Collection

2017 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Tammy Lutz-Rechtin; Edgar Clausen

University of Hawaiiin 2017 (Kemsley 2016, Benderly 2016). The parties held responsible for these incidents havevaried, as has the severity of legal fines. The 2008 UCLA incident resulted in a new safetyprecedent due to charges being filed against the individual faculty member for four felony countsof willfully violating state occupational health and safety standards (Noorden 2011). No jailtime resulted in this case, as the prosecuting attorney organized a “deferred prosecutionagreement” in 2014 (Christensen 2014). However, no longer was the university viewed as thesole legally responsible party. Typically, most universities don’t enact changes to safetyeducation and compliance until after a monumental safety incidence has occurred (Carhart 2015

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering and Business

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Terri Lynch-Caris, Kettering University; Andrew Borchers, Kettering University; Jacqueline El-Sayed, Kettering University; Trevor Harding, Kettering University; Craig Hoff, Kettering University; Benjamin Redekop, Kettering University

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

faculty, input fromindustrial partners, and direct collaboration between students, faculty, and administrators.Initially, the group will develop an engineering elective course employing proven,innovative pedagogical methods and tools that enable students to incorporateenvironmental as well as economic concerns into technical design. The course will beoffered for both undergraduates and graduate students. In an attempt to reach as manystudents as possible, the course is being offered with minimal prerequisites. It will beteam-taught by faculty in Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering, Business, and LiberalStudies. Significant input into the modules will be sought from Mechanical Engineeringand Chemistry faculty.The multi-disciplinary nature

Conference Session

Assessment & TC2K Methods

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gary Crossman, Old Dominion University; Alok Verma, Old Dominion University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

, assessment information and accreditation. The meeting iscoordinated by the Program Director. Additional meetings both formal and informal maybe held as needed. In addition to the formal meeting described above, faculty provideinput to the Program Director concerning equipment, facilities, equipment, and otherconcerns via e-mails and informal conversations. Issues involving curriculum, course objectives, and outcomes are considered bythe group, subject to constraints imposed by the University, the College, and by TAC ofABET. The Program Director summarizes this information and discusses them with theDepartment Chair. The role of the program faculty in the assessment and continuous improvementplan is as follows: a. Faculty

Conference Session

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division (LEES) Technical Session 10: Institutions and Structures

Collection

2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rae Jing Han, University of Washington; Selen Güler, University of Washington; Elizabeth Litzler, University of Washington; Teodora Rutar Shuman, Seattle University; Alan Cheville, Bucknell University; Eva Andrijcic, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Sriram Mohan, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division (LEES)

industrial turn [1], tenured and tenure-track faculty inresearch-intensive institutions too often succumb to increased pressures for productivity [5],disincentivized from close interactions with students [3]. Furthermore, the emphasis on“marketable” skills undermines HEIs’ role in the development of social and civic responsibilities[3].While these neoliberal trends create new pressures on HEIs, they do not remain unchallenged.Actors within HEIs strive to maintain an institutional commitment to social and educationalmissions [1], even as they navigate market-oriented values and increasing scrutiny overefficiency and productivity. At the same time, the industrial logic of higher education is feltunevenly across disciplines, institutional cultures, and

Collection

2008 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Ashraf Ghaly; Megan Ferry

thousands of people and in a change intheir lifestyle. This could be a depressing experience for those who cannot smoothly adjust. A new coursehas been developed to explore all of the above issues. China’s Three Gorges Dam is used as a case studydue to its mammoth size and enormous impact. Students are offered views of the pros and cons of each ofthe above factors. They are asked to examine the issues carefully, and to evaluate the positive andnegative aspects of dam construction. Students are expected to make a case to dam or not to dam based onthe evidence presented. The course teaches and promotes an educated and informed approach to decisionmaking. Students will recognize that real world problems are never black and white and appreciate theneed

Collection

2008 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

Ashraf Ghaly; Megan Ferry

thousands of people and in a change intheir lifestyle. This could be a depressing experience for those who cannot smoothly adjust. A new coursehas been developed to explore all of the above issues. China’s Three Gorges Dam is used as a case studydue to its mammoth size and enormous impact. Students are offered views of the pros and cons of each ofthe above factors. They are asked to examine the issues carefully, and to evaluate the positive andnegative aspects of dam construction. Students are expected to make a case to dam or not to dam based onthe evidence presented. The course teaches and promotes an educated and informed approach to decisionmaking. Students will recognize that real world problems are never black and white and appreciate theneed

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Charles Pezeshki

as an ensemble of “softer” skills, such asnegotiation techniques, familiarity with foreign languages, and comfort with informalcommunication skills.Some of the largest obstacles for redesigning the current engineering curriculum lay inacademic culture. One of the largest is faculty’s anathema toward learning new softwaretools as they are released, successfully integrating them into the curriculum, andeducating students in the skills required to use them, as well as emphasize the notion ofcreative use. Faculty by and large assume teaching students software is a waste of time—something the students can learn by discovery—instead of understanding that such toolscan enhance students’ understanding of physical system behavior, a necessary

Collection

1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Anthony Brizendine; Laora E. Dauberman-Brizendine

ofprominent civil engineering leaders to a task force “to raise fundamental issues for CivilEngineering educators by offering a broader definition and understanding of the professionalwork of Civil Engineering faculty.” The ASCE Task Force on Redefining Scholarly Workproduced a high-quality, insightful, far-reaching report outlining the background for scholarshipin the profession, as well as, a model to carry civil engineering forward to the new millennium.The Task Force (1998) concluded in their report The Scholarship Landscape in CivilEngineering: A Bridge Between Rhetoric and Reality that a narrow definition of scholarshipwas impractical due to varied institutional missions. The Task Force indicated “the need tohave a clear awareness of

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Barke

thedesign considerations of engineers.Recently the debate about technological development and the environment has been changing.Technological change has not slowed in spite of concerns about its environmental effects andmany environmentalists have discarded their calls for an end to development, advocatinginstead a new type of growth guided by new principles: sustainable development. At the sametime, scientists and engineers are recognizing the important relationship between their work andenvironmental concerns, with sustainable technology emerging as a guiding principle thatmany hope will permeate engineering.The objectives of sustainable development and sustainable technology seem to be symbiotic,yet many of the problems of sustainability have

Conference Session

Beneficial Partnerships: Enhancing Library Programming with Strategic Collaborations

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Wendy Mann, George Mason University; Theresa M. Calcagno, George Mason University; Deborah Ann Kermer, George Mason University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Libraries

George Mason University Libraries. She assists faculty and students with quantitative and qualitative data, methods, and software. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Library Partnerships to Support Data Analytics Engineering ProgramsAbstractIn the last decade, the number of graduate programs in Data Analytics has grown exponentially.Academic libraries have had to, or will need to, determine how to support the growing studentpopulation in this new area of academia, as well as acquire new resources and develop newservices and tools for analytics students. Data Analytics and Data Science programs areparticularly challenging to support because they

Conference Session

multim engr edu;dist.,servi&intern based

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Roxanne Jacoby; Jean Le Mee

projectsdeal with new, clean, renewable energy sources, or other new technologies, the simulation has theadded benefit of exposing the students to practical engineering and managerial concerns theymight encounter in their future careers. It also gives them an ethical background related tosustainable development and environmental issues, which will play a major role in the years tocome. This article presents our positive and sometimes not so positive experiences with thisproject, and aims to encourage other schools to participate in this, or similar projects.Introduction We live in very exciting times. A time when, due to rapid increase in globalization, mostproducts assembled in the United States have more than 70% of their content supplied by

Collection

1997 Annual Conference

Authors

Mark A. Pagano; Christine L. Corum

, after some preliminary planning, continuous improvement activities werelaunched in the Summer of 1994. The progress to date is described below.MET Department InitiativesFormation of the Continuous Improvement Committee (CIC)In a university setting, one of the first things that happens when new ideas or initiatives are Page 2.114.2launched is the formation of a committee. This was also true in the case of CQI. Even though it 2was realized that CQI must involve every individual in the department including faculty, staff,and administration, it was determined that a focused group would serve as the hub of

Conference Session

WiP: Gen AI, Mixed Reality, and Simulations

Collection

2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jonathan Verrett, University of British Columbia, Vancouver

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering Division (ChED)

. The frequency ofconcerns cited by students having used and not used Gen. AI is presented in Table 2. Note thatnot all concern prompts were provided to both groups and in the case of a group not receiving aprompt an “N/A” is shown. Both groups most frequently had concerns around low qualityresponses and academic integrity issues. An AI policy was circulated stating students were freeto use any tools they wished but that students were responsible for the accuracy of the work theysubmitted, and this policy was mirrored in the communications course. In general based on theresponses students seemed to have a healthy amount of skepticism in terms of Gen. AI usage.One noted difference between groups, is that none of those using AI reported an issue

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering Division (MULTI) Technical Session 10

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lawrence E. Whitman, University of Arkansas at Little Rock; Kristin Dutcher Mann, University of Arkansas at Little Rock; Amar Shireesh Kanekar, University of Arkansas at Little Rock; Albert L Baker, University of Arkansas at Little Rock; Srikanth B Pidugu P.E., University of Arkansas at Little Rock

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering Division (MULTI)

disciplines, were presented with information on issues related to the ethicaluse of LLMs for class assignments. The primary research question was: “What are students’perceptions of the ethical use of LLMs in college coursework?”The research employs a mixed-methods approach. The survey of student attitudes concerning theethical use of LLMs was conducted in courses from six different academic disciplines –engineering technology, computer science, political science, chemistry, health education andhistory – during the fall 2023 semester. Both quantitative data and qualitative responses on thesame survey, designed to be given before and after a short learning module, were collected, aswas a student assignment. Since the research centers on student

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Karin Jensen, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign; Eileen Johnson, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign; Joseph Mirabelli, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign; Sara Vohra

others are going through.Students expressed that competition was felt amongst peers and that schedules of engineeringstudents were quickly overloaded. Students described themselves or peers as often beingovercommitted to extracurricular activities, with some noting that these packed schedules led toincreased stress. One student specifically discussed culture in engineering and offered adescription of the root causes of this culture being students, and that it is exacerbated by faculty: I think that the greatest issue with engineering is the culture in general. It's a result of a concentration of highly motivated and successful students, many of which are male, who are competitive both intentionally (in some cases) and

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

James Heidenreich; Dr. Eugene Silgalis; Nicholas Akinkuoye

, colleges anduniversities continues to come under more intense scrutiny. Evidences are plentiful fromthe media, be it national news papers, radios, television stations, new accreditationstandards, regional and national associations, the demand student teacher evaluation, andoutcome assessment all pointed toward an intensified concern for secondary andcollegiate educational quality and what students learn.Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2001, American Society for Engineering Education Page 6.590.1The purpose of this paper and the subsequent technical

Conference Session

Building Bridges in ET

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Newman; John Robertson; Lakshmi Munukutla

a new level, integrating the strengths ofthe two institutions and creating fully, a new option in baccalaureate education for students fromArizona and around the world.ASU relocated the School of Agribusiness and the School of Technology, their programs, labs,courses, faculty, staff and students to the new site. CGCC init ially designated the Williamscampus as a satellite campus to offer its aviation and semiconductor manufacturing programs.However, rather than merely working side-by-side, ASU East and CGCC have converted thesimple fact of co-location into a zestful reality of co-operation through the innovative NewPartnership in Baccalaureate Education. Thus, the new partnership formalizes what studentshave been doing informally for years

Conference Session

Novel Methods in Engineering Ethics

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jill May, Illinois Institute of Technology; Daniel Gandara, Illinois Institute of Technology; Margaret Huyck, Illinois Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Ethics

that variability, thechallenges in teamwork processes – and recognizing ethical issues and determining how to dealwith them. Ethical issues may concern the team process itself, or the decisions made about theproblem the team is addressing. Faculty who teach the undergraduate team-based courses mentioned above haveobserved, anecdotally, that many students have a poor grasp of ethical issues that are relevant totheir projects.4 This is a progress report on the ethics component of a collaborative effortinvolving team- based project programs at four universities: the IPRO program at IllinoisInstitute of Technology, the Integrated Product Development program at Lehigh, the Enterpriseprogram Michigan Tech, and the EPICS program at Purdue. The

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Greg J. Strimel, Purdue University, West Lafayette ; Douglas Edward Pruim; Deana Lucas; Todd Kelley, Purdue University, West Lafayette ; Jung Joo Sohn, Purdue University, West Lafayette

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees Poster Session

? o The Low Number Problem: New ventures and experiments often take time to grow and develop. These classes are vulnerable to cancellation. This can happen repeatedly in early days. o The Bureaucracy Problem: Changes require a series of approvals. This takes time, and any step could shut down the process (and not everyone may know the vision or intention). o The Assistant Funding Question: Who pays for graduate or teaching assistant? If the cost is shared, are the rates the same? Are the payment processes coordinated? • System Issues o Database Issues: The system is not designed to recognize two faculty in one room

Collection

1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Susan Campbell; Carol L. Colbeck

exists. Engineering design education ofteninvolves competition. Some individuals believe that this approach simulates the marketplaceenvironment of professional engineering practice as well as generating student enthusiasm for thedesign project (Harris & Jacobs, 1995). Others think that it reinforces the idea that design isopen-ended or that multiple approaches to the client’s objectives can be achieved (Dym, 1994).Creativity has become an issue of primary concern in engineering because of increasedcompetitiveness in developing new designs. Clapham and Schuster (1992) implemented acreativity training program and tested whether it was effective in increasing the creativity ofengineering students. The experimental group participated in a one

Conference Session

International Division (INTL) Technical Session: International Programs and Curricula I

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Carolyn "Kelly" Ottman, Milwaukee School of Engineering; Sohum A. Sohoni, Milwaukee School of Engineering

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

International Division (INTL)

and collaborative softwaredevelopment), and the IntelliJ IDE (an industry-standard Integrated Development Environment).From a pedagogical perspective, the small class sizes and detailed feedback provided onstudents’ graded work as well as the use of a coding standard (including standards fordocumentation of code) and the use of unit testing in a first-year course were new practices forthem. Although the Indian faculty struggled through internet connectivity issues and attendedlive class sections that were at inconvenient times, the faculty from India showed incrediblecommitment for what was essentially an extra assignment for them beyond their regularworkload.Faculty on the US side also described the experience as enlightening and informative

Conference Session

Engineering Student Experiences

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Janet Callahan Ph.D., Boise State University; Patricia Pyke, Boise State University; Susan Shadle Ph.D., Boise State University; R. Eric Landrum, Boise State University

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

department toward anoutcomes-driven, student-centric, constituency-aware culture, while also growing thedepartment’s research portfolio. A lesson learned from this experience concerns the need forleadership to be willing to cross boundaries to get things moving beyond level 1. It wasserendipitous that this mathematics faculty member (who became chair), a former aerospaceengineering major who turned to mathematics in his undergraduate career, self-engaged himselfin the needs and issues being experienced by applications-oriented engineering majors andfaculty members. Page 24.328.8The first major STEM integration project that the mathematics department

Collection

2023 PSW

Authors

Helen Choi

use writing centers in distinct ways. Theybring many different types of projects, each with a variety of audiences, and many oftheir primary writing concerns relate to sentence-level issues with respect to grammarand clarity, as they feel that the high-stakes nature of their writing requires impeccablestyle and few, if any, errors. [2] also found that graduate students report using thewriting center in their preparation for meetings with their advisors and seeking writingcenter support when their advisors are unavailable for writing guidance.In light of these unique preferences of graduate students, [3] notes that GWCs employpedagogies and practices that are distinct from traditional university writing centers thatare positioned to support

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Joan A. Burtner

issues, and communication. Case studies of topics such as the Exxon-Valdez and Chernobyl raise students’ awareness of global and environmental concerns. The finalproject on whistle-blowing deals directly with ethics, as do many of the assigned articles. Eachyear, I customized the course to include a discussion of contemporary issues in addition to thosethat were included in the texts. One year, the ValuJet crash occurred during the course. Wewere able to follow the story as it developed. The fact that initial theories of wrongdoing areoften not supported during subsequent investigations was an important lesson. During anothercourse, Dolly the sheep and the cloning issue was very much in the news. The religious andmedical issues raised by this

Collection

2010 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

Robert Simoneau; Diane Dostie

. The IT departments have been extremelycooperative but cautious in order to protect the integrity of their systems. Communication channelsare improving as the members better understand the limitations of each other's communicationsystems and IT facilities. Work continues on moving PolyCom onto individual faculty members'computers. Regardless, there is still a lot of work to be done to improve communications andinformation transfer across the VIP. The issues with IT are formidable and need constant attention.The IT staff at each campus is extremely concerned, and rightfully so, of firewall breaches. The useof open source software “outside” the campus is still being investigated and may provide the long-term solution that will be needed

Conference Session

Assessing Entrepreneurship Programs

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Martin Grimheden, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH)

Tagged Divisions

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

and creates products andbusinesses from student projects. PIEp Education is nourished from the activities in InnovationExperience, Innovation Knowledge and Innovation Experience provides information for coursesin innovation etc.Activities in PIEp Education involves new courses in innovation, a network for doctoralstudents, exchange programs for students, rotational programs for faculty and better utilization ofall existing mechanisms for bringing an idea to the market. Figure 1 shows an illustration of the‘learning cycle’ of PIEp together with some keywords and key activities of the respectiveactivity fields. Innovation Knowledge Research in innovation

Conference Session

International Educational Experiences (1)

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Donna M. Ebenstein, Bucknell University; Margot A. Vigeant, Bucknell University; Jeffrey C. Evans P.E., Bucknell University

Tagged Divisions

International

in 2009; Brazil in 2010; China in 2012; Costa Rica in 2013; New Zealand in 2014; Italyin 2015; and Chile in 2016. Over 280 students and seventeen different faculty members haveparticipated.This study abroad program was initially designed to address ABET General Criterion 3(h) whichnotes that graduates must have “the broad education necessary to understand the impact ofengineering solutions in a global, economic, environmental and societal context.” Specific ABETeducational outcomes for the program include: 1) the broad education necessary to understand theimpact of engineering solutions in a global and societal context, 2) recognition of the need for, andan ability to engage in, life-long learning, and 3) knowledge of contemporary issues

Conference Session

Minorities in Engineering Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Carlotta A. Berry, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Audrey Bowden, Vanderbilt University; Monica Farmer Cox, The Ohio State University; Tahira N. Reid, Purdue University at West Lafayette (COE); Leroy L. Long III, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University - Daytona Beach

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Minorities in Engineering

that it was time for Black faculty across disciplines to uniteagainst social injustice and racial inequity, which negatively impacts them inside and outside ofthe academy. In June 2020, over 60 Black engineering faculty met and decided to convene in solidaritywith the goal of dismantling racially oppressive higher education systems. They realized thatmany Black engineering faculty have continually experienced systemic racism, from their daysas undergraduate or graduate students to their current roles as professors. They decided to workcollectively to bring awareness to their concerns and to make engineering professionalenvironments places where Black engineering faculty are respected and treated equitably. Theywanted to thrive rather

Conference Session

Track 6: Technical Session 9: Creating buy-in from key constituencies for supporting LGBTQIA+ engineering students

Collection

2024 Collaborative Network for Engineering & Computing Diversity (CoNECD)

Authors

Amy Rachel Betz, Kansas State University; Craig Wanklyn P.E., Kansas State University; Rachel Levitt, Kansas State University

Tagged Topics

CoNECD Paper Sessions, Diversity

additional credibilitybut also another touch point to learn more about issues and leverage change. Forexample, if someone brings up concerns about how something will be perceived byalumni we can discuss the response in our professional organizations. Professionalorganizations have a lot of work to do related to DEI initiatives, however, progress ishappening. 16Identifying Levels of leadership• Faculty – Course content 17Here we will invite the audience to think about who has different levels of power andauthority at their institution. One minute discussion at tables with brief

Conference Session

Potpurri Design in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Todd; Spencer Magleby

resources to execute.Common resource issues include funding (for hardware), space and faculty time. In addition, the* This paper is partially based on a paper presented at the Ibero-America Summit on Engineering Education, SanJose Dos Campos, Brazil, March 2003 titled Creating a Successful Capstone Program by Considering the Needs ofStakeholders. Page 9.350.1 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright ©2004, American Society for Engineering Educationdevelopment of product hardware may give rise to issues of intellectual property, liability