background of students, as wellas fitting the topic to a broad scope of high school curriculum areas. This approach combinedbasic math and familiar subjects to allow students to discover how tools they already know areused in engineering problem-solving. Self-directed student groups worked through the hands-onportion of the project with the assistance of handout procedures and instructor assistance.Questions generated during and after groupwork served as a basis for a discussion matching theinterests and knowledge level of students. This project was presented to the high schoolteachers’ workshop and then to a high school class of chemistry and math students. Experientialresults and feedback from high school teachers provide a basis for evaluating
members to incorporate into their classrooms and other interactions with students. She is a co-author of several peer-reviewed conference presentations on engineering education topics such as building skills in project management and change leadership, diversity, and developing communities of practice within engineering education and engineering education research. She currently helps lead a project that will develop a toolkit to guide teachers, administrators, and other stakeholders in the effective implementation of engineering education in K-12. Dr. Cady earned M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Cognitive and Human Factors Psychology from Kansas State University and a B.A. in psychobiology and political science from Wheaton
. Theprerequisite to the HCI course is “Interaction Programming,” a course that provides the studentswith an understanding of event driven programming, graphical user interfaces (GUI), and one Page 7.788.1∗ For course materials and additional information please visit www.cs.siue.edu/hci Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright 2002, American Society for Engineering Educationlanguage to program GUI’s. This is a second language course for the students. Students tend totake the HCI course in their junior year just prior to the Senior Project
2024 ASEE Midwest Section Conference Deconstructed 555 Timer and Application Circuits for Interactive Educational Experiences Justin Fausto, Benjamin Cuebas, Preston Carroll, and Rohit Dua Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Missouri University of Science & Technology, MO, USAAbstractThe Deconstructed 555 Timer and Application Circuits for Interactive Educational Experienceoffers interactional implementation of three fully discrete 555 Timer example circuits. Theresearch project goal was to gain knowledge of the 555 Timer by deconstructing the device downto the component level. Three independent example application circuits, which
Professional Engineer (Alaska), Project Management Professional, LEED Accredited Professional in Building Design and Construction, and Envision Sustainability Professional. His research interests include engineering education; infrastructure; sustainable design; and clean, renewable energy. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024Integrating Professional Credentialing in Sustainability into Civil Engineering Curriculum: A Case StudyAbstractThe concept of sustainable development rose to prominence with the publication of OurCommon Future as an output of the United Nations’ Brundtland Commission. Recently,increased emphasis on the impacts of climate change and globalization has
what an engineer isentitled to claim to be certain, and what is regarded as uncertain should precede anyattempt to evaluate the ethical implications of the technology under consideration.I. IntroductionThere are eight categories of decisions that must be made during the course of anengineering project. The accuracy of these eight categories of decision depend in eachcase on the degree of certainty of the information used to make these respectivejudgments.I.A Project IssuesEvery undertaking, from the small to the large, the simple to the complex, is subject tothe dynamics of the project. We can associate 5 management dimensions with eachproject: scope (roughly, the requirements or objectives), deadline, budget, quality of thework
classroom instructors who modeled exemplary use oftechnology. The students were required to enroll in a technology rich engineering coursecalled Toying With TechnologySM which offered a positive, comfortable, and stimulatingatmosphere in order to introduce preservice teachers to aspects of science, math, andtechnology in the context of engineering. As a major component of the course, studentswere required to research and design an Engineering ABC Book tailored to both K-12students and classroom curriculum. A description of the Toying With TechnologySMcourse, cohort, and the Engineering ABC Book Project are examined and described.IntroductionToday, more than ever before, technological competence has become crucial tomaintaining our nation’s position
students to complete their senior designproject on this rapid road expansion project. This paper highlights the work conducted by thestudents from BU on the Outer Ring Road which lies in the southwest corridor of the city. Withthe assistance of senior field engineers, students helped in the initial site assessments whichincluded surveying the existing conditions of the roads, procuring soil samples from core cutters,conducting geotechnical field tests such as standard penetration tests (SPT) tests and laboratorytests such as tri-axial and consolidation tests and in areas where the roads existed studentsconducted Dynamic Cone penetrometer (DCP) tests. In addition to working with the engineersstudents were required to help the botanist move certain
, paneldiscussions, entertainment, student design project demonstrations, student creativity contests,and exhibitions of digital art, photography and mural displays of student writing. In addition,during the year the Working Group encouraged cross disciplinary faculty interchange through“Unlikely Partners” activities.Unlikely PartnersAlthough faculty interchange and dialogue occurs across RIT’s campus through a variety ofmechanisms, including an Academic Senate, service on Institute-wide committees, campus wideprograms such as an annual Faculty Institute on Teaching and Learning, and other programs,rarely do faculty members from different disciplines interact within a classroom setting.The “Unlikely Partners” activities sought to pair faculty members from
ASEE 2014 Zone I Conference, April 3-5, 2014, University of Bridgeport, Bridgeport, CT, USA. The Robo: Semi-Autonomous Robot that Detects Objects and has Speech Capabilities Shanique Jiles College of Engineering, Technology and Architecture University of Hartford West Hartford, Connecticut shanijiles@yahoo.com Abstract—The goal of this project is to design a semi- among the most preferred because it is open source and has aautonomous robotic greeter. It
37 Curricular Innovation for Real-Time Embedded Systems Course Reza Raeisi Sudhanshu Singh, Graduate Student California State University, Fresno Electrical and Computer Engineering DepartmentAbstractThe objective of this project is to experience and develop rapid prototypes of System-on-chip(SoC) using soft-core processor in the undergraduate laboratory. We will share the experience ona reconfigurable hardware-software co-design environment and µClinux embedded Real TimeOperating System (RTOS). A soft
Paper ID #49606PolarBear DSP Digital Effects PedalWesley Cole Hanson, Ohio Northern UniversityCody Beagle, Ohio Northern UniversityAaron Altstaetter, Ohio Northern UniversityAmari Shamar Patterson, Ohio Northern University ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2025 Polarized Sound (DSP Digital Effects Pedal)Introduction:This paper will detail a senior project in which the team design a digital effects pedal formusicians. This effects pedal will give a user the ability to experience a variety of guitareffects that they otherwise would have to purchase individually, all in the
experiences of engineering designis inspired by a search for synergy between multimodal design students, and could also inform future studies related tocapacities (e.g. anthropometry, anatomy, and material creativity and learning.properties) and KEEN (Kern Entrepreneurial EngineeringNetwork), a learning resource program designed to foster Keywords: design; creativity; golden section; senior designcreative thinking in engineering. projects; human factors; ergonomics The KEEN Program’s resource, Integrated E-Learning I. INTRODUCTIONModule: Thinking Creatively to Drive
within sustainability constraints and to identify economic, environmental, andsocial impacts of their projects. Integral to the design and monitoring of reform efforts will bethe availability of accurate and reliable tools for assessing students’ knowledge of sustainabilityand ability to apply that knowledge in design1. Effective assessments are characterized byobjectivity, reliability, minimal influence on student responses, and portrayal of knowledgestructure2, 3. At the 2016 ASEE Annual Conference, a special session addressed the question ofwhether there were effective assessment methods for sustainability and other “hard to measure”topics in engineering education. The session stimulated discussion of which assessment toolswere available and
curriculum thatbest suits the graduate preparing for a career such that the industry can hire knowledgeable smartgrid employees. Multiple universities have partnered on a DOE-funded project calledGrid-Ready Energy Analytics Training with Data (GREAT with Data) to solve this shortage ofqualified workforce. These universities mentioned above that have partnered together consist ofthe University of California, Riverside (UCR), University of Texas, Austin (UT), Virginia Tech(VT), Stony Brook University (SBU), and Washington State University (WSU). To meet smartgrid requirements, these five universities have adapted courses for undergraduate and graduatestudents in different categories, including machine learning, cyber security, alternative
able to meetthe socio-technical challenges of 21st century society. Together, student veterans and servicemembers (SVSM) are a unique yet understudied student group that comprises substantial numbersof those historically underrepresented in engineering (i.e., due to race, ethnicity, gender, ability,orientation, etc.). That, in combination with technical interests and skills, maturity, life experience,and self-discipline, makes SVSM ideal candidates for helping engineering education meet thesedemands [1,2]. This NSF CAREER project aims to advance full participation of SVSMs withinhigher engineering education and the engineering workforce by 1) Research Plan: developingdeeper understandings about how SVSM participate, persist, and produce
thepurpose to implement them in their classrooms. Throughout the year, the teachers taught theirstudents the cutting-edge technologies and their implementations.In this paper, we report the findings from one classroom where the teacher of the classroomparticipated in the project activities. The design of the research was a case study. The case underinvestigation was one of the teacher participants' classrooms and their students. We visited theteacher’s classroom and collected firsthand data from the student participants. We purposivelyselected six students and interviewed them one on one. In the interviews we asked questions toexplore the students' lived experiences with the integrated STEM activities. We also interviewedthe teacher at another
to motivate students in engineering ● Motivate participants to develop additional lessons and teaching tools ● Facilitate interaction and provide a ‘network of support’ for first-year and K-12 engineering educatorsWorkshop ParticipantsThis workshop is designed for first-year engineering educators, current and future K-12 teachers, leadersof community youth development groups, and anyone interested in engineering education and outreach.Workshop DescriptionThis workshop will begin with an overview of the EDP and how it can be authentically utilized in designprojects in first-year classrooms, as well as K-12 and informal education spaces. Two lesson plans will beprovided, one for a catapult project and one for a biomimetic
perspectives and is a key part ofeffective and inclusive engineering outcomes. In engineering education, divergent exploration isoften applied within idea generation; however, many other stages in engineering projects maybenefit from divergent exploration, such as defining problems, identifying stakeholders, selectingproblem solving approaches, and understanding potential implications of engineering decisions.Professional engineers often struggle to identify and manage diverse perspectives, and little isknown about the practice of divergent exploration in engineering projects. To investigate, weinterviewed a mechanical engineer about her exploration practices in a past professional project.From her striking examples of divergent thinking and barriers
University as a faculty member. As a licensed professional engineer in the states of Connecticut and California, Dr. Jiang has been involved in the design of a variety of low-rise and high-rise projects, including office towers, retails, hotels, courthouses, and theatres according to the U.S. and international building codes. He is a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), American Institute of Steel Construction (AISC), Structural Engineers Association of Northern California (SEAONC), Earthquake Engineering Research Institute (EERI), and American Society of Engineering Education (ASEE).Dr. Zhuwei Qin, San Francisco State UniversityDr. Jenna Wong, San Francisco State University Dr. Wong is an Assistant
innovative pedagogies that can help enhancethe employability of students. In response to this need, an exploratory study was conducted at asatellite campus of a large, Midwestern research-focused university. The intervention includedthe implementation of an entrepreneurially minded and communication-focused project,developed by the instructor of an upper-level undergraduate manufacturing course. Post-completion of the project, a metacognitive reflection assignment was administered to theparticipants and subsequently, data was collected. Participant responses were qualitativelyanalyzed using thematic analysis which led to the discovery of three themes: (1) identifyingvalue in nature-inspired design, (2) confidence in communication and self-expression
Paper ID #39533Board 353: On ACCESS Program Support for Students’ Academic Successinthe Cybersecurity FieldProf. Katerina Goseva-Popstojanova, West Virginia University Dr. Katerina Goseva-Popstojanova is a Professor at the Lane Department of Computer Science and Elec- trical Engineering, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV. Her research interests are in software engineering, cybersecurity, and data analytics, as well as in higher education focused on these areas. She has served as a Principal Investigator or co-Principal Investigator on various NSF, NASA, DoD, and in- dustry funded projects. She leads the B.S. in
developed and ran for 8 years a faculty-led international program to Brazil focused on Sustainable Energy and Brazilian Culture. This program educates students on the effects of various energy systems and the challenges of social and environmental justice in developing countries. In 2017, Dr. Pfluger moved into the ChE department where she implemented improvements in the Transport 2 Lab and Capstone courses. She assists Capstone students to develop dynamic design projects that ad- dress and help solve real-world, global challenges. Dr. Pfluger has served as the AIChE Student Chapter Faculty Advisor for 10 years and is chair of the AIChE Student Chapter Committee. She is a Math- works Teaching Fellow and has won serval
system such as thrust, chamberpressure, tank pressure, mass flow and pressure in piping systems and engine casing temperature.These parameters are important as it allows the operators to determine the performance of theengine and allow one to observe the status of the engine without necessarily seeing it directly.Thus, an effective data acquisition system also provides a safety aspect to more dangerousapplications such as a rocket engine test bed. The purpose of the project is to allow for students to gain knowledge in using andintegrating Data Acquisition Units in a non-classroom environment. This will allow them to getpractical experience in the fields of Measurements, Electrical Engineering, as well as SystemEngineering. It will allow
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research projects, mentoring, boot camp, professionaldevelopment, and community building events. Analysis of quantitative evaluation datademonstrates that, despite the remote format, interns had a very positive internship experienceand highly satisfying mentoring relationships with graduate students. Most notably, theinternship significantly enhanced students’ confidence to succeed as a student in science andengineering, and self-efficacy in their research skills. This paper and poster presentation willprovide a model for similar NSF funded programs pursuing an online format. The administrativeteam expects such transitions to become increasingly common for various reasons, including theneed to adapt to unexpected health and environmental barriers
., University of Arkansas, Fayetteville Dr. Claretha Hughes is Professor of Human Resource and Workforce Development at the University of Arkansas (UA. Her research interests include valuing people and technology in the workplace, tech- nology development, diversity intelligence, learning technologies, and ethical and legal issues. She has published numerous articles and chapters in peer-reviewed journals, books, and conferences and has 13 books. She serves as a book proposal reviewer for SAGE, Emerald, IGI Global, Palgrave Macmillan, and CyberTech Publishing. She is currently involved in a National Science Foundation Research in Formation of Engineers project as a Co-PI. She has served in manufacturing leadership roles for
activity. See full documentation for standards.In the ConnecTions in the Making project, researchers and school district partners work todevelop and study community-connected, integrated science and engineering curriculum unitsthat support diverse elementary students’ science and engineering ideas, practices, and attitudes.Students investigate, prototype, share, and revise functional solutions to an engineering designchallenge rooted in the students’ local community while scientifically exploring the phenomenaand mechanisms related to the challenge. This paper shares the “Accessible Playground Design”3rd-grade unit in which students explore the scientific concepts of force, motion and magnetismbased on the need to design a piece of accessible
due to recent financial cutbacks, and the fact that you are one of the highest paid employees in your division, in view of your knowledge and experience. Wayne Davidson’s You are a project manager in the Aerospace Division of Occidental Engineering. You have worked at this firm for 9 years and devotedSupervisor (Deborah) much of your time and energy to its success. Only a few people in the firm know that the idea to low-ball the bid for this project was yours. You assured those people that this was a golden opportunity for the company and that you would make sure that the project was successful
Paper ID #241222018 CoNECD - The Collaborative Network for Engineering and ComputingDiversity Conference: Crystal City, Virginia Apr 29Too Black to be Woman and Too Much Woman to be a Man: Black WomenAttempting to Reconcile Their Multiple Identities in Academic and Profes-sional Engineering SpacesDr. Stacie LeSure, American Society for Engineering Education Dr. LeSure is a Program Director and Senior Researcher in the College of Engineering at Howard Uni- versity. She manages various research projects focused on the academic perceptions and persistence of students in STEM, particularly those students who are traditionally