Conference Session

Teaching Engineers to Teach

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Neil S. Grigg; Darrell G. Fontane; Marvin Criswell; Thomas Siller

presentation skills, ethics. CE 309 – Civil Engineering Synthesis II: CE infrastructures systems, numerical and decision analysis techniques, statistical and risk analyses, project management, synthesis tools, multi- criterion decision analysis. Page 9.827.6 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2004, American Society for Engineering Education CE 408 – Civil Engineering Design I: Design of civil engineering systems; social, environmental, economic and other non-technical design considerations, engineering economics, project

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Programs: Look Ahead

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Chell Roberts

Bachelorette Degree), receiving on-the-job training and experience (skill development), obtaining license or certificate,exercising code of ethics, and continual professional development. Within some Page 9.398.6professions (e.g., M&S) government and commercial entities (Defense Modeling and “Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright 2004, American Society for Engineering Education”Simulation Organization, Aegis Technologies, Cisco, Sun Micro-systems, and Rational toname a few) offer short courses and alike to educate student/professionals about theirstandards

Conference Session

Introduction to Engineering: The Present State

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Jerome Lavelle; Mary Clare Robbins

(3) Journal Assignment #4 due 8 Professional Development; Engineering In-Class: (1) Electrical & Computer Engr. Presentation Ethics; Campus Resources; Spring HW: (1) Design Project Scheduling Documents due Semester Pre-Registration Information (2) Journal Assignment #5 due 9 No Class: Fall Break Week No Class: Fall Break Week 10 Failure in Engineering Design, Video: In-Class: (1) Industrial Engineering Presentation World Trade Center: Anatomy of the HW: (1) Design Project, Preliminary Designs due Collapse (2) Journal Assignment #6 due 11

Conference Session

Improving Teaching & Learning

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Patrick Hollis; Namas Chandra; Chiang Shih

engaging allincoming freshman in tutoring and mentoring activities as described in a later section. Althoughonly recipients in the learning/teaching partnership at this stage, incoming students will be wellinformed about the LTT practice and will be prepared for their future participation. Further, thefreshmen will be exposed to the tutoring methods adopted by professors, graduate teachingassistants, and finally their seniors.The first real LTT practice will begin during the sophomore year in the “Introduction toMechanical Engineering” class. One of the objectives of this course is to present ME as aprofession by including topics such as professionalism, career choice, ethics, and life-longlearning, among other issues. These topics introduce a

Conference Session

Engineering Education Research

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Kimberly Barron; Sang Ha Lee; John Wise; Robert Pangborn; Thomas Litzinger

Conference Session

New Trends in ECE Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

John Orr; Richard Vaz

programs.6. Details of the MajorFollowing are the Program Outcomes identified for the ECE major: 1. Preparation for engineering practice, including the technical, professional, and ethical components, 2. Preparation for the future changes in electrical and computer engineering, 3. A solid understanding of the basic principles of electrical engineering, computer engineering, and the relationship between hardware and software, 4. An understanding of appropriate mathematical concepts, and an ability to apply them to ECE, Page 9.594.6 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual

Conference Session

Teamwork and Assessment

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Dana Knox; Robert Barat

needingimprovement. These included 1) awareness of business needs, 2) written communication skills,3) economic skills, 4) oral communication skills and 5) use of computers. The followingattributes were consistently listed as being the most important 1) problem solving, 2)professional and ethical responsibility, 3) computer skills, and 4) teamwork skills. Severalmembers of the department advisory board have also indicated the need to include somecoverage of biology and more effective coverage of the use computer simulation software in thecurriculum.Graduating Students. A survey of the graduating students showed general satisfaction with theireducation. However, a number of areas were consistently cited as needing improvement. Theseincluded 1) written

Conference Session

BME Courses

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

John Wagner; Daniel Cavanagh

well as overarching concepts such as engineeringdesign, ethics and teamwork. In one component of the course, each student participates in twothree-week seminars which provide a more in-depth and hands-on introduction to the disciplines.To complement the new biomedical engineering major at Bucknell, we have implemented a newbiotransport seminar with a focus on drug delivery. The goal of the seminar is to expose thestudents to the fundamental concepts associated with drug delivery and to provide theopportunity to implement these concepts in a hands-on environment.The ten lectures and three labs in the seminar are presented in an order which is analogous to thesimple pathway of an orally ingested drug. While the early lectures focus on the

Conference Session

Improving Communication Skills in ME

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Norman Asper; Bijan Sepahpour

) Project WORK Fund. Eng. Design 1 1 ü ü ü Creative Design 1 2 ü ü Manufacture. Process 2 1 ü ü Engineering Materials ü ü Mech. of Materials 2 2 ü ü ü Mech. Lab I // // ü ü ü Society, Ethics & Tech. 3 1 ü ü Mech

Conference Session

Publicity Elements of Engineering Education

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Julie Staggers; Lynne Slivovsky

teams. It is a repeatable course andstudents can take it for up to seven semesters. Each team works on multiple projects for a localnon-profit organization (project partners). These projects vary in scope and can last from onesemester to several years. Goals of the program include: • Broadening students' education to include experience with design as a start-to-finish process by defining, designing, building, testing, deploying, and supporting real systems • Bringing affordable engineering expertise to community service and education organizationsThe program emphasizes communication, teamwork, the design process, ethics, and customer andcommunity awareness. Project partners benefit from their

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert LaFarge; Chaouki Abdallah

. Table 1: Graduate Bridge Schedule Date Topic June 10, AM Introduction June 10, PM Introduction to Library for Engineering Research June 11, AM Mathematics & Engineering I June 11, PM The Ethics of Research June 12, AM Antennas I June 12, PM Risk Taking & Project Management June 13, AM Antennas II June 13, PM History of Technology June 14, AM Optical Communication Systems I June 14, PM Research Methodologies June 17, AM Other Applications of Optics in Engineering

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Jeanne Garland; Christine Helfers; Ronald Roedel; Sarah Duerden

exploring the world of professionalengineering. Students write about the cultural literacies engineers face in the professional world.Our third then focuses on one particular literacy for engineers (both students and professionals),that of ethics. Our last paper, a team paper, asks students to explain how their design for anengineering project demonstrates that they have employed ethics. This sequenced approachallows the students to grasp the notion of multiple literacies and the changes they need to maketo succeed as a student and as a professional.Background to the Assignment The first assignment is particularly helpful to students because it allows students toexplore in writing the various demands made of them by their different

Conference Session

Partnerships in IE Education

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Joan Burtner

), Chemistry, andcalculus-based Physics. Industrial engineering students must also complete a set of generalengineering core courses (EGR prefix) as well as specialized industrial engineering courses (ISEprefix). At the freshman level, students enroll in EGR 107, in which they are introduced to problemidentification, information gathering and development of alternative solutions, merit analysis,decision presentation, implementation, testing, and design. Also, the students enroll in EGR 108, inwhich they are exposed to engineering ethics, impact of engineering practice in the context ofsociety, critical reading and thinking skills through extensive reading and discussion, preparing andpresenting the results of teamwork both in written and oral format

Conference Session

Global Issues in Engineering Education

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Philip Chmielewski

. Page 8.895.7 “Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Education”7. Michael Davis. Thinking Like an Engineer: Studies in the Ethics of a Profession. New York: OxfordUniversity Press, 1998.8. Marcel Detienne and Jean-Pierre Vernant. Cunning Intelligence in Greek Culture and Society.Translated by Janet Lloyd. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1978.9. Francois Hartog. Memories of Odysseus: Frontier Tales from Ancient Greece. Translated by JanetLloyd. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001.10. Bernd Heinrich. Mind of the Raven

Conference Session

Three P's in Introduction to Engineering

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Heidi Diefes-Dux; Robert Montgomery

4.0 3.8 using an appropriate computer tool 7 Work effectively and ethically as a 4.5 4.3 3.9 member of a technical team 8 Develop a work ethic appropriate 3.9 4.4 3.8 for the engineering profession a 5-point ordinal rating scale, with: 5 = excellent, 4 = good, 3 = average, 2 = fair, and 1 = poor.Objective 6 involved skills related to basic computer literacy, and again, the students in theexperimental class rated their skills higher than did the students in the traditional lecture section.In this case, students gained a great deal of practice on these skills under the watchful

Conference Session

Assessment Issues

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Roger Ware; Charles Yokomoto; Maher Rizkalla

facultyunderestimated the work ethic of students when assigned problems are not collected. For example, whereasonly 26.1% of the students said that they still have to solve some of the homework problems when it is timeto review for an exam, 61.5% of the faculty predicted students would say the same.4. When it is time to start studying for an exam, I Faculty Prediction of What Students What Students Will Say Said After Three Examsa. Usually have all of the homework 16.7%% 60.9%problems solvedb. Still need

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Shirley Fleischmann

, ethics, andsocial impact.” In retrospect it was easy to see that the Wooden Shoe Regatta project –including the speed and style competitions – met this definition of design quite well. Itmet those requirements in a junior level class normally taken before the senior design Page 6.332.2project, and the project took (and still takes) at least 5 weeks to complete. Was there a Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2001, American Society for Engineering Educationway to meet the ABET design criteria within a much smaller project and was there asimpler way to

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Carter; Sarah Rajala

ethical obligations ofthe engineer—and then defined by stating more specifically what the general term means. Theobjectives are measurable, in that most of them are directly related to outcomes from othercriteria. Finally, they are flexible, detailed but still broad enough to see the program throughmost shifts in the needs of constituencies and the mission of the institution.Determining and Assessing the Program Educational ObjectivesThe ABET materials we looked at make it clear that each program should have well defined andeffectively implemented procedures in place for generating and assessing PEO, although they Page 6.400.3don't specify

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Brian S Macherone; Jagdish T. Gajjar; Cherrice Traver

technical objective of achieving afunctional weather station and student outcomes including teamwork, communication,documentation, design and ethical decision making skills. The technical objectives were mostlymet. Each team demonstrated working subsystems. Time ran out for complete system debugging,but the full integration was completed by the end of the term. The final project presentation anddesign reports demonstrated the result of the teamwork, communication, documentation, designand ethical decision making skills that we were hoping for. Students were very enthusiastic aboutthe project and in the following academic year they formed a “Union College Weather StationClub” to continue to work on the system debugging and installation.Although the

Conference Session

Cultivating Professional Responsibility

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Betsy Dulin

engineering programs mustgo beyond the traditional technical curriculum and required minimum hours of liberal artscourses to impart to their graduates “the broad education necessary to understand the impact ofengineering solutions in a global and societal context” and an awareness of the “economic,environmental, sustainability, manufacturability, ethical, health and safety, social, and politicalaspects” of engineering practice. 1Policy as Part of an Engineering CurriculumMany seem to agree that engineers can be vital components in the public policy process, nomatter what form the policy development process may take. Engineers have a unique and verypractical perspective on the world, and their analytical and problem-solving skills can be usednot only

Conference Session

Biomedical Engr. Design and Laboratories

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Ann Saterbak

X X5. Ability to design a system or component by synthesizing knowledge X6. Ability to solve advanced bioengineering problems in one emphasis area X7. Ability to communicate to technical and non-technical audiences X X8. Ability to work effectively in multi-disciplinary teams X X9. Understanding of the professional and ethical responsibilities10. Education that includes opportunities for “out-of-classroom” learning11. Education that prepares for post-graduate education and life-long learning XMany lower-level laboratory courses at Rice University and other

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

James Hedrick

listed below. How important do you think theyare to your college education? a) Spreadsheet, email, internet NA NA NA NA 64% 30% 5% 0% b) Professional ethics NA NA NA NA 44% 48% 7% 1% c) Teamwork skills NA NA NA NA 72% 26% 1% 1% Table 1. Summary of the 2000 and 2001 student surveys. Questions relating to the lecture portion of the course Page 7.1153.7 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition

Conference Session

Current Issues in Computing

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

E. Bernard White

3Elective 3SIXTH SEMESTERCS 305 Ethics and Law for Computing Professionals 3MSOM 303 Marketing in a Digital World 3IT Networking Core Course 3IT Concentration Related Requirement 3Elective 3SEVENTH SEMESTERIT 443 Resources Planning Requirement (New Course) 3IT 4 91 IT Seminar (New Course

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Ronald E. Musiak; Richard A. Grabiec; Eric W. Haffner; Steve Schreiner; Alan K. Karplus; Mary Vollaro

selected by using the results of Belbin's personalitytype questionnaire (administered before classes started during summer registration andorientation) [4]. Each team had a balanced mix of personality types (idea sources, detailers,finishers, etc.).V. Course ContentThe following outlines the content of the various activity areas used in the course.1. Design Activity: 1.1. Summer orientation class in engineering responsibilities and ethics 1.2. Presentation of the engineering design method, tasking a project, design-team behaviors and responsibilities (including team contracts), engineering reports (oral and written) 1.3. Design competition problem 1 - Design a scale model of a material mover that can move the most

Conference Session

Experiential Learning and Globalization in BME

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Judy L. Cezeaux, Western New England College; Michael J. Rust, Western New England College; Robert Gettens, Western New England College; Richard D. Beach, Western New England College; Jason A Criscuolo, Western New England College

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Biomedical

field of biomedical engineering and typical career paths for BME students on Monday.Other lectures included training on laboratory safety related to biological, chemical, and physicalhazards as well as an introduction to the laboratory experiences. Finally, a local surgeon thatworks with the BME faculty on design of breast surgery devices gave a lecture on hisexperiences in the medical field. Evening activities included a scavenger hunt, design of balloonpowered vehicles, and the viewing of the movie “The Island” with a subsequent discussion ofmedical ethics and human cloning. The program culminated with an awards dinner and gamenight in the campus center. A brief schedule of the program is shown in Table 1.Laboratory experiencesThe overarching

Conference Session

Mechanical Engineering Laboratories II

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John M Mativo, University of Georgia; Natasha Smith, University of Southern Indiana

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Mechanical Engineering

solve the problem at hand?These questions have been raised by different generations. In his treatise on Ethics, Aristotleconcluded “activity in a certain thing gives a man that character … dispositions are attainedthrough actually doing things (250 BC)1.” In other words, students gain such skills through thepractice of doing things. The authors investigated how unstructured “open” exercises (a uniqueapproach to learning using unstructured, multidisciplinary assignments) helped students cementtheir knowledge of concepts in Thermodynamics, Fluid Mechanics, and Heat Transfer. AThermo-fluids laboratory course required for Senior and Junior Aerospace and MechanicalEngineering students was selected for this study. Students were asked to provide their

Conference Session

Innovative Program and Curricular Development

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Carolyn A. Vallas, University of Virginia; Juliet J. Trail, University of Virginia, Center for Diversity in Engineering

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

-agedstudents, “Nanotechnology and Society,” building upon a course taken by the RET participantsduring their summer experience, The Ethical Dimensions of Nanotechnology.8 The Prezipresentation is available on-line for use by other elementary teachers.Exemplary 2010 RET Teaching Kits & Modules for Secondary InstructionIn this section we will highlight one example of an innovative teaching module for middle school Page 22.1251.5and one for high school. RET participant 9 (from Table 1) is a teacher of physical science foreighth grade, and worked in the UVA Center of Applied Biomechanics (CAB) of the Departmentof Mechanical and Aerospace

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mary Besterfield-Sacre, University of Pittsburgh; Nur Ozge Ozaltin, University of Pittsburgh; Angela Shartrand, National Collegiate Inventors & Innovators Alliance (NCIIA); Larry J. Shuman, University of Pittsburgh; Phil Weilerstein, VentureWell

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NSF Grantees

Associate Dean for Academics and Professor of Industrial Engineering at the University of Pittsburgh. His research focuses on improving the engineering educational experience with an emphasis on assessment of design and problem solving, and the study of the ethical behavior of engineers and engineering managers. A former senior editor of the Journal of Engineering Education, Dr. Shuman is the founding editor of Advances in Engineering Education. He has published widely in the engineering education literature, and is co-author of Engineering Ethics: Balancing Cost, Schedule and Risk - Lessons Learned from the Space Shuttle (Cambridge University Press). He received his Ph.D. from The Johns Hopkins University in Operations

Conference Session

New Concepts for Alternative and Renewable Energy Courses

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Craig J. Hoff, Kettering University; Jennifer Aurandt, Kettering University; Matthew R. O'Toole, Kettering University; Gregory W. Davis, Kettering University; Steven Nartker, Kettering University

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Energy Conversion and Conservation

multidisciplinary manner) b. an ability to design and conduct experiments, as well as to analyze and interpret data c. an ability to design a system, component, or process to meet desired needs within realistic constraints such as economic, environmental, social, political, ethical, health and safety, manufacturability, and sustainability f. an understanding of professional and ethical responsibility h. the broad education necessary to understand the impact of engineering solutions in a global, economic, environmental, and societal context j. a knowledge of contemporary issuesThis paper has described a few of activities to develop student understanding of the opportunitiesand

Conference Session

Towards Global Competency for Engineering Education

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Vukica Jovanovic, Trine University; Thomas H. DeAgostino, Trine University; M. Brian Thomas P.E., Trine University; R. Thomas Trusty II, Trine University

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International

ImprovisationConflict management Courage Pattern recognitionNegotiation expertise Commitment Cognitive complexityEmpowering others Hardiness CosmopolitanismCross-cultural ethical issues Maturity Managing uncertaintySocial literacy Results-orientation Local vs. global paradoxes Personal literacyCultural literacy Tenacity Behavioral flexibility Emotional intelligenceIt is very challenging to create curriculum materials that implement