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15th Annual First-Year Engineering Experience Conference (FYEE)

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Charity Obaa Afi Ampomah, Ashesi University; Heather Beem, Ashesi University

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Diversity

, modified by the authors to better suit the context of first-yearAfrican engineering students. The Agency for Learning Questionnaire (AFLQ) tool looks atthe behavior of individuals as it applies to functionalities such as intentionality, forethought,self-regulation, and self-efficacy [16]. The AFLQ was modified to suit the context of this study.The original tool contains about forty-two questions on the long form and twenty-eightquestions on the short form. In order not to overburden the students, one question from each ofthe six functionalities under agency was used in the surveys. Thus, questions fromintentionality-planned competence, intentionality-decision competence, forethought-intrinsicmotivation, forethought–intrinsic motivation, self

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2023 CIEC

Authors

Xiaojing Yuan

ETD 455 Opportunities and Challenges in Creating, Adapting, & Adopting OER Material in ET Programs Xiaojing Yuan University of HoustonAbstractOpen educational resources (OER) are teaching and learning resources in the public domain andhave been licensed in such a way that anyone can freely use and re-purpose them. OER can beany materials or tools used to support learning, including course materials, modules, textbooks,lesson plans, streaming videos, hands-on laboratory manuals, test questions, etc. Studies at boththe K-12 and higher

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2023 CIEC

Authors

Marilyn Dyrud; Hadi Alasti; Maurizio Manzo; T. Sean Tavares; Paul McPherson; Margaret Phillips

with pressure sensitive paint tunnel. placed at the tip; b) rocket’s pressure measurements in a subsonic wind tunnel.wavelength but decided to test first the laser; the use of a lamp would have required a morecomplex experimental setup with the aid of optical lenses, which was planned during thesemester but interrupted due to the switch to online only classes. Safety was essential for theseexperiments: using protective googles, avoiding eye contact and not ingesting the paint.Development of Apparatus for Enhanced Experiential Learning in the UNH ET Automation andControl Systems CoursesT. Sean Tavares, University of New HampshireASEE Engineering Technology Division

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering Division (MULTI) Technical Session 5

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Celeste Chavis, Morgan State University; Petronella A. James, Morgan State University; Kofi Nyarko, Morgan State University; Oludare Adegbola Owolabi, P.E., Morgan State University; Masud Salimian, Morgan State University

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Diversity

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Multidisciplinary Engineering Division (MULTI)

accreditation, program assessment and eval- uation process and was recently (2016-2019), the accreditation coordinator for the school of Engineering. Her interest in engineering education emphasizes developing new classroom innovations and assessment techniques and supporting student engagement. Her research interests include broadening participation in STEM, equity and diversity, engineering ethics, online engineering pedagogy, program assessment so- lutions, transportation planning, transportation impact on quality of life issues, and bicycle access. She is a proud Morgan Alum (2011), having earned a Doctorate in Civil Engineering, with a focus on trans- portation. Dr. Petronella James earned her Doctor of Engineering

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2024 CIEC

Authors

N. Athula Kulatunga; Daniel Sampaio

installations has been changing over the past twenty years,mainly due to the efforts of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to reduce emissionscaused by fossil fuels. In recent years, several ports in the USA have adopted strategic plans toreduce emissions by installing electric outlets for hoteling vessels, starting from cruise lines andmoving to cargo vessels [1]. It is estimated about 25% of cruise ships’ emissions in Puget Soundcan be eliminated with shore power. However, the pier and the vessel must have shore powertechnologies to benefit from this initiative. The load can be somewhat predictable due to thepredetermined arrival and departure times of cruses and cargo vessels. The electrical energy forthe shore power comes from regional

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2024 CIEC

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Afi Anuar; Vukica Jovanovic; Natnan Luetke; Hamid Eisazadeh; Isaac Flory IV; Mileta Tomovic; Anthony Dean

. Thedepartment will need to procure equipment for GDT, manufacturing processes and metrology. Inaddition to laboratories and equipment, two lecturer faculty lines is required to teach severalMFET courses. This information is intended for any organizations planning in developingsimilar program. The SML is created specifically for the MFET program. SML is equipped withstate-of-the-art equipment. This equipment provides students with practical and hands onlearning experience. The automated assembly line is for students to learn mechatronics and theassembly process. Students also learn about automation and controls, robotics and Industry 4.0.The metrology section of the SML includes equipment such as CMM, vision measuring machineand height gages. Using

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2007 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

J. C. LaCombe; E. L. Wang; M. Nicolescu; P. Rivera; B. Poe

planning,autonomous and teleoperated systems and satellite systems design. The course was successfulin gaining participation and meeting program goals, but placed an extra burden on the teachingloads of the faculty. We are seeking effective approaches to offer this elective course on aregular basis at UNR.Outside of the university classroom, we have also attempted to develop outreach activities. Wehave designed a CanSat workshop, which incorporates hands-on activities, including building,programming, and launching CanSats. An expandable “CanSat Kit” was developed, consistingof a GPS sensor, temperature sensor, a HAM radio, and a micro-processor. In the summer of2004, 12 complete CanSat kits were assembled and a pilot version of the workshop was

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2008 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

Jeffrey S. Burmeister; Kyle A. Watson; Maria Garcia-Sheets

MESA Community College Program (MCCP) assists community college students so that they can transfer to four-year institutions as majors in math-based fields. The MESA Engineering Program (MEP) helps students at major California universities to attain degrees in engineering and computer science. Specific MESA services offered to all participants include: individualized academic planning, community building, learning opportunities, study skills training, peer group learning, mentoring, career exploration, professional development, and transfer assistance. Furthermore, MESA provides rigorous academic development that offers pre-college students math and science curriculum based on the California Math and Science Standards, while creating

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2013 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

Paul M. Jones; J. Richard Phillips

needs of the company with respect to the project requirements and often servesas the domain expert for the student team. Additionally, the liaison should understandthat his/her organization is supporting students and must be aware of the educationalneeds of the students, as well as the needs of the company.The liaison should be able to commit to a conference call with the team each week.He/she should plan to meet with the team multiple times during the academic year andshould also plan to host the team for a company site visit early into the project. This is tohelp students become familiar with the context of their project and to help the teamestablish a customer relationship with their sponsor.Program Timeline: The schedule for projects is

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2013 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

Kiran George

priorityregistration. The paper presents detailed evaluation and assessment of the scholarship programusing the following measures: a) Attitude and enthusiasm of students towards the ECS ACEscholarship program activities; b) Academic self-efficacy, and STEM interest and motivationbased on the assessments of ACE scholars; c) Qualitative measure of program effectivenessbased on: GPA of ACE scholars when compared to traditional students of similar backgroundnot supported by the ACE program; d) Impact of working hours on the ACE scholars’ academicperformance; e) Correlation between the scholarship amount and ACE scholars’ academicperformance.I. IntroductionStudents planning to major in science or engineering make up approximately 30% of allincoming college

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2013 GSW

Authors

Tyler Crosson; Monica Hew; Bernd Chudoba; Amit Oza

more a melting pot ofinformation sharing rather than a one-way flow from inputs to deliverables. A few weeks into the project, after speaking with Amit and Dr. Chudoba, itbecame apparent that the team’s plans were excessively ambitious. Initially the plan was to reverse engineer the P-51, produce results for 3-5 mission profile points, perform flightsimulations in MATLAB for verification and create a model to fly in the X-Planesimulator. The group was advised to consolidate their efforts, make assumptions whennecessary, identify and completely answer the important questions regarding the projectobjective. Even if the end result was to analyze just one base line cruise condition pointin an oversimplified mission profile and present a

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2013 GSW

Authors

John Sibert; Matthew Goeckner; Dave Galley; Kory Goldammer

agreement including a provision for an annual review. Further, a matrix of thecourse equivalencies for each discipline, constructed by the STEM academic advisors from thethree member institutions, became an attachment to each agreement. All who participated in thedevelopment of the STEM articulation agreements have agreed that these agreements provide Proceedings of the 2013 ASEE Gulf-Southwest Annual Conference, The University of Texas at Arlington, March 21 – 23, 2013. Copyright 2013, American Society for Engineering Educationclear and safe paths for the Collin and Richland students who plan to earn a STEM baccalaureatedegree at The University of Texas at Dallas. As these

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2005 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Stephanie G. Adams; Jeffrey W. Rieske

3manufacturing processes. Students conducted research on a topic related to industrialengineering. The research projects were narrow enough for completion during the allocated time,yet broad enough to present a variety of research challenges. The basic activities of the summerresearch experience were: 1) on-site orientation; 2) reflective journals; 3) Spanish languageinstruction; 4) research methods seminar; 5) field research project; 5) oral and writtenpresentations; and 6) assessment and evaluation. Time at the end of the program was planned forthe synthesis of the students' findings and for writing, followed by the oral presentation anddiscussion of results in a group setting. The remainder of this article shares the experiences ofone of the

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2005 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Judith Collins; Alysia Starkey; Beverlee Kissick; Jung Oh

industry. Theresearch process requires:Proceedings of the 2005 Midwest Section Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education 4 A minimum of 10 library subscription database journals as sources. Journals are to be discipline-specific and peer-reviewed. No Internet sources, including manufacturer’s web sites, unless use of this information is clearly justified, based on the subject, purpose, scope, and audience for the report. A research plan including a topic and a specific audience gleaned from research in Industry and Market databases. A determination of the need for information, based on audience analysis

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2005 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

George D. Gray

. Therefore, in order to better expose them, a stand-alone specific course on compositeswould be introduced within their disciplines and degree plans. Graduates with little knowledgeof composites will not be able assist with advancing the development of products and processes.This will ultimately create voids between new creative product designs and associatedmanufacturing applications. Students with a broad educational base in composites will betterdevelop as participatory agents of change beyond the boundaries of traditional product andprocess designs and applications. A composites specific course will go a long way in helping toachieve this and will broaden the horizons as to the future potential of these materials.The course will need to have

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2005 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Chris Ramseyer; Beth Brueggen

preparation by theprinciple investigator. Neither of these outcomes was considered appropriate. Materials wereready to complete improvements to the laboratory work area to increase efficiency, and allmaterials and testing equipment required for the first eight weeks were available on the first dayof Camp Concrete.To further instill a sense of mission and urgency,each day of the first week was pre-planned withgroup meetings and work. The meeting topicsincluded an orientation to the summer's goals,introduction to the research topics and instruction oncompleting literature reviews, creating a test matrix,planning work, keeping records of the research in alab book and writing a research report. The worksessions included initial cleaning and

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2005 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Jason Weiss; Farshad Rajabipour; Thomas Schmit; Sebastian Fait

of the lecture. In addition to encouraging nearly 100% participation and enabling nearlyinstant grading and attendance, the methodology developed enabled problem-based, peer-interactive learning during the large lecture format. This format enabled the students to work onpractical problems by teaching one another, thereby reinforcing important class concepts.This paper will describe: 1) the background of civil engineering materials classes at Purdue, 2)the motivation for investigating how to improve the learning experience in the materials courses,3) the background of interactive classroom technology, 4) methods to incorporate the personalresponse devices in class, and 5) plans for future developments.1. The Background of the Civil

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2004 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

F. G. Edwards; E. W. LeFevre; W. M. Hale

Material can now be broken down into Analyze, Order, Objective - component elements so that Explain, Classify, EQ, THE, OB, relationships and organizational Select, Explain, CS, principles can be identified and applied. Compare, Contrast, Journal/Portfolio, Analyze, Identify, Performance Separate, Discriminate testingSynthesis Information about analyzed parts can Compose, Design, All formats, Any now be put together to create new Rearrange, Plan

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2005 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

F. Edwards; T. Daniel; W. Hale; A. Hanson; E. Richardson

plan of strategies for making use of appropriate learning resources in answering questions or meeting learning needs. 11. The ability to carry out a learning plan systematically and sequentially. This skill is the beginning of the ability to engage in convergent thinking. 12. The ability to collect evidence of the accomplishment of learning objectives and have it validated through subsequent performance. “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Midwest Section Conference" 5Schuttenberg and Tracy believe there are many different roles a

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2012 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Jeffery S. Thomas

condition andthen develop a care plan. At Missouri S&T, students were asked to analyze broken componentsand then develop a scenario involving all of those components and their associated failuremodes. Figure 1 shows some of the components that were made available to the students.Appendix A contains a photo and short description of each item.The term reverse is sometimes used to describe case studies on what not to do. Students wouldbe encouraged to not repeat the unfortunate situation described in the case study. Highlypublicized building collapses, stemming from an engineering or construction mistake, might beused in this type of case study. In this paper, however, the term reverse has more to do with themanner in which the case study is

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2008 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Peter LoPresti; Theodore W. Manikas; Jeff Kohlbeck

improvement was observed on questions that, inreviewing the events of the week, were not as clearly addressed. Many of these topics were notaddressed well because of changes in the schedule and planned activities or imperfect timing ofsome of the activities. It was noted by the teachers that some of the questions were too broadand allowed for misinterpretation by the students even if the topics were covered well. The mostsignificant change for future academy sessions will be refining the questions to be more specificand ensure that the questions are basic enough that they will be covered in spite of planning orschedule changes during the Academy.Overall EvaluationWhile most of the evaluation results were very positive, the Academy staff identified

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2007 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Kevin R. Lewelling; Kevin S. Woolverton; Michael C. Reynolds

automobile FM stereo. To facilitate a betterunderstanding of the current world-wide business environment, this project grouped the studentsfrom the five classes into five different plant locations. Each class represented their ownphysical site with identical departments of project management, facilities and technical areas. Asa result of the size and scope of the project, coordination of resources was combined in a cross-functional, cross-site interaction. Students took roles in this business model and wereresponsible for technical components, planning, logistics, milestones and final completion of theproject. This unique project environment gave first year students a realistic insight into theengineer’s lifestyle. Additionally, we believe these

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2011 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Gaffar Gailani; Sidi Berri; NIEVES ANGULO

College to allow the engineering students from Hostosto transfer to City Tech to get their bachelor degree in engineering technology. An articulationagreement between both colleges will enhance this transfer. This project represents the most critical,logical step in City Tech’s long-term plan to transform itself to a model institution for the educationof under-represented students in STEM majors. The project is filling a critical gap in the engineeringtechnology program offerings by making it more relevant to current industry needs (e.g., NASA) andcreating curriculum and learning experiences for students that do not currently exist. Strategically,this project is another key piece in the college’s effort to overhaul and upgrade all its science

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2011 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

PATRICK BOBBIE; Sheryl Duggins; VENU DASIGI

distance learning options in anytime-anywhere modes, including wireless withmobility [3].Tools for DeliveryEcho360™, wall-mounted cameras, Wimba, and SmartBoard™ have all been used fordelivery at [Our University]. Tablets can replace SmartBoardTM to support delivery fromprivate settings and have been part of the plan of universities such as ours to respond topandemic situations. Echo360 is a server-based system which works with mountedcameras to capture live presentations. The immersion of SmartBoard illustrations andamplification of presentations offers students rich, video content for asynchronousplayback and replay of the teacher’s real-time discussions. Echo360 also can be deployedconcurrently and non-obstructively while using Wimba, which is

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2011 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Andy S. Zhang; Farrukh Zia; Iem Heng

impact, disposal, and recycling [3,4]. These considerations are turned into design features,manufacturing features, assembly features, maintenance features, and recycles features that each student hasto address when designing or choosing a component.Various design constraints such as temporal constraints and spatial constraints were introduced to helpstudents to plan design activities to decide which activities can occur at the same time, or concurrently.Project management software such as Microsoft Project is being used to help students to plan their designactivities. Students were informed the ultimate goal of using concurrent approach is to significantly increasethe productivity and product quality that are vital for companies to survive in

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2008 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Neal A. Lewis

made without incident. Routine quality inspection of the third batch revealed ametal contamination: small slivers of what appeared to be stainless steel were inside many of the gelatin 2capsules. A day later, the same contamination was found in the fourth batch. Further production wasstopped, and I was notified of the problem. Because the issue occurred at a contract manufacturer, it wasthe contractor’s responsibility to identify and correct the problem. I had already planned on being at theplant the following Monday. Some of our R&D people were already at the plant to assist in the startup,and they committed to help in the

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2007 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Chang-Hee Won

management of alarge engineering projects. The main concept in systems engineering is to design, build, and testwith documentations so others can track the project. In systems engineering process, the customergenerates the user requirement. Then concept of operations describes the overall design criteria.Trade Studies leads to the selection of system, subsystem, and components. Design document is acritical part to the systems engineering process. Here one lay outs the detailed design of thesubsystem and system. Design reviews are held after the design is completed. Interface ControlDocument details the layout of how all the subsystems will connect. Finally, the Test Plan validatesthe subsystem and system. After the user requirement and

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2006 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Betsy Calhoun

, undue reliance on trade with other area of the world,and a general lack of planning for the future. Aside from global warming, which isdirectly related to the world-wide use of fossil fuels and thereby an outcome of theIndustrial Revolution, these concerns are in many cases the same as the factors which 1contributed to the collapse of earlier civilizations. The Mayans in the Yucatan peninsuladepleted their water supply and grew too large for their agricultural capacity. EasterIsland people poured their resources into giant statues, until they finally could not evenbuild boats to fish or trade. Deforestation with the resulting erosion and loss of wood forfuel and construction was a factor in the

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2006 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Alfred A. Scalza

and writing appearto be inseparable. In fact, good organization in writing seems to correlate with clear thinkingabout the subject at hand.The first learning improvement made should be to provide the student with a basic format to getstarted. “Most writers, either consciously or not, follow a standard writing plan” 2. A planshould be outlined for new students. For example; a different format is required to write aresearch paper as compared to writing a laboratory report. A brief standard ten point writingplan follows:Decide what to write about. (the assignment)What is its purpose. (why write it; not just for a grade)Decide for whom you are writing. (the instructor now but the client later)List ideas, assertions, facts and illustrations.Pick a

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2008 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Matt Armstrong; Richard L. Comitz; Andrew Biaglow; Russ Lachance; Joseph Sloop

science class. As you can see from Figures 7 and 8, both processes first define theproblem or the mission by examining facts, assumptions, and specified/implied/critical tasks. Bothprocesses then design alternatives and model or test those alternatives so they can be analyzed andcompared. Finally, both processes enable us to arrive at a reasonable decision and both are iterative innature with feedback loops to further refine the design or plan. While this interdisciplinary project wasdesigned to show our students the connections between organic chemistry, reaction engineering andseparations, but we were able to draw multiple connections across many aspects of our curriculum like thecase of engineering design and military science. The