Conference Session

Learning and Assessment in ME 2

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert J. Rabb P.E., The Citadel; Patrick Bass, The Citadel; Monika Bubacz, The Citadel; Kevin Skenes, The Citadel

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

information and content, making themparticularly fit for lecture5.Course OverviewA first semester junior course, MECH 325 Computer Applications, was taught for five terms,including summer, beginning in the fall of 2014. Four different instructors have taught thecourse with two having taught twice or in multiple sections. Approximately 70 students havetaken the course as a requirement in the mechanical engineering curriculum. Few of themechanical engineering students had experience with SolidWorks (exceptions are from transferstudents coming in from technical colleges). With very little prior student knowledge, it wasimportant to provide a well-structured way for them to learn and use the software. Frequenthomework assignments were used to reinforce

Conference Session

International Research Experiences

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Claude Brathwaite, City College of New York, NYC Louis Stokes Alliance; Julianne Vernon, University of Michigan

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

International

development.Dr. Julianne Vernon, University of Michigan Julianne Vernon is a Research Program Officer at the University of Michigan, the College of Literature, Science, and Arts where she is coordinating the implementation of faculty led research projects into introductory chemistry and biology lab courses. She received her bachelors of engineering in chemical engineering from the City College of New York and her doctorate degree at University of Florida in Environmental Engineering. She has experience developing international and national research experience for STEM majors. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 An Approach towards the Integration of International Research

Conference Session

A Technology Potpourri I

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David Border, Bowling Green State University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

Technology (ECET) program. Within this course set are the curriculum’s networking and communication courses. As is true with his ECET faculty colleagues, Border supports the program with teaching assign- ments, as needed, in freshman- and sophomore-level courses offerings. Examples of these include the sophomore level electric circuits and digital electronics courses. Border teaches a digital communication graduate course within a Ph.D. Consortium Technology Management program, as well as other graduate level courses at BGSU. Border served as interim department chair of the Engineering Technologies department. He served as chair of the university Faculty Senate curriculum and academic affairs committee. He is chair of the

Conference Session

Minorities in Engineering Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Marisa K. Orr, Clemson University; Catherine Mobley, Clemson University; Catherine E. Brawner, Research Triangle Educational Consultants; Rebecca Brent, Education Designs, Inc; Richard A. Layton, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Minorities in Engineering

Women in Information Technology (NCWIT) and, in that role, advises computer science and engineering departments on diversifying their undergraduate student population. She remains an active researcher, including studying academic policies, gender and ethnicity issues, transfers, and matriculation models with MIDFIELD as well as student veterans in engi- neering. Her evaluation work includes evaluating teamwork models, broadening participation initiatives, and S-STEM and LSAMP programs.Dr. Rebecca Brent, Education Designs, Inc Rebecca Brent is President of Education Designs, Inc., a consulting firm located in Chapel Hill, N.C. She is a certified program evaluator and a faculty development consultant. Brent received

Conference Session

Innovation and Fun in the Civil Engineering Classroom

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alexandra Kondyli, University of Kansas; Molly McVey, University of Kansas; Christopher Patrick Melgares, University of Kansas

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

typically low (1-2 students per year). Studentsgenerally take this course in their junior or senior year, it is a pre-requisite for the advancedgeometric design capstone class, and students should have completed the Geomatics coursebefore enrolling in Transportation Engineering. Approximately forty students take this courseevery year. Figure 1 shows the course sequence in the Civil Engineering curriculum. Figure 1. Course sequence for Introduction to Transportation EngineeringAfter completing this course, students are expected to: (1) identify factors influencing road vehicle performance; (2) calculate elements involved in geometric design and the safety concerns that motivate vertical curve length and horizontal curve

Conference Session

Mathematics Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Franziska Dorothea Wehner, Technische Universität Darmstadt

Tagged Divisions

Mathematics

equations and systems were introduced. Moreover, studentswere taught how to solve a number of specific nonlinear equations. The second part of thecourse dealt with the theory of holomorphic functions. Applications of Cauchy's integralformula were discussed. Two courses on analysis and linear algebra are prerequisites for thecourse.Besides a lecture which was held twice a week, students had the opportunity to visit tutorialgroups and to use various online learning resources, in particular lecture recordings, lectureslides, lecture notes and video tutorials. Online learning resources were made available tostudents via an electronic learning platform. The course and its evaluation were part of theproject “Competence Development through

Collection

2018 ASEE Conferences - Conference for Industry and Education Collaboration / San Antonio proceedings

Authors

Te-Shun Chou

network equipment and multiple VMware [7] virtual machines. Inaddition, detailed lab manuals were developed to help students carry out their lab activities in astep-by-step fashion [8].Network management covers a vast array of topics and it is impossible to teach all of them in asingle semester. Therefore, inquiry-based learning was used to compensate for the missing part.Articles related to the core aspects of the course were posted weekly. Each student was required toread the article and to leave a comment. The comment included a summary of the article, what thestudent has learned from the article, and which part of the article could be improved oremphasized.The project-based learning method required each student to submit a project at the end

Conference Session

Track: Pre-College - Technical Session 8

Collection

2019 CoNECD - The Collaborative Network for Engineering and Computing Diversity

Authors

Suzanne Sontgerath, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Chrysanthe Demetry, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Tagged Topics

Diversity, Pre-College

note: Full details of this study have been submitted for publication to the Journal ofWomen & Minorities in Science and Engineering.We expect that most in this audience are well aware that the middle school years are a criticallyimportant time for identity development and career planning for girls, particularly with regardto supporting interests in engineering.Some would argue that offering engineering programming for middle school girls is importantand valuable regardless of long-term outcomes. But program funders and host universitiestypically want to see more than that, such as entry into STEM majors or recruitment to theuniversity. This study captures our effort to track long term outcomes of a program that’s beenrunning at WPI for the

Conference Session

First-Year Programs: Work in Progress Postcard Session

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Corey Kiassat, PhD, MBA, PE P.E., Quinnipiac University; Ruby ElKharboutly, Quinnipiac University

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

and Applied Science developed a new advising process for first-year students by employing advisors that are also First-Year Seminar teachers. Peer advisors are also part of the model. They are responsiblefor guiding the students to university resources, and help them normalize their experiencesthrough social events and group discussions [3]. The College of Engineering at RowanUniversity report their enhanced dual advising program in [4] . In this model, students areassigned a first-year advisor who is responsible for course sequencing, college and campuspolicies and procedures, and referral to campus resources such as tutoring, study abroad,while the faulty advisor provides discipline-specific academic, industry and career

Conference Session

Mechanical Engineering Technical Session: Feeling the Heat - Thermodynamics and Heat Transfer

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Nicole Okamoto, San Jose State University

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

Paper ID #28296Implementing Competency-Based Assessment in an UndergraduateThermodynamics CourseDr. Nicole Okamoto, San Jose State University Nicole Okamoto is professor and chair of Mechanical Engineering at San Jose State University. She has a Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her research areas are thermal system modelling and thermal management of electronics. She teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in the thermal sciences at SJSU and has been heavily involved with assessment and curriculum development for more than a decade. c American Society for Engineering

Conference Session

Architectural Engineering Division Technical Session 3

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Christina McCoy P.E., Oklahoma State University; John J. Phillips, Oklahoma State University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Architectural Engineering, Construction Engineering

configure therebar. The lowest group of scores from the survey (1.78-2.00) came from questions pertainingto modifying group sizes. From these results, we can conclude that the students overall felt thatgroups of 2-3 people were appropriate for this exercise.Challenges While the beam project only took up 2 class periods, the development of the exercise andcoordination between multiple labs took up time. In future years, this is expected to run moresmoothly. The time away from lecture seemed well worth the experience gained by the students. Beam testing at the new EL helped the second lab day to run very quickly. However, thestudents and professor were not familiar with the equipment in the lab. While the lab supervisorwas there to

Conference Session

Student Division Technical Session 3

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Margaret Carroll; James A. Coller, University of Michigan; Laura K. Alford, University of Michigan; Roxanne Pinsky, University of Michigan; Charles William Schertzing, University of Michigan; Julia T. Toye, University of Michigan; Magel P. Su, California Institute of Technology; Robin Fowler, University of Michigan; Sangam Munsiff, University of Michigan

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Student

Paper ID #31643Gender differences in students’ team expectations and experiences inintroductory team-based coursesMargaret CarrollMr. James A. Coller, University of Michigan James Coller is an engineering PhD Candidate at the University of Michigan focusing on the development of a novel multi-layer network approach to understanding design complexity in unmanned maritime vehi- cles. James also completed his BSE and MSE in Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering in 2017 and 2018 respectively and a MS in Robotics in 2019 at Michigan. His research interests include autonomous robotics for both land and marine environments

Conference Session

NSF Grantees: S-STEM 2

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Brittany Bradford, Rice University; Margaret E. Beier, Rice University; Megan McSpedon, Rice University; Michael Wolf, Rice University; Matthew Taylor, Rice University

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees Poster Session

-remedial, focusing instead on the mostchallenging topics covered in freshman year calculus, chemistry, and physics. Participation isfree for all students and covers tuition, room and board, activity fees, and travel expenses for theduration of the summer.Participants attend class on weekday mornings and spend weekday afternoons in guidedgroupwork facilitated by upperclassmen (many of whom are former RESP participantsthemselves). The groupwork covers both challenging concepts and the learning strategies neededto succeed in rigorous coursework. Participants choose a “track,” or area of focus during theprogram by selecting a computer science coding project, natural science research, or anengineering design curriculum. Students’ coursework corresponds

Collection

2020 Mid-Atlantic Spring Conference

Authors

Abigail R Brown; Barbara Cerefin, Rowan University; Lauren Gallo, Rowan University; Sarah Ramsey, Rowan University; Kaitlin Mallouk, Rowan University

was to see how students’ self-perceptions ofthemselves as learners are developed and change over time. “Our study captures how thesestudents’ self-perceptions as learners are formed and transformed and illustrates how their priorand current learning experiences, self-perceptions as mathematics learners, backgroundcharacteristics, and relationships with others interweave to shape and reshape how they viewthemselves as learners” [4]. One of the interview questions used in this study was: “To begin,could you tell me a bit about your experiences as a student at [name of institution], since lastfall?” [4]. The results of this study included the self-perceptions relating to the environment oflearning, other students’ perceptions, and the parallel

Conference Session

Electrical Technology Projects and Applications

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David Pocock, Oregon Institute of Technology; Kevin McCullough, Oregon Institute of Technology; Andrew Carpenter, Oregon Institute of Technology; Brant Hempel, Oregon Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

AC 2007-1053: A CAPSTONE ANALOG INTEGRATED CIRCUITS PROJECT FORELECTRONICS ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGY MAJORSDavid Pocock, Oregon Institute of Technology DAVID N. POCOCK is an Associate Professor and is the Curriculum Coordinator and head of the Analog Block of the Electronics Engineering Technology department at Oregon Institute of Technology in Klamath Falls, OR. His main research interests are semiconductor device modeling, infrared focal plane arrays, nuclear radiation effects, and web-based real electronics labs for distance education.Kevin McCullough, Oregon Institute of Technology KEVIN MCCULLOUGH is a Senior at Oregon Institute of Technology in the Electronics Engineering Technology

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Design in the Classroom

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Dean Kim, Bradley University; Martin Morris, Bradley University; Richard Deller, Bradley University

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

engineering curriculums is the capstone senior design project course,for which students must utilize their training and skills to complete the required design tasks.The focus of this paper is the work of the eight-member SAE Baja team which has been Page 12.132.2performed under the guidelines and constraints of two-semester, capstone senior design course inthe Mechanical Engineering Department at Bradley University. The completed car, shown inFigure 1, has resulted from the team’s work in areas such as designing and analyzing the car,performing most of the fabrication, testing under various conditions, and improving the designbased on testing

Conference Session

Thermodynamics, Fluids and Heat Transfer - II

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jason Christopher, Rice University; Adam Parks, Air Force Research Laboratory, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base; Vipul Sharma, Air Force Institute of Technology; Michael Maixner, U.S. Air Force Academy

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

isfurther compounded when two or more working fluids are involved, as in a combinedcycle. The pedagogical benefit of such an academic exercise would be greatly enhancedif students were relieved of the requirement to manually update property values, allowingthem to concentrate on the more “global” aspects of the design process. Recent“freeware” Mathcad function worksheets, still in development, allow automatic updatingof property values in response to changing input parameters, thereby permitting rapidassessment of system response to changes in one or several parameters (turbine pressureratio, ambient conditions, cooling water temperature, boiler pressure, etc.). The functionworksheets, in conjunction with Mathcad’s intrinsic ability to handle units

Conference Session

Preparing the Future Workforce in Aerospace

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Narayanan Komerath, Georgia Institute of Technology; Marilyn Smith, Georgia Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Aerospace

program, and thefindings from the numerous seminar summaries developed by the scholarsThe original CSEMS program was set up as a Congressional condition for expanding the H-1Bvisa program. It sought to address the shortage of qualified people going into technologicalcareers in the US. NSF provides the funds as a lump sum grant for 4 years, to be distributed at$100K per year. As the CSEMS program’s continuation under Congressional mandate appeareddoubtful in 2004, our project was renewed early, with the new program’s official start date beingJanuary 2005. Funds from the new project were first used in Fall 2005, so that this is the end ofthe second year of its operation. The original parameters of the program were that1. Recipients had to be

Conference Session

Academic Boot Camp

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tokunbo Ogunfunmi, Santa Clara University

Tagged Divisions

Minorities in Engineering

Control Systems (2 units) 7. One course in Applied Ethics (or Professional Practice) (2 units)Out of a 45 units required for graduation, this MSEE core takes up 20 units. The original intent wasto ensure a breadth of knowledge of electrical engineering at the master's level. With the remainderof 25 units, the student can take courses in emphasis areas like the ones mentioned above.In the graduate curriculum, we also offer a PhD program which requires 72 units of combined thesisand courses beyond the MSEE degree.The School of Engineering graduate program was started at about 1950 nitially as an early morningand late evening professional classes for working engineers. It has since grown in size.Total current enrollment stands at about 600

Conference Session

Design in Manufacturing

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jorge Rodriguez, Western Michigan University; Mitchel Keil, Western Michigan University; Alamgir Choudhury, Western Michigan University; Sam Ramrattan, Western Michigan University; Pavel Ikonomov, Western Michigan University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

modeling, and biomechanics.Alamgir Choudhury, Western Michigan University Alamgir A. Choudhury is an assistant professor of industrial and manufacturing engineering at Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan. He earned his MS and PhD from NMSU(Las Cruces) and BS in mechanical engineering from BUET (Dhaka). His interest includes computer applications in curriculum, MCAE, mechanics, fluid power and instrumentation & process control. He is also a Registered Professional Engineer in the State of Ohio and affiliated with ASME, ASEE, SME and TAP.Mitchel Keil, Western Michigan University Dr. Keil is an associate professor in the Industrial and Manufacturing Department at Western

Conference Session

Knowing Our Students I

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Christina Vogt, National Academy of Engineering

Tagged Divisions

Women in Engineering

have an efficient but not necessarily supportive function.5 If we Page 11.1265.2consider the alternative to traditional college lecture halls, collaborative learning research hashighlighted the distance between faculty and students in institutions of higher education: thefragmentation of curriculum, the detached and impersonal lecture style and routinized tests.8These foster a system that reinforces students who are passive learners, yet simultaneouslyambitious and competitive toward their classmates. It is this competitive classroom atmospherewhich has often left women feeling more alienated.2,3,4 Unfortunately, these dynamics constitutethe

Conference Session

Student Learning and Teamwork

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael Anderton, Middle Tennessee State University; Saeed Foroudastan, Middle Tennessee State University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

M.S. in Civil Engineering (1982), and his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering (1987) from Tennessee Technological University. Professor Foroudastan's employment vitae includes: Assistant professor of Mechanical Engineering for Tennessee Technological University, Senior Engineer, Advanced Development Department, Textron Aerostructures, and Middle Tennessee State University. Professor Foroudastan is involved with several professional organizations and honor societies, and has many publications to his name. He also holds U.S. and European patents. Page 12.179.1© American Society for Engineering Education

Conference Session

Institutional Perspectives and Boundary Work

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Valerie C. Lundy-Wagner, New York University

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

socioeconomically diverse, with 44% of undergraduates receiving Pell grants in 201014.Given the school’s engineering-heavy curriculum, ethnic/racial demographics, and percentage ofPell grant recipients, this site was considered a setting where advisers were likely to observe arange of student socioeconomic backgrounds.ParticipantsThis study included nine staff academic advisers at the university. The participants comprised50% of the non-faculty academic advisers at this institution, and represent academic degreeprogram, academic support program, as well as academic affairs units. Based on the full-timeundergraduate enrollment, the participants in this study advise approximately 16% of all studentsand approximately 50% of students in the state-funded income

Conference Session

New Approaches and Applications to Enhance Technological Literacy - Part I

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

R. William Graff, LeTourneau University; Paul R. Leiffer, LeTourneau University

Tagged Divisions

Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering

antennas, microwaves, plasmas, teaching, and ethics.Dr. Paul R. Leiffer, LeTourneau University Paul R. Leiffer, Ph.D., P.E., is a professor in the School of Engineering and Engineering Technology and Chairman of the Engineering Department at LeTourneau University, where he has taught since 1979. He is the co-developer of LeTourneau’s program in Biomedical Engineering. He received his B.S.E.E. from the State University of New York at Buffalo, and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Drexel University. His professional interests include biomedical signal processing, engineering design, and engineering ethics. Page

Conference Session

ECE Online Courses, Labs, and Programs

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Nathan Chao

countrieswill be able to gain easy access to world-class material prepared by world-class educators. Page 8.900.1 Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright ? 2003, American Society for Engineering Education In science and engineering education, laboratory courses with real hardware and testexperiences are mandated curriculum requirements. A student’s exposure to real hands onapparatus fosters the process of discovery and independent thinking that is the basis of thiscountry’s success as the most innovative nation in the world. However there are still majorobstacles to

Conference Session

Instructional Technology

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Kamyar Mahboub

problems. Indeed, the National Accreditation Board,the Landscape Architecture Accreditation Board, and the Foundation for Interior DesignEducation and Research all require evidence of student creativity. Accreditation criteria inengineering (ABET Criteria) strongly suggest that colleges of engineering develop ways tomeasure and enhance creative problem solving. The Creativity in Design projectemployed the outcomes-based approach and assessment methodology espoused by theABET philosophy. The authors believe that calls from disciplines for an increased ability to solveproblems creatively must be answered with instructional strategies informed by a researchbase, differentiated view of creativity, the creative process, and creative

Conference Session

Trends in Nuclear Engineering Education II

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Edwards; Lawrence Hochreiter; Laura L. Pauley

Session 2677 The Nuclear Engineering and Mechanical Engineering Concurrent Majors Program at the Pennsylvania State University L. L. Pauley, R. M. Edwards, L. E. Hochreiter Department of Mechanical And Nuclear Engineering The Pennsylvania State Univers itySummaryA mechanical & nuclear-engineering concurrent majors program has been developed at thePennsylvania State University with the intent of increasing the interest and enrollment in thenuclear engineering area. The program closely integrates both the mechanical and nuclearengineering required

Conference Session

Computer & Web-Based Instruction

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Peter Rhode; Allen Jaedike; Michael Hennessey

maximizing the successful implementation of CAD projects for students.Keywords: computer-aided-design, CAD, solid modeling, instruction, project workIntroduction The history of computer-aided-design (CAD) coursework at St. Thomas, a liberal artsuniversity, dates back to 1995 when the Engineering Graphics course was offered for the firsttime. In those days, the Engineering Department offered a BS in Manufacturing Engineering,but not a BS in Mechanical Engineering (BSME). Of course, CAD instruction is required forboth degrees, so a section of the course has been offered at least yearly since that time, and asmany as 4 sections per year recently. The course was developed and taught by the third authorand based upon similar courses taught at Dunwoody

Conference Session

TC2K Assessment: How to Really Do It

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Satyajit Verma

Conference Session

Been There, Done That: Advice for New Faculty

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Faruk Yildiz, Sam Houston State University

Tagged Divisions

New Engineering Educators

instructor. Tolocate required components sometimes takes students’ lab time and is usually not consideredwhen deadline of lab submission arrives. To reduce safety concerns, develop componentorganization, prevent time wasting to locate the parts and include time to locate components,faculty and students developed a novel plan to use workbenches, lab components and testingdevices/equipment more efficiently. In addition to fundamental laboratory safety measures andcomponent management, unique lab management demonstrations are explained by reorganizingthe lab to meet the criteria of the proposed arrangements. Students and faculty in the programcan thus save time and reduce safety concerns by novel administration and organization in thelab environment