Conference Session

Make It!

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mike Thomas Pitcher, University of Texas, El Paso; Pedro Arturo Espinoza, University of Texas, El Paso; Hector Erick Lugo Nevarez, University of Texas, El Paso; Hugo Gomez, University of Texas, El Paso; Randy Hazael Anaya, University of Texas, El Paso; Herminia Hemmitt, University of Texas, El Paso; Oscar Antonio Perez, University of Texas, El Paso; Peter Golding, University of Texas, El Paso; Alfonso Pruneda, University of Texas, El Paso; Sara Soto, Academic Technologies ; Erik Lopez, Academic Technologies; Gil Paquian Jr., UTEP Academic Technologies

Tagged Divisions

Manufacturing

participants who willmost likely be teachers, counselors and community leaders, they must develop two sets ofinstructions. The first set is directed for facilitators and people running the activity, whereour Padawans must write a rubric that communicates the scope of the activity, theexpectations, the methodology, pedagogy and its ease of application, revision andcustomization. If any facilitator wishes to modify the activity, if they believe it can beimproved or might not have some of the components readily available, they will have theresources and knowledge to do so. After all, that is the essence of Maker Culture.The second set of instructions will be directed to the prospective attendees (futurePadawans, also known as Jedi Initiates) that will

Conference Session

Research on Diversification, Inclusion, and Empathy I

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Christine Haas, Engineering Ambassadors Network; Michael Alley, Pennsylvania State University - University Park; Joanna K. Garner, Old Dominion University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

Paper ID #15771Engineering Ambassadors Network (EAN): Goals, Successes, and Challengesin Growing the EANMs. Christine Haas, Engineering Ambassadors Network Christine Haas brings ten years of experience working in marketing and communications with a focus on the science and engineering fields. She’s held positions as the director of marketing for Drexel’s College of Engineering and director of operations for Worcester Polytechnic Institute - Engineering. Now, as CEO of Christine Haas Consulting, LLC, Christine travels around the world teaching courses to scientists and engineers on presentations and technical writing. She

Conference Session

Assessment and Liberal Education

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jenn Stroud Rossmann, Lafayette College; Mary Roth, Lafayette College

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

nationally with an award for excellence in promoting professionalism, ethics, and licensure in the curriculum; • Our program leading to the Bachelor of Arts in Engineering Studies has, since 1970, prepared its graduates to be “technological integrators;” many work as engineers, and many others work in public policy, business, education, medicine, and law. Required coursework includes some fundamental engineering courses, some translational courses in engineering economics and engineering policy, and a sequence of courses in engineering studies – typically seminar-style, discussion- and writing-intensive courses that ask students to consider the history of technology, interrogate the

Conference Session

Design and the Capstone Experience

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rachael E. Cate, Oregon State University; Donald Heer, Oregon State University

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

), thecommunications instructor had earned a master’s degree in writing, taught writing andcommunication courses at the university and community college level, and earned a doctor ofphilosophy degree in higher education program development, including transformative andexperiential education pedagogies. The technical instructor had earned a master’s of engineeringand completed some coursework in engineering education. Together, they began working tocreate a curriculum that challenges engineering students to develop critical thinking skills inorder to engage in technical problem solving, to consider what it means to be an engineer, tochallenge their own assumptions and perspectives, and to prepare to enter into a community ofprofessional engineers. This

Conference Session

Active and Out There: Labs and Active Learning

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Anne Dudek Ronan P.E., New York University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

their own with little parental guidance. Orientationprograms at most universities have grown, specifically to help students cope with these newexperiences and expectations.Gunn [1] reports on the value of scavenger hunts at the University of Michigan. Their studentshave opportunities for campus-wide scavenger hunts as well as in-building College ofEngineering scavenger hunts. The latter provide an opportunity for new students to feel part oftheir new environment, overcome isolation, and begin interacting with peers and faculty.Grey et al [2] describe the development and implementation of a scavenger hunt for First YearEngineering Orientation. Lindsay et al [3] follow this up with an evaluation of student exitsurvey responses after participating

Conference Session

New ECE laboratories

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kenneth Ray Hite, West Virginia University; Louis J. Slimak, West Virginia University; Dimitris Korakakis, West Virginia University; Terence C. Ahern, West Virginia University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

participants use their work for the Solar House as their capstone project. His research interests are in the area of optoelectronic devices, based on wide bandgap semiconductors and organic materials with an emphasis on nanostructures and nanoscale architecture. He has about 100 peer-reviewed publications.Terence C. Ahern, West Virginia University Terence C. Ahern is an Associate Professor Instructional Design and Technology at West Virginia Univer- sity and coordinates the program in Instructional Design and Technology in the Department of Learning Sciences and Human Development. His research interests are in the use of instructional technology on- line. Dr. Ahern has published extensively in the areas of distance education

Conference Session

Engineering and Public Policy Pioneering Courses

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Douglas Sicker, University of Colorado-Boulder; Tom Lookabaugh, University of Colorado-Boulder

Tagged Divisions

Engineering and Public Policy

the IEEE, as well as a member of the ACM and the Internet Society. He serves on the faculty of the Institute for Regulatory Law and Economics. He was also the Chair of the Network Reliability and Interoperability Council steering committee, an FCC federal advisory committee that focuses on network reliability, wire line spectral integrity and Internet peering and interconnection. Doug also served on the Technical Advisory Council of the FCC. His research interests include network security, technology based policy and telecommunications policy. His teaching interests include distributed systems, network security and telecommunications public policy. Doug holds a PhD from the

Conference Session

Retention Issues

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Phyllis Tedford, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi; John Fernandez, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi

Tagged Divisions

Minorities in Engineering

Conference Session

New Engineering Educators: Tricks of the Trade II

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Marshall, University of Southern Maine; June Marshall, St. Joseph's College

Tagged Divisions

New Engineering Educators

assignments that require an on-line response or chat room discussion. Anothermethod is to require each student to find a hosting firm and develop a case study (relatingto the content of the course) that is presented to the class. One more strategy formaximizing outside of class behavior relates to the time consuming activity of viewing Page 12.867.5audio visual materials such as DVDs. Require the students to view the materials on theirown time at the library (room use only) and write a three paragraph “executive summary”that is collected and serves as discussion points during class.Learning Technique Number 5 - Preparing to TeachDoyle in Integrating

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

Programming Education 2

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert Scott Pierce P.E., Western Carolina University; Chaitanya Borra, Western Carolina University

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education Division (COED)

this longer-term workis to determine whether students who learn Python as their first programming language are betterprepared to adapt to new languages and programming platforms.IntroductionProgramming is an important professional skill for most engineers. An introductoryprogramming course is part of the first or second-year curricula in most engineering programs.However, it comes with many difficult challenges for both students and faculty [1,2,3,4]. Therole played by the instructor in the development of these skills cannot be totally ignored but isfound to be minimal [5]. Students usually learn by trial and error using tutorials, homework,textbook examples, peer learning, and web-based demonstrations [6]. Many studies [7,8] haveindicated

Conference Session

Experiential Learning in ET Programs I

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jeevan Shridhar Devagiri, Michigan Technological University; Paniz Khanmohammadi Hazaveh, Michigan Technological University; Nathir Rawashdeh, Michigan Technological University; Sai Revanth Reddy Dudipala, Michigan Technological University; Pratik Mohan Deshmukh, Michigan Technological University; Aditya Prasad Karmarkar, Michigan Technological University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology Division (ETD)

customcontrol panel connected to the PLC, which controls the conveyor and robot actions. The resultsshow the feasibility of the presented multi robot automation line controlled by a PLC that allowshuman machine interaction to enable manual quality inspection during production. This paperdetails a student project developed in the advanced programmable logic controllers class. It ispart of the master program in mechatronics. Students work in groups in a creative setting, wherethey learn to integrate various automation technologies and learn to write scientific publications.Keywords: Multi-robot; Industrial robots; Programmable Logic Controller (PLC);Communication, Quality Inspection, human ma- chine interface (HMI)IntroductionIn industrial automation

Collection

2018 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Edgar C. Clausen; James T. McAllister

Asian American populations.Problems solving is an essential tenet of engineering education. McNeill et al. (2016) note thatengineering students have different beliefs about problem solving and draw a sharp distinctionbetween problems presented in the classroom and problems found in the workplace. This beliefsystem affects the ways students approach problems and once again underscores that not allstudents learn alike. In addition, students have different attitudes about collaborative learning.Stump et al. (2011) note that students perform better when working with peers on assignmentsand in discussing course material. However, they also reported that female students were morelikely to collaborate than their male counterparts. Lin and Tsai (2009