Conference Session

Attracting Young MINDs

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Diana Muldrow; Rosa Cano; Deran Hanesian; Henry McCloud; Angelo Perna; Howard Kimmel

Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Educationpost-secondary, undergraduate engineering-related programs. PLTW trains secondaryteachers to implement one middle school and six high school year-long courses. After twoyears on implementation, the training and education institute has offered four, eight, and ten-day workshops for 147 teachers in PLTW courses, integrated curriculum modules (ICM), orweb-based courses from 80 schools representing nearly sixty districts throughout the stateduring the fall, spring and summer. In addition, 81 teachers from 80 schools haveparticipated in one day workshops.The outreach component involves the implementation of an “Engineering the FutureOutreach” program and the formation of alliances with three

Conference Session

Construction Engineering Division Technical Session 5

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sanjeev Adhikari, Kennesaw State University; Sandeep Langar, The University of Texas at San Antonio; Rachel Mosier, Oklahoma State University

3Dmodel helps students understand the construction build timeline. Scheduling can be performedthrough Navisworks and the integration of MS Project into the NavisWorks model. The Timelineis built into the BIM model, allowing students to visualize the 3D model and illustrate theconstruction sequence input. The software will enable students to analyze digital models withscheduling components at their own pace through provided, interactive, and easy-to-understand4D BIM modeling. Two groups of students (one online and another face-to-face) were surveyedabout their experiences with industry collaboration in the class.Key Words: Building Information Modeling (BIM), construction management curriculum,Scheduling, 4D BIM, construction, 3D model, Revit

Collection

2005 GSW

Authors

Tim Coppinger; Hesham Shaalan

been fully realized yet. The International Standard Organization(ISO) defines an industrial robot as an automatically controlled, reprogrammable, multipurpose,manipulative machine with several programmable axes, which may be either fixed in place ormobile for use in industrial automation applications1. Integrating robots into manufacturingsystems requires knowledge of both the manufacturing and robot systems. Furthermore, a robotsystem is more than the hardware; it includes all devices interfaced to the robot for control of thework cell.The Manufacturing Automation course is offered as part of the Electrical EngineeringTechnology curriculum2. This course covers computer integrated manufacturing systemsprimarily from a hardware and control

Conference Session

College/University Engineering Students K-12 Outreach

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Russell Faux; Meredith Knight; Brian Gravel; Christine Cunningham

of small team work; one Fellow works with 1-3teachers--the Fellow serves as a technical resource for the teacher and classroom and the teacherserves as an expert about pedagogy and classroom teaching. The Fellow helps to designengineering activities that align with science and math curriculum frameworks for all grades. TheFellow spends a majority of his/her time co-teaching each class and is therefore exposed firsthand to the challenges and intricacies of public education.Evaluation data collected throughout both Tufts GK-12 projects have suggested an apparenttrend in how the Fellows’ understanding of teaching and schools changes over the course of theirFellowship. Furthermore, many of the Fellows report improvement in their communication

Conference Session

ERM Potpourri

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mitchell Nathan, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Amy Atwood, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Amy Prevost, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Allen Phelps, University of Wisconsin, Madison

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

‘messing with the world’” (p. 11). Yet the editors of Journalof Engineering Education acknowledge there is still little known about the “engineering teachingculture.”To address this growing area of interest and importance, we set out to examine already-practicing teachers’ beliefs and expectations about engineering instruction and student learningas it occurs at the high school level, and document how these views change as teachers becomenewly trained to use an engineering education curriculum. We examined teachers’ changingbeliefs in the context of their initial experiences teaching courses from the Project Lead the Way(PLTW) program. Although some selection bias is inherent in a study of this nature (we are notcurrently at liberty to assign who

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Andrew L. Gillen, Virginia Tech; Jacob R. Grohs, Virginia Tech; Holly M. Matusovich, Virginia Tech; Gary R. Kirk, Virginia Tech; Holly Larson Lesko, Virginia Tech; Cheryl Carrico P.E., Virginia Tech

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees Poster Session

with schools over time as opposed tosingle interventions, we aspire to promote sustainability by continual integration within thetypical curriculum once the project comes to an end.In the first year of the project, we partnered with nine 6th grade science teachers across sevenschools, three companies focused on science and engineering, and every 6th grade student in thatyear, totaling over 500 students. Now in year two, we have expanded to include the 7th gradescience teachers and students. Though guided by the university team, curriculum is developed inconjunction with teachers and industry partners to create engineering-themed science lessonsaligned with Virginia Standards of Learning and the Next Generation Science Standards [7].Curriculum

Conference Session

Building Bridges with Community Colleges

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ron Darby; Jane Fraser

followingcomponents: • 59 semester hours in AIM courses, • 24 semester hours in business courses, including finance, management, accounting, and marketing, and • 37 hours in English and general education.The AIM program specifies certain courses within the CSU-Pueblo general educationframework, including • 6 credits of economics, • 3 credits of statistics, • 4 credits of physics, • 3 credits of speech communication, and • 2 credits of computer information systems.The following principles lie behind the curriculum design 1. The program should be designed to promote the integration of technical and business knowledge. 2. The technical courses should be designed to provide a management perspective. 3. The technical

Collection

1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Rudko

success in meeting theprogram objectives as well as Criteria 2000 objectives [a]-[k]. The limited set of conclusions isbased on the visit and on the exit interview which culminated it.I. IntroductionUnion College was one of the three institutions which underwent accreditation in 1997 usingABET Criteria 2000. The paper, written from the point of view of the Electrical EngineeringDepartment,describes the steps involved in the preparation for the visit, presents conclusions based on thevisit, and identifies some issues which remain imponderable after it. The preparatory activitiesincluded the determination of the program objectives, of a curriculum designed to meet theseobjectives, and the identification of measurable outcomes and of an assessment

Conference Session

Engineering Physics & Physics Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Yumin Zhang, Southeast Missouri State University; David K. Probst P.E., Southeast Missouri State University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Physics & Physics

, mathematics is the toughest, as it takesconsiderable time and effort to learn. In our school, the background of students is very diverse,and some of them even have trouble in doing simple integrals. Fortunately, technology comes tothe rescue. SAGE© is an open source symbolic computation tool, and it can be used for symbolicderivation, so every student can find the derivative, integral, and even gradient of functionseasily. In addition, it also supports programming in Python© style. With the challenge ofmathematics alleviated, more time is available to cope with the challenges of other issues, suchas new concepts and approaches. At the end of the semester, students were tested withConceptual Survey of Electricity and Magnetism, as well as surveyed on

Conference Session

First-Year Programs: Wednesday Cornucopia (Educational Research)

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kaylee A. Dunnigan, NYU Tandon School of Engineering; Jack Bringardner, NYU Tandon School of Engineering; Gunter W. Georgi, NYU Tandon School of Engineering

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

students to develop ideas into workingprototypes. The most structured projects are the predefined project choices which are projectswith set goals and tasks. In Fall 2018, 13 groups participated in free-choice OEP projects, 2groups in piloted prompt-based OEP projects, and the rest of the groups took part in predefinedprojects. The curriculum makes the students familiar with the engineering design process,computer-aided design (CAD), Arduino programming, prototyping, product development, andthe integration of teamwork and project management. This study examined the feedback from an end of the semester survey of 226 first-yearstudents to evaluate their capabilities, preparedness, and interest in the project options. Theresults show that the

Collection

Chemical Engineering Education

Authors

Dorothy Skaf

degree program. In an alumni endowment that annually provides funds for eightnot only through the engineering entrepreneurship minor, but coordinator, Professor Frank Falcone, is a full-time College of 2016, core curriculum revisions in all graduate programs were to 10 undergraduates to participate in summer research. Thealso through incorporation of experiences that promote entre- Engineering faculty member and the program is supported by instituted to provide better integration between the programs and university and college run several grant programs for sum-preneurial thinking into core and elective classes. Through a alumni endowment and industry contributions. promote

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Sharon A. Jones; Indira Nair

solutions for environmental problems, and thetechnical nature of many of these issues require that a coherent environmental literacy courseinclude the social, economic, organizational, ethical and scientific dimensions. An activeproject-based approach to teaching such a course enables students to address the many issues inenvironmental decision making. Over the last decade we have developed such a course based ona systems approach that integrates disciplines while relying on pedagogy that involves active,participatory learning. This participatory learning is achieved in large part through the use ofdecision-making exercises. We assembled this curriculum so that teachers can adapt it for theircourses. In other words, we developed a text for teachers

Conference Session

New Ideas for ChEs II (aka ChE Potpourri)

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Milo Koretsky, Oregon State University; Bill Brooks, Oregon State University

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

AC 2008-976: A WEB-BASED INTERACTIVE SCIENCE AND ENGINEERINGLEARNING TOOL THAT PROMOTES CONCEPT-BASED INSTRUCTIONMilo Koretsky, Oregon State University Milo Koretsky is an Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering at Oregon State University. He currently has research activity in areas related to thin film materials processing and engineering education. He is interested in integrating technology into effective education practices and in promoting the use of higher level cognitive skills in engineering problem solving. Dr. Koretsky is a six-time Intel Faculty Fellow and has won awards for his work in engineering education at the university and national levels.Bill Brooks, Oregon State University

Conference Session

Mechanical Engineering Division Technical Session 9

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert Scott Pierce P.E., Western Carolina University; Rungun Nathan, Pennsylvania State University, Berks Campus; William E. Howard, East Carolina University; Brian Sylcott, East Carolina University

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

of these is a prerequisite to the machine design course.At WCU, machine design is also taught as part of the Mechanical Engineering concentration forthe Bachelor of Science in Engineering. WCU uses a project-based learning curriculum in whichstudents take a multidisciplinary, project-based, design course during each of their four years.The curriculum for the Mechanical Engineering Concentration is modeled after a classicmechanical engineering curriculum but with an emphasis on engineering practice. The machinedesign course at WCU is taught concurrently with a three-hour, mechanical engineeringlaboratory course that is tightly integrated with the machine design course.At PSB, the machine design course is required for students pursuing the

Conference Session

Recruiting/Retention Lower Division

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jerry O'Connor; Dan Dimitriu

SMET students to travel together to JSC for a two-day engineering immersion experience.This opportunity includes a “behind the scenes” visit of JSC and a hands-on project highlightingvarious elements of engineering tasks. (4) Page 9.617.2Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & ExpositionCopyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Education4. Increase coordination of curriculum between Community Colleges and Four YearUniversities by obtaining articulation agreements with surrounding area institutions. In order to achieve a successful integration of Community College Engineering

Conference Session

New Electrical ET Course Development

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Glenn Blackwell

a curriculum redesign in the late 1990’s, the Purdue Electrical and ComputerEngineering Technology department incorporated into the curriculum four required projectcourses: • ECET 196, a 2 credit hour first semester freshman course that required students to build an already-designed 3-output power supply, and use basic time plan techniques to maintain control of the project work. • ECET 296, a 2 credit hour sophomore course that required the students to design and construct an audio power amplifier while closely following both performance and hardware/circuit specifications. • ECET 396, a 4 credit hour junior course that required teams of 3-4 students to design and build a project based primarily on

Conference Session

Accreditation and Continuous Quality Improvement -- What the Experts Are Saying!

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stephen Ressler, United States Military Academy

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

, optimistically, thatchanges could be formulated by 2011, approved for public comment by 2012, and approved forimplementation in the 2013-14 accreditation cycle). If a criteria change cycle of less than sixyears is demonstrably too short, then a change cycle of seventeen years is clearly too long—particularly in an era of profound and accelerating change in the world around us.Programs’ resistance to increasing content in the baccalaureate-level curriculum is well-foundedas well. Even as the engineering BOK continues to expand, many programs are facinginstitutional or governmental pressure to reduce credit-hour requirements in their baccalaureatedegree programs.17 Logically, however, ignoring the expanding BOK cannot be an acceptableanswer to this

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

S P Maj; D Veal

failure rate of less than 10%. An independent unit review of the unit found : 80% would recommend this unit; 75% found the practical sessions useful; 70% found the unit relevant to their needs and 55% think this should be a compulsory unit” 6 .The curriculum implemented at ECU is designed to integrate practical exercises (Proceduralknowledge) with a theoretical understanding (Declarative knowledge) gained throughlectures. The practical exercises are based on industry expectations as determined by theaforementioned survey. According to Cervero “Declarative knowledge is knowledge thatsomething is the case; procedural knowledge is knowledge how to do something”.7 and that:“Both declarative

Conference Session

Academic Standards & Issues/Concerns & Retention

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Tobia Steyn

Page 10.120.1 Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Educationyears of the standard four year study program (4YSP) are spread over the first three years of the5YSP.The 5YSP is fully integrated into the mainstream program in the sense that all students on the5YSP attend the same classes, have the same time-table, textbooks and lecturers and write thesame tests and exam papers as the mainstream students. This contributes to increased credibilityof the extended program and prevents stigmatising students as being 'at risk'. Faculty thus takeownership of the extended program and do not view it merely as an

Conference Session

Pre-College Engineering Education Division Resource Exchange

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Cristián Eduardo Vargas-Ordóñez P.E., Purdue University at West Lafayette (COE); Andrew James Gray, Purdue University at West Lafayette (COE); Morgan M. Hynes, Purdue University at West Lafayette (COE)

Tagged Divisions

Pre-College Engineering Education

perceptions in engineering and pre-college engineering studies with elementary school-aged children.Dr. Morgan M. Hynes, Purdue University at West Lafayette (COE) Dr. Morgan Hynes is an Assistant Professor in the School of Engineering Education at Purdue Univer- sity and Director of the FACE Lab research group at Purdue. In his research, Hynes explores the use of engineering to integrate academic subjects in K-12 classrooms. Specific research interests include design metacognition among learners of all ages; the knowledge base for teaching K-12 STEM through engi- neering; the relationships among the attitudes, beliefs, motivation, cognitive skills, and engineering skills of K-16 engineering learners; and teaching

Conference Session

Using Technology to Improve IE Education

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Jerry Davis; Paul Stanfield

21st Century; Volume I: David L. Wells, Editor, Society of Manufacturing Engineers, 1995.6. Panitz, Beth, “The Integrated Curriculum,” ASEE Prism, September 1997.7. Cherrington, B., “An Integrated Approach to Graduate Education in Manufacturing Systems--The U.T. Dallas Model”, Journal of Engineering Education, January 1993.8. Pardue, M.D., “Architecture for a Successful Computer-Integrated Manufacturing Program in a 4-year College or University”, Journal of Engineering Education, Janruary 1993.9. Lamancusa, J.S., Jorgensen,J.E., and Zayas-Castro, J.L., “The Learning Factory— A New Approach to Integrating Design and Manufacturing into the Engineering Curriculum”, Journal of Engineering Education, April 1997.10. Goldberg, D

Conference Session

Innovative Teaching/Learning Strategies

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Simoneau; Mary deManbey; Karen Wosczyna-Birch

timeframe. The COT and CBIA partnership has allowed both secondary teachers and two and fouryear higher education faculty to gain experience and develop curriculum in cutting edgetechnologies. As a result, the COT is the statewide vehicle for creating a technological workforcethat responds to workforce needs in the region.CBIA and the COT were also partners on a previous ATE curriculum development grant. Thisgrant gave CBIA the opportunity to work with dedicated teachers who understood theimportance of learning technology through industry collaborations. Continuing that partnership,CBIA took the lead position, collaborating with CCOT in proposing the ATE professionaldevelopment grant, which was awarded in 2002. This partnership was an important

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Noelle K. Comolli, Villanova University; Jacob James Elmer, Villanova University

Tagged Divisions

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

many studentsas possible by spreading them through different years and courses in the curriculum. Each modulevaried in the amount of in class vs out of class time, and no one module tried to include all of themajor concepts. Each project focused on one or two main concepts allowing the students tounderstand that specific set of skills in an example relevant to the course material. The goal wasto not make it feel as though “irrelevant” material was being “shoved into” the course, but ratheruse EM concepts to excite and engage the students. Several modules have been developed to hit the curriculum in as many places as possible,however, only a few have been implemented thus far, and are presented in detail here (indicated 1-3 in Table 1). A

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Rick Duley; S P Maj; D Veal

for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2001, American Society for Engineering EducationAvtrà Ã)ÃD@6Ã8yvhprÃÃsÃTshrà AvtrÃ!Ã)ÃD@6Ã8yvhprÃÃsÃ@tvrrvtà TshrÃ@tvrrvtÃBecause of the above factors, interpretation of the data contained in the curriculum guides had tobe purely subjective. Every attempt was made to remain consistent in the examination of eachknowledge area but because of these shortcomings the results do not lend themselves to rigorousstatistical analysts. Graphical analysis, however, produced results which the authors believe tobe valid and to give an informative picture of the current situation.4. The ResultsIt was only

Conference Session

K-12 Outreach Initiatives

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Martha Cyr; Lacey Prouty; Erik Rushton; Brian Gravel

, programimplementation will (rightfully) be challenging, if not impossible. Cooperation via an outreachfocus group, for example, with a school district at the point of initial program development andgrant proposal can be an integral part of the process. Initially, curricula must be examined andprospective areas for engineering content addition must be identified initially.Clear communication between district administrators, teachers, graduate students, and outreachproject representatives is crucial in the process of successful outreach development. Clearly,problems most often develop where the communication ties are weak or nonexistent. It shouldnever be assumed that project information will naturally disseminate to reach all partiesinvolved; direct

Conference Session

Labs and Experiential Learning

Collection

2021 Illinois-Indiana Regional Conference

Authors

Benjamin D McPheron, Anderson University; Kenneth M Parson, Thor Motor Coach; Matthew Stein, Roger Williams University

Tagged Topics

Labs and experiential learning

collect, sort, and deliver objects on a playfield. Thiscourse is an upper-level elective for ME, EE, CpE, and Computer Science students and currentlymeets for three contact hours a week. Many of the lessons learned by Stein were used in designingthe project, milestones, and pedagogical techniques in this work. Stein’s own course design workwas built on the foundation of many other studies [3]-[7].Cherng, et al. [3] provide a detailed discussion of their mechanical engineering senior electivecourse entitled Principles and Applications of Mechatronics System Design. Particular courseobjectives were to prepare ME undergraduate students in the area of integrating microcontrollers,provide the student with hands-on experiences, and to challenge

Collection

2011 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Harvey Lyons

and introductory engineering technologycourses. The entering students were exposed to a multi-dimensional course whose basic purposewas to efficiently provide not only an understanding of what is involved in the ‘design process’performed in industry but also the opportunity to employ and develop those design functions andskills at the very outset of the students’ undergraduate experience. The several components ofthe course were integrated to include:  Use of technical resources  Technical report writing and oral delivery  Research into the functions of technical societies  Comprehensive discussions of fundamental manufacturing processes followed by design projects that would employ a given process towards the redesign

Conference Session

Sustainability & Environmental Issues

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Roger Hadgraft, The University of Melbourne; Jenni Goricanec, RMIT University

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

2006, more integrated curricula havebeen developed, which bring technical and process skills together in each semester 13. This issometimes called a project-oriented or project-based curriculum, e.g. 14. Technical / Technology Process / Project Courses Courses Figure 4 - Project-oriented engineering curriculumIn first year at RMIT, students do two project courses, which develop their conceptual designskills and help them understand the engineering design process (above). These projects are anopportunity to improve skills in project management, teamwork, written communication, oralpresentation, debating, research and computing.The later year

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

James Middleton; Cheryl Gengler; Antonio Garciq; D. L. Evans; Sharon Robinson Kurpius; Peter Crouch; Dale Baker; Mary Anderson-Rowland; Chell Roberts; Stephen Krause

teachers were reminded that DET in not a curriculum add-on:DET materials and exercises are intended to be integrated into the teaching of science andmathematics; DET is NOT intended to be an “add-on” or extra topic to cover in the curriculum.Block 1 (Questions 1 through 13) was about DET experience and the impact of DET training.The teachers have had little DET experience in their preservice training and indicated on thesurvey that they would like much more such training. Page 8.378.7Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright7 © 2003, American

Conference Session

Collaborations Between Engineering/Education

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Rickie Miller; Elisa Barney Smith

students, andis very time consuming for the engineering faculty. These activities also usually have arelatively short duration compared to the other educational activities, and are often viewed by thereceiving students as a break from the “reality” of school rather than an integral part of it. Theother weakness is that all too often these outreach activities reach the students in high schoolwhen the students have generally decided that they have an interest in math/science/engineering,or as all too commonly occurs, that they do not have such an interest.The goal of those involved in this melding of Engineering and Education is to reach more K-12students for longer periods of time and at earlier ages than most outreach activities