Conference Session

Minorities in Engineering Division Technical Session 3

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Mauro Rodriguez Jr, California Institute of Technology; Karen Mariela Siles, IBM Corporation; Dora Louise Renaud, Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Minorities in Engineering

namesake forreporting to a cycle-based, chapter-centered, growth mindset-oriented development program [8]. Summary of the NRP v.3 components1. Chapter Management Tool (CMT): a comprehensive chapter management and improvement tool consisting of a Chapter Plan is required by the chapters towards organizing their events and programs with continuous feedback from regional leaders and the NRP Reports;2. Chapter Assessment Reports (i.e., NRP Reports 1 & 2): two comprehensive NRP reports documenting the chapter's events, programs, and ability to further the SHPE mission and vision. The reports are be used to assess the chapters areas for growth and strength and making award determinations; and3. Chapter

Conference Session

Engineering Education in the Arab World / Mid-East Region

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Waddah Akili, Iowa State University

Tagged Divisions

International

department and the college. On-campusfacilities and institutional arrangements such as consulting and enterprise incubators should beinvestigated by appealing to other professional models, i.e., medicine, law, veterinary medicine,etc. Some of these activities are at the very least self-supporting, and could, if properly planned,shed funds that could be used to support other academic endeavors.I believe there are feasible action plans that should be adopted to pave the way for potentialcollaboration between industry and academe. These would include:i) First, seeding and propagating the idea, that gaining practical experience enhances younginstructors’ teaching competence without adversely affecting his/her research capability. Afaculty member should

Conference Session

Electrical Engineering Technology Design Projects & Curriculum

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kin Moy, Youngstown State University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

theneed to create another special EMC class) was discussed. Examples of integration into 3 courses(AC Circuits, Electronics 2 and Electronic Communication Systems) were demonstrated. Thecurrent status and future plan were also discussed. Frequency domain instrumentation (hardwareand computer simulated virtual instrumentation) were incorporated into the laboratoryexperiments to provide students with hands-on experience on advanced instrumentation.Students were also exposed to some national and international EMC test standards.. Page 13.773.2Introduction EMC (ElectroMagnetic Compatibility) is defined as the ability of equipment or system

Conference Session

Engineering in Middle Schools

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Paul Crips, Laramie Middle School; William Parker, Laramie County School District 1; Steven Barrett, University of Wyoming; Jerry Hamann, University of Wyoming

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

the nearby university and community college and the private sector. Inthis paper we discuss how this program was implemented, the contents of each DiscoveryBox, the impact on meeting state educational standards, some of the issues involved increating such a program and most importantly the highlight of the program – studentsregularly journaling their progress throughout the year. Due to the success of this grantthe program has been extended to the LSCD#1 eighth grade curriculum for academicyear 2007/2008. We also plan on pursuing funding to extend this to the ninth grade in thecoming year. OverviewOn April 1, 2006, the Wyoming Department of Education awarded Laramie CountySchool District #1 (LCSD#1) in

Conference Session

Best of the NEE

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Wendy James, Oklahoma State University; Stacee Harmon, Oklahoma State University; Richard Bryant, Oklahoma State University

Tagged Divisions

New Engineering Educators

into causing particular classes to be a part of degreerequirements or lead to inclusion of topics in a course’s content goals. On the micro level,instructors’ plans are influenced by the decisions at the macro level, but they still make thechoices of specific lesson plans, contents of daily/weekly/monthly instructional objectives,activities for students, methods of instruction, and forms of evaluating students.4 In analyzingcurriculum planning, Colin J. Marsh and George Willis write Teachers are, of course, the final planners, and, in practice, many daily lesson plans are not written out but remain in the heads of experienced teachers. In fact, many of the numerous decisions made daily by classroom teachers are the

Conference Session

Engineering Leadership Development Division Technical Session

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Chris Carlson-Dakes, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Gregory W Harrington, Dept of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Univ of Wisconsin - Madison

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Leadership Development Division

to scaleup to meet the increasing demands. The remainder of the paper will focus on the creation,evolution, and future growth plans for the course, and will point to lessons learned that canassist in adaptation for other institutions.Evolution of a Course – Design and StructureThe authors of this paper, with feet planted in academia, industry, and our community,observed a gap in our curriculum that needed to be addressed. Industry was looking to hireengineers with a set of skills and experiences we felt our undergraduates were notadequately receiving. We also perceive a growing need for our students to have globalawareness and community involvement to be better able to act as stewards of theengineering discipline throughout their careers. In

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Experiential Learning

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kathryn Jablokow, Pennsylvania State University; Jack V. Matson, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Darrell Velegol, Pennsylvania State University, University Park

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

the use of social media. We also review thedemographics of our 124,000+ MOOC students, who represented nearly 200 countries and over35 academic disciplines, as well as statistics related to their enrollment, retention, and coursecompletion. Finally, we discuss the implications of MOOCs for engineering education in bothface-to-face and online formats, our recommendations for the development of MOOCs, thechallenges and limitations of our work here, and our plans for future research in this domain.1. IntroductionAlthough new on the educational scene, Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) are already thesubject of great debate in terms of their educational value, academic rigor, financialsustainability, and role in higher education3,4,11,13,14

Conference Session

NSF Grantees’ Poster Session

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kimberly Warren, University of North Carolina, Charlotte; Chuang Wang, University of North Carolina, Charlotte

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Tagged Divisions

Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

styles will benefit from a more diverse teaching method that targets multiple learningstyles, but the use and formal assessment of these methods for a Geotechnical Engineeringcourse has not been well documented in the literature. Participating students enrolled in this course during the first two semesters (i.e., theControl Group) were taught using conventional lecture methods. The GCT were implementedduring the last two semesters and these students were referred to as the Treatment Group.Qualitative and quantitative data were collected during all four semesters as part of acomprehensive evaluation plan. The instructor used an inquiry-based approach so that thestudents were motivated to take notes during the lecture while maintaining

Conference Session

Training and Mentoring of Graduate Teaching Assistants

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tershia A. Pinder-Grover, University of Michigan

Tagged Divisions

Graduate Studies

“somewhat successful” or “very successful” with theirimplementation. Those respondents who did not use active learning were unsure how to usethese methods in their specific class, believe that their teaching responsibilities did not allowthem to use these approaches, or did not feel as though active learning was necessary. Thispaper examines these responses further to determine whether or not their teachingresponsibilities, their confidence with a variety of teaching-related tasks (e.g., lesson planning,working with students, etc.), and use of teaching peer mentors influence their decisions toincorporate active learning into their teaching practice. Recommendations for faculty supervisorsand TA training program organizers are provided.1

Conference Session

Assessments, Assessments, and Assessments

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Waddah Akili, Iowa State University

Tagged Divisions

New Engineering Educators

beinvestigated by appealing to other professional models, i.e., medicine, law, veterinarymedicine, etc. Some of these activities are at the very least self-supporting, but could,if properly planned, shed funds that could be used to support other academicendeavors.I believe there are feasible action plans that should be adopted to pave the way forpotential collaboration between industry and academe. These would include:i) First, seeding and propagating the idea, that gaining practical experience enhancesyoung instructors’ teaching competence without adversely affecting his/her researchcapability. A faculty member should strive to do both!(be a good teacher and aresearcher at the same time).Simply stated, the prevailing perception that time andeffort

Conference Session

Assessment and Evaluation in Design

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sarah Lockwood, University of Calgary; Daryl Caswell, University of Calgary; Marjan Eggermont, University of Calgary

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

) The Social Awareness Challenge: A six week challenge that covers the second half of the semester, the SA Challenge introduces students to research techniques, long-term planning and the idea that engineering can be used to solve all types of problems. This challenge is usually done in partnership with a campus Page 15.1209.4 organization or group that encourages innovative engineering. Previous challenges have included Solar Car development, development of materials for the Solar Decathlon house team and product development for Engineers without Borders.ENGG 253 1) The Rube Goldberg Challenge: The only

Conference Session

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division Poster Session

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Canek Moises Luna Phillips, Purdue University, West Lafayette

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

following way,“Uh...I did, uh, a little bit of research to just, just give people preface, and that was on theeconomic side, specifically. And then, um, involved in planned discussions, obviously gave input,and also set up the mechanism where people could ask questions via text.” He also helpedmoderate small group discussions which he described as, “[B]asically, uh, just trying to keepanybody from kind of grandstanding within the discussion and being, like I know, that somebodycan even be a professor, as a student we are kind of supposed to tamper them down and allow a lotof different voices to come out, generate questions, compile those questions, and kind of move ahandful to the top.” As a result, even though Way characterized his role as a small

Conference Session

Systems Engineering Division Technical Session 4

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Madeleine C Brannon, George Washington University ; Zoe Szajnfarber; Thomas Andrew Mazzuchi, George Washington University

Tagged Divisions

Systems Engineering

Engineering course forfirst semester freshman at George Washington University. Herein is described the planning andimplementation of the course, the student feedback, and the lessons learned.II. Curriculum DesignIn planning for the course, a review of what peer universities were attempting was conducted. Alist published by INCOSE in July 2013 of the Systems Engineering programs was used to deriveprograms for undergraduate students. Several universities were contacted from the INCOSE list,Table 1 represents the information obtained from these universities on methodologies. Inaddition to the responses below, 6 universities reported that they did not have an introduction toSystems Engineering course. The list is by no means comprehensive but gives a

Conference Session

Accreditation and Outcomes-based Education

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sandra A. Yost, University of Detroit Mercy; Laurie A. Britt-Smith, University of Detroit Mercy

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

contain well-formulated student learning outcomes? • How many of these syllabi articulate a linkage between the course outcomes and the newly established core outcomes? • To what extent do instructors of the core courses identify and carry out a plan to assess the core outcomes in these courses? • How many faculty who teach core courses submit, present, and/or publish papers on assessment? • What percentage of faculty who teach core courses agree that assessment of student learning is useful not just for accreditation purposes, but (a) to have a positive impact on student learning, and (b) for their own professional development as teachers?The results from this pre-/post-intervention

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Zdravko Markov; Todd Neller; Ingrid Russell

project incorporates machine learning as a unifying theme for the AI course through a set ofhands-on lab projects. Machine learning is inherently connected with the AI core topics andprovides methodology and technology to enhance real-world applications within many of thesetopics. Machine learning also provides a bridge between AI technology and modern softwareengineering. As Mitchell12 points out, machine learning is now considered as a technology forboth software development (especially suitable for difficult-to-program applications or forcustomizing software) and building intelligent software (i.e., a tool for AI programming).Planning algorithms and machine learning techniques are important in several areas of AI andhence their in-depth

Conference Session

Program Level Assessment

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Lawrence Feick; Larry Shuman; Katherine Thomes; Bopaya Bidanda

broadening their cross-cultural experiences. For the summer of 2004, the Kentucky students participated in theUniversity of Pittsburgh’s Manufacturing and the Global Supply Chain in the Pacific Rim as partof the Semester at Sea Program [18]. This latter program is the major focus of this paper.Amadei at Colorado has become a leader among the engineering educators now looking atsustainability issues in the less developed world [19]. He is helping to create a program inEngineering for Developing Communities that will eventually address a wide range of issues –water provision and purification, sanitation, health, power production, shelter, site planning,infrastructure, food production and distribution, communication, and jobs and capital for

Conference Session

ERM Potpourri

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Susan Etheredge; Glenn Ellis; Thomas Gralinski; Domenico Grasso; Baaba Andam

. For example, a question requiring real-world knowledge or an understanding of semantics will be more effective. ̇"Students play a version of the game described by Turing8 in which a male and a female replace the person and computer. Both try to convince the judge that they are female and the judge must try to identify the imposter. ̇"Students converse with chatterbots—programs that imitate human conversation—and try to identify their logic structure and rate their effectiveness for imitating humans.After the students worked through these activities, they devised a lesson plan and used the sameactivities to teach a class of middle school girls attending a summer program at Smith College.The education students started

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

J. Keith Clutter; Alberto Arroyo; Amir Karimi

American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering EducationAdvising Process and Enforcement of Prerequisites: Advising and enforcement of courseprerequisites ensures that the students are taking required courses in the proper sequence. TheCollege of Engineering has established a policy requiring all students to see a faculty advisorbefore registering for courses each semester5, 6. Each faculty receives a degree audit plan for thestudents assigned to him/her. The degree audit plan shows the completed courses with gradesand the list of remaining courses required for the degree. A system to check prerequisites hasbeen implemented. At the beginning of

Conference Session

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

William MacKunis; Daniel Raviv

without explicitcommunication between the team members. A robot soccer team control scheme was illustrated in12 , which used Hidden Markov Models to recognize and represent strategic behaviors of roboticagents. In 5 another robot soccer system was employed that utilized inter-robot communication.This work proposed that the use of communication among the players may improve the team’sperformance, but that an increase in the amount of transmitted data does not imply better results.While many recently developed systems incorporate behavior-based algorithms 2,19,22,24,26,28,31,33,34,35,systems involving path-planning are also popular 1,6,7,8,10,14,15,16,21,30,32. The system in 14 dealt withfinding the time-optimal path of a robot in the presence of

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Warren Phillips; Joseph Clair Batty; John Gershenson; Christine Hailey

Session 2566 A Curricular Review Process for Systematic Continuous Improvement John K. Gershenson1, Christine E. Hailey2, J. Clair Batty2, Warren F. Phillips2 1 Michigan Technological University / 2Utah State UniversityAbstractThis paper describes a novel process for curriculum planning, assessment, and improvement.The process is quantitative but allows faculty freedom to innovate. The review process issufficiently flexible that it can be applied to many engineering programs. The curricular reviewprocess is split into cycles corresponding to the various

Conference Session

Comparing National Styles of Engr. Educ.

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Thibault; Rene Hivon; Danielle L'Heureux; Noel Boutin

technical competencies. This entire process is under the responsibility of engineeringprofessors. In order for this ambitious goal to be achieved, the group of faculty put together astrategic plan based on the professional aspects of engineering practice and which calls for fiveseparate but complementary courses of action: a continuous technology watch, a researchprogram, the design of appropriate pedagogical material, the training of engineering professorsin the use of this material, the online classroom use of same material and, lastly, the publicationof results. The article ends with an analysis of the results achieved so far and an optimistic lookat the future that this novel approach allows to envisage.Key words: integrated curriculum, human

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

William M. Pottenger; Soma Roy; Shreeram A. Sahasrabudhe; Qiang Wang; Jeffrey J. Heigl; G. Drew Kessler; David R. Gevry

will run asa tool accessible from the “explore” button of the CIMEL interface and provide students withlinks to course related conference sites, search engines, and helpful hints and explanations of thetrend detection process. Additionally, the module will provide a query mechanism to access arepository of research abstracts on various main topic areas. We plan to conduct an evaluation ofthe incipient emerging trend detection inquiry-based learning module in a ProgrammingLanguages course this spring using the beta version of the CIMEL multimedia framework.Use Case Study of the Incipient Emerging Trend Detection MethodologyIn this section, we present a use case illustrating the above methodology. For this example, themain topic area is chosen

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Steven de Haas; S.K. Ramesh; Preetham Kumar; Michael Fujita; Elizabeth Raley; Andrew Lindsay

. Also all teachersreceived a textbook and a comprehensive workshop manual with additional resources and ideasfor lesson plans and curricula. Feedback from the workshop has been very positive. We plan tooffer this workshop every year to motivate teachers to develop and offer pre-engineeringcurricula at the high schools.I. IntroductionWe are living in a world that is changing rapidly due to dramatic developments in several fieldssuch as communications, energy, transportation, consumer electronics and biotechnology.Technology impacts our daily lives in a profound manner. In order to successfully meet thechallenges in the years ahead, it is very important that we encourage young students to pursuecareers in science and technology1. This is

Conference Session

Experiential Learning Programs and the Transition to Industry

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Taylor Halverson, Brigham Young University; Robert H. Todd, Brigham Young University; Christopher A. Mattson, Brigham Young University; Gregg M. Warnick, Brigham Young University

Tagged Divisions

College Industry Partnerships

for numer- ous fortune 500 companies throughout the world. He is a Certified Manufacturing Technologist (Society of Manufacturing Engineers) and is also certified in Planning and Managing Projects (BD University); Ethical Fitness (BD University); Lean Manufacturing (BD University); High Impact Facilitation (Lore International Institute); and Project Management (Saddle Island Institute). Page 22.865.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011Industry Experience and Perspective: A Survey of Advice Brigham Young University Capstone Alumni Share with Incoming

Conference Session

Build Diversity in Engineering Graduate Programs

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Allison Kang, University of Washington; Lisa A. Peterson, University of Washington; Elena Maria Hernandez, University of Washington

Tagged Divisions

Minorities in Engineering

Sciences or Science Education,and/or former ALVA students with very strong math and life science backgrounds.In response to feedback from students and observations by GenOM staff on the academicchallenges faced by incoming freshmen, the GenOM program plans to add a 7-week chemistryworkshop to ALVA. The 90-minute chemistry workshops will be offered twice a week. Thiscourse will be specifically tailored for the ALVA students, and is designed by the staff at Officeof Minority Affairs and Diversity‟s Instructional Center (IC) for those who are planning to takethe first-year general chemistry series at the university. This course is designed for students witha minimal background in chemistry. During the 7-week course, two IC instructors will focus

Conference Session

SE Capstone Design Projects, Part I

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Elisabeth W. McGrath, Stevens Institute of Technology; Susan Lowes, Institute for Learning Technologies, Teachers College/Columbia University; Chris Jurado, Stevens Institute of Technology; Alice F. Squires, Stevens Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering, Systems Engineering

StevensInstitute of Technology), these 14 institutions are piloting methods, materials, and approaches tocreate new courses or enhance existing courses to embed, infuse, and augment SE knowledge, asdefined by the Systems Planning, Research Development, and Engineering (SPRDE)-SE andProgram Systems Engineer (PSE) competency model, known as the SPRDE-SE/PSECompetency Model, among undergraduate and graduate students. Participating universityfaculty developed new course materials and other methods and strategies to recruit and providesubstantive SE learning experiences; increase exposure to authentic DoD problems, such as low-cost, low-power computing devices, expeditionary assistance kits, expeditionary housingsystems, and immersive training

Conference Session

Stops and Starts in the Development of Cooperative Education Programs

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Waddah Akili, Iowa State University

Tagged Divisions

Cooperative & Experiential Education

paper will illustrate how cooperative learningcan advance academic success, quality of relationships, psychological adjustments, and attitudestoward the college experience. What needs to be done to move the process forward? What arethe key components of successful deployment of active learning in general and cooperativelearning in particular? How to foster and expand the community of engineering faculty who usecooperative learning? What plans, efforts, and resources need to be mobilized to institutionalizepedagogies of engagement including cooperative learning at the department or college level?Next, it identifies barriers to reformation in general, and to the use of modern pedagogical skillsin particular. The paper also argues that any

Conference Session

Leadership, Design, and Entrepreneurship

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Noel E. Bormann P.E., Gonzaga University; Mara London, Gonzaga University; Spencer Joseph Fry; Andrew Douglas Matsumoto, Gonzaga University; Melanie Ruth Walter

Tagged Divisions

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

completion scheduled in 2012,combines ceramic water filters, thermal-electric power generation and bio-fuels to improve thehealth of women and children in the homes surrounding Kitale, Kenya. The project to improvehealth also incorporates an implementation plan that uses an educational “marketing” ofbeneficial technologies to early adopters as a method to provide training to new users and topromote the spread of the technologies with funds from project sales.These two projects are used as examples that allow students to present descriptions of thelearning experiences that resulted from incorporating the concepts of social entrepreneurship intothese two capstone design projects, and how the project technologies themselves are shaped bythe increased

Conference Session

Software Engineering Topics

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sushil Acharya, Robert Morris University; Walter W. Schilling Jr., Milwaukee School of Engineering

Tagged Divisions

Software Engineering Constituent Committee

both governmental and non-governmental organizations. Acharya has a M.Eng. in computer technology and a D.Eng. in computer science and information management with a concentration in knowledge dis- covery, both from the Asian Institute of Technology in Thailand. His teaching involvement and research interests are in the areas of software engineering and development (verification and validation) and enter- prise resource planning. He also has interest in learning objectives-based education material design and development. Acharya is a co-author of ”Discrete Mathematics Applications for Information Systems Professionals,” 2nd Ed., Prentice Hall. He is a life member of Nepal Engineering Association and is also a member

Conference Session

NEW THIS YEAR! - ASEE Main Plenary II: Best Paper Recognition & Industry Day Session: Corporate Member Council Speaker

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gale Tenen Spak, New Jersey Institute of Technology

Tagged Topics

ASEE Board of Directors, Corporate Members Council

media can support the IT methods associated with goodm-learning such as high retention graphics, video and animation with voiceovers; and it does thisat the same time as it maintains the ubiquity of SMS-based text-only dissemination. That is,continuing education materials can be pushed out to the cell/smart phones of PEs’ registered forcourse(s) without their intervention (e.g., no browsing for information) regardless of the phonemodel, calling plan, or wireless service provider they own.In particular, this paper will discuss the following topics: 1. Existing models of university-company collaboration so as to introduce an atypical university-company collaboration in which the partnering company is a start-up which owns a