Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Boyer; Taryn Bayles

Grumman selects at least 10 Baltimore inner-city high school students forthe program who are entering their sophomore or junior years, based on their interest in pursuinga technical or business degree, academic performance, leadership skills and communityinvolvement. The students work with two Northrop Grumman mentors during the school yearon selected projects tailored to their business interests and technical level. Northrop Grummancollaborates with the University of Maryland Baltimore County to provide a six week summerprogram for the high school students focused on developing technical, business and leadershipskills. Upon graduation from high school, qualified students receive multi-year partialscholarships, in addition the students can return

Conference Session

Design And Manufacturing Experiences I

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jim Lyall; Rachel Shinn

-semester design sequence with the first semester being a Page 9.444.1 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright ÆÉ 2004, American Society for Engineering Educationpaper design of an entire spacecraft and mission. The second semester is dedicated to design,build, integration and test. In order to accomplish this in a single semester, only a fewsubsystems can be done in detail, so the project is de-scoped from the previous semester’s designto be some portion of the design that the students can complete in a single semester.The benefits

Conference Session

Innovative Techniques & Funding Research

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jim Leake

, American Society for Engineering”OverviewThe class meets four hours a week, with students receiving three semester credits (or 0.75 unitsin the case of graduate students) for their efforts. The only prerequisite is an engineering graphicscourse that includes parametric solid modeling, although students are also expected to be familiarwith solid mechanics concepts. Class time is divided between a classroom equipped with acomputer and projection system, and a computer laboratory.In the classroom either the instructor gives lectures, or the students themselves makepresentations on topics that they have previously researched. Lectures cover such subjects astransformation matrices, geometric modeling (solids, splines, and surfaces), finite

Conference Session

International Engineering Education I

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Ernest Goeres; Elisabeth Sanchez; Alejandro Lozano; Victor Mucino

the protective world of academia, something that has to do with thehuman dimension, the cultural baggage and with the need for lifelong learning skills required tomaintain competitiveness in all fronts.For the past six years, a program developed by West Virginia University in collaboration withuniversities and industry from Queretaro, Mexico has been addressing many of issues cited abovein the context of an experiential exercise. Each year, the program takes place during six weeks ofthe summer session, in which students and faculty from West Virginia travel to Mexico to join asimilar team of Mexican students, faculty plus industrial liaisons to work as a team, despitelanguage and cultural differences. A challenging industrial project (or

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Roger Hadgraft; Mike Xie

Session Number: 1608 Civil and Infrastructure Engineering for Sustainability Assoc. Prof. Roger Hadgraft, Prof. Mike Xie, Mr Nomer Angeles School of Civil and Chemical Engineering, RMIT University Melbourne, AustraliaIntroductionIn 2002, the School of Civil and Chemical Engineering at RMIT University began a project torenew its Civil Engineering program, ready for the new 2004 academic year. This programhad high acceptance in the marketplace (high graduate employability) but average studentsatisfaction scores (as measured by the national CEQ data).As part of this renewal process

Conference Session

DEED Poster Session

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Vaz

, and the role ofsenior capstone design in the curriculum is more summative than formative, leaving little roomfor remediation and subsequent improvement. First-year design experiences can providecontext, motivation, and excitement, but first-year students are typically without the technicalbackground to experience a genuine electrical and computer engineering (ECE) design processthat fills an unmet need and addresses all of the tradeoffs between technical and nontechnicalmatters that occur in product design.For over 30 years, the undergraduate engineering programs at Worcester Polytechnic Institute(WPI) have featured a substantial senior capstone design project as one of three degree-requiredproject experiences. While faculty reviews of the

Conference Session

Lighting the Fire: REU

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Mary Roth; Kristen Sanford Bernhardt

student involvement and for increasing the quality of the experiences. Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for EngineeringTypes of Research Experiences Available to Lafayette StudentsLafayette College facilitates three different mechanisms for student research, as described in thefollowing paragraphs.Independent StudyA student takes an independent study during a semester for course credit (for a Civil Engineeringmajor, this course typically counts as a civil engineering elective). Any student may request towork with a faculty member on an independent study project, and the project may take a varietyof forms

Conference Session

DEED Poster Session

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Will Cluett; Peter Weiss; Kim Woodhouse; David Bagley; Susan McCahan

cohesive course outline. The newcourse, entitled Engineering Strategies and Practice (ESP), is a two-course sequence (26 weekstotal) that was offered on a pilot basis for 100 students in the 2003-04 academic year.There are many different elements that have been developed for design courses.1 The two-course sequence that was piloted this past year combines a number of these elements and hassome special attributes. There is a major design project carried out for a real client. The team ofinstructors is a mix of engineering professors, communication instructors, and industryprofessionals. In addition, considerable class time is allocated to understanding how human,social, and environmental issues are brought into the design process. This is done, in

Conference Session

K-12 Outreach Initiatives

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Vieth; Kazem Kazerounian

Galileo Project, is an extension of the university’s already-successful da Vinci Project, now entering its fourth year. This paper describes the goals andobjectives of the program and documents progress made during the first nine months.IntroductionThe University of Connecticut School of Engineering, in partnership with the UCONN NeagSchool of Education, selected local school districts, the Greater Hartford Academy for Math andScience, and local industry, received an award from the National Science Foundation’s GraduateTeaching Fellows in K-12 Education (GK-12) Program1 to develop and implement an innovative,comprehensive, affordable, and accessible program to integrate engineering into the secondaryschool curriculum. This program, called the

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Terry L. Ballinger; Craig W. Somerton

school teacher for each academic class. The mechanical engineering class wasdivided into ten units, coinciding with the ten class periods. Each unit covered one of the basictopics of mechanical engineering. The standard format of a class period involved threecomponents. First, a relatively brief lecture was given on the topic of the day. This was doneusing a Microsoft PowerPoint slide show, which conveyed a certain level of professionalism inthe class and the use of technology. The second part of the class period involved a hands-onproject. The project tied in with the topic of the day and was of such a form that the studentscould test their projects against each other in a competition. Finally, the class period concludedwith a review of the

Conference Session

Trends in Construction Engr. Educ. II

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Charles McIntyre

separate capstone courses for eachdegree program (construction engineering, construction management, and civil engineering).During the Spring Semester of 1998, a single overall departmental capstone course was created.The intent was to provide a true “capstone” experience, where students in each degree programcould combine their skills to achieve the successful completion of a project. The primaryobjective of the capstone experience is to combine all aspects of the planning, design, andconstruction phases of a project into meaningful education experience which mimics “real-world”design and construction practices. Students are required to use all of the knowledge and skillsthat they have acquired throughout their educational experience to develop

Conference Session

Experiential Learning in ECE

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Dick Blandford, University of Evansville; Mark Earl Randall, University of Evansville

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

-altitude balloon project which received NSF funding in 2008 originated with TaylorUniversity in Upland, Indiana. Since that time numerous other universities have becomeinvolved in the project by way of Taylor's ongoing summer workshops. A typical balloon travelsto about 100,000 feet in a two to three hour period, bursts, and parachutes its payload to earth. Aballoon can be used to launch a 12 pound load into a near-space environment for a modest cost.The balloon and the load can be tracked and the load can be recovered using the GlobalPositioning System (GPS). This system allows undergraduate electrical and computerengineering students to design instrumentation packages for a harsh environment and therecovered data can be used to judge the

Conference Session

Comparing Different Aspects of the Cooperative Education Experience

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Craig J. Gunn, Michigan State University

Tagged Divisions

Cooperative & Experiential Education

important to not only look at what is going on in the classroom but to investigate theadded influence of any contact the students have with industrial employers. Another area ofimportance that links the classroom, internships, co-ops, experiential learning experiences, andindustry is the growing contact that comes with project based courses that deal directly withindustry to accomplish their ends. Many schools are promoting the work that can be done bystudents integrating their work in the classroom with industrial influence. There are also thenumbers of students who participate in extracurricular activities that produce many contact hourswith engineering alumni through those projects. While the major focus for accreditation is theclassroom, there

Conference Session

Design Tools and Methodology I

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nathan Delson, University of California, San Diego

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

AC 2012-5024: RATEMYTEAMMATE.ORG: A PROPOSAL FOR AN ON-LINE TOOL FOR TEAM BUILDING AND ASSESSMENTDr. Nathan Delson, University of California, San Diego Nathan Delson’s interests include mechatronics, biomedical devices, human-machine interfaces, and en- gineering education. He is Co-founder and Past President of Coactive Drive Corp., which develops novel actuators and control methods for use in force feedback human interfaces. Medical device projects in- clude an instrumented mannequin and laryngoscope for expert skill acquisition and airway intubation training. He received his undergraduate degree in mechanical engineering from University of California, San Diego, and then went on to get a doctorate in mechanical

Conference Session

Engineering Education Ties and Engineering Programs in the Middle East and Latin America

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jaby Mohammed, Petroleum Institute

Tagged Divisions

International

students1, 2. Most of the online education or hybridcourse offering had been at the master’s and certificate level. Limited activity has been noted atthe Ph.D. and pre-engineering level 3, 4 this case study had been directed towards the freshmenengineering design course. In this paper authors would discuss how they used the hybridprogram to work on one of the sub goals set by the institution.The course that is chosen for the hybrid program is the freshmen engineering design course.Since many engineering educators have recognized project based learning, service learning, andfreshmen engineering projects have lasting impact on students learning compared to thetraditional classroom set up. In this paper authors would discuss about the project based

Collection

1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Lisa Bogaty

Session #3586 Implications for Technology Curriculum – Outcomes of a DACUM study in Tennessee Lisa Bogaty Pellissippi State Technical Community CollegeAbstractThis paper describes the three major outcomes of using the DACUM (Developing aCurriculum) process in developing curricula for the Tennessee Exemplary FacultyAdvanced Technology Education project, an NSF-funded precursor to the currentsoutheastern Advanced Technology Education (SEATEC) project. The project had threemajor goals: Faculty development, curriculum and curriculum support materialsdevelopment and developing

Collection

1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Carol Fulton; Barbara L. Licklider

sea changeof re-engineering efforts, however, is the vast amount of knowledge now needed by faculty tobring about the complex outcomes now desired for students. Hence, realizing the hopes ofcurrent restructuring efforts hinge on a major investment in faculty development - yet not justmore of what we’ve always done - a different kind of faculty development is needed. This needled to the creation of Project LEA/RN (Learning Enhancement Action/Resource Network), aninnovative faculty development project designed to improve learning and teaching in the Collegeof Engineering at Iowa State.Project LEA/RN traces back to the year 1993 and to the efforts of 18 faculty in the Departmentof Mechanical Engineering. Noticing discrepancies between the

Collection

1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Sub Ramakrishnan; Mohammad B. Dadfar

procedure calls whichwere established more than a decade ago are being revisited as client-server networks becomepopular. Developers are also scrambling to build Java based applications that can be deployedon any desktop.In the last offering of our data communications course, we did a pilot study and made somechanges to our traditional offering of this course. The focus was more hands-on experience,exposure to modern technology, and less on theory. The classroom setting was informal andprojects were group-oriented. In this paper we describe two projects that were assigned duringthis offering. The first project uses Java to build a client-server application and attempts tocompare the tradeoffs between Java and C++. The second project is an extension

Conference Session

Instructional Showcase

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jessica Moriah Vaden, University of Pittsburgh; Melissa M. Bilec, University of Pittsburgh

Tagged Topics

Diversity, Professional Interest Council (PIC)

Tagged Divisions

Pre-College Engineering Education Division (PCEE)

efforts to create inclusive classrooms and programming.Dr. Melissa M. Bilec, University of Pittsburgh Dr. Bilec is an associate professor in the Swanson School of Engineeringˆa C™s Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. Dr. Bilecˆa C™s research program focuses on the built environment, life cycle assessment, sustainable healthcare, and energy im ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 A Collaborative Virtual Air Quality Learning Experience with Kakenya’s Dream (Resource Exchange, Diversity) The curriculum we developed for this collaborative project focused on introducing thestudents and instructors to the importance of air quality (AQ), its impacts on

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering Division (MULTI) Technical Session 4

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kimberly Lechasseur, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Kristin Wobbe, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Sarah E. Stanlick, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering Division (MULTI)

Paper ID #41524Beyond PBL: The Value of Stacking High-Impact PracticesDr. Kimberly Lechasseur, Worcester Polytechnic Institute Dr. Kimberly LeChasseur is a researcher and evaluator with the Worcester Polytechnic Institute. She holds a dual appointment with the Center for Project-Based Learning and the Morgan Teaching and Learning Center. She holds a PhD in Educational LeadershipDr. Kristin Wobbe, Worcester Polytechnic Institute Co-Author: Kristin Wobbe, PhD Associate Dean, Undergraduate Studies Worcester Polytechnic Institute Co-Author: Robert Traver, Ed.D. Undergraduate Studies, Teaching Professor Worcester Polytechnic

Conference Session

Engagement in Practice Lightning Round: Engineering with and for Community Partners

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

George A Hunt P.E., University of Nebraska, Lincoln; Elizabeth G. Jones, University of Nebraska, Lincoln

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Community Engagement Division (COMMENG)

and Spring 2023, the issue of redlining was used in two first year civil engineeringcourses to highlight the role of civil engineers in addressing societal issues. In our first semester, firstyear course (CIVE 101 Introduction to Civil Engineering), redlining was addressed as an example of howpolicies affect not only social justice issues but also how and where infrastructure is delivered. Buildingon this introduction to redlining, our second semester first year course (CIVE 102 Geomatics for CivilEngineers) course incorporated work for the Omaha Spatial Justice Project by digitizing georeferencedimages from 1955 to help quantify what was lost in redlined areas of Omaha, Nebraska when USHighway 75 was constructed. Students in both classes

Conference Session

Mechanical and Architectural Engineering Laboratories

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert McMasters, Virginia Military Institute; Ryan Taylor, Virginia Military Institute

Tagged Divisions

Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

Ph.D. at Michigan State University in 1997 and continued to serve there as a Visiting Assistant Professor until 2004 when he accepted an Associate Professor position at the Virginia Military Institute (VMI) in Lexington, Va. He currently serves as a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at VMI.Ryan Taylor, Virginia Military Institute Page 22.1076.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011 Modeling Rockets in Instrumentation LabAbstractA final project for an instrumentation laboratory course was developed involving the predictionof the maximum altitude of a model

Conference Session

Automation Subjects in Manufacturing Education

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Arif Sirinterlikci, Robert Morris University

Tagged Divisions

Manufacturing

Division and SME Bioengineering Tech Group. Page 22.558.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011 Employing Animatronics in Teaching Engineering DesignIntroductionThis paper presents a cross-disciplinary methodology in teaching engineering design, especiallyproduct design. The author has utilized this animatronics-based methodology at college andsecondary school levels for about a decade. The objective was to engage students in practical andmeaningful projects. The result is an active learning environment that is also creative. Themethodology was also employed for student recruitment and

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Technical Session

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Scott P. Schaffer, Purdue University; Margaret Huyck, Illinois Institute of Technology; William C. Oakes, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Daniel Gandara, Illinois Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

AC 2011-1827: ASSESSING TEAMWORK AND BEST EDUCATIONALPRACTICES IN DIVERSE MULTIDISCIPLINARY PROGRAMSScott P. Schaffer, Purdue University Scott P. Schaffer is an associate professor in the Learning Design and Technology program at Purdue University where he teaches courses related to design, assessment & evaluation, and learning theory. His research focuses on team learning and the design of informal learning spaces.Margaret Huyck, Illinois Institute of Technology Professor Emeritus; Principle Investigator on NSF project involving four universities engaged in develop- ing measures for teamwork and ethical awareness, and identifying best educational practices for develop- ing those competencies among undergraduate

Collection

1997 Annual Conference

Authors

Scott J. Amos; James L. Otter

. Instead, theywould focus on leading, guiding and mentoring groups of students in design, operations,methodology and management in a simulated construction company environment. This processwould require students at each level, first year through graduate, to become part of a multi-faceted, multi-functional construction design/manage/construct organization inside a universityenvironment. Faculty would become company officers, CEOs, senior project managers,department managers, etc. First year students would assume introductory roles (plan reviewers,as-built and shop drawing developers, quantity takeoff surveyors, etc.). Each year a studentwould move up to a different more advanced role. Field engineers, material testers andestimators at the second

Conference Session

New Collaborations

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Anne Rauh, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Jody Hoesly, University of Wisconsin, Madison

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Libraries

Collections and Scholarly Communications Librarian at the University of Wisconsin - Madison's Wendt Library. Jody has a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering and worked as an engineer in the machine tool, recreational vehicle, and electrical contracting industries. In 2008, she graduated from the University of Wisconsin - Madison with an M.A. in Library and Information Studies. She is also a certified K-12 teacher-librarian, technology teacher, and Project Lead the Way (PLTW) instructor. Jody recently joined Wendt where she manages the collection budget and serves as a reference, instruction, and liaison librarian

Conference Session

ECE Lab Development and Innovations

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Peter Idowu

Development of Simulation Models for Power Converters – Undergraduate Research Experience Peter Idowu Penn State University – Harrisburg, Middletown, PAAbstract – The value of early exposure of engineering undergraduates to research has drawnmuch attention over the past decade, and a wide array of creative options have been explored.This paper discusses the process and challenges of guiding a group of engineeringundergraduate seniors through a research project that holds the potential of exposure torealistic engineering problems, and a motivation for students to pursue advanced studies.Index Terms – Undergraduate research, power

Collection

2024 ASEE North Central Section Conference

Authors

Aja Rachel Bettencourt-Mccarthy, University of Cincinnati; Matthew Sleep, University of Cincinnati

Construction Management Cincinnati, Ohio 45221 University of Cincinnati Email: bettenar@ucmail.uc.edu Cincinnati, OH 45221 Email: sleepmw@ucmail.uc.eduProject-based learning is core to many first-year engineering, engineering design, andengineering capstone courses. Ideally, students in courses that use project-based learning workon real-world projects that are relevant to their communities with a sponsor or outside partnerwho helps to guide the work and assess deliverables. By working with a community partner orclient, students practice incorporating outside perspectives and empathy into their designs.Realistically, a

Collection

2013 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Tony Kerzmann; Gavin Buxton

]. 2 With a city-wide emphasis on sustainability, RMU has decided to do its part in educating ourfuture workforce to increase their environmental knowledge and awareness. Through thedevelopment of a new minor in Alternative Energy and Sustainability and in addition to existingeducational and outreach programs, RMU is doing its part to meet the objectives of the studentsand their future employers. The purpose of this paper is to focus on the capstone course for theAlternative Energy and Sustainability Minor, describing the first time that the course was taughtin the Spring of 2013, the research projects that were conducted, the project outcomes, and thecourse teaching outcomes.II. Alternative Energy and Sustainability MinorThe Alternative

Collection

2024 Rocky Mountain Section Conference

Authors

Angela Bielefeldt; Katherine Ramos; Joan Tisdale

selection, environmentalliteracy, environmental impact assessment, and systems thinking.Course MaterialsThe materials generated and shared related to sustainability are summarized in Table 1, mappedto the EOP topics. Some of these are further described below.Table 1. FYED course materials integrating sustainability Sustainability materials EOP topics Introductory lecture Environmental impact assessment, environmental literacy, materials selection, social responsibility Checklist / Scorecard Environmental impact assessment, materials selection, social responsibility Project prompts Environmental literacy, materials selection, social responsibility, design Ethics assignment