Conference Session

Biomedical Engineering Division Poster Session (Works in Progress)

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2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Yah-el Har-El, Temple University; Thomas V. Edwards Jr., Temple University; Ruth Ochia P.E., Temple University

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Biomedical Engineering

University Dr. Ruth S. Ochia is a Professor of Instruction with the Bioengineering Department, Temple Univer- sity, Philadelphia, Pa. Her past research interests have included Biomechanics, primarily focusing on spine-related injuries and degeneration. Currently, her interests are in engineering education, curriculum development, and assessment at the undergraduate level. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021Introduction:There has been much work on the development of entrepreneurial thinking in engineering students.[1,4,5] These studies emphasize the needs to train our students to be innovative and entrepreneurialminded to meet the changing technological

Conference Session

Technical Session VII

Collection

2018 FYEE Conference

Authors

Matt Williams, Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering, First Year Advising Program

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FYEE Conference Sessions

Work in Progress: How to Use Flipped Advising to Promote First Year Success Matt Williams. Joel Parker. The University of Florida, mwilliams@eng.ufl.edu, jpark@eng.ufl.eduIntroduction:Providing developmental advising to first year engineering students often presents a number ofchallenges due to high student-to-advisor ratios. Our objective was to design and implement astudent centered “flipped” advising experience using the University of Florida’s learningmanagement system (LMS) to promote developmental advising and encourage student self-authorship.Methods:The Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering requires mandatory advising through the use ofholds to prevent registration. Each

Conference Session

Professional Practice and AEC Education

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stan Guidera, Bowling Green State University; Anthony Mutai, Bowling Green State University

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Architectural

AC 2008-1203: BUILDING INFORMATION MODELING: THE IMPLICATIONSOF GOVERNMENT AND INDUSTRY INITIATIVES FOR AEC EDUCATIONStan Guidera, Bowling Green State University STAN GUIDERA is an Associate Professor in Architectural/Environmental Design Studies in the College of Technology at Bowling Green State University. He teaches design studios, advanced CAD courses and computer rendering and animation. He is a registered architect and has used computer-aided design extensively in professional practice.Anthony Mutai, Bowling Green State University ANTHONY MUTAI is a doctoral student in the College of Technology at Bowling Green State University specializing in Construction Management. He teaches

Conference Session

Biological and Agricultural Tech Session I

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Paul Schreuders, Utah State University; Scott Greenhalgh, Utah State University; Steven Mansfield, Utah State University

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Biological & Agricultural

AC 2009-2313: AN EXAMINATION OF RAPID PROTOTYPING IN DESIGNEDUCATIONPaul Schreuders, Utah State UniversityScott Greenhalgh, Utah State UniversitySteven Mansfield, Utah State University Page 14.188.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2009 An Examination of Rapid Prototyping in Design EducationAbstract To evaluate the effectiveness of a rapid prototyped model, a course was examined whichrequires students to conceive a design and create a model or prototype demonstrating theirdesign. Students were randomly selected from the course to be given access to the rapidprototype or to create the models (prototypes) as the class has done for more than twenty years

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1996 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Korchak; David Swanson

Session 2502 Successful Government-Industry Models of Industrial Outreach David Swanson, Richard Korchak Georgia Institute of Technology/Manufacturing Extension Partnership The modernization of American manufacturing enterprises became a major concern of government andindustry in recent years. The principal causes for this public-private concern over industrial strength andeconomic growth have been based on the perceived decline in American industries share of world markets,the dislocation of workers as a result of the cutback in defense spending, and the successful and massiveintroduction of foreign made products into

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1996 Annual Conference

Authors

Wendy Culotta; Michael Mandili

sites like FEDIX, SPIN, orIRIS. Or they can search by keyword and find specific sites to investigate. Or they cansubscribe to services - some of which are free, which offer any number of means to match therequestor up with what is available, such as Community of Science. Through these services onecan sign up for notification of information to come to them based on a profile they generatedthemselves. Or they can search grant databases through online services such as DIALOG foropportunities in their fields. Other services and sites are becoming available every day. Add these opportunities to the new developments which will permit the electronicsubmission of grants and the eager researcher can see that the future is wide open! In

Conference Session

Assessing K - 12 Engineering Education Programs

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gordon Kingsley, Georgia Institute of Technology; Monica Gaughan, Georgia Institute of Technology; Donna Llewellyn, Georgia Institute of Technology; Marion Usselman, Georgia Institute of Technology

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

. Gordon Kingsley is an Associate Professor in the School of Public Policy at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Gordon is the project evaluator for the STEP NSF grant, and PI on the Alternative Approaches to Evaluating STEM Education Partnerships NSF grant. His area of research interests are the interactions of public-private partnerships to harness developments in science and technology, and the nature and assessment of educational partnerships.Marion Usselman, Georgia Institute of Technology Dr. Marion C. Usselman is a Senior Research Scientist at the Center for Education Integrating Science, Mathematics and Computing (CEISMC) at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Marion received her Ph.D. in

Conference Session

Biology in Engineering

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Naomi Chesler, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Willis Tompkins, University of Wisconsin-Madison

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Biomedical

Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he has been on the faculty since 1974. Dr. Tompkins is a Fellow of the IEEE, a Founding Fellow of the AIMBE, and an Inaugural Fellow of the Biomedical Engineering Society. He is a past President of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society and a past Chair of the ASEE Biomedical Engineering Division. Page 11.539.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006 Encouraging non-BME Engineering Majors to Study BiologyAbstractRecognizing the need for more engineers to learn biology and considering the relatively smallnumber of undergraduate

Conference Session

Pre-college Engineering Education Division Technical Session 12

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Emma Michelle Monson, University of St. Thomas; Deborah Besser P.E., University of St. Thomas; Annmarie Thomas, University of St. Thomas; Debra Monson, University of St. Thomas

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Pre-College Engineering Education

Paper ID #29478Art Bots (Resource Exchange)Ms. Emma Michelle Monson, University of St. Thomas Emma Monson is an undergraduate studying Elementary Education with a STEM co-major at the Univer- sity of St. Thomas.Dr. Deborah Besser P.E., University of St. Thomas Dr. Besser, PE, ENV SP, holds a PhD in education and MS and BS in civil engineering. Currently, she is civil engineering chair and Center for Engineering Education director. Previous experience includes fac- ulty positions in diverse universities where she has taught a variety of coursework including steel, timber, concrete and masonry design, construction

Conference Session

Pre-college Engineering Education Division Technical Session 13

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Perihan Fidan, Tennessee Tech University; Stephanie L. Wendt, Tennessee Tech University; Jeremy Wendt, Tennessee Tech University; Ismail Fidan, Tennessee Tech University

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Pre-College Engineering Education

Paper ID #31089Enhancing STEM Education: Learning about Biomedical Engineering with3DPens (Resource Exchange)Dr. Perihan Fidan, Tennessee Tech University Perihan is a faculty member at the Curriculum and Instruction department at Tennessee Tech Univer- sity. Her current research interests include STEM education, 3D printing, and incorporating literacy into STEM classrooms. She is a member of the American Educational Research Association, National Sci- ence Teaching Association, International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry, and the National Association of Multicultural Education.Dr. Stephanie L. Wendt, Tennessee Tech

Conference Session

Security

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Yu Cai, Michigan Technological University; Guy Hembroff, Michigan Technological University

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Information Systems

2006-1607: SENIOR DESIGN PROJECT: DDOS ATTACK, DETECTION ANDDEFENSE SIMULATIONYu Cai, Michigan Technological University Dr. Yu Cai is an assistant professor at School of Technology in Michigan Technological University. His research interests include network protocols, distributed systems and cyber security. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from University of Colorado in 2005. He is a memeber of IEEE and ACM.Guy Hembroff, Michigan Technological University Mr. Guy Hembroff is an Assistant Professor within Michigan Tech University's School of Technology Department. His research interests are within the areas of cyber security, network protocols, encryption methods, health-care

Conference Session

Role of Professional Societies

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Dianne Dorland

Session 2443 Professional Society Challenges: Sustainability Moving Forward Dianne Dorland Rowan UniversityProfessional societies face many challenges in today’s market. Some challenges are ongoing,such as attracting and retaining members, offering appropriate services, conferences, meetings,and products all while managing efficient and cost-effective operations. Other challenges aredriven by changing professional needs, new markets and emerging technologies. In chemicalengineering, the American Institute of Chemical Engineers identified a series of factors

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Electrical ET

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Riggins; Bruce Mutter

Session 2648 Autonomous Ground Robotic Vehicles for Electrical Engineering Technology Robert N. Riggins, Bruce V. Mutter Bluefield State College bmutter@bluefieldstate.eduAbstractThis paper discusses the design and provides an analysis of the performance of an autonomousground robotic vehicle (GRV) called Vasilius. Three sections of focus are presented. First, thepaper describes the hardware and software design of Vasilius. A novel idea of modeling anautonomous vehicle after human senses and the human decision-making

Conference Session

Pre-College Programs

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Lori Bassman; Patrick Little

Session 3453 PEPS: An Introduction to Engineering Design for Secondary School Teachers Patrick Little and Lori Bassman Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, CAAbstractEach summer the Engineering Department at Harvey Mudd College (HMC) conducts Partnersin Engineering Problem Solving (PEPS), a workshop for secondary school math and scienceteachers with the aim of introducing them to the design methodologies used in HMC’s freshmanengineering course. That course, Introduction to Engineering Design, and the workshop usestudio methods to teach design

Conference Session

Pedagogical Best Practices

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Joseph Sherrard

Session 1451 ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING IN GUATEMALA Joseph H. Sherrard University of Nebraska-LincolnIntroductionDuring the summer of 2001 the author spent 10 weeks in Guatemala as a recipient of aFulbright-Hays Lectureship Award. The award was given to teach undergraduate andgraduate environmental engineering courses at the Universidad del Valle, a privateuniversity in Guatemala City. This paper describes the country of Guatemala in general,the Fulbright program, requirements for the undergraduate degree in civil engineeringand contents of environmental coursework, and environmental

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

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Manufacturing

AC 2011-1723: WHAT IS CURRICULA 2015?Robert L. Mott, University of Dayton Robert L. Mott is a professor emeritus in engineering technology at the University of Dayton and a fellow of ASEE. He is the author of four textbooks for the mechanical design field. He also works with the NSF- sponsored National Center for Manufacturing Education and the Society of Manufacturing Engineers as the leader of the SME Center for Education. He is a member of the ASEE, SME, and ASME.Hugh Jack, Grand Valley State University Professor of Product Design and Manufacturing Engineering. His interests include Automation, Robotics, Project Management, and Design. Most recently he was part of the team that developed the Curriculum 2015

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Cynthia Tomovic

Session 3242 Performance Evaluation in the Process of Motivation: An Application of Expectancy Theory Cynthia L. Tomovic Purdue UniversityAbstractJust because employees have the ability to do a good job does not mean that they will performsatisfactorily. Effective performance is a function of an employee’s willingness to exert highenergy levels—their motivation. The purpose of this paper is to briefly present how aperformance evaluation system can impact the motivational process. Specifically, the impact ofperformance evaluation

Collection

1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Krishna S. Athreya; Ann K. Dieterich; Lawrence Genalo

summer research interns were directed by a team of four female undergraduatestudents who have demonstrated ability in computers, were trained in courseware development,and were majoring in SEM-related fields. A female graduate student in secondary education, andalso a practicing middle school science teacher, worked as a consultant to the team to provideexpertise in curricular content, educational delivery, and impact on the targeted middle schoolstudents. Another female graduate student in secondary education, specializing in assessment,worked to assess the program and to provide valuable “self discovery” information for the internsthrough Learning Styles Inventories and the Myers-Briggs Test. A secondary goal was theenhancement of the

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1997 Annual Conference

Authors

Jack Waintraub

applied academic populations, devise strategies for increasingenrollments from underrepresented populations, integrate technology into instruction, offerstudents cooperative and intern experiences, and increase the general level of communicationacross disciplines.With support from the National Science Foundation, Middlesex County College, is makingsignificant progress towards achieving its goals. Under the New Jersey Center for AdvancedTechnological Education, led by Middlesex County College, a consortium of institutions isrestructuring engineering technician education by creating a new interdisciplinary technicianprogram in Mecomtronics Engineering Technology. Likewise, a program in TelemediaCommunications Technology is being developed to

Conference Session

Managing and Funding Design Projects

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Loc Vu-quoc; David Mikolaitis; Norman Fitz-Coy; R. Keith Stanfill

context of representative aerospace-orientedprojects.IntroductionIntegrated Product and Process Design (IPPD) is a two-semester education program for seniorsat the University of Florida’s College of Engineering and Warrington School of Business. In thiscourse, qualified students from various disciplines are assigned to 5- or 6-person teams. With anexperienced engineering faculty member as coach and a liaison engineer from an industrialcompany, each team designs, builds, and tests real-life industrial projects. Over an 8-monthperiod, the student engineers are taught a structured design process. The students put the processinto practice solving the customer company’s design problem. IPPD is institutionalized at theUniversity of Florida; 133

Collection

2005 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Wangping Sun; J. M. Zhang; Z. J. Pei

presents the authors’ experiences and the effectson students’ learning when these techniques are applied.KeywordsActive learning; Engineering education; Large-class teaching.1. IntroductionAt Kansas State University, IMSE 250 - Introduction to Manufacturing Processes and Systems -is a required course for students majoring in industrial engineering, manufacturing systemsengineering, and mechanical engineering. This course is also taken by students in otherengineering disciplines, humanities and sciences. It is intended to not only provide engineeringstudents with technical knowledge for further study in their disciplines, but also exposehumanities and social sciences students to manufacturing engineering. IMSE 250 is a largeengineering class (115

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2013 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Thomas Mertz

Teaching and Assessing Quality and Continuous Improvement Thomas Mertz Engineering Technology Department Computer Systems Technology Kansas State University – SalinaAbstractThis paper describes an attempt to teach and assess students’ commitment to quality, timelinessand continuous improvement in a computer software course. The paper discusses continuousimprovement and describes the course, the projects assigned to the students and the gradingmodel used to assess them. A summary is given of the students’ performance and theirperspective of the experience.IntroductionCriteria 3i of the 2012-2013

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2018 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Heather McCain

2018 ASEE Midwest Section ConferenceUsing Milestones for Student Project Success Heather McCain University of Kansas 1 © American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 2018 ASEE Midwest Section ConferenceAbstractStudents in Master’s Degree programs are often assigned projects that span an entire semester.Some students do not start on the project until near the middle of the semester and some waituntil the end. The procrastination causes stress in a student population that is already stresseddue to work and family commitments. As the program started developing 8-week onlinecourses, there was concern that students

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2011 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Kauser Jahan

Engineers on Wheels Kauser Jahan Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering Rowan University Glassboro, NJ 08028KAUSER JAHANHe is a Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Rowan University. Dr. Jahanhas been one of the cornerstones of the College of Engineering at Rowan University. She is aleader and innovator in the area of curriculum development and has become a nationallyand internationally known expert in teaching. She won the NJ ASCE Educator of the yearaward in 2006, the AFT Gary Hunter Excellence in Mentoring Award, Rowan University2007 and the ASEE

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2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

Jenny Au; Ololade O. Mudasiru; Kavitha Chandra

ASEE 2014 Zone I Conference, April 3-5, 2014, University of Bridgeport, Bridgeport, CT, USA. RANDOM BEAM PATTERNS FROM LINEAR ARRAYS J. Au, O. Mudasiru, K. Chandra and C. Thompson Center for Advanced Computation and Telecommunications University of Massachusets Lowell Lowell, MA 01854, USA Abstract—The design of linear microphone arrays withrandomly spaced elements is investigated. The probability II. LINEAR ARRAYS AND BEAM FORMATIONdistribution function for the element positions is derived in the A linear antenna array of

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2007 St.Lawrence Section Meeting

Authors

Roy W. Melton

Electronic Instrumentation Background of Freshmen Computer Engineering Students Roy W. Melton Rochester Institute of TechnologyAbstractThe level of hands-on engineering experience tends to vary widely among beginning engineeringstudents. Whereas certain basic elements of academic preparation are guaranteed by programadmission criteria, they typically are not concerned with specific elements of a particularengineering discipline; rather, these criteria establish general aptitude and/or proficiency in mathand science. This paper analyzes a survey of the electronic instrumentation background of 2006computer engineering freshmen at

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2025 ASEE -GSW Annual Conference

Authors

Lynn L. Peterson, The University of Texas at Arlington; J. Carter Tiernan, The University of Texas at Arlington; Shanna E Banda, The University of Texas at Arlington; Karthikeyan Loganathan, The University of Texas at Arlington; Nila Veerabathina, The University of Texas at Arlington

University of Texas at Arlington Nilakshi Veerabathina Department of Physics University of Texas at Arlington AbstractThe role of non-tenure track faculty members in the present-day urban public university is critical butoften not well-recognized. Though this is a result of a historical scenario, in recent times, institutionshave been working towards the furtherance of non-tenure track faculties. The American Associationof Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) held a workshop in the Summer of 2024. The workshop's goalwas to encourage participating institutions to include non-tenure track STEM

Conference Session

GIFTS I

Collection

FYEE 2025 Conference

Authors

Lena Johnson, University of Maryland - Office of Undergraduate Research

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FYEE 2025

GIFTS: Experiential, Research-Based Learning as part of the First-Year Innovative Research Experience’s Bio Inspired Robotics StreamIntroductionTraditionally, college-level research is conducted by graduate and upper-level undergraduatestudents. The Bio Inspired Robotics (BR) Stream (a form of lab group), as part of a largerundergraduate research experience, gives first-year, undergraduate students the uniqueopportunity to conduct authentic, college-level, robotics research within the first few semestersof their academic career. BR stream teaching structure is based upon active, research-basedlearning methods, tailored to the unique scientific and technical aspects of bio inspired robotics.Though most stream activities are centered

Conference Session

International Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Angela R. Bielefeldt, University of Colorado, Boulder; Greg Rulifson P.E., Colorado School of Mines; Nathan E. Canney, CYS Structural Engineers Inc.

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Diversity

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International

Paper ID #25622Social Responsibility Related to Global Experiences and Interests of U.S. En-gineering StudentsDr. Angela R. Bielefeldt, University of Colorado, Boulder Angela Bielefeldt is a professor at the University of Colorado Boulder in the Department of Civil, Environ- mental, and Architectural Engineering (CEAE). She has served as the Associate Chair for Undergraduate Education in the CEAE Department, as well as the ABET assessment coordinator. Professor Bielefeldt was also the faculty director of the Sustainable By Design Residential Academic Program, a living- learning community where interdisciplinary students

Conference Session

Active Learning and Undergraduate Research in ET

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Yanjun Yan, Western Carolina University; Sudhir Kaul, Western Carolina University; Chip W. Ferguson, Western Carolina University; Paul M. Yanik, Western Carolina University; April Tallant, Western Carolina University

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Engineering Technology

education.Dr. April Tallant, Western Carolina University April Tallant, PhD, RD, LDN is from western North Carolina. She earned a Bachelor of Science and a Master of Health Sciences from Western Carolina University (WCU). She completed her PhD at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. She served as assistant professor for the School of Health Sciences at WCU for several years. She is currently the Associate Dean of The Honors College at WCU where she coordinates undergraduate research. Dr. Tallant is the recipient of the 2008 WCU Excellence in Teaching Liberal Studies Award and the 2012 WCU Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Award. She enjoys teaching transition courses and first year seminars, studying about food access