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Collection
2001 Annual Conference
Authors
Vijay Arora; Lorenzo Faraone
Conference Session
Environmental Engineering Division (ENVIRON) Technical Session 4 - Engineering for One Planet & Sustainability Innovation
Collection
2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Mackenzie Booth, Cedarville University; David Brian Dittenber P.E., Cedarville University
Tagged Divisions
Environmental Engineering Division (ENVIRON)
and then equipping them with the ability to engage that workwith competence and insight. Learning taxonomies are tools that can be used to categorize thecognitive levels at which learners are engaging with material as a means of providing structureand metrics to the educational process, with achievement at higher levels of a taxonomygenerally corresponding to the desired intellectual abilities for practicing engineers [1, 2, 3].The general consensus among engineering educators has long been that creative, practical, andactive educational methods are needed in order to produce engineers who are well-prepared forthe workplace. Presenting students with problems and projects, laboratory experiences, designchallenges, group work, and other
Conference Session
Enhancing Instructional Effectiveness in Civil Engineering: Case Studies
Collection
2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Ronald W. Welch, University of Texas, Tyler; Clifton B. Farnsworth, University of Texas, Tyler
Tagged Divisions
Civil Engineering
material on the white board versus PowerPoint to build board contentwhile using questioning techniques, etc. Then the faculty completed the same lessonusing Camtasia screen recorder software (voice over PP and/or a talking head). Thefaculty team assessed the quality of these techniques and determined what was missingfrom the ASCE ExCEEd Teaching Model within the distance education products. Basedon the assessment by the faculty, the team determined what adjustments in teaching stylewere needed to increase the quality of instruction using the available distance educationplatform. The ultimate goal was to provide the best quality instruction no matter themedium. The real challenge will be laboratory lessons where the students usually need tosee the
Conference Session
Int. Engineering Education: Developments, Innovations, and Implementations
Collection
2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Sebastian M. Pfotenhauer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Joshua Jacobs, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Julio A. Pertuze, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Daniel T. Roos P.E., Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Dava J. Newman, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Tagged Divisions
International
molecules Patents M4. Computational Analysis of high-throughput data Biosystems Science & Differential equation modeling Engineering Course Sequence and structural bioinformatics M5. Laboratory Rotation I Experimental and research lab techniques in bio-engineering Communication, cooperation and research skills in research environments M6. Laboratory Rotation II Experimental and research lab techniques in bio-engineering
Conference Session
Assessment and Evaluation of K-12 Engineering Programs
Collection
2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Elizabeth Dell, Rochester Institute of Technology; Margaret B. Bailey, Rochester Institute of Technology; Shauna O'Hurley, Rochester Institute of Technology; Robert P. Lillis, Evalumetrics Research; Betsy Khol, Women in Engineering; Robert D. Garrick, Rochester Institute of Technology; Jeanne Christman, Rochester Institute of Technology
Tagged Divisions
Engineering and Public Policy, K-12 & Pre-College Engineering
they already know and careabout 3) demonstrate that women can make a positive impact on the world with a career inengineering. WIT is currently surveying past participants to see if the increased positiveperception is maintained over time.Women in Technology has hosted a Girl Technology Workshop 2-3 times per year since the2008 academic year. This workshop is led by female Engineering Technology students with Page 22.1671.14support from female faculty members. The workshop introduces engineering concepts to 4th -7thgrade girls through a series of interactive laboratory experiments. The day-long workshops wereoriginally exclusively offered
Collection
1997 Annual Conference
Authors
Anton Pintar
. Some aspects of HYSYS/HYSIM are relatively “user friendly”; other aspects are veryintimidating, especially to sophomores and juniors. HYSYS/HYSIM achieves copyrightprotection by requiring that an electronic security device called a “dongle” be attached to themouse port. These dongles occasionally disappear from the computer laboratories ormalfunction. Fortunately, MTU has a site license for HYSYS that requires only one dongle onthe server for the network. However, each non-networked computer requires its own dongle. Page 2.436.2OBJECTIVES OF THE COMPUTER PROJECTSThe use of Process Flowsheet Simulation Software was accomplished by assigning one
Conference Session
Engineering Collaboration: Faculty & Student in K-12 Programs
Collection
2010 Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Holly Anthony, Tennessee Technological University; Melissa Geist, Tennessee Tech University; Sally Pardue, Tennessee Tech University; Mohamed Abdelrahman, Tennessee Technological University; Evangelynn Thurber, Cookeville High School
Tagged Divisions
K-12 & Pre-College Engineering
be considered as creating new knowledge––the teachers were afforded the uniqueopportunity to explore those distinctions during the program. Several teachers participated in thedesign and implementation of engineering apparatus that were in turn used in addressing theirresearch questions. Another teacher designed and supervised the implementation of anengineering measurement system from the low cost materials available in the laboratory fordeveloping the stress-strain curve for hydro-gels reinforced with nano-particles.16The National Research Council publication, How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience, andSchool,3 describes best practices for supporting students as they develop flexible knowledge. Oneoutcome of the “How People Learn” (HPL
Conference Session
Standards For Future Engineering Practitioners
Collection
2010 Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Charlotte Erdmann, Purdue University
Tagged Divisions
New Engineering Educators
. Faculty members often expose students to standards in laboratory exercisesthroughout their college careers. These subtle opportunities are documented in the paper.ABET criterion and outcomes used to evaluate engineering and engineering technologyprograms now emphasize the use of standards, especially in the design process. This is a newchallenge for the engineering educator. Given that new engineering educators teach theirstudents about standards, it is necessary to become familiar with available information that mayhelp students as well as typical best practices for academic libraries. Acquiring access tostandards is the first step in using standards. The next step is to acquire skill and learn how tocritically read and apply them.The literature
Conference Session
Engineering in the Middle Grades
Collection
2010 Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Jade Mitchell-Blackwood, Drexel University; Manuel Figueroa, Drexel University; Chatchai Kokar, Drexel University; Adam Fontecchio, Drexel University; Eli Fromm, Drexel University
Tagged Divisions
K-12 & Pre-College Engineering
Student Association Outstanding Mentor Award, the Drexel University ECE Outstanding Research Achievement Award and the International Liquid Crystal Society Multimedia Prize. In 2003, he received a NASA/ASEE Summer Faculty Fellowship to research NEMS/MEMS adaptive optics in the Microdevices Laboratory at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.Eli Fromm, Drexel University Dr. Eli Fromm is the Roy A. Brothers University Professor and Director of the Center for Page 15.1273.1 Educational Research in the College of Engineering of Drexel University. He has held a number of academic leadership positions and
Conference Session
Female Faculty, Learning, NSF, and ABET Issues at Two-Year Colleges
Collection
2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Mary Eileen Smith, Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board; David Walton Gardner, Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board; James K. Nelson, University of Texas, Tyler
Tagged Divisions
Two Year College Division
Conference Session
FPD X: First-Year Design with Projects, Modeling, and Simulation
Collection
2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Mario Gomes, Rochester Institute of Technology
Tagged Divisions
First-Year Programs
learned in the Matlab programming laboratory as a fundamental component of the design project.3 Project Rules (As given to the student teams) ◦ Your materials budget for this project are the ones given to you in your “kit”. You may ONLY use the given materials to make your trigger mechanism. You will need to get film developed into 4x6 inch prints. Pick one person in your team who is responsible for that. They will need to pay that cost, keep the receipt, and submit those receipts and a form to get reimbursed. Reimbursement takes a few weeks after the form has been received. IMPORTANT: Without a receipt you cannot get reimbursed. ◦ No flammable gases, liquids, or solids are allowed ◦ No open flames
Conference Session
Civil Engineering Poster Session
Collection
2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Christianna Irene White, Iowa State University, Institute for Transportation; David J. White, Iowa State University
Tagged Divisions
Civil Engineering
. (Iowa State University 2000), all in civil engineering. He has been on the faculty of the de- partment of Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering at Iowa State University of Science and Technology since 2001, and currently holds the rank of Associate Professor and is the holder of the Weg- ner Professorship. Dr. White is the Director of Earthworks Engineering Research Center at Iowa State University and is in charge of the Iowa State University Geotechnical Mobile Laboratory. Dr. White has taught graduate and undergraduate courses in introduction to soil engineering, foundation analysis and design, experimental testing, soil behavior, and soil stabilization and compaction. Dr. White has research interests
Conference Session
K-12 Students and Teachers
Collection
2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Tirupalavanam G. Ganesh, Arizona State University
Tagged Divisions
Educational Research and Methods
school students’essays in which the subjects described their image of a scientist. They found that the typicalAmerican high school student had a stereotypical notion of what a scientist looks like anddoes at work. They described this shared image from the national sample as: The scientist is a man who wears a white coat and works in a laboratory. He is elderly or middle aged and wears glasses. He is small, sometimes small and stout, or tall and thin. He may be bald. He may wear a beard, may be unshaven and unkempt.…He is surrounded by equipment: test tubes, Bunsen burners, flasks, and bottles…He spends his days doing experiments…He experiments with plants and animals, cutting them apart
Conference Session
Graduate Student Experience
Collection
2010 Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Sunni Newton, Georgia Institute of Technology; Lydia Soleil, Georgia Institute of Technology; Tristan Utschig, Georgia Institute of Technology; Donna Llewellyn, Georgia Institute of Technology
Tagged Divisions
Graduate Studies
development ofskills related to teaching, professional communication and the job search3.Table 1: GSGA Survey ResultsSKILL RATINGConduct independent research 3.57Teach (small “seminar” or “problem-based” learning courses 2.00Teach (large “lecture” course) 1.79Teach (laboratory) 2.05Assess performance outcomes from teaching, supervising, or leading 1.70Prepare written credentials (CV, resume, cover letter) 2.14Interviewing skills
Conference Session
Lighting the Fire: REU
Collection
2004 Annual Conference
Authors
Anant Kukreti
whole experience are summarized. Hopefully, thisdocumentation will help others in planning similar experiences for engineering undergraduates. Enhanced analytical and computational capabilities and higher strength materials have led tolighter, larger and more complex and unconventional civil structures. To design such structures,one must be able to evaluate their overall behavior under both static and dynamic (seismic)heavy overloads, both in laboratory and field environments. The inherent non-linearities indescribing the material behavior and the interaction between the components of a structure,makes simply using analytical tools for studying the response inadequate. This can only be doneby experimental testing. Research projects for the
Collection
2024 ASEE North Central Section Conference
Authors
Christopher Gioia, Slippery Rock University; Samantha (Sami Bortz
. Gioia earned his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Penn State University, and his M.S. and Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from West Virginia University. He also worked as a post-doctoral research fellow at the Na- tional Energy Technology Laboratory in Morgantown, WV, where he researched waste heat recuperators in Supercritical CO2 Power Cycles from 2016-2017.Samantha (Sami Bortz ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 Sustainability-Focused Project-Based Learning in a Heat Transfer Course Christopher J. Gioia Department of Physics & Engineering Slippery Rock University
Conference Session
WIED: Strategies Beyond the Classroom
Collection
2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Kelsey Morgan Irvin, Washington University in St. Louis; Elizabeth Hiteshue, University of Pennsylvania; Mary Yvonne Lanzerotti, Air Force Institute of Technology; Sheldon Hochheiser, IEEE History Center; Michael Geselowitz, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey
Tagged Divisions
Women in Engineering
specific to the subject, basedon understanding of the subject’s life and career, and more general questions designed to furtherthe more general aims of a study to be based on a group of related interviews.Training of Undergraduates in Human Subjects TrainingBoth Ms. Irvin, Ms. Hiteshue, as well as the PI, Dr. Lanzerotti, completed Human Subjects Page 24.962.6Training through the institution’s Institutional Review Board (IRB) prior to conducting the oralhistory interviews of the distinguished leaders. This course is “suitable for investigators andstaff conducting research with human subjects at the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL)and for
Conference Session
Best of DEED
Collection
2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
R. Keith Stanfill, University of Florida; Amy Rigby, www.amywriting.com; Maureen Milch, University of Florida
Tagged Divisions
Design in Engineering Education
laboratory access iswithheld until all team members complete the assignments.IntroductionThe Integrated Product and Process Design (IPPD) Program1-4 is an innovative educationalinitiative at the College of Engineering of the University of Florida (UF). In weekly classesspanning two consecutive academic semesters, (eight months), students from various engineeringand business disciplines are taught how to design products and processes. Then, working in smallmultidisciplinary teams under the guidance of faculty coaches and industrial liaison engineers, Page 24.1240.2the students design and build an industrial product or design a manufacturing process
Conference Session
Software Engineering Constituent Committee Division Technical Session 2
Collection
2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Gustavo Lopez, Universidad de Costa Rica; Alexandra Martinez, Universidad de Costa Rica
Tagged Divisions
Software Engineering Constituent Committee
researchare free; two are commercial standalone tools. This prevents students from viewing the vul-nerabilities as a whole problem. We think this could be useful for a course that is focused onsecurity testing but not for an introductory course on software testing.Garousi7 presents open modern software testing laboratory courseware that is similar to theone we report in this paper, but he uses several tools and SUTs. One of his findings is thattesting educators should align the choices of SUTs and tools with the ultimate goal of thecourse at hand, the type of students, and the time and resources available to the students inthe course.Other forays into improving the teaching of software testing have been reported. For in-stance, Cowling5 describes how
Conference Session
Best of Computer in Education Division
Collection
2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Hatem M Wasfy, Advanced Science and Automation Corp.; Tamer M. Wasfy, Indiana University Purdue University, Indianapolis; Riham M Mahfouz, Thomas Nelson Community College; Jeanne Peters, Advanced Science and Automation Corp.
Tagged Divisions
Computers in Education
) suggests that in terms of student comprehension, using only a well designed fullyautomated online course is as effective as traditional classroom/textbook/lab instruction51. Theeffect size for future more advanced ITSs incorporating the above mentioned capabilities isexpected to equal or even exceed the effect size of one-on-one tutoring.Bloom’s effect size however does not take into account the much smaller cost of ITSadministered courses, nor does it take into account the fact that it requires on average less timefrom the student to go over an ITS course as compared to the total time required to travel toschool, attend lectures, perform laboratory experiments, do homework assignments, go to officehours, study for exams, take exams, and other
Conference Session
FPD 4: First-Year Engineering Courses, Part I: Multimedia, Large Classes, and TAs
Collection
2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Kimberly C. Huett, University of West Georgia; Barbara B. Kawulich, University of West Georgia; P.K. Raju, Mechanical Engineering Dept, Auburn University,Al; Chetan S Sankar, Auburn University
Tagged Divisions
First-Year Programs
Auburn University. He is the co-founder and director of the NSF-funded Laboratory for Innovative Technology and Engineer- ing Education (LITEE). LITEE has recently been recognized by the National Academy of Engineering as one of the 29 programs in the country that have successfully infused real-world experiences into under- graduate engineering education. He is also the founder and director of the Auburn Engineering Technical Assistance Program (AETAP) Prior to coming to Auburn in 1984, Dr. Raju held faculty positions in sev- eral universities in India and visiting positions at the Catholic University of America, Purdue University and the Technical University of Berlin. Dr. Raju received his Ph.D. from the Indian
Conference Session
First-Year Programs (FPD) Poster Session
Collection
2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Alyssa N Berg, University of Colorado Boulder; Janet Y Tsai, University of Colorado at Boulder; Virginia Lea Ferguson, Mechanical Engineering; University of Colorado; Boulder, CO; Beverly Louie, University of Colorado, Boulder
Tagged Divisions
First-Year Programs
. Page 23.1368.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013 What’s Trust Got to Do with It? Assessing a Research-Based Mentoring Program for Novice EngineersAbstractWhile the importance of trust has largely been explored in large business organizations, littleattention has been given to the role of trust in one-on-one mentoring relationships betweenengineers1. Trust has been relatively understudied in academic settings, especially in mentoringrelationships between undergraduate and graduate students in research laboratory settings. Byassessing ways of creating and maintaining trust in engineering relationships, we will be able tocreate more comprehensive guidelines on building
Conference Session
Cooperative and Experiential Education Division (CEED) Technical Session 2
Collection
2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Cynthia Kay Pickering, Arizona State University; Erik Fisher, Arizona State University
Tagged Topics
Diversity
Tagged Divisions
Cooperative and Experiential Education Division (CEED)
Conference Session
Project-Based and Experiential Learning in Manufacturing
Collection
2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Yalcin Ertekin, Drexel University; Richard Y Chiou, Drexel University; Tzu-liang Bill Tseng, University of Texas at El Paso
Tagged Divisions
Manufacturing Division (MFG)
and Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Missouri Rolla. Dr. Ertekin has also been a Certified Manufacturing Engineer (CMfgE), awarded by the Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME) since 2001, and a Certified Quality Engineer (CQE) awarded by the American Society for Quality (ASQ) since 2004. In addition to positions in the automotive industry, Dr. Ertekin has held faculty positions at Western Kentucky University and Trine University. In 2010, he joined Drexel University’s College of Engineering as an associate clinical professor. He has been instrumental in course development and the assessment and improvement of the Engineering Technology (ET) curriculum, including integrated laboratories
Conference Session
Biomedical Engineering Division (BED) Technical Session 1
Collection
2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Rebecca Anne Scott, University of Oklahoma; Alex Nelson Frickenstein, University of Oklahoma; Stefan Wilhelm, University of Oklahoma
Tagged Topics
Diversity
Tagged Divisions
Biomedical Engineering Division (BED)
Collection
2007 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting
Authors
Nhut Tan Ho
designed so that they can be generalized and customized by a department to derive specificlearning outcomes and goals. With these Standards, the CDIO Initiative envisions a curriculumthat • is organized around mutually supporting disciplines, but with CDIO activities highly interwoven; • is rich with student design-build projects; • features active and experiential learning; • is set both in the classroom and in a modern learning laboratory; and • is constantly improved through a robust assessment and evaluation process. Figure 1 – Twelve CDIO Standards 1. CDIO as Context 7. Integrated Learning Experiences Adoption of the principle that product and
Conference Session
Keeping It Real: Real World Examples and Systems Thinking
Collection
2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Waterloo Tsutsui, Purdue University, West Lafayette ; Daniel DeLaurentis, Purdue University
Tagged Divisions
Mechanics Division (MECHS)
Conference Session
MECH - Technical Session 7: Assessment and Evaluation in Engineering Education
Collection
2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Simon Li, University of Calgary; Yves Pauchard, University of Calgary; Ahmad Ghasemloonia, University of Calgary
Tagged Divisions
Mechanical Engineering Division (MECH)
diligently.2.4. Standardized and iterative formative assessmentsIn this category, alternative grading approaches are applied for formative assessments orassessment for learning [13] through standardized and iterative feedback. In the literature,standardization approaches include specifications grading [14] and standards-based grading [2],which, in our view, involve an explicit mapping between learning outcomes and assessmentresults. Such standardization has also been commented on as an essential element forcompetency-based education [25]. Generally, the literature has reported positive learning effectsin various course contexts such as mathematics [26], [27], chemistry laboratory courses [28], andsoftware projects [29]. Standardization can also
Collection
2009 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting
Authors
Arun K. Datta; Jacqueline Caesar; Daphne Rainey; Stephen Cammer; Julie Schuman; Oswald Crasta
roles in the team. Each team may utilize different tools and address the problem from adifferent perspective. Some students can assume a role as clinicians, as for example, to ‘diagnose’the disease by conducting a series of pathological tests including blood tests and checking thephysical symptoms. In doing so, the students need to learn what the symptoms are for dengue andwhat sort of laboratory tests are required to diagnose such a case. This dengue management projectwill specifically require students to use various computational and web based tools to discover theidentity of the virus, given some preliminary biological data under the supervision of the instructorand in consultation with the researchers and sequences to test a hypothesis
Conference Session
NSF Grantees Poster Session
Collection
2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Authors
Burcu Ozden, Pennsylvania State University; Andrei Blinkouski, Pennsylvania State University; Matthew A. Fury, Pennsylvania State University; Michael Kagan, Pennsylvania State University; John Majewicz, Pennsylvania State University; Laura McGhee, The Pennsylvania State University; Zafer Hatahet, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Prescott
Tagged Topics
Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session
within Penn State system.It should be noted that both MATH 140 and PHYS 211 are foundational courses (“gateways”) formany science and engineering majors at the Penn State University and important prerequisitesfor later work in many STEM disciplines. MATH 140 (4 contact hours) is an important buildingblock in the education of any professional who uses quantitative analysis and includes standardintroductory topics in differential calculus, integral calculus and their applications. PHYS 211 (5contact hours) is a calculus-based introduction to classical mechanics, and laboratory exercisesare an integral part of this course. PHYS 211 covers the following topics: kinematics, dynamics,laws of conservation, and their applications. Moreover, both MATH