Conference Session

Learnin' Lessons about Faculty Development

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Daniel Galvan, California State University, Los Angeles; Jianyu Jane Dong, California State University, Los Angeles; Lizabeth L Thompson P.E., California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Emily L. Allen, California State University, Los Angeles

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Faculty Development Division

iterative reflection, shared learning and Figure 1. Structure of workshop activities discussion. a. Reflective Activity on Participants’ Own College Experience At the beginning of the workshop, we asked the participants to take several minutes to write a reflection of their own educational experience. The goal in this exercise was two-fold: 1) to allow instructors to remember their own experiences or difficulties in maneuvering the educational system and 2) to recognize that their experience may be dramatically different than their current students. Reflection has been used in educational settings for decades as a way to solidify information, but reflection on the part of the instructors is less common. There are

Conference Session

K-12 Engineering and Pre-College Outreach Poster Session

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Eugene Rutz, University of Cincinnati

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

syllabus.This course describes the field of engineering and engineering technology allowing students toexplore technology systems and design processes. Through the course students will use math,science, technology, and writing to solve engineering problems. The course is primarilyproject-based and requires substantial participation by all students. The course also emphasizesteam work, oral and written communication, and the impact technology has on society.The course is a two-semester sequence. The first semester can be taken without taking thesecond semester. Except in rare cases, the second semester can not be taken without completingthe first semester.Table 1 lists the topics to be covered in the course. Table 1

Conference Session

Best Teaching Practices for ABET

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Marilyn Dyrud

workplace, making studentsaware of ethical issues in the professions, and providing students with decision-making processesfor ethical situations.BackgroundEthics across the curriculum (EAC), similar to the writing across the curriculum movement of twodecades ago, attempts to place ethics squarely in the context of a given course. The rationale isthat students do not necessarily transfer information from an ethics course into their technicalclasses. By offering ethics via a technical course, students can more clearly understand therelevance of ethics to their major. While the amount of time spent on ethics in any course willvary according to course goals and objectives, it should be closely tied to core course materialand, ideally, be integrated

Conference Session

Intro to Engineering: Not Just 1st Year Engineers

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Hugh Jack; John Farris

authors conceived of this combined course designproject to improve the quality of the design projects in both courses. Although the projectwas not completely successful in improving the quality of the design project otherimportant, if not anticipated benefits were observed. This project created social andprofessional ties between juniors and freshmen that lead to a higher level of enthusiasm forthe engineering program. It also provided the freshmen an opportunity to observe juniorlevel students including work habits/organization, use of calculus and other fundamentalsand writing. The freshmen also benefited by being mentored by the juniors. The juniorsbenefited by getting some 'management' experience and reducing the total time required

Conference Session

ELD Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Barbara MacAlpine

databases we could provide them. By the fall of 2003, after a number of months ofdiscussion and encouragement, the instructor for the first design class was convinced that hisstudents needed help. One of their assignments was to identify a problem on campus (typicallyrelated to life in the dormitories) and develop a solution as part of a mini-design project. Therequired steps in the process included researching the literature for relevant information.Frequently the instructor only saw results from Google searches, whereas journal articles andpatent descriptions might have been more helpful. He was also interested in having the studentslearn more about the communication process in engineering, particularly in terms of differenttypes of writing. He

Conference Session

DEED Poster Session

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ramana Pidaparti

andmanufacturability, sustainability design, arts and bio-inspired designs, robust design, and specificdesign project experiences. As part of the course requirements, students in the capstone designproject are required to write a brief report summarizing the seminar topics and discussing whatthey have learned. At the end of the course, student groups are required to demonstrate theirdesign through a final formal presentation to the faculty, fellow students, peers and a jury ofindustry guests and faculty from other departments (see Fig. 1). Students also write a detaileddesign report as part of the course requirements.Motivation for the Project The proposed project was motivated by the lasting role that multidisciplinary design hasclaimed in engineering

Conference Session

Entrepreneurism in BME

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Peter Mente; Marian McCord; Elizabeth Loboa; Susan Blanchard

in a major team project that allows them to put some of the theory they learn intopractice. For their project, students are split into teams of 3 or 4 individuals. After beingintroduced to the major principles associated with the mechanobiology of mesenchymal tissuedifferentiation, the students are asked to perform research to determine the optimal tensile strain,duration of strain, and other factors to best promote the differentiation of mesenchymal stemcells down an osteogenic (bone forming) pathway. They provide a preliminary report in theform of an “Introduction” for a major peer-reviewed journal article that provides a thoroughbackground and analysis of why they chose the mechanical loading protocol they did. They thendiscuss their team

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade Outside of Class

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Autar Kaw

First impressions last a whole semester. Often, Efed sees his peers excusing the first dayof class right after taking the attendance and passing their one-page course handout. However,for Efed, it is the most crucial day of the semester. After taking the attendance, he remembers asmany names possible and before giving the handout, asks students, “When you signed up for thisclass, what did you expect from this class?” Many will give him “that” look which says, “Is it notwhat we are here to know?” Efed asks them then, "Do you go to a movie and not know anythingabout the movie except its name?" As the students open up with their thoughts about the course, Efed clears any rumorsheard from former students. He dispels myths that they may have

Conference Session

Engineering Education: An International Perspective

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Mulchand Rathod

came together as a leading team to organize the first ever alumni convention of its alma mater. It was decided that even though there was a predominant presence of alumni of science and engineering programs in USA, the convention would be comprehensive and would include faculty of as many, if not all the programs. A target group of SPU graduates residing in the USA were identified to participate in the convention. Teams were organized to carry out various tasks. An advertising campaign was launched in ethnic periodicals and radio/television programs besides alumni to alumni email and letter writing campaign. Finally, a whole day convention took place in North Brunswick, NJ over the 2003 Labor day weekend with approximately

Conference Session

Issues in Physics and Engineering

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

James Hereford

develops the standard would be a committee operating under the auspicies ofthe ASEE or similar organization. Faculty that develop the labs then submit their assignments tothe review organization which insures the quality and originality of the assignment and enforcesthe style standard. This system is analogous to the peer review system for journal papersubmission.Current technology exists to make the review process a completely paperless system. Typically,the lab assignments are created in an electronic format and would be submitted to the reviewboard electronically. The review “editor” would then electronically send the write-ups to two (orso) reviewers. If accepted, the assignments would be stored electronically in the database.Accepted

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Brett Hamlin; Gretchen Hein

of calculus, physics, and first year engineering courses. Calculus-ready students were ran-domly selected and asked to participate in this study. Those declining our offer were used as ourcomparison group. The comparison and the test groups had similar compositions of majors, SAT/ACT scores, and high school backgrounds. The results from this study show that the students inthe test group scored significantly higher on common exams than did students in the comparisongroup. Follow-up analysis shows that the students in the test group continue to have higher overallgrade point averages, and self-report a higher level of academic confidence that do their peers inthe comparison group. This paper details the integration process, including the active

Conference Session

Design Spine

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jeffrey L. Schiano, Pennsylvania State University, University Park

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

2016.Design Sequence ArchitectureAs a starting point for achieving the three objectives stated earlier, the undergraduate committeebegan by reviewing the design component of the curriculum at peer Electrical EngineeringDepartments with similar size and ranking. Our senior capstone design course was organizedalong the same lines as many other departments, and reflects ABET criteria. In addition togeneral lectures concerning professional engineering topics, there are weekly laboratory sections.In self-defined project sections, students first complete predefined laboratory assignments duringthe first half of the semester before beginning a self-defined project approved by their instructor.In other sections, student teams select a major design

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering: Curricula and Courses

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Timothy M. Hodges P.E., Virginia Military Institute; Elizabeth White Baker, Wake Forest University

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

you a cut above your peers and allow you to perform more interesting work. In addition agraduate degree requires you to perform research and publish a thesis. This independent workdistinguishes those with a graduate degree as one who can think independently and can expressthose thoughts in a coherent manner. The technical gains that are made in the pursuit of thegraduate education make clear the limits of engineering analysis and design. This instills a betterunderstanding of the ethical responsibilities associated with creating solutions for the public. Forthese reasons the Undergrad Only College is promoting graduate education.Currently the Undergrad Only College fosters the opportunity for undergraduate research with afaculty mentor. This

Collection

1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Phillip C. Wankat

Powerpoint. Include most of thematerial needed for the transparency but skip key points which the students will have tofill in during the lecture. Then give copies of these notes to the students. Thisprocedure will eliminate many of the errors of note taking and give the students time tothink, but still require them to pay attention. You can cover more material withoutsacrificing student understanding.Tests. Students believe tests and grades are the most important part of a course. Write Page 4.220.3new tests every term. Students actually appreciate it if the professor uses old tests ashomework since then everyone in the class gets to see the old tests, not

Collection

1999 Annual Conference

Authors

James Corbeil; Dale A. Wilson

continuallyimproved by students as they construct knowledge. Process EducationTM incorporatescooperative learning, guided discovery activities, journal writing, and various assessment tools.Unlike a lecture based approach, a Process EducationTM class requires more active participationof both mentor and team members. Team members actively work through in-class tasks, whichinclude critical thinking, assessment, deadlines, and journal entries. With this approach theinstructor take on the nontraditional role of facilitator. This approach has shown significantimprovement in both student motivation and their retention of knowledge.IntroductionThe education of engineers has been a topic of concern and discussion for many years and willbe so into the foreseeable

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lynn A. Albers, Hofstra University; Jessica Santangelo, Hofstra University; Margaret A Hunter, Hofstra University; John Carmine Vaccaro, Hofstra University; Scott T Lefurgy, Hofstra University; Jacqueline Lee, Nassau Community College; Rakhi Agarwal, Nassau Community College

Tagged Topics

Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

experience at each institution.Surveys were administered to the NCC Scholars before and after the Summer ResearchExperience. One set of survey questions asked Scholars to think about starting college in the fallsemester and report how well-supported they felt with respect to engaging in activities importantfor success in STEM in college (Figure 2). While the first cohort at NCC was small (N=5), gainswere seen in how well-supported Scholars felt in writing lab reports, raising their hand in class,using tutoring, using academic advising, working with peers to study, working on groupassignments, talking with teachers and using college/career readiness opportunities (Figure 2).Scholars were also asked about a series of support services offered on campus

Conference Session

Sustainable Energy Education

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Liping Guo, Northern Illinois University; Mansour Tahernezhadi, Northern Illinois University

Tagged Divisions

Energy Conversion and Conservation

22.556.4energy; demonstrate understanding of correct procedure to measure voltage, current and power;competently research and discuss other experiments and lessons using web-based tools; haveincreased ability to design alternative energy systems; and write solar and wind technology-based lesson plans to use in his or her classroom. Problem-based, inquiry learning using authentic problems in alternative energytechnology is applied to increase content knowledge of alternative energy and increase interestand awareness of alternative energy. Participants become community leaders promotingalternative energy technology. Each participant writes an inquiry-based lesson plan in solar andwind power technology after attending the ETI institute. Inquiry

Conference Session

Chemical Engineering in Silico

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James P. Abulencia, Manhattan College

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

. 3.53 4.12 I would have approached this assignment differently if I had an10 3.18 3.02 audience of my peers, rather than attorneys.11 Ethics is a function of the way you were brought up. 3.88 3.96 It is possible to change one's ethical values after participating in12 3.06 3.26 this assignment. SCALE: 1 - STRONGLY DISAGREE, 2 - DISAGREE, 3 - NETHER AGREE NOR DISAGREE, 4 - AGREE, 5 - STRONGLY AGREE * The scores

Collection

1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Jerry W. Samples

on. Increasedproductivity requires increased travel to conferences and meetings and results in increased stress.Not being the super hero that was expected leads to moderate success in any of the big threetenure areas of teaching, research and scholarship is a distraction from achieving balance.Finally, being a volunteer, or "yes" person, leads to innumerable distractions.The TunnelLight at the end of the tunnel indicates that after tenure there is a magic infusion of time, reducedrequirements, and simply less to do... possible, but not probable for most professors. Those thatare at the top of their game after tenure often continue to produce at the same rate for years.Senior professors, with 700 peer-reviewed articles in 30 years of teaching

Collection

1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Arnold F. Johnson

,test, and refine their experiment in a laboratory environment. The students prepare both prelaband lab assignments which are distributed to the remainder of the class prior to the scheduled labsession. Since the lead-group has become very familiar with the laboratory exercise, they areassigned the responsibility of administering the labs (acting as mentors) as their classmatesperform the lab exercises.Not only are the laboratory exercises current and relevant to what is being covered in theclassroom, but they also provide an interesting open-ended laboratory design experience to thelead-group and an opportunity for these students to share their knowledge and experience withtheir peers. As active learners of technology, their communication and

Collection

1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Joseph A. Shaeiwitz

assessment, since thefeedback loop is very short term, and the specific purpose is to improve teaching and learning.The concept is that the more one knows about what students are learning or are having difficultylearning, the better students will learn and the better they will perform on a summativeassessment exercise, i.e., a test. Page 3.141.3 The most widely-known classroom assessment technique is the “minute paper,” in whichstudents take the last minute of a lecture to write down what they learned in that class, and theinstructor uses this informal feedback to assess the success of that lecture period.7 A variation ofthis is the “muddiest

Conference Session

BME Course and Curriculum Development

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James Sweeney, Florida Gulf Coast University

Tagged Divisions

Biomedical

range of devices both in and outsideof the clinical environment which make use of bioelectricity principles.In both our first offering of this course last year, and again this spring, each student carries out anindividual project according to the following guidelines. “Projects in this course entail the following: Each student identifies an individual project on a topic pertinent to Bioelectricity in conjunction with the instructor, Each topic needs to go beyond what we will cover in the course otherwise, Within the topic chosen, the student identifies a good peer-reviewed journal article (review or specific study) that the entire class will read, Each student designs and carries out

Conference Session

Mentoring and Development of New Faculty

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Elizabeth Cady, National Academy of Engineering; Norman Fortenberry, National Academy of Engineering

Tagged Divisions

New Engineering Educators

# % # % # % # %Symposium overall met 1 2% 10 23% 19 44% 13 30%expectationsReasonable amount of prior 2 4% 11 24% 17 37% 16 35%readingsReasonable amount of prior writing 1 2% 3 7% 24 52% 18 39%Original affinity groups addressed 3 7% 16 36% 20 44% 6 13%concerns/interestsRevised affinity groups addressed 1 2% 11 24% 25 56% 8 18%concerns/interestsRevised affinity groups enhanced 1 2% 3 7% 23 51% 18 40

Collection

2015 ASEE Workshop on K-12 Engineering Education

Authors

Lija Yang, Tufts Center for Engineering Education and Outreach; Merredith D Portsmore, Tufts University; Elissa Milto, Tufts Center for Engineering Education and Outreach

deepeningliteracy engagement and comprehension. The goal is for educators to be enabled to integrateengineering using an area of strength, which typically tends to be literacy.Participants will learn ways to integrate engineering design and literacy, using books as thespringboard. We will also touch on how to integrate writing as a part of the design process andas a consolidation of student learning. They will learn to identify texts that lend themselves toNE and the myriad ways they can be used. Participants will read excerpts from grade-level textsin order to identify the problems, the needs of the character-clients, scope the constraints, engagein conceptual planning and then design and build prototypes that address the identified problems.We will have

Conference Session

Pre-College Programs

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Audeen Fentiman; Alex Mendlein

they have learned, and applications of those skills in other courses.They are frequently asked to write about the concepts that were easiest to understand (andwhy), and those that were most difficult to learn (and offer suggestions for improving theinstruction).This paper has been prepared by a team of students selected from a group of volunteers. Itdescribes the course from the students’ perspective, focusing on the skills learned, activitiesthat were perceived to be valuable and those that were not, changes in their attitudes towardengineering as a career, and suggestions for improving the course next year.IntroductionA new course, Introduction to Engineering, was offered for the first time at Walnut Hills HighSchool during the 2001-2002

Conference Session

Enhancing Success/Peristence at Two-Year Colleges

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kenan Baltaci, University of Wisconsin, Stout; Melissa Thompson P.E. P.E., BridgeValley Community and Technical College; Bekir Zihni Yuksek, University of Northern Iowa

Tagged Divisions

Two Year College Division

Scholars who become employed in theirfield or continue their education. This paper shares the insights gained about retention andenrollment in engineering technology programs using student demographics, baseline data, and asurvey conducted learn about impact of financial and academic barriers on student enrollmentand retention during the grant-writing process. Demographics and baseline data shows that thecommunities served are disadvantaged, come from low-income families in West Virginia,require financial assistance, and require developmental courses upon enrollment. The surveyconducted shows that 84% of students receive financial aid, 55% stated that a lack of fundingdelayed progress toward a college education, and 88% expressed concern over

Conference Session

Hands-on/Experiential Learning

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gavin T. Garner, University of Virginia

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

Page 23.990.7 of their team can write out his or her initials as quickly and neatly as possible and 2)Program their HooPrint to automatically/autonomously draw something interesting andsophisticated in terms of programming technique in under two minutes. The author has found that it is important to give students as much creative license aspossible while challenging them with design projects. The more pride that students can take intheir own unique solutions, the more invested and dedicated they tend to become to completingthe project. The motivation that most students find in trying to show off in front of their peers farexceeds the motivation derived from simply threatening to give them a poor grade on theassignment if they do

Collection

15th Annual First-Year Engineering Experience Conference (FYEE)

Authors

Matthew Cavalli, Western Michigan University; Anetra Grice, Western Michigan University

placed in the Preparatory or PREP cohort. Half of the newbeginner population had ENGR 2100 included as a potential cohort class for the Spring 2024semester. Students (including those with low math placement) had the option to select anothercourse in the Essential Studies program, rather than ENGR 2100, if they desired.The student learning outcomes for ENGR 2100 are listed below. 1) Students will develop critical thinking, writing, technology, and research skills. 2) Students will demonstrate competency in accessing WMU resources and services and will make meaningful connections with faculty, staff, student leaders, and peers to facilitate success. 3) Students will understand the requirements to earn their bachelor’s degree in

Collection

15th Annual First-Year Engineering Experience Conference (FYEE)

Authors

Atheer Almasri, West Virginia University; Akua B. Oppong-Anane, West Virginia University; Carter Hulcher, West Virginia University; Todd R Hamrick, West Virginia University; Xinyu Zhang, Purdue University at West Lafayette (COE); Lizzie Santiago, West Virginia University

-technical skills aretaught in first year courses and are further reinforced in upper-level engineering courses. Examplesof soft skills taught in first-year engineering courses include oral communication, presentationskills, teamwork, and project management.Soft skills are interpersonal skills that support the relationship with other people and complementthe technical skills and are essential skills to achieve organizational development andeffectiveness. Soft skills can be divided into two categories, functional and adaptive skills[1].Functional skills are related to tasks and how to solve new problems, and adaptive skills are relatedto the way in which the engineer conduct themselves and interact with their peers and theenvironment[1]. Examples of

Collection

2008 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Robert M. Brooks; Soumitra Basu; Shriram Pillapakkam; Kurosh Darvish; Keerthi V. Takkalapelli

. Students were directed to undertake engineering designs inspecialized areas of transportation engineering and technology. Design topics applicable to theseareas reported ranged from Flexible Pavements, Rigid Pavements, Asphalt Paving Technology,Pavement Rehabilitation, to Signalized Traffic Intersections. These topics covered not onlyconventional transportation systems but also intelligent transportation systems. The students’presentations were peer-graded.The significance of empowerment in design, discovery, and learning was extensively documentedby applying appropriate statistical tests. Assessment, grading formula and results are tabulated.The best papers maintained the standards for publication at appropriate local, regional and ornational