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Mechanics Division Poster Session

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Wayne Johnson, Armstrong Atlantic State University; Priya Goeser, Armstrong Atlantic State University

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Mechanics

. Themain objective of the Computational Modeling course is to study the fundamentals of numericalmethods and to develop computer programs for solving engineering problems using MATLAB.Examples of numerical methods include solving roots of equations, linear algebraic equations,integration and differentiation. Assessment of this effort was accomplished with supplementarycourse evaluation questions given at the end of the semester. This paper will discuss the resultsof the student projects and evaluations, and the authors’ experiences with this intradisciplinaryteaching effort.IntroductionThis paper presents efforts over two semesters to integrate course materials between twosophomore level engineering courses. The two courses, Statics (ENGR 2001

Conference Session

Communication in Design

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kristen Eichhorn, SUNY Oswego; Cara Thompson, SUNY Oswego; David Vampola, SUNY Oswego; Fritz Messere, SUNY Oswego; Rachid Manseur, SUNY-Oswego

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Design in Engineering Education

M4, M8 Sophomore year ECE 211 – Electric Circuits & Lab I.1 to I.5, II.1 to II.5 M4, M8 ECE 233 – Signals & Systems I.1 to I.5, II.1 to II.5 M4, M8 Junior year PHL 301 - Professional Ethics I.1 to I.5 M1, M8 ECO 120 - Economics I.1 to I.5 M1, M8 Senior year ECE 491 - Capstone Preparation ECE 401 - Senior Seminar All M1-M7 ECE 492 - Capstone Project All M1-M7As students move through their studies, advanced engineering courses will build on these basicskills by enhancing and reinforcing the primary communication skills gained in the foundationcourses. Since the students will have been exposed to fundamental theories

Collection

2015 St.Lawrence Section Meeting

Authors

Elena V. Brewer; Anthony P. Dalessio

utilize free software for on-lineconnectivity, and faculty can run an SEM demo in their classrooms after only one practicesession.Educational Needs for Nanotechnology in WNYAccording to National Science Foundation (NSF) estimates the demand for the nanotechnologyskilled workers in the U.S. will reach one million workers in 20151 and two million workers by20202. By 2020, estimated U.S. market value of products using nanotechnology will be $1trillion1. This indicates there are very favorable projections for the fields of nanotechnology andsemiconductor fabrication in the U.S., and it is currently making a huge impact on New YorkState as well. The College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering has turned the Albany area intoa nanotechnology and

Conference Session

We Love our MOMs (Mechanics of Materials)

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Adrian Rodriguez, University of Texas at Austin

interdisciplinary courses [4].Additional examples of service-learning projects and courses, including elective, capstone, andcore courses across more than 30 universities can be found in the literature, and is strongevidence that it works [5]-[7]. The Accrediting Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET)standardizes the requirements for engineering courses and service-learning is setup well to meetsome of those requirements [8]. For example, the Solid Mechanics course (also known asMechanics of Materials) taught within the Mechanical and Aerospace Department at TheUniversity of Texas at Arlington (UTA) highly supports ABET outcomes 1 and 7. Theseoutcomes cover a students’ ability to identify and solve complex engineering problems and applytheir knowledge

Conference Session

Software Engineering Curricula

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Susan Darling Urban, Texas Tech University; Joseph E Urban, Texas Tech University; Susan A. Mengel, Texas Tech University; William M. Marcy P.E., Texas Tech University; Patrick E. Patterson, Texas Tech University

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Software Engineering Constituent Committee

economics of systems. Similar to computer science, a specialtopics course is also available. Ethics in engineering is also included to emphasize theimportance of ethics in the engineering of complex software systems.The curriculum includes a 3-credit hour capstone design and implementation project. The projectis a group project requiring that students work in teams to address the systems and softwareengineering aspects of the project.             Page 25.1346.6  Table  1:  MSSE  degree  program  with  systems  and  software  engineering  focus  CORE  COURSES  (12  Hours)  CS 5373 Software Modeling and Architecture. This course introduces the theory

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Opportunities and Challenges in Developing International Engineering Research

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kevin McGarvey, Rowan University; Michael Panko, Rowan University; Michael Kerbaugh, Rowan University; Gabriel Posluszny, Rowan University; Beena Sukumaran, Rowan University; Anthony Cavalier, Rowan University

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International

Design 16-Week Multidisciplinary Modules Design ProjectJunior Product Development Process DevelopmentSenior Multidisciplinary Capstone Multidisciplinary Capstone Design/Research Project Design/Research ProjectFreshman Clinic is a two-semester long course that introduces freshman to engineering at RowanUniversity. In Freshman Clinic, the students are introduced to a hands-on, active learningenvironment through a 3-hour weekly lab and a 1-hour weekly class meeting schedule. The firstsemester of the course focuses on multidisciplinary engineering experiments using

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Track 1: Technical Session 4: The Effects of Group Size on the Experiences of First-Year Engineering Students in Mixed Gender Groups

Collection

2025 Collaborative Network for Engineering & Computing Diversity (CoNECD)

Authors

Koenraad E Gieskes, State University of New York at Binghamton; Ioana Elena Tiu, State University of New York at Binghamton

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2025 CoNECD Paper Submissions, Diversity

Learning Environments," International Journal of Emerging Technologies in Learning (iJET), vol. 15, no. 10, pp. 157-174, 2020.[2] P. M. Griffin, S. O. Griffin and D. C. Llewellyn, "The Impact of Group Size and Project Duration on Capstone Design," Journal of Engineering Education, vol. 93, no. 3, pp. 185- 193, 2013.[3] K. Gieskes and I. Tiu, "The Effect of Male to Female Ratios on Female Students in Engineering and Technical Science Majors," in 2024 ASEE St. Lawrence Section Annual Conference, York University, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 2024.[4] A. E. Bell, S. J. Spencer, E. Iserman and C. E. Logel, "Stereotype Threat and Women's Performance in Engineering," Journal of Engineering Education, vol. 92, pp. 307-312, 2003.[5] B

Collection

2015 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

Thais da C. L. Alves

grow and gain recognition is to allow students to use the work developed forchapter activities and competitions as part of their coursework. Students have a chance to applywhat they learn in the classroom on real world projects with tight timelines and requirements.Faculty can adapt assignments and capstone courses to allow students to get academic credit fortheir work as discussed before in this paper. Finally, by supporting the students and finding waysto get them engaged with student chapters’ activities, faculty are promoting student engagementwith professional organizations and potentially introducing students to community service andlife-long learning activities.Final RemarksThis paper presented the results of a project funded by ELECTRI

Conference Session

New Trends in Graduate Education

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Denny Davis

. Page 10.449.9 Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright ©2005, American Society for Engineering EducationTable 6: Performance Criteria Used for Grading in a Capstone Design Course You take initiative to know your project stakeholders, and you guide the project to Leader demonstrate a strong commitment to meeting their needs. You proactively use their viewpoints on “quality” and return-on-investment to focus your project requirements. You responsibly consider societal and professional issues. You produce quality and value in design products by skillful research, creativity

Collection

2008 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

Thomas N. Duening; Jeffrey R. Goss

) • FSE 598 Contracts and Negotiation in the Extended Enterprise • FSE 598 Intellectual Property Management • FSE 598 Corporate Venturing • FSE 598 Engineering Entrepreneurship • IEE 534 Supply Chain Modeling and Analysis • IEE 561 Production Systems (Factory Physics) • IEE 571 Quality Management • IEE 572 Design of Engineering Experiments • IEE 598 Introduction to Systems EngineeringThis curriculum provides ESIM program participants with flexibility to choose aconcentration in an area that suits their talents and career interests. Each concentrationculminates in a capstone project that students complete based on the needs of theirenterprise and their interests. Capstone projects will be pertinent to their

Collection

2020 Fall ASEE Mid-Atlantic Section Meeting

Authors

Nadir Yilmaz P.E., Howard University; Hyung D. Bae , Howard University

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Diversity

. Furthermore, students learn to optimize complex structuresusing a revolutionary design method called Generative Design. Integration of advanced CAD,FEA, CFD and optimization provide students with hands-on skills, teach them how to work onMultiphysics design projects in a team through synchronous and asynchronous communicationtools, and better prepares them for departmental capstone design series coursework, as well as,numerous technical electives.Introduction Computer aided design (CAD) tools, along with engineering analysis software for finiteelement analysis (FEA) and computational fluid dynamics (CFD) have been increasinglyadvancing over the last several decades. These advancements are occurring not only because ofever-increasing performance of

Conference Session

Electrical and Computer Poster Session

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James Graham, University of Louisville; Karla Conn Welch, University of Louisville; Jeffrey Lloyd Hieb, University of Louisville; Shamus McNamara, University of Louisville

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Electrical and Computer

1and Logic Design, the junior level course Embedded System, and in the senior courses CapstoneDesign and Professional Issues and Current Topics Seminar. Section four discusses somepreliminary critical thinking assessment done in the Professional Issues and Current TopicsSeminar course. Concluding remarks and future plans are discussed in section five2 Critical thinking at the Speed School of EngineeringIn response to the University’s i2a initiative, the Speed School of engineering has developed amulti-leveled critical thinking program that begins with the school’s freshman program:Introduction to Engineering, and goes on to include sophomore, junior, and senior courses, co-opreports, and undergraduate engineering capstone projects. A

Conference Session

Team Facilitation and Effectiveness

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Benjamin Emery Mertz, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Ashley Bernal, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Patrick Cunningham, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Shraddha Sangelkar, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

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Educational Research and Methods

: Challenges with Teaming Instruction and Managing DysfunctionIntroductionThis is a Work-in-Progress paper. Teaming continues to be an important dimension ofengineering work and by extension a required outcome of engineering education. Despite theemphasis and importance ABET places on teaming and the efforts of institutions to meet theserequirements [1], students may or may not develop effective team behaviors as a result of thevarious team experiences they have in an engineering curriculum. Researchers have noted thatthese skills have traditionally been considered “outside of the curriculum” and the instruction ofthese skills has been primarily relegated to cornerstone and capstone design courses. Even inthese courses

Conference Session

Design in Engineering Education Division Poster Session

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Allen R. White MRSC, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Glen A. Livesay, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Kay C. Dee, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Patricia Brackin P.E., Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

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Design in Engineering Education

Works?, Change, 30(4): 26-35, 1998.12) Long, J. and Young, L.: Multiplayer On-Line Role Playing Game Style Grading in a Project-Based Software Engineering Technology Capstone Course Paper presented at 2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Vancouver, BC, June 2011.13) Prince, M.: Does Active Learning Work? A Review of the Research, Journal of Engineering Education, 93(3): 223-231, 2004.14) Tharp, T.: “The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life”, Simon & Schuster, pp. 256, 2006.15) Ulrich, K. and Eppinger, S.: “Product Design and Development”, 5th Edition, McGraw-Hill Education, pp. 432, 2011.Appendix: Summary of Creativity Techniques Utilized in this Course

Conference Session

Innovations in Systems Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Turner Stuart; Cary Fisher; Jason Bartolomei

course wasoffered in spring semester 2004.The sequence concludes with the heart of the systems engineering program, the capstone designexperience. Cadets will be given the opportunity to apply their expertise on interdisciplinaryprojects. Cadets majoring in systems engineering will work alongside other engineering majorsto form true interdisciplinary teams. Existing engineering capstone projects include the Air ForceAcademy’s unmanned aerial vehicle work for the Air Force, the Society of AutomotiveEngineers (SAE) Formula Racecar, and American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)Human Powered Vehicle student competitions as well as the unique small satellite program, toname just a few.The details of the preliminary design were presented to an

Conference Session

First-Year Programs Division Technical Session 1: It's All About Teams and Teamwork

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Fernando Garcia Gonzalez, Florida Gulf Coast University; Janusz Zalewski, Florida Gulf Coast University

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Diversity

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First-Year Programs

recruit and retain capable freshmen students from ourintroductory courses (Introduction to Computer Science, and to some extent, Introduction toProgramming, and Programming Methodology) and the second is to remove the anxiety thestudents have, stemming from the unknowns of their future educational experiences. Theprogram works by showcasing the accomplishments of our senior students to our freshmen inthe Introduction to Computer Science and to have a question and answer session between thesenior presenters and the freshmen students. We invite the senior students from different senior level courses, such as Senior SoftwareEngineering Project, our capstone course, and high-level elective courses, for example, DataAcquisition and Control. Each of

Conference Session

Graphics Applications in ME

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Wilk

same high standards in the area of writing.The final writing experiences in the curriculum surround the senior project. The senior project isthe cornerstone of our program. It is a required two-term (with optional third term) experiencewhere students complete an engineering project. The experience is designed to be flexible, andcan be based on the individual student’s personal interest and goals. Students may choose towork on a design-oriented project or on a research-oriented project. The design projectstypically involve students working individually or in small teams designing, building and testingmechanical components, devices or systems. Since ABET-required capstone design is coveredin the design courses, the senior project does not

Conference Session

Civil Engineering Division - Innovative Changes to the Typical Civil Engineering Coursework.

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Andrea Welker, Villanova University; Virginia Smith, Villanova University; Kristin Sample-Lord, Villanova University; Shweta Shrestha, Villanova University

ASEE Conference, Louisville, KY, USA, June 20-23, 2010, https://peer.asee.org/16539. [3] L.R. Brunell, A. Dubro, V.V. Rokade, “Assessing the Sustainability Components of Engineering Capstone Projects Paper,” Proceedings of the Annual ASEE Conference, Virtual, July 26-29, 2021, https://peer.asee.org/36722.[4] ASCE (American Society of Civil Engineers), Code of Ethics, https://www.asce.org/career-growth/ethics/code-of-ethics, accessed 2/6/2022.[5] ASCE (American Society of Civil Engineers), Civil Engineering Body of Knowledge, Preparing the Future Civil Engineer, 3rd Edition, ASCE 2019, https://ascelibrary.org/doi/abs/10.1061/9780784415221.[6] ABET, Criteria for Accrediting Engineering

Conference Session

ETD - ET Curriculum and Programs I

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kathryn Kelley, The Ohio State University; Camryn Reitz, The Ohio State University; Winifred Opoku, The Ohio State University

students’education. Working directly with students early on and throughout their educational careers is anoptimal way for companies to recruit potential employees and ensure that the students areequipped with enough industry knowledge to start work immediately with less onboardingtraining required upon their entry into the workforce.Many companies may also decide to get involved in students’ educational careers by sponsoringa capstone project. There are many ways in which a capstone sponsorship can be carried out.Take the engineering design capstone project Pennsylvania State University - HarrisburgCampus, for example. Companies from the industry advisory board can opt to sponsor a studentor group of students’ projects by presenting a real-world industry

Conference Session

Software Engineering Topics

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sushil Acharya, Robert Morris University; Walter W. Schilling Jr., Milwaukee School of Engineering

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Software Engineering Constituent Committee

Assignment 13-1: Project related exercise - Executing Test Cases. Assignment 13-2: Project Progress Update. (email) Assignment 14-1: Project related exercise – Preparing Test Report. Page 25.500.11 W14 Assignment 14-2: Project Progress Update (email) W15 Assignment 15-1: Project Final PresentationOther CoverageIn their senior year besides the three electives of their choice the students are required to take acourse on distributed systems and an interdisciplinary capstone course. Students are required touse their knowledge and experiences in software verification when they work on softwareprojects in these

Conference Session

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

Collection

2019 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

Pejman Akbari, California State Polytechnic University in Pomona ; Brad Kevin Thomas, Electro Mechanical Systems Engineering Technology; Christopher John Tait, Cal Poly Pomona; Colby Stark

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Pacific Southwest Section Meeting Paper Submissions

University, Pomona in June 2018. During his senior year at Cal Poly Pomona, CJ contributed to the design and manufacturing of the Radial Wave Engine. After graduation, he worked as a Research Engineer testing the Radial Wave Engine at the Air Force Research Laboratory in Dayton, Ohio. Continuing his career in the Aerospace industry, CJ works as a Design Engineer at HiRel Connectors, Inc.Mr. Colby Stark c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Development of a Novel Engine Test Rig for Research and Educational PurposesAbstractThis paper overviews a senior design project conducted by three undergraduate engineeringstudents at California State Polytechnic

Conference Session

Design in Engineering Eduaction - Poster Session

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mysore Narayanan, Miami University; Ronald Earley, Miami University

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Design in Engineering Education

service-learningcourse must nevertheless be focused on career preparation of the college studentsas well. (Narayanan, 2004 e; Honnet & Poulsen, 1989). Furthermore it must be clearlyacceptable to the appropriate accreditation agencies. The Senior Design Project Class,which is a two semester-long course, with a total of four credit hours, can be viewed as aservice learning class, depending upon the project chosen by the select student group. Itcontains a substantial amount of education about ethics, ergonomics, economics,sociology and liberal education principles, in addition to rigorous engineering subjectmatter. The student groups are encouraged to appreciate the realities of the socio-economic impact of their chosen project. In many cases

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Anna Phillips; Jon Fricker; Paul Palazolo; Norman Dennis

Session We Came, We Saw, We Changed Some Things: Engineering Educators Talk About Extending Oklahoma University’s "Sooner City" Program to their Own Institutions Norman Dennis, Jon Fricker, Paul Palazolo, Anna Phillips The University of Arkansas/Purdue University/The University of MemphisAbstractIn August of 1999, Oklahoma University hosted an NSF-sponsored workshop for 29 engineeringeducators to present initial findings from their interdisciplinary “Sooner City Project” and collectfeedback and ideas from the participants. The authors of this presentation represent

Conference Session

Design in Engineering Education Division Poster Session

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jackson Lyall Autrey, University of Oklahoma; Jennifer M. Sieber, University of Oklahoma; Zahed Siddique, University of Oklahoma; Farrokh Mistree, University of Oklahoma

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Diversity

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Design in Engineering Education

industry sponsored capstone from at his school and is the advisor of OU’s FSAE team.Prof. Farrokh Mistree, University of Oklahoma Farrokh’s passion is to have fun in providing an opportunity for highly motivated and talented people to learn how to define and achieve their dreams. Farrokh Mistree holds the L. A. Comp Chair in the School of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering at the University of Oklahoma in Norman, Oklahoma. Prior to this position, he was the Associate Chair of the Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering at Georgia Tech – Savannah. He was also the Founding Director of the Systems Realization Laboratory at Georgia Tech. Farrokh’s current research focus is model-based realization of complex systems

Conference Session

Development of Technical and Soft Skills in BME

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Trevor R Ham, The University of Akron; Rouzbeh Amini, The University of Akron

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Biomedical

curriculumand shorten the amount of time given to each topic. When teaching the principles ofprogramming to non-computer science students, it is important to focus on broad, widelyapplicable concepts (i.e., computational thinking), rather than become mired in the applicationand syntax of one specific language.7Active learning shows demonstrable and widespread improvements in student achievement overpassive learning in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields, allowingbetter retention of new concepts, more efficiently.8,9 In BME, active learning can consist ofproblem/project-based learning,10 which requires students to undergo the engineering designprocess on their own. These projects can be multidisciplinary, which improves

Conference Session

Mentoring Graduate Students

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Wesley Stone, Western Carolina University; Chip Ferguson, Western Carolina University; Aaron Ball, Western Carolina University

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Graduate Studies

2006-2465: ENGAGEMENT IN INDUSTRY: PREPARING UNDERGRADUATEENGINEERING TECHNOLOGY STUDENTS FOR GRADUATE STUDYWesley Stone, Western Carolina University Wes Stone is an Assistant Professor of Engineering Technology at Western Carolina University. He earned his B.S at the University of Texas at Austin, his M.S. at Penn State University, and his Ph.D. at the Georgia Institute of Technology. His industrial experience includes manufacturing and six sigma quality, which are current areas of interest. He teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in solid mechanics, quality, and capstone design at Western Carolina.Chip Ferguson, Western Carolina University Chip W. Ferguson is an Assistant Professor of

Conference Session

Reforming the Industrial Engineering Curriculum

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sandra Furterer, University of Central Florida; Jessica Jenness, University of Central Florida; Jessica Steinberg, University of Central Florida; Lesia Crumpton-Young, University of Central Florida; Kent Williams, University of Central Florida; Luis Rabelo, University of Central Florida

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Industrial Engineering

opportunities are helping to build stronger industrypartnerships with the university. This paper describes our approach for incorporatingexperiential learning opportunities into the undergrad IE curriculum. It discusses the courses,timing of the experiences, and the components of the experiences that provide application of thecourse materials in project-based problem solving that enhance the students’ critical thinking andadaptive problem solving skills.Senior Design Course:The Department of Industrial Engineering and Management Systems at the University of CentralFlorida offer their senior undergraduate students a unique capstone design educationalexperience. Teams composed of 3-5 senior Industrial Engineering students develop andimplement a plan to

Conference Session

Engineering Economy Frontiers

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

James Wilson; Kim Needy; Karen Bursic

forstudents pursuing a Bachelors degree in Engineering Technology for the Mechanical, Civil andElectrical disciplines. Three sections of ET 1103 are offered each calendar year with enrollmentsof approximately 30 students each.These courses (IE 1040 and ET 1103) are for the most part taught in isolation of other courses inwhich the concepts can (and should) be applied (such as senior design “capstone” courses). Theauthors have made strides to more fully integrate engineering economic analysis into the IndustrialEngineering curriculum in the senior design course. However, more can be done to integrate itfurther within the Industrial Engineering curriculum as well as within the other engineeringdisciplines.Project DescriptionThe project contains three

Conference Session

K-12 Outreach Initiatives

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Vieth; Kazem Kazerounian

advanced undergraduate students (called Galileo Ambassadors) to assist high school teachers in delivering and implementing the modules mentioned in (1) above, as well as to be a resource (to students and teachers) in engineering, science and math education; 3) Sponsorship of a capstone "Engineering Competition" between the participating school districts where each team, under the mentorship of Ambassadors, is given the same engineering problem to solve; 4) Designating several two-semester Senior Design Projects in the School of Engineering to education intensive projects in which selected high school students participate as team members; 5

Conference Session

Epistemic Research

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Erick Jacob Nefcy, Oregon State University; Edith Stanley Gummer, Education Northwest; Milo Koretsky, Oregon State University

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Educational Research and Methods

Page 25.304.2graphical representations are termed Model Development and Usage Representations, or ModelMaps, for short. The result of the previous study showed a significant difference in the modelingcharacteristics in the Virtual CVD Laboratory Project when compared to two capstone physicallaboratories. Based on the analysis of work products (design notebooks, design memoranda andfinal reports) of 14 teams, the Virtual CVD Laboratory Project showed significant increases bothin the number of model components students used and the variety of those model componentsfrom team to team.However, we have been concerned that the characterization of the number and types of modelcomponents is under articulated given the relatively static nature of the