Conference Session

Developing Teaching and Mentoring Skills

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Donald P. Visco Jr., University of Akron; Nidaa Makki; Esther R. Wain-Weiss, Universtiy of Akron

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Graduate Studies

Paper ID #22311A Doctoral Teaching Program in EngineeringDr. Donald P. Visco Jr., University of Akron Donald P. Visco, Jr. is the Dean of the College of Engineering at The University of Akron and Professor of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering.Nidaa Makki Dr. Nidaa Makki is an Associate Professor in the LeBron James Family Foundation College of Education at The University of Akron, in the department in Curricular and Instructional Studies. Her work focuses on STEM curriculum integration and science inquiry practices in middle and high school. She is a co-PI on an NSF funded project to investigate the impact of

Conference Session

ELOS Technical Session 2 - Beliefs, Motivation, and Pedagogy

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael Robinson, Saint Vincent College; Brian E. Faulkner, Milwaukee School of Engineering

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Experimentation and Laboratory-Oriented Studies Division (DELOS)

used bystudents at least once, and often multiple times in previous courses.Since this paper investigates students’ epistemology, it will be helpful to review the epistemicgoals of the faculty in the course used for data collection. The integrated nature of this course isintended to develop an epistemology that engineering knowledge cannot be easily separated.Solving a problem almost always involves thinking across disciplines. In this way the courseprovides some correction to a view of engineering knowledge which is somewhat inevitablegiven that students progress through courses which seem to be largely isolated from one another.In addition to the connectedness of engineering knowledge, this course aims to deepen students’understanding of the

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering Design I

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Benjamin Goldschneider, Virginia Tech; Nicole P. Pitterson, Virginia Tech

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

-employment experience hason students can help engineering education researchers (EER) understand the role that diverseteams, particularly in the capstone environment, can have for engineering students in thedevelopment of their collaborative abilities.In the long term, this study seeks to better understand how the social norms that are present ininterdisciplinary teams influence the development of effective collaborative behaviors. Thesebehaviors can be considered as belonging to a larger grouping of skills, sometimes called “meta-competencies,” that have become an increasingly important part of what employers look for fromengineering graduates [11]. However, this paper will focus directly on the curriculum design ofan interdisciplinary capstone

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Nelson Baker

programs integrated well with the curriculum and presented theory andanalysis methods similar to those used in most statics classes.Very few of the programs supported the constructivist-like activities that were identified by bothlearning theory and instructor interviews as being extremely important. Many of the programssimply presented theory and examples but did not allow students to experiment. At the oppositeend of the spectrum are the programs that did allow students to adjust parameters on models orproblems but presented no theory to students; these programs are mainly analysis tools.Software SelectionIn the middle of this spectrum is Multimedia Engineering Statics (MES). Although MES did notmeet all of the evaluation criteria, it was the

Collection

1996 Annual Conference

Authors

Brian J. Winkel; Aaron D. Klebanoff

(2.8, .5)).For each problem there is general information about the (c) Determine the amount of surface area on the mountainauthor(s), the statement of the problem, keywords, teacher which you can see from the point (2.8, .5, f [2.8, .5]).notes (issues related to the problem, prerequisites, time al-lotment - time management, expectations, future payoffs, When we first assigned this visualization problem to ourextensions, references and sources), possible solutions, and calculus students in an integrated curriculum (see [2]) weissues in solution. Further, for each problem there is a com- spent

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

W. Doyle St.John

Session 3280 A Laboratory Course in Sensors W. Doyle St.John University of Wisconsin - PlattevilleAbstractA novel feature of our engineering physics program is a 2-credit laboratory course coveringsensors and sensor systems. The engineering physics program accentuates areas which aremultidisciplinary with an engineering curriculum emphasizing physics, electrical, andmechanical engineering. Following the advice of our industrial advisors, we have developed acourse which covers basic sensor technologies, sensor calibration and applications, as well

Conference Session

Statics - They can move at constant velocity!

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sirena C. Hargrove-Leak, Elon University

Tagged Divisions

Mechanics

heterogeneous catalysis for fine chemical and pharmaceutical applications and membrane separations. Page 23.407.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013 Developing Threshold Conception in StaticsAbstractThe study and practice of engineering involves complex problem solving which requires theapplication and integration of fundamental principles of mathematics and science. Thedevelopment of the skill needed to do this effectively and efficiently is a journey from novice toexpert that begins in the undergraduate curriculum. The more analytical aspects of complexproblem solving

Conference Session

Mechanical ET Design & Capstone

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

David Myszka

. This strategy in using scenarios emphasizes the designin computer aided design.This paper will also explore the implementation of design scenarios in engineeringgraphics courses, along with highlighting the results, benefits and drawbacks.IntroductionOver the past twenty years, computer aided design has become an irreplaceable tool inthe design of machinery [2]. As the use of this technology has matured, design anddrawing instruction at educational institutions has evolved [3].As CAD was initially being adopted in industry, CAD courses were added to technicalcollege curriculum. These courses were meant to teach the student, who had alreadymastered technical drawing techniques, the procedures and syntax to use CAD software.The CAD courses were

Conference Session

Mathematics Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Zohra Manseur, Oswego State University College

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Mathematics

and correct treatment of physical units in computing.The development of a new degree program in Electrical and Computer Engineering at SUNYOswego has provided an opportunity to research ways to leverage best practices in engineeringeducation as well as improved course content in order to offer an innovative, modern, andefficient engineering education. As part of this effort, preparatory courses in mathematics havebeen reviewed with the objective of streamlining the curriculum and improve its efficiency. Incollaboration between engineering and mathematics faculty, a mathematics course for engineershas been developed and its content carefully reviewed to offer a preparation that allows studentsto better address concepts needed and applied in

Conference Session

Technology and Manufacturing

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ismail Fidan, Tennessee Tech University; George Chitiyo, Tennessee Tech University; Eric Newland Wooldridge, Somerset Community College; Thomas Singer, Sinclair Community College

Tagged Divisions

Two-Year College

. Professor Wooldridge created KCTCS’ first technical, state wide, 3D printing certificate program, and is the director of SCC’s Additive Manufacturing Center of Excellence, developing a variety of new appli- cations and techniques to help KY businesses integrate additive manufacturing into their production and business models.Mr. Thomas Singer, Sinclair Community College Tom is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering Technology at Sinclair Community College. His areas of focus are design and manufacturing of products in the MET program curriculum. Tom serves as a Co-PI for the NSF funded AM-WATCH project. He provides guidance on design and curriculum development on additive manufacturing. Tom also serves as the Principal

Conference Session

Instrumentation Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Asad Yousuf, Savannah State University; Mohamad A. Mustafa, Savannah State University; Alberto G. De La Cruz; Alfredo Villanueva; Mir M. Hayder, Savannah State University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Instrumentation

had an enthusiastic response fromstudents interested in both Robotic projects and interest in learning more about Robotics. Roboticsis an interdisciplinary field that incorporates the integration of many systems in software,electronics, control systems, actuators and sensors. The Robotics of today imparts the mostimportant attributes such as the nature of motion, the motions available to rigid bodies and the useof kinematic constraints to organize motion. Because the growing field of Robotics covers manyareas of EET education we decided we would develop curriculum for an introductory course inRobotics. This paper explores the curriculum design and the Lie Algebra and Lie Group that arekeeping track of the variables involved in arm robotic

Conference Session

Sustainability in AEC and AEC Education

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jason Kirby, University of Alabama at Birmingham; Hilal Ozcan, Prairie View A&M University; Fouad Fouad, University of Alabama at Birmingham

Tagged Divisions

Architectural

entitled“Engineering Sustainable Design and Construction.” The course pairs students frominterdisciplinary teams with community partners to address real-world sustainability designproblems geared toward public service in the US as well as in other nations across the world. Page 13.1127.6The student design teams were vertically integrated to include architectural and mechanicalengineering students to provide realistic solutions to provided design problems14.Boston Architectural College has a program in sustainable design and presently offers acertificate in the subject area. The certificate program is an option for individuals that areultimately

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Zhengtao T. Deng; Xiaoqing (Cathy) Qian; Abdul Jalloh; Amir Mobasher; Ruben Rojas-Oviedo

Session 2793 Incorporating MatLab in the Mechanical Engineering Courses at Alabama A&M University Amir A. Mobasher, A.R. Jalloh, R. Rojas-Oviedo, Z.T. Deng, C. Qian Mechanical Engineering Department Alabama A&M University Huntsville, AL 35762 Amobasher@aamu.eduAbstractNowadays, entry-level engineers may find themselves in an environment thatprogramming, simulation and modeling may become an integral part of their career. Ininstances that they are involved with enhancement and

Conference Session

International Division Technical Session 3

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Natalie Marie Villwock-Witte P.E., Western Transportation Institute at Montana State University

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International

executing the course.Two opportunities include enabling the course leaders to develop international contacts and tointroduce students to a specific topic that would otherwise be difficult to offer in a traditionalengineering course curriculum. Challenges include balancing the time used for instruction withallowing time for students to independently experience the culture of the host county,minimizing costs, and scheduling the course to fit into a student’s academic and the professionalstaff’s schedules. Risks include maintaining the budget and prior knowledge of the host location.Finally, a survey was distributed to evaluate the impact of achieving the learning objectives forthe course. The findings indicate that the course had an impact on student

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Casey Preston; R. Mark Worden; Daina Briedis

reactionengineering to bioprocesses. While more detailed knowledge of the multidisciplinaryfeatures of this course could be gained by taking separate courses in reaction engineering,biochemistry, and microbiology, the biochemical engineering synthesizes the knowledgerequirements of the three areas in a way that allows the student to best combine theseparate disciplines. Even if an engineering student already has a good knowledge of cellgrowth, enzyme catalysis, and reaction modeling, it is not immediately apparent how thethree can be integrated without additional knowledge and application. Microbiologyclasses lead students to picture a cell as a massive, complex, and nearly indecipherableinterlocked system of reactions. In the biochemical engineering course

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Marie Plumb; Jerry Fong; Arnold Peskin

different departments, disciplines and organizations into a capstone curriculum experience, providing future students with an opportunity to draw on all their developing skills and knowledge, including general education as well as major-specific competencies.• To expose participating students to a range of experience, both technical and non-technical, not available at their home institutions.Faculty and students selected from the participating colleges in consultation with theidentified administrative support personnel will participate in summer internships atBrookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) developing relationships with existing BNL staffand BNL applied research projects. These faculty and students will

Conference Session

Encouraging Students to Think Critically

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rebekah Oulton PE, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

Tagged Divisions

New Engineering Educators

leadership (Facione, 1990, 2011;Viswanathan & Radhakrishnan, 2015). I would assert that professional engineering is defined bythese same characteristics and skills. As such, critical thinking skills are an essential aspect of anengineering curriculum that intends to prepare students to become effective professionals(Lafayette, 2014; Ralston & Bays, 2010; Romkey & Cheng, 2009; Viswanathan &Radhakrishnan, 2015).While some may feel that critical thinking is inherently included in engineering curriculum(Ralston & Bays, 2010; Romkey & Cheng, 2009; Schafersman, 1991), most studies agree thatdeliberate instruction in, and reinforcement of, critical thinking skills is the most effective way toencourage development of those skills

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

William Hutzel

thermodynamics courses. Emerging technologies, such as fuel cells,could eventually become required reading. Even if a discussion of renewable energy does notsupplant conventional course topics, it can influence how thermodynamic courses are delivered.Energy conservation has become an ethic, a professional standard that should be an integral partof every energy decision.2 The purpose of this paper is to provide an example of how energy conservation andrenewable energy topics can be integrated into a traditional undergraduate thermodynamicscourse. The context of this discussion is a solar energy experiment that has been developed bythe Mechanical Engineering Technology Department at the West Lafayette campus of PurdueUniversity. The experiment

Collection

ASEE 2021 Gulf-Southwest Annual Conference

Authors

David G. Novick, University of Texas at El Paso

on gestural orverbal communication that would uniquely identify another player, or activities in which order ofinteraction did not matter. These results suggest that the effectiveness of remote learning would beimproved with an interface for teleconferencing that (a) preserves the order of participants across theparticipant’s views of the class session and (b) provides participants with an easy-to-use and easy-to-understand means of pointing to other participants. IntroductionThe University of Texas at El Paso has offered its course in Innovation in Technology annuallysince 2013. The course was inspired by Carnegie Mellon University’s boot camp for enteringstudents in the Entertainment Technology

Conference Session

Service Learning in Engineering

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Patti Clayton; Steven Peretti; Lisa Bullard

American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering"management. The College of Engineering at NC State is experimenting with the integration ofservice-learning especially at the freshman and senior year. The remainder of this paper willpresent our experience with a two-year service-learning project in a senior design ChemicalEngineering course.Description of Service-learning Projects in CHE Capstone Design CourseSpring 2002 In planning for the Spring 2002 offering of senior design, both instructors (Bullard andPeretti) had recently completed an on-campus Service-learning Faculty Associate trainingprogram and were

Conference Session

Software Engineering Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sushil Acharya, Robert Morris University; Walter W Schilling Jr., Milwaukee School of Engineering

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Software Engineering Division

to meet 7 outcomes.Outcome 4 states “Design appropriate solutions in one or more application domains usingsoftware engineering approaches that integrate ethical, social, legal, and economic concerns”. Itis through this outcome we expect students to design solutions that address ethical, social, legal,security, and economic concerns. The importance of security in the curriculum guidelines can benoted from the change in SE education Knowledge Areas. In the 2004 Curriculum Guidelines forUndergraduate Degree Programs in Software Engineering [4] security was listed as an area ofstudy. However in the 2014 Curriculum Guidelines for Undergraduate Degree Programs inSoftware Engineering [5] there is now an increase in the visibility of software

Conference Session

NSF Grantees: S-STEM 3

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Robin A.M. Hensel, West Virginia University; Joseph Dygert, West Virginia University; Melissa Lynn Morris, University of Nevada - Las Vegas

Tagged Topics

Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

(items 16-46 on the AWE LAESE survey), including the original twenty-one 7-point Likert scale questions, plus the ten 7-point Likert scale questions asking “to what extent doyou agree.” The LAESE subscales include: (1) Engineering career expectations, (2)Engineering self-efficacy 1, (3) Engineering self-efficacy 2, (4) Feeling of inclusion, (5) Copingself-efficacy, and (6) Math outcomes efficacy. The two subscales measuring “engineering self-efficacy” are differentiated in what they seek to measure as follows: (1) The “Engineering self-efficacy 1” subscale measures a student’s perception of his or her ability to earn an A or B inmath, physics, and engineering courses and succeed in an engineering curriculum while notgiving up participation in

Collection

2022 CIEC

Authors

Marilyn Dyrud

similar notionsdifferently [3]. For example, a businessperson’s notion of risk, driven by the bottom line, differsgreatly from an engineer’s, for whom safety is paramount [4]. Engineering thinking, stressingproblem solving, is more akin to the strategies of ethics. Indeed, as ethicist Michael Davis hasnoted, ethical thinking is integral to engineering: “Knowing engineering ethics is as much a partof knowing how to engineer as knowing how to calculate stress or design a circuit . . . insofar asengineering is a profession, knowing how to calculate stress or design a circuit is in part knowingwhat the profession allows, forbids, or requires” [5]. Proceedings of the 2022 Conference for Industry and Education Collaboration

Conference Session

Experimentation and Laboratory-oriented Studies Division Technical Session 4

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Esteban Maya Muñoz, Universidad del Valle; Ronald Sterkenburg, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Jairo Antonio Valdes Ortiz, Universidad del Valle; Guillermo Andrés Jaramillo Pizarro P.E., Universidad del Valle

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Experimentation and Laboratory-Oriented Studies

to add thecomposite material manufacturing into an engineering curriculum were shown by Zhang et. al. in2011 [9] and Sengupta et. al. in 2016 [10]. Hence, the engineering faculty of Univalle requestedthe aid of the Fulbright commission through its Specialist program as an initial approximation toa hands-on approach for the improvement of the manufacturing techniques in fiber reinforcedcomposite materials.The main objectives of the composite materials training at Universidad del Valle were: toimprove the education of Colombian mechanical/aeronautical engineers based upon theprinciple of applying theoretical knowledge into practice. The focus of the training was oncomposite aerospace structures. Secondly, establishing a lasting relationship

Conference Session

Innovations in ECE Education II

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stuart Wentworth, Auburn University; Dennis Silage, Temple University; Michael Baginski, Auburn University

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

plates, as shown in Figure 1(b). (a) (b)Figure 1: (a) Configuration of rectangular conduction plates with a uniform charge distribution(b) actual electrostatic defection platesThe intentionally vague specification of the task is to calculate the vector electric field at anarbitrary location P(x,y,z) for a specific uniform charge density S. The width X1 and length Z1of the rectangular plates, the angle and the charge density S are randomly assigned to eachstudent to avoid direct duplication of the results.The course learning objective is to effect the translation of a problem to an engineering analysisto be solved by discrete summation, rather than integration, and to formulate a

Collection

2007 St.Lawrence Section Meeting

Authors

Deborah Tihanyi; Margaret N. Hundleby

produces focused and comprehensive assessment, butalso has the added advantage of integrating the communication work directly into thedevelopment of the work in science and technology within the undergraduate curriculum. Wehave successfully used this approach in several engineering courses, most recently in MSE390 –Communication II.BackgroundMSE390 – Communication IIIn their first year of study, all students* in the Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering at theUniversity of Toronto take APS111 and APS112, Engineering Strategies and Practice (ESP),courses which emphasize the link between the design and communication processes. In theirsecond year, students stream into individual departments; each department in the Faculty has itsown curriculum

Conference Session

BME Courses & Curricular Content

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Patzer, University of Pittsburgh

Tagged Divisions

Biomedical

with tissue engineering.IntroductionThermodynamics has been an integral part of the core undergraduate curriculum in theDepartment of Bioengineering at the University of Pittsburgh since inception of the department.The decision was not taken lightly – considerable debate revolved around whether a preciousrequired course should be devoted to thermodynamics when students were exposed tothermodynamic concepts in other required courses such as physiology, transport, and cellbiology. However, we felt that the heuristic nature of presenting and using a relation, e.g., theVan't Hoff relation for osmotic pressure, without appreciation of the underlying principles for therelation was detrimental to fostering engineering design and development skills. A

Conference Session

Engaging Upper Level Classes

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Sue McNeil; Adjo Amekudzi; Kristen Sanford Bernhardt

Engineering; however, one or twostudents typically enroll from the City Planning Program in the School of Architecture. Thecourse has been offered once a year since 2000 with enrollments ranging from 4-18 students. Itpresents an integrated treatment of methodologies, models, tools, funding mechanisms, rules andregulations that assist with managing civil infrastructure deterioration. The course also includeslectures on sustainable development and the built environment. Concepts are introduced toencourage students to think more seriously about the broader social and environmentalimplications of infrastructure decision making and to encourage students to explore projectopportunities for incorporating sustainability into built systems decision making

Collection

2020 ASEE North Central Section conference

Authors

Raghu Echempati P.E., Kettering University

the main themes of their students’ outcomes, namely, ‘development of an engineeringidentity’, suggests that faculty should work with students as colleagues just like what engineersat work do. In the process, faculty shares their own thought process in how to approach and useapplied research methods to solve a problem.Pearson, et al conducted studies to describe the rationale and implementation of an appliedresearch experience into an Exercise Science (EXS) curriculum, and to evaluate EXSundergraduate students’ perceptions of an applied research experience [10]. An EXSmeasurement course was chosen for implementation of an applied research experience. Theapplied research experience required groups of students to design, implement, and evaluate

Conference Session

Improving the Mathematical Preparation of Students

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jenna Carpenter, Louisiana Tech University; Ruth Ellen Hanna, Louisiana Tech University

Tagged Divisions

Mathematics

2006-2585: PREDICTING STUDENT PREPAREDNESS IN CALCULUSJenna Carpenter, Louisiana Tech University JENNA P. CARPENTER is Academic Director of Mechanical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Civil Engineering and Construction Engineering Technology; Wayne and Juanita Spinks Professor; and Associate Professor of Mathematics at Louisiana Tech University. She was co-developer of the math sequence for the integrated engineering curriculum at Tech and currently leads an effort to develop an integrated science curriculum for math, science and education majors.Ruth Ellen Hanna, Louisiana Tech University RUTH ELLEN HANNA is Walter E. Koss Professor of Mathematics and Coordinator for