Conference Session

Learning as a Community

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sondra Miller, Boise State University; Pat Pyke, Boise State University; Amy Moll, Boise State University; Melissa Wintrow, Boise State University; Cheryl Schrader, Boise State University; Janet Callahan, Boise State University

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

ERC was such thatstudents lived in suites with a shared common meeting space, which facilitated collaborativework and study. Through structured activities outside of the classroom, the FiR facilitatedlearning that enhanced engineering academics (e.g., advising, study groups, tutors), communitybuilding (e.g., informal drop-in coffee nights, rock climbing), and supported the RC programcommon values. Success of these programmatic activities was assessed qualitatively (i.e.,student’s perceptions articulated through reflective writing) and quantitatively (i.e., academicperformance in key freshman engineering courses).Qualitative Life Skills SuccessesTo fully assess the successes of the ERC, we chose to first qualitatively examine the experiencesof

Conference Session

Getting Started: Objectives, Rubrics, Evaluations, and Assessment

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Edward Gehringer, North Carolina State University

Tagged Divisions

New Engineering Educators

of teaching. Thus, in recent years, peer evaluation of teaching [2] has taken its placealongside student evaluations in determining teaching competence. But faculty remain uneasyabout their student evaluations, regarding them almost fatalistically as something potentiallyimportant over which they have little control.The goal of this work is to present the cases of a number of engineering and computer-sciencefaculty who did manage to improve their scores, in hopes that they can serve as role models. Weidentify several aspects of their teaching where change made a difference. Then we comparetheir observations to what the published literature reveals. We conclude with recommendationsfor faculty who want to improve their scores.Our respondents

Conference Session

International Aspects of Civil Engineering

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Eric Crispino, United States Military Academy; Andrew Bellocchio, United States Military Academy; Scott Hamilton, United States Military Academy; Aaron Hill, United States Military Academy; Stephen Ressler, United States Military Academy

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

engineer and background experience.5 Incontrast, a first year instructor at Kabul University receives only $80 per month and $200 permonth during their second year. Eventually through academic promotion at Kabul University, asenior instructor can earn up to approximately $650 per month at the time of this writing. It iscritically important to the future success of engineering education at NMAA and at KabulUniversity that both schools be able to retain a highly qualified faculty. Page 14.694.4Developing Faculty in a Developing NationBetween January and August 2008 we deployed from West Point to Afghanistan to developcourses for the civil engineering

Conference Session

Goal Specific First-Year Courses

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Taryn Bayles, University of Maryland, Baltimore County

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

requirement for the First Year Success sections) prior tosubmitting their final report. UMBC also has a Writing Center located in the Learning ResourceCenter on campus that provides assistance to the students in the preparation of their reports.Each team is also required to make a formal oral presentation using PowerPoint at which eachteam member is required to present (the First Year Success sections are also required to give apractice presentation prior to their formal oral presentation with the instructor). Specific Page 14.813.3guidelines for the presentation are discussed in class and the students are also given a gradingrubric for the

Conference Session

Classroom Engagement

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Keith Holbert, Arizona State University

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

and Bowers (1997) of studentsstudying physics found that reading is, in fact, more important than hearing.IntroductionHaving been challenged by a member of the public—specifically a K-12 school teacher—toprovide authoritative source(s) of the STATEMENT, what was envisioned as a simple search andproof would ultimately reveal a lack of evidence for the cited statistics. The STATEMENT beingreferred to here is that people (or students) learn (or recall/remember): • 10% of what they read • 20% of what they hear • 30% of what they see • 50% of what they hear and see • 70% of what they say (and write) • 90% of what they say as they do a thingThere are various forms and permutations of the STATEMENT found in published

Conference Session

Action on Diversity - Supporting Students at Multiple Levels

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stephanie Farrell, Rowan University; Tiago R Forin, Rowan University; Kauser Jahan P.E., Rowan University; Ralph Alan Dusseau P.E., Rowan University; Parth Bhavsar, Rowan University; Beena Sukumaran, Rowan University

Tagged Topics

ASEE Diversity Committee, Diversity

connected-automated Vehicle Technologies, Transportation Data Analytics, and Alter- native Fuel Vehicles. Dr. Bhavsar has published in peer reviewed journals such as the Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technology, Transportation Research Part D: Transport and the Environment and Transportation Research Record Journal of the Transportation Research Board. Dr. Bhavsar was pre- viously a postdoctoral fellow in a connected vehicle research program in the Glenn Department of Civil c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 Paper ID #18938 Engineering at Clemson University, where he worked on

Conference Session

Materials Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Noah Salzman, Boise State University; Rick Ubic, Boise State University

Tagged Divisions

Materials

summer experience.Many participants evolved a new understanding of research as a result of participating in thesummer experience. In particular, they better recognized the collaborative nature of research andthe challenges that can arise as part of the process of doing research. Participants acquired bothtechnical and professional skills that they found useful, such as learning new programminglanguages, becoming proficient at using new pieces of equipment, reviewing technical literature,and improving presentation and communication skills. Undergraduates benefited fromdeveloping new relationships with their peers, while the teacher participants benefited fromdeveloping relationships with faculty and staff at the university. While most of the

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering Design I

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Breanna M. W. Bailey, Texas A&M University-Kingsville

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

contribute. Career development activities included resume writing, interviewskills, and professional etiquette. These lectures were frequently open to all students in theJESS program, regardless of enrollment in the senior design course in that semester.Table 2 summarizes the effects of graduate school recruitment strategies on the senior designcohorts. Of the 40 students participating in the three senior design cohorts, 16 (40%) continuedon to graduate school. Undergraduate students in the COE are permitted to register for up tothree graduate courses in their senior year. Students in the JESS program who took advantage ofthis dual-enrollment program were eligible to receive a higher scholarship. Two senior designstudents completed masters

Conference Session

Topics in Computing and Information Technology-II

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Farshid Marbouti, San Jose State University; Valerie A. Carr, San Jose State University; Belle Wei, San Jose State University; Morris E. Jones Jr., San Jose State University; Amy Strage

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Computing and Information Technology

project that will look good on theirresume, and assist landing a post education job or entering graduate school. For example, oneselected topic was “Forecasting Ford Motor Company (USA) Sales”. This project wasimplemented in R and used historical data, regression models, and a neural network. A secondtopic was an “Analysis and Model of Firearm Policy to domestic violence”. This project wassearching for a longitudinal relationship between changes in firearm policy, and changes indomestic violence rates. The project was implemented in Python. During the semester, studentsmeet at least every two weeks with an adviser, write a proposal, perform algorithm and codereviews, and provided demos of data collection and analysis progress. The class concludes

Conference Session

Learning Outcomes and Pedagogical Strategies: Problems of Alignment

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert Graham, Johns Hopkins University; Tobin Porterfield, Towson University

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

. This expanded list ofcompetencies is then validated using a dataset of engineering job advertisements.Methodology Researchers must determine the frame of articles to include and the source. Gomez-Jauregui et al. provide a critical review of the Web of Science (WoS), Scopus, and GoogleScholar databases as potential sources for comprehensive literature reviews [31]. The authorschose Scopus as the source for this study because it provides complete information for citedarticles and extensive functionality to filter the articles selected. The authors based the Scopus database search on the title, abstract, and keywords toidentify peer-reviewed research articles related to soft skills. The Boolean search then considereda wide range of

Conference Session

ECE Division Poster Session

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Aaron Carpenter, Wentworth Institute of Technology; James R. McCusker PhD, Wentworth Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

, resulted in a higher grade (maximum of 79).Students were then asked to share how they came to the new/correct answers, whether fromwebsites, videos, peers, or other resources. These resources were not factored into the grade butwere used to help guide that student and the entire class to useful resources. If a student wereusing potentially incorrect or weaker sources, the instructor corrected it. If the sources werestrong, they could be shared with other students to help the entire class build a database of usefulresources.A similar, but separate retake policy was also implemented in a junior-level Signals & Systemscourse, where students were able to retake examinations, in order to improve their grade andbetter understand the material. This

Conference Session

ERM Potpourri

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Amy Elizabeth Bumbaco, University of Florida; Elliot P. Douglas, University of Florida

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

Paper ID #11687A thematic analysis comparing critical thinking in engineering and humani-ties undergraduatesMs. Amy Elizabeth Bumbaco, University of Florida Amy Bumbaco is a PhD candidate in the Materials Science and Engineering Department at University of Florida, USA. She is working on engineering education research as her focus. Her current research interests include first year engineering education, critical thinking, qualitative methodologies, and peer review. She received her BS in Materials Science and Engineering at Virginia Tech. She founded an ASEE student chapter at University of Florida and is

Conference Session

First-Year Issues in ECE Education

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Carlotta A. Berry, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Daniel Chang, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Christopher Miller, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

that each student gained the necessarytechnical skill to be able to be an active contributor to the team project and be successful in theremainder of their academic career. It is vitally important that every ECE student be able to solder,build circuits, and write basic programs as early as possible in their curriculum. There was also asignificant reduction in the amount of documents that the students had to submit. This wasnecessary due to the higher level of difficulty required to complete the projects.Quantitative ResultsThe quantitative results were obtained by evaluating the individual and team assignments as wellas the final course grades for the original course during the Fall 2014 and Winter 2014 quartersand the enhanced course during

Conference Session

Assessment of Engineering Leadership Skills

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gary L. Winn, West Virginia University; Jeremy M. Slagley, Indiana University of Pennsylvania

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Leadership Development Division

  organization  its leadership  and reflexive Used with permission from CRC/Taylor and Francis Group, New York.6 In Crandall’s 2006 book, Leadership Lessons from West Point, Sean Hannah reflects somewhattongue in cheek about ‘spotlight Rangers.’ These are young Army Rangers-in-training who doand say exactly the right thing when the instructor is around, but who act irregularly otherwise.The spotlight Ranger represents true Ranger values only when the spotlight is on him, but asHannah says, he is soon found out, rejected through peer-evaluations and washed out of Rangerschool.Hannah further notes: “[Authentic leaders] are highly aware of social cues and followers needs, expectations, and desires. This

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bimal P. Nepal, Texas A&M University; Prabhakar Reddy Pagilla, Texas A&M University; Arun Srinivasa, Texas A&M University; Pavan Kumar Moturu, Texas A&M University; Satish Bukkapatnam, Texas A&M University

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Paper ID #25249Board 115: Preparing Next Generation of Manufacturing Leaders: A Caseof REU Site in CybermanufacturingDr. Bimal P. Nepal, Texas A&M University Dr. Bimal Nepal is an Associate Professor in the Industrial Distribution Program at Texas A&M Univer- sity. His research interests include integration of supply chain management with new product development decisions, distributor service portfolio optimization, pricing optimization, supply chain risk analysis, lean and six sigma, large scale optimization, and engineering education. He has authored over 100 refereed articles in leading journals and peer

Conference Session

PSW Section Meeting Papers - Disregard start and end time - for online paper access only

Collection

2019 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

Cheng Chen, San Francisco State University; Wenshen Pong P.E., San Francisco State University; Amelito G Enriquez, Canada College; Nicholas Langhoff, Skyline College; Zhaoshuo Jiang P.E., San Francisco State University; Hamid Mahmoodi, San Francisco State University; Xiaorong Zhang, San Francisco State University; Yifeng Xu, San Francisco State University ; Alexander Carlson, ASPIRES Program; Julissa Rico Ruiz , ASPIRES Program; Karina Reyna; Moises Arturo Vieyra, Canada College

Tagged Topics

Pacific Southwest Section Meeting Paper Submissions

graduate school would be a good choice for me 4.08 clarify whether I wanted to pursue a STEM research career 4.08 work more closely with a particular faculty member 4.00 get good letters of recommendation 3.80 have a good intellectual challenge 4.28 read and understand a scientific report 4.24 write a scientific report 4.00 ask good questions related to the scientific process 4.20 set up a scientific experiment

Conference Session

Assessment of Learning in ECE Courses

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Ahmed Dallal, University of Pittsburgh; April Dukes, University of Pittsburgh; Renee M. Clark, University of Pittsburgh

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

experience. Finally, thirteen percent (13%) of interviewees stated each of thefollowing as positive aspects of this teaching approach: 1) promotion of liveliness, engagement, orattentiveness during class, and 2) repetition or reinforcement of material, sometimes aiding memory orleading to clarification of difficult material. These results are in line with the significant difference in thelab report scores in the two classes. With more communication and interactivity, students were able to askspecific questions, communicate their interpretations, and receive feedback from instructor and peers. Thislikely helped them to write clear explanations and discussions of their results in the lab report. Table 4: Summary of Interview Responses

Conference Session

Continuous Improvement & Assessment of ET Programs

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert Chin, East Carolina University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

timing devices. Prepare charts, graphs, and diagrams to illustrate workflow, routing, floor layouts, material handling, and machine utilization. Evaluate data and write reports to validate or indicate deviations from existing standards. Read worker logs, product processing sheets, and specification sheets, to verify that records adhere to quality assurance specifications. Figure 4. TasksThe machines, equipment, tools, and software, or Tools and Technology, an industrialengineering technologists may use are listed in Figure 5. Tools used in this occupation: Coordinate measuring machines CMM—Direct computer-controlled coordinate measuring machines DCC-CMM

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stacee Harmon, Oklahoma State University; Wendy James, Oklahoma State University; Richard Bryant, Oklahoma State University

than the opportunity for learning.Similarly, each theory contains the idea that students must be allowed and encouraged tohave a sense of ownership over their work and the learning process. They must have alevel of autonomy. Students whose autonomy and individuality are supported in theclassroom will increase their feelings of competence or self-efficacy, which makes themmore internally motivated. These students are more likely to give themselves internalrewards, such as a sense of satisfaction for a job well done, rather than to seek externalrewards from teachers or peers. Since there is such a high level of common ground among the various social-cognitive theories, this paper will focus on only two of them: achievement goal theoryand

Conference Session

Rethinking Aerospace Curricula and Learning

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Narayanan Komerath, Georgia Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Aerospace

learned, and the improvements needed to use this new capability.IntroductionThis paper considers the opportunities opened by electronic presentation1 of engineering coursematerial. As course material gets completely converted, and classrooms become reliablyequipped with electronic presentation facilities, instructors are finding significant changes. Thetime spent in drawing and writing on the board is saved, freeing the instructor to focus on thestudents. What was covered in a 75-minute lecture before, is now covered in 30.A ‘safe’ option is to stretch out the lecture and add more examples and discussions. The downside is that many students are already put to sleep by the normal pace of lectures, which is set toaccommodate the student needing the

Conference Session

ChE: Safety, Sustainability, and Global Opportunities

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Allyson Frankman, Brigham Young University; Jacob Jones, Brigham Young University; W. Vincent Wilding, Brigham Young University; Randy Lewis, Brigham Young University

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

divided into different teams (6 teams with 4-6 people per team). The teams werechosen based on student preference (first or second choice) and were arranged so that there was agood mixture of majors (at least 3 majors per team) and experience (sophomore-graduatestudent). Each team is responsible for a different segment of the project and must work co-currently with the rest of the teams in designing the entire project. Class members assume teamroles such as leader, data collector, liaison with other teams etc, and are ultimately responsiblefor their aspect of the project, research and report writing. However, volunteers from the EWBChapter are invited to assist in the research and/or problem solving. Each team is assigned amentor (a faculty

Conference Session

Best of DEED

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lauren A Cooper, University of Colorado Boulder; Daria A Kotys-Schwartz, University of Colorado Boulder

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

experience bydesigning and fabricating adapted tricycles.Course StructureIn spring 2011 and spring 2012, the course met two times per week for a 75-minute lecture withan additional weekly two-hour lab time. Lecture time consisted of a combination of mini-lectures, self-directed group workshop problems and videos to support the technical content.Homework was due weekly and included originally developed real world design problems. Thesemester-long project comprised 40% of each student's final course grade (in lieu of a finalexam). Each team had a dedicated peer mentor, a senior Mechanical Engineering student whohad previously taken Component Design, who helped his or her team run team meetings, preparemeeting agendas, answer design questions, and

Conference Session

Women in Engineering: New Research

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Urmila Ghia; Rebecca German; Lisa Hogeland; Brian Kinkle; Carla Purdy

participants are enthusiastic about this program.1. IntroductionMentoring relationships have the potential to help women engineering students master specificskills (e.g., giving talks, writing proposals, writing dissertations / theses, managing one’s career,supervising and mentoring students, running a lab); explore career choices; obtain a differentperspective on research problems; and learn how to cope with stress, manage time, and meetfamily and work responsibilities. A mentor can also be a role model to encourage the student tocomplete her degree, and can provide valuable information on how to establish oneselfprofessionally. Because of the unique research advisor / student relationship and the isolation in a

Conference Session

Communication in Design

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cherian Mathews, University of the Pacific

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

demonstrations), and by peerevaluation (students assess contributions of all their team members at the end of each project).Both the instructor evaluation and peer evaluations showed that students gained teamwork skills.One group reported having problems with a team member; comments from the peer evaluationshowed that despite some difficulties with team dynamics, students feel that they gained valuableexperience in dealing with a difficult team member.The structure of the course (which is broken down into 3 projects) also helps with thedevelopment of teamwork and leadership skills. With a 3 person team, each team member getsto serve as a group leader for a project, since leadership roles are rotated from one project to thenext. Team dynamics solidify as

Conference Session

Teaching Mechanical Systems: What's New

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ashok Kumar Manoharan, Auburn University; P.K. Raju, Auburn University; Chetan Sankar, Auburn University

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

a problem. Students spend a minute or two thinking about an answer or solution and then pair up to discuss (share) their answers. The instructor may ask for several students to share their answers with the whole class. (f) Student demonstrations: Student demonstrations can be a quick way to make a point more vivid, give students a chance to hear from their peers, and give everyone in the class a “think break.” In the assessment phase, each team makes a presentation defending the recommendationof the engineer/manager they were assigned to play. The presentations are normally restricted to10 to 15 minutes so that the students are required to present their view point succinctly.Sometimes, they also

Conference Session

Inservice Teacher Engineering Education

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jane Schielack; Carol Stuessy; George Nickles

3 RPs with peers & reflect/ revise/ report research partners classroom teachers in electronically and face-to-face a Mentoring/ Action during a summer throughout the two-year Research graduate conference period course VI Teachers V follow their RPs to Teachers

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Computer ET

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

William Lin; Richard Pfile

Windows 98 and Windows XP operating systems. 5. Create a small peer-to-peer network (1) between two systems and (2) among 3-5 systems, including manufacturing the necessary cables and entering the correct settings on each. 6. Compare and contrast different home networking methods. 7. Describe the functions of IRQs and DMA: list specific information on system reserved settings. 8. Describe plug and play including characteristics of the operating system, hardware, and system settings. 9. Describe the operation and characteristics of each system bus and system ports: parallel, serial, USB, AGP, PCI, ISA. 10. Compare and contrast sound and graphics cards. 11. Prepare Visual Basic programs using basic

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Ronald E. Musiak; Richard A. Grabiec; Eric W. Haffner; Steve Schreiner; Alan K. Karplus; Mary Vollaro

limited to 24 students by having each instructor responsible for no more than sixteams. Instructors were assisted by student aids who also functioned as peer advisors for theentire freshman experience. To accommodate the entering Freshman class, four sections of thecourse were created.Delivery of course material was based on a weekly schedule of fifty-minute 'activity hours'. Page 6.506.2There were six such hours in a week: Design Hour 1, Design Hour 2, Graphics Hour, Computer Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2001, American Society for

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Valarie Arms; J. Weggel; Aly Valentine

, they shared that suchlearning prepares them for the cooperative education experience.The freshmen design project is an intense experience, which allows students to put into practicesome of the learned fundamentals. The project allows students to see relevant application ofcoursework. The project spans two terms and is an integrated class assignment in ED&L andHumanities. Students indicated that the experience afforded them the opportunity to learn anddevelop public speaking and presentation skills. In addition, being reviewed by one’s peers wasa key element. Page 6.209.5 "Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering

Collection

1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Dava J. Newman; Amir R. Amir

. It was found that the best utilization of the computer classroomwas to present the history lecture based on mostly pictorial information and the human poweredflight aircraft lecture that included photographs and models of aircraft. This lecture was presentedin a slide format on the computer so that students could proceed at their own pace. The computerclassroom was also used for Web tutorials. Note-taking for students in the electronic classrooms proves to be difficult. Since most of thedesk space is taken up by the computer and the area for the mouse, writing on paper was some-what cumbersome. Current Web browsers do not offer a solution for taking notes by hand in addi-tion to interacting with the computer. Simultaneous use of a text