Collection

2008 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

Jeffrey S. Burmeister; Kyle A. Watson; Maria Garcia-Sheets

MESA Community College Program (MCCP) assists community college students so that they can transfer to four-year institutions as majors in math-based fields. The MESA Engineering Program (MEP) helps students at major California universities to attain degrees in engineering and computer science. Specific MESA services offered to all participants include: individualized academic planning, community building, learning opportunities, study skills training, peer group learning, mentoring, career exploration, professional development, and transfer assistance. Furthermore, MESA provides rigorous academic development that offers pre-college students math and science curriculum based on the California Math and Science Standards, while creating

Collection

2013 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Muhammet Ceylan; Aybala Usta; Fatma Barut; Nur Ergul; Ramazan Asmatulu

nanoparticles fabrication and characterization Week 5: Annealing and crystallization of nanomaterials Week 6: Sol-gel-based nanomaterials fabrication and characterization Week 7: Electrospun nanofibers fabrication and characterization Week 8: Nanomaterials-based thermoelectric generators and working principles Week 9: Nanomaterials-based solar energy systems Week 10: Bionanomaterials Figure 1. The photograph showing some of the high school students with the GTA in the Nanolab prior to the nano experiment.Figure 1 shows the photograph of some of the high school students with the GTA in the Nanolabprior to the nano experiment. Following these experiments, the students were asked to write

Collection

2010 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Robert M. O'Connell; Gavin Duffy; Ted Burke; David Dorran

the year progressed.The process of group work that the teams of students were required to follow was a slight variantof the basic seven-step process used for years in medical education11. In each of the threecourses the process was applied slightly differently, but in all cases the essential elements ofbrainstorming, forming hypotheses, determining learning needs and assigning associated tasks toindividual team members in team meetings, performing self-study and assigned tasks betweenmeetings, and reporting back (a form of peer instruction) on the results of assigned tasks atsubsequent meetings were always present.Proceedings of the 2010 Midwest Section Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education

Collection

2007 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Keith M. Gardiner

management, micromanufacturing and leading edge advanced technology trends and also deal with energy issues, alternative fuels, and surveys of food chain supply matters. Students make presentations that are peer-graded and there is an emphasis on development of interpersonal communication skills. Assessment and grading are discussed.IntroductionAs a consequence of lifelong exposure to a wide variety of pedagogic experiences both as a pupil and asan instructor the author has successfully adopted techniques of industry in various undergraduate andgraduate courses. The concept of empowering students and encouraging them to be responsible for theirown learning was first reported at an ASEE Mid-Atlantic Region Conference at

Collection

2006 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Keith M. Gardiner

equivalent of 18 fifty-minute lecture sessions together with practical engineering laboratories for two afternoons aweek. The class usually accommodates between 150 and 175 students, they are dispatched ingroups about 25 strong to each of Lehigh’s seven engineering departments where they work insmall teams undertaking innovative problem solving assignments for half the semester. In mid-semester elected or appointed representatives from each group present their discoveries andconclusions to the whole class; groups are then re-configured and the process repeats for thesecond half of the semester. This way every student ha s an experience with the faculty andfacilities in two departments, but every student learns about the experiences of their peers

Collection

2006 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Robert Avanzato

all othertopics. There was no required textbook, but each student was required to purchase (ifnecessary) an inexpensive portable MP3 player that would be used in the course. Roughlyhalf (9) of the 19 students enrolled in the class already owned MP3 players. The mostcommon MP3 player owned by students (7 out of the 9 students) was the Apple iPodseries player. The remainder of the students purchased MP3 players that ranged fromlow cost (less than $100) players to higher end ($300+) MP3 players. Core course topics include analog-to-digital conversion, CD-ROM and DVDdigital storage technology; MP3 file and compression techniques; peer-to-peer filesharing; blogs; podcasting; RSS; MP3 player operation; copyright and IP issues

Collection

2008 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Christopher W. Swan; Julia Carroll

engineering companies, the need for marketing and business development, project procurement, and project financing b. Legal aspects of engineering: contracts and agreements, terms and conditions of engineering services, legal adjudication including Alternate Dispute Resolution c. Professional risk management techniques: insurance requirements for design professionals, peer review processes, and product quality management d. Personnel/career management including professional licensure and society participation Additionally, the course presented an overview of future trends and challenges to theengineering profession, focusing mainly on

Collection

2011 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

John Syers

that identifiers could notinclude spaces, but novice programmers will have difficulty making a connection between theadmonition and the error message.Another issue here is that we don’t make mistakes on purpose. A student may write error-freeprograms 99% of the time, and encounter her first syntax error on a graded event. Because thestudent previously had no syntax errors, she had no motivation to learn how to correct syntaxerrors. Despite the traumatic effect errors have on students, they are ultimately beneficialbecause the process of correcting them helps students learn more about how the computer works.Typically, programming is taught to computer science majors. These students have chosecomputer science as their field of study and it is

Collection

2011 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

Fariborz M. Tehrani

understanding of the learning processand recognizing the conceptual difference between various communication methods and learningstyles, as interpreted in Situational Leadership. Cycling through various styles of leadershipfacilitates peer-to-peer learning by implementing articulate and practical applications in thecourse materials to broaden students’ perspective toward engineering education and practice.IntroductionSituational approach to leadership is widely recognized in organizational management. Thetheory of situational leadership was developed by Hersey and Blanchard (1969) based onleadership style theory by Reddin (1967). This theory has been revised and refined several timesto facilitate its implementation in various environments, such as

Collection

2009 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

Yusuf Ozturk; Emrah Orhun; Chris Bowerman

presentations and compile a list of the 10 things thatthey wish to do when abroad.On arrival students will be offered additional modern languages support by the appropriatelanguage training unit within the host institution. This will also ensure that all studentsmake contact with others, are aware of several members of staff who can offer support andhave a forum in which to discuss culture and customs. Students will be assigned both atutor for their pastoral care and a mentor from the host institution’s peer group. The tutorwill be expected to: give the student a tour of the area, offer transport to local shops,organise an opportunity to socialise, discuss matters of personal safety and health as wellas act as a resource for getting questions answered

Conference Session

Aerospace Curriculum and Collaborations

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Leigh S McCue, Virginia Tech; Joseph A. Schetz, Virginia Tech

Tagged Divisions

Aerospace

program offerings.1.0 IntroductionVirginia Tech is relatively unique compared to peer institutions in that the Ocean Engineering(OE) program grew out of the Aerospace Engineering (AE) program. In planning thisdevelopment, we found that the Aeronautical Engineering program at MIT grew out of theirNaval Architecture program in 1912. Similarly, the Aeronautical Engineering program atMichigan grew from their Naval Architecture department. “An example of the pioneeringteamwork provided by Cooley and Sadler came in 1914 with the offering of aeronauticalengineering courses, following Sadler's organization of the UM Aero Club in 1911. By 1916 acomplete four-year aeronautical degree program was offered within the renamed department ofNaval Architecture

Conference Session

First-year Programs Division Poster Session

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ding Yuan, Colorado State University, Pueblo; Jude L. DePalma, Colorado State University, Pueblo; Nebojsa I. Jaksic, Colorado State University, Pueblo; Jane M. Fraser, Colorado State University, Pueblo

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

). Engle and Tinto11 address various obstacles to college success for low-income students.They state that “After six years, only 11 percent of low-income, first-generation students hadearned bachelor‟s degrees compared to 55 percent of their more advantaged peers.” One of theirrecommendations includes cohort development. Furthermore, the learning community modelimproves the persistence of the low-income and the first generation students12.A learning community is an environment that encourages student-student, and faculty-studentinteraction. At Colorado State University - Pueblo, a pilot learning community was initiated inthe Department of Engineering in fall 2009. Two first-year courses were linked with shared

Conference Session

Concurrent Paper Tracks - Session I

Collection

2015 ASEE International Forum

Authors

S. Zahra Atiq, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Xin Chen, Purdue University, West Lafayette; David Daniel Cox, Harvard University; Jennifer Deboer, Purdue University, West Lafayette

Tagged Topics

Diversity, International Forum

fields 3. Weexamine “active learning” in this study by applying Chi’s ICAP framework4,5. This frameworkmakes a hierarchical distinction between levels of “active learning”: 1) Passive consumption ofinformation as a baseline, 2) Active learning, which involves manipulating instructionalmaterials or content (e.g., pausing and playing a video) and therefore demands focused attention(e.g., recording pause/play click behavior or recording eye-tracking in videos), 3) Constructive Page 19.23.2learning activities, which require users to generate content (e.g., writing on a blog, responding toan appropriately-vague hint), thereby requiring knowledge

Conference Session

Women in Engineering Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Elizabeth DeBartolo; Margaret Bailey

with their Caucasian male peers atRIT. In response to the relatively low number of women enrolled in the Kate Gleason College ofEngineering, and the desire to improve their retention, an Internal Advisory Board formed inearly 2004 as part of RIT’s Women Engineering (WE@RIT) Center. Active members of thisboard consist of engineering faculty, administrators, and students from three different collegeswithin RIT. In its first year of existence, the WE@RIT Internal Advisory Board created andapproved a mission, supporting objectives, and an in-depth strategic plan. The group hasdeveloped a comprehensive plan aimed at improving retention of current women engineeringstudents. In this paper, the authors provide an overview of the WE@RIT program, with a

Conference Session

Ethical Roles: Admins, Government, Industry

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

June Marshall; John Marshall

ethics “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright 2005, American Society for Engineering Educationeducation in an ongoing and proactive manner: “The active learning exercise should bechosen so that, over the course of their undergraduate career, students engage indeveloping a full range of ethical skills.Sample topics that should be considered for an engineering ethics curriculum includesappropriate behavior (Whitbeck, 2004) related to: recruitment; employment; termination;guidelines for raising ethical concerns; commission payment under a marketingagreement; gifts to foreign officials; and writing a letter of recommendation. Discussionson these types of

Conference Session

New Trends in Graduate Education

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Stiegler; Ernest McDuffie; Robert Kavetsky; Eugene Brown

finalized by a joint working group of NSF and ONR program officers and distributed in the late spring of 2004. Eleven proposals were received. These proposals were then peer viewed by another group of NSF and ONR program officers, scientists, and engineers

Conference Session

Student Learning and Research

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Anthony Trippe

Loving Your Students – A Faculty Model for Today’s Classroom Anthony P. Trippe Rochester Institute of TechnologyAbstractThis paper reviews research related to four recent business management models of charismaticand inspirational leadership. It goes on to select the key traits and behaviors of these leadershipmodels for the workplace environment and use them as the foundation of a model for a lovingfaculty member. Like the business leader, the devoted, caring professor leads his engineeringstudents in their quest for knowledge, growth and learning. Based upon peer-reviewedleadership research which reports the value and benefits of a caring, mentoring and loving

Conference Session

The Computer, the Web, and the ChE

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

G.T. Lineberry; David Silverstein

whiteboard and overheadprojector, all images must be placed under the document camera and reduced to the resolution ofa compressed TV broadcast. Consequently, writing must be large to be readable, which does notallow much information to fit on a single “page.” Most instructors in the Paducah programprepare all “slides” ahead of time due to the restrictions of the document camera, whereas in af2f course, the whiteboard supplemented by slides would be the normal mode of instruction.The instructor has a view of the remote site at a distance from the “cage” (Figure 3). A largetelevision displays an image of the remote site at a wide view. It is virtually impossible to“read” student response to a lecture due to the size of the image. The television is

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Santhosh Thampuran

around the well-publicized court case on peer-to-peer audio exchange (i.e. MP3, Napster, etc.). Many students spoke up who had previously been silent during the more technical sections of the lectures. Some healthy controversies arose about ownership of artistic property. Finally, we discussed the implications of the technical aspects of digital media processing on the social and economic ramifications of their use. Other topics included laws about cars and cell-phones, the Microsoft monopoly case, and the Playstation2/Xbox rivalry.3. Student Evaluations: · Entry evaluation: On the first day of class a survey was passed out which provided us with data on student demographics, computing skills and

Conference Session

Assessment in Large and Small Programs

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

James Newell; Heidi Newell; Kevin Dahm

all students must be stated in terms that are measurable and demonstrable · A comprehensive plan must be developed to ensure that basic competencies are learned and reinforced throughout the time the students are enrolle d in the institution · Each discipline must specify learning outcomes congruent with the required competenciesLike many institutions (3), the Rowan University Chemical Engineering Departmentchose to use items that address multiple constituencies including alumni, industry, andthe students themselves. Assessment data from these groups were obtained throughalumni surveys, student peer-reviews, and employer surveys. These instruments werefairly straightforward to

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Sylvia Alexander

for planning, the generation of ideas and the resulting improved quality.In addition students have access to necessary support materials that define essentialinformation, emphasise principles and concepts and incorporate selected publications(including case studies of industrial applications and innovation in practice) which aidunderstanding.Students find the current system easy and efficient to use; they value the opportunity tocommunicate with peers, seek assistance with problems and share concerns. As allInformatics students are placed in IT environments any difficulties caused byaccessing such a system are minimal. One constraint however, is the limited ability ofstudents to write clearly, correctly and concisely. Students have welcomed

Conference Session

Managing and Funding Design Projects

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Barry Davidson; Anthony Ingraffea; Alan Zehnder

performance metrics on the written and oral reports, aswell as peer evaluations to assist in the determination of each students’ individual contributions.In these peer evaluations, students answered questions such as: “Did the team member seek outtasks and responsibilities?”; “Of all the team, how effective was this member?”; “How valuablewas his/her contribution?”; or “If you were an employer, would you hire this individual for a Page 7.434.4design team?”.“Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2002, American Society for

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Mark Maughmer

, the lecture also covers other, less obvious, but importantengineering skills. These instructions include basic and general aircraft -design principles,technical report writing, presentation methods, as well as professionalism and ethics. Besides theformal lecturing, the students skills and abilities in these subjects are constantly challengedthrough their design and fabrication activities.Design ActivitiesAbout four to six students make up a design group. In these groups, the students design andanalyze complete sailplanes or parts of them. The theoretical work includes performanceanalyses of modern high-performance gliders, their stability and control, as well as theirstructures. Other examples of that activity includes the design of testing

Conference Session

Retention: Keeping the Women Students

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Shawna Fletcher; Dana Newell; Mary Anderson-Rowland

courses fail to motivatestudents and many potential engineers transfer out of their majors before they experience anyengineering3 . In either case, female students do not feel comfortable in their degree programsinitially and feel a lack of contact with their college.Therefore, it is necessary that retention efforts begin with programs that serve to integrate femalestudents into the college, peer groups, and support services available to them. These programsshould include both academic and community learning experie nces that help female students toconnect on a personal level with staff, faculty, and other female students in the college.II. WISE Retention ProgramsThe WISE Office at ASU has had several retention programs in place that have aided

Collection

2023 ASEE GSW

Authors

Eleazar Marquez; Samuel Garcia Jr.

perspective after his lecture (learn in an unconventional way).” “An extremally good friendly and funny environment. There hasn't been a moment in call where the environment has felt unwelcoming or toxic.” “He calls on every student making them feel part of the class with getting their attention.” “I like the interactive setting and that the Material is not overwhelming due to examples of real-life applications.” “He comes to class talking to us about his weekend or what he did, and it makes me feel more comfortable in class knowing he’s willing to share those details with us he just doesn’t come in and starts writing stuff on the board.” “I like that he talks loudly, many other

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2024 South East Section Meeting

Authors

ISAAC DAMILARE DUNMOYE, University of Georgia; VINCENT OLUWASETO FAKIYESI, University of Georgia; Wayne Johnson, University of Georgia; Dominik May, University of Georgia

was a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Georgia Southern University-Armstrong Campus, Savannah GA. He received his Ph.D. and M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology and his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering (Cum Laude) from Louisiana State University. He has published 16 papers in peer-reviewed journals, 28 papers in peer-reviewed conference proceedings, and given 12 technical presentations on various topics including: additive manufacturing, mechatronics, biomechan- ics, and engineering education. He currently teaches the Engineered Systems In Society, Mechanical Engineering Professional Practice, and Capstone Design I and II courses.Dr. Dominik May, University of Georgia Dr. May

Conference Session

Post Graduate Experiential Programs and Insights

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David W Schmueser, Altair Engineering Inc.; Charbel Philippe Saleh, Altair Engineering Inc.; Prakash C. Shrivastava, Oakland University; Lori Lin Crose, Oakland University

Tagged Divisions

Cooperative & Experiential Education

- secondary programs, she has also had responsibility for writing and administrating educationally oriented grants at the K-12, secondary, and post-secondary levels. Previously she worked extensively in the health care industry, including work as a senior microbiologist for Pharmacia Upjohn and as a laboratory research assistant at a Southern Illinois University School of Medicine. She earned a Master’s degree in Public Administration in 2002 from Oakland University and a Bachelor’s degree from Illinois College in 1981. She is a current member of the Oakland County’s Workforce Development Business Round table and serves

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade in Teaching I

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert M. Brooks, Temple University; Jyothsna K. S., St.Joseph's College, Bangalore, Department of English; Amithraj Amavasai

Tagged Divisions

New Engineering Educators

school, receiving encouragement andsupport, work and career satisfaction, learning perspective and alternative solutions to theirproblems, less work and non-work conflict, and gaining individual recognition, confidence andself esteem. The mentor’s role is to listen, refer, advise, help the mentee gain perspective, and toserve as a role model. Mentors and mentees discuss problems and recurring themes. The peermentoring program is voluntary. Mentees who begin the peer mentoring program can opt out atany time. When the teacher quality improves, the students’ achievements also improve8. Mentorsfeel an even greater commitment to engineering and enjoy the experience of helping others.ObjectivesThe objectives of this study are to (1) provide new

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Technical Session

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Wayne W. Walter P.E., Rochester Institute of Technology; William Emerson Spath, Rochester Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

team demonstrates their working robot to the class, writes afinal written report on it, and makes an oral presentation to the class on the design, fabrication,and performance of their robot. A video of their working system is submitted with their finalreport and shown at their final presentation. Page 22.674.3Multidisciplinary Engineering Focus Prerequisite skills needed for the Robotics course are rather minimal. Students are required tohave fourth or fifth year status in order to register for the course. They should have experiencewith DC circuits and circuit troubleshooting using a multimeter. Mechanical engineeringstudents will have taken

Conference Session

Chemical Engineering in Silico

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Charles J. Coronella, University of Nevada, Reno; Victor R. Vasquez, University of Nevada, Reno

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

higher destruction rate clearly results incontaminated food. The assignment requires a written report and an oral report, both completed by theentire group. Students are given a rubric (Figure 1) used to evaluate the oral presentations, andall students complete an evaluation of all presentations. This has the benefit of training studentsin evaluation, and forces them to note the distinctions between good and poor presentations. At Page 22.384.4the conclusion of the project, students complete a peer evaluation of each member of their owngroup (Figure 2). Knowing from the beginning that an anonymous peer evaluation will be donehas, in our