Conference Session

Educating for Results: Tools used in Engineering Technology

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stephen Hundley, Indiana University-Purdue University-Indianapolis; Terri Talbert-Hatch, Indiana University; Joshua Killey, Indiana University-Purdue University-Indianapolis; Elizabeth Wager, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis

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Engineering Technology

, especially higher- level, capstone, and/or project work that students must complete to demonstrate a mastery of college-level learning.• Use alumni, business/industry, and community resources to assist students in networking and professional development endeavors.Recommendations for Administrators• Actively reach out to alumni, business/industry, and community stakeholders to recruit, retain, and engage them in the life of the university, especially as it relates to providing realistic previews to students about the world of work.• Reward faculty who promote positive business relationships in their teaching and learning efforts.• Recognize the tangible and intangible benefits of having students well-prepared to “hit the

Conference Session

Computing Technology Session 3

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Swaroop Joshi, The Ohio State University; Neelam Soundarajan, Ohio State University

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Diversity

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Computers in Education

project that the students may be involved with in theirfuture careers. Capstone team projects which have become a standard part of (nearly) every en-gineering and computing program have been especially successful in helping to achieve this goal.The second intended goal of such activities is to help students learn the technical, conceptual mate-rial by engaging in suitable activities with their fellow-students rather than just listening passivelyto lectures. At the same time, many engineering and computing faculty have serious concernsabout introducing such activities to any serious extent in their courses; primary among these con-cerns is the potential negative impact of such activities on topic coverage. Trying to arrange suchactivities outside

Conference Session

Online Programs and Program Assessment

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tilman Wolf, University of Massachusetts Amherst; C. V. Hollot, University of Massachusetts, Amherst; Russell Tessier, University of Massachusetts; Bryan Polivka, Shorelight Education; Chris Hoehn-Saric, Shorelight Education; Janet Donghee Kang; Katherine Newman

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Diversity

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Graduate Studies

. workforce: Students who study one year on a U.S. campus can become eligible for joining the U.S. labor market (see 1+1 option in Section 2.4). Figure 1: Degree program overview2.2 Program CurriculumThe course schedule for the M.S. in ECE degree program is shown in Figure 1. There are eightcourses spread over four semesters plus two capstone project courses, which are offered in thesecond and fourth semester. The entire program duration is four semesters, which is approximately16 months, as a full semester is offered during the summer.This program meets the same requirements as the residential M.S. in ECE offered on the UMassAmherst campus. The admission and degree completion requirements are identical, and the

Conference Session

Computer-Based Learning in Chemical Engineering Courses

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jamie Gomez, University of New Mexico; Vanessa Svihla, University of New Mexico

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Diversity

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Chemical Engineering

Paper ID #25445Techno-economic Modeling as an Inquiry-based Design Activity in a CoreChemical Engineering CourseDr. Jamie Gomez, University of New Mexico Jamie Gomez, Ph.D., is a Senior Lecturer III in the department of Chemical & Biological Engineering (CBE) at the University of New Mexico. She is a co- principal investigator for the following National Science Foundation (NSF) funded projects: Professional Formation of Engineers: Research Initiation in Engineering Formation (PFE: RIEF) - Using Digital Badging and Design Challenge Modules to Develop Professional Identity; Professional Formation of Engineers

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division Technical Session 6

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mohamed Galaleldin, University of Ottawa; Hanan Anis, University of Ottawa

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

Education, 2019 The Impact of Integrating Making Activities to Cornerstone Design courses on Students’ Implicit Theories of Making AbilityAbstractA person’s implicit theories in a certain domain are known to have a direct influence on thatperson’s performance, behaviour, self-esteem, enjoyment and sense of belonging to the domain.This paper explores the role of implicit theory in engineering students’ beliefs about the nature oftheir making abilities and their self-identification as makers. This is done by assessing if acollaborative project-based engineering design course built on making activities can contribute toinfluencing students to have a growth mindset about their making abilities. Data from full-timeengineering undergraduates

Conference Session

Mechanical Engineering Division Technical Session 7

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Olivier Putzeys P.E., University of Maine; Masoud Rais-Rohani P.E., University of Maine; Serge Raymond Maalouf, University of Maine

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Mechanical Engineering

attendance ischecked in every class with considerable penalty for unexcused absences. The course was taughtin two separate sections by two instructors.Summary of activitiesThe weekly activities listed in Table 2 are described in more detail in this section.Week 1 - A presentation was given to introduce students to mechanical engineering as adiscipline and the numerous career opportunities in the field. Students were also introduced tothe Department of Mechanical Engineering, including faculty members, research areas, thecurriculum, minors, advising resources, student clubs, and previous Capstone projects. Theassociated assignment asked students to write a short report (using Word) in which they (1)explain their choice of ME as a major, (2) select a

Conference Session

NSF Grantees’ Poster Session

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cheryl Carrico, Virginia Tech; Matthew Arnold Boynton PE P.E., Virginia Tech Department of Engineering Education; Holly M Matusovich, Virginia Tech; Marie C Paretti, Virginia Tech

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

Paper ID #12518Supporting Students’ Plans for STEM Careers: How Prepared are HighSchool Educators in Appalachia to Help?Dr. Cheryl Carrico, Virginia Tech Cheryl Carrico is a Postdoctoral Research faculty member for Virginia Tech. Her current research fo- cus relates to STEM career pathways (K-12 through early career) and conceptual understanding of core engineering principles. Prior to her current role, Dr. Carrico spent over 25 years in the aerospace in- dustry conducting and leading R&D, design engineering, and project management for composite aircraft components. Dr. Carrico received her B.S. in chemical engineering

Conference Session

Materials Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stephen J. Krause, Arizona State University; Cindy Waters, North Carolina A&T State University; William Joseph Stuart P.E., Oregon Institute of Technology; Eugene Judson, Arizona State University; Casey Jane Ankeny, Arizona State University; Bethany B. Smith, Arizona State University

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Materials

Paper ID #14943Effect of Contextualization of Content and Concepts on Students’ CourseRelevance and Value in Introductory Materials ClassesProf. Stephen J. Krause, Arizona State University Stephen Krause is professor in the Materials Science Program in the Fulton School of Engineering at Arizona State University. He teaches in the areas of introductory materials engineering, polymers and composites, and capstone design. His research interests include evaluating conceptual knowledge, mis- conceptions and technologies to promote conceptual change. He has co-developed a Materials Concept Inventory and a Chemistry Concept

Conference Session

Works in Progress: Faculty Perspectives and Training

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Eugene Judson, Arizona State University; Lydia Ross, Arizona State University; James A. Middleton, Arizona State University; Stephen J. Krause, Arizona State University; Casey Jane Ankeny, Arizona State University; Ying-Chih Chen, Arizona State University; Robert J. Culbertson, Arizona State University; Keith D. Hjelmstad, Arizona State University; Yong Seok Park, Arizona State University

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Diversity

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Educational Research and Methods

at Arizona State University. He teaches in the areas of introductory materials engineering, polymers and composites, and capstone design. His research interests include evaluating conceptual knowledge, mis- conceptions and technologies to promote conceptual change. He has co-developed a Materials Concept Inventory and a Chemistry Concept Inventory for assessing conceptual knowledge and change for intro- ductory materials science and chemistry classes. He is currently conducting research on NSF projects in two areas. One is studying how strategies of engagement and feedback with support from internet tools and resources affect conceptual change and associated impact on students’ attitude, achievement, and per

Conference Session

ChemE Potpourri

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David L. Silverstein, University of Kentucky; Lisa G. Bullard, North Carolina State University; Margot A. Vigeant, Bucknell University

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Chemical Engineering

the course and itscontent; and the remainder seeks to bring out the most innovative and effective approaches toteaching the course in use by instructors. Additionally, a limited historical comparison is madebetween the selected survey results and surveys on the same course conducted in 1972, 1990,and 1999.IntroductionThis survey represents the continuation of a series of surveys of undergraduate curricular topicsbegun in 1957 by the AIChE Education Projects Committee and more recently resumed by theAIChE Education Division. This paper presents the results for the third in the series of surveysconducted by the Education Division.Survey BackgroundThe Material and Energy Balance course (MEB) is the topic of the 2010 survey. Theaforementioned

Conference Session

Measurement Tools

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Patricia Ralston, University of Louisville; Cathy Bays, University of Louisville

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Educational Research and Methods

Dr. Cathy L. Bays is the assessment specialist for the university’s regional reaccreditation Quality Enhancement Plan. In this role she provides leadership across the 8 undergraduate units by demonstrating a broad knowledge of assessment, facilitating unit-specific assessment projects and outcomes, providing faculty development on assessment topics, and supporting the scholarship of assessment. For 15 years she was a faculty member in the School of Nursing at the University of Louisville, serving as Director of the Undergraduate Nursing Program for 5 of those years. Page 15.1022.1© American Society

Conference Session

The Nuts & Bolts of TC2K

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

James Higley; Gregory Neff; Susan Scachitti

, Administrative Services was able to absorb much of the impact on campusthus sparing academic programs.The academic areas of the institution began to involve themselves in transforming to thisCQI culture when both regional and program level accreditation requirements began tofocus in this direction. In 2001 PUC was among the first to adopt the North CentralAssociation of Schools and Colleges (NCA) Academic Quality Improvement Program(AQIP) rather than conventional regional accreditation criteria that was still available atthat time. The AQIP model is also patterned after the Malcolm Baldrige National QualityAward criteria. The emphasis with AQIP is on "action projects" showing goals andmeasurable improvements. Two of the quality projects PUC initiated

Conference Session

Outreach: Future Women in Engineering

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Sasha Pasulka; Sandhya Pillalamarri; Milica Milovancevic; Michael Wagner; Meena Nimmagadda; James Adams; Anjali Gupta; Mary Anderson-Rowland

that the womenwho were leaving SMET majors in university had equal if not higher GPAs than those who didnot leave. They left because they found it dull and intellectually numbing, rewards were lowcompared to the effort, and the teaching was poor 15.Research suggests that a crucial intervention point for encouraging girls to pursue math- andscience-related fields is during middle school. In a middle school with seventh and eighth graderswith computers in their classrooms, Koch found that the girls were not at the computer in math ortechnology class free time 8. The girls worked on their math in the math class free time or helpedother female students with their projects in the technology class free time. The boys, however,were always at the

Conference Session

Interdisciplinary Approach to Env. Engrg

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Wendell King

the environment as a national security interest. Thediscussion of environmental security will be used to emphasize the first theme of broaderapproaches to engineering education. Consider an illustration, working engineers recognize the importance of conductingdesign integration pulling together the individual pieces of a design into one coherent package.They have learned that bringing the mechanical, electrical, civil, etc., together to assemble theindividual pieces into an efficient and workable design is an essential part of any completeengineering project. There is, however, a level above the engineering design integration step.This is where the social, political, economic, and technological components are integrated. Thehypothesis

Conference Session

Teaching and Learning Entrepreneurship and Innovation

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nathalie Duval-Couetil, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Michael J. Dyrenfurth, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

AC 2012-4817: TEACHING STUDENTS TO BE TECHNOLOGY INNOVA-TORS: EXAMINING APPROACHES AND IDENTIFYING COMPETEN-CIESDr. Nathalie Duval-Couetil, Purdue University, West Lafayette Nathalie Duval-Couetil is the Director of the Certificate in Entrepreneurship and Innovation Program, Associate Director of the Burton D. Morgan Center, and an Associate Professor in the Department of Technology Leadership and Innovation at Purdue University. She is responsible for the launch and de- velopment of the university’s multidisciplinary undergraduate entrepreneurship program, which has in- volved more than 3,500 students from all majors since 2005. As part of the program, she has established entrepreneurship capstone, global

Conference Session

Enhancing Instructional Effectiveness in Civil Engineering: Case Studies

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Camilla M. Saviz, University of the Pacific; Abel A. Fernandez, University of the Pacific; Elizabeth A. Basha, University of the Pacific; Andria Patricia Ellis, University of the Pacific, School of Engineering and Computer Science ; Kristina Hammarstrom; Feliciano Leon; Jerry Bruce Hildebrand; Spencer Ton

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Civil Engineering

. Marquart. “Addressing Third World Poverty in First-Year Engineering Capstone Projects: Initial Findings,” Paper AC-2010-197, Proceedings of the 2010 ASEE Conference and Exposition, 2010.7. http://engineering.purdue.edu/EPICS. Accessed 1/20118. Coyle, E., L. Jamieson, and W. Oakes. “EPICS: Engineering Projects in Community Service,” International Journal of Engineering Education, Vol. 21, No. 1, 2005.9. Gonzalez, E., E. Heisman, and G. Lucko. “Student-Centered Learning Environment for Disaster-Mitigating Engineering Design and Deployment in Developing Regions,” International Journal for Service Learning in Engineering, Vol. 5, No.1, pp. 189-209, 2010.10. Loendorf, W., D. Richeter, and D. Teachman. “Results from

Conference Session

Discipline Specific Topics and Techniques

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mandy Wheadon, Purdue University; Nathalie Duval-Couetil, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Graduate Studies

over 4500 students from all majors since 2005. She has established entrepreneurship capstone, global en- trepreneurship, and women and leadership courses and initiatives at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. Prior to her work in academia, Nathalie spent several years in the field of market research and business strategy consulting in Europe and the United States with Booz Allen and Hamilton and Data and Strategies Group. She received a BA from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, an MBA from Babson College, and MS and PhD degrees from Purdue University. She currently serves on the board of the United States Association for Small Business and Entrepreneurship in the role of Vice President for Research

Conference Session

Making in Design Education

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Matthew Wettergreen, Rice University; Joshua Brandel

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Design in Engineering Education

flagship first-year engineering design and Prototyping and Fabrication course. This practical hands-on course increases student proficiency in the development of prototypes using low fi- delity prototyping, iterative design, and advanced manufacturing tools. Dr. Wettergreen’s efforts to scaf- fold prototyping into all of the OEDK’s design courses were recognized with Rice’s Teaching Award for Excellence in Inquiry-Based Learning. In 2017, four faculty members, including Wettergreen, combined the engineering design courses at the OEDK to create the first engineering design minor in the US, cre- dentialing students for a course of study in engineering design, teamwork, prototyping, and client-based projects

Conference Session

Student and Other Views on Engineering Leadership

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kim Graves Wolfinbarger, University of Oklahoma; Randa L. Shehab, University of Oklahoma

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Engineering Leadership Development Division

participating on those teams associatewith leaders and leadership. Team members strongly associated five categories of behavior withleadership: Ideal Behavior, Individual Consideration, Project Management, TechnicalCompetence, and Communication. Other leadership behaviors, including Collaboration, Training& Mentoring, Problem-Solving, Motivating Others, Delegation, and Boundary-Spanning, wereless consistently recognized, and some behaviors were valued more highly within one team thanthe other. When asked to define leadership, most team members ascribed to a mainstream view.A few team members revealed a more mature understanding of the nonpositional andcollectivistic aspects of leadership.BackgroundThe Jets and the Sharks are the largest engineering

Conference Session

Making in Design

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ethan Reggia, University of Maryland, College Park; Kevin M Calabro, University of Maryland, College Park; Justin Albrecht, University of Maryland, College Park

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Design in Engineering Education

  6­10​prototyping in the engineering design process​ . The introduction of inexpensive and functional 3D printing technologies into the marketplace has permitted the adoption of this technology by  11­12​many colleges and universities​ . The addition of 3D printers to engineering design spaces provides students with an authentic, industry­like opportunity to rapidly realize product concepts. The inclusion of 3D printing technology appears particularly useful in first­year cornerstone and  13­17​senior­year capstone design courses​ . The remainder of this paper describes an approach for introducing 3D printers in a large introduction to engineering

Conference Session

Research to Practice: STRAND 1 – Addressing the NGSS: Supporting K-12 Teachers in Engineering Pedagogy and Engineering Science Connections (Part 2)

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Whitney Gaskins, University of Cincinnati; Anant R. Kukreti, University of Cincinnati; Catherine Maltbie, University of Cincinnati; Julie Steimle, University of Cincinnati

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

University of Cincinnati Evaluation Sevices Center and the Arlitt Child & Family Research & Education Center. She has a BS in Chemical Engineering and an EdD in Educational Studies with a concentration in the cognitive and social aspects of instructional practices. Dr. Maltbie has evaluated STEM educational projects and programs since 2000.Ms. Julie Steimle, University of Cincinnati Julie Steimle is the Project Director for the Cincinnati Engineering Enhanced Math and Science Pro- gram (CEEMS). Prior to that, she ran an outreach tutoring program for K-12 students at the University of Cincinnati. Before joining UC, Ms. Steimle served as the Director of Development and Children’s Services at the Literacy Network of

Conference Session

Experimentation and Laboratory-oriented Studies Division Technical Session 3

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Hitesh D. Vora, Oklahoma State University; Brad Rowland, Oklahoma State University; Joe Conner, Oklahoma State University; Brian K. Norton P.E., Oklahoma State University; Qinang Hu, Oklahoma State University; Toni Ivey, Oklahoma State University

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Experimentation and Laboratory-Oriented Studies

additive manufacturing makerspace (AMM) into two separate rooms calledbasic and advance 3D printing makerspaces, as shown in Figure 2. Basic 3D printings are mostlyfor the freshman and sophomore engineering students who are just learning 3D printing. Whileadvance 3D printing makerspace are dedicated to more serious 3D printing projects of junior andsenior engineering students for making functional parts and prototypes of advance materials(composites, ceramics, metals) for their industry led capstone project or upper division classprojects. The AMM houses various types of AM technologies such as fused deposition modeling(FDM) aka fused filament fabrication (FFF) for polymers and composites, Continuous FilamentFabrication (CFF) for composites

Conference Session

Chemical Engineering Division (ChED) Poster Session

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joaquin Rodriguez, University of Pittsburgh

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Chemical Engineering Division (ChED)

, specifically in Process Control [3], but the implementation of labexperiences in process control courses have been largely constrained in many higher-educationinstitutions by several factors like lack of equipment and technical support [4]. Several initiativeshave been reported to compensate for this deficiency including classroom lab kits [3], remotelabs [4], [5], [6], virtual lab simulators [6], [7], [8], [9], and the use of data from unit operationexperimental modules [10] among others.Our chemical engineering curriculum includes a capstone senior course on Process Control, 5credit units, with a companion laboratory course (1 credit hour). The lab includes six fullyautomated experimental setups, three for liquid level control and three for

Conference Session

Special Session: Impacts of Service in Engineering

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Trevor Harding, California Polytechnic State University; Lynne Slivovsky, California Polytechnic State University; Nina Truch, California Polytechnic State University

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Educational Research and Methods

Advancement of Teaching Faculty Fellow for Service-Learning for Political Engagement. She currently oversees two multidisciplinary service-learning programs: the Access by Design project that has capstone students design devices for people with disabilities to participate in adapted physical activity and Organic Twittering that merges social media with sustainability.Nina Truch, California Polytechnic State University Nina Truch is a lecturer in the Communication Studies and Materials Engineering departments at Cal Poly State University. She received the Cal Poly President's Community Service Award in 2005 for work pertaining to the Tsunami Relief Project

Conference Session

FPD 7: Beyond Course Content

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Angela R Bielefeldt, University of Colorado, Boulder; Nathan E. Canney PE, Seattle University

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First-Year Programs

Paper ID #9569Social Responsibility Attitudes of First Year Engineering Students and theImpact of CoursesDr. Angela R Bielefeldt, University of Colorado, Boulder Angela Bielefeldt, Ph.D., P.E., is a Professor in the Department of Civil, Environmental, & Architec- tural Engineering at the University of Colorado Boulder. She has been on the faculty since 1996. She serves as the ABET Assessment Coordinator for the Department. Professor Bielefeldt teaches introduc- tory courses for first year engineering students, senior capstone design, and environmental engineering specialty courses. She conducts engineering education

Conference Session

International Division (INTL) Technical Session #5: Best Practices

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Andrea Schuman, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Homero Murzi, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Alaa Abdalla, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

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International Division (INTL)

istaught by RUB professors and the students take the course alongside students enrolled at RUB,typically with one RUB student in each lab group. The program is 8 weeks long. Outside of thecourse, the students also work on a research project with RUB graduate students. There is noexplicit cultural learning in the course.The technical University of Denmark (DTU) is a public technical university. It offers the UO labcourse to multiple U.S. institutions in the summer. Virginia Tech students have been enrollingsince 2007. It is the leading technological university of Denmark with internationally knownresearch [16]. DTU is in a distant suburb of Copenhagen and the university has about 7,000undergraduate students. The program runs for four weeks and is

Conference Session

DEED Technical Session 10: Empathy and Human-centered Design

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ardeshir Raihanian Mashhadi, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York; Vanessa Svihla, University of New Mexico

.4.3.272[34] J. W. Osborne, "What is rotating in exploratory factor analysis?," Practical Assessment, Research, and Evaluation, vol. 20, no. 1, p. 2, 2015, doi: 10.7275/hb2g-m060.[35] J. W. Osborne, A. B. Costello, and J. T. Kellow, "Best practices in exploratory factor analysis," Practical Assessment, Research, and Evaluation, vol. 10, no. 7, pp. 1-9, 2008, doi: 10.7275/hb2g-m060[36] M. Tavakol and R. Dennick, "Making sense of Cronbach's alpha," International Journal of Medical Education, vol. 2, p. 53, 2011, doi: 10.5116/ijme.4dfb.8dfd.[37] G. Guanes, L. Wang, D. A. Delaine, and E. Dringenberg, "Empathic approaches in engineering capstone design projects: student beliefs and reported behaviour," European

Conference Session

Systems Engineering Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Mark David Bedillion, Carnegie Mellon University; Karim Heinz Muci-Kuchler, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology; Cassandra M. Birrenkott, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology; Marsha Lovett, Carnegie Mellon University; Laura Ochs Pottmeyer, Carnegie Mellon University

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Systems Engineering

need to infuse fundamental systems engineering topics / conceptsthroughout conventional engineering curricula.Teaching systems engineering to undergraduate students is difficult for several reasons, amongthem students’ lack of experience in interacting with diverse stakeholders and preference for thewell-defined problems common in engineering curricula 1,2 . In the mechanical engineeringdiscipline there have been efforts to incorporate systems thinking activities in courses rangingfrom the freshman level 3 to the senior capstone course 4 , including several by the authors 5,6,7,8 .The work in this paper targets freshman students, and hence is most closely related to 7,8,3 . Itdiffers from prior efforts by taking a flipped classroom approach

Conference Session

Improving ME instructional laboratories

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Chastain, Clemson University; Harvin Smith, Clemson University; Mason Morehead, Clemson University; David Moline, Clemson University; John Wagner, Clemson University

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Mechanical Engineering

. Presentation of fundamentals of instrumentation, calibration techniques, data analysis, and report writing in the context of laboratory experiments.A brief literature review will now be presented on mechanical engineering laboratories. Schmaltzet al.1 reported on the senior mechanical engineering capstone laboratory at Western KentuckyUniversity that focuses on students undertaking mechanical, materials, and thermal/fluidexperiments. Important activities are the definition of requirements, design of methods andequipment, execution of test plan, analysis of results, and reporting. To ensure topical coverage,a design of experiments plan was created to implement, assess, and adjust the laboratoryexperience. Layton et al.2 discussed the need to identify

Conference Session

Enhancing Instruction in Statics, Dynamics, Mechanics

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rania Al-Hammoud P.Eng., University of Waterloo

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Mechanics

theflipped classroom model. Using graded online quizzes encourages students to go over thematerial before class and holds them accountable for their learning. The online quiz allowsstudents multiple attempts until they get the correct answer along with direct feedback. This hasbeen proven to increase students’ retention and acts as a motivation for them to learn (M. L.Epstein et.al.,2002; R. E. Dihoff et al.,2003; J.D. Tune et al, 2013; J. Bergman and A. Sams,2014). Another method to hold students accountable for their learning and preparation for theclass in a flipped classroom design is team-based learning as proposed by OP McCubbins et al.,2014. This leads to students coming prepared to their capstone course and being engaged in theclassroom. C