Conference Session

Engineering Libraries Division Poster Session

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Emily Bongiovanni, Colorado School of Mines; Brianna B. Buljung, Colorado School of Mines; Alexander Luis Odicino, Colorado School of Mines; Allyce Horan, Colorado School of Mines

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Libraries

this movement meant encouraging faculty on a large scaleto adopt, adapt, and create OER. Peter Reed noted in his 2012 study, “Awareness, Attitudes andParticipation of Teaching Staff towards the Open Content Movement in One University,” thatteaching faculty are open to sharing their work, but “they are not doing so to any large-scaledegree, that is, through specific OER repositories and open licensing.” 1 The challenge ofencouraging faculty to understand and incorporate OER can often derive from their unfamiliaritywith terms and policies related to copyright. 2 3 These concerns are compounded by facultyquestions regarding OER content quality and the peer review process. 3 However, these issues canbe mitigated by informational courses offered by

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jill K Nelson, George Mason University; Daria Gerasimova, George Mason University; Margret Hjalmarson, George Mason University; J. Reid Schwebach, George Mason University

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees Poster Session

development to provide ongoing support for instructors in theirteaching efforts 26, a need supported by the research in K-12 27.While common in faculty professional development, FLCs are rarely used for GTA professionaldevelopment, especially in a combined (faculty and GTAs) form. The FLC of Zemke and Zemkeincluded one GTA, but their study did not focus on his/her experience in it 12. Thus, in this studywe aimed to explore GTAs’ experiences in a FLC that included both faculty and GTAparticipants. Specifically, the following questions guided this study: Who were the GTA FLCparticipants? How did their involvement in the FLC occur? Did they benefit from theirparticipation in the FLC, and if so, how? What concerns and suggestions did they have

Conference Session

Teaching Ethics

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Waleed Abulfaraj, King Abdulaziz University; Mohamed Hassan, Alexandria University, Egypt

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Ethics

misconduct. These will always be fundamental concerns. But there ismore to engineering ethics than this. There is the more positive side that focuses on doing one'swork responsibly and well, whether in the workplace or in community service22.Service learning may be defined as22: Credit-bearing educational experience in which studentsparticipate in an organized service activity that meets identified community needs and reflect onthe service activity in such a way as to gain further understanding of the course content, abroader appreciation of the discipline, and an enhanced sense of civic responsibility.The concept of service learning is not new to higher education, or to the engineeringprofession22. The idea of integrating service with education has

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Bruce Perlman; Roli Varma

issues involved in the practice of engineering. Now,engineering organizations take special responsibility for the uses and effects of technology.Because of the nature of technologies, potential magnitude of their environmental impact,attendant social changes, growing cultural significance, and new concerns about ethicalresponsibility, education concerning engineering ethics started developing in many engineeringprograms. Earlier, much of the debate over curricular matters in engineering education centeredon giving greater emphasis to the technical courses over the social science and humanisticcomponents of the curriculum. Since the Morrill Act in the 1860s, the average proportion of thecurriculum devoted to liberal studies has been reduced from

Conference Session

Assessment & Quality; Accreditation in Engineering Education

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

David Anthony; C. Richard Helps; Barry Lunt

methods developed for a four-year IT program to pursue accreditation using new CACguidelines and new accreditation requirements and to create and set up appropriate feedbackmechanisms for continuous quality improvement, while considering the several new factorsrelated to accrediting in this new and constantly evolving discipline.Key issues in creating the appropriate structure for accreditation include setting goals related toinstitutional and college goals, choosing measurable outcomes, relating outcomes to teaching,measuring outcomes and using outcomes to modify both program structure and even to modifygoals and outcomes. A significant challenge for all such programs is measuring the outcomesgraduates of the program have achieved. How do you

Collection

1997 Annual Conference

Authors

Henry A. Wiebe

virtually alluniversities today. Its recommendation states: “Engineering education needs a new system offaculty rewards and incentives. Faculty perceive the present system to focus on disciplinaryresearch and publication; this focus must be expanded to include teaching, research, advising,and service in a way that includes all faculty as valued colleagues.” Other recommendations dealwith the diversity of the educational experience and call for a focus on more than just technicalinformation and also call for more rigorous assessment to judge the contributions of bothindividual faculty and entire university systems. Each of these areas; tenure, curriculum changes,and assessment represent difficult issues and ones that most educators find hard to

Conference Session

Design with External Clients

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

William Cross, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

respondequivalently to different teaching strategies.Prior to 2008-09, these courses were separate courses with MET 351 and MET 352 beingfocused on juniors learning the basics of the design process, particularly with respect to materialselection processes, interaction of materials, and materials processing. In addition, teaming,ethics and global/societal concerns were also emphasized. Much of this work was performedthrough case studies and writing assignments. For MET 464 and MET 465, the seniors generallyhad two types of experiences, small groups led by an MME faculty member working on ametallurgy-based focus, or individual students working on multi-disciplinary teams, usually withgroups sponsored through the Center of Advanced Manufacturing and Production

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alan Cheville, Bucknell University; Sarah Appelhans, University at Albany-SUNY; Rebecca Thomas, Bucknell University; Stewart Thomas, Bucknell University; Robert Nickel; Stu Thompson, Bucknell University

convergence captureshow different domains of expertise contribute to solving a problem, but also the value of thenetwork of connections between areas of knowledge that is built in undertaking such activities.While most existing efforts at convergence focus at the graduate and post-graduate levels, thisproject supports student development of capabilities to address convergent problems in anundergraduate disciplinary-based degree program in electrical and computer engineering. Thisposter discusses some of the challenges faced in implementing such learning including how todecouple engineering topics from societal concerns in ways that are relevant to undergraduatestudents yet retain aspects of convergence, negotiations between faculty on ways to

Conference Session

IE and EM Program Innovation

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kam Jugdev, Athabasca University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Management

. Wefocus on the four roles that faculty and course development staff collaboratively undertakes todeliver courses online: the pedagogical, management, technical, and social roles. In doing so, wefocus on our four project management courses and some of the practices we use in our ownuniversity to address distance education issues. We conclude with some recommendations foreffective program delivery practices.IntroductionWith its roots in systems engineering, project management is a relatively new discipline.Historically, project management originated in the construction, engineering, and technicalfields, and it is now applied to various industries, including new product development, productinnovation, and information technology 1. As a reference

Conference Session

Challenges of CE Education in a Global World

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stephen Ressler, United States Military Academy; C. Conley; Richard Gash, United States Military Academy

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

are U.S. Military Academy faculty members who deployed to Afghanistanin the spring and summer of 2007 to establish the new program at NMAA. In this paper, wedescribe our processes, products, and lessons learned. Although the situation in Afghanistan isunique in many ways, the lessons we learned there are nonetheless applicable to engineeringcapacity-building projects elsewhere in the developing world as well.BackgroundEarly in 2003, Afghanistan’s Ministry of Defense and the U.S. Army’s Office of MilitaryCooperation – Afghanistan (OMC-A) agreed to jointly establish a military academy that wouldprovide the newly created Afghan National Army with a capable, well-educated officer corps.1After considering a variety of different institutional

Conference Session

For Students to Know and Grow

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Robin Fowler, University of Michigan; Laura K. Alford, University of Michigan; Stephanie Sheffield, University of Michigan; Caitlin Hayward, University of Michigan; Trevion S. Henderson, University of Michigan; Rebecca L. Matz, University of Michigan

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Culture & Social Justice in Education, Equity

Tandem to better detect inequitable experiences and tobetter support students and faculty, with the dual goals of improving student team experiences inthe specific team context using Tandem as well as assisting students in forming strategies to pushback against inequities, which they might use in this specific context but also that they cantransfer to new contexts.Ethical issues in the design of this EdTechThere are a number of important ethical issues that we have grappled with, and continue to, inthe design of this tool.(In)equitable assessment. Often, when educational technology is viewed through an equity lens,the goal is in modifying an assessment so that it does not yield systemic differences by identitygroups such as gender and race. In

Conference Session

Developing Young MINDS in Engineering: Part I

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Arturo Fuentes, University of Texas, Pan American; Robert Freeman, University of Texas, Pan American; Horacio Vasquez, University of Texas, Pan American; Cristina Villalobos, University of Texas, Pan American; Stephen Crown, University of Texas, Pan American; Miguel Gonzalez, University of Texas, Pan American; Olga Ramirez, University of Texas, Pan American

Tagged Divisions

Minorities in Engineering

acoordinated faculty development program that trains, mentors, and supports a majority of thefaculty. The issue of faculty development was addressed in a recently completed Title V grantthat was awarded to UTPA. One of the goals of the project provided training for faculty throughseveral on-campus professional development seminars including teaching critical thinking ,cooperative learning and assessment of student learning outcomes. During the course of the grantover 130 UTPA faculty attended the multiple on-campus trainings. Faculty implemented changesin their courses and proposed changes in their curriculum that reflected the promoted researchfrom the Title V workshops. The success of the previous Title V program has stirred facultyinterest in and

Conference Session

Remote Sensing and Telemetry

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Alberto Gomez-Rivas; George Pincus

Page 8.1068.2case. Colorful maps present contamination sources together with resources being polluted. Asimple click of the mouse reveals the concentration of pollutants at a given point. Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2003, American Society for Engineering EducationBased on GPS and GIS it is possible to develop computer-based models that realisticallysimulate spatially distributed time-dependent environmental processes in nature. These modelsare increasingly recognized as fundamental requirements for the reliable, quantitative assessmentof complex environmental issues of local, regional and global concern. These

Conference Session

Technology Integration in the Classroom for Manufacturing II

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jahangir Ansari, Virginia State University; Amir Javaheri, Virginia State University; Nasser Ghariban, Virginia State University

Tagged Divisions

Manufacturing

Organization:The members of the project team divided-up the primary responsibility for coordinating the threeareas listed below. Product Design Coordination: The coordinator is responsible for coordinating all issues concerning the design of the system including development of design specifications, including manufacturing documentation, coordinating product design activities between project team members, and preparing the final design process report and presentation. Manufacturing Process Design Coordination: The coordinator is responsible for coordinating all issues concerning the implementation of the design including feedback concerning the implementation of the preliminary design, writing the production report and presentation for

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Programs: Look Ahead

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jean-Pierre Delplanque; Joan Gosink

and faculty at CSM, resulting in theplanning of a second minor degree in Humanitarian Studies and Technology, which would servestudents in applied science and economics. In this paper, we present some of the problems andissues associated with this multidisciplinary endeavor, involving engineering, the sciences andthe humanities.1. IntroductionThe 21st century has brought Americans a new awareness of anguish and discontent in lowerincome countries, and an emerging recognition of the need for U.S. participation to amelioratethis suffering. Attendant with these issues is the demand for enhanced security, safety, andequity for the disadvantaged. At the same time, engineering graduates shy away from politicallife, community service, and

Conference Session

Learning Through Service

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael Foster, George Fox University; Gary E. Spivey, George Fox University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Community Engagement Division

forinstructor approval.In addition to describing the evolution of the program, statistical analyses of student perceptionsof the design process and the influence of service experiences will be presented. Theselongitudinal data are used in the evaluation of the program as well as the overall presentation ofthe design process in the engineering curriculum.The details of this paper will provide information to other programs in their development ofsimilar courses. Through the discussion of ongoing areas of concern, those implementing similarprograms will gain exposure to issues that are sure to arise.IntroductionThe Servant Engineering (SE) program at George Fox University (GFU) began in spring 2010.As discussed in the authors’ first paper on this program1

Collection

1997 Annual Conference

Authors

Jerry W. Samples; Robert Martinazzi

adjustments when they enter college.They are not led through the university level educational environment in a manner similar towhat they became accustomed to in high school. To combat this abrupt change and assist thefreshman students transition to the new paradigm of university life, the Engineering TechnologyDivision at the University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown developed and instituted a zero credit, one-semester seminar course in the mid-1970’s. In 1990, the program evolved into the currentmandatory two-term seminar that exposes the students to the essential elements of successnecessary to navigate the tumultuous first year.An analysis of freshman needs highlighted five areas of concern to the freshman. These includedthe Engineering Technology

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Stanford; Michael Aherne; Duane D. Dunlap; Mel Mendelson; Donald Keating

-oriented, collaborative two-way exchange between higher education and the stakeholder communities it serves.4. Aligning institutions for responsive engagement results – Higher education is organized by departments and not by structures that are readily responsive to social issues or community concerns, issues, or opportunities. Aligning institutions for results involves clear leadership and support of engagement as well as strengthening responsible academic freedom and specialization, while finding incubating and integrating mechanisms and strategies to focus higher education’s resources in addressing social and community issues. It also means aligning faculty incentives and higher education organizational structures to be more

Conference Session

NSF Grantees' Poster Session

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Shane A. Brown P.E., Washington State University; Devlin B. Montfort, Washington State University; Cara J Poor P.E., Washington State University

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees Poster Session

 conceptual  understanding  have  shown  that  education  that  actively  engages  students  and  incorporates  their  own  understandings  of  the  material  is  more  effective.      Although  some  individuals  are  engaging  students  differently,  for  examples  see7,  8-­‐11,  a  great  many  faculty  members  would  need  to  be  convinced  to  change  their  teaching  methods  or  adopt  new  practices  to  significantly  change  the  conceptual  understanding  of  students.  The  purpose  of  the  work  described  in  this  paper  is  to  develop  curricular  materials  that  address  both  the  issue  of  encouraging  broad  adoption  and  the  issue  of  effectively  changing  students’  conceptual  understandings  in  the  context  of

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Jose Roesset; James Yao

, however, for US engineering students to study abroad and this isa situation that should be remedied.Realistic projects should be used as case studies to emphasize these issues and these topicsshould be taught in integrated courses and reinforced throughout the educational process. Itis particularly important that the curriculum consist of logical sequences of coordinatedcourses rather than an ensemble of independent and loosely related offerings. This requiressome amount of faculty time to ensure continuity of the topics in the various courses. Veryoften a particular instructor is only concerned with the subject he/she teaches and has littleknowledge of what is covered in preceding or following subjects. Appropriate coordinationis lacking in many

Conference Session

Design Projects in Mechanical Engineering I

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Angkee Sripakagorn, Chulalongkorn University; Kuntinee Maneeratana, Chulalongkorn University

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

framework, two things are placed between –grading rules and the examination panel. The grading rules are changed to directly represent thecourse outcomes and equally rely on the examination panel as well as the advisor. Theexamination panel consists of volunteered faculty members. They were recruited as earlyadopters of the ideas and involved in the setup of the new framework. Many panel members arecloser to students than the committee and better understand students’ concerns about thisframework. Through regular communication with the administrative committee, the examinationpanel provides valuable feedback to the committee regarding this new framework. In return,some of the panel members who are project advisors get the intimate knowledge of

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Beverly Withiam, University of Pittsburgh-Johnstown; Susan Dawkins, University of Pittsburgh-Johnstown; Robert Martinazzi, University of Pittsburgh-Johnstown

newrequired University Scholarship course was virtually seamless and without any major problems.This highly successful changeover was directly attributed to the collaboration and cooperationbetween the two entities responsible for the new course. Their joint single-mindedness coupledwith their intense dedication to serving the students provided the motivation for this successfulacademic venture.Concept DevelopmentThe development of all first-year students has been an ongoing concern at UPJ. Beforeimplementing the one-credit University Scholarship course, the University required all first-semester students not enrolled in the Engineering Technology Division to take a 0-credit courseentitled, “The College.”1 The freshman ET seminar was a part of the ET

Conference Session

Mentoring Graduate Students

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tershia Pinder-Grover, University of Michigan; Sarah Root, University of Arkansas; Emine Cagin, University of Michigan

Tagged Divisions

Graduate Studies

‚ Evaluating Methods to Improve Teaching18 Teaching ‚ Academic Integrity19 ‚ Student Evaluations Special Topics ‚ Authority Issues ‚ GSI-faculty team relationships ‚ Instructional TechnologyA final element of the training that EGSMs receive is informal mentoring from their peerEGSMs. All new EGSMs are assigned at least one mentor from the pool of more experiencedEGSMs. This provides new mentors with a natural mechanism through which they can askquestions, get feedback, and develop their individual consulting skills. This mentor alsoaccompanies the new EGSM when he or she completes an

Conference Session

Perspectives on Degree Completion and Graduate School Application

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Amir Karimi, University of Texas, San Antonio; Randall D. Manteufel, University of Texas, San Antonio; Lynn L. Peterson, University of Texas, Arlington

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

beliefs of students concerning their progress toward graduation, especiallytheir thoughts on impediments to their earning an engineering degree in 4 years. A survey wasconducted in the earlier study to assess the UTSA mechanical engineering students’ perception of thereasons for the delays in their graduation. The results of that study were reported earlier13. Thesurvey questionnaire was modified in this study to obtain more realistic feedback from students. Inaddition to mechanical engineering students at UTSA, students from other disciplines enrolled inboth UTSA and UTA also participated in the new survey. Questions used in the new survey arepresented in Table 3.The new survey was conducted in spring semester 2015 in capstone design courses or

Conference Session

ERM Technical Session 11: Leadership and Collaborations in Engineering

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alan Cheville, Bucknell University; Atsushi Akera, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Donna M. Riley, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Jennifer Karlin, Minnesota State University, Mankato; Sarah Appelhans, University at Albany ; Thomas De Pree, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Soheil Fatehiboroujeni, Purdue University

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

or those of under-represented groups given that theirsocial worlds may not align with majority views. Symbolic interactionism has been used tounderstand how change occurs in environmental behaviors [6] as well as change processes inhigher education more generally [7]. Change processes have received considerable attention inthe engineering education literature due to the perception of a gap between the guidance researchhas offered to improving education and the practice of engineering education. Change occursthrough actions of individual faculty in their courses, but also through the diffuse and generallyunseen processes of governance; it is this second form of change this work is concerned with.An underlying assumption of this work is that

Collection

1996 Annual Conference

Authors

William Peterson

Session 2542 Selling The Solution: A Key Skill for Engineering Managers William R. Peterson, Ph.D. University of Minnesota Duluth Improving competitiveness is a common concern for most manufacturing operations. Competitivepressure in manufacturing increases each year, and business-as-usual approaches do not work. Innovation isthe order of the day. Companies must respond to competitive challenges in new and innovative ways or findtheir products losing ground in the market place. Innovation takes many forms from hardware (such asrobotics

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Katherine G. Herbert, Montclair State University; Thomas J Marlowe, Seton Hall University; Jerry Alan Fails, Boise State University; Cyril S Ku, William Paterson University; Kelly M Goedert, Seton Hall University; Emily Hill, Drew University; Nina M Goodey, Montclair State University; Donal Thomas MacVeigh S.J.

Tagged Topics

Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

Paper ID #19802The NECST Program - Networking and Engaging in Computer Science andInformation Technology ProgramDr. Katherine G. Herbert, Montclair State University Katherine G. Herbert, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Computer Science, Montclair State University. Dr. Katherine Herbert is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at Montclair State University. Dr. Herbert currently researches database management, data warehousing and data quality issues in bi- ological, biochemical and sustainability-related data sets. Dr. Herbert received her Ph.D. in Computer Science in 2004 from the New Jersey Institute of Technology for

Conference Session

Develop Course / Materials / Topics for a Global Engineering Education / International Poster Session

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ashley Ater Kranov, Washington State University

Tagged Divisions

International

type ofwriting was a challenge for GA’s. While participants did not include writing for assistantships asone of the faculty challenges, it is apparent from the preceding discussions that faculty play alarge role in the degree to which GA’s successfully fulfill assistantship writing responsibilities,especially since their university does not consistently provide ESL writing support for thispurpose. Page 14.1.9Much of what panelists described as basic communication concerns regarding organization/structure and rhetorical issues fit into this writing for assistantship category or, rather, writing inthe profession. The literature supports that

Conference Session

Accreditation and Outcomes-based Education

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sandra A. Yost, University of Detroit Mercy; Laurie A. Britt-Smith, University of Detroit Mercy

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

new core curriculum, and the criteria that willbe used for approval. These criteria will require proposers to map course outcomes to the relevantcore outcomes and to identify a valid process for assessing those outcomes.4 Conceptual Framework and Related LiteraturePapers on “culture of assessment” are plentiful in the engineering education community, and inthe general higher education literature. The reference section points to just a few of the morerecent and relevant works relating to this effort. 3,4,5,6,7,8,9The fundamental problem has been identified and summarized as follows: A university faculty might be described as a collection of diverse and self-motivated free agents, each trying to balance a set of responsibilities

Conference Session

Capstone/ET Projects II - General

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Austin B. Asgill P.E., Kennesaw State University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

originally housed along with the ComputerEngineering Technology (CpET) and Telecommunication Engineering Technology (TCET)programs within the Electrical and Computer Engineering Technology (ECET) department. TheTCET program has since been discontinued and the CpET program has been converted to a newComputer Engineering degree program. The growth of engineering programs and dwindlingstudent enrollments in the ET program led to the program being merged with the MechanicalEngineering Technology (MET) program in a new department of Engineering Technology(ENGT). The ENGT faculty have viewed this merger as an opportunity for the new departmentto leverage the strengths within the two programs to offer unique curricula that support localindustry and affords