Conference Session

First-Year Programs Division Technical Session 9: Student Growth & Professionalization

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rodrigo Cutri, Maua Institute of Techonology; Hector Alexandre Chaves Gil, Instituto Mauá de Tecnologia; Cristiane Maria Barra Da Matta; Octavio Mattasoglio Neto

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs Division (FYP)

, present, in theOrganization. presented in correct order. calculations, results, correct order, butSpelling, the wrong Most and conclusion are some lackclarity, fluency, order. Some information is well developed. information.and coherence items correct and Contains Unclear and/orof the text. contain clear. Clear appropriate erroneous spelling. incomplete writing. technical language

Conference Session

Computers in Education Division (COED) Poster Session

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David Reeping, University of Cincinnati; Aarohi Shah, University of Cincinnati

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education Division (COED)

generic examples and sample outputswith little formal evaluation and surveyed student at a high-level about ChatGPT’s usefulness.Previous systematic reviews focusing on using ChatGPT in educational settings have providedseveral general suggestions for how LLMs can be purposefully integrated into the learningprocess. For example, Imran and Almusharraf [11] reviewed 30 papers related to how ChatGPTcould be used as a writing assistant for instructors and students, but the synthesis does not offerconcrete prompts or specific guidance on how one would use such a tool to enhance their workbeyond suggestions offered in the reviewed papers (e.g., grammar assistance, textsummarization, constructing initial drafts, and brainstorming). Beyond only writing

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Charles T. Jahren

. process. Neatness Very neat writing that is easy to Writing is neat in most areas of the Writing and calculations can Sloppy writing that is read. Headings and subheadings construction process design. be followed with some effort. difficult to read. No are used to separate bid items and Headings are used most of the Few headings are used. headings are used. activities. time. Clarity Very clear how project will be built The flow of activities can be Construction process can be Logic is difficult to follow. from start to finish. Each bid item

Conference Session

Best Practices in Existing College-Industry Partnerships

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kenneth Van Treuren, Baylor University

Tagged Divisions

College-Industry Partnerships

designed to: “... expose a small number of competitively selected professors from U.S. and international universities to key elements and the business realities of industry by enabling them to "look over the shoulder" of working professionals at several levels of the technical, business, and management career paths. They will leave the program with an understanding of Boeing's business including its research needs, with an improved understanding of the practical application of technical and business skills and with a network of contacts within Boeing and among their faculty peers that can form the basis of long-term relationships”5In all, 149 faculty have participated in this program since its

Conference Session

FPD II: Increasing Engagement and Motivation of First-Year Students

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nicky Wolmarans, University of Cape Town, Department of Civil Engineering and Centre for Research in Engineering Education (CREE); Corrinne Shaw, University of Cape Town, Department of Mechanical Engineering and the Centre for Research in Engineering Education (CREE)

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

; referencing; writing in a technical genre; and communicatingtechnical concepts to a small group of peers. In addition each student learns about a numberof concepts related to structures and construction as an orientation to their site visits.Skills are typically not isolated to a single project, but build together through multipleprojects. For example, in preparation for writing the major technical report, structure andcoherence in paragraphs is introduced in the informal settlement upgrade project. The basicsof experimentation, with a focus on measurements and data presentation, alongsidespreadsheet functionality and design are introduced through three activities within the servicereservoir project. Students are expected to use these skills in

Conference Session

Transitioning to an Academic Career

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

William Loendorf

those in industry considering a similar career change.Introduction Page 10.1356.1Even before the start of the second year as a full-time professor in the Engineering and Design(E&D) Department at Eastern Washington University (EWU) it was apparent that it was going to Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Educationbe very busy. There were new courses to prepare, department and university committeeappointments, new academic programs to develop, professional papers to write, and the quest fortenure

Conference Session

Classroom Management

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Edward F. Gehringer, North Carolina State University

Tagged Divisions

New Engineering Educators

. Students are asked to answer aquestion individually; then they discuss the answers and can be given an opportunity tochange their answer. It takes time to plan good peer-instruction exercises, and it’s easierto justify the time when many students will benefit from it. Students may be moreunderstanding when asked to purchase a clicker for a large class rather than a small class.Tech support is needed to make clickers work smoothly, and it is more likely to beavailable if the class is large.Category 2: Less effort per credit hour taught. In a large class, on most campuses, youwill get TA or grader support; in a small class, you may not. If you have multiple TAs,they can specialize in performing different tasks. For example, in a recent class

Conference Session

Sustainability and engineering education

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kim LaScola Needy, University of Arkansas; TAHAR MESSADI, UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS; John Henry Kester III, University of Arkansas

Tagged Divisions

Environmental Engineering

. Page 23.943.9  Preparation of sustainability research:  Structure and write a research proposal (e.g. Honors College grant application, NSF graduate fellowship application or thesis proposal); Deliverable: Research proposal  Structure and write an undergraduate thesis (i.e., abstract, introduction and previous work, statement of problem, objectives, methods, data and data representation, discussion, references, along with methods for appropriate attribution (citation), data visualization (charts, graphs, tables, etc.); Deliverable: Thesis outline  Write a research abstract for a research conference, conference paper, or journal paper; Deliverable: Abstract suitable for submission  Prepare a research

Collection

2002 ASEE North Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Laura Grossenbacher

“freshmancomposition” class that has been perhaps dreaded but usually survived by most collegestudents in their first year. Because we are housed in the department of EngineeringProfessional Development, and our students are thus often science-oriented, we like togear the assignments to technical topics, without losing a strong focus on argumentativeand persuasive writing. From years of experience, we recognize that these studentsenter UW with some respectable writing skills – they can do narrative and descriptive 1writing fairly well, but they are challenged when asked to do critical thinking andwriting about arguments. This matters deeply

Collection

2015 Northeast Section Meeting

Authors

Sigrid Berka

institute,and also write a 10 page paper in English for their home advisor. If the grade they receive issatisfactory, they can receive 3 professional elective engineering credits for their work. These pioneering and highly committed students are then also placed in internships in companies that – in the ideal scenario – offer an internship project where the students can apply their former academic research experience. 2 2015 ASEE Northeast Section Conference Guidelines for a Research Project for IEP students at TU BraunschweigStudents of the University of Rhode Island (URI) International Engineering Program (IEP

Collection

2025 ASEE -GSW Annual Conference

Authors

Alexander Hernandez, West Texas A&M University; Sanjoy Bhattacharia, West Texas A&M University; Sarah Petters, University of California, Riverside; Markus Petters, University of California, Riverside

Tagged Topics

Diversity

as phasechange, phase transition temperature, crystallization, and ice nucleation, in existing universitycourses. We educated a diverse group of students and exposed them to state-of-the-art techniquesearly in their academic careers to consider pursuing a STEM career and higher education. Asoutreach, we also trained graduate students, as well as students from an adjacent communitycollege (CC). The developed curricular activities provided students with experience inexperimentation, data analysis, and technical writing. Based on the ABET assessment of learningoutcomes, we assessed our goals to educate students on 1) using multidisciplinary science,engineering, and mathematical skills to evaluate and address complex issues emergent in

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics - Courses and Curricula

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Brock Barry, United States Military Academy; Matthew Ohland, Purdue University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Ethics

comprehensivesummary of the applicable literature. A detailed discussion of the study’s design andimplemented methods will be presented. Subsequent publications will present the findings,discussion, and implications resulting from the completed study. This study was executed tofulfill dissertation research requirements associated with doctoral program in EngineeringEducation at Purdue University. Page 14.555.2IntroductionObjectivesAt the micro-ethical level, the ethical practices of an individual define, to a large part, how thatindividual is perceived by his or her peers. At the macro-ethical level, however, the ethicalstandards inside a particular

Conference Session

NSF Grantees: Identity

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Allison Godwin, Purdue University at West Lafayette (COE); Brianna Benedict McIntyre, Purdue University at West Lafayette; Jacqueline Ann Rohde, Purdue University at West Lafayette (COE); Dina Verdin, Arizona State University, Polytechnic campus; Aaron Robert Hamilton Thielmeyer, Purdue University at West Lafayette; Herman Ronald Clements III, Purdue University at West Lafayette (COE); Zhihui (Sherry) Chen

Tagged Topics

Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

schools in the northeast. There weren’t a lot of options for electives orclasses. All of the science classes that we took were marine science classes, including onetechnology class each year. For example, my freshman year I took technical writing and mysophomore year I took AutoCAD. Also, during my senior year I took a research class in which Iparticipated in a year-long research study that hasn’t actually been done before and will bepublished shortly about Microplastics on the East Coast, and that was an amazing class. My teachertreated me like an adult, a scientist, I was responsible for my own deadlines and due dates, and herattitude towards the class and towards my responsibilities in that class really made me want towork hard for it. I

Conference Session

The Interdisciplinary Nature of Engineering

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mehmet Vurkaç, Oregon Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society, Multidisciplinary Engineering

who received humanities education tend to have better performance” in the workplace,based on pre-and-post surveys given to employers of graduates.In a recent blog post for Science [11] on the reasons to include the Humanities in careerpreparation, and even though writing about science careers, not engineering, Albert brings forthten enumerated reasons, many of which are relevant to engineering practice as well. Reason 2 isthat “[s]tudying the humanities allows you to become familiar with and use the creative ideasfrom great minds outside of science. As a poignant example in support of this argument, considerthe application of art-inspired mathematics to the applied chemistry of an oil-spill clean-up,presented at the Bridges 2012: Mathematics

Conference Session

LEES 4: Understanding and Disrupting Engineering Cultures

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David Tomblin, University of Maryland College Park; Nicole Mogul, University of Maryland College Park

ask themto describe a teacher who impacted them.From the first day of class, students learn that our course goal is to equip them with the ability tocultivate conversations about ethics amidst their daily lives (personal, political, professional). Weearnestly call this “hosting STS parties”; during the course, as they grapple with the intensity andintractability of the large-scale problems that technology has perpetuated (misinformation,polarization, war, white supremacy) they learn that their agency is related to their ability tosurface difficult questions with their peers, subordinates, or superiors. This simultaneouslylowers the bar for what it means for them to be agentic in the context of ethics, while takingseriously the issue that

Conference Session

ECE Division Technical Session 8: Effective Teaching and Learning in Post-Pandemic Classrooms and Other Curricular Innovations

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Asad Azemi, University of Wisconsin - Platteville; Xiaoguang Ma, University of Wisconsin - Platteville; Fang Yang, University of Wisconsin - Plattevile; John Goomey, University of Wisconsin - Platteville; David Andersen, University of Wisconsin - Platteville

Zoom. Thegroup final design projects did not go as well.Project groups were formed in Canvas [20], which provided a group workspace, discussionboard, and conferencing area. Without exception, the student groups chose to set up a group inDiscord and do their work there. Designs were completed using Altera Quartus II, andsimulations were used to demonstrate the functionality of the projects. While this effectivelydemonstrated the success of the groups’ projects, the presentations were dry and harder tofollow. Digital timing diagrams are no substitute for blinking LEDs, 7-segment displays, andbuzzers. Peer evaluations of the final project presentations shown in Table 2 show a significantdrop in student perceptions of the presentations.Table 2

Conference Session

Civil Engineering Division (CIVIL) Poster Session

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Samantha Elizabeth Paucarina; Josué David Batallas; Miguel Andres Guerra, Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Ecuador; Vanessa Guerra, University of Virginia

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering Division (CIVIL)

formationof the scientific image both within the scientific communities themselves and outside of them [10].Currently, social platforms have promoted the development of new media, increasing new andinnovative methods for reading and writing, allowing the audience to increase as compared totraditional media. This is how the information is transmitted immediately and interactively,making the communication process more effective [11]–[15]. According to Pantoja "socialnetworks provide new possibilities to compensate for the open imbalance between the needs ofsocial communication and the means necessary for that communication" [16].Since the inception of social media in the late 1990s, it has had an unprecedented influence on ourpersonal and professional

Conference Session

First-Year Programs: Virtual Instruction in the First Year III

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Shannon Barker, University of Virginia

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

ofperspectives and lived experience to the challenge at hand. Research shows that having diverseteams working on complex challenges produces more effective and impactful solutions thanworking in uniform teams or as lone individuals [31-35]. In the case of predominately onlineinstruction environment, teams also offer the opportunity for social connection and peer support.The class was divided into teams with the assistance of the Comprehensive Assessment forTeam-Member Effectiveness (CATME), an online tool that aides instructors in forming studentsteams based on best practices, and stayed in their assigned team for the entire semester.Synchronous class sessions: These sessions were held on Mondays via Zoom. This time wasdedicated to discussing and

Conference Session

Research Methods and Studies on Engineering Education Research

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Andrew Katz, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Matthew Norris, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Abdulrahman M. Alsharif, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Michelle D. Klopfer, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; David B. Knight, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Jacob R. Grohs, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

element for a system such as ours because they meet the design requirement thatthe system should need minimal additional training. Satisfying the “minimal additional training”requirement means that the engineering education teaching and research community could applythe this kind of system off the shelf in their own work to identify important trends and answerrelevant questions in their own contexts.In educational data, NLP techniques have been used to study a variety of topics. Crossley et al.,[12], [13] used a series of rule-based approaches to study students’ sentiments and their mathidentities in an intelligent tutoring system. Crossley et al [14] also used an NLP approach tostudy differences in students writing styles as a function of their

Conference Session

Computers in Education 1 - Programming 1

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Ben Tribelhorn, University of Portland; Heather Dillon, University of Washington Tacoma; Andrew M. Nuxoll, University of Portland; Nicole C. Ralston, University of Portland

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education

. Exam scores were improved when measuring studentsability to create use cases, especially clarity and completeness. Student performance was greatlyimproved when writing use cases, especially clarity and completeness which was reflected inimproved projects. Quantitatively, the same mindset objectives were assessed in other coursemodules as part a larger curriculum wide effort in Engineering. The numerical results indicatethat the modules in this course outperformed other modules in the curriculum for most of themindset objectives. Ultimately, the results indicate these types of modules may play an importantrole in entrepreneurial mindset development for computer science students.IntroductionThis paper describes a set of modules designed to

Conference Session

Software Engineering Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bruce R Maxim, University of Michigan, Dearborn; Sushil Acharya, Robert Morris University; Stein Brunvand, University of Michigan-Dearborn; Marouane Kessentini, University of Michigan-Dearborn

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Software Engineering Division

appropriate software engineering tools in the development of a software product5. Manage the completion of a software project for an external customer6. Participate in several peer design walkthroughs, including the presentation and critiquing of each other’s designs during class time7. Participate on a multi-disciplinary design team to design and implement a software project8. Write a complete design document for a software system9. Write a management plan for a software project that involves time and resource estimates, personnel scheduling detail, and the determination of its production costsCIS 375 meets twice a week for 2 hours each class period for 56 contact hours over a period of 4months. The topics covered in this course are listed in

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Design

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Steven Northrup, Western New England College

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

changes to the requirements were made inthe past two years. This author believes, as mentioned in the introduction, that higher levels ofintegration require higher levels of interdisciplinary interaction. Page 11.766.4The main requirement change was the addition of an automatic trailer release mechanism. Thesolar powered vehicle was required to tow a 6-lb. trailer for 1/3 of the race and automaticallyjettison the trailer. The idea was that the computer engineering student would write a programto keep track of the distance traveled and send a signal to the electrical engineering student’scircuit board to control a relay that, in turn, would power

Conference Session

Mechanics Division Technical Session 3

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ghada M. Gad, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona; Giuseppe Lomiento, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona; Yu Sun, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Mechanics

complexity, ease of administration, quality of information, etc. Examples of these include theVARK catalyst which divides input modes into four areas: visual (V), aural (A), read/write (R),and kinesthetic (K). Visual learners are these that prefer pictures and diagrams; aural learners arethe ones who prefer spoken words; read/write learners prefer the words being written down; andfinally, kinesthetic learners can accommodate other modes but prefer real hands-on experiencessuch as demonstrations and real-life examples (Driscoll & Garcia, 2000). The Index of LearningStyles (ILS) is another popular instrument used to assess students’ styles based on four dimensionsof Felder-Silverman learning style model. These include sensing/intuitive, visual

Conference Session

Perceptions, Reflections, Collaborations, and Student Support in Chemical Engineering

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Yu Xia, Pennsylvania State University; Stephanie Cutler, Pennsylvania State University; Dawn McFadden, Pennsylvania State University

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

most valuable topics/skills that you learned in this course?” In the 154 responsesto this question, 7 categories of skills were mentioned repeatedly: teamwork and managementskills (n = 66, 42.86%), design and modeling skills including equipment sizing (n = 45, 29.22%),software skills mainly in ASPEN (n = 41, 26.62%), economic evaluation skills (n = 37, 24.03%),time management and project planning skills including organization and persistence (n = 31,20.13%), communication skills including presentation and writing (n = 29, 18.83%), andproblem solving skills (n = 21, 13.64%). Since the focus of this paper is on teamwork, we will befocusing the results section on responses that mention teamwork. We provide this broaderoverview to aid the reader

Conference Session

Electrical and Computer Division Technical Session 8

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David John Orser, University of Minnesota; Kia Bazargan, University of Minnesota; John Sartori, University of Minnesota

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

design industry for IBM and Broadcom for over ten years. He holds five US patents, several publications, and has circuits in over a billion chips around the world. His current research interests include laboratory teaching pedagogy, matrix converters in electric drives, and the application of power electronics in HVDC power systems.Mr. Kia Bazargan, University of Minnesota Kia Bazargan is an Associate Professor with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Minnesota. Has has published over 70 peer-reviewed papers and book chapters related to FPGAs and VLSI computer-aided design. He received his Bachelors degree in Computer Science from Sharif University, Tehran, Iran, and the MS and

Conference Session

Humanitarian and Sustainability in a Global Engineering Context

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Renetta G. Tull, University of Maryland, Baltimore County; Shawnisha Hester, University of Maryland, Baltimore County; Yarazeth Medina, University of Maryland, Baltimore County; Denise Nicole Williams, University of Maryland, Baltimore County; Hector E. Medina, University of Maryland, Baltimore County; Erika T. Aparaka, University of Maryland College Park

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

International

Maryland’s PROMISE AGEP,LSAMP, and LSAMP-BD delegations demonstrated a clear need to assist the global community.They were particularly interested in working on problems related to industry innovation,infrastructure, gender equality, sustainable cities, and communities. Students realized thatapproaches to solutions could not be centralized to their own country, and that their proposalshad to be feasible and logical for other parts of the world. As an example, challenges withbringing clean water to remote regions and approaches to sanitation required a need to take timeto learn from peers from other countries. Students were asked to provide ubiquitous solutions tothe problems. They were asked to consider themselves as part of the respective

Conference Session

Student Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Dipanjan Saha, Texas A&M University

Tagged Divisions

Student

program hosted by the College of Engineering. The author had the scope to interact periodically with his peers and other professors to discuss and improve teaching. 5.3. As part of the Graduate Teaching Fellows program, the author was required to attend a certificate program called Academy for Future Faculty (AFF), intended to train graduate students interested in an academic career on several aspects of college teaching, such as course development cycle, syllabus design, addressing diversity in classroom, etc. The author had a chance to practice

Conference Session

NGSS & Engineering Education

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Hannah Smith Brooks, University of Texas at Austin; Todd L. Hutner, University of Texas at Austin; Victor Sampson, University of Texas at Austin; Lawrence Chu, University of Texas at Austin; Richard H. Crawford, University of Texas at Austin; Stephanie Rivale, University of Texas at Austin; Christina L. Baze, University of Texas at Austin

Tagged Divisions

Pre-College Engineering Education

productive and providethe reasoning to support their argument. When students are provided the opportunity to engagein these practices and receive feedback from peers, they are able to model the norms andexpectations of both epistemological communities.The ADE instructional framework is based on Argument Driven Inquiry (ADI), a instructionalmodel that centers on student engagement in scientific inquiry. Research on ADI suggests thatstudents using the ADI model in science show gains in content knowledge, writing andcommunication skills, research design abilities, and capacity to argue from evidence [13-15].Building the ADE framework using previous ADI work allowed the integration of engineeringpractices emphasized in the ​Framework​ into an evidence

Conference Session

Tales from the Flip Side

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kimberly Warren, UNC Charlotte; Meagan Padro, UNC Charlotte

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

managing their time in the classroom andare forced to use a ‘write down now, learn later’ strategy. Flipped classrooms have gainedtraction in recent years because this instructional method enables the student to begin thelearning process outside of class at their own pace (still under the guidance of the instructor),digest the material prior to class, and subsequently, use the in-class time to participate in activelearning strategies that increase engagement between faculty and students, and enhancecomprehension of the material. This study pilots a Partially Flipped Classroom (PFC)instructional model in a required geotechnical civil engineering course at UNC Charlotte toformally assess student engagement, perceptions, learning, and gains. This

Conference Session

Assessing Learning Outcomes for Flipped Classrooms, Recruitment and Research Internships, and Alternate Assessments for Online Courses

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Dan Zalewski, University of Dayton; Kellie Schneider, University of Dayton

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Graduate Studies

 Reading the text, slides and working the problems helps; and getting questions answered in class too  Practice, Practice, Practice. What I find most helpful is working problems, both homework and in class activities.  I like working on the problems in a flipped classroom because it is giving me a chance to see what I had been doing wrong in the homework.  The class activities give us a chance of solving the problems with our peers discussing the concepts that helps.  Class activities are helping me.But, basis can be discussed in a more clear way before starting with the class activity.  I do like having a work day on fridays where we are simply working on the classroom assignments