Conference Session

DISTINGUISHED LECTURE: 2018 Best PIC and Zone Paper Presentations

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Diane Constance Aloisio, Indiana-Purdue University

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ASEE Board of Directors

-guided study on how systems engineers develop their expertise. Additionally,many systems engineers have an integrative role, “requiring a deeper understanding of a widerange of areas than provided by a focused education” [Ross et al., 2014]. Anecdotally, manyuniversity faculty agree that successful systems engineers can only be made through experience,as evidenced in part by the relatively few programs in systems engineering, especially at theundergraduate level1. As Adcock et al. [2015] note: “current undergraduate engineering education1 A brief note on terminology is appropriate here. While there are many graduate engineering programs that addressthe problems posed by complex engineering systems, these programs tend to focus on the science of

Conference Session

Reception & Poster Session

Collection

2013 ASEE International Forum

Authors

Amos G Winter V, MIT; Robert James Stoner, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Charles H Fine, MIT Sloan School of Management

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ASEE International Forum

fortesting a range of strategies for pollution control in Indian industrial clusters. Taking a regionalapproach allows the team to analyze many manufacturing facilities in an integral ecosystem,providing an opportunity to develop scalable results.ConclusionThe Tata Center for Technology and Design is providing a venue for MIT faculty and students todevelop and apply technological, systems, and management skills to make a positive impact ondeveloping and emerging markets. We have structured a program that provides Tata Fellowswith an immersive experience in India that will broaden their perspective on the technological,systems, and management challenges and opportunities in development, as well as training forhow to implement tractable and successful

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2015 ASEE Workshop on K-12 Engineering Education

Authors

Jessica S Ward, Drexel University (Eng. & Eng. Tech.); Adam K Fontecchio, Drexel University (Eng. & Eng. Tech.); Robert Shultz, Drexel University; Gabriel Burks, Drexel University

knowledge to construct a paper structure capable of carrying the highestload requires the use of engineering design processes with at least one iteration/improvement.When planning their design, participants are expected to conduct small tests of designcomponents and tailor their final design accordingly. Similarly, specific engineering habits ofmind are addressed in this section of the workshop: designs must follow pre-determined criteriaand fit within specific constraints, such as limited building supplies. Identifying and operatingwithin such criteria and constraints is an integral component of the engineering design process.Throughout the workshop, the participants will naturally experience and practice all eight of thescience and engineering

Conference Session

Activities for the Materials Classroom

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Donald Goddard

quality alloy that they can lateruse in practical applications.IntroductionAny student, having completed basic chemistry, would be ready for a first laboratory course inthe realm of Materials Science and Mechanics of Materials, which might fall anywhere from thefreshman to junior year, depending on the particular engineering curriculum. In such coursesthere is need for interrelated experiments which can give both depth and breadth ofunderstanding which can be built upon in other classes, such as Machine Component Design. Itis also very useful if such experiments should happen to be at the lower end of the cost range. Ahappy concurrence of these factors is to be found in threaded rod, which meets the ASTMSpecification A 193 Grade B71ASTM (American

Conference Session

Dynamic Systems and Control

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Chan Ham, Kennesaw State University ; Mohsin Mohammad Taufiq, Southern Polytechnic State University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

mechatronics engineering throughthis hands-on project as an assessment of the design project presented.I. IntroductionA ball-and-beam system is one of the challenging control bench-marking systems integrated intomany practices and techniques [1]. This project will resolve in taking the ball-and-beam conceptand develop a ball-and-plate balancing system. The system will utilize sensors, actuators, andcontrol law to manipulate the servos in a feedback stabilization using three-degree-of-freedomcompensation. This is essentially implementing two ball-and-beam experiments in parallel toconstructing a ball-and-plate prototype.The concept of the ball-and-beam system is a simple system that is an unstable open-loop.Without an active feedback control system

Conference Session

Continuing Professional Development Division (CPD) Poster Session

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jennifer S Linvill, Purdue University; Eric Holloway, Purdue University at West Lafayette (COE); Emily M. Haluschak, Purdue University at West Lafayette (COE); Evelyn Shana Marx; Breejha Sene Quezada, Purdue University at West Lafayette (PPI); Tamara J Moore, Purdue University at West Lafayette (COE)

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Diversity

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Continuing Professional Development Division (CPD)

, professional development, and networking.Dr. Eric Holloway, Purdue University at West Lafayette (COE) Dr. Eric Holloway currently serves as the Sr. Director of Industry Research in the College of Engineering at Purdue, where he focuses on industry research in the College of Engineering. He also holds a courtesy faculty appointment in the School of Engineering Education and the School of Mechanical Engineering.Emily Marie Haluschak, Purdue University at West Lafayette (COE) Emily M. Haluschak is an undergraduate student in Chemical Engineering working within INSPIRE In- stitute at Purdue University. She primarily focuses on data analysis for K-2 STEM integration while also editing STEM curriculum.Evelyn Shana MarxMs. Breejha

Conference Session

Engineering Libraries Division Technical Session 1: Diversity

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Shalini Ramachandran, Boise State University; Steven Matthew Cutchin, Boise State University; Sheree Fu, California State University, Los Angeles

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Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Libraries

specifically looked at algorithm bias instruction, we did not find recent publishedwork in the field. However, compared to when we began our research in 2018, we find thatmany computer science programs now recognize and incorporate courses on algorithm bias intothe curriculum. An article published in 2019, “Embedded EthiCS: Integrating Ethics Across CSEducation” by Grosz et al. [14] outlines efforts at Harvard University to create amultidisciplinary approach to teaching ethics to CS students, utilizing instructors fromphilosophy and computer science to teach courses that address various ethical issues that facecomputer scientists.The Embedded EthiCS approach is being embraced at other institutions as well. StanfordUniversity [15] is one of the

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Nicholas Arcolano; Richard Vaz

on outcome 4, which asks them to apply those very same toolsto the new concepts in an integrative fashion. This may indicate limits to students’ abilities toachieve higher-level learning outcomes on their own. At the same time, the number of studentsnot attempting that outcome makes clear the need for measurements to focus on assignments thatall students are likely to complete.It is, of course, pertinent to ask how high these levels of achievement should be. One can arguethat passing a course should be contingent upon achieving all educational outcomes for thecourse. Such a grading approach is possible, and has been used for one of the other core coursesin the WPI ECE curriculum. However, it required significant restructuring of assignments

Collection

ASEE-NE 2022

Authors

Yiannis A. Levendis, Northeastern University

stage of the cycle, such as pre-lab lectures, pre-lab tests, post-labtests, hands-on sessions, and virtual labs. They concluded that “designing engineering laboratoryeducation based on well-developed pedagogical theory can lead to better learning outcomes."Team based learning (TBL) is an educational technique widely used in engineering curricula. Asignificant number of studies in the literature discuss the merits of TBL. For instance, McInerneyand Fink showed that student exam scores greatly improved once a team-based group projectwas introduced to the curriculum [13], whereas Michaelsen and Sweet implemented a TBLcourse and based their structure on the idea that there are four practical elements of TBL [14]:strategically-formed permanent teams

Collection

1997 Annual Conference

Authors

Sub Ramakrishnan; Mohammad B. Dadfar

surge in enrollment in datacommunications courses offered at the undergraduate level. Students realize that mostemployers expect computer science graduates to have a good understanding of datacommunications and networking concepts. The curriculum for the data communications andcomputer networking courses are also revised often to integrate evolving technologies in thisarea. Page 2.103.1Like other computer science departments around the country, we at Bowling Green StateUniversity have offered a data communications and networks course (CS 429) in ourundergraduate program since early 1980s. This course is offered as a one semester course inwhich

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Graham Walker; Henry Chaya

attention to the interactions among students andinstructors, time management and team participation. The students affirmed that the instructorsshould play the role of advisors. To paraphrase one student "Spend the first two weeks telling usexactly what you want, then leave us alone. We’ll call you if we need advice." In addition, manystudents found working with others to be a challenge, and therefore some students wanted teammeetings more frequently, a mandatory meeting once a week. Other students did not see a needfor this.The consultors evaluation of the course was that "the class came together well". Some of theircomments were that they "saw dramatic growth in their ability to function as an integrated team,"and that they were "impressed by the

Conference Session

Understanding Students: Cognition

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Steven Beyerlein; Denny Davis

Pacific CrestABSTRACTDevelopment of a complex set of life-long learning skills in the cognitive, social, and affectivedomains is an important goal of engineering education. This is complicated by the reality thatlearning skill development transcends the temporal and spatial boundaries of isolated courses(SCANS 1991). This work responds to the need for a shared language to promote and reinforcelearning skill development between courses and across the curriculum. The research questionthat motivated this work is whether greater specificity in learning skill definition than thatprescribed by ABET Criteria 3 and 4 can be a useful tool for daily teaching/learning. This paperoutlines the philosophy, organization, and application of a classification of

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David Mukai, University of Wyoming; Trent McDonald, West Inc.

heavily on computer resampling (computer-intensive). By teaching thebasic concepts of sampling, replication, and variation in a hands-on environment instead ofcalculus-based probability theory, students gain an immediate intuitive understanding ofstatistics, rather than memorize a series of poorly understood statistical “recipes”. The practicalresults are: 1) statistical concepts are more transparent, 2) students better retain understanding ofstatistical concepts, 3) students are capable of more sophisticated statistics than what they can doin a traditional engineering statistics course, and 4) the course can be taken earlier in anengineering curriculum than a traditional parametric, calculus-based course. The followingmodules have been used in a

Conference Session

Experimentation and Laboratory-oriented Studies Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Nebojsa I. Jaksic, Colorado State University, Pueblo

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Experimentation and Laboratory-Oriented Studies

wasconducted as a part of an experiential learning portion of an undergraduate engineering lab in arequired computer-integrated manufacturing course for two engineering programs, mechatronicsand industrial engineering. In the lab, students designed and implemented digital logic-basedcontrols for a typical manufacturing operation. The students participating in the lab experimentswere seniors majoring in mechatronics and/or industrial engineering. The mechatronics studentshad previous experiences with building digital circuits while their fellow students from industrialengineering did not. First, the students were divided into pairs where each industrial engineeringstudent was paired with a mechatronics student. As the students were creating and

Collection

2023 ASEE GSW

Authors

M. Ginger Scarbrough

-generation college students in the design contest, indicating that design contests can serve toincrease confidence and more fully develop the needed technical and professional skill sets for theseunderrepresented groups.Although experiential learning has historically been reserved for the senior year and more recentlyincorporated into many Freshman curricula, data from the WERC Environmental Design Contestindicate the value of filling the gap between the Freshman and Senior years with an engineeringdesign contest as an out-of-class instructional vehicle. IntroductionWorkforce development in the undergraduate engineering curriculum serves two primaryconstituents: students and their prospective employers. The

Conference Session

Engaging Faculty Across Disciplines, Colleges, and Institutions

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stephen Andrew Wilkerson P.E., York College PA; Jason Forsyth, York College of Pennsylvania; Christopher Michael Korpela, United States Military Academy

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

://www.firstinspires.org/robotics/frc). development initiative: Relevance, content, and results—Part I.” IEEE Transactions on Education, 53.2, pp. 194–201, 2010.4. Ruzzenente, Marco, et al. “A review of robotics kits for tertiary education.” Proceedings of the International Workshop Teaching Robotics Teaching with Robotics: Integrating Robotics in School Curriculum, 2012.5. Grandgenett, Neal, et al. “Robotics and Problem-Based Learning in STEM Formal Educational Environments.” Robots in K-12 Education: A New Technology for Learning: A New Technology for Learning, 94, 2012.6. George, Sébastien, and Pascal Leroux. “Project-based learning as a basis for a CSCL environment: An example in educational robotics.” First European Conference on

Collection

2025 ASEE North Central Section (NCS) Annual Conference

Authors

Punya A Basnayaka, Cuyahoga Community College, School of Advanced Manufacturing, Engineering and Computer Science

Tagged Topics

Diversity

sustainability and its incorporation into engineering curricula and engineeringdesign are of paramount importance across all engineering disciplines due to several factors,such as environmental protection, resource management, economic benefits, innovation/competitiveness, and social responsibility. Furthermore, with the increased focus onaccreditation criteria emphasizing engineering ethics and professional responsibilities across allfour ABET commissions, the topic of sustainability has been considered an essential addition tothe engineering technology curriculum. The engineering department at Cuyahoga CommunityCollege (Tri-C) initiated the process to determine how sustainability can be included in thecurriculum. The process was executed in the

Conference Session

Cooperative and Experiential Education Division Technical Session 3 - Co-op Recruitment and Factors Affecting Success

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Sarah A. Wilson, University of Kentucky; Renee Kaufmann, University of Kentucky

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Cooperative and Experiential Education

determining the frequency of communication types, it was foundthat students learned more about these forms of communication during their internship than theydid from their college curriculum. While this result highlighted a key benefit of completing anindustrial internship, it also indicated a gap between the communication skills taught in theclassroom and those required of a career in industry.To begin to address this gap, a workshop was developed to teach students key communicationskills that are required for success in industry. All students completing an internship during theSpring 2020 semester were invited to participate, but attendance was voluntary. Skillshighlighted through the workshop include: audience analysis (how to correctly

Conference Session

Manufacturing Capstone and Design Projects

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Rajadas, Arizona State University; Bradley Rogers, Arizona State University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

addition to the wind tunnel course, this laboratory is also utilized to some extent in five othercourses in the curriculum, including AET 210, Measurement & Testing, AET 300, AircraftDesign, AET 432, Applied Heat Transfer, MET 434, Applied Fluid Mechanics and MET460/461, Capstone Project. This facility has become an essential element of the MMETdepartment curricula not only for students within the aeronautical concentration, but within othermechanical concentrations and the Manufacturing Engineering Technology program. Inaddition, students from all MMET department programs are involved in applied projects ofinterest to the engineering industry.Facility DevelopmentA perfectly funded engineering or engineering technology program that focuses on

Conference Session

NSF Grantees’ Poster Session

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Marilyn Barger, FLATE (Florida Advanced Technological Education Center of Excellence); Marie A. Boyette, FLATE; Nina C. Stokes, Florida Advanced Technological Education Center

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Tagged Divisions

Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

award winning curriculum design and reform for secondary and post-secondary Career and Technical Education programs; and provides a variety of professional development for STEM and techni- cal educators focused on advanced technologies. She earned a B.A. in Chemistry at Agnes Scott College and both a B.S. in Engineering Science and a Ph.D. in Civil Engineering (Environmental) from the Uni- versity of South Florida, where her research focused on membrane separation science and technologies for water purification. She has over 20 years of experience in developing curricula for engineering and engineering technology for elementary, middle, high school, and post secondary institutions, including colleges of engineering

Collection

1996 Annual Conference

Authors

Christopher G. Braun

/fixedwiring would be connected to an inexpensive, dedicated terminal strip. The are many possible choices in implementing this system. Because we need toconsider fabrication as well as cost, one of the major constraints was to minimize thenumber of different integrated circuit packages. After considerable design work, we haveproduced a working prototype that is shown on Figure 1. A block diagram of the internalsystem functions is shown on Figure 2. [2] We were led to the use of an Altera programmable logic device (PLD), even at arelatively high cost, to handle the bus control and parallel port interfacing. This approachgreatly simplified the hardware

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Brock LaMeres, Montana State University; Carolyn Plumb, Montana State University; Fred Cady, (Retired) Montana State University

Page 15.689.3physically located on campus.In order to evaluate whether including measurement-based microprocessor laboratory experienceis worth the cost and development time, a baseline assessment must be made on a control groupof students who do not have access to the test equipment. In this project, we developedassessment tools that were used to collect data on a set of five learning objectives on a controlgroup of students during the fall of 2009. Our interventions (the use of a logic analyzer) will beimplemented in the curriculum in fall of 2010 in an attempt to improve the student learningrelated to the learning objectives. The same assessment tools will be used on the subsequentcohorts of students in order to measure the impact of the

Conference Session

Implementing the Civil Engineering Body of Knowledge into Courses and Curricula

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Peter Hoadley, Professor @ VMI

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

Marshall write that theengineering community has a responsibility to produce individuals “with strong moral fiber, adedication to professional integrity, and the ability to reason soundly.”20 César Quádernas,director of the Electronics Program at ITESM (Institute Tecnólogico y de Estudios Superiores deMonterey) writes that certain values, attitudes and abilities are a priority in the academic trainingof their students. Essential attitudes include honesty, commitment, a healthy work ethic andrespect for others.21Other professions define attitudes for effective practice. In the human resource profession,Markman and Beron note that job performance is a function of how well an individual’sattitudes, values, knowledge, skills, abilities, and

Conference Session

Maps, Metaphors, Tweets, and Drafts

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Judy Randi, University of New Haven; Ronald S. Harichandran, University of New Haven; Joseph A. Levert P.E., University of New Haven; Bijan Karimi, University of New Haven

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

CommentsThis paper describes an instructional innovation designed to promote revision of interdisciplinarydesign proposals collaboratively authored by student teams participating in capstone seniordesign courses. Just as students from different engineering disciplines worked together to designand continually refine their projects, faculty from different disciplines worked together withindustry partners to help the students see revision as an integral component of the design process.Communication is an important workplace skill, particularly in the sciences where skilledprofessionals need to communicate complex information to a wide range of audiences. Engineersespecially have long emphasized the need for strong communication skills and they continue

Conference Session

Comparing Different Aspects of the Cooperative Education Experience

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Craig J. Gunn, Michigan State University

Tagged Divisions

Cooperative & Experiential Education

different atmosphere is critical. No longer is this the normal, learn material and repeat that material; this is discovery of material that has not been seen before and the importance of conveying the findings to an audience that is not looking for regurgitated material but material that is fresh and new. The preparation for this activity has taken four years. During the student’s undergraduate years, communication activities have been an integral part of the engineering curriculum. As is shown in Table 1, the student has been provided with multiple opportunities to investigate and practice his/her communication skills within all of the required mechanical engineering courses and many of the elective courses. By the time the student takes the

Conference Session

Multimedia Engineering Education,Distance, Service, & Internet-Based Approaches

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Rodney Custer; Michael Daugherty

approach is a concept called “backward design” where “one starts with the end—thedesired results (goals or standards)—and then derives the curriculum from the evidence oflearning (performances) called for by the standards and the teaching needed to equip students toperform” The initial step in the process involves the identification of a set of “enduringunderstandings.” These are the core concepts, the large, robust ideas that are considered essentialto a discipline. With ProBASE, the project team focused considerable time and energy during theinitial stages of the project on an analysis of the Standards, to “boil” them down to the coreessentials for a solid pre-engineering curriculum. The results of this process will be presentedlater in the

Conference Session

Engineering Identity

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Justin Charles Major, University of Nevada, Reno; Adam Kirn, University of Nevada, Reno

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

States of America 111, 8410–5 (2014).4. Daniel, K. L. Impacts of Active Learning on Student Outcomes in Large-Lecture Biology Courses. The American Biology Teacher 78, 651–655 (2016).5. Elgin, G. et al. Insights from a Convocation: Integrating Discovery-Based Research into the Undergraduate Curriculum. Cell Biology Education 15, (2016).6. President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology. Engage To Excel: Producing One Million Additional College Graduates With Degrees In Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics.7. Marra, R., Rodgers, K., Shen, D. & Bogue, B. Leaving Engineering: A Multi-Year Single Institution Study. Journal of Engineering Education 101, 6–27 (2012).8. Tajfel, H

Conference Session

MECH - Technical Session 14: Advanced Pedagogical Techniques

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Todd M. Fernandez, Georgia Institute of Technology; David Edward Torello, Georgia Institute of Technology

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering Division (MECH)

; kinematics, kinetics of particles, rigid bodies inone, two, and three dimensions, Newton-Euler equations, as well as Work-energy and impulse-momentumprinciples. The primary textbook is a custom edition of Engineering Mechanics, an Introduction toDynamics [16]. A syllabus prepared for ABET accreditation purposes is hosted on the department website[17]. The course is a part of the required ME curriculum and a prerequisite for multiple later courses. Theexisting course used a flipped classroom design wherein students watch video lectures before coming toclass and then use class time to complete problem worksheets.The motivation for this project was the lead author’s emergent dissatisfaction with grading in their course- with the experience of that

Collection

2013 GSW

Authors

John Sibert; Matthew Goeckner; Dave Galley; Kory Goldammer

and computer science. Theresponse from faculty and students has been overwhelmingly positive with, for example, amolecular biology student commenting that this is the best experience of her life and a facultymember sending an unsolicited e-mail report that his engineering student is outstanding andcompleting tasks so quickly that the faculty member is challenged to keep him occupied – a goodproblem to have! Most importantly, all twenty students who have participated in the program arecurrently or will be pursuing STEM degrees at UT Dallas.Peer Led Team Learning (PLTL)The integration of Peer-led Team Learning (PLTL)9 into the UT Dallas STEM learningframework has been supported, in part, by the Collaborative. The PLTL program began in theFall

Conference Session

From Entrepreneurship Education to Market

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

William A Kline, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Thomas W. Mason, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Brian Charles Dougherty, Rose-Hulman Ventures

Tagged Divisions

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

his sabbatical to study entrepreneurship in Indiana and assist start-ups as Educator/Entrepreneur in Resi- dence at Indiana Venture Center. He has been Advisor/Director for several high tech firms and has been involved in national efforts to integrate entrepreneurship and engineering education. Since his retirement from full-time teaching, Mason has co-authored an updated edition of Forecasting and Management of Technology, teaches part-time, continues his research and writing on innovation and entrepreneurship, and works in an advisory capacity with several emerging firms. Mason received his Ph.D. in economics from the University of Pittsburgh and his B.A. in economics from Geneva College.Mr. Brian Charles Dougherty