Conference Session

Capstone Course in Industrial Technology

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

C. Ray Diez; Luke Huang; David Yearwood

for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Education” 2. The design of the course project must provide opportunities for students to uncover and integrate the necessary elements for starting and maintaining a viable business. 3. That the capstone course be employed as a powerful tool to assess the effectiveness of course work in the program thus providing opportunities for continuous improvement of the Industrial Technology program.Identification of Content An analysis was conducted of the Industrial Technology program courseobjectives to identify content required for the capstone course. During this

Conference Session

Capstone Design & Project Courses

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Richard Smith, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Tracy N Schierenbeck, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Linda McCloskey, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

to be an effective leader,so that they may improve their leadership an managerial skills.The second course, STSS-4840 “Professional Development II” leads students through issues ofleadership within professional organizations. They are exposed to academic research literaturein organization studies, social psychology, marketing and political science that are relevant tohuman behavior in work organizations5. They also receive insights from practitioners, classpresentations, and from reading assignments from popular media.Each of these two courses is offered every term to accommodate the 700 students who arepursuing engineering degrees at Rensselaer, and they, along with PD-1 and PD-3, are anessential component of our attainment of several ABET

Conference Session

Innovative IE Course Content

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Justin W. Kile, Quinnipiac University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Economy, Engineering Management, Industrial Engineering

effectively Reaction to Does not pick up Seems annoyed Tries to respond to Uses nonverbal trainee’s on nonverbal and/or pays little nonverbal communication to nonverbal communication attention to communication improve training communication nonverbal session communicationFigure 1: Rubric for grading MSD training sessionsIn this course, the “you got a minute” activity is part of multiple lab assignments. Labs arecompleted individually or in teams of two students. All labs are partially graded based on thestudents demonstrating their working system to the

Conference Session

New Program/Course Success Stories

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Josh Humphries; David Radcliffe

from theoutset of their professional career while simultaneously having immediate value in helping themto manage a research project and capstone design project in their senior year. An integral part ofthis innovation was the development of a web-based project management tool. While the mainobjectives of the new course design were achieved, a number of important lessons were learnedthat would guide the further development and continuous improvement of this course. The mostcritical of these is the need to achieve the optimum balance in the mind of the students betweendoing the project and critically analyzing the processes used to accomplish the work.IntroductionIn most industries, engineering is increasingly managed through projects. As a new

Conference Session

Innovative Course Developments in Construction

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jiong Hu, Texas State University-San Marcos; Vedaraman Sriraman, Texas State University, San Marcos; Yaoling Wang, Texas State University, San Marcos

Tagged Divisions

Construction

very limited schools offer this course, there is a lack ofideal textbooks to cover the entire course content, which not only creates difficulties for theinstructor to design lecture materials, but also makes it very challenging for students to keep upwith the pace of the lecture content through activities outside of the classroom, instead of relyingsolely on the very limited in-class time. Finally, because of the depth of technical contents thatare to be covered, similar contents are more commonly found in graduate level curriculums,there is also the issue of how to effectively adapt the course content for an undergraduateaudience.2 Due to the above mentioned challenges, the instructor has to apply different strategiesto not only attract

Conference Session

Assessing Design Course Work

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Oliver Platts-Mills, University of Virginia; Reid Bailey, University of Virginia

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

courses are designed with theopposing goal of providing as uniform of an experience as possible to all students. Due tothis fundamental difference, that some courses aim to provide a uniform experience forall students while others embrace a range of experiences for individual students, the sameevaluation framework cannot be applied to both types of courses.While an evaluation framework for a course with minimal variation between studentexperiences can assume that each student receives the same "treatment," the effect ofdifferences between individual student experiences must be integrated into an evaluationframework for a capstone course within which there is a large range of individualexperiences. In this paper, an assessment framework is

Conference Session

Manufacturing Curriculum and Course Innovations

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Zareena Gani, ADMC, Higher Colleges of Technology, UAE; Sangarappillai Sivaloganathan, United Arab Emirates University; sajeev karai, Higher Colleges of Technology; Huned Bohari Bohari, HCT

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Manufacturing

, advanced machining techniquesand additive manufacturing process to get them readily employable in the local industries. Inorder to enhance the student understanding of the course, the delivery methodology and theassessment strategies were designed to include practical / workshop sessions. In these session,the students were trained on basic skills to operate conventional lathe and milling machines. Thestudents were then exposed to witness the effects of various cutting parameters on the surfacefinish and tool life produced in different workpiece materials. The students were also exposed toG&M code generation for CNC machining, Solidworks modelling for 3D printing. The resultswere significantly better and the students were enthusiastic and fully

Conference Session

Mentoring, Outreach, & Intro BME Courses

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Shruti Mehta; Amanda Knudson; David Kanter; Suzanne Olds

improving engineeringeducation. Through these collaborations, engineering faculty have increased their understandingabout how people (including themselves) learn and about designing instructional approaches toimprove the learning environment. We expected that by providing an opportunity for ourundergraduate and graduate students to engage in the same type of collaborative design processfor K-12 education, we could achieve the same side effect – improved understanding of teachingand learning.The key to the project’s success is the energy and ingenuity of a group of undergraduate andgraduate biomedical engineering students combined with supervision and guidance by one facultymember in the Biomedical Engineering Department and one faculty member in

Conference Session

Simulation Courses & BME Laboratories

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

E. Jansen

course in biomedical optics are to 1) foster the students’ understandingof the role of laser properties (wavelength, irradiance, pulse duration) and tissue opticalproperties (absorption and scattering) on the light distribution in tissue and subsequentphotochemical, photothermal or photomechanical events; 2) create an understanding that allowsstudents to solve problems and design systems based on these properties and their effects onlight-tissue interaction. Drawing on current paradigms in the learning sciences, we have developed several modulesbased on the Legacy cycle in the context of a HPL (how people learn) framework [Bransford Page

Conference Session

Course Assessment in ET

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Wayne Hager; Ronald Land

across the board is career services. All of these points are important inputfor system-wide quality improvement plans and will influence plans for system improvements inthe coming year. As a scan of Table 1 illustrates, it is difficult to use the tabulated responses to theindividual survey questions to pick out important programmatic issues. A more effective methodis to recognize that certain subgroups of questions examine the same aspect of students’satisfaction. Individual questions in the subgroups simply examine issues from differentperspectives. Collectively, these subgroups define broader-based measures, or “qualityindicators.” For example, looking at Table 1, items 1, 2 and 6 reflect students’ satisfaction withinstruction in their

Conference Session

Course Development / Curriculum Development

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alisa Gilmore P.E., University of Nebraska, Lincoln

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education

curriculumin the department of Computer and Electronics Engineering (CEEN), one of the key partners inthe outreach project.In the CEEN department, use of the CEENBoT was proliferated through a progression ofundergraduate courses as an active learning component in teaching students fundamentalcomputer and electrical engineering topics with a goal of providing additional hands-onengagement. Most often, this included at least one lab or project using the CEENBoT platformin each course. As part of this adoption, an existing course, Introduction to Robotics, wasmodified to include topics in mobile robotics and include exercises with the CEENBoT. It wasoffered one time. To test the effectiveness of this course, at the end of this course offering, afocus

Conference Session

FPD 7: Beyond Course Content

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jennifer Ocif Love, Northeastern University; Susan F. Freeman, Northeastern University; Daniel Allan Sullivan, Center for STEM Education, Northeastern University

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

their choice, all first year engineering students who elected a service-learningproject followed the engineering design process as covered in their Engineering Design course todesign, create, deliver and subsequently improve their own STEM curriculum as part of asubstantial team design project. They submitted the same engineering design assignments totheir professor during the semester as their peers who were working on service-oriented designprojects. At the end of the semester, the first year engineering students prepared their ownservice-learning presentation for their classmates and a technical final report for their professorto meet their engineering course requirements, just as their peers had done for their service-oriented design

Conference Session

The Ever-Changing Course

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Amy Thompson, University of New Haven; Jean Nocito-Gobel, University of New Haven

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

assessment shows students find this course dramatically improves their ability to work inteams. For instance, data from Section 04 for fall 2008 shows that 75% of students found thatthis course is “very useful” in learning attributes of an effective team member. 94% respondedthat is was “very useful” or “useful.” These results are based upon a sample of 16 responses froma class of 18 students.Implementation and ResultsThis research has led to curriculum changes that instructors are currently implementing.Instructors implemented new curriculum related to the bridge project during the fall 2008semester and instructors will begin implementing the other proposed curriculum changes in thespring and fall semesters of 2009. Instructors expect some

Conference Session

Design Courses 1, Teaching Tools

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Fernando Sesma, Texas A&M University; Eghosasere Alao, Texas A&M University; Hannah Stroud, Texas A&M University; Kristi J. Shryock, Texas A&M University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Aerospace

interests include un- conventional applications of aerospace technology. Her current work investigates multiphysical modeling of bio-absorbable medical devices. She is co-advised by Dr. Kristi Shryock and Dr. Darren Hartl.Dr. Kristi J. Shryock, Texas A&M University Dr. Kristi J. Shryock is the Frank and Jean Raymond Foundation Inc. Endowed Instructional Associate Professor and Associate Department Head in the Department of Aerospace Engineering in the College of Engineering at Texas A&M University. She also serves as Director of the Craig and Galen Brown Engineering Honors Program. She received her BS, MS, and PhD from the College of Engineering at Texas A&M. Kristi works to improve the undergraduate

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Course Innovation II

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Yusuf Mehta, Rowan University; William Riddell, Rowan University

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

stronglybelieves that the new technique is beneficial for both the instructor and the students. Themethodology has been effective and the students are very involved in the learning process. Theauthors strongly believe that teaching is a learning process for the faculty. The authors arecontinuously evolving and improving the technique to ensure that the students stay current withthe latest developments and have a fruitful learning environment. Page 13.455.8Dynamics Course Assessment InstrumentPlease rate the effectiveness of this course in the following areas.1) To improve your ability to take simple concepts to solve complex problems Poor Below

Conference Session

Unique Courses & Services for Freshmen

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Catherine Blat

during their undergraduate career. Most other retentionprograms focus on students’ transition ‘in’ only. MAPS provides a comprehensive, integratedprogram that begins in the freshman year, follows up by providing support in the sophomore yearwhen students enroll in “gateway” engineering courses, and then closes the loop on the transitionprocess by helping to prepare students to enter graduate school and/or the work place. Fifth,MAPS focuses on academics. Any social networks that develop are purely a result of studentlearning communities, and not vice versa, as is the case with many other retention programs.Lastly, the program is assessment-based. By sharing assessment results and proactivelysoliciting feedback for improvement, MAPS has gained

Conference Session

Introductory Materials Science Course

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Elliot Douglas, University of Florida

Tagged Divisions

Materials

can be assigned as homework.A number of practical issues need to be considered when implementing guided inquiry activities.From a pedagogical standpoint the goal is to assist the students to be responsible for their ownlearning. In this sense, there are no inherent limitations on the use of this approach at any levelof materials science and engineering courses. As with any approach to teaching, considerationsof course content need to be considered in conjunction with the effectiveness of student learning.It is the author’s personal opinion that improved student learning takes precedence over coveringa certain amount of material (assuming that content which is prerequisite for another course iscovered), but the relative benefits of

Conference Session

New Electrical ET Course Development

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Kathleen Ossman

duration, D, on the resolution or spectral spacing of theDFT. Clearly, a duration of 1 second does not yield a good sampled version of the spectrum ofx(t). As D is increased, the resolution improves. The discrepancies between the DFT and theoriginal signal spectrum illustrate the effect of aliasing. A higher sampling rate reduces thealiasing effect and produces a closer match between the DFT and the signal spectrum. TheMATLAB code is similar to the previous example and will not be included here.The preceding examples are covered in lecture. Students are then given a set of signals in the labfor which they must experiment with sampling rate and duration to achieve a good match betweenthe DFT and the original signal spectrum. Some nice choices for

Conference Session

Simulation Courses & BME Laboratories

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Safa Sadeghpour; Ragu Vijaykumar; Mark A. D'Avila; Joseph V. Bonventre; Heather Gunter

2003 semester. Student learning andunderstanding will be assessed through analysis of student responses to knowledge based examquestions. The effectiveness of the module will be evaluated through comparing these data withbaseline assessment data that was collected during previous course offerings.IntroductionCapillary filtration is an important topic in the fields of renal physiology, cardiovascularphysiology and biomedical transport. Quantitative analyses of the variables and mechanismsinvolved provide an explanation for pathophysiological states such as edema due to congestiveheart failure and azotemia due to renal failure, can be immediately applied to the design oftreatments for these states such as drugs that counteract the effects of

Conference Session

Assessment in Mechanics Courses

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jiehong Liao, Florida Gulf Coast University; Galen Papkov, Florida Gulf Coast University; Ashraf Badir, Florida Gulf Coast University; Robert O'Neill, Florida Gulf Coast University

studentperception of deficiencies is important for decisions on targeting interventions and allocation ofresources that accurately and effectively addresses student needs, have high utilization, and resultin measurable impact on student performance. Additionally, instructors should be aware of howindividual differences in mindset and confidence affect students’ performance and their ability torepresent their content knowledge and process skills on exams.IntroductionEngineering Mechanics (Statics and Dynamics) is a common core course for second-yearstudents in bioengineering, civil engineering, and environmental engineering at Florida GulfCoast University. This course provides training in engineering analysis to prepare students forupper-level engineering

Conference Session

Sustainability and Engineering Courses

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David Reisdorph, the GreenTeam Inc.

Tagged Divisions

Environmental Engineering

andinternationally. Customers, especially from industry and government, rely on standards toensure goods and services satisfy their needs while improving health, safety, environmental, andsocial equity aspects. Standards identify and evaluate technologies, thus plays a vital role indetermining which technologies are adopted and how they are deployed in industry andproducts.4 Engineers that understand that role will be more effective in incorporating standardsin their work so that sustainability is improved. Moreover, standards encompass activitiesbeyond the scope of commerce. Consequently, standards shape the sustainability of a wide arrayof market and non-market activities.Recognition of this has lead to the development of standards that explicitly

Conference Session

Capstone Design Courses II

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nikhil Gupta, Florida State University; Matthew J Jensen, Florida Institute of Technology; Chiang Shih, Florida A&M University/Florida State University

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

students to migratefrom an academic environment to an industrial environment.a) Introduction of Mechanical Engineering Senior Design at FAMU-FSU College of EngineeringOver a decade Mechanical Engineering capstone senior design course at FAMU-FSU College ofEngineering has been going through a lot of improvements. The course has evolved to a greaterextent, since its transition to the current two-semester format in 199910-13. The improvementsinclude involving more external sponsors from industry and research institutions10, initiation ofinternational design projects with institutes from Brazil and Romania11, and increase inmultidisciplinary projects and design competition events while collaborating with otherengineering departments12, 13. At

Conference Session

New Electrical ET Course Development

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Biswajit Ray

-improvement processwas implemented to incorporate class dynamics into the teaching/learning process. The coursehas defined learning and teaching objectives within the constraints of a project-oriented course.The major objective of the course is effective integration of hardware and software in designingcomputer controlled processes and/or systems with the aid of sensors, transducers, dataacquisition board, and instrument control.IntroductionThe ability to conduct and design experiments is rated as one of the highest desirable technicalskills of engineering and engineering technology graduates1,2. Specifically, the survey indicatesthat employers want graduates with a working knowledge of data acquisition, analysis andinterpretation; an ability to

Conference Session

Insights for Teaching ECE Courses

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Laura K. Alford, University of Michigan; Amir Kamil, University of Michigan; Andrew Deorio, University of Michigan

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

Introductory Computer Programming SequenceOur computer science and engineering program wishes to increase sense of community amongstudents taking the three-course introductory computer programming sequence, with a specialfocus on women and underrepresented minority (URM) students as these groups may be at adisadvantage when beginning the sequence [14, 15, 16, 17, 18]. We started a 5 year program tocoordinate interventions across courses and assess the effect of these interventions. Interventionsinclude[19]: • balanced teaching staff in terms of gender and race (visual representation is critical) • staff training on implicit bias, imposter syndrome, and stereotype threat • student activities related to implicit bias and imposter syndrome • in

Conference Session

Course and Curriculum Development

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mohamed Abdelrahman, Texas A&M University, Kingsville; Muhittin Yilmaz, Texas A&M University, Kingsville

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

% „increased a lot‟ ratings1. Undergraduate students extensivelyindicate personal and intellectual developments2 as well as recognition by mentors3 andpostgraduate education in the sciences4 after the research programs. Also, research has beenconducted to analyze the components of undergraduate research programs for effective researchsites and improved educational experiences5.The most popular and well established research opportunities are the Research Experience forUndergraduates (REU) and Research Experience for Teachers (RET) programs, with a numberof sites across the United States and collaborative international sites6. REUs and RETs offerseveral forms including the individual support for undergraduate students or teachers throughexternal or

Conference Session

Course and Program Assessment

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Zhongming Liang

Session 3548 MiniTab in Assessment of the Dynamics Course Zhongming Liang Purdue University Fort WayneAbstract For better interpretation of assessment data, the author uses MiniTab, a statistical analysissoftware package, for evaluating students’ learning outcomes with multiple statistical measuresin several his courses in the Mechanical Engineering Technology (MET) program, such as thedynamics course discussed in this paper as an example. The better assessment and follow-upactions have indeed led to improvement of students’ learning and satisfaction

Conference Session

Course Development and Services

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ed Crowley; Susan Miertschin

standards, course assignments, student artifactsin response to assignments, and reviewer feedback to thestudents work.… a portfolio is a compendium of materials that Gathercoal1document and demonstrate a person’s accomplishmentsand career readiness.We define learning portfolios as purposeful collections of Chen17artifacts that characterize the learning experiences of theportfolio owner.In the context of contemporary higher education, the Penn State4term “Student Learning e-portfolio” denotes collectionsof evidence assembled by students, faculty members, orentire institutions to enhance the effectiveness ofteaching and learning, to assess learning effectiveness,and to demonstrate competence to external

Conference Session

Manufacturing Curriculum and Course Innovations

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Hua Li, Texas A&M University, Kingsville; Kai Jin, Texas A&M University, Kingsville; yue zhang, Texas A&M University-Kingsville

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Manufacturing

successfully achieve this goal, thereare three specific measurable objectives: 1) Develop innovative course modules to use in current undergraduate engineering curriculum to improve students’ career readiness, 2) Develop graduate certificate program to advance students’ professional preparedness, and 3) Create an online based cost-effectiveness structure to enhance education and learning impacts.There are four major components in this project, including 1) manufacturing related materialsstandards course module development, 2) manufacturing related quality control standards coursemodule development, 3) professional/graduate level certificate program development, and 4)industrial experience sharing through webinar. This two-year

Conference Session

Capstone Design & Project Courses

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

William Waldron, Grand Valley State University; Pramod Chaphalkar, Grand Valley State University; Shabbir Choudhuri, Grand Valley State University; John Farris, Grand Valley State University

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

to faculty, faculty to students,and students to students. Comparisons can be made between integrated and non-integratedteams.IntroductionA lot of progress has been made in recent years in improving engineering education, e.g.,emphasizing communication skills, working in teams, integration of computer-aided engineering(CAE), and capstone/senior design projects. Previous work by the authors has focused onimproving the integration of CAE1,2,3,4 into mechanical engineering programs. The goal of thispaper is to document efforts to improve the experiences of students working in project designteams. The strategy is to create integrated project teams from machine design, product design,and manufacturing courses to design and build a wide variety of

Conference Session

Manufacturing Curriculum and Course Innovations

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Julia L. Morse, Kansas State University, Polytechnic Campus; Raju S. Dandu, Kansas State University, Polytechnic Campus

Tagged Divisions

Manufacturing

useful in the manufacturing methods course include: • Overview of Machine Tools 121 • Basic Measurement 101 • Grinding Safety 211 • Bending Fundamentals 120 • Overview of Weld Types 221 • Welding Symbols and Codes 250Access to this broader selection dramatically improved our ability to use Tooling U modules toreduce lecture time as originally intended. It also allowed us to use Tooling U more at a level inkeeping with the monetary investment made by the students.The augmented course access also provides expanded resources planned for the CNC andsophomore automation course, making cost-effective implementation more realistic for thesecourses as well. At the time of this writing, the modules adopted for these courses