Conference Session

Advanced Aerospace Student Projects

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Changho Nam, Arizona State University, Polytechnic campus; Scott Danielson, Arizona State University, Polytechnic campus

Tagged Divisions

Aerospace

, serving as chair elect of the Committee on Engineering Technology Accreditation, serving on the Board of Directors of the ASME Center for Education, and as a member of the Mechani- cal Engineering Technology Department Head Committee. He has been a program evaluator for both the Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME) and ASME and currently serves on the Technology Accredita- tion Council (TAC) of ABET, representing ASME. He also serves on the SME’s Manufacturing Education and Research Community steering committee. Before joining ASU, he had been at North Dakota State University where he was a faculty member in the Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering department. His research interests include machining, effective

Conference Session

Faculty and Program Developments, Exchanges, and Partnerships

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Carl F. Zorowski, North Carolina State University

Tagged Divisions

International

effectively in a world ofdiverse culture, language and aspirations. Examples include a variety of variable durationinternational study, design, research and exchange programs as well as curriculum revisions thatprovide greater cultural, language and international practice exposure1-11. In 2007 North Carolina State University conducted a Study Abroad program withZhejiang University in Hangzhou, China. Its purpose was to begin the development of arelationship to promote student exchange and faculty interaction. The plan for this six-weekprogram was to have NCSU students (1) enroll in six hours of credit that would be taught byaccompanying faculty and (2) engage in tours, cultural events, industry visits and social activitieswith Chinese

Conference Session

Pedagogy

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Benson Tongue

continue to speak with the students, always addressing them by name. Verysoon most begin to realize that I know all of them. Some, however, continue to doubt untilthey come to office hours and are greeted by name or until I happen to call on them duringclass.3 You all know this, right?One hidden difficulty in relating to a large class is the fact that the students often comeinto the class with a significantly different set of ideas and preconceptions than the professorrealizes. Recent research has indicated that this problem is not at all uncommon but, exceptin rare cases, is never explicitly addressed. A telling example comes from a Harvard study[4]. In this study investigators asked graduating seniors two questions which can be

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering Programs II

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Kimberly Whelan; Sharon Jones

multidisciplinary is unclear in terms of Civil Engineering Design courses. “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright ©2005, American Society for Engineering Education” Problems with the Current Engineering Curricula As shown in the previous section, current engineering curricula align with the traditional focus of preparing students for technically-oriented careers in research, development, and design. A review of the literature reveals at least three concerns with this current BS Engineering model as discussed briefly below. The first concern is captured by a 1992 National Society of Professional Engineers (NSPE) survey of engineering

Conference Session

Potpourri Design

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Steven Beyerlein; Eric Davishahl; Denny Davis; Jim Lyons; Kenneth Gentili

during the first half of the term. During the second halfof the term perceived course emphasis exceeded perceived growth, just like all of the otherelements. This can be interpreted to mean that there was a larger growth in communication skillsduring the first half of the term than in the second half.In our judgment, if the difference between perceived emphasis and perceived growth is largerthan 0.2 then skill growth is not optimal and efforts should be initiated to modify course designand delivery to promote higher levels of skill development.Comparing Different Class SectionsAnother outcome of the survey is that differences between class sections can be used to diagnoseclassroom management issues. For example, one of the three classes in the

Conference Session

Web-Based Education

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Steve Edwards; Hussein Vastani; Manuel Perez-Quinones

programmingassignments. In addition, we present the results of interviews with teaching assistants inintroductory programming level courses to learn about the different grading methods they usewhen grading programming assignments, and the difficulties they face. Information gatheredthrough these two channels served to form the requirements for our tool design. Finally, wepresent our tool and an initial evaluation of its functionality.2. Related WorkFeedback is an important part of teaching and learning. Instructors provide feedback to studentsto evaluate their work, to inform them of their mistakes and suggest corrections, and to helpstudents improve their efforts. Feedback is usually provided verbally or in written form—eitherwritten by hand or typed using a

Collection

2024 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Kimberly J. Cornett

has also affirmed the importance of engineeringcommunication in their criteria for student outcomes [2]. Not only is communication importantin terms of professional skills and accreditation, but also for the welfare of the public. Failures incommunication have been shown to be significant factors in some engineering disasters [3]. Ineducation, learning communication in the context of engineering helps students develop bothengineering thinking and an engineering identity [3]. For these reasons, and others well-grounded in research, communication is a student outcome that engineering programs need toassess to make sure that students are making progress and achieve this essential competency.The focus of this paper will be to evaluate the current

Conference Session

NEE Technical Session 4 - Assessments: Grading and deadlines

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bridget M. Smyser, Northeastern University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

New Engineering Educators Division (NEE)

Paper ID #41489Relaxed Deadlines: Do They Provide an Unfair Advantage?Dr. Bridget M. Smyser, Northeastern University Dr. Smyser is a Teaching Professor in the Mechanical and Industrial Engineering with research interests that include lab and design pedagogy, inclusive teaching, and neurodiversity in STEM. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 Relaxed Deadlines: Do they provide an unfair advantage? Educators seeking academic rigor have historically included strict deadlines for studentwork as part of preparing students for the reality of life after college. However, during

Conference Session

First-Year Programs Division WIPS 3: Courses and Curricula

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Andrew Paul Summerfield, Wentworth Institute of Technology; Will Cashel-Cordo; Hadi Kazemiroodsari, Wentworth Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs Division (FYP)

retention of first-year engineering students [2] [3]. Literaturesuggests that two course components can help to attract and retain students: 1) the opportunity forhands-on learning [4] [5] and 2) the provision of clarity on what it means to be an engineer [6].This research has guided the redesign of the first-year engineering curriculum at our institution,and in particular, the design of the ENGR 1200 series.In this paper, we present several modules we designed for ENGR 1203, which was offered for thesecond time in the Fall 2023 semester. Included are several modules that were adapted fromprevious modules and several modules that have not been offered before. We show that thesemodules were viewed favorably by students. Our goal in sharing this work

Collection

2009 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Waleed K. Al-Assadi; Scott Smith

nput C-elem and a T ment TH1n gate is equivalent s t to an n- -input OR ggate. NCL th hreshold gat may also include a reset input to initialize the output. tes o e . Circuit diagrams designate res settable gate by either a d or an n appearing i es inside the gate, along g with the gate’s thre e

Collection

2012 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Yacob Astatke; Craig Scott; Kemi Ladeji-Osias; Petronella James

engineering annually. Studentsenrolled at HCC and Cecil Community College (CCG) that are interested in pursuingengineering as a transfer student, have to travel or relocate to Baltimore City (26 miles),Baltimore County (42 miles), Prince George’s County (65 miles), or Newark Delaware (35miles). Since ECE graduates are already in high demand, our university has made an immediateand strategic initiative to offer an Electrical Engineering degree program to the residents in theHartford county area by delivering a combination of face-to-face (F2F) courses on the campus ofHCC and online courses that will be offered directly from the campus of MSU. Trends in higher education for the past 10 years have shown that enrollments in onlinecourses or online

Collection

2012 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

Yacob Astatke; Craig Scott; Kemi Ladeji-Osias; Petronella James

engineering annually. Studentsenrolled at HCC and Cecil Community College (CCG) that are interested in pursuingengineering as a transfer student, have to travel or relocate to Baltimore City (26 miles),Baltimore County (42 miles), Prince George’s County (65 miles), or Newark Delaware (35miles). Since ECE graduates are already in high demand, our university has made an immediateand strategic initiative to offer an Electrical Engineering degree program to the residents in theHartford county area by delivering a combination of face-to-face (F2F) courses on the campus ofHCC and online courses that will be offered directly from the campus of MSU. Trends in higher education for the past 10 years have shown that enrollments in onlinecourses or online

Conference Session

Assessment in Mechanics Courses

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael Sevier, Milwaukee School of Engineering; Vincent Prantil, Milwaukee School of Engineering

FEA is that the commercial software can feel like “magic”instead of the geometrical representation of a mathematical model it really is [4]. For example, inANSYS Workbench, students frequently have difficulty understanding that a “remotedisplacement” constraint really represents a hidden multi-point constraint element (usually rigid)between nodal degrees of freedom on a piece of selected geometry and another node representingthe “remote” location where the constraint is applied. Since ANSYS Workbench is developed asa pre-processor for other large codes, these discrepancies can occur often.Much is demanded from commercial FEA software in research and industry. To meet thesedemands, commercial software can now quickly mesh complicated 3D

Conference Session

Embedded System Design

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Zaydoun Rawashdeh, Wayne State University; Syed Masud Mahmud, Wayne State University

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

AC 2009-2441: TEACHING REAL-TIME EMBEDDED SYSTEMS NETWORKINGAND ASSESSMENT OF STUDENT LEARNINGZaydoun Rawashdeh, Wayne State University Zaydoun Rawashdeh has received his Master’s degree from the University of Michigan. He is currently a Ph.D candidate in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Wayne State University. Since 2007 he has been working as a Teaching Assistant in the department. His research area is Vehicular Ad hoc Networks.Syed Masud Mahmud, Wayne State University Syed Masud Mahmud received the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Washington, Seattle, in 1984. Since 1988, he has been with Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan

Conference Session

Mechanical Engineering Technical Session: Capstone and Design

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Jamie Szwalek, University of Illinois at Chicago; Yeow Siow, University of Illinois at Chicago; Jaqueline Oxmara Rojas Robles, University of Illinois at Chicago

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

Arduino software and show them how towrite code and print text or variables to a screen (called the serial monitor in Arduino). Thisactivity teaches students how to use and define variables, void setup, void loop, and baud rate.Students were given about ten minutes as a team to come up with a code that printed “HelloWorld” to the serial monitor. The second activity is to create a variable which increments thenumber of times “Hello World” is printed to the screen and the delay feature is introduced so theprint to the screen is not unreadable text.We approached these initial class activities as a “Google it” adventure with teaching assistantswalking around and helping students. The rationale behind this approach is that coding requires alot of self

Conference Session

Administering First-Year Programs

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rick Williams, East Carolina University; William Howard, East Carolina University

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

AC 2010-1457: ASSESSMENT-DRIVEN EVOLUTION OF A FIRST-YEARPROGRAMRick Williams, East Carolina UniversityWilliam Howard, East Carolina University Page 15.210.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 Assessment Driven Evolution of a First year ProgramAbstractThe general engineering program at East Carolina University (ECU) was established in 2004. Inthe fall of 2007, a major curriculum change was initiated that introduced three new courses intothe first year. These courses are Engineering Graphics, Introduction to Engineering, andComputer Applications in Engineering. Each of these courses contains projects or assignmentsthat directly assess the achievement of

Conference Session

Activities and Assessment for “Awkward ABET Outcomes”

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Clifton B. Farnsworth, Brigham Young University; Ronald W. Welch, The Citadel; Michael J McGinnis, University of Texas at Tyler; Geoff Wright, Brigham Young University

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

in the Department of Civil Engineering at the University of Texas at Tyler. Prior to joining academia, he worked for nearly five years as a project manager and structural analyst for Electric Boar Corporation. Dr. McGin- nis’ research interests include nondestructive evaluation of structures, response of structures to extreme events such as fire and earthquake, and improving undergraduate engineering education. He has published numerous articles concerning the application of digital image correlation, a non-contact photographic method of determining deformations, to study the behavior of unique structures under various loadings. In teaching and mentoring areas, Dr. McGinnis has been recognized by his peers as the

Conference Session

Motivating students to achieve

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Elizabeth Davis; David Socha; Valentin Razmov

& Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Education concerned with teaching need-for than how-to knowledge. The need-for is about appreciating the need for some type of action, while the how-to is about how specifically to perform that action effectively.The effect of applying these strategies was encouraging. We were initially surprised by howmany students readily provided us with feedback four months after the course was over.University-wide statistics show that typically only one or two students in a class of 20 or morerespond to queries after the end of a course. We had a 45% response rate and nearly all studentswere very positive about their experiences. To us, this indicates that

Conference Session

Innovative Program and Curricular Development

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Catherine Frances Ibes, Saint Catherine University; Yvonne Ng, St. Catherine University

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

, and from this data predictionscan be made and conclusions drawn. Other variables give sensorial experience to complexfactors: using popsicle sticks on the surface of the inclined plane, creating a ‘switchback’ path,altering the marble with tape or clay, using a larger or a smaller marble, and so on.Following these experiences, students are also able to use Mabel’s story for an initial experienceof quantifying speed. In these lessons, children measure how far the marble travels in a fixedtime (5 seconds, for example). At this level, the Mabel Marble lessons are preparatory for thephysics work children will do with the inclined plane using a Hall’s carriage and various weightsin the upper elementary grades (grades 4-6).In the upper grades

Conference Session

Course-Based Approaches to Entrepreneurship

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Andrew Gerhart, Lawrence Technological University; Donald Carpenter, Lawrence Technological University

Tagged Divisions

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

Lawrence Technological University. He is actively involved in ASEE, is a Kern Fellow for Entrepreneurial Education, and serves as Director of the Center for Teaching and Learning at LTU. His research interests involve academic integrity, assessment tools, and stream restoration. Page 13.343.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2008 Creative Problem Solving Course – Student Perceptions of Creativity and Comparisons of Creative Problem Solving MethodologiesAbstractA new course in creative problem solving was developed and administered. The course exploresthe

Conference Session

Design Communications

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Edward Lumsdaine, Michigan Technological University; Monika Lumsdaine, E&M Lumsdaine Solar Consultants, Inc.

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

students the opportunity to run their enterprises for solving engineering problems supplied byindustry partners.1 Unfortunately, not all enterprise teams achieve these educational goals, sincethe quality of their learning is strongly linked to the scope of the chosen enterprise project, theselection of enterprise course electives, the supervision and grading standards observed by theiradvisors, and the students’ motivation and initiative. The Mechanical Engineering-EngineeringMechanics (ME-EM) Department administration became concerned that some of the enterprisestudents were graduating without the solid design skills that their graduates should have underthe requirements for ABET accreditation. This concern motivated the addition of the

Conference Session

Electrical and Computer Division Technical Session 7

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Brad L. Hutchings, Brigham Young University; Stephen Schultz, Brigham Young University

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

Paper ID #18235Project-Based Learning Curriculum for the Junior Year Based on Building aLaser Tag SystemProf. Brad L. Hutchings, Brigham Young University Brad L. Hutchings received the PhD degree in Computer Science from the University of Utah in 1992. He is currently an associate professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Brigham Young University. In 1993, Dr. Hutchings established the Laboratory for Reconfigurable Logic at BYU and currently serves as its head. His research interests are custom computing, embedded systems, FPGA architectures, CAD, and VLSI. He has published numerous papers on

Conference Session

Insights and Practices for Engineering Leadership Development

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ricky T. Castles, East Carolina University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Leadership Development Division

Paper ID #19866Development of Leadership Through Hands-On Learning Activities in a FlippedMicroprocessors ClassroomDr. Ricky T. Castles, East Carolina University Dr. Ricky Castles is an assistant professor in the Department of Engineering at East Carolina University. He is primarily affiliated with the ECU Electrical Engineering concentration. His research work focuses on the use of wireless sensor networks, microcontrollers, and physiological data collection for a variety of applications. His primary interest is in the area of adaptive tutorial systems, but he has ongoing projects in the area of hospital patient health

Conference Session

Software Engineering Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mark Hoffman, Quinnipiac University; Stefan C. Christov, Quinnipiac University

Tagged Divisions

Software Engineering Division

his Ph.D. from Polytechnic University in Brooklyn, NY.Dr. Stefan C. Christov, Quinnipiac University Stefan Christov holds Ph.D. and M.S. degrees in Computer Science from the University of Massachusetts Amherst and a B.S. degree in Computer Science from the State University of New York, College at Brock- port. He has experience in teaching undergraduate introductory computer science and engineering courses as well as upper-level software engineering courses, including software quality assurance, software project management, and software engineering in health care. His current research interests include improving the quality of human-intensive processes (HIPs), such as medical processes, with a focus on detecting hu

Conference Session

Industrial Engineering Division Tech Session 1: IE-ing a Broader Perspective

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alejandro Salado, Virginia Tech

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Economy, Engineering Management, Industrial Engineering

Paper ID #18013Industrial Engineering Beyond Numbers: Optimizing under EthicsDr. Alejandro Salado, Virginia Tech Dr. Alejandro Salado is an assistant professor of systems science and systems engineering with the Grado Department of Industrial & Systems Engineering at Virginia Tech. His research focuses on unveiling the scientific foundations of systems engineering and using them to improve systems engineering practice. Before joining academia, Alejandro spent over ten years as a systems engineer in the space industry. He is a recipient of the Fabrycky-Blanchard Award for Systems Engineering Research and the Fulbright

Collection

2018 ASEE Zone IV Conference

Authors

David Kenric Hammond, Oregon Institute of Technology - Portland Metro; H. J. Corsair, Oregon Institute of Technology

units. At the endof the term, students calculate their overall profitabilities. The term-long project is treated as acompetition, with the student with the most profitable fleet of generating units earning nominalextra points and bragging rights.This simulated market model has many obvious simplifications which are addressed in thelecture, research, and reading portions of the course. Students learn about transmissionconstraints, unit commitment logic, more realistic unit operating constraints, trade of electricityother than in day-ahead markets, purchase of fuel, ancillary services, the interaction of renewableenergy with market trading of electricity, regulation and structure of energy markets, and manyother topics that surround the model

Conference Session

Software Engineering Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James R Vallino, Rochester Institute of Technology (COE); Bryan Basham, Software Alchemy (with RIT)

Tagged Divisions

Software Engineering Division

Paper ID #24279A Re-look at the Introduction to Software Engineering CourseDr. James R Vallino, Rochester Institute of Technology (COE) Jim Vallino has academic and industrial experience across a broad range of engineering disciplines. His academic training includes a B.E. in mechanical engineering, a M.S. in electrical and computer engineer- ing, and after more than 16 years in industry, received a M.S. and Ph.D. in computer science. While in industry, he worked in small and large companies doing product development and industrial research. His responsibilities included both hardware and software development at AT&T

Conference Session

Civil Engineering Division Technical Session 3

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

Paper ID #11281From Disciplinary to Multidisciplinary Programs: Educational Outcomes,BOK’s, and AccreditationDr. Derek Guthrie Williamson, University of Alabama Dr. Williamson obtained his undergraduate degree in 1990 in Engineering and Public Policy from Wash- ington University in St.Louis. He received his MS (1993) and Ph.D. (1998) degrees in environmental engineering at The University of Texas at Austin. Dr. Williamson joined the faculty of the the Depart- ment of Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering at The University of Alabama in 1999. He has enjoyed 15 years of a dynamic profession of teaching, research

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Steven Chin; John Schmalzel; Shreekanth Mandayam; Ravi Ramachandran; Linda Head

two main learning styles that students have [4]. Most students, instructorsand curricula are sequential in that the process functions with partial understanding, there issteady progress, and details are emphasized [4]. Global learners need the big and overall picturefor proper comprehension and progress in leaps despite being slow initially [4]. The presentimplementation of our curriculum caters extremely well to the majority of students that adoptsequential learning. However, stressing the common framework and thereby the big picture thatenvelopes COMM, DSP and VLSI accomplishes the very important need of addressing the Page 8.801.2

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship Teaming and Collaboration

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Andrew L Gerhart, Lawrence Technological University; Donald D. Carpenter, Lawrence Technological University

Tagged Divisions

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

(DCN) which consists of six universities: Boston University,Gonzaga University, Kettering University, Lawrence Tech, St. Louis University, and WorchesterPolytechnic Institute.As one of the initiatives for the DCN, three of the six collaborating universities will each host aweek-long summer enrichment program (i.e., summer camp) over three consecutive summers.Each of the six institutions will send undergraduate engineering students to the summer program;therefore each camp will engage students from multiple institutions and engineering disciplines.Each enrichment opportunity focuses on entrepreneurial education themed to the uniqueattributes of the host city. The first summer enrichment program was developed and hosted byLawrence Tech who