Conference Session

International Engineering Education I

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Yuko Hoshino; Masakatsu Matsuishi; Wayne Sanders

resulting student feedback indicates the program has reached a levelsuitable for quality pre-college engineering design education.We have reformed the structure of the EDE to suit Japanese context and are seeing if this modelwould work in other Asian contexts such as in Singapore. There might be another different set ofadjustment needed to suit its target culture. Contrary to these infrastructure parts, the humanhabits and behaviors are more difficult to change. Students and instructors’ attitudes, such asreservation, passivity, or resistance to new concepts are much slower to be reformed. Initially,EDE was brought by American professors and was foreign to Japanese students as well asJapanese professors. The students were used to finding one answer

Conference Session

STEM and ECE

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kundan Nepal, University of St. Thomas; Andrew Tubesing, University of St. Thomas

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

Paper ID #9901Development of a Fundamentals of Electrical and Computing Systems coursefor in-service K-12 Teachers.Prof. Kundan Nepal, University of St. Thomas Kundan Nepal is currently an Assistant Professor in the School of Engineering at the University of St.Thomas (MN). His research interests span the areas of reliable nanoscale digital systems, mobile robotics and recongurable computingMr. Andrew Tubesing, University of St. Thomas Andrew Tubesing is Laboratory Manager for the Electrical Engineering program at University of St Thomas in St. Paul, MN. He also serves on the faculty of the UST Center for Pre-Collegiate

Conference Session

NSF Grantees’ Poster Session

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Hong Man, Stevens Institute of Technology (SES)

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Tagged Divisions

Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

. His research interests have been in image and video processing, medical imaging, data analysis and pattern recognition. He has authored or co-authored more than 100 technical journal and conference papers on these topics. He is a senior member of IEEE and member of ASEE. Page 24.322.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2014 Correlating Experience and Performance of On-Campus and On-Line Students Assisted by Computer Courseware: a Case StudyAbstractStudies on student surveys can reveal student learning experience, but the results are generallysubjective. In this paper

Conference Session

Mechanical Division Poster Session

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Craig J. Gunn, Michigan State University; Pavel M. Polunin, Michigan State University

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

2013 from Michigan State University. Currently, he conducts research in the area of nonlinear dynamics of noise-driven microresonators. Page 24.682.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2014 I Should Not be Expected to Teach English!...ButAbstractThis paper addresses a widely ignored fact, “Engineering professors ARE English teachers!” Theydo not teach literature or the structure of the novel. They do not provide grammar quizzes everyFriday. And they certainly don’t give popular movie reviews of all the shows they watched on agiven weekend. On the other hand, they spend a

Conference Session

Global Competency and What Makes a Successful Engineer

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert J. Gustafson, Ohio State University; Miriam Regina Simon, Ohio State University

Tagged Divisions

International

Universities (AAC&U)conducted a study where results show that only “18 percent of employers rated graduates as verywell prepared in global knowledge; 46 percent felt that graduates were not well prepared.” [1]Based on this research, Hovland concludes that “college and university students will benefit froma careful and intentional alignment of global learning goals with the essential learning outcomesof a liberal education – what it means to be a well-educated citizen for the twenty-first century.”Similarly, Downey, et al. [2] state that global competency in engineering “[shows] that the often-stated goal of working effectively with different cultures is fundamentally about learning to workeffectively with people who define problems differently

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Matthews; Perry Heedley

applicants, two team leaders were selected by the faculty advisors.The role of the team lead is to coordinate the efforts of the team members and to be responsiblefor the system-level design. For example, the team lead develops specifications that each circuitblock must meet based on an analysis of the overall system performance. The team lead is alsoresponsible for connecting all of the blocks for the purpose of top-level circuit simulations, andfor assembling and connecting all of the block layouts into a top-level layout for fabrication.The team lead convenes team meetings and makes group announcements.At the initial team meeting, each team member expressed preferences regarding his or her blockassignment (first, second, and third choices were

Conference Session

Teaching Engineers to Teach

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Craig Quadrato; Ronald Welch

development andeducational research have become important. Of the fifteen teaching departments, eleven have similar formal summer programsfor new faculty.1 These departments require all new civilian and military faculty toparticipate in the summer programs ranging from four to six weeks in length. Six ofthese departments call the program a “workshop” (Faculty Development Workshop-5,Instructor Summer Workshop-1), while four call the experience “training” (NewInstructor Training), and for one department it’s an orientation (New InstructorOrientation). Of the four remaining departments, three have programs for new instructors.These three programs are called New Instructor Training and differ from the programsabove in that they are shorter

Conference Session

Unique Laboratory Experiments & Programs

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Hyun Kim

, June 22 – 25, 2003 6) Scott Engineering Sciences, Thermal Conduction System, Pub. No. 9051, Pompano Beach, FL 7) Cengel, Yunus A., Heat Transfer, A Practical Approach, McGraw-Hill, 1998H. W. Shawn KimH. W. Shawn Kim is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Chair of the Department of Mechanical andIndustrial Engineering at Youngstown State University. He has been teaching and developing the Thermal FluidApplications course and the companion laboratory course for the past few years. He is a registered ProfessionalEngineer in Ohio and is currently conducting applied research in fluid power. He helps the local industry with hisexpertise in heat transfer and thermal sciences. Dr. Kim received a B.S.E. degree from Seoul National

Conference Session

Effective Teaching to Motivate & Retain

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Reid Vander Schaaf; Ronald Welch

other instructors teaching the course should provide them with additionaltime for other areas: research, committee work, etc.Exam Development Examinations consist of a large percentage of course points and cause the greatestamount of stress in our students. If we can ensure they feel that the examinations are fair, thenwe can decrease stress levels and build positive rapport with them which usually will translateinto greater learning. The first step in creating an effective examination is to determine whatmaterial to test. The place to start is with the course objectives. The course objectives, asdiscussed above, should be relevant and important to the mastery of the course material, andshould be measurable or observable. Properly

Conference Session

Technological Literacy II

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Kurt DeGoede

minimal explanation. 7 The student(s) had a general explanation of the decisions, but no specifics. 8 The student(s) suggested how to determine the specifics of the design but did not actually make the calculations. 9 The design had one or more minor errors. 10 A complete and reasonable design was submitted.Table 1: Typical grading scheme for the design problems.Discussion: On this, the first graded problem, I used the grading scheme shown in Table 1. Noone actually did the full analysis. Doing the calculations is an important part of these problems,because it is in this part of the problem that the students really need to move into the judgmentlevel of Bloom. Their initial assumptions and design decisions

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Vikas Yellamraju; Kurt Gramoll

-choice increased the initial developing time for the problems, but made grading easier. It alsopaved the way for automated problem generation and grading. Wrong solutions were developedto closely match possible mistakes that the students would make. However, the correct answerwas always one of the choices listed, so that the student had the opportunity to work toward thecorrect answer. Over the course of three semesters, over 400 problems were electronicallydeveloped with the intent of being web-based.For developing the problems, all diagrams were drawn using Macromedia Freehand and thensaved as GIF files for posting to the web site. The graphics were generally simplified whencompared to typical textbook graphics due to the reduced ’dots-per

Conference Session

Developing ABET Outcomes F--J

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Timothy Hoffman; Christopher Zappe; Steven Shooter; Michael O'Donnell

need for the University community. Therefore, psychologicalpressures may not have been as influential as intended. Moreover, the students alreadypossessed an inherent bias toward the University’s welfare and thus the decision-making processmay have been affected. Perhaps a more controversial topic that would minimize initial studentbias would yield more valid outcomes.Another area for project enhancement is restructuring the time allotment in the engineering andmanagement sessions. Several engineering students complained that the allotted time wasinsufficient to produce a quality presentation. Within the limits of course time and schedules, itis difficult to simulate a scenario that requires the subjects to absorb and retain knowledge

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Diana Dabby

. In clinical urinalysis, Borodin’s method is now known as Ambard’s method.18Clearly, all four of these artist/scientists possessed enormous capacity for work, fueled in part bythe stimulus of what they were creating, regardless of discipline. They profoundly cared abouttheir various intellectual pursuits; the perfectionism they embodied in one domain inevitablytransferred to the other. And they devised slants on their work which revealed their inventivenatures; specifically, Nabokov’s technique for recording butterfly wing markings, Leonardo’sjuxtaposition of human and animal anatomy (thus initiating comparative anatomy), Bach’s violapomposa, and Borodin’s method for urinalysis.V. Creative process illustrated in art, science, and their

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Terrance P. O’Connor; Nghia Le

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Mariano Savelski; Robert Hesketh; Kevin Dahm

movement towards the vertical integrationof design throughout the curriculum. Some of these initiatives are driven by the new ABETcriteria. This integration could be highly enhanced by an early introduction to processsimulation.Process simulation can also be utilized in lower level courses as a pedagogical aid. Thethermodynamics and separations area have a lot to gain from simulation packages. One of theadvantages of process simulation software is that it enables the instructor to presentinformation in an inductive manner without the need for time-consuming experiments. Forexample, in a course on equilibrium staged operations, among the concepts a student mustlearn are the optimum feed location. Standard texts such as Wankat (1988)5 present

Conference Session

Design in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Matthew A. Carr, U.S. Naval Academy; Michael V. Cristiano; Patrick Caton, U.S. Naval Academy

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

x 1 0 1 Affordable 0 0 0 X 0 0 Measureable 1 .5 1 1 X 3.5 Figure 7 – Piecewise Comparison Chart Page 25.1325.7The final tool used in the initial design process was the “house of quality” (HoQ), shown in Fig8. A HoQ combines all of the design tools previously shown. In the “who” column, the HoQranks the importance of the objectives with respect to the customers. The body and “roof” of thehouse of quality set metrics with units to determine

Conference Session

Integrating Sustainability Across the Curriculum

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Noel E. Bormann P.E., Gonzaga University; Mara London, Gonzaga University; Andrew Douglas Matsumoto, Gonzaga University; Melanie Ruth Walter; Spencer Joseph Fry

Tagged Divisions

Environmental Engineering

of working with students of other engineering majors while trying to develop innovative and sustainable solutions in a third world country had a challenging appeal along with being rewarding as well. I initially thought very little of the sustainability issues involved with the project, but almost immediately found sustainability to be one of the most important points. With the greatest ideas and designs, if they are not sustainable, there is little point in introducing them to the developing country in question. (Student 4- Male, Senior Mechanical Engineering) Sustainability interests me very much, because developing sustainable technology will provide health and security for generations

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Jon Dixon

consumer, and uses unique methods, technology or approaches to better fulfill thefunction in ways even the consumer may not initially recognize. The producer carefullylearns and understands about customers’ problems. In short, technology push productdevelopment is based on the belief that the supplier recognizes a market need even beforethe market does. (By technology push I do not mean proffering products simply because Page 6.1027.2 Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2001, American Society for Engineering Educationthe technology or method are capable

Collection

1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Brian Manhire; Roman Z. Morawski; Andrzej Krasniewski

lectures and recitations.Such changes have been observed regardless of whether or not the new, two-stage stucture ofstudies has already been adopted by an institution. In fact, they usually were initiated a few yearsbefore the introduction of the two-stage system of studies.The above trends are illustrated in Table 3 where the evolution of the curricula at the Faculty ofElectronics and Information Technology, Warsaw University of Technology, is shown. Twofields of study, Computer Science and Engineering and Control Engineering and Robotics areconsidered. Three different 5-year programs leading to the master's degree are compared 4:• the integrated BS-MS program, offered to all students admitted before 1990

Conference Session

Materials Division (MATS) Technical Session 3

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Luciana Lisa Lao, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore; LAY POH TAN

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Materials Division (MATS)

Review Board (IRB) conducts ethical reviews on all researchproposals involving human research participants, including the use of their personal data.Once the list of relevant stakeholders was finalised and IRB approval was granted, the secondphase began. To gather input from the stakeholders, survey forms and several focus groupdiscussions were originally planned. Unfortunately, Covid-19 pandemic struck and restrictedour approach to mainly online surveys. As such, survey forms were prepared and sent torespondents using “Verint” online survey system that allowed each respondent to receive aunique survey link via email. The response generated from each link was stored on thesystem safely.Despite the challenges presented by the pandemic, relatively

Conference Session

Civil Engineering Division (CIVIL) Technical Session - Effective Teaching 2

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Scott R Hamilton P.E., York College of Pennsylvania; Camilla M. Saviz P.E., University of the Pacific; David A Saftner, University of Minnesota Duluth; Tanya Kunberger P.E., University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering Division (CIVIL)

learning in engineering coursesAbstractFaculty traditionally have used a variety of individual and group-based learning activitiesincluding homework assignments, exams, projects, reflection papers, and presentations in aneffort to promote, enhance, assess, and evaluate students’ knowledge and learning. More currentresearch has suggested modifications to some of the historic assessment methodologies andtechnological advances that have potentially influenced the use of various assessmentapproaches. The authors pose the following question in this paper: How are faculty currentlyevaluating student learning and encouraging student success in engineering courses?This paper provides a summary of research into grading practices and then shares the results

Conference Session

ABET Accreditation, Assessment, and Program Improvement in ECE

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John K. Estell, Ohio Northern University; Stephen M. Williams, Milwaukee School of Engineering

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

AC 2011-22: PROGRAM EDUCATIONAL OBJECTIVES: WHAT CON-STITUTES SUFFICIENT ASSESSMENT?John K. Estell, Ohio Northern University John K. Estell is a Professor of Computer Engineering and Computer Science at Ohio Northern Univer- sity. He received his doctorate from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His areas of research include simplifying the outcomes assessment process, first-year engineering instruction, and the pedagog- ical aspects of writing computer games. Dr. Estell is an ABET Program Evaluator, a Senior Member of IEEE, and a member of ACM, ASEE, Tau Beta Pi, Eta Kappa Nu, and Upsilon Pi Epsilon.Stephen M. Williams, Milwaukee School of Engineering Dr. Stephen Williams is Program Director of

Conference Session

Technological Literacy for Undergraduate Students

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Krupczak, Hope College; Lauren Aprill

Tagged Divisions

Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering

amenable for use in either the community college environment orin four year programs. Initial stages of this work have been reported earlier19.Laboratory Development ProcessA general theme of establishing a sense of empowerment guides the development of the projects.Learning about engineering and technology should be an empowering process especially for thenon-engineering student. One of the reasons that technology and engineering are important tosociety is because they provide new capabilities not otherwise possible. The same holds true forindividuals. Individuals use technology, like the automobile for example, to achieve capabilitiesthat they would not otherwise posses. Projects should therefore emphasize the practical utility orusefulness of

Conference Session

Topics Related to Telecommunications

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James O. Everly, University of Cincinnati; Xuefu Zhou, University of Cincinnati

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

AC 2011-1965: DEVELOPMENT OF LOW-COST RADIO FREQUENCYTEST EQUIPMENTJames O. Everly, University of Cincinnati James O. Everly is an Associate Professor in Electronic and Computing Systems at the University of Cincinnati’s College of Engineering and Applied Science. He received a BSEE and MSEE from The Ohio State University in 1969 and 1970, respectively. He is a Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and a registered professional engineer in the state of Ohio. He is a member of the IEEE Cincinnati Section, and in 1997 he received the IEEE Professional Achievement Award. He has held several research and management positions in industry working for such companies as Battelle’s

Conference Session

Sustainability and Humanitarian Engineering

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Seamus F. Freyne, Mississippi State University; James P Abulencia, Manhattan College; Powell Draper, Manhattan College

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Ethics

AC 2011-1929: ENGINEERING AND NONENGINEERING STUDENTS’PERCEPTIONS OF CONTEMPORARY ETHICAL ISSUESSeamus F Freyne, Mississippi State University Seamus Freyne joined the civil engineering faculty at Mississippi State University last fall. Previously he was employed at Manhattan College and the University of Oklahoma. His research interests include structures, statistics, and ethics.James P Abulencia, Manhattan CollegePowell Draper, Manhattan College Powell Draper is an Assistant Professor in the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department at Man- hattan College in New York City. Page 22.576.1

Conference Session

Innovations in Computing Education

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Thomas J. Hacker, Purdue University, West Lafayette

Tagged Divisions

Computing & Information Technology

gateway and is used in the NEEShub for the NationalScience Foundation NEES project.Another popular virtualization package is VirtualBox11, which is a paravirtualization system thatruns on a wide variety of platforms, and provides a simple GUI based management interface.Virtual Box is especially useful for creating base virtual machine images for import into Xen orKVM. The ability of VirtualBox to quickly create and export a VM image is especially usefulfor creating VM images for use in Xen or KVM. This is due in part to the cumbersome processnecessary in Xen and KVM to create an initial VM image, which requires placing the DVD Page 22.690.4image on

Collection

1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Anant Kukreti

servo-hydraulic driven shake tablein a research laboratory while the table was driven with a square wave signal during controllertuning. This no doubt resulted in severe overload of the accelerometer.V. Experience in Development of Experimental Procedures for Use of the LaboratoryTwo senior undergraduate students were employed to try out the equipment purchased andassembled, and write a manual for student use in this laboratory. The first task for thesestudents was to learn how to configure and use the data acquisition software purchased. Thisparticular software package is menu-driven, which means that as soon as the program is startedthe user is faced with many choices of operations to do. Unfortunately, the sequence ofoperations to properly

Conference Session

Design in the First Year

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Noelle Comolli, Villanova University; William Kelly, Villanova University; Qianhong Wu, Villanova University

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

-Poiseulle 8 equation when explaining the effects of flow and membrane geometry etc.. on the rate of salt passing through the membrane Quality of recommendation of the optimum operating conditions (specific flowrate(s)/conditions recommended, recommended condition 9 makes sense, recommended condition was a natural outcome of the data they collected..) for maximizing salt permeation AND meeting the < 5% water loss requirement 10 Were any suggestions made on how to improve the initial design Did the students allude to any

Conference Session

Importance of Technical & Professional Writing in Engineering Technology Curriculum

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Beth Richards, University of Hartford; Ivana Milanovic, University of Hartford

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

technicalinformation, including analysis of audience, language, and purpose; techniques of persuasion;page design and graphics; and technical definition and description. Students also prepare memos,resumes, lab reports, and a documented technical research paper. Oral technical presentations arealso required. The interrelationships of technology and society, along with the ethics oftechnology, are considered.TC 481: Advanced Technical Communication. Applications of skills learned in previoustechnical communication courses, with emphasis on practical writing and speaking. Studentsprepare informal and formal documents, including instructions, proposals progress reports, andletters. Individual and group oral presentations, as well as group project and ongoing

Conference Session

Innovative Courses/Pedagogies in Liberal Education I

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ari Epstein, MIT; Joellen Easton, American Public Media; Rekha Murthy, Public Radio Exchange; Emily Davidson, MIT; Jennifer de Bruijn, MIT; Tracey Hayse, MIT; Elise Hens, MIT; Margaret Lloyd

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education

Environmental Engineering at MIT, with a minor in Environmental Public Policy. A sister of Alpha Chi Omega, she hopes to return to her native Colorado some day to work on water policy and in the process try to save the planet.© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010Margaret Lloyd, MIT MARGARET LLOYD is a sophomore at MIT studying biochemical engineering. She is interested in journalism and cancer research, and has found that communication skills are useful in both of these areas. As an editor for the school newspaper and a volunteer in a lab at the UC Davis Medical Center, Margaret has found many opportunities to apply what she learned in Terrascope Radio. She is from Sacramento, CA