Conference Session

Methods & Techniques in Graduate Education

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Brant Price, Western Carolina University; James Zhang, Western Carolina University

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Graduate Studies

methodsperformed in a satisfactory manner.From educational perspective, this project has provided invaluable graduate researchexperience. Student engagement is an important concept to the learning process, even asa graduate student [8]. The skills and self-efficacy gained from this project have helpedprepare the author for his pursuit of higher education at Purdue University and hisensuing career in the engineering field.References[1] Pledgie, Stephen. Barner, Kenneth E. Agrawal, Sunil K. (2000, March). Rahman, Tariq. Tremor Suppression Through Impedance Control [Electronic Version]. IEEE Transactions on Rehabilitation Engineering, 8(1), 53-59.[2] Chwaleba, Augustyn. Jakubowski, Jacek. Kwiatos, Krzystof. The measuring set and signal

Conference Session

Curricular Developments in Energy Education

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ray Miller, University of Cincinnati; Max Rabiee, University of Cincinnati; Elvin Stepp, University of Cincinnati

Tagged Divisions

Energy Conversion and Conservation

AC 2008-614: POWER ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGY PROGRAMDEVELOPMENTRay Miller, University of Cincinnati Ray Miller graduated from Case Institute of Technology with a BS in Fluid and Thermal Sciences in 1977. Over his 30 career in the energy field Ray build large commercial power plants for several utilities. He has also become an AEE Certified Energy Manager, and an AWS CWI. He has taught as an adjunct at the College of Applied Science for 20 years and has served on the industrial advisory boards of the Mechanical Engineering Technology and Electrical and Computer Engineering Technology departments. Ray is a member of the AWS, AFE and AEE.Max Rabiee, University of Cincinnati Max Rabiee earned

Conference Session

Design in Engineering Education Potpourri

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Vukica Jovanovic, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Mileta Tomovic, Purdue University

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Design in Engineering Education

AC 2008-664: A COMPETENCY GAP IN THE COMPREHENSIVE DESIGNEDUCATIONVukica Jovanovic, Purdue University, West Lafayette Vukica Jovanovic began her academic career in 2001 when she graduated at University of Novi Sad, majoring in Industrial Engineering and Management, Minor in Mechatronics, Robotics and Automation. She was working as Graduate Research and Teaching assistant and lectured various courses at departments of Industrial Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Mechatronics from 2001 until 2006. She was an active member European organizing committee of student robotic contest Eurobot and chief of Eurobot organizing committee of Serbian student national competition in robotics

Conference Session

Improving Technical Understanding of All Americans

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kara Harris, College of Technology - Purdue University

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Technological Literacy Constituent Committee

, and it suggests that the profession is for someone “like me.” Girls want their future job to be enjoyable, have a good working environment, make a difference, offer a good salary, and be flexible. (p.12) 8With this obvious need present to recruit individuals into ETTE, specifically females andan understanding of what motivates young women to choose certain career paths, theresearcher has identified specific factors that influenced females to choose ETTE as acareer path. Research Questions 1. What are the basic demographic data of females pursuing degrees in ETTE in the United States? 2. What factors influenced females to peruse degrees in ETTE?Methodology This study was conducted in the fall semester

Conference Session

Diversity and K-12 Issues

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Asad Yousuf, Savannah State University; Mohamad Mustafa, Savannah State University; Hope Cranford, Savannah State University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

Jersey Institute of Technology: The New Jersey Institute of Technology has a Centerfor Pre-College Programs, designed to attract elementary and secondary students to engineering,science, and math careers and to help them develop the skills to qualify for college admission.The Pre-Freshman Summer Residential Program is a seven-week orientation and transitionprogram providing students academic enrichment in math, physics, communication, andcomputer science.The aforementioned examples provide an excellent base work to recruit minority students atmajority institutions. However, research shows that African Americans attending historicallyblack colleges and universities (HBCUs) are more likely to complete a degree than thoseattending predominantly

Conference Session

Survivor: The First Few Years

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ryan Beasley, Texas A&M University; Ana Elisa Goulart, Texas A&M University; Wei Zhan, Texas A&M University

Tagged Divisions

New Engineering Educators

to avoid similar problems in the future.Considerations of group composition, group size, and what topics to discuss are examined.I. IntroductionTraditionally, Assistant Professors begin their career with a minimum of preparation for certainaspects of the job. For example, many new faculty members are straight out of graduate schoolwithout experience developing research directions or preparing classes. According to work byBoice, new faculty generally take 4-5 years to build necessary experience before starting to meetthe standards set by their institutions.1 Such lengthy adjustment periods have a negative impacton faculty performance and thus on the probability of tenure. Common actions new faculty take to improve their performance include

Conference Session

Industry and Engineering Technology Partnerships

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jaby Mohammed, Morehead State University; Sam Mason, Morehead State University; Xiaolong Li, Morehead State University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

was tracked and programs siftedchildren into different career pathways, academics and manual labor (vocational) trades becamea topic of heavy debate. In efforts to improve image and steer away from the debate, thedepartment had its first name change in the 1960’s to the Department of Industrial Education andTechnology.Factor evaluation for enrollment declineAnnual birth rates in the United States peaked their highest numbers during 1954 thru 1963 7,which will become vital to enrollment numbers during the late 70’s and early 80’s. Theenrollment for the IET department during the 1960’s began to increase, especially in IndustrialEducation as the biggest program, due to post war economy and close recessions during the yearsof 1953 through 1961 12

Conference Session

Global Engineering in an Interconnected World

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Morteza Sadat-Hossieny, Northern Kentucky University

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International

international in its scope. It’s clear that, for NKU students tosucceed in their careers and as citizens, they must have an international perspective.Votruba also said “We need to become a more international campus for the sake of ourstudents and our region.”For these visions to be realized, I believe that it is vital for NKU to increase its role as ahub for the development, exchange, and distribution of science and information betweendifferent industries in the region. Today, multinational companies such as GE, P&G, andToyota as well as some smaller companies located in the Grater Cincinnati area conductR&D activities that are hard to match at the university level. While much of this newtechnology is proprietary, universities can and have

Conference Session

International Engineering Education I - Poster Session

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Andrew Riha, Iowa State University; Diane Rover, Iowa State University; Julia Apple-Smith, Iowa State University; James Melsa, Iowa State University

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International

AC 2007-1991: GROWING GLOBALIZATION OF ENGINEERING PRACTICE:RAISING NATIONAL AWARENESSAndrew Riha, Iowa State University Andrew Riha received a BS in computer engineering at Iowa State University in 2005. Throughout his undergraduate career, he participated in international learning including a semester-long study abroad program at the University of Newcastle in Australia, and has been actively involved in the Society of International Engineers. Andrew is currently pursuing his MS in computer engineering at Iowa State University, and his technical interests include space-based embedded systems, communications, and Astronomy.Julia Apple-Smith, Iowa State University Julia Apple-Smith

Conference Session

Potpourri Session

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lisa Davids, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University-Prescott; Heidi Steinhauer, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University-Prescott

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Women in Engineering

AC 2007-2185: PROVIDING A SUPPORT COMMUNITY FOR FEMALEENGINEERING STUDENTS THROUGH A PEER COACHING PROGRAMLisa Davids, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University-PrescottHeidi Steinhauer, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University-Prescott Page 12.1211.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007 Providing a Support Community for Female Engineering Students Through a Peer Coaching ProgramAbstractAlthough women earn 20% of the engineering degrees conferred, only 8.5% of theengineering workforce is comprised of women1. Studies report that stress, travel andthe long hours associated with engineering related careers are among the reasonswomen feel discouraged from

Conference Session

Reforming the Industrial Engineering Curriculum

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sandra Furterer, University of Central Florida; Jessica Jenness, University of Central Florida; Jessica Steinberg, University of Central Florida; Lesia Crumpton-Young, University of Central Florida; Kent Williams, University of Central Florida; Luis Rabelo, University of Central Florida

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Industrial Engineering

course materials in project-basedproblem solving that enhance the students’ critical thinking and adaptive problem solving skills.Introduction:The Industrial Engineering and Management Systems (IEMS) department in the College ofEngineering and Computer Science at the University of Central Florida has incorporated severalexperiential learning opportunities into their curriculum. The goal of incorporating experientiallearning opportunities is to provide real-world experience, projects, cases and applications toIEMS students prior to their obtaining their degrees. This will help to smooth the students’transition to career positions after graduation

Conference Session

New Trends in Engineering Graduate Education

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Charles Farrar, Los Alamos National Laboratory; Michael Todd, University of California-San Diego; Phillip Cornwell, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Graduate Studies

Institute’s collaborative research projects described belwo. The firststudent to receive a graduate degree in this program, who also was an LADSS participant,completed his MS degree requirements in March, 2006.The joint degree program addresses training of potential new hires and early-career staff, whilealso serving to retain mid-career staff members who act as instructors and advisors for the early-career staff.Joint LANL/UCSD research projectsIn addition to meeting mission-driven research needs, the joint research projects also serve as aretention tool for staff at all career levels that collaborate with the UCSD faculty and students onthese projects. The new technology development associated with these projects inherentlyprovides the added

Conference Session

Assessment & TC2K Methods

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kim Nankivell, Purdue University-Calumet; Jana Whittington, Purdue University-Calumet; Joy Colwell, Purdue University-Calumet

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

at Purdue University Calumet began in fall of2000 with a few courses. During the building and promotion of the new degree program, corefaculty conducted informal surveys of current students. These surveys were completed in classand the number of surveys completed consisted of 30 to 150. (Variables were due to programgrowth). We were interested in how students found out about the program, what they liked aboutthe degree program, and what they looked for in a program degree in relation to career goals.Top responses (in order of number of responses) were as follows: How they found out about the program 1. They heard about the degree from family and peers 2. They heard about the degree from counselors in area High Schools and Community

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Devdas Pai, North Carolina A&T State University; Gukan Rajaram, North Carolina A&T State University; Ricky Lewis, Northeast Guilford High School; Oliver Lewis, North Carolina A&T State University; Cindy Waters, North Carolina A&T State University; Jagannathan Sankar, North Carolina A&T State University

&T State University and Director of the University’s Center for Advanced Materials and Smart Structures. He received his Ph.D. from Lehigh University. He conducts research and teaches courses related to advanced materials. Page 11.833.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006 Introducing Materials Engineering Concepts In a High School Automotive Technology ClassIntroduction In an effort to motivate high school students to consider future career opportunities inengineering and to appreciate the importance of engineering technology in creating a pollution-free

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ken Vickers, University of Arkansas; Ron Foster, University of Arkansas; Greg Salamo, University of Arkansas

measuressuch as graduation rate and time to degree, but only in the sense of that being an in-line processcontrol for an academic program. The true metric of success would be the success of thestudents in finding positions in career fields of their choice after graduation, and in their early Page 11.367.4career professional and personal rate of growth and achievement.Impact of Cohort Methodology on incoming students:Students entering graduate school directly after their bachelors degree are faced with severaltransition areas that they must successfully navigate as they start their graduate degrees. Theseinclude: • Increased coursework expectations

Conference Session

Programs for High School Students

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

2006-1725: ATTRACTING A DIVERSE SECONDARY EDUCATIONPOPULATION WITH PRE-ENGINEERING ADVENTURESJohn Marshall, University of Southern MaineJune Marshall, St. Joseph's College Page 11.260.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006 Attracting a Diverse Secondary Education Population with Pre-Engineering AdventuresIntroductionToo few high school students understand that a technical career path can genuinely beexciting and neat. Some have the short-term view that good paying jobs are plentiful, sowhy take the really difficult courses. Many sell their own abilities short and convincethemselves that it is too difficult a

Conference Session

Learning from Entrepreneurship Programs

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Arnold Lumsdaine, University of Tennessee; Frank Speckhart, University of Tennessee-Knoxville; Geoff Robson, Technology 2020; Kenneth Kahn, University of Tennessee-Knoxville; Majid Keyhani, University of Tennessee-Knoxville; Dan Fant, University of Tennessee-Knoxville; Rapinder Sawhney, University of Tennessee-Knoxville

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

tools. The program also assists students in learning business functionsessential to new product development in an industrial setting. Graduates of this program will bewell prepared to pursue various career paths outside of academia, but in particular, their careerprogression may proceed in the technical and/or business direction with an emphasis onentrepreneurship for small start-up firms or intrapreneurship for existing, well-establishedcompanies.By working in a team environment and solving realistic industrial-relevant problems, thestudents will be engaged in a first class educational experience dedicated to productdevelopment. It is this real world experience that is probably the most important attribute of thecombined MS-MBA curriculum, as

Conference Session

Successful Outcomes of Student Entrepreneurship

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert Evans, University of Texas-Austin

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

the process illustrate both theopportunities and significant challenges associated with integrating commercialization activityinto doctoral education. The following year, Mr Vanelli put his doctoral work on hold to focuson his role as president, Mr. Evans, now Dr. Evans, chose to resign and complete his degree,maintaining an advisory role.From a certain perspective, doctoral students are always entrepreneurial as they lead their ownresearch contributions, sell their vision to their faculty committees and create new knowledge. Intheir careers, whether they are successful faculty members, involved in business development,work with large companies, perform research or engage in management, there will be elementsof entrepreneurship. Related

Conference Session

Professional Graduate Education & Industry

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Norman Egbert; Donald Keating, University of South Carolina

Tagged Divisions

Graduate Studies

performing jobs classified asengineering. By 2006, that value reached approximately $150 billion.1, 2While not aninsignificant sum, an argument can be made that the actual value is much higher.Subjectively, the value could be equated to the public perception of engineering. Publicperception about most topics including engineering fluctuates. During the U.S. quest to put aman on the moon in the 1960s, engineering was recognized as a highly respected profession.Late in the 20th century, though, the desirability of engineering as a career or even as asignificantly positive contributor to society was questioned as job demand waxed and waned. Inaddition, the growth of technology was viewed by many as complicating their lives, andengineering was perceived

Conference Session

Mentoring Graduate Students

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ronald Kane, New Jersey Institute of Technology; Clarisa Gonzalez-Lenahan, New Jersey Institute of Technology; Michael Kerley, New Jersey Institute of Technology; Jerome Paris, New Jersey Institute of Technology; Janet Bodner, New Jersey Institute of Technology; Ronald Rockland, New Jersey Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Graduate Studies

their owncourses in favor of this one. The course focus is pedagogy but also provides instruction in skillsvaluable for the professional workplace. Students who are not Teaching Assistants now but maywant to become a TA later or are likely to pursue careers that involve instruction often select thiscourse as an option. The courses makes extensive use of techniques and ideas developed at otheruniversities (Ref. 3,6,7,8,9,10).The faculty Graduate Council, the primary academic committee at NJIT responsible forreviewing courses and programs, approved this course and made it a requirement for allTeaching Assistants in 1999. The stated policy is that students should not be in charge ofrecitation sessions or do lectures until they have competed this

Conference Session

Environmental Engineering Curricula III

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michelle Jarvie, Michigan Technological University; Kurt Paterson, Michigan Technological University

Tagged Divisions

Environmental Engineering

students. It appears that the discipline may also share a similarsuccess at attracting Native American and Hispanic students. Data presented at the 2006 ASEEconference indicates that, across the nation, the discipline attracts more Native American andHispanic students than engineering overall1. However, this paper takes a closer look at this data,which indicates that just a few schools across the nation are enrolling minority students withinenvironmental engineering.Perceptions of a discipline can alter career choice among first year students. This paper presentsstudies regarding the perceptions of the discipline among k-12 and first year students, andhighlights the need for research regarding the perceptions of the discipline among minorities

Conference Session

The Impact of Curriculum on the Retention of Women Students

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rose Marra, University of Missouri; Barbara Bogue, Pennsylvania State University; Kelly Rodgers, University of Missouri; Demei Shen, University of Missouri

Tagged Divisions

Women in Engineering

Engineering. She is co-PI of AWE and AWISE. Her research interests include recruitment and retention of women in engineering, assessment and career development.Kelly Rodgers, University of Missouri KELLY A. RODGERS, M. A. is a doctoral candidate in educational psychology at the University of Missouri - Columbia. Her research interests include motivational issues in minority student retention and the socio-emotional aspects of gifted minority adolescents.Demei Shen, University of Missouri DEMEI SHEN is a doctoral candidate in Information Science and Learning Technologies at the University of Missouri - Columbia. Her research interests include social computing and motivation in web-based learning

Conference Session

Computers and Learning

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Hoda Baytiyeh, American University of Beirut

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education

week of internet use and Assist in preparing exams; 28% student’s exam performanceTo examine the impact of internet use on their learning, engineering students were asked to rate22 items reflecting aspects of academic and non-academic skills that are needed for the pursuit ofan engineering career. The 22 Likert-scaled items revealed a reliability of 0.913. Descriptivestatistics were calculated to obtain the measures of central tendency as well as the measures ofvariability for each of the identified items. An Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA) was employedto the data to determine which of the 22 items formed related subsets. EFA was

Conference Session

Student Enrollment, Attendance, Retention, and Graduation in Engineering Technology Programs

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Christina R Scherrer, Southern Polytechnic State University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

BRIGE grant. Details about the outreach program, as well asquantitative assessment of the impact on the high school students‟ perceptions of engineering,can be found in Scherrer (2012)12. In this paper we report on the impact performing the outreachhas had on the engineering technology students performing the outreach. Specifically, we studyhow their participation has affected their interest in remaining in an engineering technologymajor and career, their likelihood of going to graduate school, and their interest in K-12 STEMeducation.Ten of the eleven undergraduate students performing the outreach were engineering technologymajors (the eleventh is an engineering major) and all but one were from underrepresented groupsin engineering. The

Conference Session

FPD 9: First-Year Engineering Courses, Part III: Research, Sustainability, and Professionalism

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Leonardo Bedoya-Valencia, Colorado State University, Pueblo; Ding Yuan, Colorado State University - Pueblo; Jane M. Fraser, Colorado State University, Pueblo

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

disagree disagree Control Group Experiment Group n = 20 n = 21 Figure 1. Students’ answers to attitude question 1 in the pre-survey Page 23.726.5Similarly, for the remaining 4 attitude questions there is no statistical difference between the twogroups. It is important to note that 9 out of 20 students (45%) in the control group disagree orstrongly disagree with the statements “People should be willing to make economic choices for abetter environment” and “My career choices should

Conference Session

First-Year Programs (FPD) Poster Session

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Elizabeth Anne Stephan, Clemson University; Edward Randolph Collins Jr. P.E., Clemson University; Chris Porter, Clemson University

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

28% Mechanical EngineeringAt the beginning of the Friday Tour, all guests report to Holtzendorff Hall for the 12:40 pm start,which is the home to both General Engineering (GE) and OUR. Guests are registered and gatherin a 150-seat auditorium for a presentation by GE; additional lecture halls are used during busytimes of the semester. A packet of CES information is given to all prospective students duringcheck-in. GE faculty conduct a 20-minute presentation to all guests, as all freshmen and transferstudents wishing to pursue a degree in engineering initially begin their collegiate career in GE,about the philosophy, curriculum, teaching methods, advising, and enrichment opportunitiesoffered in GE and the College

Conference Session

New Approaches in Engineering

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ishbah Cox, Purdue University; Monica Farmer Cox, Purdue University, West Lafayette

Tagged Divisions

Minorities in Engineering

from Spelman College, a M.S. in industrial engineering from the University of Alabama, and a Ph.D. in Leadership and Policy Studies from Peabody College of Vanderbilt University. Teaching interests relate to the professional development of graduate engineering students and to leadership, policy, and change in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics education. Primary research projects explore the preparation of engineering doctoral students for careers in academia and industry and the development of engineering education assessment tools. She is a National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career (CA- REER) award winner and is a recipient of a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers

Conference Session

Integration of Manufacturing and Society

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jaby Mohammed, Petroleum Institute

Tagged Divisions

Manufacturing

that they learn in the classroom, to introduce engineeringto students who may not have initially been drawn to engineering. The industry engagement alsoserves as the medium to reinforce models of learning which will be useful for students when theydecide on the career choice and professional workforce. Also in this paper authors would showhow they are able to incorporate social and community issues where the students use class roomknowledge and hands on experience to get to solutions, which may be difficult to show in aclassroom setting for a technical subject.The paper will also address how the engineering focus group at the Kentucky GovernorsScholars programs with the manufacturing industry engagement empowers students to: • Apply

Conference Session

Sustainability and engineering education

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jennifer Mueller PE P.E., Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; John Aidoo, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Environmental Engineering

how sustainability principles relate totheir intended engineering major. By introducing sustainable design principles early in theiracademic career, students can apply these principles throughout the remainder of their higher-level courses. In a freshman introduction to design course, a more structured strategy to teachingsustainable design was implemented to incorporate sustainability principles early in the civilengineering curriculum. The purpose at this stage in student learning was to increase students’awareness of sustainable design through the introduction to sustainability concepts, such as thetriple bottom line, life-cycle assessment, and carbon footprint, through discussion of concrete asa construction material and case studies of

Conference Session

Design in Engineering Education Division Poster Session

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jianghong (Esther) Tian, Eastern Mennonite University

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

for students to work onbecome essential.The world of engineering includes such a diverse set of topics that it would be impossible tocover them in one lifetime. It is unreasonable to cover the many engineering disciplines in oneintroductory course. Instead, an uncoverage approach should be taken as suggested in Calder’sUncoverage: Towards a Signature Pedagogy for the History Survey6. Thus, the design projectswhich are aimed to inspire students to learn about engineering and train them for challenging andcreative career opportunities should be carefully determined in regard to the discipline areas offocus. Subject areas in mechanical, electrical, and computer science surface due to theirfundamental roles in serving other disciplines. After