Conference Session

Sustainability and Environmental Issues

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kurt Rosentrater, USDA-ARS; Elif Kongar, University of Bridgeport

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

; Exhibition.49. Alford, E. and T. Ward. 1999. Integrating ethics into the freshman curriculum: an interdisciplinary approach. Session 2561. 1999 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exhibition.50. Marshall, J. and J. Marshall. 2003. Integrating ethics education into the engineering curriculum. Session 1675. 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exhibition.51. Davis, M. 1992. Integrating ethics into technical courses: IIT’s experiment in its second year. 1992 ASEE Frontiers in Education Conference Proceedings, p. 64-68.52. Leone, D. and B. Isaacs. 2001. Combining engineering design with professional ethics using an integrated learning block. Session 2525. 2001 American Society

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

William J. Daughton

graduate program. Thechallenge has been how to present this broad set of material in an integrated fashion that createsa cohesive picture of what technical managers face in the work place. To address this challenge,EMEN 5010 has been built around the framework of the Baldrige National Quality programCriteria for Performance Excellence. The seven Baldrige categories provide the broad scopenecessary for such a course while the integrated nature of the criteria addresses the need for acohesive and integrated picture. Student response to this approach has been positive with respectto the format, presentation, and value of the course.BackgroundThe Lockheed Martin Engineering Management Program (the Program) is in its 13th year ofoffering a Master of

Conference Session

BOK2 - Influencing Changes to the ABET Civil Engineering Program Criteria and Civil Engineering Curricula

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John V. Tocco JD, Lawrence Technological University

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

, they do not have specific PMBOK5 correlateprocesses and were omitted from the matrix. Specialization, however, does play an importantrole in accreditation and is an integral outcome because, along with Breadth, it identifies CEManagement as a top tier course and one of the civil engineering subdisciplines needed foraccreditation. As previously provided, the description of Outcome 15: Specialization for thelevel of achievement selected by faculty, is as follows: Apply specialized tools or technologies to solve problems in traditional or emerging specialized technical areas of civil engineering.The ability to satisfy Specialization is conditioned on the use of “specialized tools ortechnologies” in the execution of the course, a

Conference Session

Student Learning and Teamwork

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Janice Girouard, University of Hartford; Ivana Milanovic, University of Hartford; Tom Eppes, University of Hartford

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

programs also face other difficulties. Students in theseprograms typically have lower SAT scores, and many of them were originally engineeringapplicants who did not meet the entrance requirements. In other cases, well-qualified ET studentsopt to either transfer to an engineering program within the College or leave to attend anotherinstitution. Since ET programs and their engineering counterparts are administered by the sameset of departments and are closely related, there is a constant need to maintain distinctiveness.We discovered that one way of doing this was to use the curriculum flexibility inherent in the PEand TS course bundles resident within all ET programs.Improving the Educational Outcomes of GraduatesUntil recently, the systematic use

Conference Session

Experiences with Experiential Learning

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Walter Bankes; Michael Eastman; Anthony Trippe; Jeffrey Lillie; George Zion

program has always been the strong co-operative education component. The ComputerEngineering Technology curriculum committee created this opportunity for students to report ontheir co-op experience with a poster session and oral presentation in order to accomplish severalgoals: • Provide returning co-op students with additional oral presentation experience requirement dealing with a topic in which they are the expert: Their own co-op employment experience. • Get students thinking about the larger picture of their co-op experience: Life- Long Learning, diversity, successes and failures. • Give students who have not yet participated in co-op an opportunity to learn about

Conference Session

Innovative Graduate Programs & Methods

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Glenda Scales; Bryan Hey; Jason Lockhart

thenallowed to access the materials via the internet on their laptops for further remediation. Studentscan review the topics being illustrated in the multimedia materials via a web browser and theFlash plug-in. Review can be for class assignments, tests, or work beyond the class they arecurrently taking.ConclusionIn conclusion, to accommodate both the visual and physical learners, two features are needed,namely, a diagram-like presentation and an interactive element. The signal filtering modulessatisfy both of those requirements and have the added benefit of being an internet savvy formatthat can be integrated into the classroom environment as well as used as a study aid andremediation tool for distance learning students

Conference Session

NSF Grantees' Poster Session

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Caye M Drapcho, Clemson University; Lib Crockett, Clemson University

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees Poster Session

. Page 23.969.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013 BT-ATE Pipeline for Progress: A Multi-Level Educational Plan for an Emerging IndustryAbstract: A dynamic and innovative Biosystems Technology (BT) curriculum was developed atthe secondary, technical college and university levels. The curriculum includes core concepts inlife science, engineering, technology and mathematics focused on applications in biologicalsystems that transition student learning and depth of understanding from one level to the next.The program was successful in educating students with increased STEM knowledge, with anemphasis on engineering content, to prepare them for the technical workforce in

Collection

2024 ASEE North Central Section Conference

Authors

Chan-Jin Chung, Lawrence Technological University; Joshua E Siegel, Michigan State University; Mark Wilson, Michigan State University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Education 1increased research career interests and strengthened students’ confidence, self-guidedcapabilities, and research skills, while additionally supporting the development of workshopmaterials, simulators, and related content that provide valuable resources for others planning todevelop an undergraduate curriculum to teach self-drive and networked vehicle development.IntroductionElectric, automated, and connected vehicles represent a leap in mobility with the potential forincreased efficiency, safety, and sustainability. Such vehicles will reduce emissions, alleviatecongestion through optimized routing, and minimize accidents caused by human error

Collection

1996 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard D. Swope; J. Paul Giolma

andconceptually difficult physical phenomena and to provide “hands-on” experience. In this process of change,the teaching and practice of engineering design principles began to disappear from the curriculum. Issues raised and discussed in this paper support a return to design as the primary purpose for theengineering laboratory. The issues include: the purposes and style of experimentation, the roles of simulationand the computer, pedagogical relationships between the laboratory and the lecture, the role of engineeringscience in support of design, and intended outcomes for students (graduate school vs. immediate career entry). We provide an example which articulates our goals for an engineering laboratory experience: thegathering of

Conference Session

Writing and Communication I

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nancy B. Barr, Michigan Technological University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

required sequence of laboratory courses, wherethey compose lab reports, usually evaluated by graduate teaching assistants (GTAs), many ofwhom speak English as a second language. Historically, engineering GTAs have not beentrained in evaluating student writing using formative assessment to help students improve theirtechnical communication skills.This paper provides an overview of a comprehensive research study of a GTA training programimplemented in the Department of Mechanical Engineering-Engineering Mechanics at MichiganTechnological University, with more than 1300 undergraduate students enrolled in the major.Situated within the field of Writing Across the Curriculum/Writing in the Disciplines, theprogram was developed to meet the unique needs

Conference Session

Quality & Accreditation: Outcome Assessment

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Julie McBride

individualgrades and provide aggregate data on group performance for curriculum evaluation is a bestpractice10.McGourty11 outlines four strategies to integrate assessment into the engineering educationenvironment. These include the following: (1) initiate a structured process to involve faculty andstaff in the ongoing planning, development, and monitoring of the program; (2) offer “just-in-time” educational sessions to develop administrator, faculty and student knowledge and skills inassessment; (3) create an assessment toolbox providing administrators and faculty with templatesthat can be used in and outside the classroom; and (4) identify, review, and modify, as required,key institutional practices to ensure that they are aligned with educational

Conference Session

Engineering Design Graphics Division Technical Session 3 - Spatial Visualization Topics

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nathan Delson, University of California, San Diego; Lelli Van Den Einde, University of California, San Diego; Elizabeth Rose Cowan, eGrove Education Inc.; Bob Mihelich, McHenry County College

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Design Graphics

California, San Diego, and then went on to get a doctorate in mechanical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1994. He was a lecturer and Director of the Design Studio at Yale University for four years, and then returned to his alma matter, UC, San Diego, in 1999. He is now a tenured lecturer and Director of the Design Center in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. He teaches hands- on design courses, including an introductory design class, a mechatronics class, and a capstone design class. His interests in design education include increasing student motivation, teamwork, and integration of theory into design projects.Dr. Lelli Van Den Einde, University of California, San Diego

Conference Session

Biomedical Engineers and Professional Development - June 23rd

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

William H. Guilford, University of Virginia

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Biomedical Engineering

. The two measures of self-concept presented here could thereforeteach us much about the durable effects of teaching and learning on career persistence.References[1] W. Guilford, K. Bishop, W. Walker, and J. M. Adams, “Suitability Of An Undergraduate Curriculum In Biomedical Engineering For Premedical Study,” 2008 Annu. Conf. Expo., pp. 13.1119.1-13.1119.7, Jun. 2008.[2] R. F. Baumeister, Ed., The Self In Social Psychology, 1 edition. Philadelphia, Pa.: Routledge, 1999.[3] K. D. Multon and And Others, “Relation of Self-Efficacy Beliefs to Academic Outcomes: A Meta-Analytic Investigation,” J. Couns. Psychol., vol. 38, no. 1, pp. 30–38, 1991.[4] J. Ferla, M. Valcke, and Y. Cai, “Academic self-efficacy and academic self-concept

Conference Session

Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and Digital Systems Education 2

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Chad Eric Davis P.E., University of Oklahoma; Rick Pendergraft, University of Oklahoma

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

the middle of the pack in the final standings.One disadvantage they felt that contributed to their lackluster finish was that many other teamshad some form of course that went along with the competition so the unskilled students couldobtain background knowledge and have structured time to work on the project instead of learningand creating everything on an extracurricular basis. With this in mind this robot-based studentorganization looked to use the course described in the paper as the first step at forming the 2015ASEE robot team as well as an opportunity to recruit and mentor many future organizationmembers. The remaining sections of this paper will describe the curriculum of this course,learning objectives, and the mentoring structure

Conference Session

Simulation and Programming

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Derek M Yip-Hoi, Western Washington University

Tagged Divisions

Manufacturing

industry. From a pedagogical perspective,simulation is often viewed as “something to expose a student to”, one of several skills that are tobe acquired in a CNC course. However, with current advances in IT, simulation should also beviewed as an enabler of learning. A properly developed and integrated simulation environment Page 23.1336.3can be used by the instructor to explain programming concepts during lectures and labs, and forassisting with assessment. It can be used by students to help develop and hone their skills whencompleting homework assignments and in preparing for machining labs. A simulationenvironment can provide a level of

Conference Session

Materials Science Education for the Future

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jeffrey W. Fergus, Auburn University

Tagged Divisions

Materials

courses to other sustainability-related educational efforts on campus.IntroductionSustainability has become an increasingly important consideration for society in general as wellas for the engineering profession. Materials engineering is particularly important for addressingsustainability, since materials engineers are involved both in the production and processing ofmaterials with low energy use and low environmental impact (supply side) as well as in theselection of materials (demand side). Thus, sustainability concepts are especially relevant inmaterials engineering courses and curricula.Sustainability content can be integrated into existing materials engineering courses or presentedin separate courses, both of which have value. Integration

Conference Session

International Engineering Education I

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Stacie Edington; Melissa Eljamal; Stella Pang

will engage both itsundergraduate and graduate student populations to develop global skills. Programs rangein duration from a few hours to the length of an academic career and include languagelearning and cross-cultural training. These programs are accompanied by a strategicmarketing plan that has resulted in a steady increase in participation, with more graduateswho are well-equipped to deal with the challenges posed by working in multi-nationalcorporations.I. IntroductionEngineers are increasingly asked to work with international suppliers, co-workers, and clients.Global assignments for companies in industries such as communications, informationtechnology, and automotive manufacturing, require engineers to integrate technical knowledgewith

Conference Session

Why Industry Says that our Engineering Students Cannot Write

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jeffrey A. Donnell, Georgia Institute of Technology; Betsy M. Aller, Western Michigan University; Michael Alley, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; April A. Kedrowicz, University of Utah

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society, Mechanical Engineering

, University Park Michael Alley is an associate professor of engineering communication at Pennsylvania State University. He works in the Leonhard Center for the Enhancement of Engineering Education and is the author of The Craft of Scientific Writing (Springer, 1996).April A Kedrowicz, University of Utah April A. Kedrowicz is the Director of the CLEAR Program at the University of Utah, an interdisciplinary collaboration between Humanities and Engineering. This college-wide program integrates communi- cation and teamwork instruction into the core, undergraduate engineering curriculum. Dr. Kedrowicz received her Ph.D. in Communication from the University of Utah and is the founding director of this innovative program

Conference Session

Improving ME education: Broad Topics

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Peter Schuster, California Polytechnic State University; Andrew Davol, California Polytechnic State University; Joseph Mello, California Polytechnic State University

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

- The Benefits and ChallengesAbstractIntercollegiate design competitions are a popular means to engage students in design activitiesthat extend beyond the curriculum. When students gather around a project in their spare timeand use their classroom skills to design, build, and test a product for an intercollegiatecompetition, something amazing happens: They develop a passion for engineering. This paperdiscusses the key benefits to engineering undergraduate students that flow from involvement in ateam design competition. Advisor involvement plays a key role in both project success andstudent learning throughout the process. Different approaches to advising student competitionteams are compared. Specific examples are taken from the authors

Conference Session

Assessing the Efficacy of Nontraditional Programs

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mysore Narayanan, Miami University

Tagged Divisions

Continuing Professional Development

, he and colleagues at Project Zero have been working on the design ofperformance-based assessments, education for understanding, and the use of multipleintelligences to achieve more personalized curriculum, instruction, and assessment.(http://www.pz.harvard.edu/PIs/HG.htm)Principles of Good PracticeGardner’s seven principles help in developing Intellectual Curiosity in any given group ofindividuals. It is important to recognize that some learners may be curious to learn whenthey ‘see’ something interesting (Narayanan, 2007). Some others may be inclined todevelop curiosity when the ‘read’ about a new subject matter. Gardner suggests thatone should consider all the types of ‘intelligence’ if one wants to observe an individual’spotential

Conference Session

Optical and Wireless Communication Systems

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

George Moore, Purdue University

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

, there isgreat latitude in the equipment choices that one can make. Equipment decisions can be madebased on the type of laboratory experiences desired. This particular type of concern becomessecondary when the equipment is donated.Laboratory experiences are used in academic curriculums to bring experiential learning tostudents. This type of learning emphasis practical application, i.e. learning to do by doing, and istherefore and example of an “Active Experimentation” learning style. There is a broad base ofresearch supporting this type of instructional model2, 3, 4, 5, 10, and 13. Page 12.1404.3Kolb 7 in his book on experiential learning model

Collection

2021 ASEE North Central Section Conference

Authors

Craig J. Gunn, Michigan State University

student’s education, that ofcommunication. Long before ABET made it a point that had to be addressed, instruction inwriting and oral production were included in multiple courses. Students practiced their writtenskills in fluids, controls, vibrations, design, heat transfer, and capstone courses. Communicationwas not an add on to all these courses it was an integral part of the curriculum. Short writtenassignments culminating in formal reports allowed students to experience a path that they wouldfollow in their careers. The important element was making sure that this writing experience washappening on a regular basis throughout the curriculum, not as a one-time affair and quicklyforgotten. Over the years, students showed that continuous practice of

Conference Session

Software Engineering Constituent Committee Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

J. Jenny Li, Kean University; Patricia Morreale, Kean University

Tagged Divisions

Software Engineering Constituent Committee

studentsfor future software engineering courses. The two concepts are integrated developmentenvironment (IDE) and basic software testing. We observed the students’ progress and found thaton average students can program similar projects 80% faster after learning and using the twosoftware engineering concepts. 1. Introduction Introductory software programing is an important first-year course that brings students to thedoor step of the CS major, which we consider as a CS1 course based on the definition given in[1]. It is also a requisite course for many students majored in Science, Technology, Engineeringand Math (STEM). The majority of the curriculum of this course is to teach a specificprograming language without any introductory concepts of

Collection

2010 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Don Malzahn; Lawrence Whitman; Zulma Toro-Ramos; Julie-Ellen Acosta

motivation, content, and the development process of such a course.MOTIVATIONThe College has a very active Industrial Advisory Board that suggested an elective course inleadership based on their experience with similar programs developed in their firms. Theseindustry-based programs are focused on developing leaders in their engineering organizations.Several of the committee members asked to be part of the course delivery. Therefore, theobjectives for the course require the integration of a variety of perspectives with implications oncontent, delivery, and pedagogy.A quick review of other leadership courses developed by colleges of engineering indicates thatthey too were developed at the request of an industrial advisory group (Crawford 1998, Farr2009

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

eugene leo draine mahmoud, Mt. San Antonio Community College

Tagged Topics

Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

practices and innovative approaches discussed will evidence the work inprogress towards an improved, integrated learning experience for engineering technology students.Finally, current results will support prior findings and provide new evidence for engineering educationpractices in community colleges.Stackable Certificates and DegreesIn the Fall of 2022, Mt. SAC began offering 12 new certificates of achievement and 6 new associate ofscience degrees in the discipline of Engineering Technology. These certificates include Technical Sales,Engineering Fundamentals, Engineering with Emphasis in Chemical and Materials EngineeringApplications Level 1, Engineering with Emphasis in Chemical and Materials Engineering ApplicationsLevel 2, Engineering with

Conference Session

Graduate Studies Division Technical Session 4

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Thomas L. Acker, Northern Arizona University; Nena E. Bloom, Northern Arizona University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Graduate Studies

deploy and operate existing wind energy technology, but to evolve thetechnology to be more efficient, cost effective, and adaptable to the electricity grid. Asprogressively larger and technologically more sophisticated turbines are designed and built, bothonshore and off, and as wind plants continue to provide an ever-larger fraction of the energysupply, there are significant scientific and engineering challenges to be addressed such asmaterials and structures, grid integration, and energy storage [6], [7]. In planning for the future,universities, and members of the North American Wind Energy Academy (NAWEA), identifieda number of strategies to address the lack of university programs, most of which rely oncollaboration. These include

Collection

1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Donald L. Buchwald

, measure, and sort components. The final project for thesecond course is to design and implement an integrated system to produce a product. ConclusionThe changing face of manufacturing applications requires continuous rethinking of the relevant Page 3.395.3 3experiences of the mechanical engineering technology curriculum. The engineering technologistmust be able to apply the latest technology to effective and efficient solutions of today'smanufacturing problems. This effort is part of an overall emphasis to produce technology specialistswho can

Conference Session

Construction 2: Teaching Using Projects, Case Studies, and Service Learning

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert B. Austin, Bowling Green State University

Tagged Divisions

Construction

-long learning principles and 3)incorporate an objective measure of student performance into the program’s curriculumdevelopment process. Currently in their second cycle, the revised instructional methods for thecapstone course also were designed to increase student-instructor interaction and studentengagement, and focus on students’ preferred learning styles. The revised methods have resultedin an increased breadth and complexity of problem-based learning assignments and an apparentimprovement in third-party test results. This paper is believed to offer a new perspective on anintegrated instructional approach and the use of third-party testing as an objective measure in theprogram’s curriculum development processIntroductionBowling Green State

Conference Session

Community Building and Student Engagement

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ilya Mikhelson, Northwestern University

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer Engineering Division (ECE)

analog electronics. Bell and Horowitz [4] describetheir integration of projects into a non-major circuits course, dividing the laboratories into fourprojects. Indeed, Chen et al [5] reviewed 108 papers on implementing project-based learningacross engineering.The novelty in the proposed approach is the creation of as unified of a project as possible, in orderto show students that even in an introductory course, they could gain enough knowledge todevelop a very complex device using all aspects of electrical engineering. At the same time, thecourse does not compromise on the detail presented, making it a fully-fledged introduction tomost aspects of electrical engineering. In summary, there were two goals: • To empower students, as so many tasks

Collection

2007 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Behnam Bahr; Kurt Soschinske; George Gray

the help of initial National ScienceFoundation funding and supplemental outside agency funding5. At Harvard new students in theMechanical Engineering department are introduced to mechanical engineering through anapplied product design development project6. To complete the projects students are introducedto initial engineering science and design concepts, 3-D modeling, as well as prototypedevelopment using manual and CNC machining. At Purdue ME students learn integrated design,development and manufacturing experience through construction of a brass hammer with awooden handle, or an aluminum cardholder7. Various manufacturing methods are introduced indevelopment of the hammer, including drilling and milling brass hexagonal block to create