Conference Session

Educational Research & Methods Poster Session

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert Ryan; Nhut Ho; Shelley Bartenstein

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

feature of the new coursesequence is requiring students to work in a team environment on design projects of increasingcomplexity as they move through the program, to ensure that students develop the skills,knowledge, and attitudes required to be successful design engineers in industry. Development ofan effective assessment plan is critical for measuring the benefits of this new course sequence.Since the courses in the design sequence are taught by a large number of faculty, and asignificant number of part-time faculty, a uniform set of evaluation tools was developed whichwill be used for every course in the sequence. This paper describes the rubrics developed, andsome preliminary evaluation data which was collected to test and calibrate the

Conference Session

Course/Program Assessment

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

James Higley; Jana Whittington; Joy Colwell

. The CourseManagement Section is modified slightly depending on whether the survey is being used for adistance learning class or a live class. (When used for live classes, a computer laboratory isreserved for 30 minutes during class time to allow the students time to complete the survey.)Even with the large number of questions, students complete the online survey very quickly,usually in 15 minutes. From past experience, this is much faster than paper and pencilassessment tools. Although much modified, it is based on the work of Land and Hager [3]. Thecourse assessment tool is part of a larger project to perform integrated, on-line assessment of allcourses in the METS Department, and provides a convenient method to gather summativeassessment

Conference Session

Innovations in Pedagogy

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Casey Jane Ankeny PhD, Arizona State University; Stephen J. Krause, Arizona State University

Tagged Divisions

Biomedical

tabular form, with anintensity scale of 0-5 and a word cloud with word size proportional to word frequency. Thisallows instructors to easily pinpoint the muddiest and most interesting concepts.Finally, group-based activities such as in-class activities and projects have been found to be aneffective student-centered engagement strategy9. Here, students work with team members tocomplete short-term or long-term assignments or projects. In this study, we will explore bothshort-term assignments in the form of class problem sets involving statistical software and long-term design projects focusing on design of experiment and statistical analysis of previouslyuntested hypotheses.Overall the organization of classes is as follows: students watch pencasts

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division New Ideas Session 1

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Erin Jablonski, Bucknell University

Tagged Divisions

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

the ability to solve problems in novel ways, the capacity to envision alternativesolutions, and the knack for design. However, traditional instructional and evaluation methodsmay make students overly risk averse, impacting their willingness to innovate to the extentnecessary to make disruptive changes to technology. Fostering an entrepreneurial spirit inengineering undergraduates may allow them to be more creative and less risk averse in theirapproach to solving multi-faceted, ill-defined problems. Analysis of student feedback fromreflection essays, self-report attitudinal surveys, and instructor assessment in two very differentcourses that promote the entrepreneurial mindset through student-driven projects will be used todistill the

Conference Session

Engaging Upper Level Classes

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Keith Thompson; Matthew Roberts

The DORC* Factor: Engaging Students in Reinforced Concrete Design Matthew W. Roberts, M. Keith Thompson Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering University of Wisconsin—Platteville 1 University Plaza Platteville, WI 53818-3099AbstractTo better engage upper-level undergraduate students, a beam design and testing class project andcase studies are used in the reinforced concrete design course at the University of Wisconsin–Platteville (UWP). Details are furnished on how the project and case studies are used

Conference Session

Design Education

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Sumedha Ariely; David Wallace; Amy Banzaert

. The class isproject based, and as such, the focus is on applied engineering work, where students developanalytical, technical, and people skills, and practice applying them to real world situations.Students are required to work in large teams on a complex design problem, in which they gofrom generating ideas for new products, to concept development, to detailing and building aworking prototype. Team projects therefore are the key component through which studentsacquire and apply technical and managerial skills to design, build, install, test, and improve acomplex product. 2.009 provides students the opportunity to develop a broad understanding ofthe product development process and the steps and methods required for each part of the

Conference Session

Innovative Ideas for Energy Labs

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Swedish; Glenn T. Wrate P.E.; Frederik Betz; Emily Blakemore; Lee Greguske

A 60-kW Microturbine Demonstration Facility Phase II: Instrumentation, Website Development, and Evaluation Michael Swedish, Glenn Wrate, Frederik Betz Emily Blakemore, Lee Greguske, Joe Jacobsen Milwaukee School of Engineering / City of MilwaukeeAbstractThe second phase of a joint project between the Milwaukee School of Engineering, theCity of Milwaukee, WE Energies, and Wisconsin’s Focus on Energy to develop a 60-kWmicroturbine demonstration facility is described. In Phase I the facility was designed,constructed, and commissioned. A multidisciplinary team of students and faculty (MEand EE) continues work on the project in this second phase. Coordination among

Conference Session

Research and Models for Professional Development

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mitchell J. Nathan, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Amy Kathleen Atwood, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Amy C. Prevost, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Natalie A. Tran, California State University, Fullerton

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

AC 2011-316: GUIDANCE COUNSELORS’ BELIEFS AND EXPECTATIONSABOUT HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS’ PRECOLLEGE ENGINEERING PREPA-RATIONMitchell J. Nathan, University of Wisconsin-Madison Mitchell J. Nathan is Professor of Educational Psychology, Curriculum & Instruction, and Psychology, in the School of Education at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and past chair of the Learning Sci- ences program. He is a research fellow at the Wisconsin Center for Education Research and at the Center on Education and Work. He uses experimental and discourse-based research methods to understand the cognitive, social and embodied nature of STEM learning and instruction. He is currently co-principal in- vestigator of the AWAKEN project in

Conference Session

Introducing Sustainability into Engineering Education

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jean D. MacRae, University of Maine

Tagged Divisions

Environmental Engineering

themselves best to each of these contexts.Environmental sustainability has been most heavily and effectively emphasized in the technicalcourse, since material and energy balance approaches can readily be used to assess sustainability,and the concepts of ecosystem services and resilience fit well within the scope of the field.Group projects encourage the exploration of sustainability issues including energy, water andresource use and management, biodiversity, resilience, ways to reduce negative environmentalimpacts and assessment techniques to “measure” sustainability.The international context of the EWB project and non-technical class brings the cultural andsocial aspects of sustainability into relief, so they are easier to recognize and

Conference Session

Robotics, Mechatronics, and Control Systems - Multidisciplinary Perspectives

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Li Tan, Purdue University, North Central; Jean Jiang, Purdue University, North Central

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

, tomeet the requirement of our ME curriculum; and the second part deals with control systemtheory and applications to meet the requirement of our EE curriculum.The designed multidisciplinary course uses the following strategies: theoretical development,software simulation assignments, and case study projects with real-world applications usingMATLAB/Simulink. Furthermore, we carefully design the case study project for the feedbackcontrol system portion so that EE students and ME students minoring in EE are able to constructand test the project in their laboratory course using a LabView platform.The paper is organized as follows. First, the course prerequisites, course content, and teachingmethods will be explained. Second, the outcomes of students

Conference Session

NSF Grantees' Poster Session

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Hong Man, Stevens Institute of Technology

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees Poster Session

, Convolution and Fourier Transform (math preparation) Lab 2, Projection and Projection Slice Theorem (tomography) Lab 3, Frequency domain reconstruction – interpolation methods (x-ray CT, MRI) Lab 4, Filtered back projection – filtering, noise effects (x-ray CT) Lab 5, X-ray attenuation coefficient and survival probability (x-ray) Page 25.1396.2 Lab 6, NMR signals – precessions, relaxation, basic sequences (MRI) Lab 7, Brain activation detection in fMRI (image analysis)In the undergraduate Bio-Medical Engineering (BME) program at Stevens Institute ofTechnology, "Medical Imaging" is offered each year in the Fall

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Molly M. Gribb; Elisabeth M. Alford

students inquire into connections between engineers andscientists. The second group of assignments allows students to demonstrate their understandingof the relationship between science and engineering through inclusion of theory, design, andexplanatory text in written and oral reports on a design project. The final exam, as earlierassignments, includes an essay focusing on the relationship between science and engineering.Focusing on the theme of science and engineering throughout the course helps studentsappreciate the heavy emphasis on science and math in the engineering curriculum, as well as theimportance of interdisciplinary collaboration in engineering projects. In addition, using acommon theme for assignments throughout the semester aids in

Collection

1999 Annual Conference

Authors

William Durfee

, Introduction toEngineering, which now has an enrollment of just under 200 students per year. The course has ahands-on approach and students learn engineering fundamentals and specific engineering skillsthrough a series of dissection and design assignments. Resources were developed to allowstudents to fabricate their design projects at home and to use the Web rather than course staff as afirst source of information and guidance. In this way cost and teaching staff for the course wereminimized. The course has completed its third year and has gathered anecdotal evidence ofsuccess.I. IntroductionThe goal of this project was to change the way in which design was taught at the University ofMinnesota, and thus serve as a model for design education at any

Conference Session

Learning through Instrumentation: Experiences and Applications

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Abhijit Nagchaudhuri, University of Maryland, Eastern Shore; Jackson Mitchell Cuppett, University of Maryland, Eastern Shore; Dave Akin, University of Maryland, College Park; Urjit Korok Chakraborty, James M. Bennett High School; Lance C. Ward, University of Maryland, Eastern Shore; Parker Wilson, University of Maryland, Eastern Shore; Mason Alexander Morgan; Rahul Vishnoi, University of Maryland, College Park; Romeo Gabriel Perlstein, University of Maryland, College Park

Tagged Divisions

Instrumentation Division (INST)

master’s degree from Tulane University in 1989 and a doctoral degree from Duke University in 1992. He is a member of the American Society for Mechanical Engineers (ASME), the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE), and, has also been involved with the American Society for Agricultural and Biological Engineers (ASABE). He is actively involved in teaching and research in the fields of (i) robotics and mechatronics, (ii) remote sensing and precision agriculture, and,(iii) biofuels and renewable energy. He has been involved with several extramurally funded projects as PI or Co-PI to support outreach, education, and research activities from various state, federal, and private agencies; served in leadership roles

Conference Session

Cooperative and Experiential Education Division (CEED) Poster Session

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Claude Brathwaite, City University of New York, City College

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Cooperative and Experiential Education Division (CEED)

the School of Engineeringoffice of Student Resources and Services. The Career Launch utilized a matching algorithm that matchedstudent’s interest with the host preferences/job description. Students were matched and were very diversewith majors in Liberal Arts and Sciences, Communications/Journalism, Computer Science, Forensic Science,Computer Information Systems, Computer Science and Engineering and Digital Media. Students selectedfrom the FWS program had no such algorithm for matching (all majors were accepted) and consisted of aninterview followed by a selection by the host office. The assignments were guided by the student’s major andinterest. The paper will present the recruitment, selection, project operation, timeline, management

Conference Session

Professional Graduate Education and Industry

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Norman Egbert, Rolls-Royce Corporation

Tagged Divisions

Graduate Studies

─ AbstractThis is the third of four invited panel papers prepared specifically for the National Collaborative TaskForce Engineer-Leaders Project. The Project concerns the deliberate advancement of professionalgraduate engineering education relevant to the needs of creative engineering practice in industry toenhance U.S. technological innovation and competitiveness. The strength of the innovation and leadershipcapacity of America’s professional engineering base in our civilian, aerospace, and defense industries is acritical asset in our global economic recovery. As with other learned professions, there are progressiveskill-sets and actions that must be learned or developed at the advanced levels of the practice ofengineering. This series of papers

Conference Session

Design in BME Education

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Richard Goldberg, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; Robert Dennis, University of North Carolina; Charles Finley, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Tagged Divisions

Biomedical

example, this year each studentgroup developed a robot arm system controlled by a biopotential signal, such as an EMG orEOG, that they acquire from their own body and process. For the fourth design course, eachgroup works on a different project, chosen from a wide variety of project ideas that change fromyear to year.This design program has many benefits. By the time students start their final design project inthe spring of senior year, they already have a number of hands-on experiences in design. Thiselevates the level of what they can accomplish for this project. In addition, since our studentsstart getting experience with equipment in the machine shop in their sophomore year, they are anattractive asset for many research laboratories. Feedback

Conference Session

First-Year Activities and Peer Review Strategies in Civil Engineering

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Megan L. Hart, Saint Louis University, Parks College of Engineering

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

knowledge, garnering poor retention of knowledge in students, and generally failing to create apositive enough association to thwart the attrition of students to other seemingly less challenging majors.The ubiquitous progression of technical classes which engineering students march through, coupled with thegeneral disregard of American students towards math, science and technology appears to create a mindset instudents that is quite difficult to change. Calls have been made for transformation in curriculum, bothfundamental and finite although these changes garner limited returns on investment.This project was created to provide a positive association with the declared major, civil engineering, and tocreate a lasting impression to get through the

Conference Session

Main Plenary 2 - Establishing Innovative Strategies Through the Virtuous Cycle of Research in Engineering Education - Korean Society for Engineering Education (KSEE)

Collection

2012 ASEE International Forum

Authors

Wonjong Joo, Seoul National University of Science and Technology

Tagged Topics

ASEE International Forum

GC 2012-5656: ACCREDITATION OF ENGINEERING EDUCATION INKOREAProf. Wonjong Joo, Seoul National University of Science and Technology Wonjong Joo is a professor of Seoul National University of Science and Technology (Seoul Tech) and is a vice president of ABEEK (Accreditation Board of Engineering Education in Korea) from 2012. He has been a director of Seoul Tech’s Innovation Center for Engineering Education (ICEE) & Hub Center for 5 years and is now a president of Innovation Hub Center Council. His role in ABEEK is to lead the committee of Criteria of Accrediting Engineering Programs. His role in Hub Center Council is to coordi- nate 60 ICEE universities for sharing the outcomes of the ICEE project. He graduated

Conference Session

Understanding Students: Cognition

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Durward Sobek

Session 1330 Preliminary Findings from Coding Student Design Journals Durward K. Sobek, II Montana State UniversityAbstractSince Fall 2000, mechanical engineering students at Montana State University have been requiredto keep design journals of their senior design projects. We have now accumulated over 70journals on 21 design projects. We developed a coding scheme to code the journal data by designactivity (problem definition, idea generation, engineering analysis, and design refinement), designlevel (concept, system, detail), planning, and formal reporting. The

Conference Session

Software Engineering Pedagogical Approaches

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jon A Preston, Southern Polytechnic State University; Sushil Acharya, Robert Morris University

Tagged Divisions

Software Engineering Constituent Committee

what is learned in courses and applying these softwareengineering processes within the context of real software development projects. The key issue asdocumented by previous studies is how to capture both the conceptual ideas of softwareengineering processes while at the same time (or in following semesters) implementing theseconcepts successfully within software development projects. Typically, the processes are taughtin one course with minimal implementation within a project; at the same time, softwaredevelopment courses emphasize the development with little to no formal utilization of processes.This is not a criticism of faculty; it is simply a very difficult task to cover both the processes andimplementation in a cohesive manner. Covering

Conference Session

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

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Charles Perry Weinthal, Florida Atlantic University; David Jaramillo

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Community Engagement Division (COMMENG)

: Theyparticipants are likely to face in their professional careers, thus explore IBM Cloud Services [2] . Programming interfaces:enhancing their experience and skills in a practical, hands-on They work with Node-RED [3]. Artificial intelligence: Theymanner. engage with IBM’s AI Watson. The Hack-a-Thon not only focuses on technical skills devel-opment but also emphasizes the cultivation of soft skills such ascommunication, teamwork, and time management. By the end ofthe event, participants are expected to present their projects toa panel of industry experts and faculty, demonstrating not onlytheir technical prowess but also their ability to communicatetheir ideas effectively. This

Collection

2024 CIEC

Authors

MADDUMAGE KARUNARATNE

-graduation. Introductory programmingcourses typically include a series of programming assignments to ensure students learn and practicefundamental concepts. Such assignments dictate a rigid set of requirements, which allow for littlevariation in the solutions students may produce.This paper describes a simple animation-enhanced simulation project, which can be considered arudimentary video game with very limited user interaction allowing only a few parameters at the start.The project is worth a considerable portion of their final grade, which encourages students to providesatisfactory solutions. It reinforces many concepts taught in programming, such as loops, conditionals,input/outputs, data file management, program, and data structures. The

Collection

2013 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

Kurt McMullin; Thalia Anagnos; Jan Hustler; Nancy Thomas

, the IHE partner (Institution of Higher Education)9. Initially, the Project Managementteam was hesitant in their expectations that the project would be able to contribute to this goal.However, as the project evolved, it became evident that the IHE faculty was implementingimproved pedagogical practices in their teaching.To achieve their objectives, the Partnership for Student Success in Science (PS3) worked towardthree goals, targeted primarily at the K-8 schools but related to work at the IHE: 1. Raise the overall science achievement in all PS3 schools and narrow the achievement gap between lower-performing, high-priority schools and their higher performing counterparts. 2. Improve the capacity of pre-service and in-service

Collection

2016 Rocky Mountain Section Conference

Authors

Mark B. Colton; Timothy W. McLain

2016 ASEE Rocky Mountain Section Conference Mechatronics at BYU: A New Course for Undergraduate Mechanical Engineers Mark B. Colton and Timothy W. McLain Department of Mechanical Engineering, Brigham Young UniversityAbstract In Fall 2015 a required mechatronics course was introduced in the Department of MechanicalEngineering at Brigham Young University as part of a broader curriculum redesign. The courseis designed to prepare students to develop smart, microcontroller-enabled products and work ininterdisciplinary teams on projects involving mechanical hardware, electronics, and software.Although mechatronics courses often

Collection

2012 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Sean Pratt; Yapah Berry; Olivia Reed; Gaffar Gailani

New York. This six weeks program is designed for high achievingminority high school and middle school students. The program extends over six weeks periodand its goal is to encourage those students to pursue careers in engineering and science whenthey go to college. The curriculum is designed to be introductory to engineering and science.This is well aligned with the goals of NASA CIPAIR funding that our MechanicalEngineering Dept. has received. Another partner in this project is Louis Stokes for MinorityParticipation in Science and Engineering (LSAMP) who supported the undergraduatestudents for two full academic semesters, spring and fall of 2011, in their effort to design acurriculum in aerospace to be taught in Proyectoaccess summer

Collection

2003 ASEE North Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Julia Apple-Smith; Dave Holger; Shannon Miner

vision, who see the value of having an international experience and are willing to work hard to promote the same.The following faculty comments provide an excellent summary of the value and success of thisprogram:"The trip to Singapore gave me the opportunity to discuss numerous potential interactions withNUS and NTU, in academia, research, and distance learning. The trip has resulted in theinvolvement of two of my faculty in research projects and the discussion of PhD studentexchanges as a method of improving research collaborations. Without this initial trip, the facultyand I would not have considered Asia as a viable place to do collaborative research; indeed, weseem to have "forgotten" this area of the world as a source of ideas and

Collection

2003 ASEE North Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Craig L. Just; P. Barry Butler

Executive SummaryThe Colleges of Engineering at The University of Iowa and Iowa State University, the IowaSection of Water for People, the Universidad Technólogica de Xicotepec de Juárez, and RotaryInternational, have agreed to work together through the International Engineering ServiceProgram (IESP) to provide an educational and service internship experience for students thatemphasizes environmentally and economically sustainable engineering projects. The programinvolves substantial interaction between university-level students, faculty mentors at therespective universities, the Iowa Section of Water for People and members of RotaryInternational in the USA and Xicotepec, Mexico. Together, the team has begun to develop andexecute a long-term plan

Conference Session

Track 5: Technical Session 4: The Next Leaders Academy: Learned Experience from an AI Summer Camp Experience

Collection

2025 Collaborative Network for Engineering & Computing Diversity (CoNECD)

Authors

Delano White, The Gaskins Foundation; Whitney Gaskins, University of Cincinnati

Tagged Topics

2025 CoNECD Paper Submissions, Diversity

opportunities and challenges. deployment of AI.Our camp developed a custom curriculum to give the participants a learningexperience that is often curated toward college students and early careerprofessionals.We partnered with highly regarded faculty (and their graduates students) tointroduce the history of AI, how it has developed and some of the dangers ofthe increased reliance on technologyFaculty from our partner institution led workshops and discussions onunderstanding and forming ethical and moral positions.The students worked in groups to develop projects and complete assignmentsthroughout the week, with assistance of academic and industry leaders toreinforce their

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Vincent Pizziconi, Arizona State University; Susan Haag, Arizona State University; Tirupalavanam Ganesh, Arizona State University; Lynn Cozort, Arkansas State University; Stephen Krause, Arizona State University; B.L. Ramakrishna, Arizona State University; Deirdre Meldrum, Arizona State University; Brian Lunt, Arizona State University; Amaneh Tasooji, Arizona State University; Albert Valdez, Arizona State University; Victoria Yarbrough, Arizona State University

Engineering Capstone Design Education Program and co-directs the 'Empowering Malawians with Disabilities' project that is aimed at the design and development of rehabilitative engineered devices to assist the disabled and under served in Malawi, Africa. His education interests are in innovative education in engineering and engineering outreach that include K-12 outreach programs, interdisciplinary undergraduate (REU) and graduate training and outreach programs (NSF IGERT & GK-12), women in science and engineering programs (WISE), and innovative nanoscience and engineering asynchronous distance learning initiatives. He is currently working on an NSF supported IEECI grant developing