Conference Session

Innovation in Construction Engineering Education II

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tulio Sulbaran, University of Southern Mississippi; David Marchman, University of Southern Mississippi; Shelton Houston, University of Southern Mississippi

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Construction

United States. Alsoin 2003, more than 16,700 people died in run-off-the-road crashes (39 percent of all roadwayfatalities), and head-on crashes represented 12 percent of all fatal crashes. In short, roadwaydepartures are a significant and serious problem in the United States.The work presented herein is a part of a project funded by the Mississippi Department ofTransportation to determine the safety effectiveness of “Rumble Stripes” in reducing roadwaydepartures in Mississippi. More specifically, this paper presents a series of assessments donenationwide to measure the impact of rumble stripes. The content of this paper will serve as thefoundation to establish the method to determine the impact of rumble stripes in Mississippi.This work followed

Conference Session

Integrating Engineering & Liberal Education

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Heath Tims, Louisiana Tech University; Krystal S Corbett, Cyber Innovation Center; Galen E. Turner III, Louisiana Tech University

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

the project include activities developed such as: historical/policy essay assignments,robotics challenges, as well as computer science fundamentals. This paper will describe theapproaches used in addressing ethical and social issues related to cyber technology, as well ashow STEM fundamentals are enhanced by integrating with liberal arts.IntroductionCyberspace technology has become an integral part of our world, uniting individuals acrossinternational boundaries and offering them an unprecedented level of interaction. Personal,business, academic, and military applications across cyberspace have become intertwined. Butthere has been a negative consequence to this phenomenon. Individuals with particular personalor political agendas have

Conference Session

Software Engineering Outreach: Industry, K-12

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Clare McInerney, Lero - the Irish Software Engineering Research Centre; Mike Hinchey, Lero-the Irish Software Engineering Reseaach Centre

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Software Engineering Constituent Committee

university for a number ofweeks during the summer period. Software engineering concepts are introduced in all four parts ofthe programme during the software project phases. Our outreach efforts primarily use the Scratchtool that was developed at the MIT Media Lab.We describe each outreach effort in detail and outline our experiences based on a mixture ofsurvey results, instructor observation and participant feedback. We will conclude by describinghow the E&O programme has led to Lero being commissioned by the Department of Education towrite a computing course for high school students that will be part of the official curriculum.1. IntroductionThere are many well-known and well-documented computer science outreach programmes such as“Computer

Conference Session

Teaching Software Engineering Process

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Larry Young; John Fernandez

courses in software engineering and HCI and assign studentsto community projects where students practice the principles they are learning and completeworthwhile products for real-world clients. This paper presents some of these experiences andcompares the interaction design and software engineering methodologies. The conclusionsreached by the authors provide a basis for further study of the integration of these two paradigmsand a preliminary integrated model of the two methodologies.INTRODUCTIONIn San Jose, California, in June of 2004, the San Jose Police department began using a newmobile dispatch system in every patrol car. Police officers commented that, “the system is socomplex and difficult to use that it is jeopardizing their ability to do

Conference Session

IE and Manufacturing

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Richard Pitts, Morgan State University; Ricardo Camilo, Morgan State University

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Industrial Engineering

originalideas and analytical skills for the solution of concrete problems in the areas of manufacturingsystems, programming, logistics and others. As an attractive educational tool, roboticscontributes to the increase in students’ interest for Science, Technology, Engineering and Math(STEM) concepts.Through this Course, Curriculum and Lab Improvement (CCLI) grant project sponsored by theNational Science Foundation an updated Industrial Robotics and Automated Manufacturing(IRAM) Laboratory will be developed at Morgan State University. The IRAM Laboratory willprovide an improvement in the current facility and combine the integration of additional courseswith a hands-on laboratory approach into the Industrial engineering undergraduate curriculum.These

Conference Session

Assessing Teaching & Learning

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Sang Ha Lee; John Wise; Thomas Litzinger

Engineering. Results show nostatistically significant change in the average pre-test and post-test scores; however, a fraction ofthe students were found to experience significant increases and decreases. A regression analysiswas conducted in an attempt to understand the effect of the characteristics of the students such asgender and grade point average as well as project and section; however, no statisticallysignificant correlation between the change in SDLRS score and any of these factors were found.Interviews with instructors were also conducted and suggested that the decreases in the scores forone project were likely due to the nature of the interactions of the project mentor with thestudents. Implications of the results of this study for

Conference Session

Leadership, Entrepreneurship and Ethics Education

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ronald J. Bennett F.ASEE, F.ABET P.E., University of St. Thomas; Niaz Latif, Purdue University Calumet (College of Technology); Aco Sikoski, Ivy Tech Community College; Steven Wendel, Sinclair Community College; Mohammad A. Zahraee, Purdue University Calumet (College of Technology)

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Manufacturing

Community College Steve Wendel serves as Director of the National Center for Manufacturing Education (NCME), originally established as a National Science Foundation Center of Excellence in the NSF Advanced Technological Page 24.845.1 Education Program, the NCME provides leadership development for deans, program chairs, faculty and other educational leaders in manufacturing and engineering technology. Steve is also the Director for the Project Lead The Way (PLTW) Affiliate in Ohio. PLTW-OH has grown to over 340 programs in more than 150 school districts across Ohio preparing students for STEM career and college

Conference Session

DEED Poster Session

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Sig Lillevik

acquire anunderstanding of what works well at one university and may wish to adapt the practices to theirenvironment.The specific setting for this course is a small, private school located in the Northwest and in acity with numerous high-technology companies. As a result, the methods may or may not beapplicable to a large, state school and, depending upon location, interaction with practicingprofessionals may be problematic. We will provide an overview of the design course but will notgo into intricate details such as individual lecture topics, document contents, project funding,laboratory space, and equipment.The first section discusses instructional objectives and sets the motivation for the next section,course structure. Here, we define some

Conference Session

New Trends in ECE Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

John Orr; Richard Vaz

is used. 2. Depth and Breadth Graduates should have familiarity with topics across the breadth of the discipline, with advanced knowledge in one or more areas. 3. Design Experiences Graduates should have completed a sequence of design experiences, encompassing both hardware and software elements, building on prior work, and including at least one major project. Page 9.594.4 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright 2004, American Society for Engineering Education

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Taryn Bayles

Session 2793 Introduction to Engineering Course – High School Partnership Taryn Melkus Bayles Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering University of Maryland Baltimore CountyIntroductionUMBC has undertaken three major initiatives to improve engineering education and awareness.The first initiative was to develop and present a three-day summer workshop to introduce highschool teachers and counselors to the field of engineering. The second initiative was to revampthe Introduction to Engineering Course (ENES 101) to include hands-on project based

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kathryn Dimiduk, Cornell University; Rajesh Bhaskaran, Cornell University; Haolin Zhu, Cornell University; Yingxin Gao, Cornell University

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NSF Grantees

are 4. A preliminary survey of best practices guidelines for simulationuse, developed by practicing engineers,5 indicates that the expert approach has an underlyinguniformity irrespective of the specific context or discipline. Our project extends this cognitiveand simulation research to industrial-standard simulation platforms. We hypothesize that ifstudents, in their formative years, see the same expert approach to simulations being followedrepeatedly for a wide variety of problems in different subject areas, they are likely to internalizeit and be able to apply it in new situations. Students will thus develop a mental organizationalstructure similar to those developed by experts with years of experience working withsimulations. Students

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Elizabeth Berry; Robert Lingard

Session 2330 Teaching Communication and Teamwork in Engineering and Computer Science Elizabeth Berry, Robert Lingard California State University, NorthridgeAbstractThis paper describes a project in which Communication Studies pedagogy was incorporated intoSoftware Engineering courses at California State University, Northridge. Responding to the needsof potential employers as well as the ABET 2000 criteria, faculty from the Departments ofCommunication Studies and Computer Science developed a variety of instructional strategies toenhance

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Shouling He, Vaughn College of Aeronautics and Technology; Douglas Jahnke, Vaughn College of Aeronautics and Technology

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Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024Developing PLC and Robotic Automation Technician Certificate Program for Service IndustriesABSTRACTThis project supported by NSF ATE (Award #2202107) aims to serve the national interest byaddressing the shortage of technicians possessing the skills to maintain programmable logiccontrollers (PLCs) and robots in the service industries. Vaughn College program offers a PLCand Robotic Automation (PRA) Technician Certificate, consisting of 13 credits. It preparestechnicians for roles in diverse service industries such as wholesale and retail, pharmaceuticals,food, and beverage, as well as airport baggage and cargo handling [1][2][3]. Additionally, allcredits earned through the

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jennifer Hasler, Georgia Institute of Technology

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

Engineering Education, 2024 Enabling In-Class Hands-On Electronics Opportunities through Flipped Classroom using Openly Available VideosAbstractThis discussion reports on our efforts to utilize open classroom time for hands-on experimentalmeasurements as well as other hands-on engineering (ECE) projects. These in-class interactionsincrease student confidence with hands-on tools, where class time becomes time for grouphardware discussions. This discussion will describe our efforts utilizing hardware-based classprojects throughout the undergraduate and graduate ECE curriculum. Revolutionary integratedcircuit platforms are part of these efforts, and a history of these efforts will be described in thispaper. These efforts improves the

Conference Session

IE Technical Session I

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ivan G. Guardiola, Missouri University of Science & Technology; Susan L. Murray, Missouri University of Science & Technology; Elizabeth A. Cudney, Missouri University of Science & Technology

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Industrial Engineering

AC 2011-94: USING SOCIAL NETWORKING GAME TO TEACH OPER-ATIONS RESEARCH AND MANAGEMENT SCIENCE FUNDAMENTALCONCEPTSIvan G. Guardiola, Missouri S&TSusan L. Murray, Missouri University of Science & Technology Susan L. Murray is an Associate Professor in the Engineering Management and Systems Engineering Department at Missouri University of Science and Technology. Dr. Murray received her B.S. and Ph.D. in industrial engineering from Texas A&M University. Her M.S. is also in industrial engineering from the University of Texas-Arlington. She is a professional engineer in Texas. Her research and teaching inter- ests include human systems integration, productivity improvement, human performance, safety, project

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Milo Koretsky, Oregon State University; Christine Kelly, Oregon State University

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NSF Grantees

to the workon instructional development, the degree of assessment has been sparse.11-13Our intent is to provide students a capstone experience in which they can apply experimentaldesign in a context similar to that of a practicing engineer in industry. The objectives of thisresearch are to explore the types of cognition and social interactions of student teams as theyengage in these virtual laboratories, to determine the role of instructional design in the responseof student teams, and to ascertain whether virtual laboratories can effectively promote types oflearning that are difficult or impossible to achieve from physical laboratories.Objectives The specific objectives of the NSF CCLI Phase 2 project are to: 1. Create the following

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics Issues Part One

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gretchen L. Hein, Michigan Technological University; Amber Kemppainen, Michigan Technological University

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Engineering Ethics

engineering students at Michigan Technological University studyengineering ethics. These same students complete some type of engineering design project. Whatwould happen if these students explored the ethical issues surrounding their design topic? Wouldtheir understanding and application of ethics improve? Would their ability to analyze ethical casestudies improve? Traditionally, students first learn about engineering ethics and ethical decisionmaking and then apply these concepts in analyzing typical introductory engineering ethics casestudies.At Michigan Technological University, the effect of integrating engineering ethics into thesemester-long design project was explored in four sections of a first-year engineering course.Within the four sections

Conference Session

Graduate Aerospace Systems Engineering Design

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Brij Agrawal

course is on spacecraft design tools. The students becomefamiliar with the spacecraft design tools that are used in the final design course. The toolsinclude STK, IDEAS, NASTRAN, and MATLAB/Simulink. They also become familiar withsystem software such as Aerospace Corporation Corporation Conceptual Design Center tools andspacecraft cost estimation. The second course is on spacecraft system engineering where theyreview the design aspects of all subsystems, systems engineering, and do an individual designproject. In the final capstone course, they do a team spacecraft design project. The spacecraftperformance requirements are given by a sponsor. The students have mentors in each subsystemfrom industry, Aerospace Corporation and government

Conference Session

Learning Styles

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Daniel Knight; Jacquelyn Sullivan; Lawrence Carlson

f student skilldevelopment. This paper describes one type of skills assessment — student self-estimates of skill— in a first-year engineering projects course. The Skills Assessment Inventory for this coursewas developed by translating the course objectives into six measurement scales. One hundredsixty-two, first-year students completed the Skills Assessment Inventory at the beginning andend of the semester. This paper provides discussion of the significant differences between thepre-test and post-test scores as well as significant differences between genders on the SkillsAssessment Inventory scales.IntroductionHands-on curricula have been found to be an effective method for teaching engineeringconcepts.1 In the Integrated Teaching and

Conference Session

Capstone Design

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephen Batill

earlier offerings of this project-based, team-oriented courseinvolved the type of corporate culture in which the design process took place, the nature of theproduct and an attempt to develop collaboration between students from engineering, marketingand design. The paper outlines the learning objectives for this course, its implementation andpresents a preliminary assessment of the impact of the changes.I. Introduction and Overview of the ExperimentThe capstone design class in the Mechanical Engineering program at Notre Dame has undergonea number of changes in the past few years that have altered the types of projects and theassociated technologies invoked by the students. The course is presented as a team-based,product-focused, design-build

Conference Session

Freshman Design

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

John Lake; John Anderson; Charles Yarnoff; J. Edward Colgate; Barbara Shwom; Penny Hirsch

freshmen. As Carol McConica explains, in a 1996 edition of Chemical EngineeringEducation, "Freshman design courses are problematic because students do not yet have thefundamental engineering background necessary to solve real problems."2Like many of our colleagues elsewhere, 3 we at Northwestern see freshman limitations as achallenge, but not a roadblock. To meet this challenge, we proposed to develop a freshmancourse in user-centered design, having students work on real projects for real clients, by learningthe design strategies used by professional industrial designers. At Northwestern, we arefortunate to be near the Chicago offices of several renowned design firms—such as IDEO,Herbst LaZar Bell, and the Nielsen Norman Group—as well as the

Collection

ASEE Zone 1 Conference - Spring 2023

Authors

Buket D Barkana, University of Bridgeport; Ioana A. Badara, University of Bridgeport; Navarun Gupta, University of Bridgeport; Junling Hu, University of Bridgeport; Ausit Mahmood, University of Bridgeport

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Diversity

from the National Science Foundation Hispanic ServingInstitution program in 2022. The project, called Project Achieve, aims to foster, engage, and retain underserved andunderrepresented undergraduate men and women, with particular emphasis on Hispanic students in engineering andcomputer science majors. As a part of the project, a multi-disciplinary effort among faculty in mechanical, electrical,computer engineering, and computer science designed an undergraduate course, Introduction to Scientific Research,based on the evidence-based Affinity Research Group model, one of the signature models in the Computing Allianceof Hispanic-Serving Institutions (CAHSI) Network. This 2-credit yearlong course offers undergraduate engineeringand computer

Conference Session

Capstone Design

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joseph Anders Wahlquist, US Air Force Academy; Daniel D. Jensen, U.S. Air Force Academy; Kristin L. Wood P.E., Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD); Kyle Fitle, U.S. Air Force Academy; David Carte, U.S. Air Force Academy

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Design in Engineering Education

of research grants.Dr. Kristin L. Wood, Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD)Lt. Kyle Fitle, United States Air ForceDavid Carte, United States Air Force Page 23.1327.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013 Using Mini Design Competitions in Capstone Courses to Teach the Design ProcessAbstractFor many senior undergraduate engineering students, the capstone design project is their firstexperience implementing the design process. As a result many capstone teams do not grasp theimportance of the early stages of the design process. To help

Conference Session

WIP: Classroom Innovations

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ruben D. Lopez-Parra, University of New Mexico; Vanessa Svihla, University of Texas at Austin

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Chemical Engineering Division (ChED)

representations (i.e.,representational fluency) as an essential engineering analysis and design ability. We ask:How do third-year chemical engineering students create and translate across multiplerepresentations when working on a design project in the context of fluid mechanics? We useda qualitative research approach to explore the representations employed by four student teamsworking on conceptualizing a sustainable and safe fuel storage tank and delivery pipingsystem for an Air Force Base (fictitious client). They completed the project as part of theirfluid mechanics course requirements. We coded the five project deliverables using a co-evolution framework of the engineering design process and an adapted version of the LeshTranslation Model, a

Collection

2011 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

AJ Almaguer

deploy them at local k-12 schools and community partners. It is a student-run organizationand a course offered at UC Berkeley. BEAM has made great efforts to constantly evolve, assess,and redesign itself into a flexible program to achieve our mission: to impact the future ofstudents in our community through hands-on learning. It is our belief that BEAM serves as amodel for effective student-led outreach and education partnerships between universities andtheir surrounding educational institutions. Our ten-week course consists of a day-long mentortraining followed by a guest lecture series, weekly volunteer site visits, and a final project. Thecourse adheres to engineering and education principles including: ABET Criteria, engineeringdesign loop

Conference Session

Interdisciplinary Integration at the Program Level

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Elizabeth A. Reddy, Colorado School of Mines; Courtney Van Kirk; Marie Stettler Kleine, Colorado School of Mines; Emily York, James Madison University; Shannon Conley; David Tomblin, University of Maryland, College Park; Nicole Farkas Mogul, University of Maryland, College Park; Marisa Renee Brandt, Michigan State University; Kathryn Peck

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division (LEES)

intersection of science and/or technology in society, and the theme for our work is “what is good engineering and science.”This is an excerpt from an email that two authors of this paper, Elizabeth Reddy and MarieStettler Kleine, sent out in the summer of 2022. We were excited for the opportunity to invite ourcolleagues to join us in the project of interdisciplinary engineering education, informed byScience and Technology Studies (or STS). This project was an opportunity to stage playfulworkshops and facilitate conversations we did not often get to have, all designed to stimulateinterdisciplinary reflections on what we do and why we do it. We were informed by theories of“trading zones” from STS and theories of the classroom drawn from

Conference Session

First-Year Programs Division Technical Session 11: Program Descriptions and Learning Analytics

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joan Tisdale, University of Colorado Boulder; Angela Bielefeldt, University of Colorado Boulder; Laura MacDonald, University of Colorado Boulder; Carlo Salvinelli, University of Colorado Boulder

Professor at the Mortenson Center in Global Engineering at the University of Colorado Boulder where he teaches courses on humanitarian response and disaster management, international development project management, and field methods for development engineers. He has a BS in Industrial Engineering and a MS in Engineering Management from the University of Brescia, Italy, and a PhD in Geological Engineering from the Missouri University of Science and Technology where he conducted research focused on household water treatment systems for underserved communities. Dr. Salvinelli spent six years working as a practitioner for international NGOs, especially in Central America, where he designed and implemented international

Conference Session

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

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alyson Grace Eggleston, Pennsylvania State University; Robert J. Rabb P.E., Pennsylvania State University

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International Division (INTL)

scaled to program size and needs. Using needs-based assessments andresearch-based approaches, this paper aims to improve communication and learning outcomes inengineering curricula. This paper also provides case studies for building an engineeringcommunications (EC) class or embedding assignments that are project-based, industry-informed,and produce measurable improvements in student communications competency if implementedearly in the curriculum. In this report, we examine several institutional examples involving theintegration of EC into existing engineering programs to support ABET and modern GeneralEducation learning outcomes, including modular, co-teaching, and entire courseimplementations. EC assessments can directly support: cultural

Collection

2004 GSW

Authors

Jenna Terry; Paul Ruchhoeft

departments in theCollege: Electrical and Computer Engineering, Industrial Engineering, and MechanicalEngineering. The course is centered around the activities of up to twenty-fivemultidisciplinary teams composed of four students each as described in two recentpapers6,7. Apart from the requirement for the completion of projects and the validation oftheir results, the main emphasis of the course is instruction in technical communicationsand project management. This paper will focus on the improvement achieved in theinstruction of technical communications and will describe the development of arelationship between the Cullen College of Engineering and the UH Writing Center8. TheWriting Center is involved in many activities including assessment

Conference Session

Learning in a Socially-Distanced Environment

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Wm. Michael Butler, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Kenneth Reid, University of Indianapolis

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Diversity

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Aerospace

Education. He was named NETI Faculty Fellow for 2013-2014, and the Herbert F. Alter Chair of Engineering (Ohio Northern University) in 2010. His research interests include success in first-year engineering, engineering in K-12, introducing entrepreneur- ship into engineering, and international service and engineering. He has written texts in design, general engineering and digital electronics, including the text used by Project Lead the Way. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 Gaining Industry Experience Exposure During a Pandemic Introducing Engineering Students to IndustryIntroductionThere is a growing need for engineering