Collection

2008 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Christopher W. Swan; Julia Carroll

installation, with agoal of construction to begin as early as Summer 2008. The team had to address the design ofthe bio-digester within the physical, operational, and economic constraints of the farm. Duringthe project, the team became familiar with the construction process in the rural Vermont area andhow it pertains to this project. For the team, the learning objectives included designing thevarious components of the bio-digester unit, evaluating input alternatives to optimize methaneproduction, and developing an implementation plan for the digester considering a new KISSprinciple (Knowledge + Innovation = Sustainable Systems). Public Communication of Longfellow Bridge Rehabilitation This project required developing an effective

Collection

2008 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Elif Kongar; Paul Kontogiorgis; Nancy L. Russo; Tarek Sobh

responsibilities have minimal effects. Collaborative Competitive Similar proportions of men and women science and engineering doctorates plan to enter postdoctoral study or academic employment. Not very good at Good at math Female performance in high school mathematics now math matches that of males. Ignorant of [Aware of Although scientists like to believe that they “choose the opportunities opportunities] best” based on objective criteria, decisions are influenced by factors—including biases about race, sex

Collection

2008 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Diana Schwerha; Chang Liu; Sertac Ozercan; Tripura Vadlamani; Lev Neiman

students could complete theirhomework in two hours. Some students said that they like having time over several days to completeassignments. This suggestion is being taken into consideration for future projects. It could be possible todesign a game so that students could complete it at their own pace over the course of several days.Future research will focus on expanding the content and creating games that are more visual in nature.The use of interactive graphics will be utilized to help those students who learn better by visual methodsand provide alternative ways of learning. We plan to investigate more efficient ways to download studentscores and facilitate team interaction. In addition, we plan to investigate the use of Second Life foradditional

Conference Session

Inclusive Horizons: Shaping Diverse Pathways in Engineering and Design Education

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jessica Baldis, University of California, San Diego; Alex M. Phan, University of California, San Diego

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Culture & Social Justice in Education Division (EQUITY), Equity

the lab in Fall quarter—forming relationships with their lab mentor, becoming familiar with the lab research, and developing a research plan for the Winter and Spring Quarters. GEAR students then spend Winter and Spring quarters conducting their research project in the laboratory. • Mentorship: GEAR offers an extensive support system through various levels of mentorship including the GEAR Central Mentor who acts as a bridge between the GEAR students and laboratories, graduate lab mentors who provide regular guidance to the GEAR students, and faculty Principal Investigators (PIs). • Socials and Workshops: GEAR socials and workshops offer opportunities for relaxing, team building, and exploring

Conference Session

WIP: Student Success and Sustainability

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alison Leigh Banka, University of Georgia

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering Division (ChED)

the activities andproblems students see in class to ensure they align with the caliber of questions they are assessedon during quizzes. I plan to continue assessing one quiz in take-home format, specifically formetrics that cannot be feasibly completed in class. I will consider adding course metrics that willrequire students to synthesize material from multiple parts of the class in a take-home assignmentor project. Finally, I plan to administer additional focus groups to learn from more students whotook the class in the Fall 2023 semester and to conduct a qualitative thematic analysis onfeedback from these focus groups; just as students taking an SBG course can learn from theirmistakes and change their methods of studying if they are not

Conference Session

ELOS Technical Session 5 - Remote, Virtual, and Digital Realities

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael Michael Ulan Genialovich Dakeev, Sam Houston State University; Iftekhar Ibne Basith, Sam Houston State University; Suleiman M Obeidat, Texas A&M University; Reg Recayi Pecen, Sam Houston State University; Faruk Yildiz, Sam Houston State University; Alyona Maliassova, Sam Houston State University; Paige Horton, Sam Houston State University

Tagged Divisions

Experimentation and Laboratory-Oriented Studies Division (DELOS)

understanding the efficiency and performance of the pick-up process.Further data collection is planned to compare these findings with two more gloves for pick uptime and drop-off time statistics, ensuring a comprehensive understanding of haptic gloveperformance in VR applications. We are planning to complete collection of data for bHaptics andManus Prime gloves so we can report their comparative results to SenseGlove at ASEEconference in Portland, OR in 2024. These outcomes may benefit engineering students who areinvolved in hands-on laboratory simulations via virtual reality.The involvement of student developers, predominantly undergraduate students engaged in thedevelopment of the VR environment and research on haptic gloves, presents a

Conference Session

MECH - Technical Session 13: Technological Advancements and Applications

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Simon Njoroge, University of Washington; Arwen Elizabeth Pearson, University of Washington; Heather Dillon, University of Washington

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering Division (MECH)

problem-solving techniques,educators have sought innovative methods to facilitate understanding. Among these methods, conceptmapping has emerged as a promising approach, particularly for the assessment of EM [8–10].Davies provides a summary of concept mapping software tools and features [11]. Kane and Trochim [12]explored concept mapping for planning and evaluation. Prior research indicates that concept maps can beused effectively as an educational tool to improve students' understanding in various disciplines, not onlyengineering. A summary of prior work in concept mapping is shown in Table 1.While prior studies have explored concept maps as an engineering tool, this research focuses on howconcept maps can be used to address the complexity of

Conference Session

Inclusive Horizons: Shaping Diverse Pathways in Engineering and Design Education

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kai Jun Chew, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Culture & Social Justice in Education Division (EQUITY), Equity

engineering and STEM fields in general. This, in turn,creates a more equitable engineering field that can be welcoming and comfortable, andencourage authentic selves while learning and practicing engineering. Studying these perceptionscan potentially identify “features” that have been perpetuating the unwelcoming anduncomfortable environment that makes the participation of LGBTQIA+ engineers difficult.Specifically, this pilot study can contribute to reimagining how the pedagogical and assessmentapproaches in classrooms help with such research by engaging the students to help with thereimagination, which I find to be a knowledge gap in engineering education scholarship. To doso, I plan to conduct a survey based on bell hook’s engaged pedagogy as a

Conference Session

Charting Inclusivity: Advancing Diversity, Equity, and Technology in Engineering and Computing Education

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cecilé Sadler, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Alicia Nicki Washington, Duke University; Shaundra Bryant Daily, Duke University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Culture & Social Justice in Education Division (EQUITY), Equity

skewed depending on a singular identity. Thisdistribution may also account for higher scores reported by students than professionals, as allstudents attended the same private institution known for having a student body with a highersocioeconomic status. While we accounted for this imbalance by analyzing each identityconstruct and refining the item set, we aim for balance among items in each measured construct.Further adjustments include rephrasing the responses to be true/false (vs. yes/no) to avoidconfusion of items that may result in false positives. We also plan to modify phrasing andremove items (e.g., “I do not have to work to pay for my college education (including workstudy.”) to ensure they are explicit about computing environments to

Conference Session

Civil Engineering Division (CIVIL) Technical Session - Effective Teaching 3

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Angela R Bielefeldt, University of Colorado Boulder

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering Division (CIVIL)

extent to which students have a healthy balancebetween work (school work, jobs, co-curricular activities) and life (leisure activities, personalneeds) [6]. Work-life balance (WLB) considerations were found to be very important to currentU.S. civil engineering students (e.g., “I don’t want to spend an excessive number of hours at myjob”) [7]. Concerns about WLB impact STEM students’ planned career trajectories, includingthoughts about leaving STEM [8]. Thus, engineering’s common reputation for being “all workand no rest” [9] should be of concern to faculty.Mental Health ModuleDuring the COVID pandemic in fall 2020 the University of Colorado Boulder (CU) required thatall incoming first-year students learn about mental health issues in a course

Conference Session

Design in Engineering Education Division (DEED) - Student-Centered Approaches in Design Education

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Amit Shashikant Jariwala, Georgia Institute of Technology; Jill Fennell, Georgia Institute of Technology; Christian Sims, Georgia Institute of Technology

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education Division (DEED)

2023 and recently concludedin spring 2024 semester. The preliminary impact of the proposed approach is planned to beevaluated using a combination of qualitative and quantitative research methods, which couldinclude, pre- and post-surveys, interviews with students, faculty, sponsors, and Expo judges, aswell as scores provided by Expo judges. These results will help educators assess the benefits ofthe approach and develop a framework to integrate effective communication teaching andpractice skills within the curriculum for engineering design courses.1. Introduction1.1 BackgroundEngineering Capstone Design courses offer immersive experiential learning opportunities,including the opportunity to practice communication across a wide range of

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division (ENT) Technical Session 1

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Noemi V Mendoza Diaz, Texas A&M University; Magdalini Z Lagoudas, Texas A&M University

Tagged Divisions

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division (ENT)

2023 Summer Cohort, twenty studentsenrolled in an I-Corps site program experience that involved training and 6 weeks of customerdiscovery and answered to a pre- and post-surveys that included questions in the dimensions of:(1) interest in entrepreneurship, (2) confidence in value proposition, (3) self-efficacy inentrepreneurship, (4) self-efficacy in marketing/business planning, (5) self-efficacy in customerinterview skills, and (6) current status of technology and business model. Preliminaryquantitative analyses showed similar results to prior research about significant changes in studentperceptions of confidence in value proposition, customer interview skills, and current status oftechnology and business model. However, in qualitative terms

Conference Session

Educational Research and Methods Division (ERM) Technical Session 20

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Eduardo Rodriguez Mejia M.Sc., Rowan University; Cheryl A. Bodnar, Rowan University

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods Division (ERM)

writing phases) as identified from the motivationsurvey. Additionally, we are planning on doing a longitudinal assessment of doctoral student motivationto see how student motivation changes as the doctoral students progress through their doctoral degreeprogram.AcknowledgementsThis work was made possible by a U.S. Department of Education Graduate Assistance in Areas ofNational Need (GAANN) Grant Number P200A210109 and by a NSF Innovations in Graduate Education(IGE) Program [IGE DGE#2224724] grant. 5References[1] Spaulding, L. S., & Rockinson-Szapkiw, A. J. (2012). Hearing their voices: Factors doctoral candidates attribute to

Collection

2024 ASEE St. Lawrence Section Annual Conference

Authors

Bhavana Kotla; Lisa Bosman

the participant's individual reflections. (2) Opportunity evaluation (connections) – photovoice- based pedagogical interventions in the classroom that enable participant discussions (e.g., sharing reflections with peers and instructors) (3) Opportunity exploitation (creating value) – photovoice- based interventions in the classroom that allow participants to create and initiate action plans to share with stakeholders. A non-applicable category was included to

Collection

2015 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Pritpal Singh; Amanda Kelly; Kathy Nazar

have beenthree subsequent cohorts of graduates from the program.In addition to the curricular activities to teach undergraduate engineering students aboutentrepreneurship, we have also organized a number of entrepreneurially-minded extra-curricularevents on campus. These include short activities which last only a few minutes (elevator pitch-type events) through to multi-month long, business plan competitions. These activities mayinvolve individual students or teams of students presenting ideas to submitting fully developedbusiness plans and are open to students from all over campus, including engineering students.Of course, every student comes to campus with a range of already developed entrepreneurialskills and mindset. So while the

Collection

2015 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Wenli Guo; Weier Ye

problem solving skills. Barber, Pearson, & Cervetti8, from a different perspective,have also noted the importance of summarizing in the physics classroom by saying writingsummaries reveals gaps in learning and misconceptions. That is, instructors can use summarywriting assignments as an assessment tool to diagnose learning difficulties and assess studentmastery of physics concepts. However, our recent literature review indicates that little researchhas been conducted on summary writing in physics, especially in the field of collaborationsbetween physics and English instructors who share responsibility for planning, instruction, andevaluation for a classroom of students. One relevant article that catches our attention is a studycarried out at

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2015 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Somer Chipperfield; Kelly Yoder; Sadan Kulturel-Konak; Abdullah Konak

effectiveness of the proposed interest assessment framework.Keywords– assessment, global awareness, interestI. IntroductionEngineering educators and practitioners have recognized the necessity of educating globallycompetent engineering graduates, who will be capable of working globally in collaborative andcross-cultural contexts. According to a National Science Foundation (NSF) article1 titled,“Investing in America’s Future: Strategic Plan”, it is reported that the new challenges for scienceand engineering are becoming global, and these members of the workforce are being asked tocollaborate across national boundaries and with different cultural backgrounds.1 However,limited research has been conducted on the interest of global awareness among the

Collection

2014 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Hong Li; Ashwin Satyanarayana

. Students will be exposed to popular enterprise applications One Elective** 3 that they will most likely use in the workplace. Students will install, configure, and maintain Microsoft Exchange, Total 27 Enterprise Content Management Systems, Enterprise Resource The Networking and Security track covers aspects of all Planning Systems, Customer Relationship managements, astypes of networks including LANs and WANs, the Internet, well as Cloud Computing. In this track, students will not onlyand mobile networks, security considerations and principles in be exposed to the

Collection

2016 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Jeffrey Birou; Alistar Erickson-Ludwig; Mira Olson; Kevin Scoles

 potential for alignment between the goals of the Peck Scholars  4​program and the school district’s sustainability plan​, which has the following focus areas: sustainability for education, consumption and waste, healthy schools, green school years, and energy and efficiencies.   In November 2015, initial collaboration began between the Peck Scholars program coordinator, Drexel University faculty and staff, and OEMS to clarify the objectives of this collaboration. OEMS wanted Peck Scholars students to design an irrigation system for one school’s garden, with the intention that the system could be easily replicated at schools throughout the district. This would require the Peck Scholars to also

Collection

2011 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Gay Lemons; Adam Carberry; Chris Swan

models, (6)Plan/draw/sketch, (7) View available materials, (8) Read technical descriptions of prototype jaropeners, (9) Build a prototype, (10) Review first principles of physics, (11) Talk to jarmanufacturers, (12) Examine elementary mechanics, (13) Look at jar variables, (14) Investigateaesthetic options, and (15) View unnecessary nonsense.These activities were presented to eight of the participants using physical sets of cards laid out ona large table. Two participants (M-ME-4* and F-ME-3) were given the design task using adigital workbook supported by RobobooksTM software. Information presented physically anddigitally was identical except for the Talk to Jim information, which was replaced with videos ofan upper limb amputee. The digital

Collection

2011 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Sean K. Turner

dramaticshift means that there is a new need for Sustainability Engineers who are proficient in the broadportfolio of technologies and analytic techniques to deal with renewable and alternative energy.In order to meet increasing demand, Sustainability Engineering students will need to be trainedto design new systems as well as plan for the financial aspects of these systems. In mostprograms, undergraduate students do not have the preparation needed to become effective in theSustainable Engineering field. For example, they lack coursework in topics such as energymanagement, generation design, techniques of financial modeling, and exposure to the broaderconcepts of alternative energy. One of the traditional steps is to create new programs to meet

Collection

2009 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Kauser Jahan; Jess W. Everett; Gina Tang; Stephanie Farrell; Hong Zhang; Angela Wenger; Majid Noori

selected as partners for enhancing the broader impacts of the project.Both CCC and NJAAS are located within 30 minutes of the Rowan University campus and boththese locations are within the two New Jersey Federal Empowerment Zones (EZ). The EZprograms are designed to empower people and communities across the United States by inspiringcommunities to work together to develop a strategic plan designed to create jobs andopportunities in the nation's most impoverished urban and rural areas.The CCC partnership allows us to prepare the community college students for the Rowanengineering program by having direct input on their freshman Introduction to Engineeringcourse. CCC is a comprehensive community college that is accessible, learning-centered

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2009 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

D. Weber; G. Reluzco; D. Kaminski; B.W. Bequette

Integrated Manufacturing; and a capstone course: Engineering Design andDevelopment.Program ComparisonsThe nature and scope of the PLTW and GK-12 programs are very different with someoverlapping ambitions. Both programs have a similar genesis as educators and professionalsrespond to the projected glut of American engineers within this generation. The PTLW solutionis to replace the school’s engineering programs, if any existed, with a franchised curriculum.Participating teachers and guidance counselors have mandatory training requirements, but arealso to provide feedback to the planning committee. The central organization is responsible forproducing advertising materials, setting teacher and student performance standards, and trackingthe college and

Collection

2004 ASEE North Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Dale N. Buechler

their calculus and differential equation/linear algebra classes takenat other institutions. Other students went out of their way to take calculus and differentialequations at another school or technical college to get a better grade only to find later that theywere ill-prepared for their upper-division engineering coursework to follow. One more similartrend observed was the night and day difference in the degree GPAs between those whofinished in less than 5 years and those who finished in 5 years or greater as shown in Table 6.The first plan of action is to share these results with our mathematics department and thedirector of student services for our engineering college. Then they will be shared with ourfaculty and at institutions with similar

Collection

2004 ASEE North Midwest Section Conference

Authors

William E. Howard; Joseph C. Musto; William C. Farrow

installed in onelaboratory. We plan to make greateruse of this tool in the coming year,with the software available over theMSOE network. SolidWorksexperience is not a necessaryprerequisite for use of the motionanalysis if the component part filesare provided to the students. Thestudents can be taught how toassemble the parts and prescribe Figure 11 COSMOS/Motion Modelmotion in a one-hour session. of Cylinder MechanismConclusionsAs CAD and dynamic analysis software has become more powerful, more affordable, andeasier to use, its potential for use in dynamics and mechanism and machine design courses hasrisen. Well-planned usage of these tools can be an effective supplement to the

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2009 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

Xiaomin Jin; Dennis Derickson; Simeon Trieu; Samuel O. Agbo

56graduate students in Peking University and worked closely on mutually defined projects. Theparticipating students obtain experience in transcontinental collaboration and gain an awarenessof culture differences. Three journal papers and five conference papers on GaN research andeducation have been published by participating researchers since 2007. [2][4]-[10] A paper isaccepted for conference presentation in April 2009. [11] Student comments from both continentsconfirm that they obtain better understanding about foreign cultures as a result of this activity.Student comments indicate they believe that this activity will be helpful for job prospects inmultinational engineering firms. Currently plans include involvement of undergraduate studentsinto

Collection

2009 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

Bruno Osorno

be targeted for online teaching.Universities have been developing strategic plans to tackle the implementation of onlineteaching. The major hurdles needed to overcome are; changing the mindset of faculty, budgets,teacher training in new technologies, online student population’s new studying habits andquality of instruction.ChangeChange is never easy; perhaps it is the most difficult hurdle in online teaching. Faculty, need tobe fully aware of the linking of pedagogy, technology and learning-styles [2]. Furthermore, it hasbeen our experience that the need of “electronic textbooks availability” is a critical event thatfacilitates online teaching of electrical engineering in a very large scale. (Which by the way, it ishappening very fast

Collection

2009 Northeast Section Meeting

Authors

Kauser Jahan; Jess W. Everett; Gina Tang; Stephanie Farrell; Hong Zhang; Angela Wenger; Majid Noori

selected as partners for enhancing the broader impacts of the project.Both CCC and NJAAS are located within 30 minutes of the Rowan University campus and boththese locations are within the two New Jersey Federal Empowerment Zones (EZ). The EZprograms are designed to empower people and communities across the United States by inspiringcommunities to work together to develop a strategic plan designed to create jobs andopportunities in the nation's most impoverished urban and rural areas.The CCC partnership allows us to prepare the community college students for the Rowanengineering program by having direct input on their freshman Introduction to Engineeringcourse. CCC is a comprehensive community college that is accessible, learning-centered

Collection

2009 Northeast Section Meeting

Authors

D. Weber; G. Reluzco; D. Kaminski; B. W. Bequette

Integrated Manufacturing; and a capstone course: Engineering Design andDevelopment.Program ComparisonsThe nature and scope of the PLTW and GK-12 programs are very different with someoverlapping ambitions. Both programs have a similar genesis as educators and professionalsrespond to the projected glut of American engineers within this generation. The PTLW solutionis to replace the school’s engineering programs, if any existed, with a franchised curriculum.Participating teachers and guidance counselors have mandatory training requirements, but arealso to provide feedback to the planning committee. The central organization is responsible forproducing advertising materials, setting teacher and student performance standards, and trackingthe college and

Collection

2008 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

Elif Kongar; Paul Kontogiorgis; Nancy L. Russo; Tarek Sobh

responsibilities have minimal effects. Collaborative Competitive Similar proportions of men and women science and engineering doctorates plan to enter postdoctoral study or academic employment. Not very good at Good at math Female performance in high school mathematics now math matches that of males. Ignorant of [Aware of Although scientists like to believe that they “choose the opportunities opportunities] best” based on objective criteria, decisions are influenced by factors—including biases about race, sex