Conference Session

Reflections on the “Raise the Bar” Initiative (Part II) - Using a Decade of Experience to Chart the Future

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stephen J. Ressler, U.S. Military Academy

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

technological growth.”Here the ASME paper suggests that we must preserve low standards for entry into the professionto ensure that we have an adequate supply of engineers to ensure our technological growth. Yetthere is compelling evidence that our future global competitiveness demands not more engineers,but better educated engineers.Consider the report produced by a National Science Foundation (NSF)-sponsored project called“The 5XME Workshop: Transforming Mechanical Engineering Education and Research in theUSA.”9 The 5XME project report describes the ongoing global commoditization of engineering Page 25.1361.4* The ASME position paper uses the

Conference Session

Assessment and Evaluation of K-12 Engineering Programs

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Julie Ann Rursch, Iowa State University; Douglas W. Jacobson, Iowa State University; Andy Luse, Iowa State University

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

also participate in numerous activities (calledanomalies) throughout the competition which are designed to keep them engaged and slightly offbalance just as real IT staffs get engaged in new projects and may overlook intrusions or securityrisks in new implementations. These requests may run counter to the goal of having securesystems or may open holes in their servers. The students must then decide how, or if, toimplement the request on their network, as well as how to implement it securely. It is theseactivities that help keep the students focused on providing a useable network for their end users,as well as a secure one.The group who tests each student team’s network for vulnerabilities and plays the role ofattackers in the competition

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Phillip J. Cornwell

investment of the students’ time and itwas not clear if this process helped their understanding of dynamics. Therefore, I now useWorking Model primarily in class as a way of introducing dynamics concepts, working onstudents’ intuition and for example problems. All of the classrooms at Rose-Hulman areequipped with nice projection systems so I bring my laptop to class and show the studentsWorking Model simulations that I have developed that illustrate various dynamics concepts.Working Model is very easy to use and graphs of velocities, accelerations, and forces are readilyavailable. These quantities can also be shown as vectors on the object. Its main value in asophomore dynamics class is, in my opinion, in helping students visualize the motion

Collection

1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Betsy Palmer; Rose M. Marra; Thomas Litzinger

• continually re-educate him/herself • operate effectively within the policital, ethical and economic forces of the world • apply his or her skills to practical, real-world, complex problem situations.The ABET 2000 criteria require engineering educators to examine their entire curriculum —from freshman to senior level courses. The current study, however, sampled only enteringengineering students, so in this paper we focus our discussion of engineering education change tothe first-year. Even before ABET 2000, many engineering colleges began to revamp the first-year engineering experience to include increased hands-on design, technical writing, oralpresentations, and team-based projects (Dally & Zhang, 1993; Dym, 1994; Augustine, 1997

Conference Session

Aerospace Division (AERO) Technical Session 1

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mollie Johnson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Rea Lavi, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Olivier Ladislas de Weck, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Prabhat Hajela, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Luca Carlone, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Siyi Hu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Marcus Abate, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Zeyad Awwad, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Yun Chang, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Aerospace Division (AERO)

published in IEEE Transactions on Education, Journal of Science Education and Technology, and Studies in Educational Evaluation, among other peer-reviewed journals. His research interests include problem structuring, systems thinking, and creative ideation, with specific focus on undergraduate engineering education. Dr. Lavi is a member of IEEE and of the American Society for Engineering Education. During his time at MIT, he has obtained educational project grants from the Alumni Class Funds and from the d’Arbeloff Fund for Excellence in Education. He has also received several awards for his doctoral research, including but not limited to the Zeff Fellowship for Excelling First-year Doctoral Students and the Miriam and

Conference Session

ELOS Technical Session 1 - Fluids, Wind, and Flow

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jessica Weakly, University of Pennsylvania; Sarah Ho, University of Pennsylvania; Erica Feehery, University of Pennsylvania; Bruce David Kothmann, University of Pennsylvania; Cynthia Sung, University of Pennsylvania

Tagged Divisions

Experimentation and Laboratory-Oriented Studies Division (DELOS)

. Finally, we pilot the forcebalance in an undergraduate mechanical engineering lab setting and find that students are able toexplore the setup, understand the load cell functionality, and use the system to measure drag on asphere. The force balance enables students to gain hands-on learning experience related to bothfluid mechanics and statics, and our user study shows that the force balance is durable throughclassroom use. The low cost, robustness, and high adaptability of the system makes it suitable forincorporating in multiple labs or for allowing student project teams to utilize the system in theirown experiments.1 IntroductionAccess to a wind tunnel enables students to gain real world experience with fluid dynamicsconcepts. This is

Conference Session

Educational Research and Methods Division (ERM) Technical Session 19

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lucas J. Wiese, Purdue University ; Alejandra J. Magana, Purdue University

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods Division (ERM)

to(a) expert opinions and (b) real machine learning code relevant to Alaina’s Dilemma. First, theexpert opinions came from accessible public-facing news outlets that reported on the manner:MIT Technology Review [53] and The Lever [54]. Second, the machine learning code wasdemonstrated to the students during class. This was an end-to-end machine learning project [55],from downloading and cleaning the data to training and refining the model, which was modifiedfor students’ skill level by the instructor.Introducing outside perspectives and expert opinions helps induce “safe” conflict in the students’beliefs and perspectives. Here, they further learn to consider outside information in theirdecision-making process and that ethical dilemmas are

Conference Session

Educational Research and Methods Division (ERM) Technical Session 7

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Xiuhao Ding, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign; Meghana Gopannagari, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign; Kang Sun, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign; Alan Tao, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign; Delu Louis Zhao; Sujit Varadhan, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign; Bobbi Lee Battleson Hardy, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign; David Dalpiaz, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign; Chrysafis Vogiatzis, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign; Lawrence Angrave, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign; Hongye Liu, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods Division (ERM)

aforementioned digitalnote project. In total, students were surveyed three times across different semester checkpoints. Inthis paper, the following subset of open-ended questions from the later two surveys were selectedfor analysis: 1. Evaluation 1: What benefits do you see from using digital notes? 2. Evaluation 2: What complaints do you have for digital notes in helping you learn new materials? (or frame as how satisfied are you?) 3. Errors: What errors in the digital notes have you noticed after using it for the past weeks? 4. Satisfaction: How do you describe your experience of using digital notes as a whole? And how do you describe your experience of using certain features of digital notes? 5. Adaptation: Have you developed new

Conference Session

Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering Division (TELPhE) Technical Session 1

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Steffen Peuker, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

Tagged Divisions

Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering Division (TELPhE)

disagree 8 What additional support or resources do you think would be helpful for Text input students who are interested in using AI in their work? 9 Please share any other thoughts or experiences you have related to the use of Text input AI.Figure 1: Survey Instrument LogicThe survey instrument was made available to all first-year students (N=244) via in-classannouncement and on the learning management system (LMS). The script used during class andthe notice posted on the LMS are as follows:[Name of Instructor] is conducting a research project investigating the use of generative AI toolsin first-year ME courses. Here is the link to the survey which is part of the research project:[link to survey]Please note that your

Conference Session

Educational Research and Methods Division (ERM) Technical Session 22

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mohammad Faraz Sajawal, University of Oklahoma; Javeed Kittur, University of Oklahoma

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods Division (ERM)

problem-solving strategies rather than resorting to unethical practices such as cheating. “I believe over time it will replace many jobs such as journalism, story writing, coding, and others that primarily use language to complete tasks. However, for engineering specifically, I see it as an important aid in helping to determine root cause analysis for complex system where NDI is required or to cut costs on proof of concepts by being able to simulate things more accurately. But this is still at least four to six years away from being even remotely reliable for engineering information. Currently it's really only good for basic tasks or writing code, which writing code for a project using ChatGPT does save a tremendous amount

Conference Session

Professional Development and Engineering Ethics Education

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bailey Kathryn McOwen, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Dayoung Kim, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Ethics Division (ETHICS)

minimize the effects ofnegative social identification can provide socialization opportunities to students. Additionally,establishing self-belief in engineering students can be accomplished by socialization of students;allowing them to observe one another’s goal setting and accomplishing those goals will allowthem to model their behaviors after each other. Consider long-term, independent projects thatmodel professional projects which require incremental goal setting and accomplishments; oftenthese take place in capstone or senior design projects, but introduction to these types of projectsearlier not only expose students to various types of engineering careers, but also allow them toexercise self-belief in lower-stakes opportunities.Finally, one

Conference Session

Graduate Studies Division (GSD) Technical Session 3: Advising in Graduate Education

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Zilong Pan, Lehigh University; Anand Jagota, Lehigh University; Volkmar Dierolf, Lehigh University; Himanshu Jain, Lehigh University

Tagged Divisions

Graduate Studies Division (GSD)

, collaboration, time management, ethics andresearch integrity, analytics (e.g., data science/statistics), project management, and criticalthinking — faculty members were asked to rate from 'very important' to 'not important at all.'The results showed that 'very important' is the largest proportion for all qualities or skills.Additionally, faculty members mentioned various skills that they also consider important,including writing, marketing, hands-on experiences, entrepreneurial skills, networking, self-assessment, and independent research skills.When asked if they would like to encourage collaborative research between their PhD studentsand non-academic partners (e.g., an industrial lab), 78% of the participants provided a positiveanswer (see Fig. 8

Conference Session

MECH - Technical Session 11: Integration of Problem-Solving and Design Thinking

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Amanda Sterling, Auburn University

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering Division (MECH)

interviews. The forensic activity was very interesting as well as beneficial to my future career. It provided me with experience that covered the entire range of a real-world engineering problem from start to finish. The first portion of the project - taking measurements of and analyzing a metal shaft - provided an opportunity to take what we had learned in the class on the theoretical level and apply it to a real life scenario. It taught us what kind of measurements are necessary to fully define a problem as well as what kind of techniques are     best suited for taking those measurements. This helped us to visualize what is actually going

Conference Session

Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering Division (TELPhE) Technical Session 3

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Haley Williams, University of California, Berkeley; Denia Djokic, University of Michigan

Tagged Divisions

Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering Division (TELPhE)

noveltechnical domain, nuclear engineering developed within a new organizational context [8].Previously, physicists practiced their research within university science departments, but with thedevelopment of wartime research efforts, such as the Manhattan Project, top physicists andengineers found themselves employed by government and military-funded research initiatives.Post-WWII, these government research efforts continued via the establishment of nationallaboratories. The first national laboratory, Argonne National Laboratory, cites its establishmentin 1946 as having the goal to perform “cooperative research in nucleonics”, another term used todescribe the field of ‘nuclear engineering’ or ‘atomic energy’ [9]. This time period was markedby specific

Conference Session

Sociotechnical Integration and Programmatic Reform

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David Tomblin, University of Maryland, College Park; Nicole Farkas Mogul, University of Maryland, College Park; Christin J. Salley, University of Michigan

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division (LEES)

discussions and projects. We ask students to question the traditional classroom formatand infrastructure, including how STS instructors administer classes. Practicing in thecommunity are instances of student agency related to community-based course activities andoutside of courses, such as desires to change something about communities, the campus,engineering classes, and their lives in general. Agency to change communities involves skillsand aspirations to disrupt the status quo and ask critical questions of science and technology.Navigating constraints refers to performing agency in the real world and is the most theoreticaldimension of the model. This study only follows students in the two-year STS program, so wedon’t have extensive data about how

Conference Session

Educational Research and Methods Division (ERM) Technical Session 18

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Mario Bonilla; Miguel Santiago Valarezo; Miguel Andres Guerra, Universidad San Francisco de Quito

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods Division (ERM)

Paper ID #44122WIP: Unannounced Tests and Examinations to Improve Student Performanceand Build Academic IntegrityJohn Mario BonillaMiguel Santiago ValarezoDr. Miguel Andres Guerra, Universidad San Francisco de Quito MiguelAndres is an Assistant Professor in the Polytechnic College of Science and Engineering at Universidad San Francisco de Quito USFQ. He holds a BS in Civil Engineering from USFQ, a M.Sc. in Civil Engineering in Construction Engineering and Project Management from Iowa State University, a Ph.D. in Civil Engineering with emphasis in Sustainable Construction from Virginia Tech, and two Graduate Certificates from

Conference Session

Identity Formation and Engineering Cultures

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Timothy Duane Reedy, University of Maryland, College Park; David Tomblin, University of Maryland, College Park

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division (LEES)

practices that work to downplay, obfuscate, or dismiss entirely the influence of socialand structural factors that reproduce educational disparities among historically marginalizedgroups in engineering and further drive them away from the field [4], [5], [13]. The broadersocietal implication of this problem is that it limits the diversity of perspectives that practiceengineering, which perpetuates the development of the unjust and inequitable distribution oftechnological consequences. We see this, for example, in the pervasiveness of algorithmic bias,infrastructure projects that harm minority communities, and a lack of (or undone) technologiesthat could benefit women and people of color [14], [15]. The recognition that we need to designculturally

Conference Session

Open-Ended Problems and Student Learning

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Amanda S. Fry, Purdue University; Monica E. Cardella, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Heidi A. Diefes-Dux, Purdue University, West Lafayette

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

how to improve as well as an understanding of how to make animprovement10.Because quality feedback is important, investigating the traits of good feedback is critical. Theaim of this study is to examine how students perceive and respond to feedback received from aGraduate Teaching Assistant (GTA) and their peers. This study is part of a larger project thatfocuses on the feedback that students receive as they iterate through multiple drafts of theirsolutions to MEAs. In addition, this study is part of a greater research endeavor to developpedagogical approaches around feedback on open-ended problem solving that enhancesinstructor and peer feedback and facilitates students learning to interpret and respond to feedback.II. MethodA. SettingThree

Conference Session

Student Learning and Assessment II

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Amir Karimi, University of Texas, San Antonio; Randall D. Manteufel, University of Texas, San Antonio

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

2200 K). Discuss the results. Also compare the results for the thermal efficiency with that obtained from equation (9.8) of the textbook17and discuss the differences.In addition to the external problems, six pop quizzes, five midterm exams and a comprehensivefinal exam were given during the semester. Two group design projects and one individual openended project were also assigned.Table 3 shows the grade distribution for Thermodynamics-II taught by the same instructor. Inspring 2008 and spring 2009 textbook problems were used for all home work assignments. Inspring 2008 a limited number of students were using solution manual or similar resources incompleting their homework assignments, because a new edition of the textbook was adopted

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 the University of Minnesota as a mechanical and aerospace engineer, she worked in industry as an automation design engineer and contract programmer. She made computer sci- ence a more appealing topic for her all-women undergraduate student body by presenting this technically valuable course in a project-oriented comprehensive manner. She is currently the director of the Center of Excellence for Women, Science and Technology where she administers the college’s National Science Foundation scholarships for Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) majors and fa- cilitates various recruiting, advising and placement activities for STEM majors and minors

Conference Session

Innovations in Materials Education

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kathleen Kitto, Western Washington University

Tagged Divisions

Materials

collaborative learning activities.Simultaneously, there was a change to a collaborative term long research project in the coursefrom individual term long projects. Additionally, all active, in-class exercises were completed inthese same collaborative teams this academic year. No attempt was made to separate the effectsof these two, simultaneous changes. A separate paper3 covers the initial observations fromchanging to the collaborative approach for completion of the research project and a more detailedpaper that includes the outcomes for this academic year is being prepared. No doubt part of thechange in the outcomes described in this paper is due to the increase in the amount andfrequency of collaborative work as outlined in the research literature16

Conference Session

Educational Research

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Erin Crede, Virginia Tech; Maura Borrego, Virginia Tech

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

qualitativeexploration of the ways the authors addressed the issue of data integration, or mixing. During thequalitative phase we examined the same sample to explore the themes that emerge regarding theissue of integrating the data. The sample chosen for this study included 16 journal articlespublished in seven journals from 2005 to present. Table 1 summarizes how the data werecollected from the sample population for the two major phases of the project. Table 1. Research Design: Questions, Data Collection and AnalysisResearch Phenomenon of Interest Data Collection Data AnalysisQuestion How do current articles Articles were identified based on Elements from each article published

Conference Session

Myths About Gender and Race

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Carroll Suzanne Seron, University of California, Irvine; Erin A. Cech, University of California, San Diego; Susan S. Silbey, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Brian Rubineau, Cornell University

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society, Minorities in Engineering, Women in Engineering

” and values of the profession.20 Through interaction with facultyand peers and experiences inside and outside the classroom, students engage in anticipatoryprofessional behavior as they begin to master professional competencies, gain comfort withuncertainty, identify with valued symbols, enact expected norms, espouse professional truismsand learn to project a confident, capable image to others.10,11,17,18,21Socialization includes, then, assimilating the profession‟s “myths,” or the symbols, norms, andtruisms of engineering. Building on the centrality of scientific method, engineering embodies acommitment to meritocracy: an anchoring point of engineering‟s “folk wisdom” is thatindividuals who work hard and have the appropriate skills in math

Conference Session

Engaging Upper Level Classes

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Ronald Welch

ispossible through the proper use of instructional technology. Sound innovative? Sounds new? Notreally, these types of techniques have been used for many years at the United States MilitaryAcademy and probably at most schools at the turn of the century. Hands-on models were oncethe corner stone of every class in mechanics, but many classrooms today are only equipped witha textbook, a chalkboard (if lucky), and a computer projection system. Is this enough? No! Howcan faculty return to a style in today’s classrooms that is more conducive to student-centeredlearning? This paper will present the daily classroom activities in a basic Mechanics course (andother courses as well) that greatly improve the quality of the instruction and student

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Lason Watai; Arthur Brodersen; Sean Brophy

Engineering Education"Figure 2. The STAR Legacy CycleB. Significance and relevance of The STAR Legacy Cycle to the engineering practiceIn order for engineering lab courses to be developed following the challenge-based STARLegacy Cycle, it is necessary to relate the cycle to the engineering process. The cycle was firstdeveloped to organize instruction and manage learning activities and resources in a classroomsetting. It has never been implemented in engineering lab course design8. So an objective of thisstudy has been to evaluate the appropriateness of the Cycle in a practical engineering lab course.Analyzing the cycle for significance and relevance to an engineering process revealed that itcoincided with the engineering project development process

Conference Session

Computing Tools for Engineering Education

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Theodor Richardson; Jed Lyons

meet the resultant requirements by thesoftware written.It is likely that most educational software undergoes the traditional software life cycle of (i)requirements analysis, (ii) design, (iii) construction, (iv) testing, (v) installation, (vi) operation,(vii) maintenance, and (viii) retirement1. However, it is not always certain that the product istested by and for the correct stakeholders in the educational system. The software herein is anupdate of a product called Math with Montague (MM); it was initially a senior project on recordat Bethany College in West Virginia. The original software was intended for use as skillspractice software based on the West Virginia state standards for mathematics. It enjoyed limitedsuccess when presented at

Conference Session

Track 1: Technical Session 7:Beyond Math Readiness: Understanding Why Some Women Pursue Engineering

Collection

2024 Collaborative Network for Engineering & Computing Diversity (CoNECD)

Authors

Olivia Ryan, Virginia Tech Engineering Education; Susan Sajadi, Virginia Tech

Tagged Topics

CoNECD Paper Sessions, Diversity

understand major choice in specific‬ ‭engineering disciplines, but this study will focus on engineering major choice generally.‬‭ igure 1‬F‭Conceptual Model from Main et al.’s study‬‭[40]‬‭.‬‭ ote: This study focuses on the high school life stage from the conceptual model. The figure was‬N‭adapted to highlight this portion of the model.‬‭ ethodology‬M‭Qualitative researchers study things in their natural setting to make meaning of phenomena as‬ ‭people experience them‬‭[41]‬‭. A common type of methodology‬‭in qualitative research are case‬ ‭studies – a case study allows researchers to study a phenomenon in its bounded context‬‭[42]‬‭.‬ ‭This project used a case study to understand the factors influencing women students' pursuit of‬

Conference Session

Student Beliefs, Motivation and Self Efficacy

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Micah Stickel, University of Toronto; Siddarth Hari, University of Toronto; Qin Liu, University of Toronto

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

active learning, Page 24.1207.4 4) Gives prompt feedback, and 7) Respects diverse talents and ways of learning.A more thorough discussion of the student-centered theoretical framework behind the invertedclassroom can be found in a recent review paper by J. Bishop and M. Verleger 7.Research Project DescriptionThis paper reports on one of the research questions associated with a two-year study on theinverted classroom approach conducted at the Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering at theUniversity of Toronto, which is a large research-intensive public university. The study comparesthe relative perception and performances of two cohorts, one

Conference Session

CIP Technical Session

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Samantha Ruth Brunhaver, Stanford University; Shannon Katherine Gilmartin, Stanford University; Michelle Marie Grau, Stanford University; Sheri Sheppard, Stanford University; Helen L. Chen, Stanford University

Tagged Divisions

College Industry Partnerships

-level Other occupationsNote: Fields that respondents in our final sample selected are highlighted.Table 2. Engineering sub-occupation fieldsEngineering practitionersEngineering consultantsEngineering managers, first-lineEngineering managers, mid-levelEngineering research associates and assistantsEngineering teachers and professorsEngineering technologists, technicians, and surveyorsOther engineers or engineering-related technologistsNote: Sub-fields that respondents in our final sample selected are highlighted.We combined first-line and mid-level engineering managers into a single group called“managers”. First-line engineering managers typically supervise engineering teams and projects,whereas the NSF describes mid-level

Conference Session

Mathematics Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ravi T. Shankar, Florida Atlantic University; Don Ploger, Florida Atlantic University; Agnes Nemeth, Florida Atlantic University; Steven Alan Hecht Ph.D., Nova Southeastern University

Tagged Divisions

Mathematics

robotics and alternative assessment strategies in their classroom5, 6.II.C. Background: The journey towards our previous projects started when we came to knowthat a local school had a robotics club, but no robots. The students, both boys and girls, met oncea week to discuss, but could make no headway on how to finance their club. Purchase, operation,and maintenance of commercially available robots13, 14 were beyond their means and capability.We wanted a simple low cost solution that they could easily comprehend and build upon. To thisend, we offered a course to engineering undergraduate students in the fall of 2011. The resultwas a blueprint (for both hardware and software) for building a low cost robot4. We havepublished the details elsewhere15