Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Technical Session

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mahmoud K. Quweider, University of Texas, Brownsville

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

AC 2011-1061: ENCOURAGING ART AND SCIENCE CROSS-DEPARTMENTALCOLLABORATION THROUGH AN INTERDISCIPLINARY PROGRAMMahmoud K Quweider, University of Texas, Brownsville Dr. M K Quweider is an Associate Professor at University of Texas at Brownsville. He received his Ph.D. in Engineering Science and an M.S. in Applied Mathematics, M.S. in Engineering Science, and M.S. in Biomedical Engineering all from the University of Toledo, Ohio. After graduation, he worked at several places including Pixera, a digital image processing company in Cupertino, CA, and 3COM, a networking and communication company in Schaumberg, IL. He joined the UTB in 2000. His areas of interest include Imaging, Visualization and Animation, Web Design and

Conference Session

WORKSHOP III: From Ideas to Action: Integrating Entrepreneurial Mindset in FYE Programs

Collection

FYEE 2025 Conference

Authors

Kaitlin Mallouk, Rowan University; J. Blake Hylton, Ohio Northern University; Jack Bringardner, Colorado School of Mines; Krista M Kecskemety, The Ohio State University; Cassie Wallwey, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Andrew Charles Bartolini, University of Notre Dame

Tagged Topics

FYEE 2025

. He previously completed his graduate studies in Mechanical EnginDr. Jack Bringardner, Colorado School of Mines Jack Bringardner is a Teaching Associate Professor and Director of Education Innovation at Colorado School of Mines in the Engineering, Design, and Society Department. He teaches the first-year engineering Cornerstone design course. His primary focus is developing curriculum, mentoring students, and engineering education research, particularly for project-based courses, the first-year engineering experience, and student professional skills. He is active in the American Society for Engineering Education and serves on the First-Year Programs Division Executive Board and was the past Webmanager for the ASEE

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2025 ASEE -GSW Annual Conference

Authors

Pedro Cordeiro Povoa Cupertino, Wichita State University; Adam Carlton Lynch, Wichita State University

Paper ID #49690Systems Engineering Gap Analysis for Aerospace DigitizationPedro Cordeiro Povoa Cupertino, Wichita State University PEDRO CORDEIRO POVOA CUPERTINO is pursuing a BS in Aerospace Engineering at Wichita State University. He is a Research Assistant and CAD (Computer Aided Design) Instructor at the National Institute for Aviation Research, with research interests in Lean, CAD/CAM, Systems Engineering, Project Management, and Entrepreneurship. (ORCID 0009-0001-1005-7962)Adam Carlton Lynch, Wichita State University ADAM CARLTON LYNCH received the BS and MS degrees in Industrial and Systems Engineering from the

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Design Constituents

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James Farison, Baylor University; Zhuocheng Yang, Baylor University

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

AC 2009-282: MULTIDISCIPLINARY ENGINEERING PROGRAMS AND ASEE'SROLE AS THE LEAD SOCIETY FOR THEIR ABET ACCREDITATIONJames Farison, Baylor University Dr. Jim Farison is Professor Emeritus in Baylor University's Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and is also the academic coordinator for Baylor's multidisciplinary B.S. in Engineering program. He is a member of ASEE's Accreditation Activities Committee, and past chair of the Multidisciplinary Engineering Division, and served many years as Baylor's ASEE campus representative. He received his B.S.E.E. degree from The University of Toledo, then M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Stanford University, before returning to serve on the faculty at UT

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2020 Fall ASEE Mid-Atlantic Section Meeting

Authors

Yongchao Zhao, New York City College of Technology; Ashwin Satyanarayana, New York City College of Technology; Cailean Cooney, New York City College of Technology, CUNY

Tagged Topics

Diversity

institutional planning, decision-making and reporting.Dr. Ashwin Satyanarayana, New York City College of Technology Dr. Ashwin Satyanarayana is currently the Chair and Associate Professor with the Department of Com- puter Systems Technology, New York City College of Technology (CUNY). Prior to this, Dr. Satya- narayana was a Research Scientist at Microsoft in Seattle from 2006 to 2012, where he worked on several Big Data problems including Query Reformulation on Microsoft’s search engine Bing. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from SUNY, with particular emphasis on Data Mining and Big data analytics. He is an author or co-author of over 25 peer reviewed journal and conference publications and co-authored a text- book

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2021 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Kabilananthan Asokan; Nur-E-Afra Anika; Bryar Pim

emphasizing why tackling this issue is of utmost importance © American Society for Engineering Education, 2021 2021 ASEE Midwest Section ConferenceWith more and more farmlands being used to build industrial infrastructures, production of foodis lower causing supply of food to not meet the demand and eventually raising food prices. In orderto come up with a solution to tackle the food scarcity and increase the production, numerous stepshave been taken. One of the ways could be to come up with an innovative irrigation system thatwill help produce more plants if ideal conditions for plant growth is achieved. Automating theirrigation system will make sure soil moisture, temperature and light

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2018 Gulf Southwest Section Conference

Authors

Hyun Seop Lee; Y. D. Kim; Edwin Thomas

Integrated Educational Project of Theoretical, Experimental, and Computational Analyses Hyun Seop Lee1,*, Y. D. Kim2, and Edwin Thomas3 1,3 Engineering Technology, Grambling State University 403 Main Street, Grambling, Louisiana, 71245, USA * E-mail: leehy@gram.edu 2 Engineering and Technology, Texas A&M University – Commerce P.O. Box 3011, Commerce, TX, 75429, USA Abstract ability to understand

Conference Session

Environmental Engineering Curricula II

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Angela Bielefeldt, University of Colorado at Boulder

Tagged Divisions

Environmental Engineering

broaden the students’ perspective and prepare them forwork in a more global setting. Student attitudes about hazardous waste upon entering the courseare contrasted for American vs. international students.IntroductionHazardous waste is an issue of global importance. However, there are some notable differencesin the most critical challenges facing the developing world and the developed world, specificallythe U.S. After teaching a course on Hazardous Waste Management to graduate andundergraduate students at the University of Colorado - Boulder for eight years and a Solid WasteManagement course for four years, in summer 2006 I had the opportunity to teach a module onHazardous Waste in a Solid Waste course at UNESCO’s Institute for Water Education

Conference Session

Improving the Mathematical Preparation of Students

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Elton Graves, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Mathematics

school with advanced placement credits in mathematics to take additional mathematicscourses beyond the courses required for their major.Creating courses and tracts of interestOver the past few years the Rose-Hulman Mathematics Department has made several changes toencourage students to take upper level mathematics courses. One of the major changes was tochange the courses required to get a degree in mathematics. Until the late 1900’s Rose had onlyone tract for a degree or major in mathematics. We have now split this into four different tracts.Our first tract is for the traditional mathematics major who wants to go to graduate school andearn and masters degree or doctorate in mathematics. This tract is not a tract that would interestmost

Conference Session

Graduate Student Experiences

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Carol Mullenax, Tulane University

Tagged Divisions

Graduate Studies

2006-766: TO BE OR NOT TO BE - REVISITING AN ANALYTICAL METHODUSING DEMOGRAPHIC DATA TO PREDICT ASEE STUDENT CHAPTERVIABILITYCarol Mullenax, Tulane University Carol Mullenax is finishing up a Doctorate in Biomedical Engineering at Tulane University while also employed by Bastion Technologies as a project manager on the NASA Non-Exercise Physiological Countermeasures Project in Houston, Texas. Page 11.1342.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006 To Be or Not To Be – Revisiting an Analytical Method Using Demographic Data to Predict ASEE Student Chapter ViabilityIntroduction

Conference Session

Curricular Issues in Computer-Oriented Programs

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Afsaneh Minaie, Utah Valley State College; Reza Sanati-Mehrizy, Utah Valley State College

Tagged Divisions

Information Systems

the requirements of 30 credit hours of core courses common to allcomputer science students. The students continue taking core courses until the first semester oftheir junior year, when they begin taking their electives from different specialization areas.In this paper, the authors are proposing a new area of specialization in their computer sciencedepartment called Embedded Systems Engineering. The paper elaborates the detail content ofthe curriculum requirement for this track.Embedded Systems EngineeringThe area of Embedded Systems Design has been gaining a tremendous growth in recent years. Amajor aspect of this growth has been the addition of networking technologies and operatingsystems to embedded systems. Embedded systems have

Conference Session

Electrical ET Curriculum

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Neal Widmer, Purdue University; Richard Furtner, Purdue University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

logic gates.This paper proposes a process, using digital electronics as an example, which keeps a curriculumand its graduates current by prioritizing the skills which are most important to current employers.An attempt is made to sort out the vital digital electronics topics from the less relevant, and topropose the necessary topics for today’s students.IntroductionDigital electronics is an area in which rapid changes are occurring. Moore’s law has caused thediscrete-gate logic of the 70s and 80s to be superseded by multimillion-gate CPLDs, FPGAs, andASICs today [1]. Design methodologies for these large chips began with schematic entry designtechniques in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Schematic entry of digital circuits was largelysupplanted

Conference Session

Biology in Engineering

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Paul Schreuders, Utah State University; Brian Rutherford, Utah State University; Katrina Cox, Utah State University; Susan Mannon, Utah State University

Tagged Divisions

Biological & Agricultural

2006-1805: GENDER DIFFERENCES IN BIOLOGICAL ENGINEERINGSTUDENTSPaul Schreuders, Utah State UniversityBrian Rutherford, Utah State UniversityKatrina Cox, Utah State UniversitySusan Mannon, Utah State University Page 11.662.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006 Gender Differences in Biological Engineering StudentsAbstractDo gender differences exist in the interests and attitudes of biological engineering students? Un-dergraduate engineering students participated in a voluntary survey designed to help understandthis issue.First, to determine whether males and females received different academic preparation, prior toentering engineering, the survey examined

Conference Session

New Trends in Graduate Education

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Ronald Bennett

area.To address this situation, several years ago we began offering a course in medical device FDAregulations in our graduate program. Demand was high, and this single course has now evolvedinto a series of courses ranging from pre-market approval of devices to anatomy and physiologyfor engineers. These courses are offered in our evening part-time graduate program and can betaken as individual courses, be combined into a graduate certificate or used toward one of ourMaster’s degrees.The wealth of resources provided by adjunct faculty who are practicing and keeping up to date inthis rapidly changing area have resulted in a high-quality, readily available program that hasattracted students from a variety of companies and backgrounds and created

Conference Session

Recruiting and Building Diversity

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ronald Kane; Carla Purdy

Session 2492 Achieving Diversity in Graduate Engineering Education--What Are the Major Issues?Carla Purdy, Electrical & Computer Engineering & Computer Science, Univ. of Cincinnati (Carla.Purdy@uc.edu), Ronald Kane, Dean of Graduate Studies, New Jersey Institute of Technology (Ronald.Kane@njit.edu)AbstractWhat are the benefits of diversity in graduate engineering education? Reasons for increasingdiversity among undergraduates also apply at the graduate level--a larger pool of highly trainedworkers, increased technical expertise among the

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Laura Lucas

toeffectively discuss someone else’s ideas… two basic needs for successful teamwork. With theincreasing role of group work in student learning, faculty have an increased responsibility to teachstudents how to collaborate successfully on group projects… in essence, ‘how to develop a wholethat is better than the sum of the parts’. The focus of this paper is on one aspect of teamcollaboration… the teaching and use of constructive feedback to discuss and evaluate each othersideas and/or projects as incorporated in the course ART 155 Residential Construction as part of aSchool Faculty Development Grant beginning during the 1999 school year, and continuing to thefollowing semesters.Furthermore, to truly reinforce in class instruction in constructive feedback

Conference Session

New Approaches in Engineering

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Singli Garcia-Otero, Virginia State University; Nasser Ghariban, Virginia State University; Fedra Adnani

Tagged Divisions

Minorities in Engineering

Paper ID #5878Reform the Intro to Engineering course For Retaining Minority EngineeringFreshmenDr. Singli Garcia-Otero, Virginia State UniversityDr. Nasser Ghariban, Virginia State UniversityDr. Fedra Adnani Page 23.11.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013 Reforming the Introduction to Engineering Course to Retain Minority Engineering FreshmenAbstractIt is always a challenge to retain engineering students, especially in Historically Black Collegesand Universities (HBCUs) like ours

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1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Rebecca L. Dodge; Andres F. Rodriguez

Section 1280 Expanding Science and Engineering Outreach Programs Through Cooperation with the Girl Scout Council in El Paso, Texas Dr. Rebecca L. Dodge, Dr. Andres F. Rodriguez, University of Texas at El Paso/ University of the PacificABSTRACTIn cooperation with the Girl Scout Council in El Paso, Texas, The Pan American Center forEarth and Environmental Studies (PACES) at the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP)instituted the Summer Science Trek program in the summer of 1996. This program wasdesigned and presented in cooperation with Dr. Andres Rodriguez, an emeritus professor whohas developed and offers a

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1997 Annual Conference

Authors

Raul Herrera

Session 2330 Globalization of Engineering Education The case of the North American Region Raul Herrera The Ohio State UniversityWhen World War II ended, the United States emerged as practically the only superpower that hadits industrial apparatus fully producing all the equipment required to reconstruct the cities andindustries destroyed by the war both in Europe and the Asian Pacific region. With the help of theUnited States some of the European and Asian economies rapidly recovered and trade among thenations was restored in a few years

Collection

1998 Annual Conference

Authors

M. Bodruzzaman; Satinderpaul Devgan; Saleh Zein-Sabatto

Electrical Engineering curriculum, and its concentration in Computers,requires at least two student written computer projects for all o its major courses. Word-processed technical reports and oral presentation have now became a norm in our program. Atleast two laboratories are equipped with latest model computers with major higher levelprogramming language compilers, and application software such as Matlab, LabVIEW,LabWindow and other simulation and modeling software. Students have access to Internet viaNetscape browser for information retrieval and use of resources that are available elsewhere.Computer-based data acquisition experience is acquired in the Control Systems, Circuits, andElectrical Systems Design Laboratories. Additionally many

Collection

1998 Annual Conference

Authors

M. Bodruzzaman; Satinderpaul Devgan; Saleh Zein-Sabatto

Electrical Engineering curriculum, and its concentration in Computers,requires at least two student written computer projects for all o its major courses. Word-processed technical reports and oral presentation have now became a norm in our program. Atleast two laboratories are equipped with latest model computers with major higher levelprogramming language compilers, and application software such as Matlab, LabVIEW,LabWindow and other simulation and modeling software. Students have access to Internet viaNetscape browser for information retrieval and use of resources that are available elsewhere.Computer-based data acquisition experience is acquired in the Control Systems, Circuits, andElectrical Systems Design Laboratories. Additionally many

Conference Session

Student Division Technical Session 2: Career Development and Employability

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

D'andre Jermaine Wilson-Ihejirika P.Eng., University of Toronto

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Student Division (STDT)

Paper ID #44217Identifying the Skills and Student Activities that Influence Career Pathwaysfor Black vs. non- Black Engineering GraduatesD’andre Jermaine Wilson-Ihejirika P.Eng., University of Toronto D’Andre Wilson-Ihejirika is currently a PhD candidate at the University of Toronto within the Institute for Studies in Transdisciplinary Engineering Education & Practice (ISTEP). Prior to that she worked for many years as an engineer and project manager in the Oil & Gas industry. She is originally from Nassau, Bahamas, and completed her B.Eng in Chemical Engineering at McGill University and her MASc. from the Centre

Collection

2017 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Khaled Mansy

Daylight Rules-of-Thumb Experimentally Examined Khaled Mansy School of Architecture Oklahoma State UniversityAbstractThe paper aims to help architecture and architectural engineering students in the early designstages to accurately determine the optimum glass ratio for different building types in differentclimates. Currently, the design profession depends on old outdated rules-of-thumb to estimatethe area of windows that allows good utilization of daylight. These rules-of-thumb are the (1)2.5 rule, (2) one tenth rule, and (3) 15/30 rule. None of these rules-of-thumb is tailored to aspecific building type fitted with a

Conference Session

Faculty Development Division Technical Session 4

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jill Nelson, George Mason University; Jessica Rosenberg; Sarah Ochs, George Mason University

efforts to transform teaching in highly enrolled gateway courses. While the benefitsof evidence-based teaching practices for student learning, engagement, and persistence are welldocumented (Freeman et al., 2014), adoption of such practices in STEM courses is slow (Stains,et al., 2018). This paper documents departmental efforts to overcome the slow adoption of activelearning. In doing so, it describes an investigation of how physics faculty perceive the purposeand value of active learning, specifically adopting a student-centered tutorial model forrecitations.This study is part of a larger project that uses department-based communities of transformationto effect change in the teaching of gateway courses and to develop a departmental

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Guoping Wang

approaches are also applicable in complex sequential digitalsystem designs. The author’s experiences showed the effectiveness of this approach in teachingsequential logic VHDL models.Index term: Engineering course, VHDL, digital systems, sequential circuit.Introduction The VHSIC (very high speed integrated circuits) Hardware Description Language(VHDL) is a very powerful hardware language for digital system design. It has becomeindispensable in electrical and computer engineering programs. Digital logic systems can be classified in combinational and sequential logic circuits.Sequential logic systems play a very important part. In teaching VHDL models of sequentiallogic circuits, the author found that students could easily get confused

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1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Chi-Wook Lee

to stay competitive. This may be accomplished by emphasizing education and training.More companies are shifting much of the education and training responsibilities back to theeducational institutions. The new advances in technology must be studied and understood byuniversities so that engineering curriculum incorporates them while maintaining the principle ofcoherence. Universities and industry need better communication and closer interactions.Engineering students must be exposed to the leading advances in technology, and be familiarwith the latest trend in design, fabrication, and implementation of various manufacturingprocesses.This paper discusses a specific university/industry partnership that uses the resources efficientlyin meeting the

Conference Session

Engineering Identity 2

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Malinda Faber, The Friday Institute for Educational Innovation at North Carolina State University; Alana Unfried, North Carolina State University; Eric N. Wiebe, North Carolina State University; Jeni Corn, Friday Institute for Educational Innovation, NC State University; Latricia Walker Townsend; Tracey Louise Collins, North Carolina State University

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

Paper ID #6955Student Attitudes toward STEM: The Development of Upper ElementarySchool and Middle/High School Student SurveysMalinda Faber, The Friday Institute for Educational Innovation at North Carolina State University Malinda Faber is a Research Associate on the Evaluation Team at the Friday Institute for Educational Innovation at North Carolina State University. Malinda works on multiple research teams, including evaluations of The Golden LEAF Foundations’ STEM Initiative, North Carolina’s Race to the Top STEM Initiative, and the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction’s IMPACT-V Model for capacity

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2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

Israel Aguilera Navarrete; Alejandro Lozano-Guzman; Edna Alcazar-Farias

. S&T INDICATORSeducation and the value of S&T are the ones playing a leading Indicators represent in a quantitative way S&Trole in global development. These countries have been achievement levels and trends, and also evaluate the impact ofinvesting important economic resources for becoming active resources as these apply to our research efforts [11]. It is ofparticipants in the new “Knowledge Age.” This Age is course essential for every country to measure itsessentially characterized by an intensive use of knowledge as innovativeness precisely, in order to have sufficient validwell as trade in goods, processes, and services of high added information for appropriate

Conference Session

Computing and Information Technology Division Technical Session 8

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Zhijiang Dong, Middle Tennessee State University; Joshua Lee Phillips, Middle Tennessee State University; Eric Oslund, Middle Tennessee State University; Chrisila Pettey, Middle Tennessee State University; Catherine E. Brawner, Research Triangle Educational Consultants

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Computing and Information Technology

Paper ID #33301Positive Impact of an S-STEM Scholarship Program on Computer ScienceStudents’ Academic Performance and Retention RateDr. Zhijiang Dong, Middle Tennessee State University Dr. Zhijiang Dong is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Middle Tennessee State University. His research areas are in the fields of formal methods, system verification and validation, and computer science education. He received his BS in Mathematics from Huazhong University of Science and Technology at China, and his PhD in Computer Science from Florida International University.Dr. Joshua Lee Phillips, Middle Tennessee State

Conference Session

Multimedia Tutorials and Web Development

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Maria M. Larrondo Petrie, Florida Atlantic University; Ivan Esparragoza, Pennsylvania State University

Tagged Divisions

Minorities in Engineering

the Latin American and Caribbean Consortium of Engineering Institutions; Member-at-Large on the Board of the Minorities in Engineering Division and Secretary/Treasurer of the International Division of the American Society for Engineering Education; and is on the Executive Committee and Strategic Planning Committee of the newly formed International Federation of Engineering Education Societies. Her email is petrie@fau.eduIvan Esparragoza, Pennsylvania State University Ivan Esparragoza is an Assistant Professor of Engineering at Penn State. His interests are in engineering design education, innovative design, and global design. He has introduced multinational design projects in a freshman