Conference Session

Computer Science

Collection

ASEE Southeast Section Conference

Authors

Xiang Zhao, Alabama A&M University; Showkat Chowdhury, Alabama A&M University; Tamara Chowdhury, Alabama A&M University

Tagged Topics

Professional Engineering Education Papers

STEM gateway course design strategies, which integrate the evidence-based pedagogies, the student engagement, interaction, collaboration, and assessment, arepresented. The findings of this study will inform instructors and administrators on how to designeffective and engaging online STEM courses at HBCUs. © American Society for Engineering Education, 2023Related WorkEvidence-Based PedagogiesTeaching is an art of encouraging students to become active learners and awakening theirenthusiasm to explore and absorb new knowledge and skills. On the other hand, learning is adynamic process in which both the teacher and students should actively participate, exchangeviews, and ask/answer questions in an engaging atmosphere [7

Conference Session

New Methods and Tools

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Andrew Gerhart, Lawrence Technological University; Donald Carpenter, Lawrence Technological University; Melissa Grunow, Lawrence Technological University; Katie Hayes, Lawrence Technological University

Tagged Divisions

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

actively involved in ASEE, is a Kern Fellow for Entrepreneurial Education, and serves as Director of the Center for Teaching and Learning at LTU. His research interests involve academic integrity, assessment tools, and stream restoration.Melissa Grunow, Lawrence Technological University Melissa Grunow is the Coordinator for the Leadership Curriculum at Lawrence Technological University and is an instructor in the Department of Humanities. She has eleven years of experience working with student organizations and teaching undergraduates, including identifying needs and developing new initiatives and curricular and co-curricular programs. Her research interests include activist pedagogies and

Conference Session

MECH - Technical Session 8: Sustainability and Interdisciplinary Learning

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Deepika Ganesh, University of Michigan; Carissa Yim, University of Michigan

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering Division (MECH)

. Can authoring an open source, case-based assignment (instead of a traditional term paper) capture self identity and lived experiences, create a stronger sense of agency in learners, and increase “stickiness” of the knowledge? 2. Can working collaboratively with other learners personalize the knowledge absorption process and build team based skills? 3. Does access to open educational resources facilitate integration of sustainability or social justice concepts into the engineering curriculum?This research discovered that student motivation is significantly improved through projects that extendbeyond the academic environment, particularly those that align with their interests in sustainability goals.Moreover

Conference Session

Mathematics Division (MATH) Technical Session 3

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Carl Boyet, Louisiana Tech University; Jonathan Walters, Louisiana Tech University; Christian Smith, Louisiana Tech University

Tagged Divisions

Mathematics Division (MATH)

the fall. It wasalso seen as redundant to give feedback on both homework problems and weekly examquestions. Thus, the decision was to not implement any scored feedback to thehomework. Furthermore, homework notebooks in the winter and spring term were produced bythe department and/or the instructors. This was not considered scalable to the fall term whereapproximately 500 students were expected to enroll in precalculus. Talks with an independentpublisher were established for students to be able to purchase homework notebooks through theon-campus bookstore.AnalysisDifferent curriculum and testing structures between the pilot and non-pilot sections ofPrecalculus made a direct comparison of student performance in the two impossible. Instead

Conference Session

Multi-disciplinary Design

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Juan Lucena; Gary Downey

by engineering foundations or theschools themselves. While efforts in the first movement focused on new administrativeprograms for recruitment and retention, efforts in the second focused on curriculum. In addition,while the coalitions were underway, they became subject to an emerging interest in instructionaltechnologies that was sweeping the academy more generally. [11] A rough idea of theseemphases can be gained from the publications of coalition members. A cursory review of 554publicationsi listed at the websites of the ECSEL, SUCCEED, Foundation, and GatewayCoalitions indicates that over half, or 284, reported innovations in design education.Ethnographic MappingIn both this article and the larger project, we are attempting to examine

Conference Session

Architectural Engineering Division (ARCHE) Technical Session 1

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rachel Mosier, Oklahoma State University; Rania Al-Hammoud, MpowerU Training & Consultancy Inc.

Tagged Divisions

Architectural Engineering Division (ARCHE)

for accreditation as an architectural engineering program.Students must be design-capable in one area, application able in a second area and comprehendthe last two curriculum areas. In addition to having a curriculum to support all four areas, ABETaccredited architectural engineering program graduates should be able to “discuss… architecturaldesign and history” [7].Table 1: Summary of Accredited Programs Bach. Architectural Engineering programs; Degree Required # Required Degree Canada (CEAB), International (ABET), Options or of Co-op or # of Duration in USA (ABET

Conference Session

Pedagogy and Its Impact on Faculty and Students

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Hiro Iino, Iowa State University; Pinar Melek Celik, Iowa State University; Bryan Alan Lutz, Iowa State University

Tagged Divisions

Continuing Professional Development

Journalism & Mass Communications, a B.S. in Psychology, and an M.S. in Human Computer Interaction from Iowa State University.Ms. Pinar Melek Celik, Iowa State University Pinar M. Celik is a PhD candidate at School of Education at Iowa State University with a concentration in Curriculum and Instructional Technology. Pinar also serves as Learning Experience (LX) Designer to ISU faculty. Pinar’s research interests include integrating instructional technologies into traditional-, asynchronous online-, and blended-learning environments.Mr. Bryan Alan Lutz, Iowa State University Bryan Lutz is a PhD candidate in Rhetoric and Professional Communication and a course designer for Engineering Learning Online at Iowa State

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Courses and Issues

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jean-Pierre Delplanque; Marcelo Simoes; Joan Gosink; Catherine Skokan

a particularly strong position toundertake major curricular and pedagogical reform.In support of reform activities, the National Science Foundation (NSF) initiated a newprogram, Department-Level Reform of Undergraduate Engineering Education in 2002. Thisprogram called for innovative strategies to effect reform, including streamlining thecurriculum through the reduction of legacy materials, introducing topics in emerging areas ofengineering, and forming integrated partnerships that cross disciplines and focus ontechnological systems. CSM engineering faculty interested in curriculum reform developed aproposal to this solicitation; the proposal was funded in fall 2002. This paper describes aspecific objective of the project, namely the

Conference Session

Creating a Positive Environment for Learning

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stephen J. Phillips, University of Waterloo; Kayleanna Giesinger, University of Waterloo; Rania Al-Hammoud P.Eng., University of Waterloo; Scott Walbridge P.E.; Chris Carroll, Saint Louis University

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

did not have the opportunity to participate in the CivE Daysevent. It was found that student grades and performance improved, indicating a betterunderstanding of the bridge design project and how the information from the different coursesare integrated.IntroductionDiversification of teaching methods is vital for an inclusive and deeper learningenvironment. Instructors are constantly working towards improving student learning and stepshave already been taken to do this in the civil engineering curriculum. Two years ago, changeswere made to incorporate a horizontally integrated bridge design project in the second-year civilprogram. This bridge project requires students to design, build, and test a bridge, using conceptsfrom their core courses

Conference Session

Electrical and Computer Engineering Poster

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Marilyn Amey; James S. Fairweather; P. David Fisher

practice of engineering.· It stimulates the improvement of engineering education.· It encourages new and innovative approaches to engineering education and its assessment.· It identifies accredited programs to the public.For purposes of accreditation review, ABET defines an academic program in the context of threeintegrated components—objectives, outcomes and curriculum. The new Criteria for Accrediting Page 7.451.1Engineering Programs—a.k.a., EC2000—encourages institutions and programs to Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright Ó 2002

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Mark Plichta; Mary Raber

develop and implement an assessment plan that is strongly dependent on 'elective'courses, which may vary so dramatically from one student to another. As will be seen shortly, theentire Enterprise curriculum can be accommodated into any of the engineering (and non-engi-neering) degree programs through the appropriate use of the University General Education pro-gram, the major design requirement, and some of the technical, approved or free elective credits.It is also worth noting here that another curricular boundary condition has facilitated the imple-mentation of the Enterprise Program, namely the Common First-Year Engineering programrecently adopted by the College. All engineering students participate in the same curriculum dur-ing the first

Conference Session

IE and EM Program Mangement

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ahmad Sarfaraz, California State University-Northridge; Tarek Shraibati, California State University-Northridge

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Management

utilize and apply some of the knowledge and skills gainedthroughout the Master of Science in Engineering Management degree program. Implementingthese case studies ensure the program integrates the curriculum with real-world application.MSE 697, Directed Comprehensive Studies, is the culminating experience that has been selectedand approved by the university for the Master of Science in Engineering Management. Thespecific requirements have evolved over several years, reflecting in part suggestions provided byprogram alumni. The culminating experience course or directed comprehensive course may notbe undertaken until the last semester of program enrollment. The student’s committee chairmanis involved with the student on a regular basis and is in a

Conference Session

Curricular Change Issues

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Elizabeth Godfrey

sense of depth andinterconnected layers within the outermost, observable level of culture and secondly, the dynamicrelationships between the levels of culture. An artefact such as a building, for example, gainedcultural significance from the practices, behaviors and shared understandings which haddeveloped around its use. Teaching practices in the form of curriculum and content, provided onwebsites and handbooks, may have been considered as physical artefacts but for the purposes ofthis analysis were considered as practices which were closely tied to the understandings andmeanings attributed to them by the members of the culture. Consequently Schein’s model ofculture analysis was amended to more clearly illustrate those understandings and the

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Jeffrey L. Newcomer

-dress specific desired student learning outcomes.IntroductionEC2000 and proposed new TAC/ABET criteria have provided an impetus to provide a more co-herent assessment of programs and the achievement of student learning outcomes.1,2 While theassessment of student learning outcomes is challenging, it is extremely useful for educators toget a fresh look at the skills their graduates possess. Once assessment is underway, it is not un-common to discover that graduates’ skills in certain areas are not as strong as initially thought.One approach to address shortcomings in student learning outcomes is to utilize design projectsand other realistic, open-ended problems. Carefully planned and integrated design projects canbe used to both enhance and

Conference Session

Research Projects, Course Development, and Industry Issues

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Wolter J. Fabrycky PE P.E., Virginia Tech and Academic Applications International

Tagged Divisions

Systems Engineering

. An emerging opportunity for focus on quality - Currently under collaborative development is an initiative entitled GRCSE (Graduate Reference Curriculum for Systems Engineering) that provides a unique opportunity for focusing on program quality.7. Status and maturity assessments - The role of academic program certification in advancing the stature and maturity of SE should be considered in light of private and public sector requirements for the 21st century.2The seven topics above serve to introduce and give a rationale for each major section of thispaper. Their aim is to justify examination of the question of SE degree program certification andto showcase the degree to which a cooperative effort among the engineering

Conference Session

Sustainability and Environmental Issues

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Belle Wei, San Jose State University; Patricia Backer, San Jose State University

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

courses in Environmental Engineering; and technologycourses in Green Manufacturing. We also offer an interdisciplinary curriculum path, a greenengineering minor degree.2.1 Green Engineering Minor DegreeOver the past decade, several green and sustainable engineering programs have been established Page 14.1277.3in the United States. These include the University of Texas at El Paso4 5, Rowan University6 7,Carnegie Mellon University8, Virginia Tech9, and Rochester Institute of Technology10. In ourcurriculum development at SJSU, we reviewed these programs and adapted portions of them forour own new multidisciplinary green engineering minor program

Conference Session

Recruiting, Retention & Advising

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Pierre Larochelle

Tech was initiated. The purpose of this overhaul was to develop an experiencethat would serve to: (1) prepare students for the ME curriculum, (2) motivate students tocomplete their studies, (3) provide students with academic success skills, and (4)introduce students to the engineering profession. The format chosen to realize this goal isa yearlong sequence of two courses that freshmen take entitled Introduction toMechanical Engineering I (MAE1022 Fall, 2 credits) and II (MAE1023 Spring, 1 credit).This sequence is a project-motivated experience inspired by traditional capstone designcourses. In the fall students are taught basic academic success skills such as timemanagement, study skills, working in study groups, self-motivation, and goal

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Randy Michael Russell, UCAR Center for Science Education; John Daniel Ristvey Jr., UCAR

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees Poster Session

ready for an aerial survey ofthe disaster area in order to gain as much information as possible to plan a potential rescue/aidresponse for a town named ‘Disasterville.’Disasterville: Aerial survey of a disaster areaOur UAV curriculum includes a capstone challenge titled “Aerial Survey of a Disaster Area”. Tocomplete the challenge, students must conduct an aerial survey, using their UAVs with theircameras, of a model town that has been damaged by a natural disaster. The model town, dubbed“Disasterville”, includes buildings made of blocks, toy cars, and figurines of people. Studentscannot directly see the town; Disasterville is hidden from them by an intervening “mountainrange” (a plastic tarp over some chairs). Students must fly their UAV over

Conference Session

Electrical and Computer Engineering Division Poster Session

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Chao Wang, Arizona State University

in the future.The rest of the paper is organized as follows. First, existing work on IoT and machine learningeducational efforts are briefly reviewed in the background section, along with the MATLABprerequisite. The MATLAB module on deep learning and IoT is described in detail next,followed by assessment and results. The paper ends with conclusion and future work.BackgroundExisting WorkInternet of Things education has been incorporated in undergraduate engineering curriculum atmodule [3], course [4-6] and program levels [7, 8]. Specifically, for first year engineeringstudents, an IoT lab module [3] is developed in a first year introductory C++ programmingcourse. In [9], a project-based approach is adopted to teach programming and IoT concept

Collection

1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard R. Schultz

students should be exposedto DSP in an introductory electrical engineering course before they are exposed to analog circuit theory,since “computers are prevalent and easy to work with.” Inspired by this highly logical, yet seeminglyrevolutionary idea, the course Computer Aided Measurement and Control at the University of NorthDakota has been revised to incorporate a modified version of “DSP First5.” Computer Aided Measurement and Control is a required sophomore-level electrical engineering(EE) course, introduced originally as an avenue for teaching undergraduate students the C programminglanguage and instrumentation applications using a data acquisition card. The decision to place the coursewithin the sophomore year of the curriculum was

Conference Session

Educational Research

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Milo Koretsky, Oregon State University; Christine Kelly, Oregon State University; Philip Harding, Oregon State University; Edith Gummer, Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

AC 2009-1286: COMPARISON OF STUDENT PERCEPTIONS OF VIRTUAL ANDPHYSICAL LABORATORIESMilo 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 educational 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.Christine Kelly, Oregon State University Christine Kelly

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Chiang Shih

methodically introducemany fundamental skills, which are sometimes difficult to present in a conventional classroomsetting, into the curriculum. For example, we use frame-by-frame digital images to dissect themotions of various rigid bodies. Traditional vector and Calculus analysis can be exemplified byrelating numerical solutions to the analytical theory; statistical concepts can be applied to theestimation of the averaged landing position of a projectile fired from a launcher. Other practicesinclude: the determination of instantaneous velocity and acceleration vectors using numericaldifferentiation, numerically integrating the impulsive force data to understand the momentumexchange between two colliding bodies, etc. We believe that these seemingly

Conference Session

Outreach Along the K-12 Pathways to Engineering

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kelly B Crittenden, Louisiana Tech University; Heath Tims, Louisiana Tech University; David E. Hall, Louisiana Tech University

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

physics fundamentals in the five curricular threads – Electricity &Magnetism, Work & Mechanics, Waves & Sound, Light & Optics, and Thermal Fluids. By usinga project-driven approach, students become engaged early and maintain a high degree of interestand curiosity throughout the course.As part of the Work & Mechanics module within this hands-on curriculum, 2-dimensional papertrusses are used to introduce the concept of forces and vectors to students. As an application of Page 23.2.2these fundamentals, the truss project tasks students with analyzing and building a 2-dimensionaltruss using mat board (used in picture framing) and

Conference Session

Engineering Education Research

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Alexander Quinn; Amy Pritchett; George Nickles

of what topics will be covered at what time and in what sequence, but more at the levelof groups of topics associated with an assessment. Grades on assessments serve throughout thecourse as motivation for student achievement.A set of courses makes up a curriculum. A curriculum is a generally recognized set ofknowledge and skills, often represented as a large set of topics organized around themes into alogical sequence of courses. A primary student motivation is to be certified as havingsufficiently mastered the knowledge and skill set of a curriculum, showing the importance of thestructure provided by grades and assessments in courses.In university education, students are expected to grow and develop in their cognitive abilities.However

Conference Session

Fundamental: K-12 Students' Beliefs, Motivation, and Self-efficacy

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kerrie A Douglas, Purdue University, West Lafayette; So Yoon Yoon, Texas A&M University; Mariana Tafur-Arciniegas P.E., Purdue University, West Lafayette; Heidi A. Diefes-Dux, Purdue University, West Lafayette

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

, H. (2014). Changes in elementary students’ engineering knowledge over two years of integrated science instruction. Proceedings of the American Society for Engineering Education, Indianapolis, IN.[19] Cunningham, C. M., & Hester, K. (2007, March). Engineering is elementary: An engineering and technology curriculum for children. In American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Page 26.760.14 Exposition, Honolulu, HI.[20] Dyehouse, M., Diefes-Dux, H., & Capobianco, B. (2011). Measuring the effects of integrating engineering into

Conference Session

Successful Professional Development Programs

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kurt Becker, Utah State University

Tagged Divisions

Continuing Professional Development

curriculum integration among STEM subject areas.The collaboration between engineering and technology educators is an importantinitiative that has tremendous potential for benefiting both. Therefore, the NationalCenter for Engineering and Technology Education (NCETE) has been established.Goals and PurposeThe ultimate goal of NCETE is to build understanding of the learning and teachingproblems encountered by high school students and teachers as they apply engineeringdesign processes to technological problems. The engineering design process plays acentral role in bringing about improvements in products and processes. Technology iscentral to the realization of processes and products. Both engineering design andtechnology are critical to the improvement

Conference Session

NSF Funding for Educational Scholarship

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

David Jeff Jackson

the development of nationally competitive grant proposals. Withmany components required for a successful grant proposal, it is important for a potential granteeto develop a set of best practices when undertaking grant proposal writing efforts.The author of this paper has written a successful NSF Adaptation and Implementation grantproposal [1] entitled “An Integrated Internet-Accessible Embedded Systems Laboratory” and asuccessful NSF Department Level Reform grant proposal [2] entitled “Developing a ModernComputer Engineering Curriculum Focusing on Embedded Systems.” The goal of this paper is tosuggest best practices for proposals for people considering writing similar grant proposals.Considerations include properly addressing program

Conference Session

Aerospace First-Year Project-Based Learning

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kristi J. Shryock, Texas A&M University; Kaushik Das, Texas A&M University, College Station; Stephen Oehler, Texas A&M University; Jacques C. Richard, Texas A&M University; Dimitris C. Lagoudas, Texas A&M University

Tagged Divisions

Aerospace

students' difficulty in associating engineering methods with some of themore conceptual topics learned in mathematics and physics, as well as students' lack of solidunderstanding of the engineering design process.1 Thus, the curriculum is structured such thatapplied engineering methods can be directly related to aspects of mathematics and science thatfreshman students generally consider to be disconnected or abstract.First-semester freshman-level engineering classes at TAMU typically include two projects, bothof which exemplify an experiential learning environment. These projects are designed to resolvethe same curriculum challenges, and each project regularly relates to a topic in statics and a topicin dynamics, respectively. A particularly

Conference Session

Engineering Management Division (EMD) Technical Session 1

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Saeed D. Foroudastan, Middle Tennessee State University; Suzanne S. Hicks, Middle Tennessee State University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Management Division (EMD)

of specific roles within an industry. This context aids future career decisions.Specialist interviews equip someone exploring or pursuing an industry career with revelationsand advice for mapping out a rewarding professional journey ahead. The insights andconnections gained can prove invaluable for tuning one's career trajectory toward a fulfilling andsuccessful path.For many reasons, written reports and oral presentations are essential in the internshipexperience. These assignments help interns process and integrate what they learn from theirhands-on experiences at the internship site. They force interns to organize their thoughts, analyzewhat they have learned, and articulate the knowledge and skills they have developed. They allowinterns

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kenneth A Connor, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Kathleen Meehan, University of Glasgow; Bonnie H. Ferri, Georgia Institute of Technology; Aldo A. Ferri, Georgia Institute of Technology; Deborah Walter, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees Poster Session

workshop. Thus, the workshopshad an asynchronous and a synchronous component.One workshop was devoted to myRIO projects, one to microcontrollers, and the final one to dataacquisition/instrumentation boards. While both myRIO and microcontrollers are embeddedplatforms, they are applied in quite different contexts. The myRIO is a packaged embeddedsystem that uses a graphical programming language that does not require students to know howto program in a traditional language. Microcontrollers require users to know how to program andhow to do more detailed hardware integration. As a result of these distinctions, they are useddifferently in projects and their targeted audiences are unique. The myRIO is a second-generation version of the CRIO, which was