Conference Session

Supporting Diversity in Engineering

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Chung Hyuk Park, Georgia Institute of Technology; Ayanna Howard, Georgia Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

control as well as aspects of interaction with humans and the surrounding environment, has resulted in over 130 peer-reviewed publications in a number of projects – from scientific rover navigation in glacier environments to assistive robots for the home. To date, her unique accomplishments have been highlighted through a number of awards and articles, includ- ing highlights in USA Today, Upscale, and TIME Magazine, as well as being named a MIT Technology Review top young innovator of 2003, recognized as NSBE Educator of the Year in 2009, and receiving the Georgia-Tech Outstanding Interdisciplinary Activities Award in 2013. From 1993-2005, Dr. Howard was at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of

Conference Session

Computer Education Innovations I

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Edward Gehringer, North Carolina State University

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education

out key portions that the students are responsiblefor filling in. After the students submit their answers, the instructor can run them to see if theywork. Figure 8. Form for having the students write code Page 15.1177.7 Figure 9. Spreadsheet in which code appearsProceedings of the 2010 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition 6Copyright  2010, American Society for Engineering EducationA related use is having the students submit answers to an in-class exercise. Figure 10 showscode fragments that needed to be filled in to achieve a desired effect in a

Conference Session

Experiences in Teaching Energy Courses

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Elizabeth Garcia, Miami Dade College; Jonathan Andrechik, U.S. Coast Guard

Tagged Divisions

Energy Conversion and Conservation

classmates.Students had to submit one of each type before midterm and one of each type after midterm, fora total of four homework assignments. Samples of the required format were provided in thesyllabus and posted online in Blackboard. Students were then asked to summarize their currentevent reviews and webpage evaluations for the entire class during class discussion times.The final assignment for the course required each student to write a memorandum to the U.S.Coast Guard Headquarters, outlining the student’s thoughts on the role of the U.S. Coast Guardin renewable ocean energy. Students had to include references in the memorandum todemonstrate that their opinions were well researched. The instructors chose this idea for the“final exam” as it provided a

Conference Session

Technical Issues in Architectural Engineering

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Gouranga Banik

Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Educationbetter description of the outcome of the problem solving process. The nature of finishing is suchthat it is related not to an analysis of the situation, but to the owners of the problem. The generalsense of this writing and the implications of the content of this article are to place emphasis onthe role of the PM including RM as an agent of change -an interventionist as well as analyst.There is a substantial group of analysts for whom the word "intervention" correctly suggests thatthe world will go on without them unless they negotiate a contributory analytical role with theintention of changing the content and/or process of deliberation (Boothroyd, 1984). Problemfinishing as a description

Conference Session

NSF Grantees’ Poster Session

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Spencer S. Kim, Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT); Sunday O. Faseyitan, Butler County Community College

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Tagged Divisions

Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

, the current approachto teaching materials science does not appeal to students studying new manufacturing processesand systems for green plastics manufacturing technology (GPMT).6-9The higher education community has strived for reforming the undergraduate STEM educationso that traditional lecture-based instructions and laboratory exercises are transferred to morestudent-centered learning formats. Innovative approaches, such as student-centered, activelearning, peer-led team learning, process-oriented-guided-inquiry-learning (POGIL), project-based learning (PBL), and other educational approaches have received increased attention withinthe educational communities.10-15Process-Oriented-Guided Inquiry-Learning (POGIL) adapts guided inquiry

Conference Session

Engineering Libraries (ELD) Poster Session

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Greg Tourino, North Carolina State University; Martin W. King, North Carolina State University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Libraries

textile products. He completed his Ph.D. degree in Biomedical Engineering at l’Universit´e de Technologie de Compi`egne in France and for 28 years has been a full-time faculty member at the University of Manitoba in Canada. He is widely published with book chapters and research papers in peer reviewed journals in textile and polymer science, biomedical engineering, biomaterials and medical literature. Since 2005 Dr. King has been appointed chaired professor of Medical Textiles at Donghua University in Shanghai, China. For the last 20 years he has also been a visiting professor of Biomaterials in the Department of Surgery at Laval University, Quebec City, Canada. Dr. King is a member of the Society for Biomaterials, the

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Stacy Wilson; Mark Cambron

Surface.Students are required to fabricate the robots body. The students are required to present theirproject at a mini-conference. In addition each team was required to write a technical reporton the project. On December 10, 2003 EE 101 students competed at Western KentuckyUniversity 2nd Annual Freshmen Engineering Day. Examples of student projects areshown Figure 3. Figure3: Design I ProjectThe students were also asked to write/design a personal webpage. A safety course in thefabrication shop was given to all students. The students were required to cut and drill apart. These skills were used to fabricate a body for the robot. In addition a “how to” classon soldering was given and the students soldered boards for a

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Courses and Issues

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Philip Kosky

assigned. Since contemporary research in nanotechnology and nanomaterials is normally tooadvanced for sophomore students, several innovative techniques tested their assimilation ofcourse materials. Quantitative and semi-quantitative aspects were evaluated using weeklyhomework and two in-class exams. Qualitative understanding of the material was tested byrequiring student teams to orally present important nano-subtopics and have each student to writea self-selected (but faculty approved) “Nanotracts” paper. The Nanotract papers condensed, andcritically commentated on, very recently published research papers in the nano field at the fullpublication standards of the peer research literature. The course facilitated key contacts with

Conference Session

Embedded Computing

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Eduardo Montanez; Andrew Mastronardi

© 2005, American Society for Engineering Education”Microcontrollers in CurriculumFrom my experience in an electrical engineering program, I recall that the first reference toMCUs was not until I registered for a required sophomore level course titled, Introduction toMicrocontrollers. In this course we spent the majority of the semester learning the MotorolaMC68HC12 instruction set and how to write software algorithms in assembly programminglanguage. The course did spend some time explaining the MCU architecture, but did not fullyillustrate how an MCU is involved in a completed application. Therefore, most students in ourprogram only associated MCUs with complex assembly programming and did not see an MCUas a crucial hardware component in a

Conference Session

Technology Transfer and Commercialization

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Steve Radke; Evangelyn Alocilja

Page 9.453.2 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering EducationProperty (OIP) had already completed a provisional patent application protecting thetechnology. The selection of the biosensor was a good starting point since the E-Teamwas comfortable about the technology.After project selection, business research was completed to determine if the idea wasviable in the marketplace. Activities, such as conducting the market analysis, writing thebusiness plan, licensing the technology and forming the appropriate management team allprovided constant feedback in an iterative manner to transform the project into a

Conference Session

Design Throughout the ChE Curriculum

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Shannon White; Patricia Niehues; Steven Peretti; Lisa Bullard

allow further refinement by the individual instructorbut sufficiently details to allow the team to begin work on the item in question. There are alsolinks to relevant tutorials through the Resource main page. Letters from Students This section contains letters from former design teams with advice regarding projectmanagement, preparing oral and written presentations, and general words of encouragement. Abrief example regarding oral and written presentations is shown below: Recommendations & Lessons Learned from Co-Protein 1 Group (2002) (taken directly from student comments) Written 1. Create outline for proposal and phase reports before actually writing. 2. Don't underestimate the importance of writing versus technical

Conference Session

Integration vs. Compartmentalization

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Craig Gunn

avisible validation for their sometimes-secretive writing activities.The particulars of the poetry contest, assessment by writers and readers of the submitted works,and an overview of why poetry contests should be instituted in all colleges and schools ofengineering is detailed in the paper. Since the contest now attracts entries from students (bothcollege and high/middle school), faculty, staff, and alumni it is clear that this one simple genre canbe used as a means to get students, especially engineering students, to write with enjoyment as thefocus.'Variety's the spice of life, that gives it its flavor." These lines in "The Task, I" by WilliamCowper (English poet 1731-1800) reflect an attitude that must he fostered in the minds ofengineers. No

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Jeanette Garr

ondesign and capstone content, allowing universities to set their own general educationrequirements (GER). Hypothesis: the biggest constraint to student growth and maturation incollege is posed by university GER. This presentation serves as a formal “call for action” todelineate and discuss the engineering students’ best interest in a university education, GER inparticular, and discuss the feasibility of change in liberal/social arts –dominated universities. Whatare the basic skills required of an engineering graduate, for whom math and natural sciences arealready superb? Consider the following: (1.) nonfiction ACS-style writing and presentation skillsfor various audiences, particularly MBA and legal backgrounds; (2.) healthy ways to balance

Conference Session

Lighting the Fire: REU

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Mary Roth; Kristen Sanford Bernhardt

, “Departmental Honors are awarded for outstanding performancein writing a Senior Thesis or in conducting Senior Research.” The College also specifies thatcandidates for Departmental Honors must: • Maintain a GPA of 3.0 overall and 3.2 in the honors department; • Register for the appropriate course in the honors department during the fall semester of the senior year and arrange for a faculty member to supervise the project; and • Submit a thesis or research report to the research supervisor; the report is evaluated by a committee composed of the research supervisor, at least one other member of the department, and at least one person from outside the department or College. The committee must give unanimous approval

Conference Session

Computer Based Measurements

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Steven Widmer; Jan Lugowski

preparationof different assessment tools, such as oral examinations and presentations, peer and teacherassessment of class projects, and modified homework assignments. Page 7.941.34. MET 382 Controls and Instrumentation for AutomationThis course stresses hands-on experience in a wide area of topics, including programmable logiccontrollers (50% of time), data acquisition (35%), and industrial control (15%). In this paper wefocus only on one 2-hour laboratory assignment for data acquisition.The core learning objectives for this course are: · Identify the components of a PC-based data acquisition system. · Evaluate and select an automated data

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering I

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Wayne E. Whiteman, Georgia Institute of Technology; William J. Wepfer, Georgia Institute of Technology; Jeffrey A. Donnell, Georgia Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

Jeffrey Donnell holds a Ph.D. from Emory University. An instructor of writing since 1982, he has taught professional writing at both the graduate and undergraduate levels since 1987. Dr. Donnell now coordi- nates the Frank K. Webb Program in Professional Communication at Georgia Tech’s George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering Page 22.1349.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011 Study of a Teaching Practicum in an engineering Ph.D. CurriculumAbstractThe Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering at Georgia Tech requires all

Collection

1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Marilyn Dyrud

. Develop list of options (Be imaginative; avoid the “yes/no” dilemma; focus on who to talk to, what to say.)5. Test options, using the following: Harm: Does this option do less harm than an alternative? Publicity: Would I want my decision published in the newspaper? Defensibility: Could I defend my decision before a Congressional committee or a committee of my peers? Reversibility: Would I still think this decision good if I were one of those adversely affected by it? Colleague: What do my colleagues say when I describe my problem and suggest this as my solution? Professional: What might my profession’s governing body or ethics committee say about this choice? Organization: What does the

Collection

2024 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Sara E. Wilson; Emma Grob-French; Patsy Maddy; Nancy Noyes

studentshave three class sections each week, a 50-minute lecture, a 2-hour lab, and a 50-minutediscussion section. The discussion section is used to support team projects.The learning outcomes for this course are that, at the conclusion of the course, students will beable to: 1. Understand logical processes and how they are used by computers and other engineering technology. 2. Break down engineering problems into logical steps and code those steps in computer languages. 3. Write programming code from scratch and problem solve errors until a goal is achieved. 4. Use the C++ programming language in the context of Arduino microcontrollers and the MATLAB programming package. 5. Apply programming methods to the

Conference Session

Lisa's Legacy: Guiding Students Toward Engineering Careers, Excellent!

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jialing Wu, Vanderbilt University; Medha Dalal, Arizona State University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Pre-College Engineering Education Division (PCEE)

. Interestingly, “Projects”elicited mixed responses, featuring both the most and least favored aspects. Other best-likeaspects emerged around the Engineering Design Process, and Flexibility and Creativity, whilethe least-liked themes included Assignment and Writing, and Timeframe.Table 2. Top Three Best and Least liked Aspects of the Courses. Best Liked Aspects Count Freq (%) Least Liked Aspects Count Freq (%) Projects 207 70 Assignment and Writing 108 36 Engineering Design Process 156 39 Projects 73 24 Flexibility and Creativity 100 25 Timeframe 22 7Concerning Projects, students highlighted

Conference Session

Innovations in First Year Programs

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Thomas Curran, University College Dublin; Colleen Doyle, University College Dublin; Enda Cummins, University College Dublin; Kevin McDonnell, University College Dublin; Nicholas Holden, University College Dublin

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

and more guidance is provided on the requirements for the compilation of reports andposters. Weeks eight to ten focus on device assembly while technical performance is evaluated inthe penultimate session. A panel of external technical experts visit the University in the finalweek to meet the students, mentors and faculty and to view a display of the devices andaccompanying posters in the main Engineering building. The assessment criteria includeteamwork, minimization of expenditure, device design, innovation, operational safety, systemperformance, project journal submission, report writing, poster presentation and appropriate useof biological and recycled materials. Prizes are awarded to the top teams. Students receiveindividual academic

Collection

2024 ASEE North East Section

Authors

Lynn A. Albers, Hofstra University; Celia Teresa Chacko, University of Connecticut

10 4 15 12 3 14 11 4Table 1: Students’ Awareness and Perception of the Resources AvailableIn addition to resources, 87% (26) of the students reported that their IAC offers training sessionsfor professional development while 13% (4) responded that their IAC did not. Training sessionsinclude IAC webinars, seminar, and director or peer-led training. Lastly, 38% (11) studentsreported that their school offered technical electives for student credit towards their degree thatwas also recognized as training by their IAC, 62% (18) did not. When asked if training sessionsand technical electives were mandatory, 22% (6) responded “yes”, 70% (19) responded “No”,and 7% (2

Conference Session

Information Literacy: Theory and Practice

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Amy G. Buhler, University of Florida; Michelle Leonard, University of Florida; Margeaux Johnson, University of Florida; Ben DeVane, University of Florida

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Libraries

, Rogers, and Harris 12 and Belter and du Pré 13, who reportsignificantly lower levels of plagiarism after students were given awareness training. McCuen 14argues that: …education about plagiarism cannot wait until the student is starting to write the thesis or dissertation. The education should begin when the student begins his or her graduate program, if not before…and mentors should have high writing standards from the beginning, not waiting until the student is writing the final draft. (p. 155)Why a game? Page 22.734.4Gaming is universal among college-aged students. A 2003 Pew Institute study 15 of gamingtechnology

Collection

1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Barbara Olds; Ronald Miller

, and results of ourpilot assessment work using the rubric.Overview of the CSM Unit Operations LaboratoryTo facilitate development of each student’s engineering abilities in the unit operations laboratorycourse, supervising faculty place as much responsibility for the planning, execution, analysis,evaluation, and reporting of experiments on the students as possible. Each student performs atotal of eight experiments in fluid mechanics, heat transfer, and mass transfer working in teamsof two or three. Teams are randomly sorted from experiment to experiment so that studentswork with all their peers in the course and each student has the opportunity to serve as a “team

Collection

2010 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

Salah Badjou

typically from 3 to 5. Much ofthe work involves testing and prototype development in the labs and therefore requires thestudents’ presence on campus. On the other hand, a substantial amount of work does not requireactual physical meetings. This includes reports writing (proposal, 2 progress reports, weeklymemos, and a final report), sharing research work and other communication. The author hasbeen teaching this course for the last 4 years. End-of-semester assessment from carefullydesigned surveys consistently indicated student difficulties managing their time. This is partlydue to demanding coursework, and work outside. Typically, students try to use the week ofSpring Break to “catch up.” However, many of them are then off campus. As a

Conference Session

WIP Poster Session: Emerging Research and Practices in Pre-College Engineering Education

Collection

2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Amber Simpson, State University of New York at Binghamton; Adam Maltese, Indiana University-Bloomington; Kelli Paul, Indiana University-Bloomington; Lauren Penney, Indiana University-Bloomington

Tagged Divisions

Pre-College Engineering Education Division (PCEE)

---these kits are great for that. There often is a disconnect to science in such kits, but these resources allowed me to make the connection to science. “That is what made it allowable for me to use it as science.”Third, parents adapted the kits to meet the learning needs and abilities of their children. We adapted the kit to focus on writing with my daughter. Writing sentences out of context is not of interest to my daughter. We made sure to write things out. I allowed my daughter to make the thing her own. There were no rules. It was open-ended. This would not have worked with my other child who wants more step-by-step instructions and being compliant.DiscussionSTEM kits grounded in the engineering design process may be an avenue

Conference Session

Interdisciplinary Integration at the Program Level

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alice Huang; Nava Bozorgmehri; Alexander Broome; Peyton Elise Carter; Hayoung Cho; Jaxen Farrell; Jane Ginley; William Kaeul Gotanda; Margaret Hynes; Charles Patrick Neill; Owen Pett; Will Purnell; Eliana Jean Razzino; Olivia Lane Remcho; Vanessa Rigoglioso; Cyrus Rosen; Ellen Ryan; Mary Katherine Serpe; William Sweeney; Avneet Hira, Boston College; Gabriella Maria Bachiochi

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division (LEES)

the university, the students take 15 courses including courses in art,cultural diversity, history, literature, mathematics, natural science, philosophy, social sciences, theology,and writing. The students also complete courses to graduate with a B.S. in General Engineering. Inaddition to the liberal arts core courses and engineering courses, all students also participate in a weeklyone-hour reflection seminar that they are enrolled in along with their peers in the same cohort. An aim forthe pedagogy and curriculum in the courses coded as engineering and the reflection seminars is to utilizethe affordances of a liberal arts framing to engineering to provide students opportunities to experience aliberal engineering education more

Conference Session

Keeping It Real: Real World Examples and Systems Thinking

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kathryn Mary Rupe, Western Washington University; Eric Davishahl, Whatcom Community College; Lee Singleton, Whatcom Community College; Rebecca S. Borowski

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Mechanics Division (MECHS)

discussed and resolved, resulting in 100% agreement in coding. Moredetails about the development of the codes is provided in the next section.Development of CodesAfter all 10 of the recorded interviews had been completed, a thematic analysis was conductedthrough multiple views of each video. Throughout the videos, key moments were identified astimes where students were actively engaging with or describing their thinking around the tasks.This meant that times when students were reading the directions or writing their responses on theactivity sheet were not considered key moments. After repeated viewings and analyticaldescriptions of the key moments in videos were compiled, themes were developed. Studentsbroadly engaged with the problems using either

Conference Session

Aerospace Division Technical Session: New and Innovative Technologies in Aerospace

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sanjay Jayaram, Saint Louis University; Hunter Pritzlaff, Saint Louis University; Andrew Stack, Saint Louis University

2022 ASEE Southeast Section Conference Data Acquisition for Collegiate Hybrid and Solid Rocketry - An Undergraduate Research ExperienceAbstract Involving undergraduate students in engineering research provides an opportunity and anavenue to gain in-depth and hands-on experiential learning with topics related to their major.Students involved learn about contributions to the field they study through research andunderstand the value of meaningful contributions, specifically experimentation and hardwaredevelopment. Working with a research advisor provides students with mentoring, teamwork, andinteraction with peers and graduate students. Research experience for undergraduate studentsprovides a unique

Collection

2022 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Gennady Gor, New Jersey Institute of Technology

Paper ID #36227Python for chemical engineers: an efficient approach to teachnon-programmers to programProf. Gennady Gor, New Jersey Institute of Technology Dr. Gennady Gor received Ph.D. in theoretical physics from St. Petersburg State University, Russia in 2009. He continued his postdoctoral research in the United States, at Rutgers University, Princeton University and Naval Research Laboratory. In 2016 he joined the Chemical and Materials Engineering department at NJIT as an assistant professor. He authored more than 60 peer-reviewed publications, and is the recipient of the National Research Council Associateship (2014) and

Conference Session

Engineering in High Schools

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ramzi Bualuan, University of Notre Dame

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

highschool students who have just completed their junior year. Students come from all aroundthe country, and in some cases from abroad. IEP’s purpose is to provide participants withan overview of all fields in engineering, while giving the students a taste of college life, alook at career opportunities, and a chance to meet professional engineers as well asengineering faculty. Students work on several projects, attend lectures, write reports,code programs, give presentations, do problem solving and design, go on field trips, andinteract with a very diverse group of peers.In this paper we describe the IEP program, and provide an overview of its selectionprocess and its structure and content. We examine how effective the program has been,and describe