Conference Session

First-Year Programs Division Technical Session 1: Using Technology and/or Technology Tools to Enhance Learning

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tareq Daher, University of Nebraska - Lincoln; Stuart Bernstein, University of Nebraska - Lincoln; Brett Meyer, University of Nebraska - Lincoln

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

the role of evidence-based instructional practices in a blendedcourse for a freshman engineering course. The instructor had been teaching this constructionmanagement class combining traditional lecturing and in-class discussions. The instructor soughtto increase students’ engagement with the material, each other, and himself as well as dedicateclass time to active learning activities, higher order thinking skills, and application of concepts.The present research was conducted to explore blended course design in addressing theaforementioned instructional challenges. Blended learning is an instructional mode thatcombines substituting a significant portion of time spent in the classroom with online preparatorycontent and assessments. The online

Conference Session

DEI and Other

Collection

ASEE Southeast Section Conference

Authors

Bryn Elizabeth Seabrook, University of Virginia

Tagged Topics

Diversity, Professional Engineering Education Papers

Materials114 In recognition of inequity among the student population, this course requires no textbook.115 All assigned materials are digitally available through UVA’s online learning management116 system. This course design choice enhances accessibility, supporting the course goal of117 inclusion. Foundational texts that have informed the course include Technology Matters: © American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 3 2023 ASEE Southeastern Section Conference118 Questions to Live With by David Nye; Engineering Ethics: Contemporary and Enduring Debates119 by Deborah G. Johnson; and Race After Technology by Ruha Benjamin. Based on the

Conference Session

Circuits and Systems Education 1

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bala Maheswaran, Northeastern University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

concepts.This online assignments have video based coaching problems, tutorials with hints to guidestudents to learn the electrical circuit concepts and regular text book end of chapter homeworkproblems. As part of the course requirement, students are assigned to do the conceptual problemsto self-learn and to do more advanced problems to master the concepts. This mandatory requisitemakes them learn the chapter-materials in more in-depth. The aim of this study was to determinewhether this tool will indeed help students to learn the course materials to their own as well as totheir instructors’ satisfaction.This report will present information about the Mastering Engineering approach used in oursections and the weekly workload assigned to students. The

Conference Session

Engineering Technology Division (ETD) Poster Session

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert De La Coromoto Koeneke, Daytona State College; Al Rahrooh, University of California, Los Angeles; Alireza Rahrooh Senior Professor of Engineering, Daytona State College

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology Division (ETD)

Technology at Daytona State College seeks to offer acompletely online Bachelor of Science program in Electrical Engineering Technology. Currently,all lectures are delivered online for all department courses; however, some laboratories stillrequire campus facility attendance. As an alternative, some lab courses rely on simulators, whichsometimes provide a limited reproduction of the conditions. Such is the case of the EET 3085LElectricity and Electronic Lab course, a sophomore-level class with increasing enrollment overthe years. An online and an in-lab section of EET 3085L are offered concurrently. Both sectionscover the same experiments, with the difference being that online students use circuit simulationsoftware (Multisim) to complete the labs

Conference Session

Engineering Management Division (EMD) Tech Session 2: Course-level strategies to positively impact student learning and experiences

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Wei Lu, Texas A&M University; Behbood Zoghi, Texas A&M University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Management Division (EMD)

Technical Managers2023 ASEE Engineering Management Division (EMD) Abstract This work in progress (WIP) paper aims at demonstrating the innovative design ofintegrating a communication course with the Capstone course, which is part of the Master ofEngineering Technical Management (METM), a 21-month online graduate program for workingprofessionals in the engineering technical management fields. As the culmination of theirgraduate study, students must identify an organizational/technical challenge, formulate a feasibleproject plan to address the issue to bring impact to the organization. During this process, theywill conduct research, create a strong business case for their industry sponsors

Conference Session

Thermal Fluid Experiment Related

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

John Michael Cotter, University of South Florida; Rasim Guldiken, University of South Florida

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

students either preferred in-class active learning or were not sure for theSpring2020 semester. The percentage of students preferring online instruction increased for theSummer 2020 and Fall2020 semesters. As an example, just slightly over 50 percent of thestudents preferred in-class instruction as of the Fall2020 semester.Keywords: Active learning, In-class exercises, Fluid mechanics, Online learning exercises,1. IntroductionFluid mechanics is a core course for many, if not all, mechanical, civil, and environmentalengineering undergraduate curriculums throughout the world. However, previous studiesindicated that the students typically view the undergraduate Fluid Mechanics course(s) aschallenging, resulting in low student performance

Conference Session

Certifying Teachers in Engineering or Integrated STEM

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

AnnMarie Thomas, University of Saint Thomas; Jan B Hansen, University of Saint Thomas; Sarah H. Cohn, Science Museum of Minnesota; Brian Phillip Jensen, University of St. Thomas

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

teachers and education majors anunderstanding of what collegiate level study of engineering entails. Thus, time was spentdiscussing ABET and typical course components of various engineering degrees.Associated with this discussion is a look at various engineering disciplines. Teacherswere referred to the Engineering Go For It (Education)10 site for more information onthese topics.Finally, students were introduced to the concepts of work, force, and energy, as thesewould be referred to throughout the course. For some students, this section was a review,while for others it was new material.For this unit’s homework, students were asked to read the above-mentioned paper byPawley on definitions of engineering9 and post on the class’ online discussion

Conference Session

Construction Engineering Division (CONST) Technical Session 4

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Carmen Paz Muñoz, Universidad Andres Bello, Santiago, Chile; Monica Quezada-Espinoza, Universidad Andres Bello, Santiago, Chile

Tagged Divisions

Construction Engineering Division (CONST)

,who, within their respective areas of competence, is responsible for executing the tasks orworks referred to in the General Law on Urbanism and Construction and the presentordinance" [3].In general, science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) degrees experiencesignificant early-stage dropout due to several factors: course failure, for example, in subjectsincluding physics and mathematics [4]; a low perceived importance of these courses forengineering [5-6]; a general perception of an excessive workload in engineering courses [7];and the modality of the course in question, including asynchronous online courses [8], amongothers.Related literature reports that remedial courses are used to address bottlenecks and students'delayed

Conference Session

Pedagogy and Instructional Practices

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Dorian Bobbett, University of Nebraska - Lincoln; Grace Panther, University of Nebraska - Lincoln; Heidi A. Diefes-Dux, University of Nebraska - Lincoln

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods Division (ERM)

university was comprised of seven departments and consisted ofapproximately 175 instructors that contributed to the undergraduate teaching mission eachsemester. All departments were invited and agreed to participate in data collection.Data CollectionAs part of a larger study, teaching artifacts were gathered from each engineering department.These artifacts included course syllabi for all engineering courses taught from the Fall 2019through the Spring 2022 semesters. The Spring 2020 semester included two syllabi – one fromthe start of the semester and a modified COVID syllabus from March to end of the semester. Themodified COVID syllabus was a requirement of the university. For this study, syllabi from asingle department were chosen for analysis as

Conference Session

Energy Resources, Efficiency, and Conservation

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sarma Pisupati, Pennsylvania State University; Wendy Mahen, PennSylvania State University; Mark Deluca, Pennsylvania State University; Martin Gutowski, Pennsylvania State University

Tagged Divisions

Energy Conversion and Conservation

contentand made the course more fun. The impact of the highly interactive multimedia can beeasily seen in the enrollment. The enrollment in the online version has increased from 50during the first semester to 318 in the second semester and to 450 in its third semester ofoffering. It is also apparent that students liked the flexibility in schedule, pace andorganization.An important message that came out of this student feed back is that online courseinstructors should highly emphasize communication of course deadlines, expectations notjust once in the syllabus but multiple times in multiple ways to keep the studentsinformed. Most students liked audio explanations of numerical problems and otherfeedback. Following numerical problems online was

Conference Session

DEED Poster Session

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Marie-Pierre Huguet, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Frank Wright, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

first option. At this level, there is nocourse content posted and the online component is mainly used for administrative informationsuch as the syllabus, schedule, or contact information. It is often created by the instructor andrequire little or no daily maintenance. One of the main advantages is that it only requiresminimal space and bandwidth.At Level 2, Supplemental/Web-enhanced, some course content such as course notes, handouts,and homework is posted. It may include additional materials such as pre-instructional activities,study guides, or assigned readings. At level 2, bandwidth becomes a consideration. At Level 3,Essential/Web-centered, the bandwidth becomes critical. The majority of the course content andmaterials are available online

Collection

1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Jon A. Leydens

Page 3.586.3complexity and a progression in focus from self to community. 3Cognitive ComplexityThis syllabus builds on the skills learned in previous essays so that students will use the thinkingskills they learn in the first section in the second section, the skills they learn in the first andsecond sections in the third, and so on. It also “builds” in the sense that students are usinggradually more complex skills as the course progresses—from knowledge and comprehensionskills in the early essays to application, analysis, synthesis, and evaluation skills in the laterreports.Progression in Focus from Self to CommunityThe syllabus also builds from I

Conference Session

COED: Student Perspectives of Instructional and Advising Approaches

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jessica Ohanian Perez, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona; Juliana Lynn Fuqua, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona; Faye Linda Wachs, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona; Paul Morrow Nissenson, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona; Brooke Jones; Jeffrey A. Phillips; Harmony Nguyen, The Pennsylvania State University

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education Division (COED)

HyFlex course. Also, they also gave studentsthe message to attend the course and not rely on videos as a substitute for class. The mostsuccessful instructors set expectations for attendance early in the class with both the syllabus andin their course introduction on the first day of class.Exams and cheating: A second problem was how to ensure exams and assessment activities wereequitable. This was an important issue. Instructors grappled with how to administer exams orother assessments in-person and/or synchronously online. They knew they would not be able towrite different assessments that are equitable and commensurate for students. University wide,instructors have addressed this issue differently to uphold academic integrity. Some

Conference Session

Teaching Experiences in OME

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Eugene Niemi

paper covers the following sequence of events: a sabbatical leave by the course instructor todevelop improved capability in this area, textbook selection, course syllabus, and first yearexperiences teaching the course. A small wave tank was designed and built by some students inconjunction with the first offering of the course, and this is now being used for demonstrations infuture offerings of the course.Introduction Several years ago, the University of Massachusetts developed a new program called theIntercampus Graduate School of Marine Sciences and Technology (IGSMST), or simply “IGS.”This program is a joint program offered through four of the campuses of the UMASS system(Amherst, Boston, Dartmouth, and Lowell). It is a graduate

Conference Session

Curriculum Development and Teaching Models in NRE

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Keith Holbert, Arizona State University; Jeffrey Goss, Arizona State University

Tagged Divisions

Nuclear and Radiological

AC 2009-163: AN INTERDISCIPLINARY NUCLEAR POWER OPERATIONSCOURSE CO-DEVELOPED WITH THE PALO VERDE NUCLEAR GENERATINGSTATIONKeith Holbert, Arizona State UniversityJeffrey Goss, Arizona State University Page 14.204.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2009 An Interdisciplinary Nuclear Power Operations Course Co-Developed With The Palo Verde Nuclear Generating StationAbstractThe development of an entire online course on interdisciplinary nuclear power operations isdescribed herein. This course is a unique industry-university team-taught course in cooperationwith the Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station (PVNGS), and is part of a new graduate

Conference Session

Civil Engineering Division - Integration of Engineering and/or Technical Rigor with Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Justice (DEIJ)

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Shinae Jang, University of Connecticut

of products and environments to be usable by all people, tothe greatest extent possible, and without the need for adaptation or specialized design [13]. WithUDI, the course products and environments meet the needs of potential users with diversecharacteristics that include disabilities. Furthermore, making a course accessible to people withdisabilities often benefits others. There are seven UD principles, and this course has been re-designed to satisfy all seven principles as summarized (see Table 1).The first principle is applied to make the design useful and marketable to people with diverseabilities [13]. This was implemented through the course website, textbook, syllabus, andcaptions. The second principle is applied to provide

Conference Session

Computing and Information Technology Division (CIT) Technical Session 3

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joseph Benin, United States Coast Guard Academy; William Randall; Angela G Jackson-Summers, United States Coast Guard Academy

Tagged Divisions

Computing and Information Technology Division (CIT)

.[10] C. Brumfield and B. Haugli, Cybersecurity Risk Management: Mastering the Fundamentals Using the NIST Cybersecurity Framework, Wiley, 2021.[11] United States Coast Guard Academy, "Catalog of Courses 2021-2022," 2022. [Online]. Available: https://cgaportal.uscga.edu/academics/registrar/Course%20Catalogs/COURSE%20CATALOG%2 02021-2022.pdf. [Accessed 22 January 2023].Appendix I – Cyber Risk Management Course 7385 Spring 2022 Syllabus U.S. Coast Guard Academy Department of Engineering Cyber Risk Management (7385) Course SyllabusIntroductionCourse: 7385 Cyber Risk ManagementCourse Offering: Spring

Conference Session

Computers in Education Poster Session

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Edward Gehringer

is not widespread at the moment, but will be an increasingproblem as online assessment and testing systems become more commonplace. This paper willexplore the reasons for restricting course materials, the current extent, and the implications ofsuch restrictions.1. IntroductionIn the process of working on our Course Database project [2, 3], we have occasion to visit manycourse Web sites. Recently we have been noticing that many of them are hiding behindpasswords, inaccessible to the public eye. This is a discouraging development, for it seems thatthe relatively open world of academe is becoming more cloistered. In practical terms, it meansthat if I or my students surf the Web for new material related to our fields of study, we are likelyto

Conference Session

That's a Great Idea! Learning-focused Methods to Revitalize Your Courses

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rob Sleezer, Minnesota State University, Mankato, Twin Cities; Jacob John Swanson, Minnesota State University, Mankato; Rebecca A Bates, Minnesota State University, Mankato

Tagged Divisions

New Engineering Educators

support for the change. The syllabus for the Designcourse was modified from previous semesters to require each team to provide weekly documentsthat tracked progress and proposed changes to the design specifications. In prior semesters,students in the Professionalism course had been required to reflect on several design experiences.For this study, the students were required to reflect specifically on the use of iterative loops aspart of the design process. The Seminar course was modified to provide a venue to discussfailure, iterative loops, and the design process.Propositions and Process for Linking Data to PurposeYin34 noted that exploratory studies could state a purpose and the criteria for judging theexploration successful instead of

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Sohail Anwar

Association of Colleges and Schools since 1977.Recognizing that college-level knowledge can be obtained in many ways, Excelsiorprovides access to many different avenues for earning college credit, focusing on whatstudents know, rather than on where or how they learned it. Undergraduate credits areearned through a variety of accredited sources including for-credit exams, distancelearning and online courses offered by Excelsior and other institutions; traditionalcampus-based courses; and military and corporate training. Excelsior’s graduate degreesare also delivered online. Through these means, the college makes associate,baccalaureate, and master’s degrees more accessible to busy, working adults.Excelsior’s associate, bachelor’s and master’s degree

Collection

1999 Annual Conference

Authors

David Alexander; Ronald Smelser

research was to develop a hands-on Mechanics of Materials Laboratory coursefor distance education. The resulting course was taught entirely over the Internet usingcomputer-simulated experiments, online remote control software, email, and discussion groupswith a focus on creating a student-centered learning environment. Students also conductedhands-on experiments using small scale testing equipment and participated in an on-campusactivity in which larger more sophisticated testing equipment was used. The students’understanding of the material and hands-on skills were as good as and in some areas better thantraditional on-campus students. This research indicates that a distance laboratory course thatincorporates multi-media computer experiments with

Conference Session

Retention

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stephanie Laggini Fiore, Temple University; Shawn Patrick Fagan, Temple University; David Brookstein, Temple University

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

online math refreshers. These student supports can beeffective and necessary for students who find themselves struggling with difficult content or whoare unprepared for college work. Yet they are often reactive in nature as they are generallyutilized by students only after they have already begun to struggle academically and/or haveexperienced disappointment in engineering.Temple’s Center for the Advancement of Teaching (CAT) has sought to reframe the problem toaddress possible underlying issues around course design and pedagogical choices that maycontribute to student failure and attrition. With the support of the Vice Provost forUndergraduate Studies, the CAT created Project SOAR (Student-Oriented Active Redesign), ayear-long course redesign

Conference Session

Writing and Communication I

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Brad Jerald Henderson, University of California - Davis

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

new methodology to examine the architecture of sentences through the lens of math. Intended for students majoring in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM), the course offers both alternative and complement to the study of grammar and style as informed by contemporary linguistic theories...”Unfortunately, some miscommunications occurred, and the STEM tag and revised descriptiondid not appear on the student interface for online enrollment. Instead, the course appeared as106: special section. Thus, many of my students enrolled without clear understanding that whatdistinguished the special section from the regular version was that it featured an experimental(and radically different) math-based approach.Course

Conference Session

Computing and Information Technology Division Technical Session 6

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Natasha Smith P.E., University of Virginia

Tagged Divisions

Computing and Information Technology

worth 20 points. Afterthe assignment deadline, students who completed the assignment gained access to the solutions.Each student was responsible for grading assignments from two classmates using a 0-4 scale foreach problem using the rubric shown in Fig. 4 included in the syllabus. Grades from both studentgraders were averaged. The primary benefit from peer grading was the quick turn around time.Another advantage was that peer grading requires students to engage with the assignment a secondtime. Figure 4: Peer Review RubricA final tool that was instrumental in the course was the interactive video conferencing, using Zoom.First, this allowed online students to participate in the live class. The Zoom broadcast

Conference Session

Cyber Technology

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kristen Przyborski, University of New Haven; Frank Breitinger, University of New Haven; Lauren Beck, University of New Haven; Ronald S. Harichandran, University of New Haven

Tagged Divisions

Computing and Information Technology

unprecedented connectivity andconvenience, it also has the potential to expose them to a variety of threats and manipulations.Internet security on college campuses has become a primary concern of those tasked withprotecting campus networks. We developed a “Cyber World” version of our team-taught first-yearexperience course at the University of New Haven with the intent of introducing students toimportant cybersecurity concepts. In comparison with other topics taught during the samesemester, students reported a greater level of knowledge in topics of identity theft, safe practicesfor online transactions, fake news, and information oversharing. A pilot online module related tolectures and class activities was well received and supports the increased use

Conference Session

Innovations in Teaching Transportation and Geotechnical Engineering

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rhonda K. Young, University of Wyoming; Kristen L. Sanford P.E., Lafayette College; Shashi S. Nambisan P.E., Iowa State University

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

Hoel, a popular and broadly used book across the nation, wasused as for the course. While the book has significant breadth and depth of coverage of topics,the topics included in the course were limited both in breadth and depth. Instructor preparedhandouts were used as supplementary core reference materials. These were posted online usingthe IT system adopted at the Institution.The nationwide initiative to develop knowledge tables and learning outcomes influenced thetopics addressed and the instructional approach adopted. This included refining the breadth anddepth of topics addressed and relating the course objectives to the outcomes listed in Table 1.The student learning objectives for the course (excerpted from the syllabus and assignments

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Vikas Yellamraju; Kurt Gramoll

assigned by their instructor for homework and tests.All courses have access to the same online lectures that are QuickTime based. A detaileddiscussion about online lectures and discussion groups is explained later in the paper.III. CD-Based CoursewareAlthough the web site has homework’s, quizzes, tests, syllabus, utilities, and lectures-on-demand, the students still need core theory and examples. For this course, the theory, examplesand simulations are delivered to the student on a CD-ROM that was developed previously by theauthor [3, 4]. The CD-ROM, which is presented in a case study approach, contains all relevanttheory for Statics and Dynamics courses. Each major topic is introduced through the use of atypical engineering problem. Each case is

Collection

2016 St.Lawrence Section Meeting

Authors

John Foo; Iwijn De Vlaminck; Kimberly Williams

attempt to convince students of the merits of theFlipped Classroom – through the use of a “comprehensive syllabus” [5]. The students in thisstudy were also provided a guide that emphasized what student were responsible for in and outof class. In addition, two other studies, both also featuring courses that have been completelyflipped for the entire semester, recommend providing students with “some structure andguidelines” and “well-structured guidance” [6], [7]. For the studies in which the instructorcompletely flipped only a small portion of the course, students still responded positively,although it was not clear if any of the instructors first spent time selling the idea to students[12], [13]. Perhaps telling the students to watch the video

Conference Session

ECCD Technical Session 4: Energy and Analysis

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Arash Kialashaki, California State University, Chico

Tagged Divisions

Energy Conversion and Conservation

the concept of industrialand commercial energy conservation measures (ECMs) to undergraduate mechanical engineeringstudents. To reach this goal, multiple ECMS are selected to be analyzed in EngineeringThermodynamics course to engage senior level students in actual engineering problems, developtheir practical engineering skills, and enhance students’ knowledge about industrial andcommercial energy engineering practice. It is important to note that due to the existingconstraints in the Engineering Thermodynamics course, such as time limitations and wide-ranging topics in the course syllabus, author is recommending the most relevant, yetadvantageous ECMs, to avoid any unintentional consequences.Through several years of professional experience in

Conference Session

Improvements in ECE Circuit Analysis

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Eva Cosoroaba, University of Vermont

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

081 was that the instructor, who read and replied to the extra credit journal entries, addedtokens to the students stash (a column in the online grade center) whenever they earned a newtoken. The teaching assistant removed tokens whenever the students requested to use them, as wellas took care of all report grading. Without a trusted, well-organized and consistent teachingassistant who understands the educational value of this grading system with whom communicationis open and honest, this system will become difficult.IV. Implementation Changes in Future Course OfferingsEven though specs grading was positively received and succeeded in achieving the hoped outcome,some students (three) raised the issue of perceived performance pressure and