Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Capstone Design

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joseph Thomas Emison, Taylor University; Kate Yoshino, Taylor University; Stephen Edward Straits, Taylor University; Hank D. Voss, Taylor University

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

Computer Science also participate voluntarily in the seniorengineering project under the leadership of the faculty and engineering students. For example, anundergraduate mathematician developed and calibrated Monte Carlo simulations of free-molecular aerodynamics to determine drag effects in ELEO orbits. An example of non-technicalinvolvement is business students who organized events to promote campus awareness of ELEO-Sat. Moreover, the senior capstone course involves local high school students considering STEMcareers through outreach programming including participation in high altitude balloon projects.Similarly, the project provides outreach opportunities to local elementary schools, using spacescience curriculums developed by Taylor University

Conference Session

International Division (INTL) Technical Session #5: Best Practices

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alyson Grace Eggleston, Pennsylvania State University; Robert J. Rabb P.E., Pennsylvania State University

Tagged Divisions

International Division (INTL)

problem-solvers.The demand for the engineering mindset to grow and develop as problem-solvers, requiresadditional skills such as entrepreneurship, leadership, and communications. Engineeringentrepreneurship and engineering leadership programs have proliferated in recent years. Despitethis, there is less emphasis on communication skills and intercultural competence, which areessential for many additional skills. Approaches to STEM curriculum design in Asia includeimplementing intercultural awareness and communication competencies, as the relationshipbetween employability and professional skills is well studied, adapted, and implementable.This paper proposes a process for building an engineering-focused communications course thatcan be tailored and

Conference Session

International Collaborative Efforts

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Ronald Sterkenburg

collectively: (1) offer course work at Purdue University for Chineseand Purdue students (2) offer course work at the Civil Aviation University of China (CAUC) forChinese and Purdue students (3) develop joint research and design projects between CAUC andPurdue University (4) develop a study abroad trip of two weeks or three weeks in which Purduestudents accompanied by faculty will research an aviation related research project in China (5)pursue joint Purdue University and CAUC faculty research opportunities (6) develop a bysemester or by year study abroad program. Meetings with the university presidents of bothinstitutions and faculty members of both universities were very successful and they seemedeagerly interested to establish a relationship with

Conference Session

Student Paper Presentation

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Elizabeth Van Ruitenbeek, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Tagged Divisions

Students Constituent Committee

in the College. … A report favorable to the establishment of a curriculum incubator was released in Spring 2008 and iFoundry was elevated to a College-supported activity by Dean Ilesanmi Adesida in August 2008. “iFoundry admitted its first class of freshmen in Fall 2009 as part of the iFoundry freshmen experience. Those students enrolled in participating College of Engineering departments and many of the courses they took were the same as non-iFoundry students; however, new classes were developed on a pilot basis for iFoundry freshmen. … In particular, the 2009 iFoundry freshmen experience integrated coursework in critical and creative thinking skills (the missing basics) with hands-on

Conference Session

First-year Programs: Cornucopia #1

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Stacie Edington, University of Michigan; Claudia G. Cameratti-Baeza, University of Michigan; Raven Knudsen, Kennesaw State University; Frank J. Marsik, University of Michigan

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

related to self-understanding (personal strengths [8], values, ethics and social identity).Students completed eight reflection assignments, based on the lecture and discussion topics.Prior to Fall 2018, course evaluations for ENGR 110 consistently indicated that some studentsdesired more exposure to careers within the engineering field, while other students needed moresupport leveraging academic resources and integrating into the engineering communitysuccessfully. Many students indicated that their primary motivation for enrolling in the coursewas to determine which major to pursue and had limited interest in other topics provided by thecourse. In an effort to improve student engagement and motivation across a range of needs, weintroduced student

Conference Session

Communication Across the Divisions II: Communication and Transdisciplinary Pedagogies

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mark Valenzuela P.E., University of Evansville; Valerie A. Stein, University of Evansville

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering, Liberal Education/Engineering & Society, Mechanical Engineering, Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering

, citing thecriticisms of employers of engineering graduates who lacked communication skills, businessacumen, and “an understanding of men.” [sic]1Sir Eric Ashy writes in 1959 that he sees a higher purpose to a humanistic education, not just intaking specific courses, but in making sense of the technology the engineer employs in itswholeness, what he calls the essence of “technological humanism.”2Samuel Florman in 1968 provides five reasons for studying the liberal arts in the introductorychapter “The Civilized Engineer” of his book Engineering and the Liberal Arts. Three of thereasons are for the personal benefit for the engineer, including an appreciation of beauty,enhancing the imagination, and the development of leadership characteristics. Two

Conference Session

Engineering Career Attitudes

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Marcelo Caplan, Columbia College

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Pre-College Engineering Education

promoting the integration with the arts, familyinclusion, a deep exploration and discovery of the possibilities of the STEM field [8], [9].Summer time provides an opportunity to facilitate the participation of underrepresentedminorities in an exploratory experience of the STEM fields [10]. STEM summer camps andactivities facilitate the exposition of students to fields that sometimes are unknown for them, butalso contribute to reverse the “summer learning loss” for the participants as well as provide thema frame to learn in a different way, under a different structure [11].According to the National Research Council for an Out-of-School Time STEM program to beeffective need to provide participants with activities that fulfill the following frame [12

Collection

1996 Annual Conference

Authors

Ishwar Rattan

traditionalcentralized operating systems. To integrate the concepts of distributed operating systems(DOS) in out undergraduate curriculum, a new course has been designed. It uses DOS laboratorywhich contains fourteen PC/ATs running under MINIX 1.5 (with networking kernel). This paperdescribes the course, the laboratory set-up, and the experiences in using the laboratory.Introduction Since the mid 1980s, two major advances in computer technology have been evident. First,powerful microprocessors (16, 32 and even 64 bit) with computing power of earlier mainframesare abundant. Secondly, a larger number of these can be connected together through high speednetworks which allow data transfer at 10 to 100 million bits per second. These have lead to increasing

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Kevin Dahm

Session 1526 Two Experiments for the Introductory Chemical Reaction Engineering Course Kevin Dahm Rowan UniversityAbstractThe Rowan University Department of Chemical Engineering has received an NSF-CCLIgrant to develop realistic chemical reaction engineering experiments for theundergraduate curriculum. Two of these experiments were an esterification reactioncarried out in a packed bed, and a competitive reaction in which the kinetics wereinfluenced by micromixing.The first experiment is the esterification of ethanol

Conference Session

Environmental Engineering Division: Curricula, Criteria, Student Performance, and Growth

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ran Du P.E., United States Military Academy ; Michael A. Butkus, U.S. Military Academy; Jeffrey A. Starke P.E., U.S. Military Academy

Tagged Divisions

Environmental Engineering

to the BOK is presented in Table 3. It is presumed that there maybe less diverse or fewer curriculum requirements placed upon an elective course compared with arequired course. This is supported by the seven different elective courses listed in the surveyresults. The low and high hours did not change between the required and elective courses.However, the average hours changed slightly between required and elective courses and did notchange by more than 1 hour. It is interesting to note that more hours are mapped with BOK 5.4and 5.5 than with the electives. Finally, BOK 5.2 (Identify the modes of failure) and 5.3(Explain the significance of uncertainties) are the lowest mapped criteria.Table 3. Survey Data – Required Courses (All Respondents

Conference Session

Best Zone Paper Competition

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Carol Gattis, University of Arkansas; Shannon Davis, University of Arkansas; Bryan Hill, University of Arkansas; Edgar Clausen, University of Arkansas; Christa Hestekin, University of Arkansas; Bradley Dearing, Illinois State University

Tagged Divisions

Council of Sections

in the state of Arkansas.Christa Hestekin, University of Arkansas CHRISTA N. HESTEKIN Dr. Hestekin is an Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering at the University of Arkansas. Her research interests are in the separation of biomolecules, specifically DNA, using microchannel electrophoresis for applications in medicine, agriculture, environmental sciences, and biosecurity.Bradley Dearing, Illinois State University BRADLEY M. DEARING Mr. Dearing is a faculty associate at Illinois State University and teaches Engineering and Technology at the University’s laboratory high school. He has B.S. and M.S. degrees from Illinois State. He has served as President

Conference Session

Embedded Systems and Mobile Computing

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Richard G. Helps, Brigham Young University; Scott Pack

Tagged Divisions

Computing & Information Technology

Paper ID #7263Introducing Information Technology Students to Cyber-Physical Systems Us-ing a Lab ExperienceDr. Richard G. Helps, Brigham Young University Richard Helps is an associate professor in the Information Technology Program at BYU. He has research interests in embedded systems, human-computer interaction and curriculum design. He is a member off ASEE, IEEE, IEEE-CS, ACM-SIGITE and an ABET PEV for Information Technology.Mr. Scott Pack Page 23.818.1 c American Society for Engineering

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Narayanan Komerath

engineering undergraduates, I concludedthat reverse engineering of specific devices or designs would be too narrow to cater to thediverse interests of the aerospace freshman class,The choice of conceptual design as an integrative tool in our curriculum is based on theexperience of listening to Georgia Tech Aerospace Engineering students and alumni for manyyears. In the traditional curriculum, the Capstone Design course in the senior year is cited bystudents for providing perspective on the various disciplines of aerospace engineering. The firstsix weeks of the 2-course Capstone Design sequence are spent on conceptual design. Hence itwas argued that covering some of these concepts in the first year would have a dual benefit. Thestudents would obtain

Conference Session

Using Computation and Modeling, Engineering Physics and Physics Division (EP2D) Technical Session 3

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Esmeralda Campos, Tecnológico de Monterrey, Mexico; Carlos Eduardo Martinez-Torteya, Tecnológico de Monterrey, Mexico; Genaro Zavala, Tecnológico de Monterrey, Mexico and Universidad Andres Bello, Chile

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Physics and Physics Division (EP2D)

perceptions of difficulty and timedemands. The overall results of the survey show a high level of student satisfaction. The studentsperceive that with the course, they developed the disciplinary and transversal competenciesdeclared in the course objectives. They value the relevance of physics, mathematics, andcomputer science as an interdisciplinary aspect of the course and their professional practice.Their perception of difficulty and time demands is neutral.Keywords: challenge-based learning, higher education, educational innovation, competencydevelopment, interdisciplinarity, physics education.IntroductionUniversities face the challenges of an integrated, globalized world, which have created the needfor educational models based on competency

Conference Session

Meet at Springfield Middle: Where Engineering Meets Education, Woozle Wuzzle!

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Krista Dulany Chisholm, University of Florida; Olivia Lancaster, University of Florida; Areesha Razi, University of Florida; Nancy Ruzycki, University of Florida

Tagged Divisions

Pre-College Engineering Education Division (PCEE)

Wetheim College of Engineering. Her focus is on developing curriculum ba ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 Establishing Sustainable Programs: Creating Lasting Computer Science Summer Programs for Middle School Students (Evaluation)Krista D. Chisholm, Ph.D., Olivia Lancaster, Areesha Razi, Nancy Ruzycki, Ph.D.University of Florida, Department of Materials Science and EngineeringAbstractInformal learning environments are among a number of ways to build learning experiences forstudents outside of the classroom. These experiences can create opportunities for students toengage and develop an interest in computer science and engineering outside the

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Stanford; Michael Aherne; Duane D. Dunlap; Mel Mendelson; Donald Keating

the profile of their innovation capacities. Large and smaller innovative firms have important common needs: commitment from the top; an integrated view of innovation strategy and business strategy; a clear idea of the firm’s distinctive competencies; an openness to constructive ideas and contributions from all staff; a structured way of watching and responding to changes and opportunities in the business environment. However, smaller firms tend to have more limited financial and human resources, less ready access to information, and shorter time horizons. In addition, they are generally more risk-averse and reluctant to engage outside help, except for very specific short-term needs. Firms have become more specialized and

Conference Session

Communication Across the Divisions II: Communication and Transdisciplinary Pedagogies

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kathryn A. Neeley, University of Virginia

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering, Liberal Education/Engineering & Society, Mechanical Engineering, Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering

increase thestatus or decrease the grading load of the instructors, and it perpetuated a reductionist conceptionof technical communication that persists outside of the field to this day. Perhaps the moststriking feature of the situation was described by Kynell: “A great irony in the evolution oftechnical communication in an engineering curriculum was the virtual second class statusimposed on the discipline by [emphasis added] those who taught it” (p. 93). They accepted aposition that they typically agreed was below both the teaching of literature and the teaching ofengineering—and they got out of it as soon as possible, or perhaps just got used to it. Onceoutsourcing was established as a dominant model, it has been very difficult to dislodge, both

Collection

2018 FYEE Conference

Authors

Michael Wilson, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

reduced to a pendulum balance of money,management, and minutes. Thus the pracademic is a person that thinks, optimizes, produces, and practiceswith purpose.3. Transciciplinary taxonomyThe basic drawing above accents the differences pictographically. The context for Intradisciplinary isoccurring within the scope of scholarly disciplines; integrating reading, writing, and orating in languagearts are an example. Multidsciplinary is when working on a problem, within silo or similar boundaries aswhen studying math, history, reading, and science, the teams use similar assumptions, restrictions,perspectives, and philosophies. Crossdisciplinary then integrates aspects from multiple academicdisciplines to address problems arising from narrow

Conference Session

Exploration of Broad Issues and Promotion of Engineering and Technological Literacy

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

John Heywood, Trinity College Dublin

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering

Paper ID #29656Whither engineering and technological Literacy? Cui Bono 2.Prof. John Heywood, Trinity College Dublin John Heywood is professorial Fellow Emeritus of Trinity College Dublin- The University of Dublin. he is a Fellow of ASEE and Life Fellow of IEEE. he is an Honorary Fellow of the Institution of Engineers Ireland. He has special interest in education for the professions and the role of professions in society, and the work of ASEE’s TELPhE division from whom he has received a best paper and meritorious service awards. He is author of Engineering Education. Research and Development in Curriculum and Instruc

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Maryam Darbeheshti, University of Colorado, Denver; Miriam Howland Cummings PhD, University of Colorado, Denver; William Taylor Schupbach; David J. Russomanno, Indiana University - Purdue University, Indianapolis; Stephanie S Ivey, The University of Memphis; Karen D Alfrey, Indiana University - Purdue University, Indianapolis; Tom Altman; Michael S. Jacobson; Craig O. Stewart, University of Memphis; Katherine Goodman, University of Colorado, Denver

Tagged Topics

Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

specializes in optimization algorithms, formal language theory, and complex systeDr. Michael S. Jacobson, Professor of Mathematics for over 40 years, with a keen interest in STEM Education.Craig O. Stewart, University of MemphisProf. Katherine Goodman, University of Colorado, Denver Katherine Goodman is associate professor at the University of Colorado Denver, and curriculum lead at Inworks, an interdisciplinary innovation lab. Her research focuses on transformative experiences in engineering education. She has served as program chair and division chair of the Technological and Engineering Literacy - Philosophy of Engineering (TELPhE) Division. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023

Conference Session

Developing New Instrumentation

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gary Mullett, Springfield Technical Community College; Yakov Cherner, ATeL, LLC; Edward Bigos, Springfield Technical Community College; Ted Sussmann, Springfield Technical Community College

Tagged Divisions

Instrumentation

context for science, engineering and technology investigations. He also proposed and implemented the pioneering concept of integrated adjustable virtual laboratories and designed easy-to-use authoring tools to create such labs. Dr. Cherner holds an MS in Experimental Physics, and Ph.D. in Physics and Materials Science. He has published over 80 papers in national and international journals and made dozens of presentations at various national and international conferences and workshops. Dr. Cherner has served as a Principal Investigator for several government-funded educational projects.Edward Bigos, Springfield Technical Community College Edward Bigos, a professor of Electronics/Computer Systems

Conference Session

INDUSTRY DAY SESSION: CMC PANEL SESSION ONE

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Deborah A. Trytten, University of Oklahoma; Rui Pan, University of Oklahoma; Cindy E Foor, University of Oklahoma; Randa L. Shehab, University of Oklahoma; Susan E. Walden, University of Oklahoma

Tagged Topics

Corporate Member Council, Diversity

friends with boys better.Alice may have had an easier time integrating into the team because her gender expressioncontained elements that are more typically male. Alice's athleticism, especially her choice ofphysically demanding sports like field hockey, may have made her more acceptable in CTA’smale dominated team culture. We know that her physical appearance at her first CTA meeting(disheveled from sports practice) had initially impressed the team. Alice is also openly anddirectly competitive: I like to compete in all areas. One thing I have noticed, I used to think I had to be number one. I had to be the best at everything. I was valedictorian, I was super competitive with this one guy in school, we fought it out to the

Conference Session

Pedagogy and Learning 1

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Waddah Akili, Iowa State University

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

outcomes than any other factorexamined, including the curriculum content factors. The paper focuses on implementation ofproblem–based learning (PBL) in an engineering program, examines different variations of PBLdiscussed in the literature, selects suitable versions for potential adoption at the start, andidentifies and illustrates faculty role in implementing PBL. It also includes a brief history ofPBL, selected strategies to infuse PBL in an engineering program, and suggestions forredesigning courses to catalyze change in the classroom environment through studentengagement. The paper, also, addresses the potential difficulties that could arise duringimplementation of PBL, particularly when instructors are new to this instructional method

Collection

1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Prissovsky; Edwin R. Carney; David B. Oglesby; Dave Crites

not limited to the current course. In the futurethey may serve the important function of connecting an otherwise disjoint curriculum in theminds of the students.Conceptual Mini-Lectures, Example Problems, and Concept Maps consist of a combination ofaudio, text and graphics. The graphics are synchronized with the audio. The result is similar to aview graph presentation where the speaker constantly changes the view graph as he or shespeaks.Too often progress is slowed due to misconceptions that are formed when studying new material.Conceptual Self Tests are included with most of the Conceptual Mini-Lectures. For most topics,the points at which students are likely to struggle are well known. The self tests are designed totrap and eliminate the

Conference Session

Programs for High School Students

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bill Elmore, Mississippi State University; Adrienne Minerick, Mississippi State University

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

areas include integrated freshman engineering and courses throughout the chemical engineering curriculum including unit operations laboratories and reactor design. His current research activities include engineering educational reform, enzyme-based catalytic reactions in micro-scale reactor systems, and bioengineering applied to renewable fuels and chemicals. Page 11.1406.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006 Using Research as a Tool for Student RecruitingABSTRACTThe Dave C. Swalm School of Chemical Engineering, in conjunction with the MississippiScience and Mathematics School

Collection

2021 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Meeting

Authors

Kiril Alexandrov Nikolov, The University of Texas at Tyler; Mohammad Abu Rafe Biswas, The University of Texas at Tyler; Xuan Nguyen, The University of Texas at Tyler; Victor Eduardo Ortiz, The University of Texas at Tyler

in order to adapt to and overcome modernchallenges [1]. Figure 1. Crossflow heat exchanger.In general, education in engineering requires both theoretical and practical knowledge, and in mostcases, students gain theoretical knowledge in the classroom, but laboratory experience is neededto obtain practical skills [2]. The engineering Thermal-Fluids Laboratory course at the Universityof Texas at Tyler (MENG 3211) is one such curriculum that has made substantial progress in thedevelopment and integration of thermal-system analysis in the form of virtually simulated heatexchangers. This virtual analysis provides an accurate preview of what to expect when workingwith a physical engineering system without the

Conference Session

High-School Engineering Education

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mercedes McKay, Stevens Institute of Technology; Debra Brockway, Stevens Institute of Technology; Beth McGrath, Stevens Institute of Technology; Henry Harms, Stevens Insititue of Technology; Eirik Hole, Stevens Institute of Technology; David Janosz, NJTEA

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

means thatbetter understanding of potential “foreign” user communities and environments are needed.Students participating in the Introduction to the Core Concepts of Systems Engineering haveengaged in a first-hand experience integrating systems engineering and global collaboration aspart of an effort to increase the number of students who will go on to pursue engineeringeducation and careers and to provide them with workforce skills for the 21st century.Pilot Test DescriptionThe two major components addressed during the first year of the SAGE project were to 1)identify and develop the four systems and global engineering curriculum modules and 2) provideprofessional development on those modules to selected teachers who would then pilot test

Collection

1999 Annual Conference

Authors

David Alexander; Ronald Smelser

communicate. This shift is of particular interest in educationalresearch. It motivates the need to alter the way in which courses are taught. This change inpedagogy is the shift from a lecture-centered environment to a student-centered one. Theclassroom becomes an arena for investigation conducted by the student. Many educationalprograms have been redesigning curriculum to better make this shift2,3,4,5,6,7. In the new modelthe instructor becomes facilitator guiding the student towards self-discovery8.Many schools currently use the Internet to deliver course material. However, it is important touse the technology appropriately. Research indicates that using methods that combinedcomputer, video and instructor support provided significantly higher

Conference Session

Mathematics Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Khalid El Gaidi, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH); Tomas Ekholm, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH)

Tagged Divisions

Mathematics

in engineering curriculum: Students conceptions and performance. Journal of Engineering Education, 101(1): 138–162, 2012.[18] J. Hiebert and P. Lefevre. Conceptual and procedural knowledge in mathematics: An introductory analysis. Conceptual and procedural knowledge: The case of mathematics, pages 1–27, 1986.[19] J. R. Star. Reconceptualizing procedural knowledge. Journal of Research in Mathematics Education, 36: 404–411, 2005.[20] L. Filipsson, M. Cronhjort, and M. Weurlander. Can peer instruction in calculus improve students’ learning? Proceedings of the 9th international CDIO conference, 2013.[21] K. Chappell and K. Killpatrick. Effects of concept-based instruction on students’ conceptual and procedural knowledge

Conference Session

EM Skills and Real World Concepts

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Stanton Cort; Gary Wnek

particularly opportune time to highlight the topic of innovation is through a courseon product and process design. A specific example is the two-semester course entitledProduct and Process Design, Development and Delivery (P2D3), an integral part of theMaster of Engineering and Management (MEM) curriculum at Case Western ReserveUniversity.3 Briefly, the MEM degree involved a one-year, 42-credit curriculum forB.S.-degreed engineers and computer scientists. It was launched in 2001 in thoughtfulresponse to much input from industry about the need for ‘business-minded innovators.’We currently have students from a broad spectrum of technical disciplines, includingbiomedical, chemical, civil, computer, electrical, mechanical and systems engineering, aswell