Conference Session

Global Studies, Initiatives, and Study Abroad Programs

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Steven J. Burian, University of Utah; Pedro Romero, University of Utah

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International

 Improve independence  Broaden horizons  Enhance cultural diversity awareness  Develop self-awareness and global awareness  Meet general education requirements (e.g., international) for degree Page 25.559.2  Become more competitive in the job market  Comprehend international issues important to engineering  Learn technology, construction practices, and engineering methods in other countriesEngineering departments and colleges also have strong reasons to offer study abroad programs.International experiences are known to be important for enhancing student learning andsatisfaction. Offering

Conference Session

Research Projects, Course Development, and Industry Issues

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John W Pritchard, Iowa State University; Mani Mina, Iowa State University

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Systems Engineering

AC 2012-4021: HANDS-ON, DISCOVERY, CRITICAL THINKING, ANDFRESHMAN ENGINEERINGMr. John W Pritchard, Iowa State UniversityDr. Mani Mina, Iowa State University Mani Mina has been with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Iowa State Uni- versity since 2001. He has extensive industrial and academic experience. His current research interests include physical layer systems, measurements and testing, applied electromagnetism, optical networking, magneto-optical switching, nondestructive testing and evaluation, and innovative methods of teaching technology. He is also one of the leading educators in the area of technological literacy to non-engineering students. He has been a recipient of several teaching

Conference Session

Global Engineering Models: Developments and Implementations

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gearold Johnson, Colorado State University; Thomas Siller, Colorado State University

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International

AC 2010-999: A 21ST CENTURY UNDERGRADUATE ENGINEERINGEDUCATION PROGRAMGearold Johnson, Colorado State University Gearold Johnson is the Emeritus George T. Abell Chair in Engineering at Colorado State University. He was on the faculty at CSU for 24 years. Following his retirement from CSU, he was the Academic Vice-President of the National Technological University for eight years. He retired in 2002. He is the Chair of the ASEE International Division.Thomas Siller, Colorado State University Thomas Siller joined joined Colorado State University in 1988 as an Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering. Currently he serves as the Associate Dean for Academic and Student

Conference Session

K-12 and Pre-College Engineering Division Curriculum Exchange

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Christine Schnittka, Auburn University

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

? 3. Helps them learn science at a deep conceptual Heat transfer, experimental design, Studio STEM is an after-school program level insulation, conduction, convection, designed to increase middle school youth’s 4. With the support of face-to-face discussions radiation, energy transformations, understanding of science, technology, and with peers, teachers, and mentors, torque, gears, friction, mass and engineering through issues related to energy 5. And with the support of a social networking weight, gravity, electromagnetic security and sustainability. Youth are given the forum (Edmodo) that connects peers, teachers

Conference Session

K-12 Outreach and Out-of-School Time Engineering Programming and Research

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Karen J. Krapcho, University of Utah; Cynthia Furse, University of Utah

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

Paper ID #9005Lessons Learned Developing an Engaging Engineering Summer CampMs. Karen J Krapcho, University of Utah Karen Krapcho,M.S. is the Outreach and grant coordinator for NSF-0652982.Dr. Cynthia Furse, University of Utah Page 24.861.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2014 Lessons Learned Developing an Engaging Engineering Summer CampIntroduction In order to meet the growing workforce needs in science and technology it is projected thatthe U.S. must increase the

Conference Session

Design Experiences in Energy Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Kendrick Aung

: energy resources, energy conversion systems,energy conservation, and environmental pollution. During the course, exercises and teamprojects were assigned to design renewable and traditional energy conversion systems. Thispaper describes the assignments and projects used in the course to enhance the design experienceof the students. Detailed descriptions of each design project and the student design solution weregiven.Introduction Energy affects the lives of everyone in so many ways, economically, technically, andenvironmentally. Thus, integration of energy and its many aspects such as energy conservationtechnologies and environmental impacts of energy generation, in the educational curriculum ofscience, technology, and engineering

Conference Session

K-12 Outreach Initiatives

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Vieth; Kazem Kazerounian

secondary “Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition Copyright ©2003, American Society for Engineering Education”education.Participants spend a week in a civil, mechanical, chemical, electrical or materials engineeringlaboratory learning fundamental concepts of engineering, and developing hands-on projects theycould use as practical instructional material in their classrooms. They tour laboratories within theSchool of Engineering to learn of some of the cutting edge technology under development, andalso tour various university engineering systems such as the wastewater treatment plant. Inaddition, they participate in discussions with engineers from industry and the

Conference Session

Advisory Boards & Program Assessment

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Shamsuddin Ilias; Franklin King; Keith Schimmel

development, and evaluation of the effectiveness ofclassroom innovations are planned.VIII. AcknowledgementThis material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No.EEC-0230645.Bibliography1) Ewell, P. T. (1998), ”National Trends in Assessing Student Learning,” Journal of Engineering Education, 87(2), 107-113.2) Gerstner, L.V., Jr. (2001), “High Marks for Standardized Tests,” Prism, February, 64.3) King, F.G., Schimmel, K.A. (2001), “Using Course Committees to Engage Faculty in the Assessment of Student Outcomes,” Proceedings of Best Assessment Processes in Engineering Education IV: A Working Symposium, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, Terre Haute, IN.4) Koehn, E. (1989), “Fundamentals of Engineering

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Joseph J. Delfino

Engineering 5Organizations (WFEO) and its Committee on Technology (ComTech). Through earlymeetings held with the World Bank, and then at its General Assembly in 1997 in HongKong, the WFEO passed a resolution on “Freshwater Sustainability” and it charged itsmany participating organizations to manage global water issues at the national level. In1998, ComTech sponsored a panel discussion at the U.N. Commission on Sustainable 6Development’s intersession meeting, illustrating the movement toward privatization ofwater development in areas of the world that have serious water shortage problems. This

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

John Duffy; Edmund Tsang; Susan M. Lord

(opportunity for interaction; emotional,intellectual support). Based on these studies then, positive cognitive and attitude development isexpected of students involved in service-learning. Page 5.543.2Why service-learning in engineering?In its Criteria 2000, the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) outlines anew set of criteria for engineering programs8. In addition to the more traditional technical issues,the new criteria include the demonstration that graduates have:• an ability to function on multi-disciplinary teams,• an understanding of professional and ethical responsibility,• an ability to communicate effectively,• a

Conference Session

Real-World Manufacturing Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Syed Azmat; Snehamay Khasnabis; Richard Darin Ellis; Pratap Srinivasa Murthy; Frank Plonka; Diane M. Schuch-Miller

manufacturing engineering curricula that produces engineers whocan problem solve and are ready to face real issues from the manufacturing engineering field, theGreenfield Coalition (GC) needed to develop a methodology for incorporating course contextualinformation and issues into all three of its degree programs. Furthermore, candidates at theFocus: HOPE Center for Advanced Technologies (CAT) have a unique learning environmentwhereby they work in a manufacturing environment in addition to attending classes.Manufacturing engineering students from other colleges and universities generally do not havethe same opportunity. Therefore, GC devised a blended learning system including threecomponents:· Facilitated classroom activities and discussions

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Zhengtao T. Deng; Xiaoqing (Cathy) Qian; Ruben Rojas-Oviedo; Zhengtao Deng

Session 1566 Developing Assessment Tools for Outcome Based Engineering Courses Drs. Z.T. Deng, Ruben Rojas-Oviedo and Xiaoqing (Cathy) Qian Mechanical Engineering Department, Alabama A&M University P.O. Box 1163, Huntsville, AL 35762 Voice: (256) 858-4142, E-Mail: AAMZXD01@AAMU.EDUAbstractThe implementation of the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET)Engineering Accreditation Criteria 2000 (EAC 2000) into Mechanical Engineeringundergraduate curricula is critical to the success of the education program. The EAC Criteria2000 emphasizes an outcome

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Francis W. Derby

and Exposition. Page 6.80.4Copyright © 2001, American Society for Engineering Education.method for assessing student performance. Whereas exams and quizzes are ideal for assessingmastery of the subject, projects and lab exercises tend to enforce skills. Either way, somemeasure of student success should be recorded and analyzed, especially where changes havebeen made, either in the syllabus or the teaching method. Over a period of time, themethodology is modified with respect to advances in technology which may impact the contentof the course. Evidence of such modifications should be included in the portfolio todemonstrate progress as well as

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Zheng-Tao Deng; Abdul R. Jalloh; Amir Mobasher; Ruben Rojas-Oviedo

increasecompetitiveness. Benchmarking is nowadays applied to both products, parts, services, aswell as to personnel. Establishing where a company is and where they need to be to staycompetitive can be considered a “technological gap.” By working with industry,professional engineering societies have documented perceived competency gaps in newlyhired graduates. It has been recommended to include the product realization process intothe engineering curriculum, as well as, to incorporate “best practices” as a means to developnew knowledge, skills and attributes that industry seeks in new engineering graduates.As engineering programs face increasing demands to alleviate the perceived technologicalgaps, the solutions have to be addressed in multi-year efforts. To

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Winfred Phillips

answer is educators must strive to prepare engineers to work anytime, anyplace andanywhere. As a long time participant in the activities of the Accreditation Board for Engineeringand Technology (ABET), I believe ABET can provide guidance in reaching this goal. ABETdoes not and should not dictate the content of universities’ programs. But our policies andphilosophies furthering international cooperation and our new engineering accreditation criteria,Engineering Criteria 2000, can assist institutions as they plan strategies for the internationalarena.ABET currently has several policies aimed directly at the international community. When asked,we evaluate programs outside the United States, recognizing those that are comparable in contentand

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Peter Milne; Pascal Rol; Jean-Marie Parel; Fabrice Mann

, have been available for more than a century,biomedical optics has developed into a field of its own only in recent years, significantly spurredon by the development of lasers and optical fibers. Medicine was one of the first majorapplications of lasers, and today there is probably no field of medicine or biology which doesnot employ optics and lasers in some form. Biomedical optics is now an important and growingfield of biomedical engineering. In the past 4 years, the creation of 2 dedicated peer-reviewedjournals (Journal of Biomedical Optics, Applied Optics - Optical Technology and BiomedicalOptics) in the US alone, attest to this. The growing market represented by the biomedical opticsindustry is also evidenced by the creation of new

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1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard P. Long; Kandace Einbeck

themselves or steering us to potential speakers withintheir companies and of course releasing their time. Using guest speakers from industry offers several advantages. First and foremost, thesespeakers provide expertise in their fields of engineering. This supplements the knowledge of theGerman language instructor who, thanks to them, does not have to become an instant specialist inchemical engineering, helicopter technology or electron-beam welding! It is a true partnership.The guest speaker provides the technical expertise - in the German language of industry. Thelanguage teacher helps the students understand, manipulate and apply the language learned. Ourguest speakers supply the topic, and often an outline, graphics for overheads

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1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Kristopher Delgado; Hartono Sumali

and interfacing real-world sensors and manipulators to computers.At Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis, Instrumentation is taught in theMechanical Engineering Technology program with an emphasis on the concepts of measurementuncertainty, sensor theory, and the principles of feedback control (Bluestein, 1995). Using aprocess control trainer that utilizes a PLC to control the level or temperature of water in a tank,the students are exposed to controller principles and the concept of PID control.At the University of Kansas, a personal computer (PC)-based Acquisition system is used in anundergraduate laboratory (Zhang et al., 1995). The experiments were designed to familiarizestudents with the data acquisition system, the

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1997 Annual Conference

Authors

Evangelyn C. Alocilja

Session 1608 Principles of Biosystems Engineering: A Sophomore-Level Course Dr. Evangelyn C. Alocilja Michigan State University Introduction In 1906, the Agricultural Engineering program at Michigan State University wasestablished. The program took the lead in education in production agriculture engineering andfood process engineering in the State of Michigan and elsewhere. Recently, however,environmental issues have become a global concern in all sectors. Production agriculture willnow have to be viewed in the context of the whole

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1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Phillip C. Wankat; Frank S. Oreovicz

interviews in a one-page paperwhich also serves to provide us with a writing sample. The students then share their experiencesin a discussion. In the past we have used a panel discussion for the same purpose. Bothmethods appear to work well. Another writing assignment is a 5 to 6 page paper on "Theimplications and use of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator or Piaget’s Theory or Perry’s Theoryin engineering education." This assignment involves the students in these theories.Another assignment involved making arrangements with three awarding winning professors inengineering and technology to have our students visit their classes. Students choose which classto visit and then write a two page critique of their visits. The professors have the opportunity

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1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Prawit Rotsawatsuk; Anil Sawhney; Andre Mund

) advancedInternet based computing technologies to bring the complexities of the construction site to theclassroom; 3) knowledge and expertise of construction professionals through an advising andmentorship program.The Internet-based Interactive Construction Management Learning System provides a simpletool for students to gain practical knowledge of construction equipment and constructionprocesses. It will be utilized in the undergraduate civil and construction engineering curricula toenhance the learning process. The key features of the ICMLS are: 1) the system uses Internet asits launching medium, and 2) it utilizes multimedia databases, hypertext, 3D modeling, andsimulation to provide students with an interesting and realistic view of the selected

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1998 Annual Conference

Authors

William Peterson

), and MCC (Muskegon Community College).WMU’s dean of engineering and the director (a non-academic position) of WMU’s MuskegonRegional Center (MRC) represented WMU. MCC was represented by its dean of communityservices, a science professor (who teaches engineering physics, statics, and dynamics), and thehead of MCC’s technology department. WCMC was represented by a group of 13 engineers,engineering managers, and manufacturing managers from 13 local manufacturing companies.This committee developed an overall structure for the curriculum as well as defining specificskills and experiences that the courses in the curriculum should provide: “The goal of this curriculum is to develop students who have the ability to take a product

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1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Cathryne L. Jordan; Mary Ann McCartney; Mary Anderson-Rowland

of engineering.With a growing concern for the increased competition for top technical talent, local industries arejoining together with education, government, labor, and community to address the Pathway thatwill lead to increased transition of students from middle to high school to college to employment.The ASU OMEP and the ASU Mathematics Engineering Science Achievement (MESA)program hosted two one-week residential summer programs, over a two year period, sponsoredby a grant from the GTE Foundation. The objective of the GTE Engineering Summer Institute(ESI) was to expose students to skills that would assist them in investigating and in pursuingengineering and/or technology as a study of discipline and career option, and to instill

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1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Cathryne L. Jordan; Mary Ann McCartney; Mary Anderson-Rowland

of engineering.With a growing concern for the increased competition for top technical talent, local industries arejoining together with education, government, labor, and community to address the Pathway thatwill lead to increased transition of students from middle to high school to college to employment.The ASU OMEP and the ASU Mathematics Engineering Science Achievement (MESA)program hosted two one-week residential summer programs, over a two year period, sponsoredby a grant from the GTE Foundation. The objective of the GTE Engineering Summer Institute(ESI) was to expose students to skills that would assist them in investigating and in pursuingengineering and/or technology as a study of discipline and career option, and to instill

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1997 Annual Conference

Authors

William W. Schultz; Roger W. Pryor; Michael Vaksman; Mark Schumack; Kevin Belfield; Vladimir Sheyman; Mukasa Ssemakula; Shuvra Das

concepts such as the conservation of energy, themomentum equation, or the second law to specific situations. Students struggle over simplycomprehending the material, let alone using the principles to analyze or design systems.The NSF-sponsored Greenfield coalition offers an excellent opportunity to explore nontraditionalmethods for presenting thermophysics. (The traditional method is taken here to be the lecture).The instructional material is presented at the Center for Advanced Technologies (CAT), amanufacturing facility in Detroit employing a large minority population, and the center for anAssociate’s and Bachelor’s level Manufacturing Engineering degree program. Students in theprogram (called “candidates” at the facility) are all full-time

Conference Session

Introducing Programming in the First Year

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Steven Gordon, The Ohio State University

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

AC 2010-869: USING COMPUTER MODELING PROBLEMS FORUNDERGRADUATE ENGINEERING EDUCATIONSteven Gordon, The Ohio State University Page 15.1321.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 Using Computer Modeling Problems for Undergraduate Engineering EducationAbstractModeling and simulation can be used to implement inquiry-based learning in engineeringcourses that actively involve students in the learning process, improve their problem-solvingskills, and encourage them to pursue careers in Science, Technology, Engineering, andMathematics (STEM) disciplines. This approach was used in the creation of a thirteen dayworkshop for college credit for high

Conference Session

International Initiatives, Partnerships,Teaching Strategies, and Collaborative Networks

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Esteban Rodriguez-Marek, Eastern Washington University; Min-Sung Koh, Eastern Washington University; Michael Brzoska, Eastern Washington University; Claudio Talarico, Eastern Washington University

Tagged Divisions

International

obtained his B.E. and M.S. in Control and Instrumentation Engineering in the University of ULSAN, South Korea, and his Ph. D in Electrical Engineering and Computer Engineering at Washington State University. He was with KEPCO (Korea Electric Power Co.) for 9 years before enrolling in the Ph. D. program at Washington State University. In KEPCO, he worked at the NPP (Nuclear Power Plant) as a nuclear engineer. In the Fall ’02 quarter he joined the department of Engineering and Design at Eastern Washington University, where he has taught several courses in Computer Engineering Technology and Electrical Engineering. Currently, he is an associate professor of Electrical Engineering at Eastern Washington

Conference Session

Building New Communities

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Yifat Kolikant; Bugrahan Yalvac; Ann McKenna

Cultivating a Community of Practice in Engineering Education Yifat Ben-David Kolikant1, Ann F. McKenna2, Bugrahan Yalvac11 The VaNTH Engineering Research Center in Bioengineering Educational Technologies/Robert R. McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science2, Northwestern UniversityAbstractOver the past several years, as part of an NSF supported engineering research center, we haveworked in cross-disciplinary teams to enhance learning and instruction in the field of biomedicalengineering education. Our collaboration involved working with faculty and consultants withexpertise in learning science, assessment and evaluation, learning technology, and engineering.As cross-disciplinary teams we worked

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Computer ET

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Ronald Krahe

2005-2548-1119 Software Engineering Standards in the ECET curriculum Ron Krahe Penn State Erie, Behrend CollegeAbstractThis paper introduces the need for including software engineering standards in the ECET(Electrical and Computer Engineering Technology) curriculum today, and discusses the desireddepth of coverage. ECET comprises a broad array of topics, including both hardware andsoftware design and development. Many current electrical and computer systems containembedded controls of one sort or another, and in nearly all of them, the control affects the safetyof the

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Kicher; Frank Adamo; Dale Flowers

technology entrepreneurship track.In 2002 we introduced a concentration in biomedical entrepreneurship within the MEM program.The educational objective of both tracks is to provide engineers with the business andmanagement context required to enable them to drive innovation within their companies whileserving in a technical capacity. In interactions with our corporate partners, we refer to graduatesof this program as “business minded engineers.”The program includes the academic coursework as well as an experience component (e.g., aninternship). Students may enter the program as undergraduates with senior status, typically inthe summer between the junior and senior years, and the program does not interfere withcompleting the undergraduate degree