Collection

2012 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Eric D. Mead; Karen Reynolds; Lawrence Whitman

technicallyliterate. “Are we providing students with the intellectual skills and background they willneed to appreciate and continue learning about SME&T [Science, Mathematics, Engineering,and Technology] throughout their lives?”3 Much effort is underway to encourage students topursue careers in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. There is a growingbase of infusing these necessary skills and attitudes to pursue these avenues as careers. Thereis also much effort aimed at addressing the diminishing skills in math and many of thesciences. Technology is becoming more and more prevalent in todays classrooms. The skillsand knowledge necessary to utilize this technology is being provided to students. However,there is little effort to build a

Collection

2015 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Deeksha Seth; Gabriel Carryon; James Tangorra

Universitywithin time and budget constraints as some of the crucial skills that engineers must possess to besuccessful in the workforce.6The 21st century skills are a broad set of abilities that are essential for students to develop tosucceed in our current era7 and provide the nation with skilled STEM graduates. P21 frameworkfor 21st century learning is one of the models established to illustrate the adoption of 21st centuryskills in education.8 Within this framework for 21st century learning, there are four categories ofskills and knowledge that students should master in order to succeed in the workforce. These arecategorized as: 1) core subjects and themes, 2) learning and innovation skills, 3) technologyskills, and 4) life and career skills.8 Learning

Collection

2015 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Kara Vance; Abdullah Konak; Sadan Kulturel-Konak; Gul E. Okudan Kremer; Ivan Esparragoza

Teamwork Efficacy, Attitudes and Interest: Insights on Their Relationships Kara Vance, Abdullah Konak, Sadan Kulturel-Konak Penn State Berks Gül Okudan Kremer Penn State University Park Ivan Esparragoza Penn State Brandywine AbstractStudents’ professional skills, such as teamwork, global awareness, ethics, and creative problemsolving, increase their likelihood for success throughout their education and career paths,especially in the Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM

Collection

2015 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Garrett M. Clayton; Allen Tan; Jordan Ermilio; Aaron Wemhoff

. Perspectives from the Ordnance Burning Filtration Hood advising team: The filter hoodproject has been ongoing for the past two years. In each of these years, a team of four studentswas involved. Interestingly, nearly all (6 of 8) of the students working on the project are fromthe Naval ROTC program at VU. Based on this, it appears that this project is drawing fromstudents that have a potential interest in exploring a career in the broad area of energeticmaterials (as it may apply to careers in the Navy).The fume hood project does not have the overall popularity of the EOD robot project. Threepossible reasons exist for the relative lack of interest, which may motivate project choices in thefuture. First, the students do not have a background in

Collection

2015 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Jacob J. Elmer; Noelle Comolli

the material is important.Indeed, Felder et al note that students are motivated to study harder when they believe that theywill actually need to use the course concepts later in their careers.6 While the benefits of PBL are easy to see, it is usually hard to find effective projects toimplement PBL in engineering courses. There are some online resources with examples ofproject-based or problem-based learning assignments that focus on one or a few concepts7,8, butit is much harder to find projects that utilize a majority of the concepts taught throughout aspecific course. The purpose of this paper is to introduce a novel brewery design project for PBLin a heat transfer course. Each of the fundamental heat transfer concepts are addressed

Collection

2009 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Raluca I. Rosca

in the classroom, so it is possible to discussparticipants’ experiences with direct bosses or professors without fear that their comments willbe transmitted to those bosses. As the author put it in the interview16, they were ‘people that youknow well enough but at the same time don’t directly affect you, [and] your career’.The inequality in representation of women and men in the engineering classroom was seen ashaving not only a detrimental effect on society, but also on people’s personal lives. A wish wasexpressed ‘to go home to your life partner and talk about your work and they would understandit.’ The male students commented, “Yeah, it’s comfortable to be in a guys-mostly classroom, butwhere are all the girls?” Conversely, the female

Conference Session

Technical Sessions 4

Collection

2024 Fall ASEE Mid-Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Marco Hermida, State University of New York at New Paltz; Ping-Chuan Wang, State University of New York at New Paltz; Nancy Campos, SUNY New Paltz; Aileen Pastrana, State University of New York at New Paltz; Bianca Bermudez, State University of New York at New Paltz; Shaima Herzallah, State University of New York at New Paltz; Christopher Monvil, State University of New York at New Paltz; Tenmetey Tetteh-Nartey, State University of New York at New Paltz

Tagged Topics

Diversity, Professional Papers

the State University of New York (SUNY) at New Paltz. He received his B.S. from National Tsing-Hua University in Taiwan, and M.S. and Eng.Sci.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from Columbia University. After a 20-year career in the semiconductor industry, he joined SUNY New Paltz in 2018 with research interests in stress-induced phenomena in engineering materials, microelectronics reliability, additive manufacturing, and interdisciplinary engineering education.Dr. Nancy Campos, SUNY New Paltz Nancy Campos is the Project Director of the Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation & Collegiate Science and Technology Entry Program (CSTEP) at SUNY New Paltz. She received her B.A. in Art History, Ed.M

Collection

2009 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

Lizabeth Schlemer; Jose Macedo

student’s points of view. Areas of future research will also be discussed.Review of Literature Most engineering schools use team based projects, or laboratory assignments to helpstudents develop skills necessary for their professional careers. Teamwork skills havetraditionally been developed by assigning students to teams. To some extent, this approach doesproduce results, but a better approach was undertaken at the University of Dayton[4] wherestudent teams were instructed on teambuilding and leadership. One of their suggestions was notonly to instruct, but to give students opportunities to work on teams where students refine theirskills as they mature though the engineering program. Many researchers have struggled with thedifficult task of

Collection

2009 Northeast Section Meeting

Authors

Raluca I. Rosca

in the classroom, so it is possible to discussparticipants’ experiences with direct bosses or professors without fear that their comments willbe transmitted to those bosses. As the author put it in the interview16, they were ‘people that youknow well enough but at the same time don’t directly affect you, [and] your career’.The inequality in representation of women and men in the engineering classroom was seen ashaving not only a detrimental effect on society, but also on people’s personal lives. A wish wasexpressed ‘to go home to your life partner and talk about your work and they would understandit.’ The male students commented, “Yeah, it’s comfortable to be in a guys-mostly classroom, butwhere are all the girls?” Conversely, the female

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2010 Northeast Section Meeting

Authors

Alfred A. Scalza

. • Case Study “B”, based on gender, shows a difference between genders but this might be discriminatory to consider this as an entrance requirement. Suffice to say, we should start encouraging students of the minority gender to take curriculums that are predominantly the other gender. Eventually, no career should be naturally male or female dominated. • Case Study “C”, based on cultural differences, indicates that although students of different cultures start differently, they end up with little to no real difference in how they learn. Maybe, as they mature the slight differences disappear. • We must build into the admission exams, a test to measure emotional quotient (EQ) and must understand the

Collection

2008 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

Gregory S. Parnell; Michael J. Kwinn

as 1operational leaders for first five years of their career. Later in their careers, some will have theopportunity to work as systems engineers and engineering managers, especially officers assigned to theCorps of Engineers and the Acquisition Corps. However, the skills we teach are critical for all branchesof the Army.In addition, we have some unique West Point constraints. First, our cadets choose their major in the Fallof their sophomore year and generally the second semester of their sophomore year is the first time theycan take a course in their chosen major. Also, with a maximum of 18 students per class andapproximately 150

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