Collection

1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Gloria Rogers; Julia Williams

) and can be used for diagnostic/prescriptive purposes as well. • Increase the “power” of maximum performance measures over more artificial or restrictive “speed” measures on tests or in-class sample. • Increase student participation (e.g., selection, revision, evaluation) in the assessment process.The use of portfolios also has some disadvantages that need to be considered whenchoosing an assessment method. They include: • Problems with storage and administration. • Cost in terms of evaluator time and effort. • Challenge of establishing reliable and valid rating criteria. • Concern of faculty that a hidden agenda of the process is to validate their grading or evaluate the effectiveness of their teaching

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Design II

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ryan L. Solonsky P.E., Pennsylvania State University, University Park; M K Parfitt

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

]. These systemsprovide excellent mechanisms for developing new leaders amongst the cohort of graduating students [12].Studies of engineering capstones have revealed much variation in terms of course duration, projectsources, project funding, faculty involvement, and team assignments [13]. Factors influencing this qualityinclude: the amount and type of involvement of outside professionals and experts with relevant designexperience, length of the course (one or two semesters), student/faculty ratio in the class, the number offaculty involved who have significant engineering design experience, and available resources such ascomputer labs equipped with a full suite of modern design application software [14].Desjardins et al. [15] has indicated that

Collection

1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Sohail Anwar

series of team building and cultural awareness sessions will sensitize thesecross culture teams to issues and concerns of their partners. Existing and new resources will bedeveloped for these activities for delivery in an asynchronous mode. The language ofcommunication between the team members will be English, however, each team will be providedlanguage assistance by an upper division student in French-Engineering dual major. Teams willcommunicate electronically to solve the design problem. This will include electronic mail, theworld wide web, chat groups, fax, teleconferencing and videoconferencing. They will also haveavailable identical software programs and videoconferencing software with document sharingcapabilities.Project 2 - Independent

Conference Session

Delivering Value in Publishing and Scholarship

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Andrew T. Rose, University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Libraries

relatedUniversity center encouraging faculty and student use of the archives. The archives not onlyyielded useful information addressing the original purpose of the research, they also revealedother interesting aspects of the Governor’s years in office, which were of interest to the facultymember. This other information encountered has potential for providing additional opportunitiesfor scholarship. The primary source materials contained in the archives provided the researchera deeper understanding of the issues involved in the topics studied. It also was felt to be a morerewarding research experience for the faculty member because of the discovery of relevantinformation and insights that were not originally anticipated at the start of the

Conference Session

Best Zone Paper Competition

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Dan Budny P.E., University of Pittsburgh

Tagged Topics

Council of Sections

research tools, critically evaluating the materials identified, andproperly documenting sources used. Problems that future engineers will face may requireknowledge and understanding from several fields outside of their areas of expertise.Graduates should have the ability to teach themselves new concepts and apply information tonew and unfamiliar situations.[11] A major concern is how to introduce library skills duringthe freshman year.Engineering 0081 - Freshman SeminarENGR0081 is a course that explains the university policies and procedures to the students. Itis required for all freshmen engineers [9]. It is a zero credit class, however the freshmen aregraded pass/fail based on attendance and participation.In the past this course was a typical

Conference Session

Engineering and Public Policy Pioneering Courses

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Douglas Sicker, University of Colorado-Boulder; Tom Lookabaugh, University of Colorado-Boulder

Tagged Divisions

Engineering and Public Policy

interviews to frame questions to ask in the form of asurvey instrument with the goals of both improving the size of the population sample and usinganonymity to reduce potential bias in responses.5. Quantitative Research - SurveyThe results of our interviews served to inform the structure and content of a survey wesubsequently developed. The interviews highlighted a number of issues regarding the Page 11.575.5effectiveness and enjoyment of the SFTP events. They also served to pinpoint some concerns ordissatisfactions of the students. Overwhelmingly, the interviews suggested that the studentsfound these events to be enjoyable (contrary to perceptions

Conference Session

Energy Conversion and Conservation Technical Session 2: Enhancing Energy-Related Education with Student Design Projects

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bala Maheswaran, Northeastern University; Adrian Criollo; Ananya Reghupathi, Northeastern University; Ansh Shah, Northeastern University; Robert Lee, Northeastern University

daily activities. The development of renewable energy[13]-[14] and the research for new sources of energy has become more necessary. As part ofproject-based experiential and interactive learning, we have chosen energy innovation as ourtheme. The goal is to design, build, and demonstrate innovative systems for energy productionand/or transfer. As a part of our learning approach, we follow these steps: The first step is a case study of an exciting energy system. That is, doing research on the system design and its potential innovation. We were strongly encouraged to interact with faculties/researchers at the institute or in the area institutes (Appendix 1) Second, we need to complete and present the case study in two weeks. Third

Conference Session

Advice for Dual-Career Couples

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Patricia Hyer; Catherine Eckel; Margaret Layne; Elizabeth Creamer

Developing and Implementing Guidelines for Dual Career Hires Peggy Layne, Elizabeth Creamer, Patricia Hyer, Catherine Eckel Virginia TechAbstractLike many land grant institutions, Virginia Tech is located in a part of the state with limitedemployment options. In order to attract and retain an outstanding faculty, Virginia Tech mustincreasingly address issues related to the employment of faculty spouses and partners. Theseissues are particularly important for women faculty, since women are more likely to be marriedto other professionals, especially academics, than their male colleagues. As part of VirginiaTech’s NSF ADVANCE Institutional Transformation grant focused on

Conference Session

Aerospace Technical Session

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kenneth Van Treuren, Baylor University; Daniel Kirk, Florida Institute of Technology; Tein-min Tan, Drexel University; Sridhar Santhanam, Villanova University

Tagged Divisions

Aerospace

X 15 creatively, independently and cooperatively Flexibility - the ability and self- X16 confidence to adapt to rapid or major change17 Curiosity and a desire to learn for life X (NE disagree)18 Importance of teamwork X (Slight)Useful information can also be gleaned by indentifying skill areas where there are largepercentage differences between the answers given by the new employee and the manager. Thisdifference comparison is shown in the data in Figure 3. If the bar appears above the zero-line itmeans that the new engineer believes that they need more education and training to competentlydeal with the issue, whereas the supervisor believes that the training

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade for Research

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Terry Wildman; Kumar Mallikarjunan; Mark Sanders; Jeffrey Connor; Vinod Lohani

commonalities and common interests. It was thebeginning of a new Virginia Tech (VT) engineering/education collaboration that was completelyunfathomable a year earlier.Since NSF’s intent with the “Bridges” solicitation was, in part, to improve engineeringpedagogy, the group quickly expanded to include two educational psychologists. One wasDirector of VT’s Center for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, who already had workingexperience with some engineering faculty on issues relating to pedagogy. The other was theDirector of the new School of Education. This working group thus had a good balance ofengineering and education faculty who were eager to work together on a proposal they felt hadgreat potential for fostering long-lasting collaboration. To

Collection

1997 Annual Conference

Authors

James L. Neujahr; Herbert Seignoret; Gary Benenson; Ed Goldman

becomecertified. In New York State, for example, an engineering student who wants to become a scienceor math teacher is forced to take 15 - 20 additional credits in science or math, as well as 18education credits. To become a technology teacher requires a completely new undergraduatedegree in technology education, which can no longer be obtained anywhere in New York City.During the past year and a half, faculty members from four engineering schools have met withofficials from the New York State Education Department (NYSED) to propose a newcertification path in K-12 Technology Education for recent engineering graduates as well asengineers returning from industry. The NYSED enthusiastically supports the idea, for severalreasons. The transition from

Conference Session

Wider Contexts of Ethics for Engineers

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

D'Arcy Randall; Hillary Hart

thespring semester of 2005. It covers website design, the creation of scenarios, and selection ofeducational material. The final section focuses on assessment techniques to be used formativelyto revise the modules according to student and faculty feedback.Design of Web-Based ModulesThe first challenge of this project was to break down the content we wished to cover into smaller“lessons” that would make that subject “live” for students. We started by setting objectives foreach subtopic and building a lesson to meet those objectives. For instance, for the Credibility ofSources module we knew we wanted to cover “how to evaluate” sources of information,especially web sources, as well as the whole issue of how to decide what information needs to

Collection

1997 Annual Conference

Authors

Jerry W. Samples

technology ininstruction, faculty expectations of students, non-class room factors, and the application ofworkshop material. At the United States Air Force Academy new faculty members attend a 3-week workshop focused on exposing new faculty members to the psychology of learning,effective teaching methods, and academic administration procedures.13 The Education Researchand Methods Division (ERMD) of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) hasa strong program of conference sessions and workshops that cover a wide variety of education-related topics including teacher training programs. Through the National Effective TeachingInstitute (NETI), North Carolina State University professor Richard Felder holds a 3-dayworkshop on teaching

Conference Session

Building Blocks for Public Policy in Curricula

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joel Haight, Pennsylvania State University; Richard Devon, Pennsylvania State University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering and Public Policy

explicitly. One class approached it as a problem in engineering design. The otheraddressed it in terms of the emergency preparedness and planning effort in New Orleans. Thelatter is certainly closer to public policy than engineering design is, but it still focused more onwhat happened rather than what was planned or what policies drove the planning.In fact, the unfolding events and coverage, which still continues, made a top down approachrather impractical. Yet both instructors found that a great many policy issues were raised by thestudents in their projects and these are summarized and reported here. This is, then, an inductiveand student centered approach to engineering and public policy. We report on a “found policy”equivalent to what is

Conference Session

Technical-Capacity Building & Exporting of Higher Education to Developing Countries

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Russel Jones, World Expertise LLC

Tagged Divisions

International

programs staffed with home campus facultymembers. The quality of programs may suffer when faculty members who have not beensteeped in the home campus culture are employed to fill out faculty numbers . Page 14.318.7There is concern that investments in high-quality undergraduate and graduate educationwill serve a relatively narrow segment of society in the oil-rich countries. Local studentstend to have basic skills issues – poor study habits and motivation, and limited English,math and science skills – and may not qualify for admission. 4There is also concern that graduates of these American-style universities may not beconnected to the local culture and

Conference Session

Industrial Collaboration & Applications in ET

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

William Loendorf, Eastern Washington University; Donald Richter, Eastern Washington University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

catalyst for improvement byinitiating change both in the programs offered by and the facilities utilized by the Engineering &Design Department. Without their commitment and unwavering support the entire collaborativeprocess would not have been possible.In 2000, Eastern Washington University began the Technology Initiative for the New Economy,designed to help address current workforce needs, particularly as they applied to the regionaltechnology sector, through excellent student learning, recruitment, and retention. As an integralpart of this process, the faculty in the College of Science, Mathematics, and Technology (SMAT)including the Departments of Engineering and Design, Computer Science, and Physicsreorganized. These departments were

Conference Session

Graduate Studies Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Kate Caroline Batson, University of Georgia

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Graduate Studies

and the rhetorical issues of writing(Jordan & Kedrowicz, 2011). That is, faculty focus on “the research, ideas, and conclusions anddirect comments towards what they clearly perceive to be the science content rather than spendtime on what they perceive to be more general, less technical writing concerns” (p. 7).However, faculty have also indicated that their preference to address technical content infeedback is often put aside for addressing issues such as grammatical and syntactical errors thatwere interfering with reader comprehension of the text (Craig, 2005; Kranov, 2009). Distractedby sentence-level surface errors, professors often focus on correcting grammar instead ofcommenting on topics such as content and rhetorical issues

Conference Session

Teamwork & Assessment in the Classroom

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

James Newell

faculty concerning the scope andformat of these status reports. During the pilot program, each member of each clinic team isrequired to answer the following questions, in the form of a written status report, every twoweeks: 1. What issues are you having with the technical aspects of the project? 2. What logistical issues (ordering problems, scheduling, software issues, etc.) are you facing? 3. What issues in team dynamics have arisen since our last meeting and how are you dealing with them? 4. What do you think the highest priority task is during the next two weeks? 5. What is the largest barrier to accomplishing that task?These questions resemble the journaling activities used at Clemson

Conference Session

CoNECD Session : Day 3 Slot 8 Technical Session 2

Collection

2021 CoNECD

Authors

Philippa Anne Martin, University of Canterbury; Eileen Frances Britt, University of Canterbury

Tagged Topics

CoNECD Paper Submissions, Diversity

potentially serious penaltiesfor such behavior and viewpoints. A very public graphic example of this is the Google echochamber case, where an employee was dismissed due to expressing viewpoints that did not alignwith company values [5]. Professional engineering bodies are increasing the obligations onmembers to report breaches to their code of ethical conduct and making it more difficult formembers to avoid disciplinary processes, for example Engineering New Zealand changed theircode so that “engineers must take action if they observe something of concern” and they mustreport if they “suspect another engineer has significantly breached the code” [6]. Therefore, it isin the best interests of all parties to address disruptive and disrespectful behavior

Collection

2008 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Lawrence Whitman; Zulma Toro-Ramos; Dan Allison; Colin Davidson; Martha Shawver; Shelly Belles; Chris Wilkinson

global issues,cultural concerns, and even global constraints in design. In fact, Shuman, et al. [2]state that future engineering graduates need “to become highly innovative global‘problem solvers.’” Downey, et al. [3] present the required competencies for anengineer to be “globally competent.” Global learning may even impact thelifelong learning of graduates. As students become more aware of differences inclusters, even in engineering design, they realize their need to learn throughouttheir lives [4]. The definition of global learning is considered by some to be lessimportant than the implementation. According to Hedberg [5], there is a degree ofconsensus regarding the definition of global learning, but the problem is in regardto “how to attain

Conference Session

Graduate Studies Division Technical Session 4

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Thomas L. Acker, Northern Arizona University; Nena E. Bloom, Northern Arizona University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Graduate Studies

opportunities for current students, and toopen up the pool of possible students interested in this field. Expanding educational opportunitiesby developing online delivery of wind energy graduate courses is one strategy to address muchneeded diversity in the field. Building upon the literature of previous successful consortiumdevelopment, a new replicable model for setting up a consortium was created, called the Rapidmodel, with the name reflecting the goal to implement a new consortium within one year.Researchers conducted a study to determine the effectiveness of the model, through observingprogram meetings, interviewing faculty, staff and administrators engaged in the consortiumdevelopment work, and examining course sharing outcomes. Researchers

Collection

1997 Annual Conference

Authors

Susan Montgomery

Professor of Chemical Engineering at the University of Michigan. Shereceived a BSEChE from the University of Michigan in 1984, an MA and PhD from Princeton University in 1991.In 1995 she was the recipient of a Dow Outstanding New Faculty Award. Page 2.42.4

Conference Session

Exporting of Higher Education to Developing Countries

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Waddah Akili, Iowa State University

Tagged Divisions

International

issues of curricula and program development, toinclude: faculty professional development, outreach, instructional technologies andmethodologies, assessment, linking and sharing with industries, and the K-12 arena as well.Proven methodologies and knowledge generated elsewhere, if and when properly adapted,should make it possible for Region’s institutions to devise revitalization programs that meetRegion’s needs, objectives, and aspirations. Who should be entrusted with the process of shiftingfrom the old to the new paradigm? To start, “forward-looking” faculty members can contributeto such an effort- each in their own way. Industrial leaders, professional societies, communitymembers, and others can also contribute as facilitators of the change

Conference Session

Moral Theories and Engineering Ethics

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Arthur Kney; David Brandes; Mary Roth; Kristen Sanford Bernhardt

class can become monotonous and students (and faculty!) lose interest. The faculty teachingthis course use full class discussion, small group work, role-playing, guest speakers, videos, andbrief in-class writing assignment to provide some variety.The case study approach is common and has been well-documented in the literature. However,in spite of the wealth of material available in engineering ethics texts and on the world-wideweb, challenges arise in several areas. Haws2 and Harris et al. 9 raise concerns aboutcontextualizing cases appropriately, providing a variety of cases, and ensuring cases havecharacters to whom the students can relate. We share these concerns, and we have tried toinclude more “mundane” cases (for example, whether to

Collection

2004 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Saeed M. Khan; Beverlee Kissick

two different sets of diversity competencies [4-5] thathave evolved separately. Briefly put, the authors have primarily concerned themselveswith helping science and technology students develop diversity skills, not just in responseto the stipulations of regulatory bodies like Technology Accreditation Commission of theAccreditation Board for Engineering and Technology(TAC of ABET), but also from a deeply felt need to help students succeed in theincreasingly diverse workplace.It is important to point out that while the cultural and ethnic diversity of faculty, staff andstudents play a crucial role in the multicultural training of students, and while every stepmust be taken to increase underrepresented groups on campus, such diversity is also

Conference Session

Technology-Enhanced Learning

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Glenda Scales, Virginia Tech; Sharon Caraballo, George Mason University; James Groves, University of Virginia; Rosalyn Hobson, Virginia Commonwealth University; Linda Vahala, Old Dominion University; Catherine Amelink, Virginia Tech

Tagged Divisions

Continuing Professional Development

equipped with individual Tablet PCs for this style ofonline instruction.As the Volgenau School scales up its distance learning efforts, it has purchased a license to acommercial system with similar functionality to NEW, in order to move most of the networktraffic off of Mason's network, gain 24-hour technical support, add some additional softwarefeatures, and encourage adoption by faculty who have concerns based on much earlier versionsof NEW. Some of the school's courses are now offered online using this tool instead. Pullen andcolleagues are continuing to develop NEW to add requested features and improve scalability,with the hope of ultimately eliminating the need for the commercial product.The Volgenau School does use IVC for some contract

Conference Session

Evolving Engineering Libraries: Services, Spaces, and Collections

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Megan Sapp Nelson, Purdue University, West Lafayette

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Libraries

domain knowledge of the library sciences applies to the givensituation.) Selecting appropriate tools for the data interviews and partnerships require a familiarprocess of learning tools and applying them. Forming partnerships with faculty and otherlibrarians is an essential tool of librarianship as a whole, and is particularly important to dataengagement. On the other hand, creating infrastructure or collaborating to improve infrastructuretakes a systems librarian approach into the realm of cyber-infrastructure. Finally, library sciencedomain knowledge is used and new skills are acquired throughout the entire process.A wakeup call for connecting to dataAs a liaison to civil engineering, the author’s first introduction to data curation and

Conference Session

Multimedia and Distance Learning

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Judith R. Pearse, University of Maine

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

faculty members. He was concerned that the university administrationwould use recorded class sessions to eliminate faculty positions. His reasoning was that, if acourse was recorded, there would be no need for a faculty member to teach it until an update wasneeded in a few years’ time. Although there exists verbiage in the faculty’s union contractregarding the use of course materials without a faculty member’s consent, the language isoutdated and does not strictly address many of the concerns. All other FE review courseinstructors expressed no concerns regarding this issue for this particular course, but suggestedfurther review of the university’s policy surrounding electronic media usage.Limitations to the Adobe ConnectPro SystemThere were still

Conference Session

Curriculum in Electrical and Computer Engineering Technology: Part II

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Chao Li, Florida A&M University; G. Thomas Bellarmine, Florida A&M University/Florida State University; Leon Prosper, Florida A&M University/Florida State University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

attendance and latency in the class session compared to previousclass attendance and record.In the comment area, one student raised a concern on using the new system. He pointed out thatstudents need to develop the oral presentation skills and students need to be encouraged to takethe initiative and answer questions in front of all the class. Those communication skills are veryimportant in the work place and are important of the success of them. For the classes using thissystem, more interaction is done using the web. Oral responses in some cases are replaced byweb response. Those issues are really needed to be taken into consideration in future lectures.Overall, the new instructional system is a great success. Students are excited about this

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Tiago R. Forin, Rowan University; Stephanie Farrell, Rowan University; Harriet Hartman, Rowan University; Sarah K. Bauer, Rowan University; Stephanie Lezotte, Rowan University

Tagged Topics

Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

CEE Department to take aholistic approach to accepting students. Mentoring efforts were also initiated with transferstudents through the aid of one of the RevED researchers and a broader mentoring of other CEEstudents through the student chapter of the American Society of Civil Engineers. Mentoring wasestablished as an essential tool for students to stay engaged in their time within the program [7].These mentoring programs continue on through all the years of the RED grant.For the second year, another survey was released to CEE students as a means to isolate anyexperiences and issues that were specific to CEE students. The result of this survey led to thedevelopment of interview questions for the third year. The CEE faculty made more