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Pre-college Engineering Education Division Technical Session 6

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Claire Duggan, Northeastern University; Jennifer Ocif Love, Northeastern University; Nicolas Leo Fuchs, Northeastern University; Emily Chernich; Brittany Fung, Northeastern University

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Pre-College Engineering Education

schools, feedback and survey instruments were recentlymodified to study subsequent impact. Data collected from teachers and students in 2019,including wind turbine field trips in Fall 2019, have continued to support evidence that students’interest in STEM topics continues beyond the day of the field trip. In fact, many of the teacherswho bring their students to NU STEM field trips have been coming back each year for severalyears. What distinguishes NU STEM field trips from other science field trip offerings in the areais an integrated experience with engineering. Given the popularity of these field trips and thediverse range of topics that teachers can choose from, additional data from students and teacherswill continue to be collected in future

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Educational Research and Methods Division (ERM) Technical Session 25

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Miguel Alfonso Feijoo-Garcia, Purdue University ; Brittany Newell; Alejandra J. Magana, Purdue University ; Mark Holstrom, Purdue University

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Educational Research and Methods Division (ERM)

manuscript introduces a lesson design in engineeringeducation to analyze and improve educational strategies, reflective practices, and instructionalmaterials.Assessment methods: This study outlines a lesson design utilizing the ArgumentationFramework to support first-year engineering students in overcoming conceptual challenges whiledeveloping engineering projects. This approach was implemented in an Engineering Technologyundergraduate course at a Midwestern university, whose curriculum covered foundational topicsin Energy Science. The task involved designing a zero-energy home using Aladdin software, asan integrated CAD/CAE platform for design and simulation. Students documented their analysis,inferences, and decisions in a design journal with

Conference Session

International Division Technical Session 5

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Sweta Saraff, Amity University Kolkata; Roman Taraban, Texas Tech University; William M. Marcy P.E., Texas Tech University; Ramakrishna Biswal, National Institute of Technology, Rourkela

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International

Collaborator ResponsesWhat is the key The case studies on real-life situations are an integral part of theobjective behind curriculum of all the universities. Featured case studies on the websitethe collaborative provide an opportunity for students to read and critically analyze theproject? case studies, as well as responses of other students from their university and other universities. It helps students in appreciating cultural differences in their opinions and perspectives. The comments are also a part of ongoing research on text analysis.How do the In developing countries like India, a professor deals with around 250-internet platform or

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Faculty Development Division (FDD) Technical Session 8

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Margaret Ruth Hammond, Pennsylvania State University; Christine B. Masters, Pennsylvania State University

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Faculty Development Division (FDD)

strength of materials courses for 12 years and has been leading the efforts focused on support, global engagement, and academic integrity as Assistant Dean since 2014. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Work in Progress: Development of an innovative undergraduate engineering academic advising modelThis work in progress describes the re-imagination and re-design of the Pennsylvania StateUniversity’s College of Engineering undergraduate academic advising model. Currently, themajority of in-major students are advised exclusively by faculty members. To improve supportfor students while also better supporting and engaging faculty with academic advisingresponsibilities, the

Collection

2022 ASEE St. Lawrence Section Annual Conference

Authors

Michael E. Kuhl, Rochester Institute of Technology (COE)

Project-Based Learning in a Simulation Course to Develop an Entrepreneurial Mindset Michael E. Kuhl Industrial and Systems Engineering Department Rochester Institute of Technology Rochester, NY 14623AbstractHaving an entrepreneurial mindset is often a characteristic of highly successful engineers. Thismindset can be cultivated through engineering curriculum and educational methods. This workpresents a case study in which project-based learning is utilized in a simulation course to foster thedevelopment of an entrepreneurial mindset in engineering students. The

Conference Session

Maker Communities and Authentic Problem Solving

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Christopher Rennick, University of Waterloo; Carol Hulls P.Eng., University of Waterloo; Derek Wright P.Eng., University of Waterloo; Andrew J. B. Milne, University of Waterloo, Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering; Eugene Li, University of Waterloo; Sanjeev Bedi P.Eng., University of Waterloo

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Educational Research and Methods

ResultsEach of the four stated goals was achieved to some degree. A survey was given to bothparticipants and volunteers. The survey in winter 2017 had a 95% response rate. The survey inspring 2017 had a very low response rate (~10%) because we tried waiting until the subsequentterm to see how reaction results were affected by the increase in time and the perspective itbrings. The low response rate was an unintended side effect of this delay. Survey results aresummarized in Table 1.Indirect measures indicate that the students and volunteers believe that ECE Design Daysallowed participants to integrate knowledge from across their curriculum. The ECE Design Daysvolunteers consisted of upper-year students, faculty, and staff. The student participants

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Merredith D. Portsmore, Tufts University; Jessica Watkins, Vanderbilt University; Rebecca D. Swanson, Tufts Center for Engineering Education and Outreach; Natalie Annabelle De Lucca, Vanderbilt University

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

professional development of formal and informal science educators, learning through citizen science for adults and youth, and pre-service elementary teaching in informal science learning environments. Dr. Swanson received her PhD in Curriculum and Instruction in Science Education from the University of Colorado Boulder, and a BA in Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology from University of California, Santa Cruz. Prior to graduate school, she was an elementary science educator for a small children’s science center in California.Miss Natalie Annabelle De Lucca, Vanderbilt University Natalie De Lucca is a Ph.D. student in the Mathematics and Science Education specialization in the Learn- ing, Teaching, and Diversity

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Multidisciplinary Technical Session

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gül E. Okudan Kremer, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Mike Murphy, Dublin Institute of Technology; Brian Bowe, Dublin Institute of Technology

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

these existing assessment tools is that they have been developed basedon different frameworks, and hence, the integration of non-consistent assessment tools into anoverall program assessment is challenging. Beard et al.7 suggest that an assessment plan toevaluate curricular efforts to integrate professional skills into programs should includestandardized rubrics.Beyond the studies that focused on assessment of individual skills (e.g., teamwork), a few recentstudies proposed more comprehensive assessment tools targeting a larger set of professionalskills. For example, Huyk et al.23 studied engineering students enrolled in multi-disciplinaryproject team courses to investigate the impact of reflections on the service learning and otherproject

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics Division Technical Session - Ethics in the Engineering Curriculum

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Charles J. Robinson, Clarkson University

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Engineering Ethics

group. Adding unexpected ethical twists requires further innovation.Background This paper builds on a paper presented at the 2011 Vancouver ASEE conference entitled A FirstCourse to Expose Disparate Students to the BmE Field.1 This present paper expands on animportant didactic element of that course, namely an emphasis on story writing and reflection,but with an added ethics twist. This inclusion arose from the author’s participation in a Consor-tium to Promote Reflection in Engineering Education (CPREE) workshop at the 2016 ASEEConference in New Orleans.2 That participation led to the publication of a short CPREE activityguide on the topic of story writing as a tool for enhancing engineering education.3 Story writingwas also employed as a core

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Design, Creativity and Critical Thinking in the Chemical Engineering Curriculum

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kerry Michael Rogy; Cheryl A. Bodnar, University of Pittsburgh; Renee M. Clark, University of Pittsburgh

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Chemical Engineering

Paper ID #8528Examining the Entrepreneurial Mindset of Senior Chemical Engineering Stu-dents as a Result of Exposure to the Epistemic Game ”Nephrotex”Mr. Kerry Michael RogyDr. Cheryl A. Bodnar, University of Pittsburgh Cheryl A. Bodnar, PhD, CTDP is an Assistant Professor (Teaching Track) in the Department of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering at the Swanson School of Engineering at the University of Pittsburgh. She obtained her certification as a Training and Development Professional (CTDP) from the Canadian Society for Training and Development (CSTD) in 2010, providing her with a solid background in instructional

Conference Session

Statics Fanatics 2

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Damon Kirkpatrick; Michael Anderson, United States Air Force

Paper ID #37935Work-in-Progress: Redesigning an Introductory MechanicsCourse to Include Meaningful Design ExperiencesDamon KirkpatrickMichael Lawrence Anderson (Associate Professor) Mike Anderson is an Associate Professor and Director of Capstone Programs, Department of Mechanical Engineering, US Air Force Academy. He has pursued research in engineering education for several years in the areas of curriculum design and assessment, capstone design experiences, innovative design methodologies, and enhancing student creativity. In addition, he pursues technical research in autonomous systems, design of terrestrial and

Conference Session

Technology, Communication, & Ethics

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

C. Richard Helps; Stephen Renshaw

or possibly tooeasy in light of what the student has learned so far in their lessons. Questions also arose as towhat concept to structure each lesson around so as to adequately include all the major concepts ofthe Linux platform in a minimal number of lessons.The lessons start off with a list of objectives that the student should achieve by the end of thelesson. The lesson is then broke up into sections that each focus on a particular concept in greaterdetail.The lessons were structured in such a way as to allow the student to go through the lessons inmore of an experiential fashion instead having us walk them through the lesson. “Focusing onlearner experience rather than content as the fundamental reflection of curriculum places a

Conference Session

Panel Session

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Laura E. Ray, Dartmouth College; Raina White, Dartmouth College; David M. Feinauer P.E., Norwich University; David A. Hodgson, Union College; Eric B. Welch, Christian Brothers University; Yeu-Sheng P. Shiue, Christian Brothers University; Carlos L. Luck, University of Southern Maine; Jonathan West, University of New Mexico; Blair T. Allison, Grove City College; Kevin Huang, Trinity College; Nathan Amanquah, Ashesi University College; Daniel Logan Ray; Devin Tracey Montgomery, Dartmouth College; Prudence Merton, Dartmouth College; Vanessa Svihla, University of New Mexico

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Experimentation and Laboratory-Oriented Studies

year, I plan to integrate computer science and mechanical engineering into my curriculum in aspiration of becoming a mechatronics engineer in the future.Dr. Prudence Merton, Dartmouth CollegeDr. Vanessa Svihla, University of New Mexico Dr. Vanessa Svihla is a learning scientist and assistant professor at the University of New Mexico in the Organization, Information & Learning Sciences program, and in the Chemical & Biological Engineering Department. She served as Co-PI on an NSF RET Grant and a USDA NIFA grant, and is currently co-PI on three NSF-funded projects in engineering and computer science education, including a Revolutioniz- ing Engineering Departments project. She was selected as a National Academy

Conference Session

Pre-College Engineering Education Division (PCEE) Poster Session

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Latanya Robinson, Florida International University; Alexandra Coso Strong, Florida International University

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Pre-College Engineering Education Division (PCEE)

studies and design challenges. Richards andcolleagues [9] define five elements of a case study: Relevance, Motivation, Active Involvement,Consolidation/Integration, and Transfer (see Table 1). There are multiple similarities whencompared with the elements of a design challenge (see Table 2). For instance, the activeinvolvement element requires effective communication with peers to come up with viablesolutions. Given these similarities and the ability of a case study to connect to the practices ofengineers, there is an opportunity to examine the potential for this pedagogical method withinengineering education in elementary classrooms. Table 1 Case Study Elements Elements Description Relevance Cases

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Programs and Pedagogies

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sandra L. Furterer, University of Dayton

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Engineering Management

and concepts help to integrate thespecialty engineering designs together to better design and manage complex systems. Thesesame systems engineering tools can be used to teach systems engineering to engineers. Agraduate-level engineering management curriculum includes a Management of EngineeringSystems course, whose key learning objective is for the students to be able to synthesize andapply the systems engineering methods and tools to a real-world system design project. Thispaper will describe how the instructor applied systems engineering tools to enhance learning ofsystems engineering tools and concepts in an engineering management course. The studentsapplied the systems engineering tools in the course to design a system in teams of 4 to 5

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Two-Year Engineering and Engineering Technology Programs

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ibrahim F. Zeid, Northeastern University; Chitra N. Javdekar, Massachusetts Bay Community College; Claire Duggan, Northeastern University; Marina Bograd

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Diversity

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Two Year College Division

need of essential skills, recruit and train a labor pool in need of these skills and competencies,and break down the traditional mindset of only one pathway from education to the technicalworkforce.Cost effective program modelThrough TRANSFORM, we have partnered with industry to develop an AdvancedManufacturing curriculum specifically addressing the technical skills gap liberal arts majorsmight have, being mindful of the skills they already hold. Building on current workforce trainingguidelines and through review of existing associate level course content we have developed ayearlong intensive program of study and workplace skill development offered at a price pointpalatable to those struggling with current student loan debt. The program

Conference Session

FPD II: Hands-on Curriculum in the First Year

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stephen W. McKnight, Northeastern University; Michael E. Pelletier, Northern Essex Community College; Paula G. Leventman, Northeastern University

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First-Year Programs

-time modules that NortheasternUniversity (NU) has introduced in their first-year engineering curriculum using a “High-TechTools & Toys Laboratory” (HTT&TL). At NU, the HTT&TL is used to teach MATLAB andC++ to first-year engineering students through a set of structured exercises leading the studentsto image a shape concealed in opaque gelatin using 1MHz ultrasound (MATLAB) and to use astepper motor mechanism to color-sort dyed Ping-Pong balls imaged by a video-cam (C++). The Page 25.46.3community college faculty members were participants in an NSF-supported STEP grant, andwere supported through ALERT stipends to attend the

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Innovations in Aero Curriculum and Program Level Administration

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kathy Schmidt Jackson, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Mark D. Maughmer, Pennsylvania State University, University Park

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Aerospace

Graded Homework and Hello to Homework QuizzesAbstractIn higher education, an ongoing issue is assessment of student learning. We wonder how toassess, how often to assess, why we are assessing, and even how are we, as faculty, going tohandle all the grading and management of assessment. Engineering students are frequentlyassessed on homework, quizzes, projects, and exams, but given today’s connected world,students may be copying or sharing homework solutions. Often, they do not realize how workingproblems is integral to their success in a class as well as to their understanding of engineering. Inaddition, across the disciplines we are more aware of how students study and that they often donot select the most productive

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Values in Engineering: Ethics and Justice-Oriented Engineering

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kassandra Fernandez, University of Florida; Sindia M. Rivera-Jiménez, University of Florida

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Diversity

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division (LEES)

skills and collaborative and inclusive teams into the curriculum. Dr. Rivera-Jim´enez graduated from the University of Puerto Rico at Mayag¨uez with a B.S. and Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering. She earned an NSF RIEF award recognizing her effort in transitioning from a meaningful ten-year teaching faculty career into engineering education research. Before her current role, she taught STEM courses at diverse institutions such as HSI, community college, and R1 public university. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Social Responsibility Views in Science and Engineering: An Exploratory Study Among Engineering Undergraduate

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Chemical Engineering in the Sophomore Year

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

David L. Silverstein P.E., University of Kentucky; Sarah A Wilson, University of Kentucky

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Chemical Engineering

(Taxol) through the use of plant cell cultures from the Taxus Yew Tree. Throughout her time at Rowan and UMass, she developed a passion for undergraduate education. This passion led her to pursue a career as a lecturer, where she could focus on training undergraduate chemical engineering students. She has been teaching at UK since 2015 and has taught Fluid Mechanics, Thermodynamics, Computational Tools and the Unit Operations Laboratory. She is especially interested in teaching scientific communication and integration of process safety into the chemical engineering curriculum. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Student Performance in an Online Chemical Engineering

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Work in Progress Papers in ECE

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John M Pavlina Ph.D., Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University - Prescott; William Spencer Darby, Embry Riddle Aeronautical University; Parker D. Landon, Boston University

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Electrical and Computer Engineering Division (ECE)

introduced into the curriculum in the form of a semester long project. QFT engagesstudents to develop their own personalized questions for research as opposed to classes that relyon the instructor simply assigning questions or topics for research. QTF focuses on the studentsdeveloping an essential – yet often overlooked – lifelong learning skill of asking and creatinggood questions. The goals of this proposal are to generate curiosity and elicit connections forstudents on subjects they may have less exposure in and further develop students' soft skills. Theproject consisted of five prompts periodically spread out over the course in the form of an in-class activity. The students formed groups of 3-5 and generated questions that would then turninto an

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Environmental Engineering Division Technical Session 2: Innovative Approaches for Teaching Environmental Engineering

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Tomeka Carroll, University of Virginia

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Environmental Engineering

-based practices that are effective [8]. Shuman et al. suggests future curriculum willinclude an understanding of pre-held misconceptions. Included should also be previous andcurrent practices of how that created the foundational mindset for the field, how and why theconcepts were first introduced. Taking that position, teaching methods can pivot to show wherethe industry and world are in order to support future research, scholarship and the field ofengineering. By incorporating ideas from the Bayesian reasoning method (Fig.2), as an examplefor the decision making process can provide and idea as to how the process affects outcomes.Shuman et al. also discusses the connections between subject matters will be considered infuture curriculum

Collection

1996 Annual Conference

Authors

Evan D. H. Green; Emily L Allen; Linda Vanasupa

courses for the upper division which promotes the development of such skills as well as teachingexperimental design. We are currently testing our hypothesis that traditional weaknesses in data analysis,communication of ideas, and self-motivated acquisition of knowledge can be overcome by providing studentswith a laboratory environment which encourages open-ended experimentation. To this end, we are developinga methodology for converting typical “cookbook” laboratory courses to multi-disciplinary, team-based open-ended design experiences.Our work is done in the context of the development of an interdisciplinary curriculum on electronic materialsand devices3. The curriculum consists of a three-course sequence, primarily for Electrical and

Conference Session

Post BS Entrepreneurship Education Needs

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Angela Shartrand, National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance; Phil Weilerstein, National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance; Mary Besterfield-Sacre, University of Pittsburgh; Katharine Golding, National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

coursework or through extracurricular activities(e.g., participation in a business plan competition, creating a written business plan, givingan elevator pitch to an audience, or completing an internship in a start-up company).Modules and Extracurricular Experiences. While the approach described here focusedon examining the more visible and formal entrepreneurship learning experiences such ascourses and programs, many students gain experiences in other ways. Some engineeringschools, rather than offer a stand alone course in entrepreneurship, integrate modules inone or more existing engineering courses. This approach allows entrepreneurship to beintroduced repeatedly and in the context of a specific engineering topic area. Otherapproaches at larger

Conference Session

ETD Accreditation and Assessment

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alok K. Verma P.E., Old Dominion University; Stephanie G. Adams, Old Dominion University; Cheng Y. Lin P.E., Old Dominion University; Nestor Escobales P.E., Old Dominion University; Isaac L. Flory IV, Old Dominion University

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Engineering Technology

program meetings, department faculty meetings and shared with the IAB members.Each program director prepares an assessment report of their program and submit it to thechair. The entire continuous improvement process is accomplished by various tasksscheduled throughout the year as shown in Figure 4.VI. Use of Assessment Data and Role of Faculty The curriculum committee of each program meets at least once a month to discussthe issues related to curriculum, laboratory facilities, assessment information andaccreditation. The meeting is coordinated by the Program Director. Additional meetingsboth formal and informal may be held as needed. In addition, the department facultymeetings are held each month. In addition to the formal meeting

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics Division Technical Session

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mona Itani, American University of Beirut

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Engineering Ethics

level whether itis integrated across the curriculum or delivered in a stand-alone course is essential since itis supposed to introduce students to real situations and scenarios usually encountered inthe workplace and will assist in equipping them with the needed analytical skills to solvesimilar ethical issues after graduation 4, 13, 20. Moreover, the applied ethics courses helpmeet accreditation requirements such as ABET (Accreditation Board for Engineering andTechnology) criteria of professional skills which includes “understanding of professionaland ethical responsibility” 16. Although researchers seem to agree that introducingengineering ethics should be done at the undergraduate level, they disagree on the meansand effectiveness of doing

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division Technical Session 3

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kathryn A. Neeley, University of Virginia; Douglas Muir, University of Virginia; Elizabeth P. Pyle, University of Virginia

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Diversity

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

ways of doing things can be discovered” (p. 126). The un-programmatic programs described in this paper seek to create such an environment.Next Steps: Developing an Intellectual Model for Integrating Creative Thinking andProblem Definition with Planning and Implementation ProcessesThe model we have arrived at broadens the back end of the entrepreneurial process byexpanding, deepening, and diversifying the activities that precede the creation of a business plan.The model is depicted visually below. STEP 1 - Socio Technical Systems Thinking! STEP 2 – Design Thinking Culture! Technology! STEP 5 – Business Plan Organiza3on! STEP 3 – Customer

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Teamwork

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Pilar Pazos, Old Dominion University; Nina Magpili, Engineering Management & Systems Engineering (EMSE), Old Dominion University; Zikai Zhou, Old Dominion University; Luis Jose Rodriguez, Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren Division

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Diversity

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

ofcollaboration technologies. Although there has been great emphasis on developing collaborationcompetencies in the engineering curriculum, empirical evidence of successful strategies fordistributed team settings is scarce. As an attempt to fill this gap this study investigates theimpact of a scalable intervention in developing virtual collaboration skills. The intervention,based on instructional scaffolds embedded with collaboration technologies, is aimed atsupporting specific processes including planning, goal setting, clarifying goals and expectations,communication, coordination and progress monitoring. A quasi-experimental design was used toevaluate the impact of the intervention on student teamwork skills. Data from 278 graduate andundergraduate

Conference Session

Statics - They can move at constant velocity!

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Abhijit Nagchaudhuri, University of Maryland, Eastern Shore; Rajnish Sharma, University of Maryland Eastern Shore

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Mechanics

logistics associated with credit-hour limitation and student contact hours provideenormous challenges to faculty to cover all fundamental concepts and assess student outcomesthat demonstrate their readiness to move on to engineering mechanics courses that follow.Recognizing the difficulty students have in Statics, engineering faculty have discussed aboutintroducing an additional laboratory hour in the curriculum to motivate students and provide aphysical framework to demonstrate the abstract concepts. While additional contact hours willcertainly enhance learning; credit hour limitation of curricula is also a “realistic constraint”around which engineering curricula has to be designed. Integration of realistic computersimulations in and

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Innovative Techniques & Funding Research

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jim Leake

Session 2438 Development of an Advanced Course in Computer-Aided Design, Analysis and Prototyping James M. Leake University of Illinois at Urbana-ChampaignIntroductionThe increasing power of CAD has had a significant impact on the product development process,allowing improved quality, reduced cost products to get to market faster. Mechanical CAD(MCAD) software is rapidly evolving into what might be better described as productdevelopment, or perhaps virtual prototyping software. MCAD is increasingly integrated withanalysis and simulation tools; upfront