Collection

1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Neil D. Opfer; John Gambatese

Page 4.467.8developed for applicants lacking undergraduate construction education. In all cases the goal isto attract students that are committed to a high level of academic and career achievement. Table 3. Deficiency Courses Credit Course Title Hours MAT 181 Elementary Calculus I 3 PHY 155 General Physics 3 STA 161 Introductory Statistics 3 EGG 307 Engineering Economics

Conference Session

Curricular Developments in Energy Education

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kenneth Van Treuren, Baylor University; Ian Gravagne, Baylor University

Tagged Divisions

Energy Conversion and Conservation

great success. This individual, who waspursuing a career working with college students, was full of energy and ideas, just the type ofindividual that was well suited to the task of planning extra-curricular activities. These activitiesincluded social dinners, picnics, and trips to sports activities. Couple these activities with thestudents living together in a dorm situation and it is easy to see how the goal of communitydevelopment was met successfully.Other areas that were difficult for the authors were field trips to energy facilities and bringing inguest speakers. Energy facilities, such as power plants, were not open to tours. This is thereality of the world in which we are living after 9/11. In its place, the ELG made use of

Conference Session

Outreach and Beyond: New Roles for Librarians

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jim Miller, University of Maryland; Bob Kackley, University of Maryland, College Park; Nevenka Zdravkovska, University of Maryland

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Libraries

school students.Typical of these sessions is the one requested by Bruk Berhane in 2009 for twenty-seven GearUp participants. Mr. Berhane’s main goal was for these high school students to find literaturerelated to future college choices based on career options with description of education/training,job prospects, job responsibilities and salary. We explained the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics(www.bls.gov/bls/occupation.htm) and the State of Maryland’s Career and WorkforceInformation (www.dllr.state.md.us/lmi/index.shtml) websites, both good places to start forinformation on jobs, salary outlook, and employment statistics. We demonstrated severaldifferent search strategies using Masterfile Premier and Academic Search Premier, Ebscodatabases

Conference Session

Pedagogy and Assessment in ECE III

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Richard Kelnhofer, Milwaukee School of Engineering; Stephen Williams, Milwaukee School of Engineering; Owe Petersen, Milwaukee School of Engineering

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

ABET Engineering Criteria. There are threecomponents of the Engineering Criteria that carry a great deal of common sense for all programs: 1. A program should have educational objectives. They define the purpose of the program, what career paths the graduates ought to successfully be able to navigate, and suggest the kind of preparation that is required for those career path, i.e., they provide a deliberateness to the educational effort of the program. 2. A program should have program outcomes in the form of a knowledge base and defined capabilities of its students at the time of graduation. These are the characteristics and skills that propel graduates forward upon commencing their careers. They

Conference Session

Outstanding Contributions - Mechanical Engineering Education

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rajesh Bhaskaran, Cornell University

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

AC 2010-965: SIMCAFE: A WIKI-BASED REPOSITORY OF LEARNINGMODULES FOR DEPLOYING SIMULATION TECHNOLOGY IN MECHANICALENGINEERING EDUCATIONRajesh Bhaskaran, Cornell University Page 15.1065.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 SimCafe: A Wiki-Based Repository of Learning Modules for Deploying Simulation Technology in Mechanical Engineering EducationAbstractComputer-based simulation technology has rapidly become a key component of mechanicalengineering (ME) practice. Commerical simulation packages are used by leading companies todesign, analyze and understand complex engineering systems. To help modernize the curriculumand better prepare students for their careers

Conference Session

CE Capstone: Innovations in Learning & Assessment

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Charlie Quagliana, University of WIsconsin-Madison; Jeffrey Russell, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Michael Doran, University of WIsconsin-Madison; Rod Hassett, University of WIsconsin-Madison; Greg Harrington, University of WIsconsin-Madison

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

semester. Eachstudent group has at least one industry mentor (and in many cases two) that works with the groupthroughout the semester.Before the semester begins, students respond to a questionnaire and provide a brief resume toinstructors. Instructors review the information and assign students to teams in one of three areasof focus; General Building, Transportation or Environmental, based upon their academiccoursework and performance, practical experience, and career goals.Active student involvement is the key to successful engagement of students in this course.Twelve of the 17 class assignments are design team related. This ranges from preparing writtenproposals and summaries to the development of drawing specifications and contract

Conference Session

Student Entrepreneurial Skills and Mindset I

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jeremy Brett Ross, East Tennessee State University; Keith V. Johnson, East Tennessee State University; Kevin Wade Varney, East Tennessee State University

Tagged Divisions

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

long-term effects ofstudying abroad in over 3,400 participants. According to this study 96% percent of study abroadparticipants credit their experience to an increase in personal development, while 94% credit thisexperience to increased intercultural development. Of the participants engaging in summer studyabroad, 84% credited their study abroad experience to an enhanced interest in academic study1.Additionally, further data has been collected documenting the impacts of study abroad to futurecareer paths. “Students who studied abroad were more open to additional internationalexperiences in their careers, and thus tailored their job searches to further that goal.”3These studies, along with a study from Gutierrez2 and many more, clearly indicate

Conference Session

Design in the First Year

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael Pacella, University of Maryland, Baltimore County; Taryn Bayles, University of Maryland, Baltimore County

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

ourcells, thus increasing the total energy we could capture without paying for additionalphotoelectric cells. Many other groups used various permutations of turbines to captureeither wind or hydraulic power.Observations and Impressions from a Student’s Perspective: At the time, as a freshman engineer I initially viewed this design project as simplyanother source of stress in my life; however, as our design evolved into the final product Ibecame quite proud of our accomplishment. This design project represented the first timein my academic career I had truly used synthesis in a project; looking back on this projectas a senior, I doubt I will ever forget this first milestone in my career as an engineer.This project also introduced me to the

Conference Session

College-Industry Partnerships: Bringing Industry into the Curriculum Development and Design Cycle

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tammy Baldwin, Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, Inc.; Marisa Hemingway, Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, Inc

Tagged Divisions

College-Industry Partnerships

to cover their roles andresponsibilities as a mentee, the mentor roles, and expectations for future activities. Roles andresponsibilities for mentees include: communicating future goals and expectations clearly,actively participating in their career development plan, participating in networking activities,identifying potential pitfalls to success, and developing an increased sense of self-assurance andself-directed behavior. The coordinators asked mentees to commit time to regular meetings withtheir mentor that would include discussions beyond technical training. Topics to considerincluded general professional development questions, struggles and accomplishments, andopportunities for further education or experience. Again, these nontechnical

Conference Session

Culture, Society, and Co-op

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lindsey Jenkins-Stark, Iridescent; Tara Chklovski, Iridescent

Tagged Divisions

Cooperative & Experiential Education

. We employ a multi-method research approach to evaluate the program’s impacton the volunteer engineers by using formative, summative, and self-reflective assessments, aswell as interviews. Previous data from the program participants and impact numbers arepresented and implications and expected outcomes for the program are discussed.IntroductionIn 2006-07 of the 1.5 million bachelor's degrees awarded that year, only 5% were awarded to thefields of engineering and engineering technologies1. Furthermore, the representation of femaleand minority students in the areas of science and engineering remained, and continues to remaindisproportionate. Females and ethnic minority students in STEM careers have beenunderrepresented for the past 30 years2

Conference Session

Aerospace Technical Session

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Narayanan Komerath, Georgia Institute of Technology; Marilyn Smith, Georgia Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Aerospace

context of theaerospace engineering program at GIT.Aerospace engineering requires depth of understanding. Engineering recruitment in industry andgovernment is usually based on perceived depth. Engineering curricula are designed on thereasoning that a firm foundation in basic disciplines gives the graduate a lifetime to gain breadth.Universities also try hard to “teach students to work in teams”, build breadth into the curriculumand retain the interest of learners in STEM (science/ technology/engineering/mathematics)careers, without compromising on depth or rigor of specialized learning or increasing time to 1graduation. Beyond preparatory first year courses, a course

Conference Session

Concurrent Paper Tracks - Session II

Collection

2015 ASEE International Forum

Authors

Anders V Warell, Lund University, Industrial Design; Charlotta Johnsson, Lund University; Carl-Henric Lennart Nilsson, Technology management

Tagged Topics

International Forum

contributors of value. Thus, design,as a competency alongside engineering and business, contributes to innovation by offering an approach, whichintegrates disciplines and knowledge domains and builds user-centred value.6. AssessmentThe effects of the course have been analysed in 2 ways. Firstly using Pertex analysis (Helmersson, (2010)) andsecondly a frequency-analysis of (the Swedish) students’ career choice: employment or entrepreneurship.PertexThe Pertex Analysis1 (Helmersson, 2010) is best described as intuitive text-analysis. As opposed to traditionalanalysis methods, Pertex uses the text writer’s frame of reference as found embedded in the text, rather thantranslating to categories defined by the reader/analyser. Pertex uses three axiomatic

Conference Session

Track 1 - Session 1

Collection

2014 ASEE International Forum

Authors

John Matthew Long, Deakin University; Simon William Cavenett, Deakin University; Eloise Gordon, Deakin University; Matthew Joordens, Deakin University

Tagged Topics

Curriculum and Lab Development

Cavenett is a Senior Lecturer and Director of Professional Practice (Engineering) at the School of Engineering at Deakin University. Prior to joining Deakin University in 2007 his 20 year career was based in industry. His career includes a number of significant achievements both in Australia and inter- nationally, particularly involving the design and implementation of leading edge telecommunications and IT technologies. Simon has extensive experience internationally; having worked professionally based the United States for over 11 years prior to returning to Australia to join Deakin University.Ms. Eloise Gordon, Deakin UniversityDr. Matthew Joordens, Deakin University Matthew A. Joordens (Member -IEEE, Fellow - The

Conference Session

TC2K Issues and Experiences

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

James Higley; Jana Whittington; Joy Colwell

courses. In the assessment process, we found surprising results,particularly in the summative assessment process of collecting data for continuous improvementand ABET outcomes. Some possible explanations for the results will be offered.BackgroundIn the late 1990’s, engineering and technology educators received perhaps the greatest shock oftheir careers – accreditation was changing to outcomes-based assessment from a decades-old listof topics. After the shock wore off, it took several years of hard work for most educators just tounderstand outcomes-based assessment, let alone perform any meaningful assessments.The difficulty most engineering and technology educators have with outcomes-based assessmentcan be easily understood by studying the mental

Conference Session

Capstone/Design Projects: Electrical ET

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Tyson McCall; Corinne Ransberger; Steve Hsiung

Conference Session

New Trends in Graduate Education

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Preston McCrary; Chip Ferguson; Aaron Ball; Wesley Stone

, a strengthened partnership was created.Caterpillar:Western Carolina University has maintained a close relationship with the precision seals division Page 10.531.5of Caterpillar. Through part-time and class projects, students have gained valuable experiences “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education”in preparation for engineering careers. The following is an example of the type of projectscompleted by students at Western Carolina University.During the Spring semester of 2003, the Engineering

Conference Session

Teaching Outside the Box in Civil Engineering

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Vincent Drnevich

ofsubspecialties or at least work with people in other subspecialties as their careers progressed.Furthermore, people with the broader vision were more likely to advance to leadership positions.This approach appears to have been appreciated by at least some of the students (typically thebetter ones) and there was more widespread ownership of the work, i.e. increased teamwork.Use of the Web for all Course Materials and Products - The worldwide web also is becomingan increasingly important component to the teaching, design, and construction processes. In themid-1990's, instructors of this course began using the web for course information so that studentscould get ready access to this information. In Spring 2001, the author with the assistance of hisco

Conference Session

MIND Education Trends

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Benjamin Flores; Jana Renner Martinez; Ann Darnell

mentoring and professional development for students interested inpursuing research as a career. Numerous programs have assessed the impact of researchexperiences on under-represented minority undergraduate students. Nagda et al[2] investigatedthe impact of participation in the University of Michigan’s Undergraduate Research OpportunityProgram (UROP) on the persistence of 1,280 lower division (freshman and sophomore students)minority students. Participation in the program had a significant impact on the persistence ofAfrican American students. While the persistence rates of White and Hispanic students werehigher for participants than for non-participants, the difference was not statistically significant.Other studies have examined the effectiveness

Conference Session

Experiential Learning

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Sara Tracy; Jason Immekus; Susan Maller; William Oakes

self-report measures to assess program outcomes.1. Introduction Service-learning is the focus of considerable research and is a feature within manyengineering programs. Within engineering education, design courses embedded in service-learning provide a way to promote students’ development of technical and professional skills forsolving applied problems. The ability to create learning environments for engineering students toapply mathematical and scientific principles when solving applied problems is critical forpreparing students for careers in engineering2. The need for engineering programs to producestudents proficient in these skills upon graduation is reflected in ABET EC 2000. Service-learning courses may provide engineering

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering Program Innovation

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

David Russomanno; Anna Lambert

or summer internships with industry partners of theprogram;4) To improve employment placement in highly sought-after positions.Specifically, the CSEMS program provides a focused, integrative academic experiencefor scholarship students through the processes of emphasizing career and personalcounseling, tutoring, mentoring, career development, research or application-orientedopportunities, student collaboration, and countless other academic and personaladvantages gained by being fully engaged in the University community.Program RationaleStatistical data relating to attrition and retention of students majoring in science,technology, engineering, or math (STEM) fields continues to be alarming, with high-ranking administrators and researchers

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Sally Blake; Eric MacDonald; Scott Starks

data collection methods, and experimentresults. Students conducted research primarily through the internet on the topics of proteincrystallization, microgravity, NASA’s biotechnology program, and careers in biotechnology.These topics are introduced into their essays. The essays were graded and the top twenty essayswere identified.The twenty winning essayists were invited to participate to an actual flight sample loading thatwas conducted by scientists and engineers affiliated with the NASA Marshall Space FlightCenter. The flight sample loading was held during the final week of TexPREP. The flightsamples were frozen so that they could then be flown to the International Space Station via theSpace Shuttle. The twenty students were promised a trip

Conference Session

Controls, Mechatronics

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Nathan Wiedenman

increasingly technologicallyadvanced Army. During their careers, USMA graduates will be the leaders who employmechatronic devices. It is vital that they understand the basic concepts behind thesetechnologies. Beyond the Army’s need for technologically competent officers, however, anothermotivation for the current effort has been the desire to integrate the engineering curriculum.Educating engineers who can function in a multi-disciplinary environment directly supports theprogram outcomes delineated by the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology(ABET) in their Criteria for Accrediting Engineering Programs7. The need for multidisciplinaryintegration at West Point is explicitly stated in the Operational Concept for the AcademicProgram

Conference Session

Course and Curriculum Innovations in ECE

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Tolga Duman; Cihan Tepedelenlioglu; Antonia Papandreou-Suppappola; Venkatraman Atti; Andreas Spanias

immersing them into ElectricalEngineering communications and signal processing research. Our objective is to raise the interest ofundergraduates in thesis-oriented research and hence attract them to graduate education programs orprepare them for research careers in the industry. The innovation includes the development of researchmodules that expose UG students to signal processing for communications (SP-COM) research. Thesemodules are taken by students across the Electrical Engineering SP-COM curriculum. Four interrelatedmodules are first injected in early junior-level “Signal and systems” and “Random signal analysis”courses and then in senior-level “Digital signal processing” and “Communications systems” courses. Inaddition, a new senior-level

Conference Session

Women in Engineering: A Potpourri

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Sheryl Gowen; Alisha Waller

training in high-status careers. One line of inquiry that is used to justifywomen’s self-selection into lower status jobs is research on early gender-role socialization. Inthis line of research, women are often described as choosing to leave engineering because itconflicts with the traditional gender roles that they have assumed from early childhood familyand educational experiences.Gender socialization research looks at the attributes that women and men bring with them toeducation and the workplace. There is a growing body of literature that reports on the role of thefamily and the schools in shaping children’s perceptions of work as “male” or “female” and ofthe various traits considered essential for success in each type of occupation. “[M] ale

Conference Session

Professionally Oriented Graduate Program

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Raymond Willis; Duane Dunlap

pointed out, one of the distinguishing attributes indeveloping and sustaining high quality professional graduate programs for workingprofessionals is that of employing part-time adjunct professors who work full-time asprofessionals in the non-university workplace as well as full-time faculty who have spentpart of their professional careers in non-university work settings.Whereas a primary strength of research-based graduate engineering education resideswithin the academic research faculty, a primary strength of professionally-orientedgraduate education resides within the professional-oriented faculty. But they are twodifferent types of faculty, with two different types of missions and scholarly pursuits. Inengineering practice (which

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade Outside of Class

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Manoj Patankar

: Faculty workload at a public comprehensive university8 Public Comprehensive Tenured On Track Not on Track Number of Career Publications 25.0 12.6 7.2 Number of Recent Publications 6.9 6.0 2.8 Number of Committees 2.8 2.3 1.1 Number of Graduate Committees 2.1 1.4 0.7 Number of Undergraduate Committees 0.7 0.9 0.4 Number of Classes 3.4 3.4 3.6 Weekly Scheduled Office Hours 6.4 6.4 6.4

Conference Session

The Modern ChE Laboratory

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Christopher Brazel

diversity in thechemical engineering curriculum prepares students for a career that may include one of theseindustries. The course is taught as a 3-credit lecture class, and with funds awarded by the Camilleand Henry Dreyfus Foundation, four laboratory experiments were developed to involve thestudents in active learning and allow them to work directly with biological compounds and cells.The experiments emphasize some of the main points taught in lectures, namely in the areas ofenzyme kinetics, fermentations, cell growth/nutrient supply, and bioseparations. Each of thestudent teams give one presentation on theory as the subject fits into the regularly scheduledlectures, and complete experiments before submitting a final report and giving a

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Mark Iken; Mahima Ashok; J.C. Lu; Alexander Quinn; Amy Pritchett; George Nickles

the user’s needs when searching for the database. Forexample, students can search for examples of related topics to a concept introduced in lecture,and professionals can search for definition and description of terms and theories that they havebeen asked to apply in their careers. When uploading topics to the system, the instructors areasked to provide information about them. This information is added to the topic database and isused to determine related topics, proceeding and succeeding topics, to highlight related materialwhen viewing a topic, and to support topic searches based on format, method of instruction, etc.The search function, concept maps, and hyperlinks on the topic information pages will provideinterfaces into the topic

Conference Session

New Ideas

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Shawn Klawunder; Blace Albert; Ozer Arnas

; professional growth throughout a career as anofficer in the United States Army; and a lifetime of selfless service to the nation.”1 In order toaccomplish this mission, USMA puts their cadets through a 47-month program that includeseight academic semesters. Upon graduation, the cadets receive a Bachelor of Science degree andare commissioned as officers in the United States Army. A very unique aspect of the academic program at USMA is that each cadet is required to takea minimum of five engineering classes regardless of their major or field of study. This meansthat about 500 cadets will have taken the one-semester course in thermodynamics. Thethermodynamics course taught at USMA is different from others throughout the country. Withinevery class

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Elizabeth DeBartolo

Society for Engineering EducationSenior Design, the capstone Mechanical Engineering course - and in their future careers. Thiscan be best done by introducing engineering design earlier in the curriculum in a comprehensivecourse that presents the different components of the design process in one complete package.Based on the feedback gathered and presented above, the objectives of offering a newIntroduction to Mechanical Engineering Design course are then: • to deliver the existing three courses worth of material to the students in a more effective manner, without sacrificing too much content, • to expose students earlier in their educational careers to the types of challenges that they will confront later in classes, on co-op, and in