Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lisa Schneider, Cornell University; Maria Terrell, Cornell University

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees

Workshops in Engineering Calculus Course on Applied Mathematical Problem-solving Skills and Self-efficacy PerceptionsAbstractThis project stems from a collaborative effort by engineering and mathematics faculty at aresearch university to enhance engineering students’ abilities to transfer and apply mathematicsto solve problems in engineering contexts. A recent curriculum innovation resulting from theseefforts involves the integration of collaborative, applied, problem-solving workshops into thefirst-semester engineering mathematics course. In the first year of the assessment project, theproject team developed two instruments - one to gauge students’ abilities in using mathematics inengineering contexts, the Mathematics

Conference Session

Impact of Community Engagement on Students

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Laura M. Patterson, University of British Columbia

Tagged Divisions

Community Engagement Division

invaluable to other not-for-profit organizations to solve theirchallenges. In fact, it is an engineer’s obligation “to serve humanity” and share their skills“without reservation for the public good.”1Service learning has been implemented as a pedagogical strategy in technical communicationclasses for engineering students. In the context of first-year engineering curriculum, servicelearning is a useful pedagogical strategy that integrates community engagement with classroomactivities and critical reflection in order to engage students in their obligations as global citizensearly on in their education. In particular, the experiential aspect of service learning engagesthese new students in the complexity and uncertainty of real-world problems they will

Conference Session

Ethical Cases and Curricula

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert M. Brooks, Temple University; Jyothsna Kavuturu, St.Joseph’s College; Mehmet Cetin, Temple University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Ethics

areas can pose ethical issues. The development of new products and services inthe 21st century demands unprecedented interdisciplinary collaboration and teamwork. Scientistsand engineers are actively involved from the concept design stage to the completion stage of aproject requiring significant involvement in safety and environmental issues that have an impactnot only on the workplace but also society at large4.Ethics is an important subject and should be an integral aspect of any scientist’s or engineer’sactions. However, very few teachers include ethics as a significant part of their courses. Over the Page 25.836.2past several years

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees

, these courses are the mechanism by whichstudents apply the core concepts that are critical to their discipline to solve an open-endedproblem. This type of activity should enable students to engage in a deeper level of cognitionthan experienced earlier in their curriculum, which focuses more on analytical skills. In thecontext of providing an effective capstone experience, we have developed two virtuallaboratories, the Virtual Chemical Vapor Deposition (CVD) laboratory and the VirtualBioreactor (BioR) laboratory.2-5 In a virtual laboratory, simulations based on mathematicalmodels implemented on a computer can replace the physical laboratory. Virtual laboratorieshave been developed and integrated into engineering curricula.6-10 However, relative

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Tom Bazzoli; Blair Rowley

was a three hour per quarter, two quarter course. It had a fall-winter, winter-spring structure. Each first quarter had one 2-hour lecture and two, 1-hourlaboratories per week. The curriculum the first quarter had two teaming events, basics ofengineering drawing, an introduction to instrumentation, resistive circuits involving Ohms andKirchoff’s laws, and integrated circuits used for timers, flip-flops, counters, and an introductionto two of the college programs. In addition the students learned to use HTML to design their ownweb sites and MatLab and Excel to solve statistical problems involving normal distributions.The second quarter had one, 2-hour lecture and one, 1-hour laboratory, and one teaming event.The students were introduced to

Conference Session

Fundamental: Tools and Content for K-12 Engineering Education

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Anthony Steven Brill, NYU Polytechnic School of Engineering; Jennifer B Listman, NYU Polytechnic School of Engineering; Vikram Kapila, NYU Polytechnic School of Engineering

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

validate energy conservation.Students are often unable to understand potential and kinetic energy from a system’s perspective;for example, a system can contain both forms of energy simultaneously. This issue cannot beeasily addressed using traditional pedagogical techniques, however, by integrating roboticstechnology into the curriculum, teachers can create an engaging and visual representation of sucha system. Heron, Michelini, and Stefanel,20 support Carr and Kirkwood’s21 proposal that theteaching of energy concepts should be supported with examples in which observable changes areapparent, such as a suspended object falling from higher to lower positions. This avoidsmisunderstandings inherent in purely static20 examples. Brook and Wells22

Conference Session

New Trends in CHE Education II

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gisele Ragusa, University of Southern California; Ted Lee, University of Southern California

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

2 2004 3 2005 4 2006 5their core ChE courses with five to six targetedcourses in a particular area; thus, each Figure 1. Percentage of students selecting eachemphasis acts as a “mini-minor”. emphasis in Chemical Engineering. The second approach uses laboratory research experiences as an integral part of theundergraduate education process. We have recently begun modernizing our curriculum byincluding emphasis-specific laboratory experiments associated with

Collection

2010 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Dennis Silage

communications seems to be alaggard. An undergraduate curriculum in digital communications has been developed thatcouples the traditional analytical approach with the simulation of the system for further design,analysis, insight and motivation.Bit by Bit CommunicationDigital communication systems convey information from a source or transmitter over a channelto a sink or receiver. Modern communication systems often do so in the presence of additivechannel noise and mild to severe channel and system non-linearities which tend to corrupt thetransmission. Traditionally examining the performance of a digital communication system asonly a set of analytical expressions, even if noise and non-linearities can somehow be describedadequately, seems to provide

Conference Session

STEM and ECE

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kundan Nepal, University of St. Thomas; Andrew Tubesing, University of St. Thomas

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

, Technology and Mathematics portion of STEM have been well covered in K-12education for a number of years. With the adoption of Engineering into the Science Standards inthe state of Minnesota, the number of schools that actively offer engineering either as an instituteor embedded throughout their K-12 science, math and arts curriculum is increasing1. To betterequip in-service and pre-service teachers to handle the needs of the engineering curriculum, theUniversity of St. Thomas offers a Graduate Certificate in Engineering Education through itsCenter for Engineering Education. As a part of the certificate, in-service teachers go through aseries of courses that expose them to the fundamentals of the engineering discipline, theengineering design process

Conference Session

Innovation and Fun in the Civil Engineering Classroom

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Angela R. Bielefeldt, University of Colorado, Boulder; Audra N. Morse P.E., Michigan Technological University

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

science courses that predominate the early years of the curriculum),students may feel that creativity is not valued in engineering. Redesigning some assignments inevery civil engineering course to allow students some degree of freedom and choice in theirapproach could counter this prevailing trend. The VALUE rubric for creativity and innovation [28]brings this idea to mind. Curricula with a design spine or extensive integration of open-endedproblem-based learning likely already fulfill this aim. Programs choosing to pursue this approachare encouraged to include faculty development in their process; [52] describes this for an IndustrialTechnologies degree program in Madrid.As a final example of teaching creativity and innovation, the Franklin W

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering Division (MULTI) Technical Session 3

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lydia Ross, Arizona State University; Deeksha Seth, Villanova University

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering Division (MULTI)

) opportunities for people facilitating educational experiences (i.e., faculty or school counselors). Dr. Ross’ work has been published in national and international journals, including Research in Higher Education, AERA Open, Teachers College Record, Journal of Women and Minorities in Science and Engineering, and the Journal of Higher Education Theory and Practice.Dr. Deeksha Seth, Villanova University Deeksha Seth is an Assistant Professor in the Mechanical Engineering department at Villanova University. Her primary research interests include integrative and interdisciplinary engineering education. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 Beyond Exhibits: Exploring Bio-Inspired Education

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kathleen Alfano, College of the Canyons; Sharlene Katz, California State University, Northridge

courses being taught at six community colleges that integrate academic and vocational subject matter with industry skill standards and/or competencies. • CREATE faculty continue to work with local industry to revise their curriculum to meet industry needs. • A new Mechatronics degree program was developed and implemented at Allan Hancock College. • The consortium collaborated with the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s and Internal Services Departments to find a creative solution to their high unmet demand for electronics technicians. • In 2008-2009, a series of technical focus meetings were held and included community college faculty from non-CREATE colleges and employers. New emerging technology areas

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Gholam Omidi; Bill Oldham; Farouk Attia

Carlo, asoftware package that converts scheduling information from a Primavera database toperform probabilistic risk analysis. In many engineering and construction companies,personnel who are knowledgeable in the use of high-tech software can provide a managerwith information from an integrated database and create relational reports that provideanalytical and meaningful information.Based on the presenter’s 25 years of experience, that supports a view that a need existsand identified in the engineering, construction and aerospace environment, for improvingtraining programs to update the skills of personnel. The current practice followed inmany companies for upgrading their source of decision-making data is to buy computersoftware. The cost

Conference Session

Engineering Technology Pedagogy 2

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Clayton J. Hahola, Montana State University; Kevin R. Cook, Montana State University; William J. Schell IV P.E., Montana State University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

Society for Engineering Education, 2021 Focused Curricular Activities Designed to Improve Student Competency in Data Driven Process ImprovementAbstractRecent internal assessment and evaluation activity within the Mechanical EngineeringTechnology (MET) program at Montana State University (MSU) identified an opportunity toimprove student learning outcomes regarding knowledge and application of statistical concepts.Since the MET program did not have room for an additional course in this area, the curricularreview identified an existing design and build course where specific activities could bedeveloped and integrated to provide students exposure to additional statistical material. Specificcourse changes were made through the

Conference Session

Materials Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

R. Danner Friend, Norwich University

Tagged Divisions

Materials

skills in the middle twoyears of a typical engineering curriculum, and there is an opportunity to find a place for theseskills to be developed in the context of an engineering science course. In an effort to incorporatemore professional skills during the middle years, a Materials Science course for MechanicalEngineering majors was redesigned to include specific learning goals that address creativity,teamwork, communication, lifelong learning, environmental impact, and societal impact. Thecourse has for many years been taught using a traditional, lecture based approach, and the newformat adopts a student-centered, active learning approach with an emphasis on project-basedlearning and integrative learning. While including more focus on

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gail H Keraga, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Tracy N Schierenbeck, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Linda McCloskey, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Richard Smith, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

discussion of thesimultaneous evolution of the Archer Center and the Engineering curriculum in leadership and abrief description of the two courses as they are currently taught.BackgroundDuring the mid-1980’s, there arose an increased concern with the marketability of engineeringgraduates. In concert with a very competitive job market, industry recruiters began to seekgraduates who were not only technically capable, but who were also proficient in “people skills”and “communication skills.” At the same time, engineering programs began to develop strongenhancement of design education, including significant opportunities for team-based activities,success in which depended strongly on productive interpersonal relationships among teammembers as well as

Conference Session

Computer Science and Information Technology in K-12 Engineering

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Laura E. LeMire, Community College of Baltimore County

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

), Civil Engineeringand Architecture (CEA), Computer Integrated Manufacturing (CIM), Engineering Design andDevelopment (EDD), Aerospace Engineering (AE), and Digital Electronics (DE). Studentsparticipating in PLTW endeavor to complete a total of at least five courses: a minimum of threefoundation courses, one specialization course, and a capstone course. PLTW teachers must be certified in order to teach a PLTW course. To become certified,for each class that they teach, an instructor must successfully complete a two week SummerTraining Institute (STI) course. STI courses are intensive training programs that condense ayear-long PLTW curriculum into a two week period. They are offered at Affiliate Universitieslocated around the country and are

Conference Session

First-Year Programs: Cornucopia #2

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Uma Lakshman, NYU’s Tandon School of Engineering; Jack Bringardner, NYU’s Tandon School of Engineering

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

Barrier Change. She currently is the Vice President of her school’s chapter of the American Society of Civil Engineers and oversees the Concrete Canoe and Steel Bridge competition teams. She will be the president of the chapter next year.Dr. Jack Bringardner, NYU’s Tandon School of Engineering Jack Bringardner is the Assistant Dean for Academic and Curricular Affairs at NYU Tandon School of Engineering. He is also an Assistant Professor in the General Engineering Department and Civil Engineer- ing Department where he teaches the First-Year Engineering Program course Introduction to Engineering and Design. He is the Director of Vertically Integrated Projects at NYU. His Vertically Integrated Projects course is on

Conference Session

Pre-College Engineering Education Division (PCEE) Poster Session

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

DeAnna Bailey, Morgan State University; Baba Amin Imamu Ojuok, The Uhuru Academy; Tamara Altman, Impact Allies; Charnee Bowens, Morgan State University; Kevin Kornegay, Morgan State University; Kofi Nyarko, Morgan State University; James Holly, Jr., University of Michigan

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Pre-College Engineering Education Division (PCEE)

experiences at home and within the community, support African psychology andlearning, and appeal to the African personality. Strategies include the use of African terms of authority,endearment and affirmation, call and response, African griot teaching style, communal and cooperativelearning. A curriculum is considered African-Centered when the historical, philosophical, and culturalcontext of the lessons are centered around the experiences of African people. For instance, in African-Centered curricula, academic disciplines are introduced within the context of when these disciplines arefirst encountered or developed by African people (Akoto, 2018; George, 2024; Shockley, 2011). Forexample, the origin of advanced geometry in an African-Centered

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Eckehard Doerry; Bridget Bero; David Hartman

corporate design contents, placing increasing emphasis onindividual problem-solving creativity, interdisciplinary collaboration, and teaming and projectmanagement skills. NAU’s Design4Practice program explicitly teaches these skills within anovel curriculum centered around a carefully crafted sequence of project-oriented courses. Thispaper discusses our efforts to extend the program to provide international training opportunities,including integration of the Design4Practice curriculum with that of partner institutions abroad,support for joint projects, and international teaming in interdisciplinary project-oriented courses.1.0 IntroductionA characteristic feature of economic change in the last decade has been the growing trendtowards globalization

Collection

1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Lorraine Holub; G.V. Loganathan; Craig Moore; Bill Greenberg

New Century: A Pump, NOT A Filter, Edited by Steen, L.A. for the Board on Mathematical Sciences and the Mathematical Sciences Education Board of the National Research Council, National Colloquium, Washington, D.C.,1987.2. Wankat, P.C., and Oreovicz, F.S., Teaching Engineering, McGraw Hill, New York, 1993.3. Felder,R.M., and Brent, R., Effective Teaching: A Workshop, Virginia Tech, 1995.4. Barrow, D.L., and Fulling, S.A., “Using an Integrated Engineering Curriculum to Improve Freshman Calculus”, Proceedings of the ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, 1998.5. Felder, R.M., Bernold, L.E., Burniston, E.E., Dail, P.R., and Gastineau, J.E., “Team-Teaching in an Integrated Freshman Engineering Curriculum”, Proceedings of

Conference Session

Interdisciplinary Experiences and Assessment in Environmental Engineering

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cheryl J.K. Desha, Queensland University of Technology; Charlie Hargroves, The Natural Edge Project

Tagged Divisions

Environmental Engineering

, London.18 Stasinopoulos, P., Smith, M., Hargroves, K. and Desha, C. (2008) Whole System Design - An Integrated Approach to Sustainable Engineering, The Natural Edge Project, Earthscan, London.19 Hargroves, K. and Smith, M. (eds) (2005) The Natural Advantage of Nations: Business Opportunities, Innovation and Governance in the 21st Century, Earthscan, London.20 The Natural Edge Project (n.d.) ‘Curriculum and Course Notes’, www.naturaledgeproject.net, accessed 10 January 2012.21 Holloway, M., Alpay, E. and Bull, A. (2010) ‘A Quantitative Approach to identifying Threshold concepts in Engineering Education’, Engineering Education 2010 Inspiring the next generation of engineers, The Higher Education Academy Engineering

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Eric Maase, Oklahoma State University

students an impression of what it means to be an engineer. Byimpressing on students the potential of the engineering field, it is hoped that students will bemore motivated to stay in engineering majors. At the same time incorporating math and physicsinto introductory coursework will help prepare for students for the rigors of advancedcomputational strategies necessary for successful engineering applications.The Introduction to Computer Programming for Engineers has been redesigned incorporating aseries of assignments which provide the opportunity to teach the aspects of structuredprogramming languages (Visual Basic for Applications, VBA, is the language of instruction)while also allowing the integration of many features of engineering into the

Conference Session

Trends in ME Education Poster Session

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Donald Heer

, the engineering curriculum was formed in response to the workforce needed for thecurrent technology. Today, the technology is changing too fast for the engineering education tokeep up with. A new way of teaching engineering must be devised [8]. The engineeringgraduates of the future must be able to continuously reeducate themselves, adapt to changingconditions, integrate knowledge from various disciplines, and then apply this knowledge ininnovative and active ways [4]. In words of Dr Joseph Bordogna, a National Science FoundationLeader: “We all acknowledge that scientific and mathematical skills are necessary for professional success. An engineering student nevertheless must also experience the "functional core of

Conference Session

Physics in the K-16 Classroom

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Warren Turner; Glenn Ellis

)integrate ω to find θ. One could also choose an alternative solution procedure by taking theimpulse-momentum path relating τnet directly to ω. Thus student solutions consist of a free-bodydiagram and a graphical representation of motion applied through the structure of the dynamicsframework. Solutions produced by this procedure not only find the numerical answers, but alsoillustrate the motion and causes.Using the Dynamics Framework in a Learner-Centered CurriculumThe dynamics framework is one element of the learner-centered curriculum that we havedeveloped. A detailed description of the pedagogy used in this curriculum is given in Ellis andTurner5. The pedagogical approach to our curriculum is best understood within the context ofthree principles

Conference Session

Collaborative Projects in Architectural Engineering Education

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Charlie Setterfield, Sinclair Community College; Eric Dunn, Sinclair Community College; Russell Marcks, Sinclair Community College

Tagged Divisions

Architectural

-disciplinary capstoneapproach was developed: ≠ Multiple discipline capstone ≠ Heightened collaboration ≠ Increased use of technology ≠ More complete building code complianceAs a result, a new capstone curriculum was developed to more closely simulate the industrytrend toward integrated project delivery. Spring 2009 was the first implementation of this newstrategy.G. Integrated Project Design/DeliveryIn an effort to prepare both students and faculty for the challenge of moving to a morecompletely Integrated Project Design/Delivery (IPD) model of capstone course, funding wassecured by the department chair to bring in an expert lecturer in IPD. While serving as aprofessor of architecture, this instructor has developed a broad background in

Conference Session

Socio-cultural Elements of Learning through Service

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bowa George Tucker, University of Massachusetts, Lowell; David O. Kazmer, University of Massachusetts, Lowell; Chris Swan, Tufts University; Angela R. Bielefeldt, University of Colorado, Boulder; Kurt Paterson P.E., James Madison University; Olga Pierrakos, James Madison University; Greg Rulifson P.E., University of Colorado, Boulder; Linda Barrington, University of Massachusetts, Lowell

Tagged Divisions

Community Engagement Division

course.Research Question and PurposeThe aim of this paper is to explore the continued practice of service-learning as an effectiveteaching method within an engineering curriculum at a public research institution of highereducation with a mission committed to excellence in teaching, research and communitypartnerships. While some faculty members continue to integrate service-learning in theirteaching, others have discontinued its use. Most studies on faculty involvement with service-learning have focused on factors that influence whether or not faculty adopt service-learningpedagogy, and no study has investigated factors for discontinuing the use of service-learning inengineering. This study examines the motivation for faculty involvement in service

Conference Session

Engaging Faculty Across Disciplines, Colleges, and Institutions

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James D. Sweeney, Oregon State University; Michelle Kay Bothwell, Oregon State University; Milo Koretsky, Oregon State University; Susan Bobbitt Nolen, University of Washington; Devlin Montfort, Oregon State University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

curriculum to the more complex, authentic problems and projects they face as professionals. Dr. Koretsky is one of the founding members of the Center for Lifelong STEM Education Research at OSU.Dr. Susan Bobbitt Nolen, University of Washington Professor of Learning Sciences & Human DevelopmentDr. Devlin Montfort, Oregon State University Dr. Montfort is an Assistant Professor in the School of Chemical, Biological and Environmental Engi- neering at Oregon State University c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 Motivating and Engaging Faculty in Cultural and Curricular Transformation of a Multidisciplinary Engineering School1. IntroductionIn an NSF-funded IUSE:RED

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ariana Riccio; Wendy Martin

sustainable in the long run. To better suit different types of learnersand to make the program more adaptable to settings without access to a 3D printer, the IDEASteam is creating new curriculum materials and teacher resources which focus on hand-builtconstruction and materials exploration to be made publicly available by 2023. This paperpresents findings from the past two years of this six-year research practice partnership in whichthe IDEAS Maker Program Curriculum was adapted, tested, iterated, finalized, and scaled foruse within an inclusion setting specifically designed for autistic students to learn alongsidenonautistic peers.MethodsAdapting the IDEAS Maker Program In the wake of a complete transition to remote learning in New York City

Conference Session

NGSS & Engineering Education

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jessica Cellitti, Drexel University ; Rasheda Likely, Drexel University; Magdalene Kate Moy, Drexel University; Christopher George Wright, Drexel University

Tagged Divisions

Pre-College Engineering Education

historical grand strategy game and her current thesis interest.Dr. Christopher George Wright, Drexel University Dr. Wright is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Teaching, Learning, & Curriculum in Drexel University’s School of Education. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 A Content Analysis of NGSS Science and Engineering Practices in K-5 Curricula (Evaluation) AbstractThe Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) encourage K-12 teachers to facilitate scienceand engineering instruction that is three-dimensional in nature, motivating students to developknowledge building practices. The