Conference Session

First-Year Programs: Monday Cornucopia (Classroom Innovations)

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jenn Stroud Rossmann, Lafayette College; Hannah Stewart-Gambino, Lafayette College

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First-Year Programs

studentproject posters are highlighted. Figure 3. Representative student posters proposing future R&D of their designed interventions.Assessment and EvaluationOver the four offerings of this cornerstone seminar, we have made adjustments to the courseschedule, reading list and assignments, class activities, and project pace. We now highlightsome of those features of the course’s evolution, as well as course assessment.This is a cornerstone, not a capstone, experience: there are no prerequisites, no expectationsof a priori knowledge, and no assumptions made regarding students’ anticipated fields ofstudy after this first-semester seminar. The course is designed for students from allbackgrounds, with the paired goals of empowerment and humility

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship and Engineering Innovation Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Abdullah Konak, Pennsylvania State University, Berks Campus; Sadan Kulturel-Konak, Pennsylvania State University, Berks Campus; Kathleen Marie Hauser P.E., Pennsylvania State University, Berks Campus; Marietta R. Scanlon, Pennsylvania State University, Berks Campus

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

0.030 0.086 Openness to Novelty (0.80) 4.42 0.60 4.24 0.55 2.52 0.115 0.025 Avoiding Premature Closure 4.48 0.55 4.37 0.52 1.19 0.276 0.012 (0.58) Embracing Diversity (0.67) 4.49 0.54 4.30 0.51 3.15 0.079 0.031 Contextual Skills (0.78) 4.44 0.60 4.28 0.68 1.49 0.224 0.015Bono’s Six Hat MethodBono’s Six Hats [19] approach has been used to evaluate student presentations in both thecornerstone and capstone courses at a university in the Northeast US. The cornerstoneengineering design course consists of mostly first-year students and is comprised of two separatedesign projects. At the end of each project, the design

Conference Session

Sustainability in Civil Engineering

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nathan McWhirter, Virginia Tech; Tripp Shealy, Virginia Tech

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Civil Engineering

ofthe case projects. Relevant concepts from behavioral decision science were identified whileinterviewing the engineering design teams. The developed modules were tested with over 280undergraduate engineering students. Methods to evaluate learning include pre and post-modulesurveys and free-response questions. After the module, students were more likely to mention andarticulate the role that humans’ mental barriers, like choice overload, bounded rationality, andsatisficing play in decision making for sustainability. They also recognized how tools likeEnvision can help reduce these cognitive biases. In addition to integrating diverse topics anddisciplines into a unified and relevant teaching module, the intention is that other faculty can

Conference Session

Topics Related to Telecommunications

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James O. Everly, University of Cincinnati; Xuefu Zhou, University of Cincinnati

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Engineering Technology

. Page 22.496.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011 Development of Low-Cost Radio Frequency Test EquipmentAbstractThis paper focuses on the construction of low-cost radio frequency test equipment which will besubsequently used to conduct performance measurements on a 7 MHz Radio Frequency (RF)transceiver. The transceiver project provides a "Project Based Learning" RF capstone experiencefor students in Electrical and Computer Engineering Technology. The Transceiver Projecttogether with performance testing is structured to support course goals and objectives of "Topicsof RF Communications" offered as a technical elective at the beginning of the senior year. Eachstudent enrolled in the

Collection

ASEE Mid-Atlantic Section Spring Conference

Authors

Pooja Thakkar Singh, American Society of Mechanical Engineers; Debra Ann Pothier, Autodesk, Inc.; Anand Sethupathy, American Society of Mechanical Engineers; Geraldine Gooding, American Society of Mechanical Engineers; David Soukup P.E., American Society of Mechanical Engineers; Jarrett Reich, American Society of Mechanical Engineers; Morgan Lamarre, American Society of Mechanical Engineers; James Stewart Warrick

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Diversity

Morgantown, Pennsylvania as a Quality Engineer. Then in 2017, she joined the New Jersey Department of Transportation as a Mechanical Engineer Trainee. Within her five-year tenure there, she was promoted to Assistant Mechanical Engineer (2018), Principal Mechanical Engineer (2019) and Program Specialist 3 (2022). Pooja is certified in Sustainable Fleet Management as well as Six Sigma Lean Green, and Black Belts. She has served as a panelist for two Transportation Research Board projects and served as the Secretary of the Northeast Partnership in the Equipment Management Technical Services Program (EMTSP). Pooja is currently a Program Manager at the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), Strate- gic

Conference Session

Mechanical Engineering Division (MECH) Technical Session 15: Automation and Machine Learning

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Yuhao Xu, Prairie View A&M University; Bo Zhao; Steve Tung, University of Arkansas; Han Hu, University of Arkansas

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Mechanical Engineering Division (MECH)

, UA students have solid CADskills. During advising sessions, many students (from GPA 2.6 to 3.9) also confirmed that theywere very confident with their CAD skills and found CAD among the most important skillsduring their internships. This strength relates to the CAD involvement in every semester’s coursesince the initial introduction. As shown in Fig. 1, CAD is initially offered to undergraduatestudents in the 3rd semester (labeled in yellow circle). Starting from the 4th semester, manycourses will have homework assignments or projects that require CAD, including coursesinvolving CAD for manufacturing such as Introduction to Machine Analysis, Mechanics ofFluids, Machine Element Design, Lab III, Capstone Project II (labeled in blue circles

Conference Session

Concurrent Virtual Sessions

Collection

2016 ASEE International Forum

Authors

Christoph Matthies, Hasso-Plattner Institute, University of Potsdam, Germany; Thomas Kowark, Hasso Plattner Institute; Matthias Uflacker, Hasso Plattner Institute for IT Systems Engineering

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International Forum Virtual Presentation

through Team-Project Work : Students’ Perceptions and TeacherâĂŹs Observations. International Journal of Engineering Education, 26:96–110, 2010.13. V. Mahnič. A Capstone Course on Agile Software Development Using Scrum. IEEE Transactions on Education, 55(1):99–106, 2012.14. V. Mahnič, S. Georgiev, and T. Jarc. Teaching Scrum in Cooperation with a Software Development Company. Organizacija, 43(1):40–48, 2010.15. G. Melnik and F. Maurer. A cross-program investigation of students’ perceptions of agile methods. In Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Software Engineering, pages 481–488, may 2005.16. M. Paasivaara, V. Heikkilä, C. Lassenius, and T. Toivola. Teaching Students Scrum using LEGO Blocks. Companion Proceedings

Conference Session

Engineering Leadership Development Constituent Committee Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gregg Morris Warnick, Brigham Young University; Joshua Schmidt, Brigham Young University; Anton E. Bowden, Brigham Young University

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Engineering Leadership Development Division

year students participate in culminatingpracticed leadership experiences in senior design/capstone project courses. Figure 2 illustratesthe integrated leadership development approach utilized.Figure 2 - Leadership Development at Brigham Young UniversityThe transition to experiential learning has been a gradual process. The Foundations of GlobalLeadership course has evolved in recent years from a more typical lecture-based course to anexperiential leadership development course. In recent years the course has included manypositive experiential learning activities including: student discussions, student-led activities,team-based projects, and opportunities for effective feedback. Even with these improvements thecourse has had its challenges

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering II

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Allan T. Kirkpatrick, Colorado State University; Scott Danielson, Arizona State University, Polytechnic campus; Robert O. Warrington, Michigan Technological University; Richard N. Smith, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Karen A. Thole, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; A. Kulacki, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities; William J. Wepfer, Georgia Institute of Technology; Thomas Perry, P.E., American Society of Mechanical Engineers

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Mechanical Engineering

(faculty, space, andlaboratory) required with this approach. Many believe that their school’s senior capstone coursesdeliver project-based learning experiences. There was an interest in flexibility in the curriculum,so that students can take specialized courses such as entrepreneurship courses if they so desire.There was a stated need for text modules, not textbooks, to integrate innovative material into thetraditional courses. A recommendation was made to aggregate best practices from differentinstitutions to be shared among peers. Interestingly, department heads also mentioned that oneof the larger barriers to change within the curriculum and pedagogical approach is faculty.Another question was if the professional school model, similar to

Conference Session

Design Potpourri

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Noe Vargas Hernandez, University of Texas, El Paso; Jose Gabriel Davila, University of Texas, El Paso; Jorge Garza-Ulloa, University of Texas, El Paso; Pablo Rangel, University of Texas, El Paso; Julio Adrian Torres

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Design in Engineering Education

the system progresses depending on the different work that must be preformed. Thestages have both a logical and temporal relation. The deeper the stage, the more refine andmature the system becomes. As the flow of the model progresses the products from the previousstages become inputs. Then, when moving to a new stage in the process the nature of thetechnical activities become more shifted. The proper progress from one stage into another iscontrol by gates.A synthesized version can be seen on the NASA ESMD Capstone Design by The Ben Shima 13.The process is the same and is highly used for senior design projects. The propose model that isbeen seek is something efficient and reliable as the NASA model but more practical and focus onthe area of

Conference Session

Current Topics in IE Education

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Mary Besterfield-Sacre; Bryan Norman; Jayant Rajgopal; Bopaya Bidanda; Kim Needy

these steps were also presented and discussed. The conceptual modelthat we proposed is shown in Figure 1. Experiences Senior Capstone Project Outside the Classroom Integration Across •Co-op

Collection

2023 ASEE GSW

Authors

Jake Simmons; Andrew Lovelace; Daniel Tucker; Aaron Mendoza; Aaron Coates; Julian Alonzo; Danrui Li; Xinpeng Yi; Steven Potter; Ian Mouritzen; Mac Smith; Caden Banta; Ryan Hodge; Anne Spence; Scott Koziol

floating round green balloons. The blimps then identify their respective goals, fly to them, and score by pushing the green balls through the goals. This project has been integrated into a Baylor University capstone design course (“Senior Design”) and an embedded systems engineering course. It has also been used as an example in a Baylor University automatic control systems course, and as a project in a special projects engineering elective course. Work on the project started in the Embedded Systems course and continued into the Senior Design course. The project has seen continued work after the Senior Design course involving a team comprised of undergraduate and graduate students. This paper first describes how this

Conference Session

Attracting Young Minds: Part II

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Amelito G. Enriquez, Cañada College; Wenshen Pong, San Francisco State University; Hamid Shahnasser, San Francisco State University; Hamid Mahmoodi, San Francisco State University; Hao Jiang, San Francisco State University; Cheng Chen, San Francisco State University

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Minorities in Engineering

math and engineering courses, contextualized teaching approaches thatincorporate NASA-related content as hands-on activities and projects are developed. A ten-weeksummer research internship program specifically designed for community college students hasalso been developed to provide research opportunities on various engineering topics includingperformance-based earthquake engineering, circuit design for biomedical applications, andembedded systems design. Additionally, a group of community college students are selected toparticipate in year-long upper-division and senior design courses at San Francisco State Universityto help develop skills and attributes needed to succeed in a four-year engineering program. Resultsfrom the first year of

Collection

2023 ASEE North Central Section Conference

Authors

Mohammed Mustafa Hussain; Sagnik Basumallik, West Virginia University; Anurag K. Srivastava, West Virginia University; Mohamed Hefeida, West Virginia University

Hardware-in-the-Loop Cyber-Power Testbed Hussain M Mustafa, Sagnik Basumallik, Anurag K Srivastava, Mohamed Hefeida Lane Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering Benjamin M. Statler College of Engineering and Mineral Resources West Virginia University, Morgantown, WVAbstractThis paper discusses efforts to develop a real-time cyber-physical security testbed for the hands-ontraining and education of undergraduate students. The developed cybersecurity testbed has beenused for an undergraduate course and senior capstone project. The testbed helps students to specif-ically learn about cyber threats against critical electricity infrastructures and develop appropriatedefense

Conference Session

Workforce Preparation at the Two-year College

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Elodie Billionniere, Miami Dade College; Lawrence Eric Meyer Jr, Miami Dade Community College

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Two-Year College

DesignThe core curriculum design for cloud computing leveraged the existing pathway for an associatedegree in computer networking, and partially pulled courses from the design of the bachelor’s ininformation systems technology degree (Figure 3). Figure 3. Integration of new cloud pathways.Using the above-mentioned foundational courses, the three cloud-specific courses added were:Cloud Essentials for the AWS Cloud Practitioner and Cloud Infrastructure and Services for theAWS Solutions Architect certifications. A project-based learning capstone class completed thepathway with industry experiential projects (Table 1). Table 1. Core Course Sequence Guide Courses

Conference Session

Construction 4: Construction Education Curriculum and Assessment

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Luciana de Cresce El Debs, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Mark Shaurette, Purdue Polytechnic Institute; Denise McAllister Wilder NCIDQ, Purdue Polytechnic Institute

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Construction

content emphasis of 4812 as being a part of a broadercapstone experience, while 3553 emphasis seems to be strictly in surveying calculations. CE-UY3553 is also offered to Civil Engineering students as a possible elective, and as part of the majorcurriculum for CM students. Even though CE students can take the course as an elective,researchers cannot assess if that is actually the case. Students in NYU may choose only oneelective course from a list of 25 pre-approved courses, of which 13 are in CM, 7 in CE, and 5 isin transportation engineering. • CE-UY 4812 (Civil Engineering Design I: Site Planning and Design): This is the first part of a two-semester capstone design project course for Civil Engineers. Each year a specific

Conference Session

Technical Session 2: Embedded Systems

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

J.w. Bruce, Tennessee Technological University; Ryan A. Taylor, University of Alabama

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Computers in Education

. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 A Long-Term Study of Software Product and Process Metrics in an Embedded Systems Design CourseIn response to input from advisory employers, market demands, and academic studies [1], manycomputer engineering programs have increased focus on embedded computer systems.Embedded systems form a rich application through which computer engineering education canbe made relevant. Embedded computer systems are a timely subject that is immediately useful tostudents in their senior capstone design projects. Furthermore, a large number of our computerengineering graduates currently use or design embedded computer systems in their jobs.A team-based progressive embedded systems

Conference Session

Assessment in Multidisciplinary Learning Environment

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Lennon Rodgers, University of Wisconsin – Madison; Caroline Benish, University of Wisconsin - Madison

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

of design courses. E. CAPSTONE DESIGN COURSESAs of the 2018-19 academic year, each engineering department runs their own capstone coursewith students primarily from their own department. Starting in Fall 2019, however, the machineshop and makerspace will host 3 interdisciplinary capstone projects where students frommechanical and electrical engineering will work together. F. MASTERS DEGREE PROGRAMStarting in Summer 2020, the makerspace and machine shop will host a new 1-yearinterdisciplinary master’s degree between the College of Engineering, School of Business, theArt Department, the Information School and the School of Human Ecology. This program willteach students to work on interdisciplinary teams to create products and/or

Conference Session

EET Papers 2

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James C. Sanders, Troy University; Govind Menon, Troy University; Wei Zhan, Texas A&M University

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Engineering Technology

.  The number of jobs available is 315,900.  From 2014 to 2024, the job opportunities are projected to show little or no change.“Change in employment is expected to be tempered by slow growth or decline in mostmanufacturing sectors in which electrical and electronics engineers are employed. Job growth forelectrical and electronics engineers will occur largely in engineering services firms, becausemore companies are expected to cut costs by contracting their engineering services rather thandirectly employing engineers. These engineers also will be in demand to develop sophisticatedconsumer electronics. The rapid pace of technological innovation and development will likelydrive demand for electrical and electronics engineers in research

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division Technical Session 7

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

J. Blake Hylton, Ohio Northern University; Brock Alexander Hays, Ohio Northern University

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

to grade senior-capstone projects. [16] Jones and Abdallah haveventured into the area of performance indicators as a means to pinpoint more specific outcomesin a course. [17] Nayak et. al. has worked to compose rubrics that look to bridge the gap betweenthe course-outcomes in a laboratory setting to program-outcomes outlined by their department ofComputer Science and Engineering. [18] For Knecht, Moskal and Pavelich, their focus wascentralized around measuring and tracking growth in the design program at the Colorado Schoolof Mines. [19] In a study by Dancz, Plumblee II et al, civil engineering students were assessedduring their ‘Grand Challenge Sustainable Entrepreneurship Projects.’ [20] As evidenced by theabove, there is significant

Conference Session

ECE Curriculum Improvement

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Phillip A. Mlsna, Northern Arizona University; Niranjan Venkatraman, Northern Arizona University; Sheryl L. Howard, Northern Arizona University

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Electrical and Computer

Engineering and Computer Science at Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Ariz.. His areas of interest are systems and control, global learning, and engineering pedagogy.Dr. Sheryl L. Howard, Northern Arizona University Page 25.486.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2012 ECE Curriculum Improvement to Incorporate Global LearningI. introductionTraditional Electrical Engineering curricula include courses in the fundamentals of electrical engi-neering, senior elective courses in specialized topics, and a capstone senior project. Labs providestudents with experience in hardware and software

Conference Session

Engineering and Technological Literacy: Past and Future

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John W. Blake P.E., Austin Peay State University

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Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering

technological risks and benefits.In the area of capabilities, majors are expected to reach a much higher level. Majors areexpected to be able to be useful members of project teams which will design, build, and managecomplex technological systems. The curriculum and the related program learning objectives inan engineering or engineering technology degree program can be linked to a specific list ofcapabilities.With experience, our graduates are expected to be able to lead project teams and manage large,complex engineering projects. To do this, they need the capabilities associated with their major.They also need attributes listed here in the areas of knowledge and ways of thinking and acting.Expectations for majors will be different, at least for some

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Steven Schweitzer; John Klegka

senior level capstone projects. The seniors in theirengineering capstone courses received no formal training with Pro/Desktop. Their mid-yearbriefing showed on high reliance on Pro/Desktop to layout their prototype vehicles. Project teammembers essentially taught themselves how to use Pro/Desktop with help from students currentlyin the introductory class using Pro/Desktop. The level of details in the CAD drawing this year isfar greater than any previous years. Unlike previous years, the students are actually using CADin the concept phase of the design process. This clearly demonstrates that mid-level CADpackages are an effective tool for integrating CAD into every student’s design work. Figures 8-11 show capstone project results of students who

Conference Session

Educational Research and Methods Division (ERM) Technical Session 25

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alexander Pagano, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign; Taylor Tucker Parks, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign; Saadeddine Shehab, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign

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Educational Research and Methods Division (ERM)

thiswork and how these informed the design of the survey, including the reasoning behind usingself-efficacy measures. We will also present our early analysis of the validity of this tool and itsutility in measuring HCED learning. Findings from this paper cover data collected at thebeginning of the Fall 2023 semester. Future work will include pre/post comparison andlongitudinal analysis. Design is a central part of engineering and continues to play an important role inengineering undergraduate education [1]–[3]. Design projects have been positioned in thefreshman and senior years as cornerstone and capstone projects [1], [4]–[7]. Beyond thesedesign-focused courses, many engineering courses employ a project-based learning approach,often

Conference Session

Studies in Engineering Design

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jackson Lyall Autrey, University of Oklahoma; Shalaka Subhash Ghaisas, University of Oklahoma; Xun Ge, University of Oklahoma; Zahed Siddique, University of Oklahoma; Farrokh Mistree, University of Oklahoma

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Diversity

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Design in Engineering Education

. Learning through doing (reading, designing, building, testing, and post-project analysis), reflecting and internalizing the principles of engineering design. 3. Learning to frame, postulate a plan of action, and then implement that plan of action for the capstone project in the following semester. 4. Transitioning from being a student in the School of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering at the University of Oklahoma, Norman to a junior engineer in a company. 3 The Principles of Engineering Design (POEDs) woven into our assignments and based onthe ‘Learning by Reflecting on Doing’ theme

Conference Session

Environmental Engineering Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Maya Menon, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Andrew Katz, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Marie Paretti, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

development.Furthermore, we note the prevalence of pedagogies in which SD is most commonly integratedinto engineering education, including capstone design projects and life cycle assessments. Whilethe scope of this study focused on ASEE publications, the next step would be to include otherengineering education publications to capture a global perspective of research in EESD.AcknowledgementsThis material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under grantnumber DGE-1735139. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressedin this material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the NationalScience Foundation.References[1] United Nations, “Transforming Our World: The 2030 Agenda for

Conference Session

Engineering Libraries Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Chelsea Leachman, Washington State University

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Engineering Libraries

) understanding therole and significance of publication authority, 2) appropriate contextual use of the information,and 3) embracing the iterative nature of research. Transferring these lessons to non-engineeringcourses has been successful when working with an honors English course and aninterdisciplinary Capstone Design course. Non-engineering students in these classes receivedbasic information literacy training during the first year of coursework with potential for review ina non-engineering upper division discipline-specific course. Kolb’s experiential learning cyclewas applied to the in-class instruction to appeal to multiple learning styles. Traditionalinformation literacy instruction focuses heavily on the use of books, peer-reviewed articles

Conference Session

ET Curriculum & Programs

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sabah Razouk Abro, Lawrence Technological University; Jerry Cuper, Lawrence Technological University; Kenneth Cook P.E., Lawrence Technological University

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Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

Hospital, Royal Oak, and was a research associate in radiology, nuclear medicine, and bio- mechanics at Wayne State University. Ken has taught at Lawrence Tech evening programs as an adjunct instructor since 1965. His senior projects class, where students generate project ideas, research, design, c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Paper ID #24614manufacture, and assess the market for inventive products is the capstone course. Cook also has enjoyeda long side career in magic finding his hobby very useful in teaching. A highlight for his students eachyear is the two-hour magic performance he offers as a

Conference Session

Trends in Engineering Education 2

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ibrahim Mohedas, University of Michigan; Shanna R. Daly, University of Michigan; Kathleen H. Sienko, University of Michigan

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

information sources do students rely on most when developing user requirements and engineering specifications?  Why do students choose particular information or information sources during front-end design?ParticipantsThe study tracked six design teams as they developed user requirements and engineeringspecifications for their senior capstone design projects. Each design team had four students. Fourteams consisted exclusively of mechanical engineering students and two teams each had onebiomedical engineering student in addition to the mechanical engineering students. All studentswere enrolled in the same capstone design course. The design teams focused on the design ofglobal health technologies for low-income settings (i.e., diagnostic

Collection

1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Sanjiv Sarin

OutcomesThe selection of appropriate outcome indicators or assessment instruments is an importantquestion. The engineering education community is just beginning to understand the variety oftools that are available and, in particular, the suitability of a specific tool for measuring a givenoutcome. For most of us who are novices in assessment practices, the followingrecommendations should suffice, at least during the initial assessment cycle.My proposition is that all the required ABET outcomes can be effectively measured with justthree instruments -- the FE examination, student portfolios and the capstone design project. Thefollowing lists categorize each of the eleven required ABET outcomes into one (or more) of thesethree instruments. In the