Conference Session

Ocean, Marine, and Coastal Engineering Topics

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Timothy Mays, The Citadel; Kevin Bower, The Citadel; Robert Dullanty, ATM; Kelly Rutkowski, Applied Technology and Management

Tagged Divisions

Ocean and Marine

, design, and detailing. Where applicable, thestandard references other national standards such as ACI 3186 and AASHTO LRFD BridgeDesign Specifications7.Structural Capstone Class at The CitadelAll civil engineering students at The Citadel are required to take a capstone course in one of fourareas of their choice: • Structural Engineering • Environmental Engineering • Subdivisions • Transportation (Evening Students Only)All students that take the structural engineering capstone class are required to develop plans,specifications, and a concise set of calculations for a group building and an individual project oftheir choice. Given the lead author’s vast design experiences with buildings, bridges, and pierand wharf type structures

Conference Session

Beyond BS: Issues Affecting Graduate Education

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Zsuzsa Balogh, Metropolitan State University of Denver; Marvin E. Criswell P.E., Colorado State University; Michael A De Miranda, Colorado State University

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

area of civil engineering,namely the structural engineering profession. It is a step directed towards assisting the structuralengineering profession and the associated educational communities in their planning of theprograms needed to deliver the overall BOK within one of the many practice areas of the civilengineer. Like the ASCE BOK report, this study has given considerable attention to theimportance of the early period in the profession, a time which has many attributes of anapprenticeship, in the preparation of the young professional, as the overall preparation structuralengineer is very much a collaborative effort of the educational programs, the structuralengineering design and construction community, and the overall structural

Conference Session

Integrating HSS into the Engineering Curriculum

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Dave Hergert; Ron Earley; Suguna Bommaraju

Miami Plan aswell as courses in their major1, 4-10. The Miami Plan for liberal education is ambitious and complex.It took over ten years to develop. The plan emphasizes four foundation principles, thinkingcritically, engaging with other learners, understanding contexts, and reflecting and acting. • Critical thinking: Critical thinking is to involve imagination, intuition, reasoning, and evaluation in such a way to analyze systematically and solve complex problems1. • Understanding Contexts: The relevance of the problem and the solutions to the society, environment, and the well being of people is as important as the problem and the proposed solution. Knowledge of the conceptual framework and character of the society

Conference Session

Retention of Women Students II

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kerry Meyers, University of Notre Dame; Catherine F. Pieronek, University of Notre Dame; Leo H. McWilliams, University of Notre Dame

Tagged Divisions

Women in Engineering

. This relationship was consistent for both male andfemale students. And finally, students who planned to work in an engineering-related field aftergraduation were less likely to be involved with community organizations, while those whoconsidered leaving engineering were more likely to be involved in community organizationsinstead of engineering organizations.IntroductionA large-scale, multi-institutional study of persistence and engagement in engineering by Ohlandand associates reported that engineering students persist in engineering at levels similar to othermajors at an individual educational institution, but also found that persistence rates and levels ofengagement vary significantly among institutions. They also reported that engineering

Conference Session

Women in Engineering Poster Session

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Shweta Chopra, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Gary R. Bertoline, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Chad M. Laux, Purdue University, West Lafayette

Tagged Divisions

Women in Engineering

preparation and lack of encouragement10 in STEM subjects in graduate school alsocontributes to lack of women in STEM fields. This paper aims to study the factors mentionedabove and utilize the findings in providing support and guidance to women, at a particulargraduate school located at a large, Midwestern, Land Grant University. We hope our findingswill help guide women in graduate school to continue their education in the field of STEM andresult in the increase retention of women. Broader impact of this project is to recruit and supportmore women in STEM discipline in graduate school and increase diversity at the Universitycampus along with attracting funding from external resources for sustainability.NeedOne of the graduate school strategic plans

Conference Session

Educational Research and Methods Poster Session

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Julie P. Martin, Clemson University; Matthew K. Miller, Clemson University; Marian S. Kennedy, Clemson University

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

: Influential Agents of Social Capital for Engineering Undergraduate ResearchersAbstractThe STEM education community’s research on undergraduate research experiences has shownthat participation in a research experience has a positive influence on undergraduates. This studyfocuses on determining the role of graduate student mentors in the undergraduate researchers’development of availability, access, and activation of social capital resources related to researchand academic/career plans. Using Lin’s Network Theory of Social Capital, we surveyed andinterviewed fourteen students taking part in a summer research program on a research intensiveuniversity campus. Results from the study indicate that graduate students served as unique

Conference Session

FPD VI: Presenting "All the Best" of the First-year Programs Division

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

S. Scott Moor, Indiana University-Purdue University, Fort Wayne

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

materials and learning spaces that stimulate serious play. Page 25.845.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2012 Introducing Memo Writing and a Design Process with a Four-Week Simulator ProjectIntroductionFirst-year engineering courses often include design projects to help spark students’ interest andto introduce them to the broad range of issues engineers face. These projects introduce studentsto the many “soft skills” required of an engineer including judgment, idea generation,communication, planning and organization.This range of skills is difficult

Conference Session

Assessment in Graphics Education

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Thomas Delahunty, University of Limerick; Niall Seery, University of Limerick; Raymond Lynch, University of Limerick; Diarmaid Lane, University of Limerick

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Design Graphics

comparison of spatial ability within the groups group and toprovide a basis for exploring whether the students relied on their spatial skills during the task. Page 25.854.5 Problem Statement Problem ImageThe plan of a square abcd is inclined at 40degrees to the HP.The edge ab rests on the horizontal plane.The square is the base of a cube. Draw the plan and elevation of the solid.The plan of the base of a tetrahedron isshown.Edge ab rests on the horizontal plane.Draw the plan and elevation of the solid

Conference Session

Curriculum: Ideas/Concepts in Engineering Education

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Swami Karunamoorthy

well as to enhance the learning experience in laboratory education.IntroductionLaboratory experiments are essential part of engineering curriculum. Traditionally,students in a laboratory course would set up an experiment, take measurements, analyzedata, plot graphs, and write a report. This approach provides a learning experience onhow to conduct experiments and how to analyze data. However, it does not provide anexperience in design of experiments. “Design of experiment” means planning theexperiment1 and one of the aspects is statistical design of experiment. Statistical designin general implies the estimation of number of measurements or tests required todetermine the true mean of a variable being measured. In a typical laboratory

Conference Session

International Engineering Education II

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Swami Karunamoorthy

well as to enhance the learning experience in laboratory education.IntroductionLaboratory experiments are essential part of engineering curriculum. Traditionally,students in a laboratory course would set up an experiment, take measurements, analyzedata, plot graphs, and write a report. This approach provides a learning experience onhow to conduct experiments and how to analyze data. However, it does not provide anexperience in design of experiments. “Design of experiment” means planning theexperiment1 and one of the aspects is statistical design of experiment. Statistical designin general implies the estimation of number of measurements or tests required todetermine the true mean of a variable being measured. In a typical laboratory

Conference Session

Engineering in the Middle Grades

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

M. David Burghardt, Hofstra University; Michael Hacker, Hofstra University

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

, leaders from STEM education,assessment specialists, school administrators, and STEM teachers—met to discuss the importanceof creating connections between the fields in schools. There was agreement across professionalsthat these connections would be powerful in helping students learn the concepts and achieve ahigher level of proficiency.The Bedroom Design CurriculumThe curriculum selected for the mathematics infusion study that is the subject of this paper isBedroom Design, a middle school ETE unit that engages students in the planning, design, andphysical modeling of a bedroom that must meet specific cost and building requirements (e.g., thewindow area must be at least 20% of the floor area, the minimum room size is 120 square feet,the budget is

Conference Session

Aerospace Technical Session

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michele Dischino, Central Connecticut State University; Nidal Al-Masoud, Central Connecticut State University; Peter Baumann, Central Connecticut State University; Viatcheslav Naoumov, Central Connecticut State University; Zdzislaw Kremens, Central Connecticut State University

Tagged Divisions

Aerospace

aerospace anddefense industries supply chain. However, recent statistics from the Connecticut Department ofLabor in aerospace, computer and electrical engineering18 suggest a gap between the projectedavailability of engineering jobs and the number of qualified graduates to fill them.In a 2008 interview, the Commissioner of Higher Education in Connecticut drew attention to thisgap, noting that while an estimated 754 jobs engineering jobs would become available in thestate that year, only 614 qualified graduates would be produced to fill them,19 a conditionworsened by the known outflow of engineering graduates from the state.20 According to regionalgraduate retention data,20 only 27% of graduates intend to stay in the area, while 45% plan toleave

Conference Session

Outstanding Contributions - Mechanical Engineering Education

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David Willis, Southern Methodist University; Paul Krueger, Southern Methodist University; Alice Kendrick, Southern Methodist University

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

planning, message content, and educational issues has appeared in journals including Journal of Advertising Research, Journal of Services Marketing, Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, Journal of Advertising Education and Southwest Mass Communication Review. Her commentary and results of her work have also been featured in The Wall Street Journal, Advertising Age, Adweek, Incentive, The Dallas Morning News, Ragan’s Newsletter, Los Angeles Daily News, and Promotional Products Business. She is co-author of two books and more than 30 refereed publications. In 2007 she received the Research Innovator Award from the Advertising Research Foundation. She holds the Ph.D. in

Conference Session

Innovative Teaching/Learning Strategies

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Steve Ezzell; Paul Gordy

as a planning team member for an NSF sponsored grant on engineering education. Similar contacts led to Gordy’s participation in reviewing grants for NSF on two occasions. • Ezzell now participates in board meetings for the local NSPE chapter and was voted as 1999 Engineering of the Year. • Gordy was voted 2002 Professor of the Year at TCC.Integrating Team Projects into the Engineering CurriculumTCC’s involvement in competitions has been highly beneficial to the program, but not allstudents have been directly affected as participation has been primarily on a volunteer basis.Gordy and Ezzell feel that the next step is to provide similar opportunities to all TCCEngineering students by integrating design projects and competitions into

Conference Session

Principles of K-12 Engineering Education and Practice

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Monica E Cardella, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Ming-Chien Hsu, Purdue University, West Lafayette; George D Ricco, Purdue University, West Lafayette

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

more soft or is it going to be like a real egg2 Imagine Brainstorming ideas and • He thought about it. Because if you think picking a good idea about it and drew it, it helps you better to pick which one and helps you do good. • He wrote down his He’s brainstorming and trying very hard3 Plan Planning ahead, including • He said he what was going to before he the materials needed for started doing all this finishing the

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Capstone Design

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Adam Kaplan, California State University, Northridge; James Flynn, California State University, Northridge; Sharlene Katz P.E., California State University, Northridge

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

thecurrent Sprint Backlog. The set of tasks in the Product Backlog, and their priority, had beendecided on in advance by the CubeSat faculty, and had been added to the Product Backlog by theProduct Owner (computer science faculty). Once the Sprint Backlog was assembled, the teamcollectively estimated the number of hours each task would take using a live Planning Pokersession.During Planning Poker, for each task on the Sprint Backlog, each team member held up a papercard indicating whether they felt the task would be small, medium, large, or extra-large(corresponding to an estimate of 3, 5, 8, or 13 hours of work). For each task where teammatesdisagreed on the estimates, a brief discussion followed, where the difficulty of the task wasdebated. Next

Conference Session

Trends in Construction Engineering II

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

James Goedert; E. Terence Foster

Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Educationchemistry, two semesters of physics, and five semesters of mathematics includingcalculus (3 semesters), differential equations, and probability/statistics (1 semester each).The ConE program will be offered on the CET’s Omaha and Lincoln campuses as is civilengineering. Construction management will also be offered at these same locations. TheCET has recognized that civil engineering faculty will have representation in the ConEcurriculum planning activities which are planned for the Fall 2005 Semester. The CivilEngineering Department is not in the SAEC because of its role as a basic engineeringprogram within the CET. However, its role

Conference Session

IE Enrollment/Curriculum Development

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

David Hartmann

“output” from a diverseset of originating sources. Such “sources” can be the “general workforce,” direct accession fromhigh school, or graduates of higher education engineering programs.As the source for granting degrees to industrial engineering undergraduate and graduate-levelstudents, engineering higher education is motivated to adapt to the manufacturing and serviceconsumer’s changing requirements for an educated engineering employee. This motivation maybe partially based on institutional and departmental-level accreditations, a critically importantconcern for stakeholders in institutions and the institutions’ engineering departments. While anaccreditation is alone significant and requires an institution/department to plan, collect, archive

Conference Session

IE Accreditation and Program Issues

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Veronica Dark; Mary Huba; Kevin Saunders; Frank Peters; Sarah Ryan; John Jackman; Sigurdur Olafsson

Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Educationenterprises. A common IT-based environment can be used to integrate these courses. As anotherexample, such an environment can also be used to encourage the development of specificlearning skills. In traditional educational environments, it is difficult to monitor and encouragestudents’ higher-order cognitive activities, such as planning how to learn a given task,monitoring comprehension of the task, and evaluate the progress towards completing the task.On the other hand, such metacognition has been found to be important to learning and we believean IT-based environment can

Conference Session

BME Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Semahat Siddika Demir

GraduateBiomedical Engineering Program of University of Memphis (UM) and University of Tennessee(UT). The major goals of our mentoring program are peer-mentoring and community building.We achieve our goals by providing (1) a support and discussion group, and environment duringthe transition time of the graduate studies, (2) career and study planning, and (3) professionaldevelopment for the women in our graduate biomedical engineering program. Higher percentages of female students and tenured/tenured-track faculty in our BMEprogram provide us with a great potential for role models, thus our future goal is to expandmentoring to female students in our engineering school.Mentoring In her book [2], Dr. Emily M. Wadsworth, former Administrator for Women

Conference Session

A Renaissance in NRE Programs

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Christopher Turner; Lisa Marshall

NorthCarolina State University Department of Nuclear Engineering which has resulted in an averageincrease enrolment of 28% in the undergraduate program, 43% in the graduate program and astabilization of student enrolment near targeted 120 and 50 respectively. First, SEM is described as the cradle to grave approach within higher education. It is theprocess by which relations are forged, providing all concern with identifiable benefits. Adding tothe typical components, we include outreach and recruitment, retention and career services alongwith graduation and alumni development. It is a comprehensive plan that involves academic andnon-academic components. Realistic goal setting and implementation must be continuinglyrevised and sustained. Some of

Conference Session

The Nuts & Bolts of TC2K

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

James Higley; Gregory Neff; Susan Scachitti

of the terms thathave been evolving in the educational quality culture are terms such as goals, objectives,outcomes and assessment. These terms are frequently used in the new TC2Kaccreditation criteria. In addition to learning new terms, new ways of doing things must Page 9.1279.1be developed and documented as plans, processes and procedures. These plans,processes and procedures then aid an organization in developing their new qualityProceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Educationculture. Requirements such as

Conference Session

Successful Entrepreneurship Programs

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Vaidy Vaidyanathan, University of Central Florida; Carmo D'Cruz, University of Central Florida

thepast. Entrepreneurship courses and programs are starting up in business and engineering collegesof esteemed universities. What does remain is the lingering argument that much of what is appliedin the process of entrepreneurship includes material that overlaps in other courses. In the earlydays, a number of large universities claimed that the functions of management – planning,organizing, controlling- are very much evident in entrepreneurship and need not be treated as auniquely different discipline. The debate did not recognize two critically important features of anentrepreneur: The role of creativity in entrepreneurship, whereby the new concept, invention andinnovation that literally takes charge of the entrepreneur. Second, there is the

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Surya Mallapragada; Maureen Griffin; Mary Huba; Jacqueline Shanks; Kevin Saunders; Charles Glatz

measurements needed, analyze the fluxdistribution, assess areas of reaction network for genetic modification, and determine whethermore tools are needed for future characterization.The plant protein recovery module allowed for exploration of alternative separation sequencesfor recovery of a recombinant protein from transgenic corn. The research aspect was enlivened bythe result being sent to the company planning to commercialize the process. The resulting student-selected experimental effort included selective extraction, precipitation, ultrafiltration, ionexchange and hydrophobic interaction chromatography for purification of the protein productfrom the corn extract. The project provided opportunities to consider both process (columnoperation) and

Conference Session

Industrial Collaborations

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Raymond Thompson

faculty. A more formalized structure isemerging with the offering of five new minors from Aeronautical Technology in materials andpropulsion combined with a joint plan of study for a dual major under developmentIntroductionDuring the past five years, a tremendous change in relationship has occurred betweenAeronautical Engineering and Aviation Technology (specifically Aeronautical Technology) atPurdue University. Previously, the departments coexisted with little interaction. The majorlaboratory facilities for both departments are located adjacent to each other at the universityairport. While many of the faculty and staff knew colleagues in the other department, therelationship did not extend beyond that.The change began to occur when several

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Sandra Yost

move 5 to 0 , 3 to maxpos, 1 to 0 end; Figure 1. Sample CodeStudent deliverables for this segment of the course provided a framework for evaluation. Eachgroup had to submit a Gantt chart that identified activities and persons responsible for eachsubtask in each phase of the project. Milestones included a preliminary sketch of the robot’splanned geometry and a description of the strategy planned, as well as informal oral progressreports to the instructor. Each group submitted a final written report, and gave a final oral Page 5.409.3 Figure 2. Student Robot #1

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade Inside the Classroom

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

John Gumaer

effective examination is to determine the test plan and objectives.The next step is to create the questions. These questions should be reviewed. During and after theexam, observation and feedback should be used to improve future examinations. Examples andtips will be presented throughout this process to illustrate the concepts. Finally, the application ofthis process to an engineering technology course is discussed.Test PlanThe foundation of an effective examination is a test plan containing test objectives organized in ahierarchical manner. Each test objective should have a clear relationship with mastering aparticular topic2. Test objectives may be drawn from course objectives or outcomes. A testobjective should be measurable or observable. The

Conference Session

State of Manufacturing Engineering Education

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert L. Mott, University of Dayton; Hugh Jack, Grand Valley State University

Tagged Divisions

Manufacturing

Workshop, Dearborn, MI: Society of Manufacturing Engineers, 1990. • Manufacturing Education for the 21st Century – Volume I: Curricula 2002 Report, Dearborn, MI: Society of Manufacturing Engineers, 1995. • Manufacturing Education Plan: Phase I report: industry identifies competency gaps among newly hired engineering graduates: the next step-partnerships with schools. Manufacturing Education for the 21st Century, v. 4. Dearborn, MI: Society of Manufacturing Engineers, 1997. • Manufacturing Education Leadership Forum: Vision for Progress, Society of Manufacturing Engineers, Robert Morris University, 2008. • Manufacturing Education Leadership Forum; Moving Forward, Society of

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Technical Session

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Barbara A. Masi, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Shanette A. Go; E. Hosoi, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

Page 22.1214.5integrating engineering and liberal arts. Such degrees are intended for students who plan topursue careers in technology management, technology law, policy, or government. In curricularcontent, students complete a sufficient number of engineering fundamentals subjects to providethem with grounding in engineering. Students can choose to complete subjects in technology andsociety, policy, prelaw, or engineering management as well. Often students also completesubjects in a given technology area of national focus, such as environmental management,transportation, or energy—these combine engineering, law, policy, or management. LafayetteCollege, Dartmouth College, and Columbia University are examples of schools that offer

Conference Session

Systems Engineering Education and K-12

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Reid Bailey, University of Virginia; Joanne Bechta Dugan, University of Virginia; Alexandra Coso Strong, Georgia Institute of Technology; Matthew E. McFarland, University of Virginia

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Management, Industrial Engineering, Systems Engineering

systems.The purpose of this paper is to describe the research plan for determining how well the LEP isable to accomplish its objectives for graduates. The initial group of seventeen students is in theirsenior year during the 2011-12 academic year and all are completing capstone design projects.Five of the seventeen students decided to drop out of the LEP at various times during the last twoyears. Statistical baseline data to be gathered includes the types of jobs each student pursuesafter graduation, the type and number of internships each student completes during theirsummers, and their overall academic success. Interviews with faculty advisors of LEP capstoneprojects will provide information on the performance of LEP students relative to their non