Conference Session

Topics Related to Electrical Engineering Technology

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

B. S. Sridhara, Middle Tennessee State University; Daryl Hunter White, Middle Tennessee State University

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Engineering Technology

AC 2012-4042: DEVELOPING EXPERIMENTS FOR THE VIBRATIONCOURSE WITH MINIMAL EXPENDITUREDr. B. S. Sridhara, Middle Tennessee State University B. S. Sridhara is a professor in the Department of Engineering Technology at Middle Tennessee State University. He received his B.S.M.E. and M.S.M.E. degrees from Bangalore University and Indian In- stitute of Science, Bangalore, India. He received his M.S.M.E. and Ph.D. degrees from Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, New Jersey, and Auburn University, Alabama. Sridhara has published sev- eral peer-reviewed articles in the areas of acoustics, vibration, finite element methods, and engineering education.Mr. Daryl Hunter White, Middle Tennessee State University Daryl

Conference Session

Improving the Pedagogy of Laboratory Courses

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sriram Sundararajan, Iowa State University; LeAnn E. Faidley, Iowa State University; Terrence R. Meyer, Iowa State University

Tagged Divisions

Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

AC 2012-5155: DEVELOPING INQUIRY-BASED LABORATORY EXER-CISES FOR A MECHANICAL ENGINEERING CURRICULUMProf. Sriram Sundararajan, Iowa State University Sriram Sundararajan is an Associate professor of mechanical engineering at Iowa State University. He is currently the Associate Chair for Undergraduate Programs and oversees curricular and program matters including assessment and continuous improvement efforts. His research areas encompass scanning probe microscopy, multiscale tribology (friction, lubrication and wear), and surface engineering. More recently, he has focused on atom scale mapping of thin film material systems using 3D-atom probe microscopy. He has authored over 50 articles in peer-reviewed journals and

Conference Session

NSF Grantees' Poster Session

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mohamed Abdelrahman, Texas A&M University, Kingsville; Reza Nekovei, Texas A&M University, Kingsville; Alexandra Chincarini, RETainUS

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

of the topics they are about to learn. The learning begins withresearch, teacher lectures, group discussions, and revisions to the original ideas of the unit. Nextis a section of the Legacy Cycle called “test your mettle” in which students are required to showwhat they have learned. This can be accomplished in a tradition paper and pencil test format orcan be explored through projects, papers, or presentations. To finish out the Legacy Cycle, thestudents must “go public” with what they have learned, presenting their findings in front of theirschool or community through the format of a newspaper article, poster, or presentation. This willforce the students to be accountable for their learning to their peers and community. Knowingthat they

Collection

1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Larry Hoffman; Kevin D. Taylor; Russell A. Aubrey

development, university and departmental idiosyncrasies, professional development, and various practical issues.The SUNY Albany program was deemed a success. It was particularly helpful for young facultyjust starting their academic careers. Mentors and protégés agreed that there is need for basicstructure, content, and guidelines for the dyad meetings. Mentors and protégés were pleasedwith assigned mentors as long as the assignments were made according to similarity of interests.Elmes-Crahall (2) writes about the Wilkes University voluntary mentoring program for newfaculty. It consists of inviting experienced faculty members to volunteer to serve as mentors andthen providing a list of the volunteers to new faculty members who are responsible to

Conference Session

Programming Education 1

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Alexander Mendoza-Garcia, University of Florida

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Computers in Education Division (COED)

another is creating patterns. For example, in module 4,students are asked to calculate the pi using the Wallis formula, which involves the addition of 1or more terms. Therefore, in the code, the user is asked how many terms they want to use tomake the calculation (e.g., 500), and the code will generate the output using the number of termsthe user provided as input (for 500 terms, the output is 3.14002068). Similarly, in module 5, for-loops, the student must write code that calculates the factorial of a number (they cannot use thefactorial function pre-defined in MATLAB; these series in module 6 are more complex becauseof the use of nested loops. The other kind of problem is patterns. In this area, students are askedto create different shapes

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kathleen Ann Dinota, Stony Brook University; Monica Bugallo, Stony Brook University

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

engineering practices (SEPs)in NGSS. Participants were given “post-it” notes and told to write one word that describes whatscientists and engineers “do” on a note. After a few minutes, participants then placed their notesunder a poster listing each of the eight science and engineering practices. Teachers were able tosee that each of their words could fit under one of the practices and it was noted that they wereable to successfully identify many activities conducted by scientists and engineers. Participantsthen broke into groups of three or four and were assigned one of the eight SEPs to closelyexplore. Explanations of each practice from the standpoints of “science’ and “engineering” wereprovided to each group. The groups were assigned the

Conference Session

ML and Generative AI Tools and Policies

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lucas J. Wiese, Purdue University at West Lafayette; Alejandra J. Magana, Purdue University at West Lafayette

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education Division (COED)

. For instance: as a personal tutor, aSocratic opponent, a reflective study buddy and idea generator, or an explorer [9]. Moreover,Stanford’s Center for Human-centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI) purports benefits of ChatGPTsuch as allowing teachers and instructors to scale their learning, adapt to individual interests, andimprove learning accessibility—all without fear of peer judgment [10]. Of course, though,students can use ChatGPT to cheat. Whether writing essays or answering homework questions,students may be passing off generated text as their own [2], [8]. This requires caution, but thisdisruption can lead to an exciting foray into new skills, new domains, and new meaning behindlife, work, and education [11].3. Conceptual FrameworkThis

Collection

1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert H. Bond

.The second part of communication skills, as it applies to the senior design course, is personaldevelopment for the students. The capstone design course is a great place for students topractice their oral and written presentation skills. Hopefully they have already had some formaltraining in speech and technical writing courses. All students in all design groups must berequired to prepare written status reports and make status and design review presentations.These presentations should be reviewed by the student’s peers, communications experts (we arefortunate to be able to call on faculty from our technical writing faculty for support here), andpracticing engineers. This is a low risk opportunity for practicing presentation skills. Whenthese

Conference Session

Embedded System Design

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael Kimbrough, University of Tennessee at Martin; Rhett Chrysler, University of Tennessee at Martin; Somsak Sukittanon, The University of Tennessee at Martin

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

write firmware for the new processorusing C and assembly languages. Conventionally, the majority of engineering courses revolvearound the analytical analysis of real world problems and challenges; however, there is a need toaddress certain aspects of real world problem-solving that extends beyond what is covered withintraditional written analysis based courses. The ENGR460 class has created an alternate approachto develop such skills, by creating a challenging and motivating learning environment.The first half of the course consists of lectures covering basic microcontroller functions andsensors, with corresponding labs each week. Examples of sensors that students explored in thelab include ultrasonic rangefinder, RFID reader, and accelerometer

Conference Session

DEED Poster Session

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Harry B. Santoso, Utah State University; Raymond E. Boyles, Utah State University; Oenardi Lawanto, Utah State University; Wade H. Goodridge, Utah State University

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

wide-access Internet-based e-Infrastructure for K-12 education. His research interest includes learning personalization, cognition and metacognition, multimedia content, e-Learning standardization, and distance learning.Raymond E. Boyles, Utah State University Raymond Boyles attended California University of Pa. where he received two degrees; BA in Information Science: and a MS in Technology Education. He also attended Pittsburgh Institute of Aeronautics where he received an Associate degree in Avionics. He has professional experience as an engineering assistant, computer programmer, and a Robotics instructor, as well as volunteer experience as a teacher, advisor, peer counselor, and a special needs coordinator. He

Conference Session

Curriculum Innovations in Architectural Engineering Education

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ahmed Cherif Megri, University of Wyoming

Tagged Divisions

Architectural

Basic Engineering Statistics - 3 15SPRING SEMESTERARE 4740 Mech. Sys. Design Project - 4 ARE Mechanical Course (ARE 4430 or 4490) - 3 3 Mechanical Option Elective - 3ENGL 4010 Scientific & Technical Writing WC 3 1 Univ. Studies * 3

Conference Session

International Initiatives, Partnerships,Teaching Strategies, and Collaborative Networks

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Esteban Rodriguez-Marek, Eastern Washington University; Min-Sung Koh, Eastern Washington University; Michael Brzoska, Eastern Washington University; Claudio Talarico, Eastern Washington University

Tagged Divisions

International

and writing for academic purposes,and research papers preparation. Furthermore, in order to facilitate the transition of the 1+2+1students to EWU the ELI and the International Education Office provide the possibility to matchthe 1+2+1 students with International Peer Advisors, Cultural Mentors and InternationalAdvisors. One of the approaches taken to enhance the learning experience of the 1+2+1 studentsis a high level of cooperation with native speakers. Towards this end, 1+2+1 students areencouraged to partner with American students in the various laboratory classes. It was noted thatthere was a significant improvement in the academic performance both of the 1+2+1 studentsand the native speakers. One of the intangible benefits is the

Conference Session

Materials Lab Experiments and Demonstrations

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael Kessler, Iowa State University; Prashanth Badrinarayanan, Iowa State University

Tagged Divisions

Materials

polymer processing.Lab ImplementationEach lab took approximately two hours for the students to complete. For many of the labs, therewas only one instrument available, so the six lab sections had to meet at different times duringthe week. A graduate teaching assistant along with graduate and postdoctoral research associatesfrom the instructor’s research group assisted with running the multiple sections of the same labthroughout the week. There were 12 lab reports written by each four member lab section (Lab12 and Lab 13 required a joint report). Four of the reports required a “Formal Lab Report”format, four required a “Memo Lab Report” format, two were in the form of a PowerPointpresentation, and two were to be webpage reports.The write-up

Conference Session

Track 1 - Session 2

Collection

2014 ASEE International Forum

Authors

Yakov E. Cherner, ATEL, LLC; Maija M Kukla, University of Maryland, College Park; Linn W Hobbs OBE, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Sergey V Vasilev, Yaroslavl State University; Ivan Fedorov; Alexander S. Sigov

Tagged Topics

Curriculum and Lab Development

Paper ID #11041Use of a Virtual Multifunctional X-Ray Diffractometer for Teaching Scienceand Engineering CoursesDr. Yakov E. Cherner, ATEL, LLC Dr. Yakov E. Cherner, a Founder and President of ATEL, LLC, taught science, engineering and technology disciplines to high school, college and university students. He has extensive experience in writing curric- ula and developing educational software and efficient instructional strategies. Dr. Cherner introduced an innovative concept of multi-layered simulation-based conceptual teaching of science and technology. He also proposed and implemented the pioneering concept of

Conference Session

New EET Course Development

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Albert Lozano

signals from the two services previously mentioned. InPracticum #4 the students set up an outdoor antenna specifically designed for the 137 MHz bandused by the Polar-orbiting satellites from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration(NOAA). These satellites are almost sun-synchronous which means that they will be visible in aspecific location on the Earth’s surface at approximately the same time every day. The NOAAsatellites that were operating with weather images in the VHF band are NOAA-12, NOAA-14and NOAA-15 although at the time of writing this paper NOAA-14 is experiencing technicalproblems with the onboard imaging scanner giving very low quality images. The orbital periodof these satellites causes them to pass at a specific location

Conference Session

Innovation in Design Education

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Robin Adams; Jennifer Turns

which engineering faculty are referring toother people’s research when describing their own teaching. The results from this study wereutilized to design a workshop to bring educators and researchers together.In this paper, we report the results of our citations analysis. This includes a description of ourmethod for exploring what sources people are referencing when writing about engineering designeducation, a summary of our findings, and implications for design education.BackgroundWe believe engineering research should inform the engineering design education community.Other educational communities (such as science education) effectively utilize research in theirteaching practices (e.g., McDermott & Redish, 1999; McDermott, 1997; Hunt &

Conference Session

Introduction to Engineering Courses

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Lorcan Folan; David Doucette; Gunter Georgi

PowerPoint) to their peers, andsubmission of electronic/paper lab reports. Periodically a project progress report is given. Allthese activities are graded and the students get immediate feedback about their performance.Technical writing specialists from the Humanities department act as writing consultants, playinga crucial role to help improve both the written and oral presentation skills of the students.III. Overview of Course Content and GoalsLectures are given weekly by experts in the fields and vary somewhat from semester to semester.Typical lecture topics are:· Introduction to Course / Engineering Disciplines· Robotics· Safety & Reliability· Large Software Projects· Civil Infrastructure· Aerospace, Apollo, and the Lunar Module

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Madara Ogot

engineering students have little exposure with the use of multimedia software and hardware6.3. Poor oral and written communication skills amongstst ME graduates despite their introduction into the curriculum1,2.4. A need to attract more students, especially from diverse populations, into engineering7.The Creative Design Workshop (CDW) described in this paper, addresses each of the problemsenumerated above.2.0 Creative Design WorkshopThe CDW is based on an existing learning model that currently operates on virtually alluniversity campuses – the college newspaper. What better way to train future journalists thanhave them work in a real newspaper environment, honing their interview and writing skills,while at the same time providing an invaluable

Conference Session

ET Distance Learning Courses and Programs

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

John Carter

questions of this very skeptical old professor, and as those questions rapidlyaccumulated without any definitive answers, we as a faculty simply said as a body, “we’ll makeit work,” and sealed the commitment to offer the programs. This approach to design is truly anengineer’s dream and an educator’s nightmare. It is a challenge for any engineering educator. At the time of this writing, the department is completing its second year of web-basedinstruction following four years of two-way audio/video distance education instruction. Thedepartment policy requires that resident and non-resident students must receive the sameeducation. Consequently, we have a basis for comparing these student groups, and the initialresults might be surprising. Though the

Collection

ASEE Mid-Atlantic Section Spring Conference

Authors

Stephen McGill Jr, Villanova University; Rebecca McGill, Villanova University

, with examples in writing tutors (Kim, 2023) and software tutors (Prather, 2023).Whether tutoring provides a desired tool or is deployed well remains up for debate (Engle,2023). The overall risk-benefit analysis affects policy making (Office of Ed Tech, 2024), butthere is promise for increasing educational equity (Sylvestre, 2023).Human-Computer Interaction: The general area of best practices for interacting with a chatbot istermed “prompt engineering” (Reynolds, 2021). Prompt engineering entails users tailoring theirquestions to the chatbot to task-specific domains, such as medicine (Heston, 2023), engineering(Velásquez-Henao, 2023), science education (Cooper, 2023) and image generation (Liu, 2022).Overall, prompt engineering provides another

Collection

2022 ASEE St. Lawrence Section Annual Conference

Authors

Shivaun D Archer, Cornell University

report writing skills.Materials and MethodsThe experiment reported was performed by students in a 1st year undergraduate engineeringcourse entitled Introduction to Biomedical Engineering. This course is comprised of fourmodules covering key topics in Biomedical Engineering. Each module integrates lectures with alaboratory. The microfluidic lab described is in the Biofluids module. A class typically of 45students is divided into groups of 3 to 4 students, and the lab is taught in three sections with 4groups in each section. Prior to the lab, lectures on fluid flow in pipes, vascular flow andocclusion, and microfabrication were delivered to provide context. The lab was carried outduring a 3-hour class period and the students were given three weeks

Conference Session

Environmental Engineering Pedagogy and Innovation

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stephanie Butler Velegol, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Sarah E. Zappe, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Mary Lynn Brannon, Pennsylvania State University, University Park

Tagged Divisions

Environmental Engineering

solution.However, students often come into the design course without mastery of the prerequisitematerial. Faculty then use class time to review this material, reducing the time that can be spenton the objectives of the course such as engineering design, professional correspondence, andimproving technical writing and presentations skills. To solve this problem, we have created aset of online instructional materials that can be used by students in an EnvironmentalEngineering capstone course to ensure that they have mastered the prerequisite material beforeand while engaging on the design project.In this case the students designed a water treatment system to remediate acid mine drainageentering the headwaters of a local river. This design required knowledge

Conference Session

Structural Education Topics in Architectural Engineering

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gouranga Banik, Tennessee State University

Tagged Divisions

Architectural

publications in the area of civil engineering and construction management. He presented some of his research in several well-known and peer reviewed conferences like ASEE, ASCE, ASC, WEFTEC and CIB, and published articles in those conference proceedings. He presented his research all over the world including the United States, Canada, Greece, Italy, Brazil and the Philippines. Page 24.978.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2014 Perceptions Regarding Cheating among CM and AEC StudentsIntroductionFrom the existing research, it is understood that that academic cheating has

Conference Session

Educational Research and Methods Division (ERM) Technical Session 14

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Hillary E. Merzdorf, Texas A&M University; Anna Stepanova, Texas A&M University; Saira Anwar, Texas A&M University; Pouneh Abbasian, Texas A&M University; Tracy Anne Hammond, Texas A&M University

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Educational Research and Methods Division (ERM)

held in person inthe United States for the first time since 2020, and was distinguished by a record number ofabstract and paper submissions and the highest number of attendees. Several changes were madefor the first time this year, including the creation of 1) videos to explain the differences betweenpaper categories, 2) distinct detailed rubrics for the variety of different submission types, and 3)streamlined tracks and sub-tracks using the Engineering Education Research (EER) taxonomy[1]. We updated the review process to engage peer reviewers at the abstract review stage ratherthan wait until the draft paper review stage. We also accepted abstracts with minor revisions andprovided them with necessary guidance if needed. We created a poster

Conference Session

Track 6: Techncal Session 7: Growing BPE Efforts: Lessons Learned from a College-Wide Seed Grant Program

Collection

2025 Collaborative Network for Engineering & Computing Diversity (CoNECD)

Authors

Gabriella Coloyan Fleming, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Christine Julien, Virginia Tech

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2025 CoNECD Paper Submissions, Diversity

: last week of semester● Final Report: end of semester ● In year 2, 3 continuing and 11 new projects were awardedProgram DesignRationale Program feature ● In a similar, university-wide program ● Projects must be led by undergraduate open to “all”, faculty largely were students, graduate students, postdocs, awardees or staff ● Students, staff, and postdocs may not ● Proposal template, office hours, have proposal writing experience information session ● Equity in review process ● Scoring rubric shared with template ● Sufficient budget for events and student ● Budget

Conference Session

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division Technical Session 5

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

suggests that that the divide between socialjustice (SJ) concerns and technical knowledge in engineering curricula is an important reasonthat students with SJ concerns leave engineering [1, 2]. In their recent book, Engineering Justice,Leydens and Lucena [3] present criteria they hope “can be used to guide educators [to render] SJvisible within the engineering sciences without compromising valuable course content.” Oneapproach is the so-called “Problem Re-write Assignment”: students write a context for atraditional “decontextualized” engineering science problem. We undertook this pilot study tounderstand how students frame their thinking about “contextualized/decontextualized”(Con/Decon) problems and what resources they would use to write a social

Conference Session

Best Papers in K-12 / Pre-college Division

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Corey A Mathis, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Emilie A. Siverling, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Aran W Glancy, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities; Tamara J Moore, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

activities that allow students to engage inargumentation11. Schwarz11 also noted that educational systems emphasize the development ofcritical thinking, which depends on the use of argumentation.Arguments come in an array of forms and can lead to new understandings. Thoughargumentation may occur as a solitary activity, it is more often done in social situations throughverbal or written communications. In education, this may occur during discussions, sharingopinions, or writing persuasive text. Educators can then gauge students’ progress by assessingthese argumentation interactions.Though argumentation can be used in all academic domains, it is a critical component of thescientific process and is an essential part of scientific discourse. As a

Conference Session

Innovative IE Curricula and Courses

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Srinivas Chakravarthy

. Page 9.675.1 “Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright ©2004, American Society for Engineering Education” Students learn better when the environment is very friendly and conducive for them. Byfriendly environment we mean an environment where there is an opportunity (a) for students aswell as instructors to ask questions without the students and the instructors feeling intimidated;(b) for students to discuss among their peers without feeling uncomfortable; and (c) for studentsto think clearly without feeling the undue pressure that exists in an environment wherequizzes/exams are taken. Our

Collection

2024 ASEE PSW Conference

Authors

Mehran Andalibi, Embry Riddle Aeronautical University; Heather Marriott, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University - Prescott; Oyku Eren Ozsoy, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University - Prescott; Luis Felipe Zapata-Rivera; Sameer Abufardeh, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University - Prescott

ChatGPT into their weekly routines [13]. Recognizing the imperative for adapting tothe evolving landscape, educators must embrace change to ensure students are equipped with theskills and knowledge anticipated by the industry [14]. Rather than dismissing tools like ChatGPTor imposing unenforceable bans on the technology, instructors should encourage students to usethe tool to achieve a deeper understanding of the course material. There is a large potential forusing ChatGPT to supplement the current computer science education [3, 5, 6, 9, 13, and 15]. Atool like ChatGPT can help bridge the gap between students who lack the prerequisite experienceand knowledge, and the tool can become the study partner for the students that lack a peer groupto

Conference Session

Engineering Collaboration: Faculty and Student Involvement in K-12 Programs

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Elizabeth Eschenbach, Humboldt State University; Mary Virnoche, Humboldt State University; Lonny Grafman, Humboldt State University; Forrest Stamper, Hoopa Valley High School; Laura Atkins, Humboldt State University; Rebecca Raymond, Humboldt State University; Katie Mills, Humboldt State University

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

knows about what engineers do • What factors (if any) about being an engineer appeal to participant • Events or persons that influenced participants’ study plans • What participants plan to do after high school • Participant satisfaction with the quality of the course.Focus GroupsTo acquire qualitative feedback regarding the DYF ENGR 215 course, focus groups werefacilitated Ms. Atkins and Ms. Raymond after the post-survey was administered. Students wereasked to discuss and write answers to the following questions: 1. How well did the course do in teaching you about the engineering design process? How come? 2. How have your ideas about what engineers do changed? How did this class affect your ideas about career