Conference Session

Assessment and Impact

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lisa D. McNair, Virginia Tech; Kahyun Kim, Virginia Tech; Jason Forsyth, Virginia Tech; Ed Dorsa, Virginia Tech; Thomas Martin, Virginia Tech; Eloise Coupey, Virginia Tech

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

AC 2012-5469: INTERDISCIPLINARY PEDAGOGY FOR PERVASIVE COM-PUTING DESIGN PROCESSES: AN EVALUATIVE ANALYSISDr. Lisa D. McNair, Virginia Tech Lisa McNair is an Associate Professor in the Department of Engineering Education at Virginia Tech where she serves as Assistant Department Head for Graduate Education and co-directs the Virginia Tech Engi- neering Communication Center. Her research includes interdisciplinary collaboration, communication studies, identity theory, and reflective practice. Projects supported by the National Science Foundation include: interdisciplinary pedagogy for pervasive computing design, writing across the curriculum in stat- ics courses, and a CAREER award to explore the use of e-portfolios

Conference Session

Student Engagement in ECE

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Eric Freudenthal, University of Texas, El Paso; Rebeca Gonzalez, Chapin High School; Sarah Hug, University of Colorado; Alexandria Ogrey, University of Texas, El Paso; Mary Kay Roy, University of Texas, El Paso; Alan Siegel, NYU

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

curriculumrepresenting a discipline‟s activities. Activities and projects of introductory computing curriculum designedto attract students generally focus on the dramatic outcomes of tasks whose programming challenges arefrequently more clerical than analytical. Consider the voluminous specification required to generate thedetailed choreography of a robotic dance (without regards for physics). While the graphical outcomes ofthese projects are impressive, and the specification of these moves may provide may provide useful practiceof coding skills, we have concern that the technical tasks have little similarity with analytically intenseacademic coursework typical of computer science and other STEM disciplines. We have encounteredstudents who enjoy analytical work

Conference Session

Industry Collaborations in Engineering Technology

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kevin Cook, Montana State University; Salman Adam, Montana State University; Darla Goeres, Montana State University; Steven Anderson, Montana State University; Diane Walker, Montana State University; Alfred Cunningham, Montana State University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

Laboratory (SBML) at the CBE. Ms. Walker holds B.S. degrees in both Biology and Bio-Resources Engineering and an M.S. degree in Environmental Engineering, all from Montana State University. In addition, Diane oversees and conducts testing projects for industry and provides quality assurance for a federally-funded contract held by the SBML.Alfred Cunningham, Montana State University Dr. Cunningham is a Professor of Civil Engineering at Montana State University. He is a founding member of the Center for Biofilm Engineering (CBE) and coordinates CBE’s industrial research and education programs as part of the Center’s 23 member Industrial Associates Program. Integration of graduate and undergraduate

Conference Session

STEM and ECE

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kundan Nepal, University of St. Thomas; Andrew Tubesing, University of St. Thomas

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

includes the following topics: electronics, machine design,manufacturing engineering, computer programming, thermodynamics, statics, fluids andmechanics of materials. The class includes hands-on activities, links to academic standards(including Next Generation Science Standards) and discussion of the current/historicalimportance of the topics.Core 2: Engineering Design: The focus of this class is on the engineering design process for P-12 educators. Design projects, hands-on computer labs, lectures and field trips will introducestudents to how the engineering design process is applied in a variety of fields. Students willlearn how to create engineering drawings, apply an engineering design process, use computer-aided-design (CAD) technology, and

Conference Session

Program Level Assessment

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Linda Strauss; Patrick Terenzini

Criterion 3.a-k. In2002, ABET commissioned the Center for the Study of Higher Education (CSHE) at Penn StateUniversity to undertake this assessment. The study, entitled “Engineering Change: A Study ofthe Impact of EC2000,” is a national study of the impact of the new outcomes criteria andassociated curricular and programmatic changes on learning among undergraduate engineeringstudents. As part of that effort, the CSHE project group developed a measure of studentperformance in each of EC2000’s 11 student learning criteria. This paper describes thedevelopment process and the psychometric characteristics of that instrument. Additionally, thecurrent work is intended to provide the engineering education community with apsychometrically sound

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering Courses II

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Katie Sullivan

potential and need to improve engineering training andeducation regarding team soft skills such as team dynamics and communication are widelyrecognized.4 Teamwork is an essential, but not widely emphasized concept in the engineeringdiscipline.4 Wu and Chang found that teamwork in the classroom resulted in increasedproblem-solving abilities and the development of teamwork strategies necessary forsuccess in the engineering profession.5 Students in this class will each be a member of oneof six teams. Each team consists of one chemical engineering student, one college studentfrom a different discipline and two high school students. The teams are each meant to takeone portion of the project and work together to solve a specific problem. Each

Conference Session

Innovative & Computer-Assisted Lab Study

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Hur Koser; Dennis Freeman; Alexander Aranyosi; Aleem Siddiqui

Session 1426 A Microfluidics Laboratory Teaching Module A. J. Aranyosi *,+, Aleem Siddiqui*, Hür Köser#, Dennis M. Freeman *,+ *Massachusetts Institute of Technology / #Yale University / +Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and TechnologyAbstractWe have developed a teaching module to engage undergraduate engineering students in anintroductory research project. Pairs of students proposed and carried out self-designed projectsto study diffusion in microfluidic

Conference Session

BME Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Daniel Walsh

mission is to educate our students for careers of service, leadership anddistinction in biomedical engineering or other fields by using a participatory, learn by doing,“hands-on” laboratory, project and design centered approach.The program will accomplish this goal by building on the historic strengths of the college at thebachelors level and the individual strengths of participating faculty. The application ofengineering to medicine and biology underpins a strong and growing segment of the industrialsector, is the basis for a number of federal conversion efforts and continues to be an area ofinherent interest to students. The need for well educated professionals in this interdisciplinaryarea has become more acute as the technology being applied

Conference Session

Instructional Technology

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephen Marionneaux; Michael Edmondson; Matthew McDaniel; Jay Daly; Eugene Ressler; Stephen Ressler

here.GoalThe principal goal of this project is to increase awareness of and interest in engineering among alarge, diverse population of middle-school and high-school students. In bringing engineering toa broad audience, we seek to overcome students’ common misperception that engineering is anendeavor for the “technically elite.”We suggest that this goal can be achieved by creating an authentic, engaging engineering designexperience; by offering the experience as a competition that will capture and hold students’attention; and by ensuring that the design experience is readily achievable by any student in thetarget population, while still presenting a challenge to those who are already technologicallyinclined.The Influence of Other Engineering

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Bijan Sepahpour

the ModelLaboratory. Their understanding of group dynamics and appreciation for cost-effective andsuperior designs has been enhanced.Partial support of NSF, which started in January of 2002 has increased the momentum of theefforts that have started since 1998 for creation of the State of the Art Laboratory. Successfulimplementation of this project has resulted in several measurable outcomes as:1. Generation of comprehensive blueprints for fabrication of apparatuses necessary for precision experimentation in the areas of Mechanics of Materials and Dynamics of Machinery.2. Creation of detailed laboratory manuals-ready for distribution to students.3. A well thought out and comprehensive plan for putting together an affordable model

Conference Session

Engineering Economy Frontiers

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Phillip Rosenkrantz

proposals werepart of a campus research project to work collaboratively and explore how on-line teaching andlearning could be used and whether there could be measurable benefit to the campus community.Results were documented and presented to the campus community.Part 2 - On-line Teaching Options, Strategies, and ConsiderationsThere are many new books and articles that talk about on-line teaching and learning in higher Page 8.820.1education. One very excellent article talks about the usage of web technology as a “Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Narayanan Komerath

such a project soundsambitious for the freshman year, there are several reasons why it has become a successfulexperiment, with implications for the rest of the curriculum. Past ASEE papers described thebasic concept of the Design-Centered Introduction course1 and summarized teaching approachestaken by three different instructors in subsequent versions of the course2. In this paper, theconcept of the Design-centered Introduction (DCI) is first summarized. The issues of learning byiteration are then examined. The two ideas are then related to each other. Page 6.333.1Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering II

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Raghu Echempati, Kettering University

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

-ended projectsand a discussion of the five (5) principles of innovation. A math professor was also invited toteach a topic on the applications of calculus and statistics in the design and selection of rollingcontact bearings. For each mini-project and the final project, the students are asked to write abrief review of NABC analysis. (Need, Approach, Benefits and Competition). The overallappreciation for inclusion of innovation and entrepreneurship topics and the NABC analysisseem to be encouraging.IntroductionWhile many universities are considering, developing and/or implementing a separate curriculumin entrepreneurship and innovation, however, little seems to be done to realize that these topicsare highly interdisciplinary across many areas

Conference Session

Innovations in Teaching Transportation and Geotechnical Engineering

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Yusuf A. Mehta, Rowan University; Leslie Ann McCarthy P.E., Villanova University

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

solutions. The exams were an individual effort; thus, giving the Instructor anopportunity to gauge each individual student’s level of understanding and competency with thepavement design concepts and MEPDG software. Because of the smaller class size, the graduate course was structured more of a project-centric course and included very few traditional problem-based homework assignments. Amajority of the homework assignments required the MEPDG software for generating solutionsand were to be completed individually. There were two exams which were take-home, open-note format and individually completed. Because the graduate students are challenged to a morerigorous level, the MEPDG software was required to solve 50 percent of the problems in

Conference Session

Standards and K-12 Engineering

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jing Wang, Purdue University; Melissa Dyehouse, Purdue University; Nicole R. Weber, Lesley University; Johannes Strobel, Purdue University, West Lafayette

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

c American Society for Engineering Education, 2012 Conceptualizing Authenticity in Engineering Education: A Systematic Literature ReviewAbstractThe term authenticity is pervasive in the education literature in general and specifically in theengineering education literature; yet, the construct is often used un-reflected and ill defined. Thepurpose of this paper is (1) to critically examine current conceptualizations of authenticity asprinciples to design curricula and learning modules within engineering education and (2) thedevelopment of a systematically derived model of authenticity. The context of the project istowards pre-college engineering education yet findings are applicable across the lifespan

Conference Session

Focus on Elementary

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Elizabeth A. Parry, North Carolina State University; Emily George Hardee, Brentwood Magnet Elementary School of Engineering; Lizette D. Day, Rachel Freeman School of Engineering

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

AC 2012-4900: DEVELOPING ELEMENTARY ENGINEERING SCHOOLS:FROM PLANNING TO PRACTICE AND RESULTSElizabeth A. Parry, North Carolina State University Elizabeth Parry is an engineer and consultant in K-12 STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math- ematics) Curriculum and Professional Development and the Coordinator of K-20 STEM Partnership De- velopment at the College of Engineering at North Carolina State University. For the past 15 years, she has worked extensively with students from kindergarten to graduate school, parents, and pre-service and in-service teachers to both educate and excite them about engineering. As the Co-PI and Project Director of a National Science Foundation GK-12 grant, Parry developed a

Conference Session

Reflections on the “Raise the Bar” Initiative (Part I) - Using a Decade of Experience to Chart the Future

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Monte L. Phillips P.E., American Society of Civil Engineers; Forrest M. Holly Jr. P.E., University of Iowa

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

perspectivesOutcome 12 Risk and Uncertainty Outcome 21 TeamworkOutcome 13 Project Management Outcome 22 Professional Values and AttitudesOutcome 15 Technical Specialization Outcome 23 Lifelong LearningOutcome 16 Communication Outcome 24 Professional and Ethical ResponsibilityOutcome 17 Public Policy Table 1: Experiential Outcomes Page 25.1331.6The EI is expected to attain the outcomes through

Collection

1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Linda Parker; Lawrence Burton

Session 2242 Intersections of Engineering and Management: What Do the Data Show? Lawrence Burton, Linda Parker National Science Foundation The opinions and findings in this paper are solely those of the authors and not necessarily those of the National Science Foundation. The National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Engineering Workforce Project is a set ofstudies to identify, examine, and describe important dynamics of the portion of the

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David M. Krum, California State University, Los Angeles; Zoe Wood, California Polytechnic State University; Eun-young Kang, California State University, Los Angeles; Ayaan M. Kazerouni, California Polytechnic State University; Jane L. Lehr, California Polytechnic State University; Sarah Hug, Colorado Evaluation and Research Consulting; Paul Salvador Bernedo Inventado, California State University, Fullerton; Fang Tang; Ilmi Yoon; Anagha Kulkarni, San Francisco State University; Yu Sun, California State Polytechnic University; Mohsen Beheshti; Aakash Gautam, University of Pittsburgh; Aleata Hubbard Cheuoua; Sahar Hooshmand; Kevin A Wortman, California State University, Fullerton

Tagged Topics

Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

, Professor Zoe Wood’s projects unite visual arts, mathematics and computer science.Prof. Eun-young Kang, California State University, Los Angeles Professor Computer Science California State University, Los AngelesDr. Ayaan M. Kazerouni, California Polytechnic State UniversityDr. Jane L. Lehr, California Polytechnic State University Jane Lehr is a Professor in Ethnic Studies and Women’s and Gender Studies and Director of the Office of Student Research at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo. She is affiliated faculty in Computer Science & Software Engineering andDr. Sarah Hug, Colorado Evaluation and Research Consulting Dr. Sarah Hug is director of the Colorado Evaluation & Research Consulting. Dr

Conference Session

Engineering Libraries Division (ELD) Technical Session 5

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ryan Ball, University of Waterloo; Rachel Figueiredo, University of Waterloo; Kate Mercer, University of Waterloo

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Libraries Division (ELD)

include a semester-long co-curricular program, the strategic inclusion oflibrary services into wellness programming, and an interactive multi-part stakeholder workshop.The focus of the collaborations included experiential learning, project-based learning, andwellness, and all collaborations involved librarians joining with external groups and stakeholdersto broaden impact. In each of the three cases, the initial ask was not for information literacy (IL)instruction – or even for librarian support – but by identifying a point-of-need and havingconversations with campus colleagues, librarians have made themselves a fundamental part ofinteresting partnerships. These experiences demonstrated how librarians are ideal collaborators,and partnerships are

Conference Session

Core Concepts, Standards, and Policy in K-12 Engineering Education

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mike Ryan, Georgia Institute of Technology; Brian D. Gane, Georgia Institute of Technology; Marion Usselman, Georgia Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

Association for theAdvancement of Science, the National Science Teachers Association, and Achieve Inc. isleading a project to develop a ―Conceptual Framework to Guide the Development of NextGeneration Standards for K-12 Science Education‖4. The draft Framework for New ScienceEducation Standards, circulated in July, 2010, supports the increased use of inquiry andproblem/project-based learning (PBL) as a means to improve science learning, and for the firsttime presents engineering disciplinary ideas and practices as integral to science learning andliteracy. It leaves unresolved the question of how to incorporate engineering standards or coreengineering concepts into a science curriculum that is already overly packed with existingscience skills and

Conference Session

Innovations in Civil Engineering Education I

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Angela Bielefeldt, University of Colorado, Boulder

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

Engineering Students to SustainabilityAbstractAs articulated in the Body of Knowledge for Civil Engineering, all civil engineering studentsshould be introduced to the concept of sustainability. The objective of this project was tointegrate sustainability concepts into the 1-credit Introduction to Civil Engineering course thatfirst year students are required to take at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Student attitudesabout sustainability were evaluated using a written survey and in class questions to whichstudents responded using a Course Response System (clickers). Evidence of student learning onsustainability was acquired via student performance on a homework assignment worth 12% oftheir overall course grade

Conference Session

Innovations in Nuclear Education I

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

William Rezak

1970s had no reason to anticipate a change inthe 7% annual growth rate for electricity demand, it was ordering new capacity to meet theexpected demand. Utilities were projecting that the lead time between ordering and commercialoperation of a nuclear power plant was eight years. These two parameters led utilities to orderand plan for construction of approximately 200 new nuclear power plants by the year 2000. Circumstances changed radically in 1973. The decision by the Organization of PetroleumExporting Countries (OPEC) to decrease oil production and raise prices, coupled with the Araboil embargo on the United States, drastically affected the price and utilization rate of energyworldwide, and, hence, impacted the world economy. Specifically

Conference Session

Accreditation and Related Issues in ECE

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Satinderpaul Devgan

multi- cultural student body of multiracial, multi-ethnic, 4. Commitment to overall 5. Projects to students to

Conference Session

Outreach and Recruitment

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Abhijit Nagchaudhuri

course activities provided hands-on, project-based,experiences to enhance and integrate understanding of physics, mathematics, andengineering fundamentals and in doing so, encouraged participating in-service teachers tore-examine their own teaching.Course participants were expected to: • Reinforce understanding of essential mathematics content; • Improve appreciation of Newton’s Laws of Motion and applications in engineering mechanics. • Develop skills and insights to use computer aided engineering tools and spreadsheet programs to analyze and design simple physical systems. • Enhance ability to develop hands-on, experiential learning projects that promote integrated learning of mathematics, science and engineering

Conference Session

Teaching Strategies in Graphics

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

David Forsman

industry as well.This paper will describe the scope and layout of this class, student projects, and the equipmentused, associated costs of running a laboratory and lessons learned as well as the impact on otherfaculty, departments and local industry.Course OverviewMETBD 410 (Rapid Prototyping, a technical elective) has the following Goals/Objectives:1. Understand the advantages and disadvantages of different additive processes currently on the market.2. Reverse engineer a product by digitizing geometry, importing the data into Pro/ENGINEER and creating a solid model from surfaces.3. Build the model (Objective 2) on the Z-402 3-D printer and re-digitize the prototype using a non-contact scanner to verify the geometry

Collection

2024 ASEE North East Section

Authors

Asif Ahmed, State University of New York, Polytechnic Institute; Ram Mohan Gubbala, State University of New York, Polytechnic Institute

. Formative assessment is done during the class to improve their students’ performancewhile the summative assessment usually is conducted at the end of the semester or course. Therehas been debate whether summative assessments are contributing to enhance the studentslearning or not as a final project or final exams are the forms of this assessment technique [1].The result of this assessment is not capable of doing any immediate improvement but can beused in the subsequent courses for the faculties to enhance their efforts. As such, formativeassessment is more appropriate to gauge the students’ learning during the course. It can behelpful for the students as they get immediate feedback and for the teachers as they get an insightabout the topic which

Conference Session

Thermodynamics, Fluids and Heat Transfer II

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Thomas Shepard, University of St. Thomas

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

professional teacher. Due to the abstract and mathematical nature of fluidmechanics it was imperative that the information delivered by the team be accurate and that itseem credible.The activity had participation from 70 students in three sections of an introductory fluidmechanics course. Small teams of students were assigned to lead a class-wide review of achapter prior to an exam. Student performance on the exams was analyzed to determine how theact of leading a review affected a student’s score on questions covering material from differentchapters. Details of the peer-led review assignment, student feedback from the experience,lessons learned and project results are discussed.Peer-Led Review ActivityStudents were made aware of this assignment on

Conference Session

Design Methodology and Evaluation 1

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Vimal Kumar Viswanathan, Georgia Institute of Technology; Julie S Linsey, Georgia Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

) providingsuitable warnings to novice designers can help them in avoiding design fixation. Thesehypotheses are tested using a quasi-experiment conducted during a freshmen class project.Students complete their projects in three different experimental groups. One group receives afixating example with an undesirable feature. The feature negatively influences the functionalityof the design. The second group receives the same fixating example with warnings about theundesirable feature. The third group completes the project without the help of an example(control). Students are instructed to build and test their designs. The designs are photographedbefore and after testing. The occurrence of the flawed example feature in each design is studied.The results show

Conference Session

Community Engagement and Humanitarian Engineering: Creating Inclusive Engineers

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Patrick John Sours, The Ohio State University; xinquan Jiang, The Ohio State University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Community Engagement Division (COMMENG)

provide learning opportunities that aim to developsuch capacities in students [4]. These programs have a range of foci and use a variety of differentterms to name their fields of study, including ‘Humanitarian Engineering,’ ‘Global Engineering,’‘Engineering for Good’, and ‘Engineering for Sustainable Development’ [5]. A significant aimof these programs is the development of global sociotechnical competency, conceptualized tohighlight that the social and technical aspects of an engineering project cannot be separated andmust be considered as such [6]. As a wide range of perspectives are required to address thecomplexities of wicked problems [7], engineers with global sociotechnical competency arepoised to make critical contributions to global