Conference Session

Teaching Design

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Eric Lachance; Ronald Welch

Situation.engineering students might design, the simple act of requiring the plans to be handed to anothergroup to build will quickly heighten the importance of communication. K’NEX MANAGEMENT COMPETITION CONSTRUCTION American Society of Civil Engineers Upstate New York Regional Student Conference Situation: A rock has fallen on a house in the city. The Corps of Engineers wants you to design an apparatus to lift

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Sema Alptekin; Reza Pouraghabagher; Patricia McQuaid; Daniel Waldorf

makes use of state-of-the-art industrial grade production equipment, computerhardware and software in the form of the following two systems: 1) a functioning "real" factoryhardware environment, and 2) a Production Planning and Control Center.The overall objectives of the Teaching Factory are:• to graduate better professionals by providing leading edge concepts in modern manufacturing, enabling them to effectively compete in today's industry• to enhance the current curriculum that will focus on modern manufacturing concepts• to demonstrate viable solutions to the dynamics of technological challenges across the entire integrated business enterprise• to transfer technology and information from and to partner companies as well as local

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Christine L. Corum

representative to a university level North CentralAssessment Committee. In the past the school committee has served as a forum for sharingideas and suggestion between departments. The school committee also sponsored aninformation session on assessment methods which was open to all school faculty. Finally, thecommittee developed a model for all departments within the school to use as a standard fordeveloping their own assessment system.Strategic planning. In order to allow faculty members to focus on planning and improving theoperation of the Mechanical Engineering Technology department, a two-day retreat took place inFall 1995. During the retreat, faculty members developed a list of concerns and recommendedactions in seven key areas: 1. Student

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Raymond Thompson

whole in 1999, the university began an assessment initiative that wouldinclude all academic programs. The university established a series of student learning outcomesfor each school. AT is part of the School of Technology (SOT). The SOT established whatlearning outcomes its graduates should have and the SOT Assessment Committee created aneight step assessment framework that all departments would use as a guide for their individualassessment plans. The assessment process in Aviation Technology began by examining where assessmentinformation was currently being gathered. Over eight sources were identified, but there was nocentral organization or structure in place to utilize the results. The first iteration of the ATAssessment Program

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1997 Annual Conference

Authors

Jose A. Macedo

Session 3157 Documentation of Automation Projects Jose A. Macedo Texas Tech UniversityThis paper describes a method to teach documentation skills as part of automation designprojects. At the beginning of the semester, students are given a simple automated system andassigned the task of improving it in some sense. They are guided through the following steps:generate ideas for improving the existing system, prepare a proposal for approval by theinstructor explaining the improvements, plan and execute the approved modifications, andprepare technical documentation

Collection

1997 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert J. Witt; Gilbert A. Emmert

began in the spring 1995semester. Lessons learned from this initial attempt at assessment are reported. I. IntroductionThe UW-Madison campus has required that educational objectives and outcome assessmentprocedures be developed and implemented for all majors. This arose because of a requirementfrom the North Central Accrediting Association, which accredits the campus. A similarrequirement for engineering has emerged from ABET as part of the ABET 2000 criteria beingimplemented. In order to meet this requirement in the Department of Nuclear Engineering andEngineering Physics, a committee was formed to formulate educational objectives and proposean assessment plan for each of our degree programs at the

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1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Ronald E. Barr

Session 3538 Developing the EDG Curriculum for the 21st Century: A Team Effort Ronald E. Barr The University of Texas at AustinABSTRACTA Course, Curriculum, and Laboratory Instruction (CCLI) proposal was submitted to the National ScienceFoundation (NSF) in November 1998. The title of the proposal was “Engineering Design Graphics Summer School1999: Planning the Engineering Design Graphics Curriculum for the 21st Century.” The project proposes toestablish a team of highly-motivated Engineering Design Graphics faculty who

Collection

1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Phyllis Sperling

, some of my department colleagues hadintegrated community service projects into their coursework. When a large section of downtownBrooklyn adjacent to the college was being planned as the MetroTech Urban Revitalization Area,one of our instructors volunteered his site-planning class to design the “street furniture”-- lampposts, parking and street signs, etc. Much of their design work was incorporated in the finalstreetscape. A more recent MetroTech project (integrated into a model-making course) involvedthe construction of models showing New York City’s “urban” gardens and vest pocket parks.Another colleague offered the services of his class to the Bronx community surrounding YankeeStadium; the City had cited the area for urban renewal, but an

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1999 Annual Conference

Authors

John R. Wagner

Session 3522 Evolving Industry Expectations for Engineers - The Impact of Global Manufacturing John R. Wagner Department of Mechanical Engineering, Clemson UniversityAbstract Practicing engineers need to develop a career plan to ensure that they can meet thechallenges in the evolving global workplace. The academic foundation established by anengineering degree may launch a professional career, but individuals must take a proactive rolein their professional development activities to permit career advancement. This task is becomingmore crucial as

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1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Francis Wang; El-Hadi M. Aggoune

such as design projects and national test results to prove that their graduateshave met the required outcomes under Criterion 3 of EC 2000. In many cases, however, a lack ofthe fundamental concept of educational outcomes assessment is clearly visible – the linkagebetween portfolio content, content assessment, corrective action planning and implementation,and evidence of program improvement.In this paper, we share our experience in portfolio development and present a tool that assisted usin the assessment of student educational outcomes set forth by ABET. In the following sectionswe first answer the question where does the portfolio fit in a typical assessment plan. Second thegoal, content, evaluation, and analysis of the portfolio are

Conference Session

Developments in BME Pedagogy and Assessment

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Hatice O. Ozturk, North Carolina State University; Dianne Raubenheimer, North Carolina State University

Tagged Divisions

Biomedical

Engineering she serves as the coordinator of ABET and other accreditation processes, acts as a resource/consultant to faculty in the different programs, develops and implements assessment plans, and serves as the primary educational assessment/data analyst adviser on the Dean’s staff. A particular interest is in helping faculty to develop and implement classroom-based assessment and action research plans to establish the effectiveness of instruction and to use the data to improve teaching and student learning. She is currently working with several engineering faculty assessing the impact of in-class use of technology on teaching and student learning. Dianne has also worked as an education consultant for a number of

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1997 Annual Conference

Authors

Todd Mosher

compares planning a course with planning a research project. For TheAerospace Institute this analogy has been modified to an analogy between course design andsystems engineering, which is a concept very familiar to its instructors. This paper walksthrough this methodology and offers suggestions for implementation that should be useful in avariety of educational environments. Examples are provided throughout to illustrate theconcepts. INTRODUCTIONThe Aerospace Institute was established in July 1994 to integrate key corporate educationalresources toward The Aerospace Corporation vision to be the world’s leader in space technology,planning and system engineering. Since then as a part of their charter, The

Conference Session

Construction Engineering Poster Session

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Enno Koehn, Lamar University; Venkat Kadupukotta, Lamar University; Sandeep Tirunagari, Lamar University

Tagged Divisions

Construction

contract basis. Here, anowner who wishes to build signs an agreement with a contractor, taking specific requirementsunder consideration. Generally, a permit, house plan, structural design, and a contractor arerequired for construction. The legal permit states that, the owner is the legal heir of the property,and the plan of the buildings is approved by the local municipality.Construction is continuously facing new demands and pressures. The impact of globalization, theadvance of technology and cultural changes are just a few of the issues that are affecting theindustry. Hence, construction around the world, both in developed and developing countries, isfacing challenges created by these and numerous other issues. The identification of the issues

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Susan M. Lord; Jose A. Macedo; Rick T. Olson

-endedproblems, plan and control projects, communicate technical information, and work effectively asa member of a design team. These objectives are explicitly indicated in the ABET EC 2000guidelines and are similar to those of first-year introduction to engineering courses at many otherinstitutions1, 2. This laboratory methodology is unique because it includes a semester-longproject in which project planning and control are essential, extensive documentation is developedthroughout the project, and a service-learning component helps achieve learning goals of collegeand high school students.We completed the first offering of this laboratory in ENGR 20 Computer Aided Engineering inSpring 1999. During that semester 35 students proposed, designed, built and

Conference Session

Systems Thinking

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Andrea Goncher-Sevilla, University of Florida; John Alexander Mendoza-Garcia, University of Florida; Mengyu Li, University of Florida

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Systems Engineering Division (SYS)

foster Systems ThinkingSkills in engineering students.Study participants were tasked to complete a scenario-based assessment proposed by Grohs et al. (2018)that focuses on systems thinking and problem-solving as engineers by responding to a scenario that,according to the authors, elicits students' goal definition skills. The scenario prompts (Prompts 5 and 6)asked students to formulate goals/objectives for this specific issue. Data was collected electronically andanalyzed following the guidance provided by the assessment tool rubric for evaluating students' ability toidentify short-term and long-term goals for technical and contextual aspects. We rated their answers on theexpectations of a successful plan and a draft idea,Results show that when

Collection

2005 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

R. L. Kolar; K. Gramoull; T. R. Rhoads; R. C. Knox

Preliminary Results from a “Course-less” Curriculum Study R.L. Kolara, K. Gramoullb, T.R. Rhoadsc, R.C. Knoxa a School of Civil Engineering and Environmental Science b School of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering c College of Engineering University of Oklahoma Norman, OK 73019 kolar@ou.edu (contact author) ABSTRACTIn 2002, we received an NSF planning grant that builds upon our Sooner City project,which was funded through the Action Agenda program

Collection

2018 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Heather McCain

of the students are working professionals. The students must balance their time betweenhomework, work, and family. For course homework, projects are typically assigned to teams ofstudents and the project spans the entire semester. The project required students to research atype of business and create a project plan to develop the business. The students were expected towork together over the semester to complete the project assignment. Students were made awareof the expectations for the project via the syllabus, class lectures, and Blackboard assignmentinstructions that include rubrics. In the face-to-face course, which is 16 weeks long, somestudents did not start on the project until near the middle of the semester and some waited untilthe

Collection

2014 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Seri Park

the economic analysis, software applications, and design standards and plan sets.A. CEE Curriculum (Junior & Senior Levels) Furthermore, annual senior (student) exit survey results also CEE 3705 Engineering Economics is a junior-level required showed that it is essential that they are learning the types ofcore course with traditionally total of 48-52 students enrollment skills that will make them competitive upon graduation and thatdivided into two sessions (average of 25 students per session). they have an opportunity to be creative while learning.Main course concepts and

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2015 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Peter Mark Jansson; Neil M. Boyd

cost photovoltaicsystems and to professionally interact with real potential customers to review a system proposalfor their residence. Simultaneously, the student participants were learning to develop realbusiness plans for a venture located in a market of their choosing in the US or abroad. Thefaculty was able to bring in an excellent group of outside speakers consisting of individuals whonearly all started, operated (and potentially sold) a photovoltaic business. The majority of thesespeakers were alumni of the university. The companies included Solar City, Renewable EnergyAlliance, SoCore Energy, Lenape Solar, Mesa Solar, SunTechnics, KC Larson, and CommunityEnergy. Student teams carried out a dozen feasibility assessments as well as many

Collection

2009 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Ossama Elhadary

frequent causes of change were “Changed conditions” (“unbudgeted and unanticipated changes to baseline assumptions as they pertain to site conditions and weather) and “Programming Evolution” (change in/to the underlying basis of design as captured and identified in the baseline). This implies that more needs to done to identify risks that might derail the project and proactively plan responses to mitigate those risks. The fact that “ “Changed Conditions” seem to be a strong driver to change as shown by this research is understandable as in today’s complex IT projects and for a successful implementation many prerequisites and conditions need to be met and when they are not, change to projects become inevitable. In this

Conference Session

Aerospace Division Technical Session: Pedagogy and Curriculum

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael Hatfield, University of Alaska Fairbanks; Haley Nelson; Brian Holst; Michael Radotich; Tad Nelson, University of Alaska Fairbanks

and limitations of UAS, how UAS/sensors could best be applied to missioncampaigns, how tradeoffs in capability/cost can affect mission planning, experience with data analysis andrendering tools, experience liaising with professional UAS flight operations teams, hands on experience withconsumer-grade UAS, and in creation of technical documents and multimedia capturing their results. [3]This paper details the course organization, how it has been structured to satisfy the diverse interests of ourstudent population in tackling important contemporary issues with modern technology (while doing so withlimited university resources), how this body of experience is expected to help them in their own careers andendeavors, and how that experience

Conference Session

Graduate Studies Division Technical Session 4

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Thomas L. Acker, Northern Arizona University; Nena E. Bloom, Northern Arizona University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Graduate Studies

deploy and operate existing wind energy technology, but to evolve thetechnology to be more efficient, cost effective, and adaptable to the electricity grid. Asprogressively larger and technologically more sophisticated turbines are designed and built, bothonshore and off, and as wind plants continue to provide an ever-larger fraction of the energysupply, there are significant scientific and engineering challenges to be addressed such asmaterials and structures, grid integration, and energy storage [6], [7]. In planning for the future,universities, and members of the North American Wind Energy Academy (NAWEA), identifieda number of strategies to address the lack of university programs, most of which rely oncollaboration. These include

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division (ENT) Technical Session 1

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Irene B. Mena, University of Pittsburgh

Tagged Divisions

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division (ENT)

entrepreneurial process, and the business model canvas, and work inteams of three to four students on what will be their final deliverable at the end of the semester: abusiness plan for a social enterprise of their creation, that addresses a sustainability/climate issue.The course has been very successful in its implementation, with consistently positive commentsfrom students. This paper provides an overview of the course, course topics, and courseassignments. The course places a strong emphasis on the positive impact businesses andentrepreneurial pursuits can have on addressing societal problems, and in particular onaddressing climate change, and highlights the positive role engineers can have on humanity.These foci have been found to be especially

Collection

1996 Annual Conference

Authors

Osama Ettouney; Don L. Byrkett

CIMS course is a 3 credit, senior level course with one hour of design. The course wasdeveloped collaboratively in the truest sense of the word. Professors Byrkett and Ettouney worked closelyover several years to broaden the course from one that primarily emphasized computer aided manufacturing toone that showed how computers can be integrated into every aspect of manufacturing including productdesign, process design, and product manufacturing. During the Spring semester of 1993, ProfessorEttouney taught the class independent y for the last time while Professor Byrkett attended all of the classesand laboratories. Their plans were to work collaborative y to develop an interdisciplinary course that wouldbe of interest to both manufacturing

Conference Session

2-Year College Division: Transferring and Smoothing Transitions

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Cynthia Kay Pickering, Science Foundation Arizona; Caroline Vaningen-Dunn, SFAz Center for STEM, Arizona State University; Anita Grierson, SFAz Center for STEM at Arizona State University; Anna Tanguma- Gallegos Gallegos

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Two-Year College

implants. She received her Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Michigan in 1990, her Master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from Northwestern University in 1994, and a Master’s in Business Administration from Arizona State University in 2000.Anna Tanguma- Gallegos Gallegos Anna Tanguma-Gallegos brings 10 years of STEM strategic planning and program management experi- ence in higher education environments and initiatives. Anna has a history of promoting and increasing c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Paper ID #30289enrollment in the programs she manages, as

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Baum; Karen Thornton; David Barbe

entrepreneurialendeavors.While a number of leading universities and colleges have entrepreneurship programs andactivities, most are aimed at graduate students.1 Common activities offered within theseprograms include courses in entrepreneurship, e-clubs and business plan competitions. TheCEOs Program is unique in that it is exclusively for undergraduate students, who live together asa community within the University. Page 6.257.1 Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2001, American Society for Engineering EducationIt has been shown that students demonstrate

Conference Session

Undergraduate Retention Activities

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Kerry Kinney; Tricia Berry

pre and post-program surveys indicates that the program has increased the proportion of undergraduateparticipants interested in pursing a graduate education. As for the graduate students who serve asmentors in the program, over 60% of the participants report an improvement in their teachingand communication skills as a result of the program. The GLUE program has become anintegral retention and career development initiative for WEP and the College of Engineering atUT Austin and several improvements are planned for the Spring 2005 program.IntroductionAlthough The University of Texas at Austin has an excellent graduate program in engineering,many of our undergraduate students know very little about the research going on at ouruniversity

Conference Session

Career Development for Engineering Professionals

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Wayne P. Pferdehirt, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Jeffrey S. Russell, University of Wisconsin, Madison; John S. Nelson P.E., University of Wisconsin, Madison

Tagged Divisions

Continuing Professional Development

Laboratory. He has a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering from Carnegie-Mellon University and a master’s degree in civil engineering with an emphasis in regional planning from Northwestern University. Wayne is a frequent speaker and author on continuing education for engineers, and is a member of the College of Engineering’s Education Innovation Committee. For more information about UW-Madison’s Master of Engineering Management degree see https://epd.wisc.edu/online- degree/master-of-engineering-management/Dr. Jeffrey S. Russell, University of Wisconsin, Madison Dr. Jeffrey S. Russell is the Vice Provost for Lifelong Learning and Dean of the Division of Continuing Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. In his

Conference Session

Mechanical Engineering Division Technical Session 3

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rachal E Thomassie, Texas A&M University; Kathryn Kirsch, Pennsylvania State University; Eric R Marsh, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Timothy J. Jacobs, Texas A&M University

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

one new online learning module introduced each week; themodules are structured such that a discussion of the week’s topic is offered first, with a gradedassignment given at the end. Discussion content is shared with students through onlineperiodicals, instructional videos, case studies, and worksheets.The content in each course was curated specifically to address the students’ relevant needs. Thetiming of the course offering in junior year is critical because students are first entering theirspecific discipline at that time: content is focused on developing plans for themselves andidentifying goals. In the senior year course, content is focused on helping students properlyassess full-time job offers and adjust to life beyond college. This

Conference Session

Pre-College Engineering Education Division Technical Session 4

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Melissa A. Dagley, University of Central Florida; Damla Turgut, University of Central Florida; Hyoung Jin Cho, University of Central Florida; Eleazar Vasquez

Tagged Divisions

Pre-College Engineering Education

technologicaladvances in their prospective fields of science and engineering.The NSF Research Experiences for Teachers (RET) Site in Collaborative MultidisciplinaryEngineering Design Experiences for Teachers (CoMET) discussed here was designed to provideteachers hands-on engineering design experience covering all aspects of the sensor research forthe IoT era, from the manufacturing of a sensor, to the hardware and software that allows them tooperate. In order to support the STEM educational services for teachers and students in middleand high schools, this site program focused on the creation of lesson plans easily adapted to anyclassroom and competent teacher trainers who could ensure quality pre-service and in-serviceteacher education, by providing multi