Conference Session

Unique Laboratory Experiments & Programs

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Theodore Dibble; Carrie Hernandez; Abbie Wells; Steven Barrett

AbstractOften, engineering departments are faced with the need to update laboratory exercises andequipment. However, adequate funds do not always exist to accomplish these upgrades in atimely manner. Another challenge faced by departments are satisfying Accreditation Board forEngineering and Technology (ABET) requirements for a major design experience within thecurriculum. ABET guidelines state, “Students must be prepared for engineering practice throughthe curriculum culminating in a major design experience based on the knowledge and skillsacquired in earlier course work and incorporating engineering standards and realistic constraintsthat include most of the following considerations: economic; environmental; sustainability;manufacturability; ethical

Conference Session

Product and Venture Creation Curriculum

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Brown; Michael McCorquodale

career ambitionswith the appropriate preparation.B. The ImportanceThere are strong advocates both for and against commercializing university research. Argumentson both sides are compelling. Opponents voice concerns regarding conflicts of interest and effort;ethics; and compromising situations surrounding ambiguity in defining one’s primary responsibil-ity—is it at the university or within the company? These concerns are clearly legitimate, but theycan be addressed with proper conflict management.Proponents have recognized the current trend that both domestic and foreign corporations arerelying more heavily on external technology and intellectual property to feed their commercialpipeline. Specifically, early stage research and development is

Conference Session

Engineering Education Research

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Jolly Lesley; David Radcliffe

circumstances), as well as which is the mostappropriate research methodology. How should a graduate student from engineering be preparedto undertake work in this field? There are also numerous ethical and organizational questions toconsider.This paper presents a new approach to addressing this dilemma. To set the context, it is helpfulto explore recent trends in scholarship, innovation and research in engineering education.Scholarship, Innovation and Research in Engineering EducationThere has been a sustained discourse on matters concerning the practice of engineering educationfor at least a century, through the journals of the various professional engineering societiesincluding a number of journals with education in the title. In the USA, this

Conference Session

Design Through the Curriculum

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Ellis

. II. COURSE DESIGN The objectives of the ME4015/4016 course sequence are to provide students with experiencein design and implementation of an engineering system, to develop teamwork skills, and toencourage professional development in areas such as engineering ethics, project management,and communication skills. These objectives are similar to those established for other engineeringcapstone courses1,3,4. The mechanical engineering faculty at Virginia Tech consider itparticularly important that the student project result in a design that is actually realized in someform so that students experience the challenge and satisfaction of translating their designs into

Conference Session

Undergraduate-Industry-Research Linkages

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Mark Maughmer

possibilities expected from nanotechnology,information technology, and bioengineering. ... Other engineering applications, such astransgenic food, technologies that affect personal privacy, and nuclear technologies, raisecomplex social and ethical challenges. Future engineers must be prepared to help the publicconsider and resolve these dilemmas. Challenges will also arise from new global competition,requiring thoughtful and concerted action if engineering in the United States is to retain itsvibrancy and strength.” Table 1 compares the NAE’s summary description of the “IngeniousEngineer of 2020” with the Boeing-generated “Desired Attributes of an Engineer” 14 from themid-1990s. There are some differences. Industry’s move towards “large systems

Conference Session

Service Learning Projects

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

William Moeller; Margaret Pinnell; Bernard Amadei; Jay Shah; R. Scott Summers; Angela Bielefeldt; Robyn Sandekian

, social/ethical and technologicalEngineering. aspects. Topics include sustainable agriculture, health care,www.messiah.edu/acdept/depthome/ construction, institutions, communities; renewable energyengineer/ systems, energy and resource conservation. Students and faculty cooperate with Society for International Ministries (SIM) on Service Learning Projects in West Africa.Michigan Tech, Houghton, MI. Undergraduates can participate in international designwww.cee.mtu.edu/projects/projects.htm projects in a course designed to emulate the work of a

Conference Session

Effective Methods for Recruiting Women to Engineering

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sara Atwood, University of California, Berkeley; Eli Patten, University of California at Berkeley; Lisa Pruitt, University of California, Berkeley

Tagged Divisions

Women in Engineering

communication to address multiple learning styles. ≠ identify levels of Bloom’s taxonomy in HW and test questions and in project deliverables. Page 15.933.4Putting engineering biomaterials in larger context ≠ evaluate biomechanical designs within realistic constraints, such as economic, environmental, social, political, ethical, health and safety, and manufacturability. ≠ recognize contemporary and historic bioengineering issues and technological advances, and their impact in a global, economic, environmental, and societal context.The course enrollment is typically about 50 students with a relatively even split amongst

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary First Year Programs

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Timothy Hinds, Michigan State University; Thomas Wolff, Michigan State University; Amanda Idema, Michigan State University; Neeraj Buch, Michigan State University; Carmellia Davis-King, Michigan State University

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

graduates in the new world of work. This includes a greateremphasis to be placed on design-based courses, moving engineering away from its traditionalcomposition based on core scientific knowledge (such as that of physics, chemistry andmathematics) towards a more holistic curriculum that is representative of the true nature ofengineering design. This concern has also been voiced by industry employers, who wantengineers with better skills in teamwork, communication, social awareness, and ethics. This hasled to significant changes in accreditation requirements towards a greater importance onoutcomes based Engineering Criteria 2000.3 Page 15.589.4The

Conference Session

Innovative Pedagogy and Assessment in Civil Engineering Education

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Matthew W Roberts, University of Wisconsin, Platteville; Carol Haden, Magnolia Consulting, LLC; Michael K Thompson, University of Wisconsin, Platteville; Philip J. Parker P.E., University of Wisconsin, Platteville

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

technical concepts (infrastructure components, in- frastructure sectors, or engineering concepts), 4. The number of concepts for non-technical aspects of infrastructure (e.g., economic growth, ethics, pollution, etc.), 5. The number of correct links between a non-technical concept to any other concept, and 6. The number of engineering concepts (e.g., constructability, design, resilience, etc.).The detailed instructions for scoring the concept maps are included in Appendix 3.Initially, we planned to have the concept maps scored by a trained evaluator who did not haveextensive civil engineering infrastructure expertise. However we found, similar to Cañas et al.,25that deep conceptual understanding was needed and so course instructors

Conference Session

Manufacturing and Machine Component Design

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert L. Mott, University of Dayton; Ronald J. Bennett F.ASEE, F.ABET P.E., University of St. Thomas; Mark J. Stratton, SME (Society of Manufacturing Engineers); Scott Danielson, Arizona State University, Polytechnic campus

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

establishes the processes, and post-processes, required todevelop the final desired properties. Paying particular attention to options of materials/processesearly in the design phase can greatly reduce cost and delay in product introduction.The prediction of product volume, a strategic decision, can also have a significant effect onultimate material/manufacturing costs. Some processes have high initial tooling cost with lowunit production cost; other have low tooling cost, but higher unit production cost. Knowledge ofboth materials and manufacturing methods, combined with accurate estimates of productvolumes, determine the profitability of the end product.There is also the issue of ethics. Selection decisions for materials and processes have a

Conference Session

Assessment

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mysore Narayanan, Miami University

Tagged Divisions

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

unacceptable score of 2 on the Likert scale: Disagree.Three categories have attained this level. 1. Address Societal and Global Issues. 2. Ethical and Social Responsibilities. 3. Concepts of Critical Thinking.It is very disappointing that the students are unable to secure a good grasp of these importantaspects. These are not adequate and the instructor has to improve these, initially to a level ofatleast 3. Eventually this should improve to 4 and ultimately to the maximum possible scoreof 5 on likert scale.Conclusions and Continuous Improvement The author would like to conclude that the implementation of Discovery Approach requireslot of effort both from the instructor as well as the learner. It is important to emphasize that

Conference Session

FPD 9: First-Year Engineering Courses, Part III: Research, Sustainability, and Professionalism

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert L. Nagel, James Madison University; Kyle G. Gipson, James Madison University; Jonathan Howard Spindel, James Madison University; Elise M. Barrella, James Madison University

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

engineering design courses, students not only learn engineeringdesign tools and methods but also learn about creativity, sustainability, business, ethics, values,engineering science, math, and manufacturing. It is during this engineering design sequencewhere students are provided with a hands-on environment to apply the theory learned in othercourses.For much of the engineering curriculum in our program, instruction is based on a three-dimensional problem based learning model designed to promote diverse cognitive experiences.The PBL pedagogy is based on the premise that problem-based learning experiences can betailored in each of the three dimensions—structuredness, complexity, and group structure—tomeet different learning outcomes. Each of these

Conference Session

FPD 5: Transitions and Student Success, Part I

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

S. Patrick Walton, Michigan State University; Daina Briedis, Michigan State University; Mark Urban-Lurain, Michigan State University; Timothy J Hinds, Michigan State University; Carmellia Davis-King, Michigan State University; Thomas F. Wolff P.E., Michigan State University

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

Engineering Residential Experience,the College was exploring how better to integrate first-year students into engineering-specificcoursework and shorten the gap between matriculation and the students’ first experience withengineering. In 2006, we began development of two new courses based on themes essential tostudents across engineering: design, engineering modeling, oral and written technicalcommunication, teamwork, creativity, and ethics and professionalism, all of which are alsooutcomes designated by ABET Engineering Criteria2. We have described the development andlarge-scale implementation of these courses previously3, dubbing them our CornerstoneEngineering courses. In rechristening the Cornerstone Engineering and Engineering

Conference Session

ABET Issues and Capstone Design

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

John Lamancusa; Laura L. Pauley; Thomas Litzinger

fewer courses/semester to increase depth d. Enhancing lifelong learning skills2) ENHANCE CONTENT - Increased student exposure to: a. New and emerging technologies b. Professional skills (societal impact, ethics, team skills, project management, global issues, economic justification) c. Computer and numerical skills d. Design methodologies and toolsEach of these objectives is described in more detail below.1.a. Integrating theory with practice. Integrate classroom material with related laboratory experiments and other active learning elements to improve in-depth learning. This can be done by structuring the curriculum into four-credit courses: three credits of lecture and one credit practicum. Components of the current

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade for Research

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Terry Wildman; Kumar Mallikarjunan; Mark Sanders; Jeffrey Connor; Vinod Lohani

develop assessment tools. A brief description follows. “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition Copyright @ 2005, American Society for Engineering Education”Departmental feedback systemA Web-based departmental feedback system, targeted at receiving systematic and regularfeedback from the degree-granting departments regarding the contents of the first three semestersof engineering courses, has been developed3. This system allows a user to design freshman andfirst semester sophomore engineering courses by choosing topics (programming,communications, ethics, CAD, graphing, design, profession, and problem solving) from anavailable set and allocate them to one of 42

Conference Session

Lessons from Entrepreneurship Programs

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Moore; Mary Raber

series of project courses that representtheir roles/assignments as members of their enterprise. In addition, students take a number ofprofessional development courses that were created specifically for the Enterprise Program andcover topics such as Teaming, Communications, Leadership, Project Management, Ethics,Economics, Entrepreneurship and Finance. Each professional development course is equivalentto one-semester credit or 14 contact hours of instruction, hence, these courses are veryconcentrated in their subject matter, providing students with the most critical information andinstruction in order to enable them to employ their new-found knowledge directly in theoperation of the enterprise.The philosophy behind this approach is that students

Conference Session

Writing and Communication I

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Beverlee Kissick; Alysia Starkey; Jung Oh; Judith Collins

, synthesize and think critically. Critical thinking is an essential aspect of databaseproficiency8. Students also need to understand the issues of free speech, censorship, access, andprivacy, the ethical issues surrounding the dissemination, accessibility, and use of information9.As early as the 1930s, Edith Coulter said that libraries should help students be self-reliant in thelibrary by teaching them how to find information10. Self-sufficiency continues to be animportant goal of library instruction because IL is fluid; as technology changes, expertise inreading, writing, critical thinking, visual literacy, mathematics, computers, and research play arole in being information literate.Recently, Abram and Luther11 described today's students as

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering Program Innovation

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Akhlesh Lakhtakia; Christine Masters; Judith Todd

complete an independent research project, within a team-based environment,in a timely manner.1Design and Professional Components SummaryIn addition to identifying the design activities in the curriculum and the senior research projects,Engineering Science graduates must be aware of a variety of less technical yet equally importantissues they will encounter in their working life. ABET describes several of these issues in itsCriterion 4 as professional considerations that include the economic, environmental,sustainability, manufacturability, ethical, health and safety, social, and political aspects of theengineering profession.2 In addition, students must be made aware that an increasing proportionof engineering practice takes place on a global

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Mariano Savelski; Stephanie Farrell; Robert Hesketh; C. Stewart Slater

and environment aspects into the curriculum.Additionally all engineering students must have an understanding of professional and ethicalresponsibility. Students must demonstrate the broad education necessary to understand theimpact of engineering solutions in a global and societal context. Programs must have a majordesign experience incorporates engineering standards and realistic constraints that include mostof the following considerations: economic; environmental; sustainability; manufacturability;ethical; health and safety; social; and political [5]. Major chemical companies [6] such as DuPont [7], BP [8], Dow [9], Merck [10], Rohm& Haas [11] have adopted a green approach to move toward a sustainable future. In addition

Conference Session

Program Level Assessment

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Constantin Chassapis; Hamid Hadim; Kishore Pochiraju; George Korfiatis; Keith Sheppard; David Vaccari

professionalism in their work. Outcome 7 (Leadership) the ability to assume leadership roles. d Outcome 8 (Teamwork) the ability to function on teams. d (Communication) the ability to communicate effectively and Outcome 9 g persuasively.III. World View and Personal Development (Ethics and morals) a critical understanding of ethical and moral Outcome 10 f systems in a social context. (Contemporary Issues) a

Conference Session

Math and K-12-Freshman Transitions

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Tan-Yu Lee; John Dantzler; Robert Leland; Jim Richardson

involved several math concepts integrated intoa single problem. Students were also assigned problems in Schaum’s Outline on Precalculus13for math review.The ABET description of the course includes ethics. We focused on cheating as an issue ofimmediate relevance to the students. The students worked in groups and came up with how theywould respond in different situations in which they experienced peer pressure to cheat. Somestudents were very honest and said they would not try to stop another student from cheating.Given the research indicating that engineers who cheat as students are more likely to engage inunethical behavior in the workplace, we felt this was a good treatment of ethics for freshmen4.Students in the course received both instruction

Conference Session

Mobile Robotics in Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Steve Richards; Daniel Pack; David Ahlgren; Igor Verner

acomplex project, such as design and manufacturing skills for custom designed boards with VLSI,LSI, MSI, and SSI devices, not covered in other required courses. Once hardware skills areacquired, students then learn skills to break down a big project in to multiple sub-tasks, tomanage project progress, and to plan project activities from the start to the finish. They alsohave lessons on engineering ethics using case studies. Faculty members propose a variety ofprojects and students apply for projects of their interests. The project selection occurs in themiddle of the first semester.Once the project selection is determined, students are required to present a formal systemrequirement briefing based on the project description provided by faculty

Conference Session

Women in Engineering: Faculty/Curriculum

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Heidi Diefes-Dux; Brenda Capobianco; Judith Zawojewski; Margret Hjalmarson; P.K. Imbrie; Deborah Follman

required 2-credit hour coursefor all freshman engineering students at Purdue University. This course is designed to givestudents an appreciation for what the pursuit of an engineering degree entails. The courselearning objectives are such that students successfully completing the course are able to:• Develop a logical problem solving process which includes sequential structures, conditional structures, and repetition structures for fundamental engineering problems,• Translate a written problem statement into a mathematical model,• Solve fundamental engineering problems using computer tools,• Perform basic file management tasks using an appropriate computer tool,• Work effectively and ethically as a member of a technical team, and• Develop a

Conference Session

Minorities in Engineering/Technology

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

John Norton

design project, and the technical content is usually motivated by the engineering needs of the design project. Integrated into this general class theme are additional themes of ethical and environmental responsibility. Differences between the Ford SEI course and the UM CoE course There are differences between the Ford SEI course and the UM CoE course. The Ford SEI course has between 20 to 25 students that meet daily for 6 weeks, while the UM CoE course has 100 students that have full lecture twice a week, has a small group discussion once a week with 20 to 25 students, and extends for 14 weeks. The Ford SEI keeps the students quite busy, with almost 90 percent of the standard 45 hour work week devoted to scheduled activities, while the

Conference Session

Engineering Education Research

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephanie Cupp; Paolo Moore; Norman Fortenberry

outcomes, and 2) to characterize and categorize teaching andlearning practices. Desired student learning outcomes identified in published sources mirroredtwelve of the engineering accreditation criteria supplemented by five additional outcomes notexplicitly addressed within current accreditation criteria: a) multidisciplinary systems thinking,b) business aspects of engineering practice, c) appreciation for diversity, d) good work ethic andcommitment to continuous quality improvement, and e) logical thought process. Sixty-onepercent (11) of the learning outcomes are categorized as Technical, and 39% (7) are categorizedas Social.With respect to teaching and learning practices, an initial investigation uncovered six publishedsources that collectively

Conference Session

Graduate Education

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Shahram Varzavand; John Fecik; Recayi Pecen; Teresa Hall

. Doctor of Industrial Technology Degree Program at UNI Industrial Technology Foundations 12 sh Historical Development of Industrial Technology Contemporary and Future Development in Industrial Technology Readings in Technology and Society Technology, Ethics, and the Technologist Seminar 3 sh Seminar in Industrial Technology (one-hour seminar in three semesters) Research & Statistical Methods 10 sh Research Methods in Industrial Technology Statistical Methods in Education and Psychology

Conference Session

Accreditation and Related Issues in ECE

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Kathleen Knott; Iraj Omidwar; Mani Mina

, responsible in their actions,creative in their thinking, ethical in their lives, and dependable members in the profession as wellas in society. Those of us who have been involved with curriculum committees know thedifficulties associated with training well-rounded and creative engineers within the four-to-fiveyear timeframe of an undergraduate-education program. Thus, in addition to general,introductory, and specialized classes in mathematics, physics, and engineering, students arerequired to take courses in diversity, social science, and general education. The goals of theseclasses—like those of the specialized and design courses—are to teach students to become adept

Conference Session

Raising the Bar and Body of Knowledge

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Stuart Walesh

, American Society for Engineering Education” 5. an ability to identify, formulate and solve engineering problems. (ABET e) Commentary: Assess situations in order to identify engineering problems, formulate alternatives and recommend feasible solutions. 6. an understanding of professional and ethical responsibility. (ABET f) Commentary: Demonstrate an understanding of and a commitment to practice according to the seven Fundamental Canons of Ethics and the associated Guidelines to Practice Under the Fundamental Canons of Ethics. 7. an ability to communicate effectively.(ABET g) Commentary: Effective communication

Conference Session

Programmatic Curriculum Developments

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

W.B. stouffer; Jeffrey Russell

individual’s problem solving abilities. In his article “How CreativeEngineers Think,” Tom Peters explores the creative problem solving of leading engineers such asGustave Eiffel (Peters 1998). Based on archival data, Peters determines that groundbreakingdesign concepts often stem from simple, even sublime reformulations of current thinking andpractice, and that these breakthroughs are often fueled by study and observation outside ofengineering paradigms.A broad, holistic education has been shown to increase creativity and the ability to solvecomplex problems. Such an education can also strengthen leadership and management skills byteaching such valuable lessons as cultural sensitivity, ethical relativity, and opportunity costs ofoperating in the real

Conference Session

New Approaches in Engineering Curriculum

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Jay K. Martin; Jay Martin; Dayle K. Haglund; Jennifer Kushner

future of the Mechanical aspects of working together as a Engineering major? team. When we finished tasks and Our departmental hiring efforts Faculty will make a larger projects. over the last few years. investment in time in undergraduate teaching. Feeling the sense of “openness” We needed to reorganize engines Add ethics to curriculum. of the department. lab of the small engines consortium-and we did it! When a student completed her Design faculty always went to Adapt to