of thesemester, and curricular demands. Each student is assigned one specific problem where s(he) isthe team leader, but is also asked to work with all other teams as needed. The specific problemmay run across years, and generally does. Examples: 1) Develop multimedia material from flowvisualization video tapes, to be used in modernizing courses (NSF project); 2) Extract vortexstrength from cross-flow image pairs (Army / NASA projects), 3) develop laser sheet imagingtechniques, 4)write JAVA user interface for an Air Force computer program, 5) design a 3-Dwind-driven manipulator. In each case, there is a PhD candidate assigned to “support” theproject, who needs the

Collection

2024 ASEE North Central Section Conference

Authors

Claudia M Fajardo, Western Michigan University; Ghazal Rajabikhorasani, Western Michigan University

implementing virtual or remote options specific to this course, prompted a return toin-person laboratory instruction as soon as it was possible. During the Fall 2021, 2022, and 2023semesters, the course has been offered in hybrid format, consisting of online synchronouslectures with in-person laboratories. Many of the materials developed for online instructionduring the pandemic have been retained, most notably instructor-developed learning (video)modules and online assessment tools. Some of these have been repurposed to complementlaboratory instruction and motivate student engagement in the course.In the Fall 2022 and 2023 semesters, individual and team-focused activities were incorporatedinto the laboratory requirements. The main goals of this paper

Conference Session

Improving IE Course Content

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Yosef S. Allam, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach; Scott Sink, Ohio State University; Joseph M. Cerrato, Ohio State University; John A. Merrill, Ohio State University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Economy, Engineering Management, Industrial Engineering

about state of thepractice integrated lean and six sigma training constructs, methods, approaches, and, inparticular, learning labs and his protégé graduate student were asked use their expertise to assistin the design and development of a new and improved lab that would broaden and deepen thelearning constructs.There are many training tools and methods employed to introduce the concepts, principles andmethods of lean and six sigma. The initial approach was to significantly tailor or reengineer the‘stickle brick’ physical simulation originally developed for the Integrated Lean Six SigmaCertification Program at the Department of Integrated Systems Engineering to meet theconstraints and requirements of the first-year engineering setting. Bristle

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Courses and Issues

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Wayne Wentzheimer; Jeremy G. VanAntwerp; Douglas A. Vander Griend; Jennifer VanAntwerp

indicate significant improvement in first-year-to-sophomore yearretention rates.2 IntroductionAs engineering has developed in the late twentieth century the importance of chemistry has beenrapidly increasing. As National Academy of Engineering president Bill Wulf has identified,“chemical … sciences are becoming fundamental to engineering” and need to be fullyincorporated into the curriculum.1 Calvin College recognized a need for more extensivechemistry preparation for all of its BSE graduates. Also, the recent addition of a Chemicalconcentration (joining Mechanical, Civil, and Electrical/Computer) presented an idealopportunity to rework the common first two years of the program

Collection

2015 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

Jim Helbling; Angela Beck

response to a contemporary and socially relevant issue, and develop asystems design involving payload and communication integration in addition to the aircraftrequirements addressed in previous years. This added content has resulted in the need forassistance from Electrical Engineering/Computer Engineering (EE/CE) faculty; these faculty andother staff and advisors have joined with the course instructors to form a collaborative,multidisciplinary teaching team willing to work with students throughout the senior capstone Proceedings of the 2015 American Society for Engineering Education Pacific Southwest Conference Copyright © 2015, American Society for Engineering Education

Conference Session

Mechanical Systems

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Hugh Jack

Electrical students. Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering EducationThroughout the course students use computers for numerical analysis, data collection and control.The software used includes Mathcad, Labview [3], Scilab (a free Matlab clone) and C/C++ com-pilers. Use of these tools is reinforced throughout the semester with laboratory work that usesindustrial sensors and actuators to verify theoretical calculations. The laboratory sequence islisted below. 1. Review/tutorial (Web pages, Scilab, etc.) 2. Labview introduction 3. Sensors and introduction to writing labs 4. Mass-spring

Conference Session

ECCNE Technical Session 2 - Alternative Energy Sources

Collection

2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jonathan Tyler Prince, United States Coast Guard Academy; John Rex Adong Gaviola, United States Coast Guard Academy; Sontino Allentuck; Jeffrey Edward Hartung; Tooran Emami Ph. D., United States Coast Guard Academy; Daniel Burke PE; James Meyers

Tagged Divisions

Conservation and Nuclear Engineering Division (ECCNE), Energy Conversion

produce energy.As the integration of multiple alternative energy sources becomes a focal point for future energygrids, a question then arises of how to best manage these increasingly complex systems. Withadvances in computing, more tools are available to tackle this challenge. No longer are systemslimited to simple Proportional-Integral-Derivative (PID) controllers that are manually designed[5]. Rather, more intelligent control systems for these power sources can be produced usingmachine learning and artificial intelligence [6].Intelligence in terms of a control system is defined as a controller that autonomously managesthe power system for a desired load given a set of internal and external data points [7]. Itsdecisions should allow for the

Collection

1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Arnoldo Muyshondt; Ing-Chang Jong

and learning on theWWW, one can directly modify the two illustrated subject specific program files and simplyutilize the six universal program files kept at the hub, where three of them are presented in theappendices of this paper. Sample pages providing an overview of the interactive on-line testingand learning have been included.Web publishing on the Internet is fast becoming a powerful tool to provide an alternative mo-dality in education. The use of well-developed web publishing packages will certainly play animportant role in education in the coming new century. To give it a try on the interactive on-linetesting and learning presented in this paper, visit the web site at http://comp.uark.edu/~icjong/webtest

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Teams

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Denine Northrup, Western New England College; Steven Northrup, Western New England College

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

Team Functioning in Engineering Education”, in Proceedings of the 2002 ASEE Annual Conference, June, 2002.[7] Besterfield-Sacre, M., Shuman, L.J., Wolfe, H., Atman, C.J., McGourty, J., Miller, R.L., Olds, B.M., and Rogers, G., “Defining the outcomes: a framework for EC 2000. IEEE Transactions on Engineering Education, Vol. 43, No. 2, 2000.[8] Willmot, P., Crawford, A., R. “Peer review of team marks using a web-based tool: an evaluation”, Journal of the Higher Education Academy Engineering Subject Centre, Vol. 2, Issue 1., 2007, pp. 59-66.[9] Ohland, M.W., Loughry, M.L., Carter, R.L., Bullard, L.G., Felder, R.M., et al, “Developing a peer evaluation instrument that is simple, reliable, and valid”, in Proceedings

Conference Session

Design Teamwork

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Marie C Paretti, Virginia Tech; James J. Pembridge, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical Univ., Daytona Beach; Cory Brozina, Virginia Tech; Benjamin David Lutz, Virginia Tech; Jintana Nina Phanthanousy, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

practices. The lack of readily available concrete strategies3 inparticular points to the need for more work in understanding what kinds of team issues facultyface when mentoring design teams, what approaches are available for addressing those issues,and what types of faculty development and support would be beneficial.In this paper, we begin to address design faculty’s need for practice-oriented approaches tomentoring and managing design teams by focusing on team conflicts. We draw on interviewswith capstone faculty from a diverse set of institutions and a range of disciplines to categorizeboth common types of conflict that teams experience and approaches to managing thoseconflicts. Specifically, we address two questions to provide a basis for

Conference Session

Two-Year College Special Topics Potpourri

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jianping Yue, Essex County College

Tagged Divisions

Two Year College Division

developed necessary and essential skills for their major courses.The faculty mentors and instructors included 4 full-time faculty, including the PI, and oneadjunct faculty who also worked as the part-time MESA Center Coordinator for the grantprogram. All faculty were in STEM disciplines. Two math faculty taught the MTH092 andMTH100 classes respectively; one engineering faculty taught the ENR100 class; and the adjunctinstructor in computer science discipline taught the CSC100 class. Both tutors were sophomoreengineering students who were near completion of their A.S. degrees with outstanding GPAs.Like other regular classes in the summer terms, Summer Bridge Program classes last less thantwo months versus nearly four months for classes run in spring

Conference Session

Instrumentation Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Masoud Fathizadeh P.E., Purdue University Northwest; Anan Ismail Ayyad

Tagged Divisions

Instrumentation

suggestions to the driver based on data. Asub-team of the Purdue Northwest Formula SAE team was tasked with the creation of a telemetryand data acquisition system that fits within budgetary constraints. The team required to measurevarious parameters including, but not limited to: suspension travel of all 4 wheels, throttle andbrake position, steering angle, fuel pressure, lateral/longitude/vertical acceleration, engine coolanttemperature, and other sensor values from the engine control module (ECM). To accomplish thistask, various devices, computer programming tools and software were used. The telemetrysystem in the car is based largely on an Arduino Mega microcontroller and compatible shields.Some devices used in this project were not necessarily

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Lars Cederqvist; Jed Lyons

-classlaboratory experiments that provide data to analyze with MathCAD or Excel. The third activity is ateam design project that is best performed around Halloween. Student feedback indicates that thesesimple hands-on activities effectively introduce students to fundamental engineering concepts.IntroductionThe Introduction to Engineering course at the University of South Carolina includes the learningoutcomes that the students: demonstrate knowledge of engineering; demonstrate the ability to use asuite of computer applications; and function on a team to complete a freshman design experience.An active-learning approach has been taken to develop these outcomes.“Full-Body Contact Statics” is an in-class laboratory experiment. The students apply static loads