Conference Session

FPD 6: Transitions and Student Success, Part II

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jerry Volcy, Spelman College; Carmen Sidbury, Spelman College

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

  Page 23.389.6• Generate  shapes  • Hypothesize  and  correct  for  distortions  in  the  shape  • Write  a  technical  paper  and  deliver  a  technical  presentation  of  findings    These  are  detailed  below.    • Mechanical  Assembly  The  mechanical  assembly  task  proved  to  be  an  effective  means  of  immediately  engaging  the  students  in  the  project.    In  particular,  harvesting  the  laser  diode  from  a  common  laser  pointer  and  re-­‐purposing  it  for  the  project  offered  a  “tear-­‐down”  7  and  re-­‐engineering  opportunity  that  elicited  many  questions  about  how  the  device  functioned  and  how  the  laser  pointer  itself  is  manufactured.    Further,  de-­‐soldering  unwanted

Conference Session

Aircraft Design Education

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jacques C. Richard, Texas A&M University; Kristi J. Shryock, Texas A&M University; Dimitris C. Lagoudas P.E., Texas A&M University

Tagged Divisions

Aerospace

assistant, usually a graduate student,and a peer teacher, usually an undergraduate student who recently completed the freshman-engineering sequence. The graphics portion of the class has the students use a commercialgraphics package that can be used to draw parts selected from outside of class or parts of theirrobot by the end of the semester. At the beginning of the semester, basic project planning iscovered as well as an introduction of flowcharting and some basics of the visual programmingenvironment, in this case LabView. The most important aspect of the programming portion isactually what the program is being asked to do and how it completes the task. Since LabView ismany times not the programming language of choice in the student’s follow-on

Conference Session

Educational Methods and Technologies

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Marshall, University of Southern Maine; William Marshall, Alief Independent School District

Tagged Divisions

Manufacturing

feedback. Students need to know how well they are doingand are typically open to suggestions for improvement. Generally, the clearer and morespecific an instructor can be with feedback, the better the results for students. Students alsobenefit from peer reactions and should be encouraged to take responsibility for their ownlearning (i.e., taught to self-evaluate). Providing accurate feedback and helping students totake charge of learning can stimulate healthy minds. Page 15.695.3Improving Pedagogy with Differentiated InstructionA key concept in differentiated instruction is applying a proactive approach to the learningand teaching model. As such

Conference Session

Construction Division Poster Session

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Suat Gunhan, University of Texas, San Antonio; Jing Du, University of Texas, San Antonio

Tagged Divisions

Construction

papers are presented by the lecturer. The following week, the students present a peerreviewed paper on a topic that was covered the week before by the lecturer. In addition, thestudents choose one particular topic and prepare a research paper. Throughout the semester theybecome familiar with research papers in advanced construction management, discussion is madeboth on the topic and the structure of the peer reviewed publications. The term project gives themthe opportunity to make a research in one of those topics and write a technical paper. This way, thecourse helps them to build writing skills especially towards their Master of Science thesis. Thispaper presents a term project example showing how this is accomplished.The topic includes the

Conference Session

Design Education

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Pastirik; Michael Robertson; William Singhose; Joshua Vaughan; Donna Llewellyn; Marion Usselman

increasingly segregatedschools and a large academic achievement gap between African American and Hispanic studentson the one hand, and their white and Asian peers on the other. The schools in the north part ofthe region, considered to be some of the best in Georgia, enroll primarily non-Hispanic white andAsian students and boast SAT scores well above the state and national averages. In starkcontrast, the overwhelmingly African American schools in the southern portion of the regionpost cumulative SAT scores over one hundred points below the already low Georgia stateaverage. Other standard measures of academic achievement, such as Advanced Placement testscores, college matriculation rates, and need for college remediation, show the same

Conference Session

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Stan Harris

. Page 8.1101.7“Proceedings of the 2003 American Society of Engineering Education Annual Conference &Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Education” Advantage: Student Students may edit and polish their writing with electronic Q/E rather than paper and pencil Q/E even during the pressure of a Q/E experience. Advantage: Faculty Faculty may experience benefits of being able to grade at least marginally higher level student answers because computer use provides students with an enhanced ability to edit and polish their writing than is typically possible with paper and pencil Q/E. • Students have the ability to access any of their electronic notes. Advantage: Student

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanics Education

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

R.W. Carpick; K.W. Lux; Buck Johnson; Wendy Crone

- and Nanoscale Mechanics,” isdesigned to introduce students to mechanics whenpracticed on the microscale and nanoscale with anemphasis on the interdisciplinary nature of nanoscalescience and engineering. Traditional approaches toengineering education, including lectures, homeworkassignments, and laboratory experiments, are combinedwith reflective writing assignments and the submissionof a nanotechnology review article to a simulated peer-reviewed journal edited by the instructors and otherstudents in the course. These activities are seamlesslyintegrated into the course providing a coherent, multi-faceted structure for the education of the studentsenrolled in the course. Figure 1

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Mark L. Smith; Kenneth E. Rowe; Carlos R. Morales; Rick L. Homkes

. Bloom’s taxonomy is used to prepare for teaching and also to assesslearning. Laboratory development includes making that first contact with prospective industrialpartners and writing a grant proposal. The service area includes not just the committee workupon which academia thrives, but also outreach activities to the community. This outreachincludes both working as a consultant and reaching out to possible new students. Publishingincludes the research and preparation of a first paper for conference presentation along with therelative worth of different venues for a published paper. Finally, the fourth member of the team,one who made the move from industry eight years ago, describes how to put these activities intoa winning promotion and tenure

Conference Session

ET Interdisciplinary Education

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

P. James Moser; Biswajit Ray

, including,optics, electronics, manufacturing technology, electrical machinery, controls, and nano-fabrication. Recognizing that we could not satisfy all of the needs of all constituents, we focusedon those needs that transcended many businesses. Various different local industries desired toemploy graduates skilled in electronics, three-phase electrical machinery, power distribution,manufacturing, and controls. They needed graduates who can write and speak well, whounderstand the economic and social implications of their business, and who are well trained inthe latest technology - able to apply it during the first day on the job. We concluded thatengineering technology graduates with specialized training in both electricity and electronics,could

Conference Session

Ethical Perspectives on the Grand Challenges of Engineering

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Donna M Riley, Smith College

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

selection process? Does the prestige of the NAE, and of its members, lend grand-ness (orgrandiosity?) to the Challenges?At least some of the Grand Challenges relate very closely to the work of individual Committeemembers. For example, the emphasis on personalized medicine in Engineer Better Medicinesreflects Craig Venter’s interest in innovation in this area, exemplified by his controversialpublication of his own genome.22 Managing the Nitrogen Cycle is a passion of Rob Socolow,whose work is cited in the write-up.23 He is also deeply involved with Carbon Sequestration,another one of the Challenges, where he is cited again.24 This raises a question about framing –why the heavy emphasis on personalized medicine in Engineer Better Medicines? Why

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade I

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Marshall, University of Southern Maine; William R. Marshall, Alief Independent School District

Tagged Divisions

New Engineering Educators

from peer reactions and should be encouraged to take responsibility for their ownlearning (i.e., taught to self-evaluate). Providing accurate feedback and helping students totake charge of learning can stimulate healthy minds. Page 25.469.3Improving Pedagogy with Differentiated InstructionA key concept in differentiated instruction is applying a proactive approach to the learning andteaching model. As such, this document is divided into two major themes: active learning; andactive teaching.Topics included in the “Active Learning” section include: 1) Focusing on Learning and NotTeaching; 2) Problem Based Learning; 3) Facilitating Group Learning

Conference Session

Capstone and Design Projects in Engineering Technology

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Biswajit Ray, Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

Introduction to Engineering Technology course,offered to freshmen electronics engineering technology students, are presented. The primaryobjective of this course is to improve the quantitative and qualitative problem solving skill offreshmen students during their first semester of college experience. This in turn contributes totheir preparedness for subsequent science, math, and engineering technology courses, positivelyimpacting student retention rate. The course presented herein also includes a number of hands-on projects to introduce the concepts of engineering design, prototyping, and testing. Soft skillssuch as formal report writing and team work, and orientation to engineering profession andindustry are also key components of this course. Course

Conference Session

FPD II: Hands-on Curriculum in the First Year

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Beverly K. Jaeger, Northeastern University; Susan F. Freeman, Northeastern University; Richard Whalen, Northeastern University

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

. This second semester ‘programming’ course had not fullymade the connection between software written to solve a practical problem and how it might be used todrive hardware/devices in a visible experiential way. As a result, students were skeptical, expressing adisconnect with real-world and career applications. This weak cause-and-effect association at timesresulted in a somewhat uninterested learning population. It became apparent that students did not deeplyunderstand the importance of writing code in relation to engineering problem solving. We as instructorssaw an opportunity to take a role in bridging this gap.Challenge #2: Resources. A further challenge relates to resources: How can we demonstrate the value ofprogramming and problem

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

FYI Team Members; Adrian Cloete

information and steps performed to have a successful conclusion of the project – demonstrations and presentation of final product may be included Remember to include a demonstration of your circuit’s simulation from the web site listed in the Technical Requirements above. d. Conclusions and Recommendations e. “Are there any questions?”NOTE: A Sample speech evaluation form was provided to students.PEER & SELF-EVALUATION PROCESS: 1) All team members will be asked to confidentially evaluate each other’s participation in the process of completing the Team Project. 2) The peer evaluation will be factored into the overall project grades (both report and presentation) in the COLL

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Manuel D. Rossetti; Harriet Black Nembhard

” as a keyelement. This is a surrogate for “writing”. Ideally, the students will also realize that they havedifferent learning modalities. You might point out that research suggests that learning modalitiesvary between students, from day to day, and from topic to topic (e.g. see McCalley et al. (1987)).Active learning allows students who rely more heavily on experiential learning to conceptualizeand internalize the material presented in class.After this informal introduction to active learning, it is beneficial to support it with somethingconcrete. We suggest that the course syllabus include a brief overview of the active learning Page

Collection

1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Pedro Arce

students (partners).Students also learn about professionalism in homework submission, home writing style,and they are introduced to the different learning methodologies. In addition to classdiscussion, the course includes, class exercises, homeworks, formal reading assignments,midterms, a number of pop-quizzes, and a final exam that is based on the material of allthe projects assembled during the term.In summary, the course will have the following characteristics: (1). The course is taughtis a student-centered fashion technique (see below and Arce, 1994) where discussions,group work, etc cover most of the learning activities. (2). The course will have periodichomework assignments that are handed out for detailed work. (3). The quizzes will be

Conference Session

Educational Research and Methods Division (ERM) Technical Session 8

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mohammad Shokrolah Shirazi, Marian University; Hung-fu Chang

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods Division (ERM)

, whereas a ques-tionnaire for critical thinking was utilized to identify the critical thinking skills of thestudents. Another crucial factor assisting students to be engaged during the learning andimproving their skills is a challenging feature of the course assignments. Especially inhigher education, challenge-based learning (CBL) has been highlighted and definedas a multidisciplinary teaching and learning approach that encourages students toleverage technology to solve real-world problems. So, it has some common featuressuch as being collaborative and hands-on with peers, teachers, and experts in theircommunities. Problem-based learning (PBL) is a variation of CBL with less opengeneral problems and students don’t need to formulate the

Conference Session

Faculty Development Division (FDD) Technical Session 4

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Himani Sharma; Jennifer Hadley Perkins, Arizona State University; Samantha Ruth Brunhaver, Arizona State University; Adam R Carberry, The Ohio State University

Tagged Divisions

Faculty Development Division (FDD)

highlighted where these dynamics have influenced mentoring in either apositive or negative manner. These include experiences related to transitions from being a studentto a peer, the mentee’s feeling of powerlessness vs. having agency, or the mentor’s limited abilityto assist the mentee. Grace shared an example: “We had been considering some ideas anyway, and this was a w- a way to formalize that. Um, and then I had to choose other people to be on the team, both from my institution and not in my institution at various stages of my career. And I thought very strategically about, like, "Who do I wanna include on this team that, you know, might write my tenure letter someday?" So, like, I wanna kinda be nice to, to

Conference Session

Lessons for New Engineering Educators

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Marshall, University of Southern Maine

Tagged Divisions

New Engineering Educators

learning, teachers should continually check for understanding and provide studentswith thoughtful, timely, and precise feedback. Students need to know how well they are doingand are typically open to suggestions for improvement. Generally, the clearer and morespecific an instructor can be with feedback, the better the results for students. Students alsobenefit from peer reactions and should be encouraged to take responsibility for their ownlearning (i.e., taught to self-evaluate). Providing accurate feedback and helping students totake charge of learning can stimulate healthy minds.Improving Pedagogy with Differentiated InstructionA key concept in differentiated instruction is applying a proactive approach to the learning andteaching model. As

Conference Session

Distance and Web-based Learning in ECE

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Yacob Astatke, Morgan State University; Craig J. Scott, Morgan State University; Jumoke 'Kemi Ladeji-Osias, Morgan State University

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

peers at other institutions involved in the Mobile Studio project to redesign variouslaboratory and design experiments so that they can be completed by the students using theMobile Studio IOBoardTM. The key issue that we had to address was the fact that the MobileStudio IOBoardTM is limited to very low voltages (plus or minus 4 Volts) because it draws itspower from the USB port of the laptop it is connected to. This implied that laboratoryexperiments that required a “Power Supply” or “Function Generator” with more than 5 volts hadto be redesigned in such a way that the overall concept of the experiments could still beunderstood by the students. The instructors involved in the Mobile Studio project at the variousinstitutions worked together very

Conference Session

New Trends in ECE Education

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Farzad Pourboghrat, Southern Illinois University; Narayanan Ramachandran, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale; Aishwarya Vasu, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale; Arjun Shekar Sadahalli, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale; Prashanthi Banala, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale; Giampiero Campa, MathWorks

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

, machine vision, and adaptive and nonlinear control, especially applied to UAVs. During his stay at WVU Dr. Campa has published more than 30 peer-reviewed articles in international journals, about 60 research papers for international conferences, and a couple of book chapters. He has joined the MathWorks in 2009, where he currently works as a Technical Evangelist for the US west coast area. Page 22.619.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011 Enhancing Mechatronics Education using Model-Based Techniques and Mathworks ToolsAbstract- This paper

Conference Session

Teams and Teamwork in Design

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Wael Mokhtar, Grand Valley State University

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

year and they have the chance to choose between them. By the end of the junioryear teams, are selected and faculty advisors start working with the students. By the end of thefirst semester of the senior year each team is required to write a project proposal that includes theproject feasibility, its implementation plan, and the scope of the work to be accomplished. Theproposal is reviewed by Project Review Board (PRB) who are a group of faculty including thefaculty advisor and each team is required to give a presentation. If the project is approved byPRB, the team starts the building and testing during the second semester. A second round ofreview by PRB is done during the mid-semester to evaluate the progress of the project. In thismodel, the

Conference Session

Issues and Directions in ET Education & Administration: Part II

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gerry Marekova, Drexel University; Vladimir Genis, Drexel University; David Spang, Burlington County College

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

Applied Engineering Technology@ BCC Transfer articulation agreement 187.5 creditsCourses Completed @ BCC AAS.MHT Transfer Credits into Drexel AET-MHT Course # Course Description Credits Course # Course Description CreditsENG 101 College Composition I 3 ENG 101 Expository Writing & Reading 3ENG 102 College Composition II 3 ENG 102 Persuasive Writing & Reading 3 0 ENG 103 Analytical Writing & Reading 3MTH 130 Pre -Calculus 4

Conference Session

Global Engineering Education: Intercultural Awareness and International Experience

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Brent Jesiek, Purdue University; Deepika Sangam, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Juila Thompson, Purdue University; Yating Chang, Purdue University; Demetra Evangelou, Purdue University

Tagged Divisions

International

,interactions with faculty and peers, team projects, student organizations, and independent travel.Yet even as such programs and experiences gain traction against the backdrop of ambitiousglobal visions, challenges remain. To begin, there is the problem of scaling up. Even generousestimates suggest that only about 5% of American engineering students have a substantial globalexperience during their undergraduate years, while others assert that only 10-15% of U.S.engineering schools are taking global education seriously.11,14 Persistent barriers to expandingglobal engineering education – ranging from financial considerations and inflexible curricula to alack of institutional support and language issues – are well documented.6 But even as these kindsof

Conference Session

Course and Curriculum Innovations in ECE

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephen Petersen; Richard Hughey; David Meek; Alexandra Carey

assemblylanguages, MIPS and HC11, in the computer organization course. These would be treated in anewly created separate laboratory, thereby allowing us to meet both our primary and secondarygoals. The work to design this laboratory divided naturally into two major tasks: development ofthe actual tutorial hardware to be used, and writing an accompanying lab manual to support bothassembly languages, HC11 and MIPS. Thus, the hardware would employ the 68HC11 and bedesigned to meet the primary goal of bringing the hardware closer to the students while the labmanual meets both goals. The following two sections discuss details about changes we made tothe course, and how and why the necessary hardware was designed and built here at UCSC.Although this was formally

Conference Session

Electrical and Computer Engineering Poster

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Deepti Suri

reasons:(i) No coding: Even though SE-382 is a software engineering course, it is the first course for SEstudents in which they do not do any design or implementation. Instead, majority of their time isspent writing documents and specifying the project requirements completely and correctly. Ourstudents, like many seasoned programmers, believe that the major effort in software developmentis programming and testing. Consequently, they found the task of documenting the functionality Page 7.748.4 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2002

Collection

2024 ASEE-GSW

Authors

Matthew Kuester, University of Mary Hardin-Baylor; Paul R Griesemer, University of Mary Hardin-Baylor

Tagged Topics

Diversity

1310The content that was added to the curriculum during the course redesign included: • A tour of UMHB engineering facilities. During the second week of classes, the students took a tour of the Engineering Design Building, including the Maker Space. Students talked with the maker space supervisor to discuss how they could use the maker space to build their projects. • A module on the engineering design process. Before the students were given their project definition, students spent two classes learning about the engineering design process (research, ideation, design selection, prototyping, testing, iteration) to understand how they should approach the design project. • A module on technical writing

Conference Session

Learning and Assessment in ME

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Scott L. Post, Bradley University

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

implemented in a junior-level fluid mechanics course thatincluded both lecture and laboratory components. A total of nine learning objectives werespecified for the course. These learning objectives are: calculate fluid thrust forces, calculateaerodynamic forces, solve pipe flow problems, select a pump for a system, select a flowmeter fora system, write a computer program to solve transient fluids problems, write a professionalquality lab report, acquire and analyze laboratory data, and be a valuable member of team thatsuccessfully completes a project. The learning objectives can be mapped to ABET studentoutcomes. In this implementation of Standards-Based Grading, all assessments are done on apass-fail basis. That is to say, there is no partial credit

Conference Session

Training and Support for NEEs

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Chirag Variawa, University of Toronto; Sherif N Kinawy, University of Toronto; D. Grant Allen, University of Toronto; Chris Damaren, University of Toronto; Susan McCahan, University of Toronto; Bryan Karney

Tagged Divisions

New Engineering Educators

portfolios include ateaching philosophy, sample syllabi and course material, assessment material, and a discussionof the application of teaching theory to practice. This project occurs while students develop theiracademic CV and cover letters from the seminar-based aspect of the PPIT program. Theintention is for each student to be well on their way in developing a course as they begin theiractual academic searches. In addition to these activities, students are expected to deliver a 20-minute microteaching activity in the presence of their peers and course staff. This is essentially avideotaped lecture of each student, pending their approval, where the video is returned to eachstudent for personal self-reflection. Students then write a brief

Conference Session

Design Teamwork

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Junichi Kanai, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Mark Anderson, Rensselaer

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

the other hand,laboratory courses and engineering design courses are often used to teach communication andteamwork skills 1. Typical communication skills include, but are not limited to, maintaininglab/design notebooks, writing technical reports, and oral presentations. A project-based coursemay also include writing a proposal.On-line collaboration tools, also known as groupware, are widely used in many organizations toimprove their productivity and the quality of their products. Currently, Wikipedia includes over95 software tools 2. Types of collaboration tools include bulletin (discussion) boards for threadeddiscussions, public folders for sharing documents, and version control systems for concurrentediting software source codes or CAD