Conference Session

Best Practices in Interdisciplinary Entrepreneurship and Innovation Programs

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Daniel Raviv, Florida Atlantic University; Brandon Moore, Florida Atlantic University; Eiki Martinson, Florida Atlantic University

Tagged Divisions

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

AC 2007-1083: FROM IDEA TO MARKET: A CASE STUDY FOR SUSTAINABLEINNOVATIONDaniel Raviv, Florida Atlantic University Dr. Daniel Raviv received his Ph.D. from Case Western Reserve University in 1987 and M.Sc. and B.Sc. degrees from the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology in 1982 and 1980, respectively. He is currently a professor of Electrical Engineering at Florida Atlantic University (FAU) in Boca Raton, Florida. With more than twenty years of innovative teaching and high-tech industry experience, Dr. Raviv developed a fundamentally different approach to teaching “out-of-the-box” problem solving. For his unique contributions he received the prestigious President’s Leadership

Conference Session

The Philosophy of Engineering and Technological Literacy

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

George D. Ricco, Gonzaga University, Spokane

Tagged Divisions

Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering

literature could benefit. Lastly, of key importance to the future of the field of philosophy of engineeringeducation is its self-expression, not to be confused with the often-used term agency. In one sense,engineering education can be expressed from the vantage point of engineers and educators andtheir respective communities, and the community efforts must be addressed to fully understandthe definition of engineering education. It should be understood that the lens used to study bothengineering and education in terms of a philosophy such as Heidegger’s is fundamentally a lensof abstraction focused on the self, thus can be of key importance to our community. Afterdiscussing several components of Heidegger’s philosophy, his constructs are tied

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stacee Harmon, Oklahoma State University; Wendy James, Oklahoma State University; Richard Bryant, Oklahoma State University

is crucial to success both inhis course and as an engineer. In order to make the concept relevant to the students, andgive students an opportunity to get their feet wet with some of the technical equipment,he designs a project where the students will build an apparatus which demonstrates thesimplest case. He thinks it is important for the students’ development that they grapplewith concepts before they are formally introduced, so he assigns the project about a weekbefore he plans to cover the material in lecture. For this assignment, he places students into teams of four students. On the projectdescription the students find that in addition to the small apparatus they are also requiredto write a report and create a poster which

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics Division Poster Session

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rider W. Foley, University of Virginia; Araba Dennis, University of Virginia; Kathleen Eggleson, Indiana University School of Medicine-South Bend; Anderson Sunda-Meya, Xavier University of Louisiana; Kathryn Haas, Saint Mary's College, Indiana

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Ethics

learner types are descriptions of sharedcharacteristics within groups and are not correlations of shared traits. Additional analyses willexplore the relations (and potential correlations) between the clustered learner types as informedby survey components, demographic data, religious identity and practice, and results fromstudent writings. We expect that as data collection continues and a larger sample size is obtained,data analysis will be more robust and reveal statistically significant results. The STM analysis and our initial interpretations need to be verified (or reworked) based uponqualitative analysis of the student-responses. The fundamental limitation in the results is thatSTM offers an intriguing analytical approach to clustering the

Conference Session

Reimagining Engineering Information Literacy: Novel Perspectives on Integration, Assessment, Competencies & Information Use

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Farshid Zabihian, West Virginia University Institute of Technology; Mary L. Strife, West Virginia University; Marian G. Armour-Gemmen, West Virginia University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Libraries

courses the instructor teaches, students are required to conduct some sort of literature review related to the course topic. When queried for the first step for information gathering, the students almost always answer “Google it!” or in the best case “Find the related article in Wikipedia!” The other side of the problem is that students do not know how to properly acknowledge others’ work.  It is ironic that in the so called “information age”, we have an “information literacy crisis”. The objective of this project was to add components to the Mechanical Engineering program that would address these fundamental problems in the engineering curriculum.  Currently, there is an immense expansion and broadening of knowledge in

Collection

2023 ASEE North Central Section Conference

Authors

Shehla Arif, University of Mount Union

engineering instruction is oriented toward introverts (lecturing and individual assignments rather than active class involvement and cooperative learning), intuitors (emphasis on science and math fundamentals rather than engineering applications and operations), thinkers (emphasis on objective analysis rather than interpersonal considerations in decision-making), and judgers (emphasis on following the syllabus and meeting assignment deadlines rather than on exploration of ideas and creative problem solving). In 1980, a consortium of eight universities and the Center for Applications of Psychological Type was formed to study the role of personality type in engineering education. Predictably, introverts

Conference Session

Research Related to Learning and Teaching Engineering in Elementary Classrooms

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jeremy V. Ernst, North Carolina State University; Laura Bottomley, North Carolina State University; Elizabeth A. Parry, North Carolina State University; Jerome P. Lavelle, North Carolina State University

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

vary for K-12 engineering, typically the curriculadevelopment and materials themselves are the focal point of investigation and study. In thisproject, prevalent materials (Engineering is Elementary) were selected to serve as the curricularbasis for the structuring a data-informed elementary engineering model for grades 3-5.Project OverviewThe two-year National Institutes of Health funded project, Engineering Design Models inElementary Schools, uses engineering design as an integral part of the full educational day. Thisfully integrated approach merges technological knowledge and concepts, fundamental design-based content, and basic engineering associated processes with the comprehensive study ofmathematics, science, language arts, and social

Conference Session

Faculty Set the Preliminary Standards for Co-ops

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

R. Mark Schreck, University of Louisville; Angela Cline, University of Louisville

Tagged Divisions

Cooperative & Experiential Education

bad, that they can expect during the selection process and on the job. The students alsoanswer questions from the class.Technical writing skills with “Critical thinking” component: Grown from a university wideinitiative, Speed School has implemented critical thinking in certain courses. While there areseveral critical thinking models, University of Louisville is using the Paul Elder model. Criticalthinking is simply using reasoning combined with logical thinking for making decisions, drawingconclusions or solutions. We have incorporated a session that illustrates how to use criticalthinking skills in preparing for the co-op experience and in writing the co-op report. Students aregiven an activity to demonstrate how simple it is to employ

Conference Session

Pedagogy and Assessment in ECE III

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Richard Kelnhofer, Milwaukee School of Engineering; Stephen Williams, Milwaukee School of Engineering; Owe Petersen, Milwaukee School of Engineering

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

his Ph.D. degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 1971. His technical work ranges over the topics of optical data links, integrated circuit technology, RF semiconductor components, and semiconductor component reliable. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE and an ABET EAC program evaluator in Electrical Engineering. Page 15.1152.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 Sustainable Assessment for Program Improvement and ABET PreparationAbstractOne of the fundamental challenges of program assessment is to develop a process that issustainable and has the rigor to

Conference Session

Practical Teaching

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sangarappillai Sivaloganathan, United Arab Emirates University

Tagged Divisions

Manufacturing

processand experts should be consulted when dealing with complex parts. However for normal jobsthere are guidelines [16-18] on the choice of the process and the type of preparation of thepieces to be joined. But one fundamental criteria is that the pieces to be welded must be fromstandard stocks to minimise further processing and the design should not place excessivedemands on the joint during operation and the process must be simple.3.4.3 Bolting and RivetingThis again is a process of joining of pieces of standard sheet metal to form complex objects.Before welding was invented this was the main process used for making complex objects andthe Victorian Iron Bridges all over the Commonwealth are good examples of riveting. Themain design criteria are

Conference Session

Software Engineering Constituent Committee Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Anna Koufakou, Florida Gulf Coast University

Tagged Divisions

Software Engineering Constituent Committee

for suchcourses is that related topics are typically perceived by students especially at the undergraduatelevel as uninteresting and irrelevant, while it is difficult to bring the “real-world” experience tothe classroom.This paper summarizes the author’s experiences in developing and teaching for the first time aSoftware Specifications course to the newly established Software Engineering (SE) degreeprogram at Florida Gulf Coast University (FGCU) in Spring 2014. The SE program belongs inan Engineering College which emphasizes undergraduate education (there is no graduate degreeoffered). The Software Specifications course is a required course for all SE students at FGCU. Itincludes topics such as Eliciting, Writing, and Testing Requirements

Conference Session

Using Technology to Support Learning in Mechanics

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Keith D. Hjelmstad, Arizona State University; Amie Baisley, University of Florida

Tagged Divisions

Mechanics

computers as atool to solve engineering problems. Any attempt to confine the teaching of computation to a single courseonly makes these debates more difficult to resolve. In addition, a single course offered in the freshmanyear is disconnected from applications that connect to the engineering concepts associated with the majornot only because the instruction is usually carried out by the computer science faculty, but also thestudents at that level do not yet have much knowledge of their chosen discipline.The curricular shortcomings associated with computing parallel the problem of instilling solidcommunication skills in engineering students, wherein the most common strategy has been to insert oneor two required writing courses early in the

Collection

1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Philip Doepker

, which includes many of the characteristics found inportfolios.The required competencies of graduates have been identified by practicing engineers in theASME publication “Incorporating the Product Realization Process in the EngineeringCurriculum”.1 Major competencies include the ability to work in interdisciplinary teams and theability to communicate verbally and in writing. Many of the top ten issues were not related to“technical” competencies. A major attribute that is included in this document but not as yetaddressed by ABET is the need for graduates to function in a business environment.The purpose for identifying the attributes and competencies is to set the framework for thedevelopment of outcomes and their associate measures.As a preface

Conference Session

K-12 and Pre-College Engineering Division Poster Session

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joseph Foy, L&N STEM Academy, Knox County Schools; Chien-fei Chen, University of Tennessee, Knoxville; Erin James Wills, University of Tennessee, Knoxville

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

only background is in Java, but students with someassembly background have transitioned much better15.Many current methods of teaching programming have involved avoiding assembly languagebecause it has a reputation as being difficult for students to understand, but doing so may reducestudents understanding of the fundamental operations of the processor4. Instead of discarding theuse of the language, alternative methods of teaching may be necessary like breaking projects into Page 24.768.2smaller pieces4, creating concrete and measureable goals15, and avoiding unnecessarilycomplicated operations of assembly11. Overall, a balance is needed

Collection

2015 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Ralph C. Tillinghast; Amelia W. Wright; Leslie A. Stevens

rationalinvestments are made into MOOCs, they are steadily moving along a sustained technologydevelopment path. As the MOOC delivery system and number of available offerings increases,this fringe group is bound to expand into mainstream student populations.There are many fundamental similarities and differences between the MOOC system and theclassic university model of education. To muddy the distance between the two further, many Spring 2015 Mid-Atlantic ASEE Conference, April 10-11, 2015 Villanova Universitycolleges are adopting hybrid teaching methods through online and off campus classes whichresemble MOOC very closely. A very long list of differences between these two systems can bedeveloped, including availability, cost, quality, cognitive

Conference Session

Principles of K-12 Engineering Education and Practice

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Yosef S. Allam, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach; Alexander Danial Manasseh, Prometheus Education, Inc; Asher Michael Smith; William Miceli, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical Univ., Daytona Beach; Shiv D Panjwani; Cierra Sparks; Joseph Anthony Alequin; Joshua Lee Dankson, Embry Riddle Aeronautical University; Cody David Clarke; Nicholas James Maskiell; Nathalie Vazquez, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University; Marco Alan Schoener, SENAET

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

educationalresearch. Undergraduate participants in the first semester will review engineering educationconference papers and journal articles through a formalized process. Undergraduate researchparticipants will research the writing of appropriate learning objectives / desired outcomes toSTEM students of varying stages in their K-12 education. Student-teacher-researchers willdevelop outcomes-based, level-appropriate lesson plans and assessment materials.The purpose of this first phase of the study is to gauge the impacts on undergraduate STEMstudent-teacher-researchers of a series of four-hour Saturday-based sessions occurring over thecourse of Fall Semester 2013. Participants in this first phase of the internally-fundedundergraduate research project will be

Collection

1997 Annual Conference

Authors

Evangelyn C. Alocilja

science,engineering sciences, and principles of design. To fulfill an academic career goal, the studentcompletes a cognate which can either be in agricultural engineering, food engineering, naturalresources/environmental engineering, packaging, environmental studies, biotechnology, orbiomedical engineering. Course Objectives Offered at the sophomore level, the three-credit course entitled “Principles of BiosystemsEngineering” is the first required subject in the BE program. A knowledge of calculus is aprerequisite to enroll in the course. Knowledge in computer programming, physics, chemistryand biology are strongly recommended. Acquired skills in technical writing will be very helpful.The course is

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David Mukai, University of Wyoming; Trent McDonald, West Inc.

to count large numbers of results prior to theinvention of the computer, probability functions were developed that closely mimicked thesimple counting-theory probability distributions of many phenomena. These probabilityfunctions allowed calculation of probabilities without lengthy counting problems or enumeratingall possible outcomes.It is the authors’ contention that with the advent of modern computers, lengthy countingproblems are no longer an issue and can now be done conveniently, thereby removing the needfor the calculus-based probability functions. The authors hypothesize that removing the layer ofcalculus (used only to overcome the inability to carry out large counting experiments) andreturning to the fundamental ideas of probability

Conference Session

ECE Poster Session

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ravel Ammerman, Colorado School of Mines; Pankaj Sen, Colorado School of Mines

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

atCSM emphasizes a breadth of fundamental studies in electrical engineering with someopportunities for specialization. Students are allowed to take three “electrical technicalelectives” and three “free electives.”Scope of “Power Engineering” Education at CSM“According to U.S. Department of labor, by 2012 there will be about 10,000 more power jobsavailable than people willing to fill them. The average age at utilities is about 48. The matter iscompounded because younger people view utilities as part of the industrial age and less thrivingthan other technical fields such as nanotechnology.”[3] The U.S. electric power industry is facedwith a shortage of well trained engineers. In the Rocky Mountain Region, many colleges haveabandoned their power

Conference Session

Interdisciplinary Integration at the Program Level

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alice Huang; Nava Bozorgmehri; Alexander Broome; Peyton Elise Carter; Hayoung Cho; Jaxen Farrell; Jane Ginley; William Kaeul Gotanda; Margaret Hynes; Charles Patrick Neill; Owen Pett; Will Purnell; Eliana Jean Razzino; Olivia Lane Remcho; Vanessa Rigoglioso; Cyrus Rosen; Ellen Ryan; Mary Katherine Serpe; William Sweeney; Avneet Hira, Boston College; Gabriella Maria Bachiochi

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division (LEES)

use in the world and equating knowledge of technology to knowledge of readingand writing from the past [1]. In contrasting appeals proponents have called to broaden the engineeringcurriculum to include more liberal arts, and in turn learn more engineering on the job or in graduateschool [2]. However, as we stand currently in 2023, we have not witnessed such extreme shifts in eitherdirection in a majority of programs across the United States. Instead and perhaps a more fortunatephenomenon that we have seen in undergraduate education is joint liberal arts and engineering programswhich have existed for a few decades now. For example, the Engineering Studies program at LafayetteCollege which was established in 1970 and brings together in its

Conference Session

First-Year Programs: Cornucopia #2

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Uma Lakshman, NYU’s Tandon School of Engineering; Jack Bringardner, NYU’s Tandon School of Engineering

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

: Student responses when asked what class they would not like to take in their first year atNew York University's Tandon School of Engineering Table 3 shows that students would rather not take New York University’s one creditengineering and technology forum course, as well as expository writing. The engineering andtechnology forum consists of weekly lectures, small homework assignments, and a semester-longdesign course. Students often feel as this is too much work for little reward for a one credit class.From the data obtained, students found that their core classes (calculus, physics, chemistry) werevaluable to their first-year engineering experience. Students were asked about the courses thatthey would want to include in their first-year

Collection

2018 Gulf Southwest Section Conference

Authors

Roman Taraban; William M. Marcy; Mark S. LaCour; Dashiell Pashley; Klara Keim

Section Annual Conference The University of Texas at Austin April 4-6, 2018students to process and internalize the latter two theories, Social Psychology, 32(4), pp. 469 – 479 (2013)which is a fundamental goal of the course, instructors could [2] Pennebaker, J. W., Chung, C. K., Frazee, J., Lavergne,urge them to write about topics that are more amenable to G. M., & Beaver, D. I., When small words foretellthe principles and values in those theories. Students in the academic success: The case of college admissions essays.current sample chose topics amenable to discussion of PLoS ONE, 9(12), e115844 (2014)economic cost-benefit analysis and safety

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bahar Memarian, University of Toronto; Ashish Amresh, Northern Arizona University; Jeffrey Hovermill, Northern Arizona University

Tagged Topics

Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

culturallyresponsive aspects. Further, data were collected from the teachers through a consistent set ofclosed-ended questions presented in pre- and post-participation surveys. The questions presentedhad been validated through previous studies (Fancsali et al., 2020). Similarly, the student datawere collected using instrument questions that were validated by prior studies (DeLyser et al.,2016).Competence is assumed to be one of three fundamental psychological needs, so the feelings orperceptions of competence concerning an activity or domain. The Perceived Competence Scale(PCS) is a short, 4-item questionnaire, and is one of the most face-valid instruments designed toassess constructs from Self-Determination Theory. Two examples of studies that have used

Conference Session

Assessing Student Learning

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gregory Bucks, Ohio Northern University; William C. Oakes, Purdue University, West Lafayette

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

exploring themisconceptions held by novices in computing education. However, little work has been doneexploring the types of conceptions that computing students hold for the fundamental computingconcepts apart from identifying misconceptions. Uncovering the different types of conceptionsheld by students independent of specific computing languages or environments is essential tounderstanding how students learn computing concepts and ultimately to develop betterpedagogical and assessment techniques.Phenomenography is a research methodology uniquely designed to uncover the differentconceptions held by individuals about a given concept because the main tenet ofphenomenography is that any phenomenon can be understood or experienced in a limitednumber of

Conference Session

New Learning Models

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Briar Schumacher; Jon Leydens; Donald Elger

overcome challenges and attain their goals.I. IntroductionPresent engineering education practices emphasize coverage of fundamentals and passing of in-class exams as measures of success. Students in classrooms are passive and focused on attainingpoints needed to earn grades. Most professors and students seem content with traditionaleducation. However, there is a new vision of education that is emerging. This new visioninvolves designing learning environments that align with the natural ways that people learn. Forprofessors who are pursing this new vision, there is a need to understand learning. This needmotivated the present question: how do engineering students engage in and describe learningwhen the learning is intrinsically motivated? Here

Collection

2020 Gulf Southwest Section Conference

Authors

Arthur Pachachura; Vedansh Patel

nonprofit,Trusted World, to adapt to an increasing demand for their services while providing students with technicalexperiences relevant to their future careers.Problem to ProjectTrusted World is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization whose mission is to provide resources, such as food,clothing, and personal hygiene products, to other nonprofit agencies at no cost. Unlike organizations that relyon case managers to provide support to individuals, Trusted World connects donated goods to communities inneed by leveraging workers in various agencies, including police stations, schools, and shelters. AlthoughTrusted World once acted as a small community-focused relief operation based solely in Dallas, Texas, theorganization is, at the time of writing

Conference Session

Assessment of Student Learning – New Engineering Educators Division

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Hani Serhal Saad, Eastern Washington University; Kyle Frederick Larsen P.E., Eastern Washington University; Heechang Bae, Eastern Washington University; N.M. A. Hossain, Eastern Washington University

Tagged Divisions

New Engineering Educators

. This should reduce the inconsistencies in grading. Gradingis done based on the approach and analysis of the problem and not so much on the final numericalresults. Partial credit is given when a sound method is used. The descriptions of the courses arestated below.  MENG 240 (Statics) objective is to understand the fundamentals of applied mechanics, equivalent force systems, equations of equilibrium, structures, three dimensional force systems and friction.  MENG 241 (Strength of Materials) is a study of the internal stresses, internal deformations and deflections of materials. Topics may include: shear and moment diagrams for beams, combined loading on beams, temperature stresses and torsional loading

Conference Session

Aerospace Technical Session 3

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Hüseyin Sarper, Old Dominion University; Linda Vahala, Old Dominion University

Tagged Divisions

Aerospace

Paper ID #13360Use of Single Stage Model Rockets to Teach Some Engineering Principles andPractices to First Year Engineering and Engineering Technology Students ¨Dr. Huseyin Sarper, Old Dominion University H¨useyin Sarper, Ph.D., P.E. is a lecturer in Engineering Fundamentals Division at the Old Dominion Uni- versity in Norfolk, Virginia. He was a professor of engineering and director of the graduate programs at Colorado State University – Pueblo in Pueblo, CO until 2013. He was also an associate director of Colorado’s NASA Space Grant Consortium between 2007 and 2013. His degrees, all in industrial en- gineering, are

Conference Session

Communication Across the Divisions I: Communication in Engineering Disciplines

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alyssa Catherine Taylor, University of Washington; Stephanie Pulford, Center for Engineering Learning and Teaching (CELT)

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering, Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

sequence for the BIOE Department at the University of Washington. Taylor currently pursues educational research and continuous improvement activities, with the ultimate goal of optimizing bioengineering curriculum design and student learning outcomes.Dr. Stephanie Pulford, Center for Engineering Learning and Teaching (CELT) Dr. Stephanie Pulford is an instructional consultant within University of Washington’s Center for Engi- neering Teaching & Learning, where she coordinates the Engineering Writing & Communication Devel- opment Program. Dr. Pulford’s professional background in engineering includes a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering, an M.S. in Engineering Mechanics, and a B.S. in Aerospace Engineering as well as

Conference Session

Instrumentation Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Maged Mikhail, Purdue University Northwest; Sandeep Bharti, Purdue University ; Ali Alavizadeh, Purdue University Northwest

Tagged Divisions

Instrumentation

workssuch as welding the metal parts precisely. Designing and writing a simulation program onwelding the different shapes on the Visual Components software is easy and resourceful.Therefore, industries can achieve precision in welding the objects and will generate lesswaste [8], an example is shown in figure 7. Figure 7. Welding objects with the Welding Torch on the Visual ComponentsAs has been reviewed, the robots are mostly utilized in the manufacturing industry and thetype of job that laborers encountered in this type of business is usually repetitive andmonotonous. People who do the same thing repetitively for a long period tend to get boredand tired of what they are doing and might arrive to a position wherein they are