Conference Session

International Division Poster Session

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Claudio Brito, Council of Researches in Education and Sciences; Melany Ciampi, Organization of Researches in Environment, Health and Safety

Tagged Divisions

International

is fundamental thegrowth investment in education for all.Technological power may shift from the west to the east as India and China emerge as bigplayers in the global market. The two countries have the size and weight to transform the 21stglobal economy. This aspect will certainly have an impact on the education in western world too.Although the reality is that India and China will always have an advantage in their numbers, bythe other hand in western world there are the freest markets, the most highly trained workforce,the resources and ability to innovate, and the best universities in the world.History facts show the innumerous achievements of so many engineers all around the world whohave diligently built and transformed the environment

Conference Session

Engineering Technology Poster Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Timothy Cooley

situation in which anemployer has its own proprietary equipment and places increased emphasis on its use and results,above those of more familiar equipment the employee may have been exposed to previously.Third, after calculation of all viscosities and conversion to consistent units, students observe thatall Visgage viscosity values, encompassing the majority of their data, are significantly below thoseof both the rotary viscometer as well as the published values from the graph.Taken together, these complexities highlight the most fundamental real-world type of challenge astudent will experience in industry; when faced with multiple sources of potentially conflictinginformation, which is to be believed, and to what extent can it be used in

Conference Session

Mechatronics in the Curriculum

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Yang Cao, University of British Columbia

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

students to operate. Learning robotics without accessing to an actual robotic systemhas proven to be difficult for undergraduate students. For instructors, it is also an obstacle toeffectively teach fundamental robotic concepts. Virtual robot simulator has been explored bymany researchers to create a virtual environment for teaching and learning. This paper presentsstructure of a course project which requires students to develop a virtual robot simulator. Thesimulator integrates concept of kinematics, inverse kinematics and controls. Results show thatthis approach assists and promotes better students‟ understanding of robotics.1. IntroductionRobotics course is a very common and important course for electrical and mechanicalengineering students

Conference Session

Simulation

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ames Bielenberg, Swarthmore College; Erik Cheever, Swarthmore College

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education

developing theapplications. These, and other, impediments to the successful use of animations were noted byNaps et al. [2]. The system discussed here avoids these problems by requiring only a littlescripting on behalf of the author, and a user with a web-browser with JavaScript.IntroductionThe system described in this paper easily allows a user to create web-based animations of linearsystems while requiring no web-programming experience.. S/he simply writes a simple script.The system is described mathematically by using a state-space model (i.e, A, B, C and Dmatrices) with initial conditions and optional input functions. The drawing to be animated isdescribed in terms of graphics primitives such as masses, springs, resistors, and capacitors.System

Conference Session

ECE Curriculum Innovations

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joseph Holmes, AcuityEdge, Inc.; Hisham Massoud, Duke University; Steven Cummer, Duke University; John Board, Duke University; Kip Coonley, Duke University; April Brown, Duke University; Michael Gustafson; Leslie Collins, Duke University; Lisa Huettel, Duke University; Gary Ybarra, Duke University

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

elements of the curriculum werenot optimally utilized.We developed a framework for the core which includes 6 classes, the second of which (denotedECE 27 and titled Fundamentals of ECE) is a first-year design experience which introducesstudents to all aspects of the ECE curriculum. The first course remains the ComputationalMethods in Engineering which was recently redesigned and has achieved outstanding assessmentresults. The remaining four courses are Introduction to Microelectronic Devices and Circuits,Signals and Systems, Logic and Computer Architecture, and Electromagnetics. This structuresubstantially reduces the legacy material focused on circuits and devices, and as described in thepaper uses a different pedagogical structure in each of the

Conference Session

New Teaching Pedagogies: Methods and Assessments

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Luz Adriana Amaya-Bower, Central State Connecticut University

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

second part. This structure did not allow for an effective way ofcomparing the tools between Excel and Matlab. Currently, the class is taught by topics. Inaddition, the assignments were modified to follow the new structure. Problems are taken fromeach book and then combined so students can follow the same methodology as in the class. Thenext change was to modify the method of homework collection. Initially, homework wascollected via email and the student received feedback in writing. It was observed that in manycases that the student neither reviewed their errors nor the provided feedback. Now theassignments are revised by the instructor in each student’s computer which allows immediatefeedback. The final change was to modify the classroom

Conference Session

NSF Grantees: RED 1

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Milo Koretsky, Oregon State University; Susan Bobbitt Nolen, University of Washington; Michelle Kay Bothwell, Oregon State University; Susannah C. Davis, Oregon State University; Christine Kelly, Oregon State University

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Paper ID #31406Revolution in CBEE: Sustainability and BarriersDr. Milo Koretsky, Oregon State University Milo Koretsky is a Professor of Chemical Engineering at Oregon State University. He received his B.S. and M.S. degrees from UC San Diego and his Ph.D. from UC Berkeley, all in Chemical Engineering. He currently has research activity in areas related engineering education and is interested in integrating technology into effective educational practices and in promoting the use of higher-level cognitive and social skills in engineering problem solving. His research interests particularly focus on what prevents

Conference Session

Teaching with ML and Generative AI

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Hyunju Oh, University of Florida; Rui Guo, University of Florida; Wanli Xing, University of Florida; Zifeng Liu, University of Florida; Yukyeong Song, University of Florida; Chenglu Li, The University of Utah

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education Division (COED)

ML into a high school core subject like mathematics can offer a seamlessexperience for all students. Understanding the mathematical theories underlying ML is vital for amore profound comprehension of its fundamental principles [7]. By leveraging the advancementsin Generative AI (GAI), students can engage with ML by focusing on algorithmic thinking ratherthan on the intricacies of syntax [8-9].Our team developed ML4Math, a curriculum that seamlessly integrates ML into high schoolmathematics education to test this approach. In this curriculum, students learned how machines“see” images by focusing on image classification, using real-life examples, and exploring themathematical concepts underlying the process and the evaluation of the model

Conference Session

Dynamics - Wow! They accelerate

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sudhir Kaul, University of Mount Union; Pattabhi Sitaram, Baker College, Flint, MI

Tagged Divisions

Mechanics

engagement and student retention has been widelyreported in pedagogical studies on engineering education. The need for student engagement is allthe more necessary in sophomore level engineering courses because of a widely reported highdrop-out rate of engineering students during this period2. While it is difficult to pin-point specificfactors that can be held responsible for these high drop-out rates, it is widely recognized thatsophomore students find fundamental required courses such as Thermodynamics, FluidMechanics, Statics, Dynamics, etc. challenging due to a sudden increase in the requirement of Page 23.356.2mathematics and physics in these

Collection

Proceedings of the 2020 ASEE PSW Section Conference, canceled

Authors

Seema C Shah-Fairbank P.E., California State Polytechnic University, Pomona; Paul R Hottinger, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona; Shonn Haren, Cal Poly Pomona

areaccredited by six distinct regional accrediting bodies.2 These accreditation bodies have certainexpectations when it comes to student learning which can be different from the expectation ofdisciplinary accreditation.In 1994, ASEE’s Engineering Education for A Changing World stated that engineeringeducation needed to go beyond the fundamentals of theory, experiment and practice.4 That is,they stated that engineering education needed to prepare students with a broad range of skills thatwould allow them to recognize global, economic, environmental, and societal context ofengineering solutions.4 Developed in 2000 and revised in 2019, ABET’s student outcomes wentfurther than mere technical competency. ABET assures that programs show how studentoutcomes

Conference Session

Trends in Accreditation and Assessment

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alan Cheville, Bucknell University

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

fourprecepts: (1) caring for others rather than oneself, (2) treating all persons as individuals, (3) arecognition that each of us is only realized through others, and (4) treating relations with othersas an end in itself rather than as a means to my end. Macmurray also calls this a religious modesince it reflects the fundamental tradition common to many religions we know as the GoldenRule. According to Macmurray this mode of reflection is important to develop because as weextend our economic relationships within a society we tend to depersonalize others. This modeof reflection can help us, as much as we are able, to retain the notion of persons. For Macmurrayit is this struggle, to see all others as persons, that defines what it is to be human. This

Conference Session

Reassessing Your Teaching Through Turmoil

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Charles Riley P.E., Oregon Institute of Technology; Sharon L. Beaudry, Oregon Institute of Technology; Jesse M. Kinder, Oregon Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

, and useof board space. Our workshop included a session on using the chalkboard effectively in the past.For remote and online teaching, a chalkboard is difficult to use. Instead, this session focused onwhat you can do instead of writing on a chalkboard: using document cameras or Zoom’swhiteboard and annotation tools, sharing a tablet screen alongside your camera or slides,annotating PDFs and slides in real time. Planning, organization, and legible writing are stillessential — only the medium has changed.The Planning a Class seminar had previously asked participants whether aspects of a modelinstructional strategy would be conducted in or out of class. This concept has new meaning in aremote environment when out-of-class activities can be

Collection

1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Anthony Brizendine; Laora E. Dauberman-Brizendine

and service, the favored path to gaining promotion and tenure at manyinstitutions is the research component of the triumvirate. This paper reviews faculty andadministration views on scholarship, tenure and promotion and scholarly work by Diamond,Boyer, Karabell, Miller, Schön, ASCE, ASEE, and others; indeed, most of this paper serves as areview of some of the significant writings in this area in the 1990s. While the authors apologizeto those already familiar with the literature, readers unfamiliar with these works should find thisbackground helpful.Scholarship as redefined by E. L. Boyer is discussed extensively. Boyer broadens the definitionof scholarship to embrace the scholarship of teaching. Does Boyer’s model of scholarship, aspresented

Conference Session

Accreditation and Related Issues in ECE

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Ted Sarma; Massood Atashbar; S. Hossein Mousavinezhad

computerarchitecture are mainstays, but there continues to be many holes to fill. Part of the problem is thatComputer Engineering (CE) is still considered to be an interface between Electrical Engineering(EE) and Computer Science (CS). Electrical Engineering, where it is usually housed, embracesthe notion that computer hardware is fundamental to the discipline while Computer Science viewscomputer software as the defining entity. The truth is that both are correct and ComputerEngineering students need to understand both disciplines equally well. At the same time, thisunderstanding needs to go beyond simply knowing about EE and CS. Students must be able toapply the principles of high-level system analysis and design techniques to electrical

Conference Session

Innovative Pedagogies for Facilitating Student-driven Learning Experiences

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Steven Kurtis Younkin, Iowa State University; Peter T. Savolainen, Iowa State University

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

professional development tool.Dr. Peter T. Savolainen, Iowa State University Dr. Peter Savolainen is an Associate Professor in the Iowa State University (ISU) Department of Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering. His research includes fundamental and applied projects focused on traffic operations, safety, and driver behavior, as well pedagogical approaches to improve transportation engineering education. Dr. Savolainen currently serves on the editorial advisory boards of Accident Analysis and Prevention and Analytic Methods in Accident Research. Dr. Savolainen’s peda- gogical efforts are reflected by his selection as a fellow by the American Society of Civil Engineers(ASCE) Excellence in Civil Engineering

Conference Session

MECH - Technical Session 1: Foundations of Engineering Education

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joseph J. Rencis P.E., University of Texas at Dallas; Hartley T. Grandin Jr., Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering Division (MECH)

Ralph Coats Roe Award, ASEE Isadore T. Davis Award for Excellence in Collaboration of Engineering Education and Industry, ASEE Mechanics Division Archie Higdon Distinguished Educator Award, and ASEE Northeastern Section Outstanding Teaching Award. Additionally, Dr. Rencis is a professional engineer in Massachusetts.Dr. Hartley T. Grandin Jr., Worcester Polytechnic Institute Hartley T. Grandin, Jr. is a Professor Emeritus of Engineering Mechanics and Design in the Mechanical Engineering Department at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI). He has authored the textbook Fundamentals of the Finite Element Method, published by Macmillan. Grandin received the WPI Board of Trustees’ Award for Outstanding Teaching. He

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics Division: Approaches to Ethics Education (Part 1)

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kenneth McDonald, United States Military Academy

case studies [5], [7]. Although, case studiesare a tested pedagogical approach with which many instructors are comfortable with, it is not thatimpactful in changing the character of the engineer. Preparation for the fundamentals ofengineering exam (FEE) provides students with a pragmatic approach to solving FEE questionswhere obligations to various groups (society, profession, individual, etc) are prioritized withcorrect answers aligning with the ethical code hierarchical structure. Additionally, studentchapters aligned with professional engineering societies became a method to involve students invarious community and professional activities in hopes, in part, that students would internalizeethical behavior. Although effective in structure

Collection

2023 Rocky Mountain Section Conference

Authors

Hongyan Liu

a number of engineering programs. © American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Strategy for Integrating Design Codes in Structural Design LecturesAbstractStructural design classes are important contents of undergraduate civil engineering curriculumand are often required for students with a structural engineering focus. Because design codes areupdated regularly, it is important to teach students the knowledge to navigate and interpret avariety of design code documents, rather than focusing on specific design equations that maybecome outdated when they get into practice. While fundamental concept of design principlesshould still be a focus of design classes, several successful strategies to incorporate

Collection

2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

Carolyn Jean Sher-DeCusatis; Casimer DeCusatis

didn’t want or need to learn programming, (SUNY), and Marist College (home of the New York Statewhich was more appropriate for traditional computer science Center for Cloud Computing and Analytics), in addition to andegree programs. With the introduction of SDN/NFV, this ecosystem of active corporate sponsors and research affiliates.approach to network administration education needs tochange. For example, to provide high availability the network II. SDN CONCEPTS AND SKILLSadministrator no longer needs to manually provision two ormore redundant physical switches. Instead, using APIs in an A. Educational GoalsSDN network, it is possible to write a script instructing the New York

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics - Courses and Curricula

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Seamus Freyne, Manhattan College; Micah Hale, University of Arkansas

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Ethics

a full engineering ethics course, ethics still turns up in ahandful of engineering courses. Students take a course called Professional Practice Issues where about five hours of class time is spent on ethics. One lecture is dedicated to ethics in the Introduction to Civil Engineering course and ethics is incorporated into the capstone course. Some ethical issues are introduced in the capstone course primarily through the use of external guest speakers. We teach a component or module of ethics in the capstone course. In the capstone course, perhaps one to two classes are spent on ethics. Ethics is also covered in the Fundamental of Engineering (FE) review course

Collection

1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Patricia M. Yaeger; Rose M. Marra; Francesco Costanzo; Gary L. Gray

the learning process.1.2 Interactive, Student-Centered Learning “Student-centered instruction is a broad teaching approach that in- cludes substituting active learning for lectures, holding students re- Page 4.91.2 sponsible for their learning, and using self-paced and/or coopera- tive (team-based) learning” (Felder and Brent, p. 43). [12]Meyers and Jones [13] describe active learning as a way to provide “opportunities for students totalk and listen, read, write, and reflect as they approach course content—all of which requirestudents to apply what they are learning” (p. 1

Conference Session

Works-in-Progress Postcard Session

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kimia Moozeh, UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO; Deborah Tihanyi, University of Toronto; Jennifer Lyn Farmer, University of Toronto; Greg Evans, University of Toronto

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

understanding [13],[23]-[25]. Pre-laboratory preparation usually involves a short task to be completed beforeperforming or attending the laboratory [19]. The fundamental purpose of pre-lab exercises is toprepare students for experiments by clarifying the expected work, asking students to read andunderstand the procedures, and encouraging them to learn or recall the related theories [16], [19],[26]. Being prepared for laboratory can result in less time being wasted, more productive workbeing completed [16], and reduced anxiety level [24].There have been many pre-lab preparation methods proposed, such as small groups discussion[27], writing a summary of experimental procedures [28], answering procedural questions [21],and using simulations [29]. However

Conference Session

Recruitment and Retention

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Hirak Patangia

American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003 American Society for Engineering Education.Course Project:Magnetic Levitation of a Ball in Free SpaceThe motivation for selecting this topic is that the students easily understand the basic requirement,which calls for balancing the force of gravity. However the theoretical design and analysis of amagnetic levitation system is rather complex due to the nonlinearity of the magnetic field4. Ourgoal of the project is for students to learn the fundamentals of circuit theory, electronic devices,and feedback control concepts central to the project requirement while avoiding math beyond thealgebra level. The following is an overall

Conference Session

FPD 6: Course Content and Educational Strategies

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James E. Lewis, University of Louisville; Norb Delatte P.E., Cleveland State University

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

Paper ID #9314Implementation and Assessment of a Failure Case Study in a Multi-DisciplineFreshman Introduction to Engineering CourseDr. James E. Lewis, University of Louisville James E. Lewis, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Engineering Fundamentals at the J. B. Speed School of Engineering at the University of Louisville. His research interests include paral- lel and distributed computer systems, cryptography, engineering education, undergraduate retention and technology (Tablet PCs) used in the classroom.Dr. Norb Delatte P.E., Cleveland State University Norb Delatte is Professor and Chair of the

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Hilkat S. Soysal; Oguz Soysal

Contact Typical Hours Hours Section a b c d e f g h i j k EnrollmentENES100 Introduction to Engineering Design 3 4 15 – 20 Programming Concepts for 4 6 12 – 16ENEE114 Engineers Numerical Techniques in 3 4 10 – 12ENEE241 EngineeringENEE244 Digital Logic Design 3 4 10 – 12ENEE204 Basic Circuit Theory 3 4 10 – 12ENEE206 Fundamental Circuits Lab 2 4 10 – 12Assessment MethodologyThe assessment system is based on two sets of information sources: surveys andevaluations. Surveys are used to obtain the

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division – Tactical Approaches to Entrepreneurship Education

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert Gettens, Western New England University; Harlan E Spotts Jr., Western New England University; José Antonio Riofrío, Western New England University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

general; this is a micro to macro examination and we willgenerally refer to any one of these areas as the “client.” After identifying opportunities for whicha design solution may be suitable focus shifts to understanding their client. Often students,engineering and business alike, are given a problem and they want to start generating solutionsbefore they fully understand the problem or their client’s experience. Developing empathy forthe client’s situation is a fundamental ingredient for creating effective design solutions to theclient’s problem. Empathy arises from a structured research process that includes traditionalsecondary and primary research techniques. Collecting backstory information on their clientbegins with library research to

Conference Session

Design in the Curriculum

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Amit Janardhan Nimunkar, University of Wisconsin, Madison; John P. Puccinelli, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Matthew S. Bollom; Willis J. Tompkins, University of Wisconsin, Madison

Tagged Divisions

Biomedical

201 (junior teams n=16 teams) (") Class of 2014having had BME 201: Biomedical Engineering Fundamentals and Design (junior teams n=5).V. Conclusion and Future WorkBME 201 is a required course for all sophomore students in BME. The goal of this course is toprovide more direct technical design skill training and direct academic and career advising earlyin the curriculum. This should enhance student creativity and resourcefulness on future team-based design projects and help students to make informed decisions regarding academic andcareer choices. We have received positive response from the BME 201 students and from theBSAC for this course as it was offered in Spring 2012 and 2013. With the help of the SAs wehave developed a course handbook for

Conference Session

Classroom Innovations

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Kim Blair; David W. Miller; David Darmofal; Col. Peter W. Young; Doris Brodeur

) vehicles. In the sophomore-year Unified Engineering course,students design, build, and fly radio-controlled electric propulsion aircraft. In a course onAerodynamics, a case study from either industry or government is used to provide anauthentic problem. Upper-level capstone courses are entirely problem-based. In thesePBL experiences, students identify problems of interest to them and experiment to findsolutions, as well as design complex systems that integrate engineering fundamentals in amultidisciplinary approach. This paper describes several problem-based learningexperiences in undergraduate aerospace engineering at MIT within a four-level frameworkfor categorizing problems. It presents the learning theories that underlie the success ofPBL

Collection

2024 South East Section Meeting

Authors

Lucas Verdan Arcanjo Schwenck; Andrea Contreras-Esquen; Richard Woods; Ayse Tekes, Kennesaw State University

website.Students are asked to design a four-bar linkage, identify the link dimensions and initial angularpositions, derive the vector closure loop equations, identify the unknown parameters, and write ascript to solve the unknown if the driver link is rotated either for a complete rotation or oscillatebetween two angles, plot the response of the outputs, design the same system in the virtual lab, runthe simulation, and compare the results.4. ConclusionIn this study, we designed a virtual lab that can be utilized in the mechanical vibrations, machinedesign, and machine dynamics courses to help students visualize abstract concepts, run simulationsat their own pace, and also for faculty to adopt them in their courses to demonstrate fundamentals,engage

Conference Session

NSF Grantees’ Poster Session

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ning Fang, Utah State University

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees Poster Session

engineering programs such as mechanical, aerospace, civil, biological, andbiomedical engineering programs. Extended from college physics mechanics courses, the coursecovers numerous fundamental concepts; for example, displacement, force, velocity, acceleration,mass momentum of inertia, work, energy, impulse, momentum, the Principle of Work andEnergy, the Conservation of Energy, the Principle of Impulse and Momentum, and theConservation of Momentum.1-3Engineering dynamics, however, is also widely regarded as one of the most difficult courses tosucceed in. Many students use phrases such as, “much harder than statics,” “extremely difficult,”“very challenging,” and “are afraid of it,” to describe their perspectives about this course. It wasreported that