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Conference Session
Approaches to Mathematics Curriculum to Include Projects and Technologies
Collection
2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Jeffrey Lloyd Hieb, University of Louisville; Patricia A Ralston, University of Louisville
Tagged Divisions
Mathematics
Paper ID #9124A Departmental Initiative to Effectively Incorporate Technology Use in Engi-neering Mathematics Education: A Case StudyDr. Jeffrey Lloyd Hieb, University of Louisville Jeffrey L. Hieb is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Engineering Fundamentals at the University of Louisville and has been a faculty member since 2008. In 1992 Jeff graduated cum laude from Furman University with Bachelor degrees in Computer Science and Philosophy. Returning to his native Louisville, he worked for more than ten years in a family business before returning to graduate school in 2003. Jeff completed his Ph.D. in
Conference Session
Think Outside the Box! K-12 Engineering Curriculum
Collection
2010 Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Courtney Bonuccelli, Washington State University; Denny Davis, Washington State University
Tagged Divisions
K-12 & Pre-College Engineering
mathematics and science classroom incorporate hands-ontesting, creative design, and relevance to real life. Consider the notorious question asked by astudent to a teacher: “When am I ever going to use this?” Because students are naturallyinquisitive, everyone benefits when we constructively use this trait in the learning environmentand help students to answer their own questions. The purpose of this paper is to describe a lessonthat engages high school mathematics and science students in an interactive relevant engineeringdesign problem. As part of the CREAM (Culturally Relevant Engineering Applications in Mathematics)program at Washington State University, graduate students developed a lesson that revealsscience and mathematics principles
Conference Session
DEED Technical Session 9 - Design Across the Curriculum
Collection
2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Astrid Layton, Texas A&M University; Julie Linsey, Georgia Institute of Technology; Samuel Blair, Texas A&M University; Garrett Hairston, Texas A&M University; Henry Banks, Georgia Institute of Technology
of student self-reportedsurvey data. The results support the use of a modularity analysis as a way to analyze andvisualize the complex network interactions occurring within a makerspace, which can supportthe improvement of current makerspaces and development of future makerspaces.KeywordsMakerspaces; Network Design; Engineering Education; Modularity; Bio-inspiredIntroductionMakerspaces have recently become integrated into a wide variety of engineering programs atuniversities worldwide [1]. This has drawn increasing attention as to how best to create an areawhere students gain hands-on experience [2, 3]. Several studies in the past few years havefocused on barriers to entry and how tools vary in different makerspaces [4-6
Conference Session
ECE Pedagogy and Assessment
Collection
2007 Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
David Braun, California Polytechnic State University
Tagged Divisions
Electrical and Computer
AC 2007-922: WEB-BASED DESIGN AND ANALYSIS PROJECTS FOR A JUNIORLEVEL INTEGRATED CIRCUITS COURSEDavid Braun, California Polytechnic State University David Braun is a Professor in the Electrical Engineering Department at Cal Poly in San Luis Obispo. He worked at Philips Research Labs in Eindhoven, the Netherlands from 1992 to 1996, after completing the Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering at U.C. Santa Barbara. Please see www.ee.calpoly.edu/~dbraun/ for information about his courses, teaching interests, and research. Page 12.1599.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007 Web Based Design
Conference Session
Innovative Laboratories in BME
Collection
2006 Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Lanny Griffin, California Polytechnic State University; Daniel Walsh, California Polytechnic State University; Robert Crockett, California Polytechnic State University
Tagged Divisions
Biomedical
sophisticatedequipment that is both available, accessible with reasonable acquisition and operation costs,robust, and simple enough to use such that the basics can be mastered within a few laboratoryperiods. What began as an ad-hoc collection of this type of equipment has now sharpened focusto become an integrated system for obtaining, analyzing, and incorporating biological data intoproduct designs. In designing the COSMM laboratory, the goals were to help retain students,provide for close industrial participation, and to provide an integrative vehicle at a critical stage Page 11.362.2in the student’s educational career. The result provides a theme for
Conference Session
Issues in Multidisciplinary Programs
Collection
2003 Annual Conference
Authors
Juan Lucena; Joan Gosink; Barbara Moskal
international experience will beinvaluable to their employers. Indeed, many of the major recruiters of CSM engineeringgraduates are international companies specifically searching for engineers withknowledge of international issues. Industrial partners who are interested in these issueswill help us recruit students into the program.Furthermore, this new model of integration between an existing engineering program anda humanitarian component serves as an exemplar on how to inject social andenvironmental responsibility to engineering education and the profession above andbeyond of what is expected by professional codes of ethics and accreditation criteria.The purpose of this paper is to describe the methods that will be used to create the newHumanitarian
Conference Session
ERM Technical Session 19: Thinking about the Engineering Curriculum
Collection
2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Darby Rose Riley, Rowan University; Joshua Bourne Reed, Rowan University; Richard T. Cimino, Rowan University; Stephanie Farrell, Rowan University; Cheryl A. Bodnar, Rowan University
Tagged Topics
Diversity
Tagged Divisions
Educational Research and Methods
University (USA) and was 2014-15 Fulbright Scholar in Engineering Education at Dublin Institute of Technology (Ireland).Dr. Cheryl A. Bodnar, Rowan University Cheryl A. Bodnar, Ph.D., CTDP is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Experiential Engineering Education at Rowan University. Dr. Bodnar’s research interests relate to the incorporation of active learn- ing techniques in undergraduate classes as well as integration of innovation and entrepreneurship into the engineering curriculum. In particular, she is interested in the impact that these tools can have on student perception of the classroom environment, motivation and learning outcomes. She obtained her certifica- tion as a Training and Development
Conference Session
Innovations in ECE Education I
Collection
2008 Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Gisele Ragusa, University of Southern California; Michael Khoo, University of Southern California; Ellis Meng, University of Southern California
Tagged Divisions
Electrical and Computer
. With the world becoming “flat” due to globalization,increasingly, jobs requiring basic technical skills are moving outside of the U.S. by companies toreduce cost. Engineering graduates from the U.S. must bring added value and higher-level skillsincluding innovation, a problem solving approach, and leadership to garner higher salary jobs inU.S. companies. The call from various technical reports on engineering education is for U.S.higher education institutions to produce this kind of engineer. Accordingly, there is an urgentneed for reforming and enhancing engineering curriculum to address these needs. This NSFfunded BME focused urban ERC intends to meet these globally focused education needs throughits educational efforts in curricular reform
Conference Session
Innovations in Electrical Engineering Courses
Collection
2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Nicole P. Pitterson, Purdue University; Ruth A. Streveler, Purdue University
Tagged Divisions
Electrical and Computer
on concrete tasks and concepts which the abstract nature of AC circuits does not easilycomply with. As a result, improper instructional approaches to complex concepts such as ACcircuits causes deep rooted misconceptions when students attempt to assimilate the newknowledge of AC circuits with their current DC circuits framework. In order to increase studentsunderstanding of AC concepts, a new approach to instruction and course delivery is required inwhich AC circuits are taught as an entirely new concept while appealing to students’ inductiveand deductive reasoning ability.Model for curriculum redesignThis five step model being suggested for the use of redesigning the curriculum to increasestudents’ understanding and retention of AC circuit
Conference Session
Explorations in Mechanics Pedagogy
Collection
2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Shawn P. Gross, Villanova University; David W. Dinehart, Villanova University
Tagged Divisions
Mechanics
required mechanics sequence in a new integrated format to sophomores beginningwith the Fall 2009 semester. As shown in Table 1, the classical sequence of coursework insubjects of Statics, Dynamics, Mechanics of Solids, Fluid Mechanics, and Civil EngineeringMaterials was replaced with a series of three four credit courses. An overview of this curriculumrestructuring process is provided by Glynn et al.1 and Wadzuk et al.2 A Body of Knowledge(BOK) approach was used to identify the key concepts to be included in the three new courses.3 Page 26.780.2  Table 1 – Old and new mechanics curricula in CEE at Villanova University
Conference Session
Assessment in Engineering Graphics
Collection
2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Theodore J. Branoff, North Carolina State University; Eric N. Wiebe, North Carolina State University; Mark Anthony Shreve, North Carolina State University
Tagged Divisions
Engineering Design Graphics
online instruction for preparing technology education teachers and engineers. Along with teaching courses in introductory engineering graphics, computer-aided design, descriptive geometry, and instructional design, he has conducted CAD and geometric dimensioning & tolerancing workshops for both high school teachers and local industry.Eric N. Wiebe, North Carolina State University ERIC N. WIEBE, Ph.D. Dr. Wiebe is an Associate Professor in the Graphic Communications Program at NC State University. He has authored or co-authored four texts on technical graphics and has been involved in Computer-Aided Design (CAD)/3-D modeling development and use since 1986. He has also worked on the integration of scientific
Conference Session
Involving Undergraduates in Research
Collection
2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Yusuf A Mehta, Rowan University; Ralph Alan Dusseau P.E., Rowan University; Ravi P. Ramachandran, Rowan University
Tagged Divisions
Civil Engineering
for the international graduate students in improving their communication skills, providing experience in leadership and management skills, and hence developing their overall confidence.3) The undergraduate research experience, if provided within the curriculum, could serve as an excellent vehicle to promote research in institutions with strong undergraduate education focus.AcknowledgementThis work was supported by: a) The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory, Rome, NY, under contract FA8750-10-C-0249, b) The National Science Foundation through the Grant DUE-1122296, c) The New Jersey Department of Transportation, d) The Federal Aviation Administration, and e) Delaware River Port Authority.References 1. P. Shuster, and C
Conference Session
Trends in Energy Conversion/Conservation
Collection
2002 Annual Conference
Authors
Margaret Bailey; Ozer Arnas
ME majors enrollin Thermodynamics (EM 301) during their junior year, while approximately half enroll inEnergy Conversion Systems (ME 472) during the fall semester of their senior year.While most institutions do not possess the same mission and goal as the United StatesMilitary Academy, most do share the same desire and requirement to improve curriculumstructure, integration, and assessment. Accordingly, the ABET EC2000 Criteria forcurricular objectives and content states the following 2(1): I.C.2 “(Curricular) objectives are normally met by a curriculum in which there is a progression in the course work and in which fundamental scientific and other training of the earlier years is applied in later engineering courses
Conference Session
Computers in Education Poster Session
Collection
2002 Annual Conference
Authors
Jenelle Piepmeier; Kenneth Knowles; Bradley Bishop
Page 7.1193.1course. In order for us to adequately discuss these methods, Section II addresses t he curriculum into Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright Ó 2002, American Society for Engineering Educationwhich they are integrated. Section III discusses a forward and inverse kinematics assignment usingprecompiled mex function for robot control. Section IV presents a Jacobian-based controlassignment using the serial port capabilities of MATLAB. II. BACKGROUND Midshipmen in the Systems Engineering Major at the USNA take an interdisciplinarycurriculum with an emphasis on control systems and dynamics. During their first -class (senior)year
Conference Session
Current Issues in Computing
Collection
2002 Annual Conference
Authors
Jose Solarte; Denise Jackson
. ManagementInformation Systems (MIS) support management by providing information for decision making.They facilitate the capture and storage of data relevant in describing processes and in measuringthe effectiveness of their results; the manipulation of that data; and the reporting of informationsuch as actual and expected performance. Information technologies (IT) are used in all of theseIS activities. IT help to improve both the efficiency and effectiveness of organizationalprocesses and departmental functions by integrating their operations, redesigning processes,improving networks and overall cost-effectiveness, and increasing total systems effectivenessthrough business scope redefinition1.Service Quality is generally identified as the measure of success an
Conference Session
Innovations in ECE Education I
Collection
2008 Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Christopher Anderson, U.S. Naval Academy; Richard Buehrer, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Tagged Divisions
Electrical and Computer
TRANSACTIONS ON VEHICULAR TECHNOLOGY, and the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON SIGNAL PROCESSING. Page 13.200.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2008 An Undergraduate Research Experience: Wireless Propagation and Position Location in a Forest EnvironmentAbstractOver the past several years, the undergraduate curriculum at many universities has been evolvingto incorporate laboratory exercises and research projects to reinforce and support traditionalclassroom lectures. In particular, involving undergraduates in meaningful research projects is akey to providing them with the hands-on activities students are
Conference Session
Pedagogical Approaches in Construction Education
Collection
2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Talat Salama, Central Connecticut State University; Namhun Lee, Central Connecticut State University; Glynis Fitzgerald, Central Connecticut State University; Lee W. Lee, Central Connecticut State University; Mary M. McCarthy, Central Connecticut State University
Tagged Divisions
Construction
education, there has been lack of measures toaddress the fundamental integrity of the online learning environment. This results in lack ofacceptance of online degrees by potential employers12. In addition, only a few faculty membersaccept the value and legitimacy of online education13. To address this issue on academic integrityin online education, the WCET developed, in 2009, a statement of best practice strategies topromote academic integrity in online education. The statement is organized into five discretesections: institutional context and commitment, curriculum and instruction, faculty support,student support, and assessment and evaluation14.The Council of Regional Accrediting Commissions has developed the interregional guidelinesfor the
Conference Session
M3B: Learning in Context 2
Collection
2019 FYEE Conference
Authors
Haolin Zhu, Arizona State University; Alicia Baumann, Arizona State University; Gary Lichtenstein, Arizona State University
Tagged Topics
FYEE Conference - Paper Submission
senior systems engineer at General Dynamics C4 Systems. She is now part of the freshman engineering education team in the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering at Arizona State Uni- versity. Currently, she focuses on enhancing the curriculum for the freshman engineering program to incorporate industry standards into hands-on design projects. She is an instructor for the Introduction to Engineering program, Engineering Transfer Success program, Engineering Futures program, and the Electrical Engineering department at ASU. She is a multi-year winner of the Fulton Top 5% Teaching Award and Badass Women of ASU. Her philosophy boasts incorporating large scale systems engineering techniques into collegiate engineering
Conference Session
Works in Progress: Classroom Practice
Collection
2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Tracy A. Bibelnieks Ph.D., University of Minnesota Duluth; Kristen S. Gorman, University of Minnesota; Brian D. Gute, University of Minnesota Duluth; Joshua W. Hamilton, University of Minnesota Duluth; Elizabeth M. Hill, University of Minnesota Duluth; Alison B. Hoxie, University of Minnesota Duluth; David A. Saftner, University of Minnesota Duluth; Andrea J. Schokker, University of Minnesota Duluth; Pete Willemsen, University of Minnesota Duluth
Tagged Divisions
Educational Research and Methods
a teaching and learning community that spans the disciplines. 3. Dedicating time in departmental faculty meetings to first personalize the vision of this proposal for their department and then to share teaching pedagogies tried in classes as well as techniques for implementing classroom changes, thus creating learning organizations within each department.The three routines described are focused on continuous learning and improvement. They developnew ideas that lead to changes. Furthermore, they make continual changes to the overallstructure, seek grassroots innovation, and involve people with different views, thus increasingbuy-in among the major stakeholders. The passing of expertise in integrating active learning intoSTEM curriculum is
Conference Session
Evaluation: Diversity in K-12 and Pre-college Engineering Education
Collection
2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Katherina V Tarnai-Lokhorst P.Eng., FEC, Camosun College
Tagged Topics
Diversity
Tagged Divisions
K-12 & Pre-College Engineering
,like the New Jersey Project. This 1986 conference developed an inclusive curriculum that beganas distinct women’s studies and evolved into curricular integration of race, ethnicity, class andgender, introducing both content and methods. By 1996, the project grew to involve more than100 faculty members in two- and four-year higher education institutions; it was followed by theCurriculum Mainstreaming Teaching Initiative that involved faculty from New Jersey, Maryland,Massachusetts, New York, Illinois, California and Tennessee.History textbooks in British Columbia tended to add content about women’s issue in sidebarsand asides from the main text. This “filler feminism” trivialized the contributions of women anddepicted a subservient, lessor role
Conference Session
Service Learning in Engineering
Collection
2004 Annual Conference
Authors
Leah Jamieson; Carla Zoltowski; Frank DeRego; Lynne Slivovsky; William Oakes
outcomes ofthe EPICS courses. An ongoing practice by all EPICS students is to keep a notebook which they are encouraged toinclude reflections and reactions to their meetings and the work that is being done over the semester andwhen meeting with their community partners. The design notebooks have become the primary means todocument and collect written reflections. Students also compose individual reflection statements to beincluded in the end-of-the-semester final report. Reflections activities have been integrated with the evaluation process as well with students settingpersonal goals for their experience in the third week of the semester. At the middle and end of thesemester, students are required to complete a self-assessment where they
Conference Session
Trends in Engineering Economy Education
Collection
2002 Annual Conference
Authors
Gunter Sharp; Jack Lohmann
thenpresents the principal issues in creating the new course and in its evolution leading to thecreation of an electronic audiovisual textbook. The paper then provides a description of thecourse as it will be delivered in its new all-electronic format beginning in the fall of 2002 as wellas some observations from the experiences of the instructors during the last three years. Theinstructors offer six suggestions for those contemplating substantial internet-based instruction fortheir courses.Rationale for an Internet-Only Course for On-Campus StudentsISyE 3025, Engineering Economy, is a required, 1-credit hour internet-only sophomore/junior-level course in the industrial engineering baccalaureate curriculum at the Georgia Institute ofTechnology. It is
Conference Session
Works-in-Progress Postcard Session
Collection
2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Brittany Lynn Butler; Daniel D. Anastasio, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Daniel D. Burkey, University of Connecticut; Matthew Cooper, North Carolina State University; Cheryl A Bodnar, Rowan University
Tagged Divisions
Chemical Engineering
Phenomena, Professional Development / Ethics and Mathematical / Compu- tational Methods. He is the recipient of various teaching and educational research awards, including the 2015 Raymond W. Fahien Award from the ASEE Chemical Engineering Division. Dr. Cooper’s research interests include effective teaching and assessment, conceptual and inductive learning, integrating writing and speaking into the curriculum and professional ethics.Dr. Cheryl A Bodnar, Rowan University Cheryl A. Bodnar, Ph.D., CTDP is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Experiential Engineering Education at Rowan University. Dr. Bodnar’s research interests relate to the incorporation of active learn- ing techniques in undergraduate classes as
Conference Session
New Topics in IE Education
Collection
2006 Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Sreekanth Ramakrishnan, SUNY Binghamton; Justin Sturek, SUNY Binghamton; Sumit Parimoo, SUNY Binghamton; Krishnaswami Srihari, SUNY Binghamton
Tagged Divisions
Industrial Engineering
decision-making faster andaccurate. The user needs to input the keyword of the high school name and the search enginereturns all high schools having the keyword entered. The user can then further narrow down thesearch by entering the nearest city or state where the high school is located.The third DSS was developed to determine the school and curriculum code of an applicant.Again, the personnel at the data entry stage were required to do a manual lookup on paper-basedsources, which was both time consuming and error-prone. This DSS would significantly reducethe amount of time used to determine the curriculum code of the applicant.The three systems mentioned above were integrated into a single system referred to as EZLookup. All the three functions
Conference Session
Trends in Accreditation and Assessment
Collection
2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Rebecca A. Bates, Minnesota State University, Mankato; Cheryl Allendoerfer, University of Washington; Ronald R. Ulseth, Itasca Community College; Bart M. Johnson, Itasca Community College
Tagged Topics
Diversity
Tagged Divisions
Liberal Education/Engineering & Society
Paper ID #16543On the Use of Outcomes to Connect Students to an Engineering Identity, Cul-ture, and CommunityProf. Rebecca A. Bates, Minnesota State University, Mankato Rebecca A. Bates received the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Washington in 2004. She also received the M.T.S. degree from Harvard Divinity School in 1993. She is currently a Professor in the Department of Integrated Engineering program at Minnesota State University, Mankato, home of the Iron Range and Twin Cities Engineering programs. She is also a program director at the National Science Foundation for TCUP and HBCU-UP in
Conference Session
Supporting Diversity in Engineering
Collection
2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Douglas Edwards, Georgia Institute of Technology; Jeremy Lingle; Jessica D Gale, CEISMC Georgia Institute of Technology
Tagged Divisions
K-12 & Pre-College Engineering
as part ofthe project, and designed curriculum to implement the project in their classrooms for theupcoming school year.The applied global context the Math4-OR (MIG)/CTAE project is a year-long academic servicelearning project to design, prototype and test solar panels to provide electricity for a ruralcommunity college in a township of South Africa. The community college is a Further Educationand Training (FET) school,affiliated with the African Methodist Episcopalian Service andDevelopment Agency (AME-SADA). AME-SADA has an explicit goal to start a solar power-based farming project at the community college. The Math4-OR (MIG)/CTAE project uses thisservice context to define the initial unit challenge problems and their pacing for the
Conference Session
Emerging Trends in Engineering Education
Collection
2004 Annual Conference
Authors
David Cottrell
Session 1793 Innovative Strategies for Teaching Graphics Communications – Designing Residential and Commercial Properties in an Introductory Course David S. Cottrell Pennsylvania State University at HarrisburgIntroductionThis paper describes the integration of design projects during the Fall Semester, 2003,into the curriculum of an introductory graphics communications course at Penn StateUniversity at Harrisburg. These projects served a double purpose of reinforcing topicstaught in the classroom as well as introducing students to the engineering design processwith their
Conference Session
Freshman Experience in Engineering Technology
Collection
2009 Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
JungHun Choi, Ohio University; Wieslaw Grebski, Pennsylvania State University, Hazleton; Kenneth Dudeck, Pennsylvania State University, Hazleton
Tagged Divisions
Engineering Technology
series and parallel. Basic relay logic can be applied to the control of an electrical system.2.1.5 Miscellaneous Part: Electrical Engineering Technology Profession and Electrical Systems Early in the course outline the various fields in Electrical Engineering Technology Profession such as power, electronics, computers, robotics, and automation. It can be shown how the curriculum introduces students to the fundamentals of each. After graduation, students will be able to pursue their interests in greater detail by continuing the education toward a BS degree, or choosing employment in a company that specializes
Conference Session
Research Experience in Stormwater Management
Collection
2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Vinod K. Lohani, Virginia Tech
Tagged Divisions
Civil Engineering
curriculum of an engineering department (Biological Systems Engineering) using Jerome Bruner’s spiral curriculum theory. Currently, Dr. Lohani leads an NSF/REU Site on ”interdisciplinary water sciences and engineering” which has already graduated 56 excellent undergraduate researchers since 2007. This Site is renewed for the third cycle which will be implemented during 2014-16. He also leads an NSF/TUES type I project in which a real-time environmental monitoring lab is being integrated into a freshman engineering course, a senior- level Hydrology course at Virginia Tech, and a couple of courses at Virginia Western Community College, Roanoke for enhancing water sustainability education. He is a member of ASCE and ASEE and
Conference Session
Innovations in ECE Education II
Collection
2009 Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Radian Belu, Drexel University
Tagged Divisions
Electrical and Computer
with hardwareand instrumentation helps students to deeper understand the physics behind theengineering problems and to acquire skills required in industry. Further, a workingknowledge of visualization and simulation tools used during the laboratory providessupport for creative circuit analysis, evaluation and synthesis. A simulator is a powerfulway to test new ideas without difficulties associated with circuit implementation andbuilding. The laboratory complements and supplements the lecture course, whichcurrently follows the text by Mohan [4]. This text does a particularly good job ofexamining the principles of power electronics from an integrated and top-downviewpoint. The many examples and problems provided in the book are an