Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Keith K. Knapp

. Page 5.431.1II. PreconceptionsThe first ETW took place in July 1999 at the United States Military Academy (USMA) in WestPoint, New York. The majority of the workshop was taught or presented by USMA faculty, andits content was primarily based on the USMA educational training program for new civilengineering faculty. These facts, combined with the author’s experiences at other teachingworkshops and during his first year of university teaching, produced some (admittedly cynical)preconceived expectations of the ETW. The author’s main concerns with respect to the ETWincluded: 1) whether the “ExCEEd model” for teaching (used effectively by the military at anundergraduate academy) could be transferred to the world of “civilian” students

Conference Session

Topics in Civil ET

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Maher Murad

toaddress diversity. The idea of course transformation was initiated in a two-week facultydiversity seminar sponsored by the office of the Provost at the University of Pittsburgh. Themission of the seminar was to provide an experience that will assist faculty in making theircourses more inclusive in terms of diversity both in content and pedagogy.This paper describes the pedagogical aspects of developing and teaching a course intransportation to reflect aspects of diversity and diverse perspectives. The paper discusses effortsby UPJ to address diversity issues and the mission of the recently organized faculty diversityseminar. The focus of the paper is on course transformation and implementation. Courseoutcomes, syllabus and sample assignments are

Conference Session

Design in Engineering Education Division (DEED) - Societal Impact in Design

Collection

2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Trevion S Henderson, Tufts University; Katie A. Shoemaker; Aliki E Karagiannis, Tufts University

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Diversity

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Design in Engineering Education Division (DEED)

weillustrate in the following vignette. Both students and faculty arrived in Cartagena understanding that our participation in the design project required community permissions which were tentative and changing. However, after a series of interactions with community partners and faculty, students, at times armed with little more than loose paper and pencils, developed three new design projects related to garbage removal on Isla Barú: (a) A concrete stair structure along the side of a steep cliff to support manual garbage removal, (b) a pulley system with a carriage to support the mechanical removal of the garbage, (c) a shed structure for shelter from oppressive heat in Cartagena. The students, faculty

Conference Session

Methods and Techniques in Graduate Education

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bimal Nepal, Texas A&M University; Paul Lin, Indiana University-Purdue University, Fort Wayne

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Graduate Studies

AC 2009-1468: MANAGING COURSE OFFERING RESOURCE CONSTRAINTS INNEWER GRADUATE PROGRAMS THROUGH SPECIAL TOPICS COURSESBimal Nepal, Texas A&M UniversityPaul Lin, Indiana University-Purdue University, Fort Wayne Page 14.858.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2009 Managing course offering resource constraints in newer graduate programs through special topics coursesIntroductionMost new graduate programs face many challenges including lower initial enrollments, limitededucational resources such as laboratory equipment, faculty lines, and under developed or“work-in-process” curriculum. While the institution has its resource constraints, the studentsmay

Conference Session

Graduate Studies Division (GSD) Technical Session 6: Challenges and Coping Strategies of Engineering Graduate Students

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Liesl Klein, Villanova University; Greg J. Strimel, Purdue University at West Lafayette (PPI)

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Graduate Studies Division (GSD)

home and personal life, graduatestudents may be pressured to ignore them, potentially exasperating the prob-lem. The perceived lack of caring about these home and personal issues fromtheir academic institution can also serve to make the graduate students feeldehumanized, potentially leading to further mental crisis (Van der Linden et al.2018). Through analysis of 163 empirical studies exploring graduate students, 3it was found that there are several issues from which graduate students suffer asa result of their role (Sverdlik et al. 2018). These concerns are: high stress, de-pression, upper respiratory infections, difficulties maintain relationships, troubleengaging in social activities, negative impacts

Conference Session

MVCC Technical Session

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jakob C Bruhl, U.S. Military Academy; Joseph P Hanus, U.S. Military Academy; Paul M Moody P.E., U.S. Military Academy; James Ledlie Klosky P.E., U.S. Military Academy

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Military and Veterans Constituent Committee

issues - technical, environmental, social, political, andeconomic. The senior civil engineering students are challenged to assess the problem withestablished infrastructure models, develop creative mitigating measures, and outline the inter-related technical and non-technical concerns. This project was developed to contribute to studentachievement of the three program outcomes described above and provide an experience forstudents to develop higher level skills within the cognitive and affective domains. This paperdetails the course, the complex problem and the established infrastructure models. The paper alsoreviews pedagogy on teaching students to develop solutions for such problems and describesintegration of these methods in the course. An

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2011 North Midwest Section

Authors

Seraphin C. Abou

and work environments, thequality of life of the workforce may be affected because of potential adverse health effects ofthese new materials. Further, the dispersion of nanoparticles into the general environment andthe impact of exposure to the general population need to be considered in a proactive manner.The expected outcomes of the proposed education and research framework include, amongothers, (1) a roadmap and a guide for individual health and safety promotion and protectionalong the life cycle of nano-based products (i.e., nanomanufacturing enterprises, environment,product use, and disposal activities); (2) establishment of focus groups for advancement ofintegrated solutions and issues of immediate concern to individual health and

Conference Session

Attracting Young Minds: Part II

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rema Nilakanta, Iowa State University; Giada Biasetti, Iowa State University; Shashi S. Nambisan P.E., Iowa State University

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Minorities in Engineering

promising internship program involvingstudents, faculty, and community members. This unusual network of support has sustained¡Vamos!, injected it with new perspectives and energy. Further, this initiative has helped raisethe awareness among non-transportation student interns about transportation as a field of studyand for career opportunities.1. IntroductionThe transportation community is presently facing a perfect storm from a workforce developmentperspective. It is estimated that 40-50% percent of those currently employed in transportation areslated to retire in the next 10 years1, 2. As the baby boomer generation retires, a smaller hiringpool due to slumping birth rates in the 1980s is left to fill the void3. Moreover, the labor forcegrowth rate

Conference Session

Computers in Education Engineering Division Poster Session

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lee Kemp Rynearson, Purdue University, West Lafayette; David W Reazin, Purdue University

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Computers in Education

suite of tools in question allow for automated digital rubric generation, collection fromstudents, return to students, and most notably, analysis. Features include the ability to condenseseveral files submitted by one student into a single PDF for review, the ability to executesubmitted code in three programming languages (Python 3, MATLAB, and ANSI C) whilecapturing the output into a PDF, and the ability to track error conditions such as late submissionand incorrect file names and automatically assign penalties.Statistical reports are generated for each assignment automatically, providing a window intostudents’ performance and possible areas of concern. Automated warnings alert the teachingteam to potential errors in grading, equity issues

Conference Session

Capstone Design I

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robb E. Larson, Montana State University; David A. Miller, Montana State University

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Design in Engineering Education

18 I think there could be positive student learning in terms of communication, documentation, and project management. However, I think we should be very careful about this, as we want to be sure to continue to provide a good product to our industrial partners sponsoring these projects.SummaryFrom the student perspective, some of the potential group dynamics issues that were anticipatedby faculty were indeed realized, although these were generally short-lived. The faculty concernsthat new members would suffer was perhaps over-stated, as the new student team-mates were –again, in-general - quickly assimilated. From the instructor’s standpoint, it appeared that innearly every case the

Conference Session

Student Chapters - Formulas for Success

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Mark Evans; Eric Lachance; Allen Estes

aspects can support or defeat aproject being built. Similarly, Colonels Ken Kasprisin and Rick Pollo, the commanders of the StPaul and Detroit Districts respectively, visited to review the civil and military constructionprojects in their districts. Cadets were very interested in the local and national politics involvedin many of these projects. Colonel John O’Dowd briefed the cadets on the New York District’srole in the post 9/11 clean up and General Steve Rhodes told cadets about the North AtlanticDivision and offered advice for new lieutenants joining the Army. Students are treated to aninsider’s view of the issues facing Army engineers at the highest level.Another important role of the civil engineer is as a servant to society. The Student

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2019 CIEC

Authors

Elizabeth Dell; Anne Lucietto; Elaine Cooney; Liza Russell; Emily Schott

accurate picture of the total graduationclass.Survey of Engineering Technology Students and GraduatesIn February of 2017, National Academies of Engineering (NAE) published a study entitled“Engineering Technology in the United States.” 27 This document made several recommendationsregarding further study with the intent of developing an understanding of students, theircharacteristics, academic progression beginning in grade school, and furthering our understandingof why different groups graduate at higher rates than others and issues encountered in theworkplace.A committee was formed from engineering technology faculty interested this subject anddeveloped two surveys to investigate graduate and undergraduate engineering technology studentsbackground

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Design Constituents

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Maher Rizkalla, Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

parts ofthe research, would provide useful experience dealing with colleagues with differing abilities and Page 14.66.5knowledge, and would allow each student to codify their own learning by expressing it.Next, the group, the faculty advisors and students, determined the primary fundamental conceptsnecessary for the modeling of the operation of the device. After the individual concepts weredetermined, the students were asked to propose and justify an appropriate order and segregationto address the individual problems, and an appropriate timeline for each problem. For ourresearch project, the primary concerns were the electron probability

Conference Session

Accreditation and Assessment in SE Programs

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Janet E. Burge, Miami University; Paul V. Anderson, Miami University, Ohio; Michael Carter, North Carolina State University; Gerald C. Gannod, Miami University; Mladen A. Vouk, North Carolina State University

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Software Engineering Constituent Committee

course.Instructional issues are primarily concerned with the degree to which technical faculty aretrained in teaching and assessment of communication skills. Specifically, instructional issuesarise because technical faculty may not be formally trained in how to teach or assesscommunication. Over the past several decades, the writing-across-the-curriculum andcommunication-across-the-curriculum-movements have developed many strategies thatfaculty who have not had training in communication pedagogy can use to incorporatewriting and speaking into any college course.15, 24, 25 These practices have been adopted bysome engineering faculty and programs.26, 27, 28, 29 Often the result is that a few faculty in anengineering program include and even emphasize writing

Conference Session

Design in Engineering Education (DEED) Engineering Poster Session

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Waddah Akili, Iowa State University

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Design in Engineering Education

and mathematics. The resultingengineering graduates were perceived by industry and academia, at the time, as being “ill-prepared” for the practice. Despite steps taken to remedy the situation, through greater industry-academia collaboration; both design faculty and design practitioners argue that furtherimprovements are necessary. Design faculty across the country and across a range of educationalinstitutions still feel that the leaders of engineering schools (deans, department heads, tenuredfaculty) are unable or unwilling to recognize the intellectual complexities and resources neededto support good design education.Fortunately, more and more educators are becoming aware of the issues of design, and steps arebeing taken world wide, to

Conference Session

NSF Grantees’ Poster Session

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joachim Walther, University of Georgia; Nicola Sochacka, University of Georgia

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

field of engineeringeducation and their graduate students (2013, n = 9 faculty, n = 8 graduate students; 2014, n = 8faculty, n = 10 graduate students), and ii) three broader participation workshops at national andinternational engineering education conferences (AAEE 2012, n = 16; ASEE 2013, n = 112; FIE2014, n = 18). This paper describes the model of the ongoing collaborative engagement process,summarizes findings and insights concerning research quality, and outlines plans for future work.IntroductionThe long-term goal of the research program initiated by this NSF-funded CAREER project is tocultivate, catalyze, and systemize a much needed theoretical discourse within the engineeringeducation research community around research quality in

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Susan Haag

performance, and 2) their personal team performance. The document is collected from thestudents and subsequently the team meets formally with the instructor to discuss team dynamics.The process allows students to collect data on how their team is functioning, enables faculty toreview student concerns and issues, and uses feedback to facilitate team performance.Team Time is a designated time-period outside of class which serves many functions. Forexample, it allows time for formal team training, provides time to work in teams (above andbeyond class time), and enables faculty to monitor team performance and formally meet withteams to discuss team issues or concerns.Several areas were noteworthy in the FC teaming core competency in 1998-99. It is likely

Collection

2012 Northeast Section Meeting

Authors

Jani Pallis; Neal Lewis; Ravi Mishra; Navarun Gupta; Arthur McAdams; Richard Yelle

inter/multi-disciplinary coursework that forces students to learn some aspects of the other disciplines and to cause real-worldpersonality and technical issues to arise between functional areas. [2]CTech IncUBator@University of Bridgeport is a new university-based incubator intended to hasten and support thegrowth of startup technology companies. The CTech IncUBator is located on the UB campus, and focuses only ontechnical startup businesses. The incubator’s founding sponsors include Connecticut Innovations, Inc., theUniversity of Bridgeport, and The United Illuminating Company.The University of Bridgeport offers a variety of Bachelors and Masters degrees. As examples, the School ofBusiness offers Bachelors and Masters of Business

Conference Session

Program Assessment in ET

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Erdogan Sener

issue on the part of different administrators. Page 7.246.1Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright @ 2002, American Society for Engineering education Session 1648The Department Assessment Plan: Goals, Objectives, and Continuous ImprovementFor developing the Department assessment plan we identify five constituencies that benefit fromour programs: the students, the faculty, industry, the community, and the profession. In parallelwith this, the vision statement, the mission

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1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Lia F. Arthur; Irem Y. Tumer

concern for me.Unfortunately, by dividing the course into individual topic modules, I don't believe that I wasable to experience a comparable situation to that of a faculty member. I clearly spent asubstantial amount of time on the course during the weeks when I was the principal instructor.However during the remaining weeks, my research continued without too much distraction. Ibelieve that Ms. Tumer's experience of team-teaching each lecture gives a better taste for theacademic's perspective on this issue.3.4 Question #4: Is Academia Really the Career I Want?Beyond the questions dealing with my abilities to succeed in a teaching environment, I am alsoquestioning whether or not to pursue a career in academia. My experiences as teaching

Conference Session

First-Year Programs Division Poster Session

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Briceland McLaughlin, Boise State University; Nick Hudyma, Boise State University; Robert Hamilton P.E., Boise State University; Bhaskar Chittoori P.E., Boise State University; Mojtaba Sadegh, Boise State University; Sondra M Miller P.E., Boise State University

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First-Year Programs

academic support [11]. In order to work towards a studentexperience that reflects these areas, a new type of 1-credit, non-prerequisite course has beendeveloped. In the new curriculum design, students are required to take three Civil EngineeringEngagement Courses (CE-EC or phonetically, “seek”) during their first two years of study. SeeAppendix A for a sample of course descriptions. These courses aim to incorporate best practicesin student development while addressing concerns put forth in an initial curriculum review at thesame time. These courses replace the general Introduction to Engineering course requirement.CE-EC courses aim to develop a sense of community amongst civil engineering students,introduce students to faculty in a non

Collection

1996 Annual Conference

Authors

Craig Gunn

to either reduce papers, cut feedback, or find another way to provide the neededcomments that all writers need in order to improve their text production. The already existing body ofteaching assistants was tapped to act as readers and evaluators. The issues regarding communicationintegrated into an engineering department, faculty support for the plan, preparation of the graduate students,orientation for the undergraduates who are impacted by the plan, and an evaluation of the process thus farwill be addressed.Introduction Communication skill has always been one of the first things that is considered when deficiencieswithin engineering programs are evaluated. Over the past years many strategies have been undertaken toaddress these

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2010 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Douglas R. Carroll

Engineering Program as a competitor forstudents and state resources. The Main Campus may be concerned that they are losing studentsand state funding to the Host Campus through the Cooperative Engineering Program. Studentsearn their degree from the Main Campus, but attend the Host Campus. The Main Campus maybe concerned that the students will be more loyal to the Host Campus than to the Main Campusthat granted their degree. Graduates of the Cooperative Engineering Program may be morelikely to donate to the Host Campus than the Main Campus. These political issues need to beaddressed, or some faculty and staff at the Main Campus may be reluctant to support theCooperative Engineering Program. The administration at the Host Campus is pleased to be

Conference Session

Committee on Educational Policy Presents: Pillars of Our Curriculum

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Allen C. Estes, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Brent Nuttall, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Craig Baltimore, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Peter Laursen, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Michael James Deigert, P.E., California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Cole C. McDaniel, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

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Diversity

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Civil Engineering Division (CIVIL)

suggests a formalized methodology that other institutions can use iffound in the same situation.Some challenges are that initial information from university leadership can be sparse or overlyrestrictive; programs are dependent on each other for general education and support courses; thedesired outcomes at various levels are different; and the curriculum conversion schedule seemslike a long time to make a transition, but it is not. In reality, any creative thinking must be donevery early in the process as the final years are filled with approval processes, new coursedescriptions, revised catalog and new articulation agreements with the community colleges.Many express concerns about the three-year transition period where students experience

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Amit Jain, Boise State University; Noah Salzman, Boise State University; Donald Winiecki, Boise State University

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

curriculum.For example, the ​Navigating Computer Systems​ (where they learn to build and manage servers inthe cloud) course has a module where the students have to apply foundational concepts tochallenging social and ethical issues related to systems. They are provided with two scenariosinvolving ethical dilemmas concerning systems that were drawn from actual industry events. Thefirst scenario involved internet intrusion and violation of privacy while the second scenarioinvolved a security shakedown with conflicting business implications. Their assignment is toidentify the stakeholders, their interests, concerns and risks, and then apply a subset of fiveethical theories (Utility, Rights, Justice, Common Good, and Virtue. See [7] for moreinformation on

Conference Session

Research in Multidisciplinary Education

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Carol Barry, University of Massachusetts-Lowell; Jacqueline Isaacs, Northeastern University

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

subjects, such as access to benefitsarising from nanotechnology, effects on the labor pool, changes in the way medicine is practiced,concerns regarding possible health or environmental effects, privacy concerns arising fromdistributed nanotechnology-based sensors, and issues of environmental justice. A lecture waspresented by a faculty member and researcher in the CHN from the Department of Philosophyand Religion, who works in the areas of environmental ethics, and ethics and technology, inparticular nanotechnology. He imparted new ideas and new ways of thinking to the engineeringundergraduates, creating opportunities for a dialogue with the students and helping them to thinkoutside the box. This lecture was presented live at one university

Conference Session

Program Delivery Methods & Technology

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

David Enke; Susan Murray

physically in the classroom is achallenge. Considering distance students at remote locations adds an entirely new level ofdifficulty. Issues of fairness are also a concern, since many on-campus students may feelthey are being held to a higher standard, since they are being proctored while distancestudents are placed on the “honor system”. Academic Honesty OpportunitiesSome instructors require students to take exams at qualified testing centers, often atuniversities or in company training departments. However, this requirement significantlyreduces the students’ flexibility and may even prove prohibitive for some students. Manydistance students dislike driving to remote locations to take a test, and often feel itdecreases

Conference Session

ECET Curriculum

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gary Mullett, Springfield Technical Community College; Adrienne Smith, Springfield Technical Community College

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Engineering Technology

. OverviewFor some time now, many of us involved in the teaching of electronics technology (ET) at theAS degree level have been extremely concerned over the relative health of these legacytechnology programs. Declining enrollments have taken their toll in terms of a lack of newfaculty hires and, in some cases, where there has been an attrition of faculty members throughretirement or for other various reasons, this has signaled the end of the ET program if the collegedecides to redirect its resources elsewhere. This problem of declining enrollment and programelimination has not just occurred overnight. It has been happening steadily over the last twodecades. If one looks at the statistics available from the National Science Board (NSB), the totalnumber

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Jan Rinehart; Jim Morgan; Jeffrey Froyd

 2001, American Society for Engineering Educationengineering degree could assist their realization of career and/or lifelong goals, students formtheir impressions of careers after graduating with an engineering degree based on theirexperiences in lower division courses in science, engineering and mathematics as well asconversations with other students and faculty. In general, experiences in these coursesdiscourage students. Based on the work by Seymour and Hewitt1, lack of/loss of interest inscience, engineering and mathematics is principal concern mentioned most often as a factor thatencourages some engineering students to change their major to something different fromengineering. It is also one of the concerns mentioned most often by students

Conference Session

Sustainability and Engineering Programs

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Qiong Zhang, Michigan Technological University; Julie Zimmerman, Yale University; James Mihelcic, Michigan Technological University; Linda Vanasupa, California Polytechnic State University

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Environmental Engineering

success may change with location and culture requiring the CEEcommunity to continually adapt their designs to new information and often times generate new,innovative solutions for a particular situation.Overview of the ProjectTo integrate sustainability into engineering education, effective learning materials and teachingstrategies have to be created that enables engineering faculty to more easily incorporatesustainability approaches into curricula. This paper is based on a new project recently funded bythe National Science Foundation which focuses on addressing these issues. The goal of thisproject is to move the CEE community from the current status quo to an enhanced vision state, inwhich CEE faculty and students exhibit the ability to