Conference Session

Best Practices in IE Education

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alister McLeod, Purdue University; April Savoy, Purdue University

Tagged Divisions

Industrial Engineering

, their workersare forced to adopt complex understanding and problem solving skills in technical areas.However, research pertaining to worker preparedness indicates that colleges and universities arenot adequately preparing graduates for this new work environment (Wieman, 2008)24.Manufacturing has become a field where global view and technical savvy are desirous qualitiesfor all persons involved. Since the 1980’s, manufacturing has undergone significant changes inoperational costs and product quality. The lean mangers of the 20th century are now retiring andthere are not enough new lean experts to lead US manufacturing into the next 20 years (Linford,2007)13.BackgroundResearch surrounding instructional design models has found that effective

Conference Session

Engineering in the Middle Grades

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kari Cook, Brigham Young University; Geoff Wright; Steve Shumway; Ronald Terry, Brigham Young University

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

AC 2009-1368: AN INVESTIGATION OF MIDDLE-SCHOOL STUDENTS’INTEREST IN, PERCEPTION OF, AND ATTITUDES ABOUT TECHNOLOGYAND ENGINEERINGKari Cook, Brigham Young UniversityGeoffrey Wright, Brigham Young UniversitySteve Shumway, Brigham Young UniversityRonald Terry, Brigham Young University Page 14.207.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2009 An Investigation of Middle School Student Interest, Perception, and Attitude Toward Technology and EngineeringIntroductionRecently, technology education educators have been asked to include engineering concepts in K-12 curriculum.1 While to some this may initially appear to drift from the purposes of

Conference Session

Experiments in Remote-access Laboratories

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Andrew Hyder, Georgia Institute of Technology; Brian Post, Georgia Institute of Technology; Dirk Schaefer, Georgia Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

Purdue University and is currently a 2nd year mechanical engineering graduate student at the Georgia Institute of Technology in the field of robotics and controls. As a member of the Intelligent Machine Dynamics Laboratory, under the direction of Dr. Wayne J. Book, his current research focuses on the improvement of control algorithms for flexible robotic manipulators. Brian's interest in engineering education has translated into a STEP Fellowship where he teaches College Prep. Physics, Conceptual Physics, and Engineering Drawing and Design weekly at Marietta High School in Marietta, GA, where he also mentors the Marietta High School Engineering Club.Dirk Schaefer, Georgia Institute of

Collection

1996 Annual Conference

Authors

William T. Brazelton

Session 2470 A Quarter Century of Women and Minorities in Engineering at Northwestern University William T. Brazelton McCormick School of Engineering, Northwestern University This presentation is not that of a planned research study, but rather is a review of over twenty-fiveyears of experience with women and minority students in engineering at Northwestern University offeredin an anecdotal mode. This is admittedly a focused view and not necessarily one representative ofcircumstances in other institutions, but it has provided an opportunity

Conference Session

Sustainability and Environmental Issues

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bradley Striebig, James Madison University; Susan Norwood, Gonzaga University

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

AC 2009-83: PARTNERSHIPS FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT ANDINTERNATIONAL EDUCATIONBradley Striebig, James Madison University Dr. Bradley A. Striebig is an associate professor of Engineering at James Madison University. He has a Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering from Penn State University, where he was the head of the Environmental Technology Group at the Applied research Laboratory. Prior to accepting a position to develop the engineering program at James Madison University, Brad was a faculty member in the Civil Engineering department at Gonzaga University. He has worked on various water projects throughout the US and in Benin and Rwanda.Susan Norwood, Gonzaga University Susan Norwood

Conference Session

Diversity in Community Engagement Implementation I

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Keilin Jahnke, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Ann-Perry Witmer P.E., University of Illinois; Matthew Tan, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Grace Frances Witmer, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Community Engagement Division

beyond, spawning courses andactivities that range from student organizations like Engineers Without Borders to study-abroadexperiences that revolve around service actions in remote regions of the world. Academicprograms often are intended to create a sense of civic engagement in the academy, yet criticismabounds that efforts are lacking substance or vision, in particular because they are not sustainableand do not foster meaningful and long-lasting change4. Researchers posit that a great number ofconsiderations beyond practical and applied aid activities must be incorporated into serviceeducation, which should be a transformative experience to ensure the viability of the service-education concept7. Mather recognizes that service education not

Conference Session

Writing and Communication I

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Brad Jerald Henderson, University of California - Davis

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

paper’s style and structure also meld twodistinctive document types—technical report and narrative essay—in order to reflect upon asmall-scale, field-test type experiment and to identify initial positive or negative trends withinthe experience.Instructional ConceptThe development of a specialized grammar course for engineering and other STEM students waspredicated upon four assumptions. The first was that possessing a complete functionalunderstanding of how sentences work can help students to produce technical documents that areclear, concise, and correct; and second, that adequate grammatical skills are too often missing inengineering and STEM majors.Another assumption was that engineering and other STEM students already have mastery in

Conference Session

General Technical Session

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John P. Mullen, New Mexico State University

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education

Paper ID #13310Helping Students Develop Better Skills in Solving Word ProblemsDr. John P. Mullen, New Mexico State University Dr. Mullen has been at NMSU since 1990. He currently teaches and does research in stochastic and deterministic OR. Most of his courses are distance or online courses, though he does teach a few blended courses. Page 26.842.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 Helping Students Develop Better Skills in Solving Word ProblemsIntroductionStudents often

Conference Session

Manufacturing and Machine Component Design

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sandra Anstaett Metzler P.E., Ohio State University; Blaine W. Lilly, Ohio State University

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

future plans for the course. Our assessment includesdetailed feedback from students and teaching assistants who completed the course in the initialtwo years.IntroductionAs a land grant institution with Research I status, The Ohio State University (OSU) has a longtradition of engineering education. In 2012, after over three years of preparation, the universityswitched from a longstanding quarter-based schedule to a semester schedule. The Department ofMechanical Engineering at OSU utilized this transition to review and improve their curriculumin order to better prepare their graduating engineers for entrance to the profession in anincreasingly competitive, global economy. Extensive input from alumni of the prior 20 years wasutilized with

Conference Session

Focus on the Classroom: Novel Approaches to Course Delivery

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gary J. Mullett, Springfield Technical Community College

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Two Year College Division

Paper ID #11506The creation of a Biomedical EngineeringProf. Gary J. Mullett, Springfield Technical Community College Gary J. Mullett, a Professor of Electronics Technology and Co-Department Chair, presently teaches in the Electronics Group at Springfield Technical Community College (STCC) located in Springfield, MA. A long time faculty member and consultant to local business and industry, Mullett has provided leadership and initiated numerous curriculum reforms as either the Chair or Co-Department Chair of the four tech- nology degree programs that constitute the Electronics Group. Since the mid-1990s, he has been

Conference Session

EET Papers 2

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Curtis Cohenour P.E., Ohio University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

project manager. He joined Ohio University in 2002 as a research engineer working for the Ohio University Avionics Engineering Cen- ter. He has worked on projects covering a wide variety of avionics and navigation systems such as, the Instrument Landing System (ILS), Microwave Landing System (MLS), Distance Measuring Equipment (DME), LAAS, WAAS, and GPS. His recent work has included research with the Air Force Research Laboratory in Dayton, Ohio, aimed at understanding and correcting image geo-registration errors from a number of airborne platforms. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 A Low-Cost Control System Experiment for Engineering Technology

Conference Session

ET Pedagogy II

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Vigyan Jackson Chandra, Eastern Kentucky University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

, critical thinking and reading, annotation, visualswith wordsIntroductionEngineering and technology students require reading skills for effectively summarizing technicalinformation and transforming it into actionable form. Students can sharpen reading skills withpractice under increasingly complex conditions. In the 2019 National Survey of StudentEngagement (NSSE) [1] of four-year colleges and first-year university students, 54% percentnoted that there were some to no assignments that required them to summarize the materials theyread, such as articles books, or online publications. In response to the question (1e) aboutwhether they had "Analyzed or evaluated something you read, researched, or observed," 38%noted to have some or fewer such

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Richard Drushel, Case Western Reserve University; John Gallagher, Wright State University

2006-2063: COMPARING A DISTANCE LEARNING AND A TRADITIONALOFFERING OF AN AUTONOMOUS ROBOTICS PRACTICUM: LESSONS ANDOBSERVATIONSJohn Gallagher, Wright State University John Gallagher is dually appointed as an assistant professor in the both the Department of Computer Science and Engineering and the Department of Electrical Engineering at Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio. His research interests include analog neuromorphic computation, evolutionary algorithms, autonomous robotics, and engineering education.Richard Drushel, Case Western Reserve University Dr. Richard F. Drushel is a Full-Time Lecturer in the Department of Biology, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio. He co

Conference Session

Mechanics, Hands-on Demo - Show & Tell!

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sinead C. MacNamara, Syracuse University; Joan V. Dannenhoffer P.E., Syracuse University

Tagged Divisions

Mechanics

Paper ID #7795First Encounters: Statics as a Gateway to EngineeringDr. Sinead C. MacNamara, Syracuse UniversityProf. Joan V. Dannenhoffer P.E., Syracuse University Joan Dannenhoffer is Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Syracuse University. She received her M.S. in Environmental Engineering from the University of Connecticut and M.B.A. and B.S. in Civil Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. She is a Professional Engineer in the State of Connecticut. Her research interests are in engineering education pedagogy, especially in implementing active learning strategies in large classes. She

Conference Session

Computing in the classroom

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ryan R. Goyings, Civil & Mechanical Engineering Department at The United States Military Academy; James Ledlie Klosky, United States Military Academy, West Point; Bobby G Crawford, U.S. Military Academy

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

interdisciplinary team ofeducators from Indiana University – Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) conducted a studyusing iPads as part of a Faculty Learning Community (FLC)5. This study specifically took a lookat student perceptions based on learning with the iPad as a supplemental learning tool in thecollege classroom. The team used iPads for learning activities and assessment, forcommunication, and research support. This study shows that most students perceived a highlearning value while using the iPad. This study used the iPad in courses like English, journalism,and music. With very little data collected about iPad use in the engineering classroom, we couldshift our focus to the use of e-text books. A study conducted at the University of Mary Hardin

Conference Session

Capstone Design and Engineering Practice

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

John Gesink; S. Hossein Mousavinezhad

professionalism.First course, Design I, of the two course sequence This first of the two design courses is divided into two broad segments. One of theseaddresses activities and topics associated with engineering design, the design process andcreation of a project proposal. The other addresses engineering professionalism issues.Engineering design segment of the Design I course There are a number of milestones in the engineering design segment. Design teams mustbe formed. A project topic must be selected and, optionally, a project sponsor found. Theproject topic must be evaluated and approved and the design must be initiated. Faculty advisors

Conference Session

The New ABET CE Criteria - Program Development

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ronald Welch, University of Texas, Tyler

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

1999, respectively. Page 15.1067.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 Single Synergistic Course vs. Modules in Multiple CoursesAbstractThe obvious possibility of future CE accreditation requirements associated with the Bodyof Knowledge (BOK Version I) during the fall 2008 accreditation visit cycle and thecorresponding development of a new Civil engineering program with its first ABET visitscheduled for fall 2008 motivated the new faculty team to initiate an effort to develop aBOK I compliant program for its first accreditation visit. The new Civil Engineeringprogram requirements surrounding leadership, public policy

Conference Session

Teaching Teaming Skills Through Design

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Gul Okudan; Madara Ogot

initial WBS. This is based on best current estimates on what tasks are to be performed and an approximate duration for each task. 3. Decide from the WBS which tasks must be carried out sequentially, and which ones can be done in parallel. The team should use this information to construct an activity network, determining the critical path and calculating slack times for all other paths. If the critical path time (CPT) exceeds the allotted time for the project, the team needs to reduce the time they assigned to the critical path tasks until the CPT equals the allotted project time. 4. Create the initial Gantt/Milestone chart for the semester. This can then be added to the PMW as shown in Figure

Conference Session

ECE Program Development

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert A. Strangeway, Milwaukee School of Engineering; Stephen M. Williams P.E., Milwaukee School of Engineering; Edward W. Chandler P.E., Milwaukee School of Engineering; Richard W. Kelnhofer, Milwaukee School of Engineering; Owe G. Petersen, Milwaukee School of Engineering

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

-wave technology and is currently performing research on millimeter-wave compo- nents and systems at Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI. He is a member of the IEEE and teaches courses in circuits, signals, electromagnetic fields, and RF/microwaves.Dr. Stephen M. Williams P.E., Milwaukee School of Engineering Dr. Stephen Williams, P.E. is a Professor and Chair of the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) Department at Milwaukee School of Engineering. He has over 25 years of engineering experience across the corporate, government, and university sectors specializing in: engineering design, electrome- chanical systems, sensor technologies, power electronics and digital signal processing. His

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Mariano Savelski; Stephanie Farrell; Robert Hesketh; C. Stewart Slater

initiated a program in green engineering todevelop a text book on green engineering; disseminate these materials and assist universityfaculty in using these materials through national and regional workshops coordinated with theAmerican Society for Engineering Education (ASEE), Chemical Engineering Division. Thetextbook developed titled, “Green Engineering: Environmentally Conscious Design of ChemicalProcesses” [16] by Allen and Shonnard is a designed for both a senior and graduate chemicalengineering course and has a series of accompanying modules that can be employed throughoutthe curriculum. The book is divided into three major sections: 1) Chemical Engineer’s Guide toEnvironmental Issues and Regulations 2) Environmental Risk Reduction for

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship, Design, and PBL

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Ken Ports

microgravity environment o A funded undergraduate research project being done in concert with the Department of Physics and Space Sciences in the College of Science. • Formula Race Car o A formula race car for intercollegiate competitions o The team is large and spans several Engineering departments • Sub-Orbital Amateur Rocket (SOAR) o A rocket designed for launch to 80 miles altitude o Candidate for Guinness Book of Records if successful – highest amateur rocket launch and first successful suborbital rocket constructed and launched in less than 2 years o The team is large and spans several Engineering departments • Versatile Exploratory Robotic

Conference Session

Engineering/Education Collaborators

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Tamara Knott

received a planninggrant from NSF under its Bridges for Engineering Education program. A goal of thiscollaborative effort, known as Bridges for Engineering Education, Virginia Tech (BEEVT), is toinitiate long-lasting collaborative relationships between the engineering and education faculty atVirginia Tech. In pursuit of this goal, one of the objectives is to create a framework forundergraduate engineering pedagogy based on contemporary learning theory. The use ofePortfolios in engineering education is one of the initiatives to meet this objective.The timing of the BEEVT effort coincides with a pilot at the university exploring the use of anePortfolio system called Virginia Tech Electronic Portfolio System (VTeP). Several BEEVTinvestigators

Conference Session

Unique Courses & Services for Freshmen

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Catherine Blat

retention problem. At the time, theCollege did not have a formal mechanism in place to measure retention but it was obvious thatgraduation rates were down and the proportion of underrepresented minority graduates wasshrinking. There was no assessment process in place to identify at what point students droppedout, where they were going, why they were leaving, and what could be done to reverse thetrends. An innovative solution was needed – one that would satisfy the needs of the diversestudent population in a growing, urban, public institution striving to expand its mission toinclude a sizeable research agenda. Any proposed solutions would also have to be integratedwith the ABET EC 2000 criteria, yet be flexible enough to adapt to a changing academic

Conference Session

To Design and Conduct Experiments

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephen McClain

half of theprojects are related to heat transfer or fluid mechanics. The groups must complete onematerials/solid mechanics five-week project and one heat transfer/fluid mechanics five-weekproject.To complete each five-week project, the groups must complete 1) a brief oral proposal, 2) awritten proposal, 3) a formal oral presentation, and 4) a formal written report. One week afterthe project is assigned, the group is required to present a fifteen-minute oral proposal. In thebrief oral proposal, the students in a group must discuss the theory of the projects, theconstruction of the apparatus, and the requirements for the instrumentation. This exercise servestwo purposes. The first purpose is to require the students to start researching their

Conference Session

ETD Design I

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Aurenice Menezes Oliveira, Michigan Technological University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

AC 2012-3065: A HANDS-ON COURSE IN DATA COMMUNICATIONSFOR TECHNOLOGISTSDr. Aurenice Menezes Oliveira, Michigan Technological University Aurenice Oliveira is an Assistant Professor in the Electrical Engineering Technology program at Michigan Technological University. She received the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA, in 2005. Her current research interests include communication sys- tems, digital signal processing, optical fiber systems, and engineering education. Oliveira is the Michigan Tech Project Director of the U.S.-Brazil Engineering Education Consortium funded by FIPSE-U.S. De- partment of Education. Oliveira has also been contributing to STEM K-12

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Jerome Schubert

-deepwater drilling is the difficulty of reaching the geologic objective with a usable hole size.In ultra-deep waters, the geologic objectives tend to be deeper below the mudline, which results inadditional casing strings that would be required to reach total depth. Not only are the targetsdeeper, but the window between pore pressure and fracture pressure becomes narrow - resulting inshorter drilling sections between casing strings. Historically, the solution to the increased numberof casing strings has been to increase the initial hole size, until we now utilize marine risers with a Page 6.906.2 Proceedings of the 2001 American Society

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert King; Joan Gosink

Session 2526 Meeting ABET EC 2000 Criterion 3 Outcomes with a Laboratory Course Drs. R. H. King and J. P. Gosink Engineering Division, Colorado School of Mines1 IntroductionColorado School of Mines (CSM) is a public research university devoted to engineering andapplied science that has distinguished itself by developing high-quality graduates andscholarship. The U.S. News and World Report Inc. rated CSM 26th in the Top National PublicUniversities and 50th in the Best Undergraduate Engineering Programs with Ph.D. Programs in20011. The school’s mission as written in the Colorado statutes

Collection

1998 Annual Conference

Authors

C. Faye; N.W. Scott

efficiency of the tutorial method is the ratio of final mark for the unit and, after the initial few weeks of the‘input’ to ‘output’. The ‘inputs’ to a tutorial can be seen as year, few students took advantage of this service.the monetary costs of operating, updating and maintaining it;these qualities are relatively simple to measure since there is 1.2 UWA-CPCS in 1996one common scale of measurement, dollars. This Formal computer-based tutorials, ie. in the presence of a tutormeasurement is absolute and objective: once the costs to be

Collection

2024 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Kaycie Lane; Jason Hawkins

iterations of the course. 3. To document observations from initial implementation of the course in the Fall 2024 semester in two locations (Omaha and Lincoln) and to provide other UNL faculty teaching upper-level courses with a list of skills students should theoretically have obtained after passing the course 4. To document challenges, successes and opportunities for future improvementCourse Development Methodology and ResultsCourse StructureCIVE 202 is a 2-credit hour course taught as a lecture-lab format at UNL on both the Lincoln and Omahacampuses. The class meets for a 50-minute lecture once a week, followed by a two-hour lab once a weekon the same day. The course is a requirement for civil engineering majors entering the

Collection

2016 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Oludare Owolabi

FIELD EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING PEDAGOGY IN ENGINEERING MECHANICS A MEANS OF IMPROVING STUDENT ENGAGEMENT AND PERFORMANCE Oludare Owolabi, DSc., PE, Department of Civil Engineering Morgan State1700 East Cold Spring Lane, Baltimore, MD 21251, CBEIS 340, USA, Tel: 443-885-5445 Fax: 443-885-8219; Email: oludare.owolabi@morgan.eduMorgan State University has remained focus in broadening the participation of underrepresentedstudents through experiential learning, in-order to gain the necessary knowledge in STEM aswell as link theory with practice. This initiative has been via internships, field trips, and meetingswith consultants. As it has been noted that students become more engaged when