Conference Session

Civil Engineering Teaching Part Two

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gerald Himes, United States Military Academy; Jakob Bruhl, United States Military Academy; Joseph Hanus, United States Military Academy

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

designing structuralmembers from common construction materials (wood, masonry, and concrete). This coursetakes the fundamentals developed in CE300 and applies them in the context of design codes.Understanding analysis procedures and current design codes, CE450 serves as an opportunity forthe students to put their knowledge to use in a broader context.CE450 focuses on the engineering design process (see Figure 2). While this process isintroduced in CE300 and reinforced in CE350, it is not until the third course that students areable to apply their knowledge to a large engineering problem. This paper focuses on thesemester-long Engineering Design Project (EDP) in CE450. In this project, students are requiredto design and develop a construction plan

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Curriculum Innovation

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Richard Ruhala, University of Southern Indiana; Laura Ruhala, University of Southern Indiana; Eric Sprouls, University of Southern Indiana

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

not enrolled in engineering courses their first year. This wasidentified as a reason that more than half of the incoming freshman left engineering after the firstyear. It was anticipated that this problem could worsen since the mathematics and sciencerequirements are more rigorous in the upcoming engineering program. One engineering programin the United States indicated that a reason for low success among the pre-calculus engineeringuvwfgpv"rqrwncvkqp"ku"vjcv"vjg{"Ðncem"gctn{"gzrquwtg"vq"gpikpggtkpi"cpf."vjgtghqtg."ncem"uqekcnk|cvkqp"ykvjkp"vjgkt"fgenctgf"gpikpggtkpi"rtqitcouÑ3. The 5-year plan of study at USIexposes students to engineering their first year in class sizes normally less than 30 students,which should facilitate socialization

Conference Session

Money and People; Resource Management for Recruitment and Retention

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mary Anderson-Rowland, Arizona State University

Tagged Divisions

Women in Engineering

the school’s research program opportunities for which thescholars are encouraged to apply.The students are given assignments throughout the semester as a part of the CIRC program. Atthe beginning of each semester the students send a copy of their course schedule and mustdevelop a detailed time management schedule of all 168 hours of the week which include themain building blocks of the 4.0 Plan: bullet point reading, bullet point notes, homework, bulletpoint concepts, and professor office hours for each class, as well as the their class and worktimes. There are a few more assignments designed to help the student stay on task with theirtime management plan. The students are given a checklist to help them with their timemanagement plan.5 An

Conference Session

Manufacturing Division Technical Session 4

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Zareena Gani, Higher Colleges of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Manufacturing

, communications, ethics, economics of engineering, etc. into theengineering curriculum [2].The traditional ‘chalk and talk’ pedagogy is more unlikely to satisfy the requirements of theaccreditation criteria and what industries need from engineering graduates. PBL seems certainlythe best way to satisfy industry needs without sacrificing the knowledge of engineeringfundamentals and welcomed by students, industry and accreditors alike [3] [4].Computer Integrated Manufacturing – CIM is being taught as an elective course during thegraduation year in undergraduate Mechanical Engineering program. The course syllabus covers awide range of topics including integration of Computer Aided Design (CAD) / Computer AidedManufacturing (CAM), Manufacturing Planning

Conference Session

Software Engineering Constituent Committee Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Pat Smith, Oklahoma Christian University of Science and Arts

Tagged Divisions

Software Engineering Constituent Committee

employer feedback surveys (not included in this document due to spacelimitations). This broad area includes topics such as programming languages, basic debugging,problem solving, algorithms, mathematical skills (rated highly), standards, and root causeanalysis.The survey confirmed to the department that the current inclusion of these topics is importantand we should not reduce these at the cost of other topics. In our follow up work we took care toensure that these topics continued to be a strong part of our degree plan.A second group of topics that were ranked closely together could be collected under the broadcategory of “Software Design, construction, and testing”. Upon closer examination of ourdegree plan, and with consultation with our

Conference Session

Circuits and Systems Education 2

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David Braun, California Polytechnic State University

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

Macro this quarter helped me improve writing quality 0.0 0.0 16.7 58.3 25.0 4.1 0.6 83.3 0.0 in my EE 460 Project Plan Report.2 Using the Paramedic Method MS Word Macro helped me identify unclear or awkward 0.0 41.7 0.0 25.0 33.3 3.5 1.3 58.3 41.7 writing.3 The Paramedic Method Macro + Video webpage helped explain the Paramedic Method 0.0 0.0 8.3 33.3 58.3 4.5 0.6 91.7 0.0 to me.4 The Paramedic Method Macro

Conference Session

Faculty Development I

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Margret Hjalmarson, George Mason University; Jill K Nelson, George Mason University; Craig Lorie, George Mason University

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

level, instructors are designing new teachingstrategies. At the second level, the researchers are designing a model for teaching developmentfor faculty. In addition, how does conceptualizing teaching as a design process inform a teachingdevelopment model for instructors?  Literature Review  We build in this project on other frameworks for research in education that examine howeducational products (e.g., curriculum) or processes are designed for the classroom. In many ofthese cases, there are models, resources or tools being designed to support teaching and learning.For example, in research about the design of curriculum, Clements describes multiple stages inthe life of the materials from the ideal curriculum to the planned curriculum to the

Conference Session

Engineering Management Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kate D. Abel, Stevens Institute of Technology (SES)

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Management

/404 isrun in smaller sections (15 to 35 students) with about as many workshops imbedded inthe two courses as there are lessons. This course set has been run in pilot mode since theFall of 2012. The goal of the new TG 403/404 pilot being spread over two semesters wasto provide just-in-time EM and SE knowledge to the seniors as they completed their two-semester capstone design sequence.The Senior Capstone Design Coordinators were quite cognizant that many of theirstudents did not have good planning and project management skills. They also werereadily aware of how “green” their students were in regard to preparedness in meetingswith clients, and that very few teams designed with cost in mind. So their focus,understandably so, was on their

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session II

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Samantha Ruth Brunhaver, Arizona State University, Polytechnic campus; Holly M Matusovich, Virginia Tech; Ruth A. Streveler, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Sheri Sheppard, Stanford University; Cheryl Carrico P.E., Virginia Tech; Angela Harris, Stanford University

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees Poster Session

provides background anddetails about the project.MotivationThe PEPS study follows a small, but growing, body of literature in engineering education onearly engineering career choice. While some studies focus on the proportions of engineeringbachelor’s graduates who pursue engineering jobs and graduate degrees,1,3 other studies haveexamined the specific factors related to engineering students having plans to pursue engineeringcareers, versus non-engineering careers, after college, finding that the experiences thatengineering students have in their programs have a big impact. For example, in their study ofengineering undergraduates at nine institutions nationwide, Amelink and Creamer (2010) foundthat student satisfaction with the quality of teaching

Collection

2019 ERC

Authors

Kara T Hall

Systems Science Urban Planning Slide source: Sarah Gehlert Challenges in Transdisciplinary Team Science • Conceptual and Scientific Challenges • Lack of clarity about “what TD is” & “how you get there” • TD science “stretches” investigators’ intellectual “capacity” more than UD research • TD research is more complex than UD research • Different Disciplinary Cultures Among Collaborators • Differences in values, language, traditions • Team members want to stay in their “comfort zone” (re: disciplinary culture) • Management Challenges • TD research = more time

Conference Session

Experimentation and Laboratory-oriented Studies Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Lijun Zhang, Beijing Institute of Technology; Dongxiao Wang, Beijing Institute of Technology ; Xiaofeng Tang, Ohio State University; Zhonglian Zhang, Beijing Institute of Technology; Hai Lin, Beijing Institute of Technology

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Experimentation and Laboratory-Oriented Studies

students “work as an engineer,” the courseinstructors took a backward design approach to redesign this course. First, learning outcomesfor the course were redefined to highlight problem-solving skills, which are essentialoutcomes according to the ABET criteria. Second, a comprehensive assessment plan wascreated to measure student progress in each of the learning outcomes. Rubrics-based gradingfocuses on assessing five dimensions of student work: the solution’s efficacy, quality oftechnical writing, oral communication, completion of prototypes, and testing plans and results.Finally, the newly developed learning outcomes and assessment plan were aligned withlearning activities in the course, including design, prototyping, testing, as well as

Conference Session

International Division Poster Session

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jeff Scott Thomas; Nick M. Safai, Salt Lake Community College; Christopher F Thompson S.M.ASCE, Salt Lake Community College

Tagged Divisions

International

Community College, majoring in Civil Engineering with interest in the Structural branch of Civil. Thomas is involved with the 2+2 transfer program, an articulated engineering program between the two institutions SLCC and University of Utah. He plans to complete his Associate’s of Civil Engineering at Salt Lake Community College in spring 2013 before transferring to the University of Utah in the following fall semester.Dr. Nick M. Safai, Salt Lake Community CollegeMr. Christopher F Thompson S.M.ASCE, Salt Lake Community College Christopher F. Thompson has been a student at Salt Lake Community College in Salt Lake City, Utah since the fall of 2009. He is currently studying chemical, civil and environmental engineering. While

Conference Session

Factors Impacting Engineering Career Choices, Including Engaging Families

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David R. Heil, David Heil & Associates, Inc.; Neil Hutzler, Michigan Technological University; Christine M. Cunningham, Museum of Science; Mia Jackson, Foundation for Family Science & Engineering; Joan F. Chadde, Michigan Technological University

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

inquiry, creativity, teamwork, and collaborative problemsolving and can be used by individuals and organizations to plan and conduct successfulcommunity outreach events that increase public understanding and appreciation of engineeringand the role it plays in everyday life. Modeled after the popular publications Family Science1and Family Math2 a new publication titled Family Engineering: An Activity and EventPlanning Guide3 will serve as a valuable resource for professional engineering societies andstudent chapters of those societies as well as formal and informal educators who want to host aFamily Engineering event in their community.With support from the National Science Foundation, hands-on activities that introduce familiesto traditional and

Conference Session

Assessment and Accreditation in Engineering Management

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Pawel Pawlewski, Poznan University of Technology; Zbigniew J. Pasek, University of Windsor

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Economy, Engineering Management, Industrial Engineering, Systems Engineering

todevelop their own product ideas from initial concepts to a business plan for a start-up. Thecourse is offered in English. The second course, offered to 3rd year students, introduces fundamental concepts relatedto industrial process analysis and improvement. Students learn necessary data collection andanalysis techniques (such as, for example, Value Stream Mapping) and also the basics ofprocess simulation using a commercial software package. Student teams work with industrialsponsors and develop competing innovative ideas for process transformation andimprovement. Emphasis is placed on the quality of the student work and final results. Topprojects are offered to present at technical conferences, publish their results in technicaljournals, and

Conference Session

Assessment & Continuous Improvement in ECET: Part II

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Youakim Al Kalaani, Georgia Southern University; Shonda Bernadin, GSU

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

improvement whose results areused to constantly update and evaluate the program for sustained improvement and continuedsuccess. A plan must exist that details program-level continuous improvement, as well ascourse-level continuous improvement.In this paper, we describe an ABET-driven assessment plan that was originally developed toaddress some weaknesses and concerns identified by program evaluators during a previousaccreditation visit. However, faculty of the Electrical Engineering Technology (EET) seized thisopportunity to embark on a major program revision making use of its newly organized IndustrialAdvisory Board (IAB). As a result, a five-step process that consists of 1) program assessmentplanning, 2) data collection, 3) data analysis, 4

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Barry Hyman, University of Missouri; Jim Borgford-Parnell, University of Washington; Yuyi Lin, University of Missouri

insight to, andexperience with, many aspects of real-world engineering projects. Simultaneously, capstonedesign projects will be advanced further towards industry implementation andcommercialization.The refinement activities in the pre-capstone courses are being planned and managed by studentsenrolled in a new senior/graduate course in management of design, working under the directionof the pre-capstone course instructors. This approach makes it feasible to systematicallyintegrate project-based learning into engineering education without requiring major curriculumreforms or new faculty resources.In this paper, we first describe the process we went through to select the capstone designrefinement opportunities, identifying the pre-capstone courses

Conference Session

Nontraditional Ways to Engage Students

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas O'Neal; Thomas Jacobius; Joseph Steig; Arnold Heggestad; Abigail Barrow; Phil Weilerstein; David Barbe

Ventures, a regional technology economicdevelopment organization, and the highly successful Technology Startup Boot Camp, conductedfor several years at the University of Maryland. The series was further developed by the NationalCollegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance (NCIIA) in collaboration with regional partners andconsulting firm Grayhead Associates. Invention to Venture provides an opportunity forparticipants around the country to learn technology entrepreneurship basics, build their networks,and develop plans for moving their ideas forward. The NCIIA and its member institutions intendto make Invention to Venture an effective extracurricular outreach vehicle based at select collegecampuses across the country. This paper describes the

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Anna Phillips; Jon Fricker; Paul Palazolo; Norman Dennis

this database extensively in planning afield and laboratory investigation program to characterize soil properties needed for the design oftheir facility.Paul Palazolo has customized the computational and project elements from “Sooner City” intohis undergraduate Civil Engineering Computation course at The University of Memphis withextension of the authenticity of the programming to relate to actual engineering audiences. Page 6.1138.1 "Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright @ 2001, American Society for Engineering

Conference Session

Capstone Courses

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Martin Edin Grimheden, Royal Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

changed the way many software developersorganize their work and projects, for example as in Scrum by delegating responsibilities,empowering individuals and delaying decisions. The main driver in most methods is“accelerated delivery” realized by focusing on small steps, incremental development,prototyping and quick feedback rather than extensive planning and documentation [1].The “Agile Manifesto” [2] is based on twelve principles to follow as an agile softwaredeveloper: from “…satisfying the customer through early and continuous delivery…”,“…welcome changing requirements…”, “…business people and developers must worktogether…”, “…face-to-face conversation…”, “…self-organizing teams…” to “…the teamreflects on how to become more effective…” [2].The

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Kauser Jahan; Douglas Cleary

andrepresentatives from these firms participate in the evaluation process. The projects are eithercurrent projects the firms are working on simultaneously or are projects the firms have alreadycompleted. Students must prepare engineering plans, specifications, cost estimates, and writtenand oral project reports. Because the course extends over two semesters, an attempt is madeplace issues such information collection, planning and preliminary or concept design during thefirst semester with more detailed design during the second term.The Design Project course was designed with the ABET 2000 criteria (ABET, 1999) and theconcerns of industry in mind. Some of these concerns include lack of team skills, poor writtenand oral communication, lack of ability to

Conference Session

Educational Research and Methods Division (ERM) Technical Session 27

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Aturika Bhatnagar, New Jersey Institute of Technology; Prateek Shekhar, New Jersey Institute of Technology; Jeffrey Stransky, New Jersey Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods Division (ERM)

broaddimensions related to entrepreneurship such as identifying opportunities, management, planning,decision making, and marketing [9].Researchers have generally developed ESE instruments by either leveraging existing research touse the items from existing studies or develop their own instruments. The validation of thesedeveloped instruments has been performed by factor analysis by either extracting factors throughprincipal component analysis [9], [14] or principal axis factoring [18]. Table 1 provides a summaryof articles which focus on the development of an ESE instrument. The table presents the stepsperformed in validation process used by the researchers (e.g., numbers of factors extracted afterfactor analysis, sample and sample size, number of

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Maryam Darbeheshti, University of Colorado Denver; Tom Altman; Katherine Goodman, University of Colorado Denver; Heather Lynn Johnson; Marie E. Evans, University of Colorado Denver; David C. Mays, University of Colorado Denver

Tagged Topics

Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

of our engineeringcollege’s plan for diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), we submitted brainstormed ideas forimplementation to our dean’s office. And third, after reviewing reports from student focusgroups conducted in 2020/21, we evaluated progress and made recommendations for next steps;in this context the clarity and urgency of the student feedback is both motivational and difficultto ignore. The common theme in each of three elements is seeking to bridge the valley of neglectthat so often divides scholarly work about DEI from concrete changes that benefit students,employers, and the broader community.IntroductionTo broaden participation, the United States needs to engage the “missing millions” [1] ofAmericans who are currently

Collection

1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Mary E. Besterfield-Sacre; Larry J. Shuman; Jack McGourty

very legitimate concerns as tohow they can best be measured to diatribes on their vagueness and even calls for their rejection.In our initial desire to satisfy the new criteria, have we become captivated with the process, aswitnessed by the proliferation of continuous improvement (e.g., plan-do-act-check) models thatdescribe the “ideal” educational path [2, 3, 4 5]? Such models have exposed engineering facultyto a cycle in the engineering educational process that is first defined, measured, compared todesired criteria or standards, and subsequently improved, and then the cycle is repeated again. Inrushing to adopt this “cycle,” have we overlooked an important step? Specifically, we have yetto comprehensively examine the meaning of these

Collection

1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Gloria Rogers; Julia Williams

-Portfolio at Rose-HulmanInstitute of Technology, the faculty, administration, and students have confronted theseissues; the result is a web-based portfolio system that focuses on a student’s “best work”and requires a “reflective statement” in which a student demonstrates the relevance of thework to the learning outcomes objectives. This article outlines the stages of the RosE-Portfolio development from the initial concept to its testing through a Pilot Project andthe current status of the plan. In offering the results of the project thus far, the authorsoffer suggestions on how other institutions may gauge the appropriateness of a portfoliosystem to their own student learning outcome goals.IntroductionThe current interest in the use of portfolios

Conference Session

Professional Graduate Education and Industry

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Roger Olson, Rolls-Royce Corporation

Tagged Divisions

Graduate Studies

Page 15.1104.22-1. OVERVIEWAs engineers mature into mid career planning and leadership positions and assume greaterresponsibilities, they must learn new skills, develop new abilities, and act in moderately complexsituations. Mid level leaders/planners are progressing towards becoming the engineering profession’shighest level thinkers, executive practitioners, and leaders of change for continuous corporateimprovement and innovation.2-1-1. Engineering Education: A Lifelong Growth Process ─ The National Collaborative Task Forcefor Engineering Graduate Education Reform has deliberately taken a broad, holistic approach thataddresses the overall professional education of the engineer as a lifelong developmental and self-studygrowth process that is

Conference Session

Current Topics in IE Education

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Veronica Dark; Frank Peters; Sarah Ryan; John Jackman; Sigurdur Olafsson

environment called the Engineering Learning Portal (ELP), which focuses on improvingengineering problem solving throughout the industrial engineering curriculum. In the ELP,students are engaged in a structured process for solving unstructured problems whileencouraging metacognitive activities, such as planning, monitoring, and evaluating. This helpsstudents acquire the higher order cognition and integration of knowledge domains needed foreffective engineering problem solving. In particular, a key element of the ELP is that it requiresstudents to explain and evaluate their work while they are solving complex engineeringproblems. The underlying premise is that such metacognitive tasks are valuable to studentsbecause they eventually improve their

Conference Session

Assessment of Biomedical Engineering Programs

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Ann McKenna

been structured such that faculty, or domain experts, work together withlearning scientists, learning technologists, and assessment experts to redesign and evaluatecourses. We work together as an interdisciplinary team to create innovative course materials anddesign appropriate evaluation plans. We follow an iterative design process in that we implementchanges, collect feedback, and use these data to inform the design of the next course andevaluation. This paper describes three courses and assessment plans that have been implementedat Northwestern from Winter 2001 to Fall 2001. The three courses fall under the domains of bio -optics and biotechnology. This paper provides an overview of each course, the changes that wereimplemented, and the

Collection

2024 ASEE PSW Conference

Authors

Matthew J Haslam, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University - Prescott

definition of the solution, and the analysisverifies that the design satisfies all established requirements. A prototype of the design is thenfabricated, and carefully planned tests are conducted to validate that the design meets allrequirements. Finally, manufacturing processes, appropriate for the anticipated production rate,are developed and verified.At each stage of the engineering process, there is typically a review where engineers presentformal slide presentations to customers, superiors, or other stakeholders. Each step of theengineering process typically requires a significant increase in investment, so these reviews serveas a gate that must be passed before proceeding to the next step.Although the reviews often go by different names

Conference Session

Track 4: Technical Session 5: Using a Summer Bridge Program to Develop a Situational Judgment Inventory: From Year 1 to Year 2

Collection

2024 Collaborative Network for Engineering & Computing Diversity (CoNECD)

Authors

Malini Josiam, Virginia Tech Department of Engineering Education; Walter C. Lee, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Tagged Topics

CoNECD Paper Sessions, Diversity

● Project Context ● Problem Context ● Developing the Situational Judgement Inventory (SJI) ● SJI Pilot Results ● Moving Forward 2In order to fully contextualize our SJI instrument, we will first provide backgroundinformation related to our research team, project context, and education plan. Thenwe will explain our process for developing the SJI and talk through some of ourpreliminary findings

Conference Session

NSF Grantees’ Poster Session

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mary R. Anderson-Rowland, Arizona State University

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Tagged Divisions

Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

4 + 1 program so that qualified students could take two or three approved coursesand have them double count for the Bachelor’s and Master’s degree. This program was Page 24.1403.2successful in helping more students choose graduate school since they could get a Master’sdegree in just one year past the Bachelor’s degree, saving both time and money. However, not allstudents eligible for graduate school choose to do the 4 + 1 plan or are qualified for theaccelerated program and money is still a problem for these students. Therefore we addedgraduate scholarships (maximum of four semesters) to the S-STEM programs for students whohad graduated