Conference Session

Assessment and Continuous Improvement

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John W Blake P.E., Austin Peay State University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology Division (ETD)

the coursesyllabus.The cost of the calculators was and is a concern, and purchasing the calculator would be a burdenfor some students. Making the financial issue worse, some students would have purchased less-capable calculators for use in math courses. For a transition period, students would not be heldrigidly to this requirement. No time period was set, but it seemed reasonable to allow some timefor students to purchase the calculator.With the requirement in course syllabi, all faculty would allow the use of these calculators inclasses. In some cases, faculty needed to learn to use the calculators themselves. This was leftup to the individual faculty with offers of assistance from those who had learned to use thesenew tools.In courses

Collection

ASEE Mid-Atlantic Section Spring Conference

Authors

Pooja Thakkar Singh, American Society of Mechanical Engineers; Debra Ann Pothier, Autodesk, Inc.; Anand Sethupathy, American Society of Mechanical Engineers; Geraldine Gooding, American Society of Mechanical Engineers; David Soukup P.E., American Society of Mechanical Engineers; Jarrett Reich, American Society of Mechanical Engineers; Morgan Lamarre, American Society of Mechanical Engineers; James Stewart Warrick

Tagged Topics

Diversity

experience, resources, resistance from faculty, concerns about accreditation, and other issues • Impact of industry, faculty, and students in choosing how to teach Industry 4.0 topics • Resources highly in demand (ex: videos, exercises, instructor guides, projects, etc.) • Thoughts and areas of improvement of currently available Autodesk projects • Curricular adoption process.ASME in collaboration with Jim Warrick from Beacon Technology Partners, LLC [8] conductedten in-depth telephone interviews with mechanical engineering professors. The selection ofprofessors was across five countries, and all were engaged in teaching Industry 4.0 concepts intheir classrooms. The professors selected were from the following institutions

Conference Session

Notable Topics in Civil Engineering Education

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Derek G. Williamson, University of Alabama; Kenneth J. Fridley, University of Alabama; W. Edward Back, University of Alabama

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

use of SLO-based assessments.Assessment is an altogether too familiar activity for many engineering faculty, with detailedcourse-to-outcome and even assignment-to-outcomes maps being created within programs.However, students are often individually disconnected or distanced from the process. Fewstudents read their academic programs’ learning outcomes, and even fewer can clearly articulatehow their curriculum and daily academic activities relate to the learning outcomes required fortheir degree or desired by their future profession.In the Department of Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering (CCEE) at theUniversity of Alabama, a new approach has been created and employed for assessment. Thisapproach involves the student taking a more

Collection

2025 Northeast Section Conference

Authors

B. Kris Jaeger-Helton

somewhat polarized, not readily apparent from As detailed above, Question 2 requested a listing of any the subcategories: On one hand, several students realized inperceived drawbacks, limitations and/or concerns related to the advance that AI was not likely to afford them the creativity anduse of generative AI. Table II presents the summary of innovative assistance that was required for their topic and thusresponses for Q2. Note that of the total 56, two students did not rely heavily on it. However, other students wereanswered that there were “none” or “no issues” and those were disappointed that they did not get the inspiration and

Conference Session

Potpourri

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Catherine Pieronek, University of Notre Dame

Tagged Divisions

Women in Engineering

faculty and students know what discrimination looks like andarm them with the information they need to address issues that lead to inequitable treatment ofwomen.Will the Title IX reviews “lead to a quota system that could seriously hurt scientific research anddo more harm than good for women?”3 No. None of the reports mentioned quotas at all. To theextent that the reports noted the gender split in the student body and among the faculty, thereports primarily looked for trends that could indicate either the success of efforts institutions toattract more women or the need for more attention in the areas of recruitment, retention andequitable participation in programs and activities. The reviewers expressed concern that theinstitutions needed to know

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Yen-Lin Han, Seattle University; Kathleen E. Cook, Seattle University; Gregory Mason P.E., Seattle University; Teodora Rutar Shuman, Seattle University; Jennifer A. Turns, University of Washington

Tagged Topics

Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

education in a collaborative environment that emphasizes individual attention and connections to industry, while preparing students to help create a more just and humane world.This new mission statement helped us sustain our shared vision and underlined important aspectsof our work.c. Confronted issues related to inclusion. Past reports from our external evaluators, InvernessResearch, revealed instances in which students did not feel included. The situations pointed outin these reports served as an alarm that raised faculty awareness of diversity, equity and inclusion(DEI) issues. Faculty and staff members attended training in DEI-related practices. A diversityand inclusion syllabus statement was discussed and adopted by faculty. This statement

Conference Session

Minorities in Engineering Division Technical Session 5

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Aroba Saleem, University of Florida; Sindia M. Rivera-Jiménez, University of Florida; Idalis Villanueva Alarcón, University of Florida

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Minorities in Engineering

growing concern to improve diversity in the engineering profession andpromote an inclusive and equitable community in professional and academic environments (NationalAcademy of Sciences, 2011; National Academy of Engineering, 2011; Institute of Medicine 2007; NationalAcademy of Engineering, 2008). Studies have shown that in STEM fields such as engineering, encouragingparticipation and promoting equality among undergraduate students from different economic, social, orracial and ethnic backgrounds produce greater perceived learning gains (Strayhorn et. al, 2014). This isvital as the US not only needs a scientifically literate workforce, but also a scientifically literate populationwithin different subgroups of society.To address the issues of

Conference Session

Committee on Effective Teaching Presents: Teaching Mode Active-ated

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Corinna Marie Fleischmann, P.E., United States Coast Guard Academy; Brian Maggi, P.E., United States Coast Guard Academy; Hudson V. Jackson, P.E., United States Coast Guard Academy

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering Division (CIVIL)

importance of educatingfuture generations of engineers with respect to coastal resiliency has become increasinglyobvious. There are uncertainties in the future levels of greenhouse gases and the predictivemodels of future climate that make it difficult to define the statistics of future climate andweather extremes [3, 4]. The planning and design of new coastal infrastructure must consider thefuture climate to ensure a safe and resilient design. Therefore, it is the responsibility of not onlyindustry, but also of academic institutions to educate students (future leaders) about theimportance of mitigating the impacts of climate change and developing appropriate solutions.In 2016, the civil and environmental engineering faculty at the CGA recognized

Conference Session

BOK2 - Influencing Changes to the ABET Civil Engineering Program Criteria and Civil Engineering Curricula

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Donald D. Carpenter, Lawrence Technological University; John V. Tocco JD, Lawrence Technological University

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

the ABET outcomes were adopted with their original wording, most were revisedto one extent or another. For example, to make the outcomes less generic, the term “civilengineering” was inserted in (a) and (c). More subtle revisions were also made: in (b), “results”was used in lieu of “data”; in (h), “sustainable” was substituted for “economic.” Based onsignificant constituent input, the Department adopted two additional outcomes: (l) was created toagain place more emphasis on the civil engineering discipline, rather than generic engineering,and (m) was an acknowledgement of the importance of professional licensure.Early in 2008, during the regularly scheduled programmatic review, faculty decided to adopt theBOK2 Outcomes with some concerns

Conference Session

Environmental Engineering Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Angela R. Bielefeldt, University of Colorado, Boulder; Greg Rulifson P.E., Colorado School of Mines

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Environmental Engineering

“design a system, component, or process to meet desired needs withinrealistic constraints such as economic, environmental, … ethical, … and sustainability” [27, p.3]. Professional engineering codes of ethics mandate environmental protection and/or striving forsustainability [28-31]. Thus, engineering curricula include a variety of constraints, which includebeing taught about environmental issues.Additional student concerns associated with selecting the major could include career factors [32].For example, the average annual salaries among environmental scientists and specialists is about$69,000 compared to EnvE at $85,000 [33, 34]. Job security might also be an issue; the U.S.Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reported environmental scientists and

Collection

2005 GSW

Authors

J. M. Duff

intellectual property is a legal entity, itsmisuse is both a legal and ethical concern. Additionally, the fields of engineering andtechnology use IP as economic capital, so there are practicable business considerationsthat are beyond the ethical and legal.The important question is: what is the future of engineering and technology professionsas a generation of digitally-tuned students assume positions where decisions aboutintellectual property are made daily? Can we expect these individuals to makeappropriate professional decisions without specifically addressing the issue in ourcurricula? This legal and ethical issue is related to a general concern about cheating.Misappropriating intellectual property in the form of information (quotes, references

Conference Session

Engineering Technology Pedagogy 1

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Nancy E. Study, Pennsylvania State University; David Clippinger, Pennsylvania State University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

legally blind. New purchases,renewals of existing software licenses, and purchases of other course-related technology wereregularly made with the only information required by Purchasing being the cost of the items, andapproval by the administrator in charge of that budget. When faculty at Penn State Behrendsubmitted a request to purchase a renewal of the license to CES, a tool that is used in materialsengineering courses in the Mechanical Engineering Technology program, the faculty membersubmitting the request received an email from the Penn State IT Accessibility Team indicatingthat the team had determined the software was not accessible to visually impaired studentsbecause it did not have text equivalents for all features, could not be fully

Collection

1997 Annual Conference

Authors

Scott J. Amos; James L. Otter

year level. Senior estimators, project engineers, superintendents at thethird year level. Project managers, contract managers, etc. at the senior/graduate year. Projectteams would be developed from a cross section of the various levels of students. As thesemester/year progressed, special workshops and training sessions would be required for thevarious jobs and responsibilities (legal issues, ethics, safety, CAD, design concepts, etc.).Students needing to attend traditional courses like English, History and Calculus would inessence be attending a meeting for that period of time each day. The students would be requiredto be "at work" in some sense a minimum of 8-9 hours each day.The faculty involved in this project recognized the difficulty of

Conference Session

Pedagogy and Assessment III

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert Egbert, Missouri State University

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

of the faculty of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Wichita State University for over 20 years. In July 2008, he joined the faculty of Missouri State University (MSU) in Springfield, MO as the first MSU faculty member in the new (Missouri S&T/MSU) collaborative engineering program. Page 14.1072.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2009 Starting from “Scratch” – A Summary of Experiences in the First Year of the Collaborative Electrical Engineering Program between Missouri University of Science and Technology and

Conference Session

Construction Engineering Division: Best of Construction

Collection

2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Namhun Lee, Central Connecticut State University; Thomas SJ Kim, Minnesota State University, Mankato; Jiyong Choi, Central Connecticut State University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Construction Engineering Division (CONST)

andoffering equitable, accessible learning opportunities for underrepresented students. Despite theseadvancements, only a limited number of programs have expanded their DEI focus to fullyencompass the experiences of faculty, staff, and students while fostering collaboration withindustry partners.This paper seeks to examine and evaluate the pedagogical approaches and strategies employedby university programs to advance DEI initiatives in partnership with the construction industry.By analyzing DEI initiatives at a New England area state university and a SouthcentralMinnesota area state university, this paper investigates the strategies used to increase theparticipation of female and minority students in classroom and extracurricular

Conference Session

Opportunities for Entrepreneurship Programs and Program Assessment

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James Green, University of Maryland; Georgina Johnston, University of Maryland

Tagged Divisions

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

entrepreneurial mindset, we conducted aresearch study aimed at determining which psychosocial factors were most important toundergraduate entrepreneurial opportunity discovery.While theories on the ability of psychological and sociological characteristics and attitudes to bepredictive of entrepreneurship have existed since the early days of entrepreneurship research,researchers’ beliefs in the predictive power of these variables have fluctuated from highlypessimistic to highly optimistic. 17, 35, 36, 39 With criticisms ranging from concerns that theresearch methodologies used were not developed for measuring entrepreneurship to issues ofreverse causation, research that answers the effect of psychosocial characteristics and attitudeson new venturing is

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Design

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Bannerot

discussed in a previouspaper2. That paper addressed not only the issues of size but also those issues associatedwith multidisciplinary capstone courses in general. This paper will focus on a particularchange that was made in the course and how that change has addressed several of theissues/problems we had identified.One of the major concerns that we had about the course was that, in most cases, theprojects were not being brought to the level of completeness that we desired. Sinceessentially all the students were graduating seniors, a large number of unsatisfactory,failing, or “incomplete” grades was not the optimal solution. One of the contributingfactors to this problem is the fact that this is a one semester (only) course. Conceivingand designing

Conference Session

Nontraditional Teaching Approaches

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Waddah Akili, Iowa State University

Tagged Divisions

International

expectations, and opportunities for faculty to acquire new pedagogies. (2, 3, 4, 38).Concluding RemarksTo keep pace with fast changing global marketplace, engineering education in the Arab GulfStates (Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, The United Arab Emirates, and the Sultanateof Oman) has to undergo major “reformation” including revitalization of the classroomenvironment. There is concern among students, faculty, and graduates of the Region’sinstitutions- arrived at through a survey targeting new engineering graduates & the feedbackfrom Region’s faculty interviewed recently - that current teaching practices (traditionalteaching) appear to have adversely affected outcome. There

Conference Session

Design for Community and Environment

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Odis Griffin, Virginia Tech; Vinod Lohani, Virginia Tech; Jennifer Mullin, Virginia Tech; Jenny Lo, Virginia Tech

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

students, iii) give students the opportunity to present and to becomeaware of contemporary engineering issues, and iv) collect/analyze data for conductingengineering education research. This new format was well received by the students [2] and in fall2005 the new format was implemented for the entire freshman engineering class of about 1200students. These students were assigned to 8 large (~150-170 students each) lecture sections and41 workshop sections. Altogether 7 faculty members, 14 GTAs and 7 undergraduate studentsparticipated in the fall implementation. The 2nd and 3rd authors were the overall coordinators andthe lead author coordinated the activities of GTAs. Please see a companion paper [3] for detailsof the fall implementation. Briefly

Collection

2010 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Barbara E. Mizdail

projects reflecting the concerns of today’s students for the environment, positive feedbackfrom research faculty for student contributions with existing projects, and an awareness of thecapabilities of students at this first year level.The First Year ExperienceA first year experience for incoming students is not a new concept to higher education. For morethan twenty years, colleges and universities have contrived and implemented ways to supportstudent success during the critical first year. The majority of all colleges and universities offer afirst year seminar course or experience to their first year entering class. First year experiencescan increase the probability of students successfully completing their first year of study, whichleads to the

Collection

2010 Northeast Section Meeting

Authors

Barbara E. Mizdail

projects reflecting the concerns of today’s students for the environment, positive feedbackfrom research faculty for student contributions with existing projects, and an awareness of thecapabilities of students at this first year level.The First Year ExperienceA first year experience for incoming students is not a new concept to higher education. For morethan twenty years, colleges and universities have contrived and implemented ways to supportstudent success during the critical first year. The majority of all colleges and universities offer afirst year seminar course or experience to their first year entering class. First year experiencescan increase the probability of students successfully completing their first year of study, whichleads to the

Conference Session

Capstone Design Projects

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

William Michalson, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Stephen Bitar, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Robert Labonté, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

small group of faculty who were studying potential changes to the undergraduatecurriculum determined that the solution to these problems required modifications to theundergraduate curriculum well before the Senior year. Further, it was proposed that, at aminimum, there was a need for a class that most students would take to learn the fundamentals ofdesign. Given the potential ramifications of adding such a course to an already crowdedcurriculum, a committee was formed to fully study these observations and makerecommendations for modifying the curriculum that would address all of these concerns. TheECE Design Course, ECE2799, was the result and was proposed to be taught initially on anexperimental basis.[2]Creation of a new Course ECE 2799

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Barry Hyman, University of Missouri; Jim Borgford-Parnell, University of Washington; Yuyi Lin, University of Missouri

whetherthey had any new concerns, questions, or required any resources. At that point, they reportedonce again feeling comfortable with teaching and assessing the CRPs. Two of the instructors(Professor C and Profesor E) inquired about ways to proactively improve student project groupparticipation. The instructional consultant discussed several techniques that could be used andprovided each instructor with the resources they would need to implement a process for peerevaluation of group participation.End of Course Faculty SurveysPrior to the end of Fall 2009 semester, each of the participating instructors was given a surveyquestionaire that asked them to describe aspects of their experiences teaching and assessing theCRPs. The researchers were

Conference Session

Promoting Inclusivity and Broadening Participation

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Betul Bilgin, The University of Illinois at Chicago

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering Division (ChED)

body andthe faculty/administration, bridging any gaps in communication and understanding regardingDEI issues. Monthly meetings were held between the faculty DEI chair and the studentcommittee to discuss the issues students were facing. These meetings were pivotal, providing aplatform for students to voice concerns—gathered both informally and formally from theirpeers—while maintaining anonymity. The student committee also participated in facultymeetings, offering a direct line of communication to other faculty members about DEI concernsand suggestions.Collaboration extended beyond the department, with the committees engaging with UIC's Officeof Diversity. This partnership allowed them to explore and learn about additional activities,training

Conference Session

Embedding Sociotechnical Systems Thinking II

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Amber Genau, University of Alabama at Birmingham; Andre Millard, University of Alabama at Birmingham

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

opposition both from other members of the historydepartment and the larger College of Arts and Sciences. First, some faculty were opposed to anychange in the status quo because they were concerned about loss of credit hour production, partlydue to the misconception that engineering was trying to get permission for their students to stoptaking history classes. Other faculty argued that a “pure” version of their discipline wasnecessary at the introductory level, and that anything else was somehow pandering to thestudents. Meetings between the authors, their department chairs, and their respective deans wereheld to discuss these and other issues. In response to the first issue, we pointed out that these newcourses were actually likely to result in more

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Dilip Mirchandani; Kathryn Hollar; Beena Sukumaran; John Chen; Yusuf Mehta

coursesthat have been funded by the Bildner family foundation and coordinated by the Association ofAmerican Colleges and Universities to prepare students for a diverse democracy. Throughparticipation in the Bildner New Jersey Diversity Initiative, Rowan University is developingchallenging interdisciplinary team-taught courses for entering students, which provide anopportunity for Rowan University students, in their earliest tenure, to experience the complexitysurrounding issues about democracy and diversity. The freshman experience sponsored by theBildner grant will promote intercultural dialogue and understanding as a means to reduceprejudice and bigotry.The course on sustainability will be team taught by a faculty in engineering and one in

Conference Session

NSF Grantees' Poster Session

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Donald Plumlee, Boise State University; Steven W. Villachica, Boise State University; Linda Huglin, Boise State University; Shannon Rist, Boise State University

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees Poster Session

concerns by building awarenessand curiosity, providing opportunities for mental and physical try-outs, and subsequent use [4]. References[1] L. R. Barroso and J. R. Morgan, "Project enhanced learning: Addressing ABET outcomes and linking the curriculum," Journal of Professional Issues in Engineering Education & Practice, vol. 135, pp. 11-20, 2009.[2] L. Jamieson and J. Lohmann, "Creating a culture for scholarly and systematic innovation in engineering education: Ensuring U.S. engineering has the right people with the right talent for a global society.," American Society of Engineering Education, Washington D.C.2009.[3] D. H. Jonassen, M. Tessmer, and W. H. Hannum

Conference Session

CoNECD Session: Day 3 Slot 2 - Technical Session 4

Collection

2021 CoNECD

Authors

Agnieszka Miguel, Seattle University; J. McLean Sloughter, Seattle University; Jennifer M. Dorsey, University of Texas at Austin; Rebecca Hartley, Seattle University; Frank J. Shih, Seattle University; Joy Crevier, Seattle University

Tagged Topics

CoNECD Paper Submissions, Diversity

: Mental and physical health barriersStudents described barriers related to mental health. Multiple respondents described theirmental health as a barrier to completing assignments. They specified that they found theirinteractions with faculty around their mental health as problematic. Another student talked aboutother health concerns that he had, and not wanting to ask for help. He did not tell anyone in CSEthat he was having problems until he was asked to leave the program. After describing his issues,he was reinstated. Students were not aware of what services were available to them or whatpolicies CSE programs around accommodations for students. I'm not trying to victimize myself, but as a foreign [student], we go through more

Conference Session

Student Division Technical Session 5

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Nathalia De Souza, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Michaella Ochotorena, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Brian P. Self, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Lauren Anne Cooper, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

Tagged Divisions

Student

issues, and both faculty and student workload increase [3],[5].The community and social interactions between students themselves and with instructors werereported to be heavily impacted due to this shift. Students who were used to working in teams orhad already worked with their peers before the virtual shift did not face as much difficulty asstudents who were more unfamiliar with their peers [4]. For more interactions with faculty, therewere reports of students requesting low-stakes, in-class assignments, office hours, etc. [3].Evaluation and assessment were also a topic of concern with this shift to online teaching, as itcan open a door to academic dishonesty and technical troubles administering online assessments.Strategies such as take-home

Collection

2015 Northeast Section Meeting

Authors

Leonard Anderson; Michael Davidson

assistance of at least one professional to act as a mentor, with many groups havingseveral mentors with expertise in various sub-disciplines of civil engineering.Some of the many benefits achieved by this new course requirement included mid-semester designreview, professional networking, external assessment, showcasing of the program, and studentemployment possibilities. This paper addresses the successes of this new requirement in a capstonedesign course as well as the lessons learned from the first semester trial of the requirement.BackgroundWentworth Institute of Technology had a long standing history of delivering a highly regarded CivilEngineering Technology program. Early in 2010, the Administration of the Institute and the Faculty ofthe