Conference Session

NSF Grantees' Poster Session

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Xia Wang, Oakland University; Qian Zou, Oakland University; Laila Guessous, Oakland University; Gary Barber, Oakland University; Michael A Latcha, Oakland University

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

Paper ID #7524Engaging US Engineering Students in Fuel Cell Research at a Foreign SiteDr. Xia Wang, Oakland University Dr. Xia Wang is an associate professor in the department of Mechanical Engineering at Oakland Uni- versity. Her research and teaching interests lie in the areas of fluid mechanics and heat transfer, with an emphasis on fuel cell and battery technology. She was the program director for the NSF-funded project entitled International Research Experience for Students: Collaborative Research Activities with China on Fuel Cells at Oakland University.Dr. Qian Zou, Oakland University Dr. Qian Zou is an

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Creative and Cross-disciplinary Methods Part II

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joachim Walther, University of Georgia; Shari E. Miller, University of Georgia ; Nadia N. Kellam, University of Georgia

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

social welfare history, and service-learning. Her research interests are guided by two over- arching themes, social work education and the culture of the profession, and generally fall within three domains: professional socialization, educational innovations, and educational outcomes. Some specific projects in which she’s currently engaged explore questions of professional socialization; professional self-care; critical thinking as a process and outcome; social work’s environmental paradigm; and trans- disciplinary educational approaches. She’s currently collaborating with colleagues from engineering to develop trans-disciplinary approaches to education for reflective practice in a global society, and with colleagues

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Engineering Design

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kerry Meyers, University of Notre Dame; Victoria E. Goodrich, University of Notre Dame; Jay B. Brockman, University of Notre Dame; Jay Caponigro, University of Notre Dame

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

early in his career, Caponigro was the founding director of the Robinson Community Learning Center, a 10-year-old educational partnership between the university and the northeast neighborhood of South Bend. In that capacity, he was the PI on community-based projects through the Department of Justice, the Small Business Administration, and HUD’s Office of University Partnerships, where he also served as a reviewer. Caponigro has co-authored articles in Christian Higher Education and the Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement. Page 25.707.1 c American Society for

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Innovation for ChE Student Learning

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

James Newell

Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2005, American Society for Engineering Educationactual projects, but because most projects last one year, ultimate conclusions must waituntil the early May submission of the final reports.Background and Pedagogical TheoryBehavioral scientists classify thought processes into cognitive and affective domains [1].The cognitive domain includes higher order thought processes such as logic andreasoning and is the primary (and in many cases, the only) target of engineering curricula.The affective domain includes attitudes, values, and self-concept. These attributestypically cannot be measured directly through exams and other classroom instruments,yet they are essential components

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ADVANCE Grants and Institutional Transformation

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Canan Bilen-Green, North Dakota State University; Elizabeth Birmingham, North Dakota State University; Ann Burnett, North Dakota State University; Roger Green, North Dakota State University

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Women in Engineering

15.910.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 NDSU Advance FORWARD: Challenges and Recommendations to Enhancing Recruitment, Retention, and Advancement of FacultyAbstractThe NDSU Advance FORWARD project, funded by the National Science FoundationADVANCE Institutional Transformation program in 2008, seeks to develop and implement acomprehensive research-driven strategy to increase participation of women in all science andengineering faculty and academic administrative positions. Advance FORWARD (Focus onResources for Women’s Advancement, Recruitment/Retention, and Development) builds on theearlier work of North Dakota State University’s self-initiated FORWARD committee, a group offaculty and administrators who came

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Innovative Assessment Techniques in Civil Engineering Courses

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Erik R. Wright P.E., United States Military Academy; Joseph P Hanus, U.S. Military Academy

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Civil Engineering

. Page 24.787.2Motivation and Challenges of Information Technology in Civil EngineeringThe modern civil engineer is expected to apply information technology skills to model anddesign projects. These expectations are articulated in Outcome 10 of the American Society ofCivil Engineers (ASCE) Civil Engineering Body of Knowledge for the 21st Century: Preparingthe Civil Engineer for the Future (BOK2)3, which references Outcome 3k of ABET Inc.Proposed Criteria for Accrediting Engineering Program4. The BOK2 Levels of AchievementSubcommittee recommends that civil engineers who have earned a baccalaureate degree shouldbe able to achieve the third level (application) of the six-level cognitive domain in this outcome.At that level, graduates should be able

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K-12 Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jeannie Brown Leonard; Taryn Bayles; Anne Spence

project is themodeling and design of a hot air balloon, which students built and tested. The hot air balloonhad to meet specific size, cost, time aloft and payload criteria. The program is a scaled-downversion of the Introduction to Engineering course that the authors teach at the University ofMaryland Baltimore County. At each seminar, the high school students learn engineeringfundamentals that relate to their design project and participate in hands-on activities andcompetitions. The students compete for prizes provided by Northrop Grumman. In most of thesessions, a technical expert presents material on topics related to their design project; examplesinclude: the Engineering Method, Buoyancy, Materials Testing and Properties, and

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Education Ideas in Software Engineering

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Lonnie Welch; Karin Sandell; Chang Liu

-technical coworkers and clients throughin-depth discussions on software requirements, design, and implementation. Clearly,communication skills are an important skill set to software engineers. Yet computerscience undergraduate students, many of whom will become software engineers after theygraduate, receive little training in teamwork and communication skills, especially in thecontext of computer science coursework and projects. As a result, many computerscience students do not recognize the importance of communication and do not possesssatisfactory communication skills. For example, in Spring Quarter 2004, on ananonymous comment card collected from CS456/556, a software engineering courseoffered at Ohio University, one student complained that: “I

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Instrumentation and Laboratory Systems

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Alex See

Session number 2220 Utilizing LabVIEWTM for data acquisition and analysis for a 13 weeks undergraduate course Alex See, PhD Monash University Malaysia, School of Engineering and Science, No. 2 Jalan Kolej, Bandar Sunway, 46150, PJ, Selangor Darul Ehsan, Malaysia email: alex.see@engsci.monash.edu.my Abstract Second year Mechatronics undergraduates, in the year 2003 at Monash University Malaysia (MUM) were taking a subject module known as Project and Practise GSE2800. The concept of computer based data acquisition instrumentation was introduced to them. They had

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ABET Criterion 4 and Liberal Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

John Kraemer; Bijan Pashaie; David Probst

engineering flavor. Another lingering concern wasthat the Engineering Physics degree, as the only engineering program at Southeast, requiresabout 12 more credit hours than most other programs on campus, which might tend to reduce itscompetitiveness when recruiting majors. In order to address these concerns, we developed asenior capstone course that has been accepted into the University Studies Program, which isSoutheast’s liberal education program. It therefore counts both in the major and for the liberaleducation program, thus reducing the total number of hours required. The course requiresstudents from at least two departments on campus to work on a project requiring expertise fromboth disciplines. In Spring 2004, in collaboration with a faculty

Conference Session

Teaching Engineers to Teach

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Neil S. Grigg; Darrell G. Fontane; Marvin Criswell; Thomas Siller

combined Bachelor’s Degree plus 30 credits (B + 30) programincludes professional practice and management topics3. The ASCE BOK Committee added thefollowing four outcomes to the eleven “a through k” ABET outcomes4 as their way to address“what should be taught and learned” in the combined BS + MS program: (12) an ability to applyknowledge in a specialized area related to civil engineering, (13) an understanding of theelements of project management, construction, and asset management, (14) an understanding ofbusiness and public policy and administration fundamentals, and (15) an understanding of therole of the leader and leadership principles and attitudes. Although these do not specificallyaddress IT, it is very evident from their report that IT is

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Ram Mohan; Steven Parks; Krisnamurthy Jayaraman; Edward Evans; Siamack Shirazi; Ovadia Shoham; Mei Zhuang; Marilyn Amey; Keith Wisecarver; George Chase; Charles Petty; Andre Benard

Session 1712 NSF Combined Research and Curriculum Development on Multiphase Transport Phenomena M. J. Amey 2, A. Bénard 2, G. G. Chase 1, E. A. Evans1, K. Jayaraman 2, R. S. Mohan3, S. M. Parks2, C. A. Petty 2 (presenter), O. Shoham3, S. A. Shirazi3, K. D. Wisecarver3, M. Zhuang 2 1 The University of Akron/2Michigan State University/ 3The University of TulsaSummaryThis curriculum development project on multiphase transport phenomena draws on the researchexperiences from nine research laboratories at The University of Akron, Michigan State

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ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Harold Stern; Robert Leland; Russ Pimmel

Proceeding of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2002, American Society for Engineering Educationfollowing discussion, we will cite examples from the five modules that the three authors of thispaper developed. These modules deal with computational skills in the technical area, with oralcommunication skills in the communications area, project management skills in the professionalarea, and ethical interpretation and global and societal impact skills in the ethical-societal area.Table 1. Instructional modules subdivided by skill category Technical Skills Professional Skills Communication Skills Ethical-Societal Skills Computational

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Accreditation and Related Issues in ECE

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Harold Stern; Robert Leland; Russ Pimmel

grouped into four categories as shown in Table 1. Technical Skills Professional Skills Communication Skills Ethical-Societal Skills Computational Project Management Graphical Communication Contemporary Issues Design Lifelong Learning Oral Communication Ethical Interpretation Experimental Teaming Written Communication Global-Societal Impact Modeling Time Management Problem SolvingTable 1. Instructional modules subdivided by skill categoryBefore beginning to develop the actual instructional material, the developers agreed on a set ofspecification so that the modules met a series of general requirements and, perhaps

Conference Session

Objectives, Assessment, and Methods for Teaching Technological Literacy

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Steven R. Walk, Old Dominion University

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Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering

timing of literacy requirements. Still otherwise promisingtechnologies never reach a significant substitution level, and need not be considered, after all, ina literacy criteria study. The establishment of criteria for assessing technological literacy then,now, and in the future, could significantly be better targeted and more effective if trajectories ofdiffusing technologies and their applications were available.New techniques in forecasting technology change have given fresh perspectives on acceptancecriteria and adoption rates of new technology. Quantitative technology forecasting studies haveproven reliable in projecting technological and social change using relatively simple models suchas logistic growth and substitution patterns

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Government Policy, Manufacturing Education, and Certification

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Marilyn Barger, Hillsborough Community College; Richard A. Gilbert, University of South Florida; Danielly Orozco, Florida Advanced Technological Education Center (FLATE); Karen Wosczyna-Birch, CT College of Technology; Peggie Weeks, Lamoka Educational Consulting

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Manufacturing

modified for application in other schools throughout the country.Mrs. Danielly Orozco, Florida Advanced Technological Education Center (FLATE)Prof. Karen Wosczyna-Birch, CT College of TechnologyMs. Peggie Weeks, Lamoka Educational Consulting Peggie Weeks has twice been a Program Officer at the National Science Foundation and currently serves as External Evaluator on four Advanced Technological Education projects and centers. She was on the faculty at Corning Community College for 16 years. Prior to teaching, she was employed as a Process Engineer with Corning, Inc. She has a master’s degree in ceramic engineering from Alfred University and a bachelor’s degree in metallurgy and materials science from Carnegie Mellon University

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Thinking About the Engineering Curriculum

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jason Feser, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Science & Technology Policy ; Maura J. Borrego, National Science Foundation; Russ Pimmel, University of Alabama; Connie Kubo DUPE Della-Piana, National Science Foundation

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Educational Research and Methods

and cultureat the institutional level are currently being tested. The Science Education Initiative, facilitatedby Carl Wieman, at the University of Colorado Boulder and the University of British Columbia13and efforts in the University System of Maryland14 are concrete examples of efforts to change Page 25.1126.2institutions. At their core, these projects emphasize evidence-based teaching and studentengagement through active- and inquiry-based approaches. While these model initiatives addressmany disciplines within STEM education, engineering education leaders have similar aspirationsfor achieving excellence in undergraduate education. The

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

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jennifer A. Warrner, Ball State University; Joe Bradley, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; Sirena C. Hargrove-Leak, Elon University; Anand Nageswaran Bharath, Cummins Engine Company

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Diversity

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Community Engagement Division (COMMENG)

Carle Illinois College of Medicine. His research focuses primarily on engineering design/Bio Design collaboration in transdisciplinary teams. He has used and developed tools to study the alignment of products and services with organizational processes as an organization seeks to address needs and bring new products and services to the market.Dr. Sirena C. Hargrove-Leak, Elon University Sirena Hargrove-Leak is a Professor of Engineering at Elon University. The mission and commitment of Elon University have led her to explore the scholarship of teaching and learning in engineering. More specifically, her current engineering education interests include entrepreneurial mindsets, user-centered design, project-based

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade in Teaching I

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David Grau, University of Alabama; Guillermo Mejia, University of Alabama and Universidad Industrial de Santander

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New Engineering Educators

workforce. Currently, he investigates the effect of a novel program to increase the retention of first-year undergraduate students enrolled in an engineering college. The program also aims at increas- ing engineering student success, enhancing the sense of community and belonging by the students, and improving the transfer of knowledge in the engineering disciplines. In order to succeed in his research endeavors, Dr. Grau frequently collaborates with social scientists and educators. Prior to his academic career, he worked for more than seven years both leading an engineering department and managing com- plex industrial projects in South and Central America, and Europe. He is a registered Industrial Engineer in Spain and

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Teaching Strategies for Solid Modeling

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Derek M. Yip-Hoi, Western Washington University

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Engineering Design Graphics

body shell of their choosing from which a CATIA surface model is manuallyconstructed. This paper will highlight the approach used. Examples of student project work willbe presented. These projects are designed to include both a group and individual component.Teams work collaboratively to construct a surface model of an automotive body. Individually,each student must then add ancillaries such as wheels, mirrors, scoops or spoilers to completetheir own design. While the group component emphasizes collecting data and applying surfacemodeling techniques to this data, the individual component allows students to creatively use thesurface modeling techniques to style the ancillaries they choose. Feedback from students showthat there is strong

Conference Session

Tools of the Trade

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Craig G. Downing, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

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Engineering Management

department ofRose-Hulman Institute of Technology set out to develop a 10-week Rose Belt course to providestudents with fundamental knowledge, quality tools, and practical experience using the DMAIC(Define-Measure-Analyze-Improve-Control) process. The intent of the course is not to supplantother forms of certification (white, yellow, green, or black belt). Rather, the goal is to use aproject-based approach so that students gain valuable insight into the organizational (operational)improvement process, as well as experience using Six Sigma tools (qualitative and quantitative).It is the author’s belief that these experiences will reduce the amount of time required bystudents/graduates to begin engaging in “live” Six Sigma projects upon completion of

Conference Session

Computer and InformationTechnology-Related Issues

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Li Tan, Purdue University, North Central

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Engineering Technology

(ECET)program. The first course in the sequence is an introduction to computer games, where asoftware platform, Alice, is adopted to develop programming concepts and working knowledgeof multimedia applications using audio, image, animation, and video data. The second courserequires students perform multimedia programming using the well-known software, DirectXwith a Microsoft Visual C++ platform. Students learn how to integrate graphics, animation andsound assets into interactive environments.We find that the sequence courses stimulate students to achieve their learning objectives in theECET curriculum via developing their computer game assignments and projects as a vehicle.Furthermore, the student retention is greatly improved. In fact, the

Conference Session

Student Learning and Assessment I

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Thomas J. Vasko, Central Connecticut State University; Nidal Al-Masoud, Central Connecticut State University; Peter F. Baumann, Central Connecticut State University

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Mechanical Engineering

of competencies in effective oral and written communication skills. Thesenior capstone project, which typically assesses teamwork, now requires students to write animpact statement that is used in the assessment of skills such as identification of need and thepositive and negative impacts on humankind, environment, and economy. Rubrics to assess andevaluate these soft-skill learning outcomes, along with findings from the current semester whereavailable are presented in the paper.IntroductionOver the years, the engineering profession and engineering education has changed and evolvedto meet technological, economical, workforce, global, and societal challenges. Several nationalorganizations such as the National Academy of Engineering (NAE)1 and

Collection

1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Kenneth Bryden

-timetable” learning opportunities as valuable as the “on-timetable” classes and labs. Many of the desired ABET 2000 5 outcomes are enhanced by “off-timetable” experiences, and some are probably best taught through “off-timetable” experiences.Team work, ethics, professional practice, application of engineering principles, and projectmanagement all can come to life when the students work on real projects, with real risks, andreal rewards.The comment most often made about undergraduate involvement in activities beyond theclassroom is that it requires too much of a professor’s time and that the quality of the finalproduct is often disappointing. During the tenure process there is no extra time and so anyopportunity to become involved with

Conference Session

Mentoring & Outreach for Girls & Minorities

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Patricia Backer, San Jose State University; Belle Wei, San Jose State University

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

AC 2010-443: HISPANIC COMPUTER BRIGADE SILICON VALLEY COMPUTERCAMPPatricia Backer, San Jose State UniversityBelle Wei, San Jose State University Page 15.644.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 Hispanic Computer Brigade Silicon Valley Computer CampAbstractHispanic students are vastly underrepresented in computing during a time when the Hispanicpopulation in the U.S. is growing dramatically. By 2020, Hispanics will account for 50% of theworkers in California. And, by 2050, the Hispanic population is projected to triple in the UnitedStates with 25% of the U.S. population being of Hispanic origin.The College of Engineering (CoE) at San José State

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Technical Session

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Magdalini Z. Lagoudas, Texas A&M University; Bugrahan Yalvac, Texas A&M University

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

completion can increase the pool of qualified engineers entering the USworkforce, promote social equity, and support the US economy in a global market. The SpaceEngineering Institute (SEI) was established in 2003 at the University as a partnership with theNASA Johnson Space Center targeting underrepresented groups. The SEI focus is to provideengineering experiences, improve graduation rates, and increase the pipeline to graduate school.The SEI approach seeks to engage undergraduate engineering students in team projects that aremultidisciplinary and multi-level (freshman to seniors) with faculty, graduate students, andNASA engineers serving as mentors. Students apply to the program and are selected based ontheir engineering majors and academic

Conference Session

Green Renewable Energy and Engineering Technology

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Radian G. Belu, Drexel University; Irina Nicoleta Ciobanescu Husanu, Drexel University, Goodwin College of Professional Studies, Engineering Technology Program

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Engineering Technology

AC 2011-488: AN UNDERGRADUATE COURSE ON RENEWABLE EN-ERGY CONVERSION SYSTEMS FOR ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGYSTUDENTSRadian G Belu, Drexel University (Tech.) Dr. Radian Belu is Assistant Professor within the Engineering Technology (ET) program - Drexel Uni- versity, Philadelphia, USA. He holding the second position as Research Assistant Professor at Desert Re- search Institute, Reno, Nevada. Before joining to the Drexel University Dr. Belu hold faculty and research positions at universities and research institutes in Romania, Canada and United States. He also worked for several years in industry as a project manager and senior consultant. He has taught and developed undergraduate and graduate courses in electronics, power

Conference Session

Enhancing K-12 STEM Education with Engineering

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tirupalavanam Ganesh, Arizona State University; John Thieken, Arizona State University

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

Information Technology Experiences forStudents and Teachers (ITEST) project. The project served over 100 students via a highlyengaging after-school engineering education program in four middle schools from traditionallyunder-represented populations.Seventh-grade students were engaged with the idea of designing a chain reaction after watchingthe “Cog” a 2003, Honda commercial. Notions of chain reactions such as local actions havingglobal impact were discussed. Students were provided with a variety of technology toolsbeginning with components for creating a simple circuit (switches, electrical cables, an lightemitting diode-LED, buzzers, and a battery pack) and household objects (cardboard, coathangers, aluminum foil, milk/juice cartons, etc). Students

Conference Session

Concurrent Paper Tracks - Session I

Collection

2015 ASEE International Forum

Authors

Edward J. Jaselskis, North Carolina State University; Rodolfo Valdes-Vasquez, Colorado State University; Satyanarayana N. Kalidindi; Linda D. Krute, North Carolina State University; Hongling Guo, Tsinghua University; David Comiskey, Ulster University; Dede M Nelson, North Carolina State University

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International Forum

Paper ID #14277Successful Academic Partnership in the Development of an International Con-struction Practices CourseDr. Edward J. Jaselskis, North Carolina State University Dr. Edward Jaselskis is the Jimmy D. Clark Distinguished Professor in the Department of Civil, Con- struction, and Environmental Engineering at North Carolina State University. He was educated at the University of Illinois, receiving a BS in general engineering in 1980, an SM in civil engineering (emphasis in construction engineering and project management) from MIT in 1982, and a PhD in civil engineering (emphasis in construction engineering and

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

James Giles; Donald Roberts; David Mitchell; Anthony Richardson

Using Robotics Competitions to Teach Teamwork Principles And Fundamental Engineering/Computer Science Concepts James Giles, Anthony Richardson, Donald Roberts, David Mitchell University of EvansvilleAbstractAll freshmen in the electrical engineering, computer engineering, and computer scienceprograms at the University of Evansville take a common “Introduction to Engineering” courseduring their first semester. The course is focused on exposing students to team-based,multidiscipline, and project-oriented learning. Two robotics contests are used to teachfundamental principles in electrical engineering, computer engineering and computer science.The contests have also been very