Conference Session

TC2K Issues and Assessment

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Paul Lin; Harold Broberg

programobjectives [1].The Electrical and Computer Engineering Technology (ECET) has been continuouslyaccredited for over 30 years, was last accredited in 1998, and is preparing for areaccreditation visit in 2004 during the first year of exclusive use of the TC2K criteria.While in the process of refining our curriculum as outcome-based, the authors found thatthe importance of capstone or integrating experiences is also recognized by ABET andhighlighted in the Self-Study Questionnaire [1]. The Senior Design Project courses havebeen in place since 1968 and it was concluded in [2] and [3] that the course providesstudents with the best possible preparation in terms of current technical knowledge,techniques, skills, and written/oral reports for industry

Conference Session

DEED Technical Session 3 Capstone Design

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Austin Talley, Texas State University; C. Compeau, Texas State University

, manufacturing and design area, are from the University of Texas at Austin. Additionally, Dr. Austin Talley holds an undergraduate degree from Texas A&M University in Mechanical Engineering. His research is in engineering design theory and engineering education. He has published over 30 papers in engineering education journals and conference proceedings. He has worked to implement multiple National Science Foundation (NSF) grants focused on engineering education. He has been an instructor in more than ten week long summer K-12 teach Professional Development Institutes (PDI). He has received multiple teaching awards. He has developed design based curriculum for multiple K-12 teach PDIs and student summer camps

Collection

1997 Annual Conference

Authors

Randall Guensler; Christopher Conklin; Paul S. Chinowsky

, and midterm and finalexaminations. Additionally, lecture overheads and instructor’s notes, prepared in MicrosoftPowerPoint, are provided over the Web for use as speaking notes in the classroom. This paperoutlines the integration of computer technology in the classroom and the development of theelectronic version of the syllabus and course readings.IntroductionOver the past ten years, university and professional extension engineering education programshave increasingly offered environmental education. Scores of Civil Engineering programsthroughout the nation have expanded their curriculum focus to become Civil and EnvironmentalEngineering programs during this period. When the University of California at Davis changedthe name of their program

Conference Session

Technical Sessions 4

Collection

2024 Fall ASEE Mid-Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Bryan James Higgs, University of the District of Columbia; Gulen Ozkula, University of the District of Columbia

Tagged Topics

Professional Papers

learningincreased students' motivation and engagement in the learning process. The study found thatstudents who participated in collaborative learning were more likely to enjoy the learningexperience and feel a sense of ownership over their own learning.Improved Skill DevelopmentMany studies have shown that 10,000 h of practice are needed to fully master a skill [14], [21].Thus, implementing practice in the curriculum is necessary to move students from discoveringnew skills to mastering them. Allowing students to practice their skills in an environment withimmediate feedback greatly aids their skill development and puts them on the pathway tobecoming professional engineers.Improved Student OutcomesThe aforementioned tool has been implemented in three

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Pamela L. Eddy; David A. Pape

AssessmentCourse level assessment attempts to ensure that in a particular course the requiredmaterial is sufficiently well taught and understood. Program level assessment addressesthe program outcome indicators as well as assessing the content, sequence, andintegration of all courses within a program. Ressler and Lenox3 provide a programassessment model with integrated course level assessment that is being used at theirinstitution. They correctly assert that these two levels of assessment are clearly notindependent, and that “in a well integrated curriculum, course assessment can never takeplace in isolation.” For instance, the inability of students to meet a particular course

Conference Session

Innovative Instructional Strategies

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Schmeelk, Virginia Commonwealth University Qatar Branch; Jean Hodges, Virginia Commonwealth University Qatar Branch

Tagged Divisions

Mathematics

AC 2009-115: WRITING TECHNIQUES FOR IMPLEMENTINGPROJECT-DIRECTED MATHEMATICSJohn Schmeelk, Virginia Commonwealth University Qatar Branch John Schmeelk, Virginia Commonwealth University, Qatar Branch Campus Dr. John Schmeelk is a Professor of Mathematics at Virginia Commonwealth University, Doha Qatar Branch, where he is engaged in applied mathematics, generalized functions, image processing and educational pedagogy. He received his PhD from George Washington University in Washington, D.C. He was awarded many summer faculty grants to go to Fort Rucker, Alabama implementing procedures utilizing generalized functions. He has been an invited speaker to conferences in Australia

Collection

2015 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Aparicio Carranza; Casimer DeCusatis

growing demand in this field4. While industrycertification programs are available5, they tend to emphasize memorization and repetition over adeeper cognitive framework or understanding. It can be quite challenging to prepare students forIT careers in this rapidly evolving field, or to integrate these offerings into a more traditionalundergraduate engineering curriculum. More hands-on experience is desirable, since studentsmust be prepared to deal with not only existing security threats but also new and increasinglycomplex exploits which emerge more frequently each year. However, students require a secure,isolated environment in which to practice their security skills without risking damage to thecampus data centers or servers on the Internet

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert King

Evaluate and revise procedure Answer questions in results report Make commitments based on Defend conclusions to team members and their own judgments, not an instructors authority’s.To further enhance thinking maturity, the MEL course sequence connects with CSM projectcourses to develop these abilities. Sharing this educational objective in a mixture of coursesemphasizes its importance, provides a more coherent educational experience, and is moreeffective in raising students’ levels of thinking than a non-integrated approach. MEL also helpsstudents make the transition between basic science and math, engineering science, and design.MEL does not use cliented

Conference Session

NSF Grantees' Poster Session

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jeremiah J. Neubert, University of North Dakota; Deborah Worley, University of North Dakota; Naima Kaabouch, University of North Dakota; Mohammad Khavanin, University of North Dakota

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees Poster Session

CoachingPeer mentoring and reciprocal peer coaching are integral components of our project, as weexpect the engineering peer mentors to provide real-time, instructive feedback as well asguidance on efficient study habits to students enrolled in calculus and who are consideringengineering as an academic major. Moreover, we use peer mentors to connect students to campusresources as well as to one another. Peer mentoring is regarded as a successful intervention toaddress issues of student retention in academic programs12. Peer mentoring, as defined byKram13 is “a helping relationship in which two individuals of similar age and/or experience cometogether … in the pursuit of fulfilling some combination of functions that are career-related andpsychosocial

Conference Session

New Electrical ET Course Development

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

David Border

curriculum, as in the case of many two-year degree granting institutions, or Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Educationit can exist outside a traditional academic program. Occasionally, Universities and Collegesoffer non-core coursework that is tied closely to certification or certification preparation1. This isyet another certification route. An example of this relationship is Rensselaer PolytechnicInstitute. Rensselaer's Computer Science department hosts a Cisco Networking Academy sitethat offers elective (non-credit bearing) courses that prepare students for Cisco's CertifiedNetwork Associate (CCNA

Collection

1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Karl Stephan

students enroll because they want to learn more about engineering withoutcommitting themselves yet to becoming engineering majors. This possibility of increased re-cruitment is probably one of the few short-term advantages that an engineering department canhope to gain from offering a technological literacy course. The second important factor in finding a place in the curriculum for technological literacycourses is the overall institutional attitude toward the importance of technological literacy in thegeneral-education curriculum. Some colleges and universities explicitly require every student totake one or more courses having to do with technology, as opposed to pure science. In such anenvironment, developing technological literacy

Conference Session

Mechatronics

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John G. Cherng P.E., University of Michigan-Dearborn; Ben Q. Li, University of Michigan, Dearborn; Narasimhamurthi Natarajan, University of Michigan, Dearborn

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

Page 23.424.2content for ME472 Principles and Applications of Mechatronic Systems Designs was approvedby the college curriculum committee in April 2012 and was offered in the fall semester of 2012.Undergraduate mechatronics courses have been implemented in many universities with variouscourse structures. For example, Dr. Vladimir Vantsevich, Professor and Director of MechatronicSystems Engineering Program at Lawrence Technological University, teaches an undergraduatemechatronics course [1] which replaces the conventional engineering controls course. ProfessorsBrent Gillespie and Shorya Awtar in the Mechanical Engineering Department at the Universityof Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan taught the graduate level Mechatronic Systems Design(ME552

Conference Session

ETD Capstone Projects

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Dominik Sobota, DeVry University, Addison; Spencer William Karlovits, DeVry University ; Ahmed S. Khan, DeVry University, Addison

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

organize purchased pantry items both by physical locationand itemized inventory as well as purchase routine groceries more efficiently. Throughincorporating elements of software integration in the user interface and a motor controlstructure, the development of this project encompasses a wide range of the team members’acquired skills. The unit allows a user to scan an item and add it to a specific physical locationwhich is then stored in a database on the microcontroller. When retrieving said item, the usersimply makes a selection on the generated list on the touch screen display causing the motorto drive the carousel to the location in which the item is stored. The data is stored in an SQLdatabase which is also available on a developed smartphone

Collection

2015 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Firdous Saleheen; Salvatore Giorgi; Zachary Smith; Joseph Picone; Chang-Hee Won

initial study suggests that VOLTA can be used as aneffective learning tool in circuits laboratories.I. IntroductionLaboratories in which engineering concepts were reinforced by hands-on experience have alwaysbeen an integral part of engineering education. Traditional on-site experiment-based laboratorieshave many limitations including space, equipment, scheduling conflicts and limited contacthours. Therefore, numerous alternative approaches have been explored such as virtuallaboratories1, table-based laboratories2, and remote laboratories3.In a traditional “closed laboratory” environment, students perform the assignments following a“cook-book” lab manual and submit a written report drafted after the laboratory has beencompleted. It is argued that

Conference Session

Systems Engineering Education Research

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Howard Eisner, George Washington University

Tagged Divisions

Systems Engineering

software tasks within a systemsengineering framework. The software development issue is high on our list of areas that requirecontinuous improvement if we are to be successful at systems engineering. Both systems andsoftware engineering have methods for architecting. In the former case, there are severalapproaches, all of which are rather definitive, and have well-known proponents and supporters.These include DoDAF, MoDAF, Enterprise Architecting, and others. In the case of softwareengineering, the approaches seem to be deep, varied and interesting, and not necessarily agreedupon. In this paper, the author provides an overview of both the fields of systems and softwarearchitecting, looking especially for areas of possible commonality. Conclusions

Collection

2025 ASEE North Central Section (NCS) Annual Conference

Authors

Mark A. Palmer

Tagged Topics

Diversity

the clicker study where questions from the end-of-course evaluations did notreveal any apparent differences between the clicker and control classes2. The NSSE annualsurvey of freshmen and seniors asks students how often they have, for example, participated inprojects that required integrating ideas or information from various sources, used e-mail tocommunicate with an instructor, asked questions in class or contributed to class discussions,received prompt feedback from faculty on their academic performance, participated incommunity- based projects, or tutored or taught other students. The findings are used todetermine how successful a university is at engaging students4.Sometimes student feedback contradicts the results associated with

Collection

2004 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Suzanna Long; David G. Spurlock

, those with varying ethnic backgrounds, and mid-career changers. In thedecade from 1986 to 1996, the percentage of engineering students that were both white and maledeclined by an average of 6%. Examining total enrollments in the late 1990s, a significantminority (approximately 25%) falls into various ethnic categories, are women or are older thantwenty-five. Interestingly, completion rates for female students and offers insight into studentretention issues.12 These insights may prove applicable to retention issues with all minorityenrollees. Research suggests that it is not enough to raise awareness of engineering programs; rather, itis essential that requirements of engineering curriculum be stressed and deficiencies overcomeprior to

Collection

2010 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Andrew Grossfield P.E.

a limit of sequences of rational numbers, the student is in no position to understandany derivations regarding limits. A student who has just been introduced to the word, limit, issimply in no position to appreciate limits of difference quotients. The limit of the differencequotient is just a method of obtaining the value of the slope, not the derivative itself. There ismuch to be learned about curves with such an approach without belaboring the difficultiesinherent in limit processes. The integral of a positive piecewise monotonic function should bedefined as the area under the curve and again the limiting process should be viewed as just amethod of obtaining the value.All references to the concepts and perplexities of the 19th century

Conference Session

Teaching Dynamics

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Matthew West, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Geoffrey L. Herman, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Tagged Divisions

Mechanics

very limited applied examples. The course suffered from low engagementand enthusiasm on the part of both students and instructors. Students routinely reported thatIntroductory Dynamics was their least-favorite course in the curriculum, and the department faceda constant struggle to persuade faculty to teach the course. Instructors reported that the coursewas a higher-than-normal teaching workload.The instructional reforms undertaken in Introductory Dynamics involved the following keychanges: (1) an active learning discussion section format, including group work activities and afocus on “real-world” applications of the course material; (2) active learning in lectures usingclassroom response systems (using the i>clicker system); (3) online

Conference Session

Focus on the Classroom: Novel Approaches to Course Delivery

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gary J. Mullett, Springfield Technical Community College

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Two Year College Division

period. As the field of electronics technology entered themicroelectronics era, courses about integrated circuits, microprocessors, and digital logic wereadded to the biomedical curriculum to keep up with the rapidly changing technology. As wastypical of that stage in the evolution of electronics, the curriculum was extremely “parts centric”since biomedical (and electronics) technicians were expected to repair electronics based medicalequipment by troubleshooting faults/problems to the part/device level. This popular program ransuccessfully for approximately three decades during which time most of the medical facilities inwestern Massachusetts and regions in surrounding states (i.e. middle to north-central Connecticutand southern Vermont

Conference Session

New Models for Teaching and Learning

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Llewellyn Mann, University of Queensland; Gloria Dall'Alba, University of Queensland; David Radcliffe, University of Queensland

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

practice5, as well as developing skills within the context of practice17.These combine to form a ‘professional way-of-being’.In the past, “changes in curricula initiated by educational institutions, have ranged from little, tocourse adaption, to a few bold efforts to equate education to the new situation [of sustainability]”19 (p90). Sustainable design education at university is often seen as an add-on to existingengineering courses and programs, rather than an integral part of the curriculum20-22. A reason forthis approach often cited is the belief that little could be left out of existing curricula to makeroom for new courses on sustainability and sustainable design19. While some universities inAustralia have made efforts at embedding

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Luisa Guillemard, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez; Maryliz Soto, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez ; Carla Lopez Del Puerto, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez ; Humberto Eduardo Cavallin, University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees Poster Session

school building impacted by a swarm of earthquakes that started in December 2019,followed by a 6.4 earthquake on January 7, 2020. Visits to sites impacted by natural disasters are part of the curriculum of the ResilientInfrastructure and Sustainability Undergraduate Program (RISE-UP). This interdisciplinaryprogram was developed to educate future engineers and environmental design professionals todesign and build more resilient and sustainable infrastructure in Puerto Rico. [3]. Currently theisland is in the process of reconstruction after Hurricane María in 2018 and a major earthquake in2020. RISE-UP developed a novel curriculum sequence that is recognized by the University ofPuerto Rico (UPR) as a Minor degree in Integrated

Collection

1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Ronald R. Hosey; R. Gregg Bruce; Lester K. Eigenbrod; Hansjoerg Stern

recommendations for the new class. Theseideas included: awareness of the soft skills of leadership or management styles, interacting withpeople, how to treat customers, and qualities of an effective subordinate as well as boss. Adoptionof these recommendations within the new curriculum is in progress.8 References [1] Ullman, D. G. (1997). The mechanical design process. Boston, Massachusetts: McGraw-Hill. [2] Excellence in engineering design education. A three day short course & workshop, Saint Louis University & Texas A&M University, Saint Louis, Missouri, Aug. 3-5, 1997. [3] Stern, H. Team Projects can offer incentives. Proceeding of the ASEE 1989 Annual Conference.9 Biographical Data Each of the authors is an Associate Professor in the

Conference Session

Pre-college Engineering Education Division Technical Session 8

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Johanna Kristiina Naukkarinen, Lappeenranta-Lahti University of Technology; Kati Maarit Koikkalainen, Lappeenranta-Lahti University of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Pre-College Engineering Education

of Energy Systems at Lappeenranta-Lahti University of Technology LUT with main research interests re- lated to technology and society, gender diversity and engineering education.Ms. Kati Maarit Koikkalainen, LUT University Coordinator of LUT Junior Univeristy, since 2017. Before that worked as an educational coordinator, Degree Programmeof Environmental Techlogy and as an environmental manager of LUT University. Ed- ucation: Master’s degree in Energy and Environmental Technology. Qualification of a vocational teacher. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2020 All-inclusive outreach - a long-term co-operation process between a Finnish

Collection

2025 ASEE -GSW Annual Conference

Authors

Alexander Hernandez, West Texas A&M University; Sanjoy Bhattacharia, West Texas A&M University; Sarah Petters, University of California, Riverside; Markus Petters, University of California, Riverside

Tagged Topics

Diversity

nucleation cold stage freezingassay device was developed at the University of California, Riverside (UCR), an R-1 institution.The methodology used in this paper evaluated an approach to implement lab based modularactivities in non-R1 institutions. By integrating this framework, atmospheric science departmentsat non-R1 institutions can engage in ice-nucleating particle (INP) and ice nucleation processesresearch. This inclusion can contribute valuable data to the broader scientific community, fosteringcollaborations between smaller institutions and research-intensive universities, broadening accessto advanced experimental techniques used in atmospheric and environmental sciences.Furthermore, equipping non-R1 institutions with state-of-the-art research

Conference Session

Manufacturing Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Vukica M. Jovanovic, Old Dominion University; George McLeod, Old Dominion University ; Thomas E. Alberts, Old Dominion University; Cynthia Tomovic, Old Dominion University; Otilia Popescu, Old Dominion University; Tysha Batts; Mary Louise Sandy, Virginia Space Grant Consortium

Tagged Divisions

Manufacturing

. Some offer apps that include conceptsrelated to programming and controls, such as block programming, which can be found in toyslike Kamigami robots [37], and trajectory planning, which can be found in toys like the Spherorobot. Some toys include advanced vision capabilities [38] and an interactive learningenvironment, such as the Cozmo robot. The Cozmo robot (shown in Figure 1) is an autonomousrobot that is shaped like a truck [39]. It integrates computer vision capabilities with artificialintelligence algorithms [40]. Children can interact with it and see how the robot can readinformation from the objects in its proximity, which is important for various applications inmaterial tracking. It also has vision recognition capabilities that are

Conference Session

Interdisciplinary Education

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David Kurtanich, Youngstown State University; William Wood, Youngstown State University; Edward Garchar, Youngstown State University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

for Engineering Education, 2008 Engineering Technology's Design Across the DisciplinesAbstract Students completing an engineering technology degree, such as Youngstown StateUniversity’s Civil & Construction Engineering Technology (CCET) bachelor’s degree programare expected to be productive in design offices and in engineering departments of constructionfirms. Accordingly, the curriculum has evolved over the past thirty years to include designprojects of varying complexity in many courses. This philosophy has now been expanded toprovide a multidisciplinary design experience for engineering technology (ET) majors. This paper describes the planning an implementation of a pair of courses required to betaken

Conference Session

Materials Selection & Design

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James Olshefsky, ASTM International

Tagged Divisions

Materials

meet criteria outlined by the code body.Standards must be developed through a consensus process and be written in mandatory languageto insure that the application and intent of a standard is clear. The resulting referenced standardsare considered part of the requirements of the code. Page 15.1087.4Best Practices for Integration of Standards Education in CurriculaABET, Inc., formerly known as The Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology, setsengineering accreditation requirements for the incorporation of standards in engineeringcurricula: “Students must be prepared for engineering practice through a curriculum culminatingin a major

Conference Session

Administering First-Year Programs

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gretchen Hein, Michigan Technological University; Amber Kemppainen, Michigan Technological University; Susan Amato-Henderson, Michigan Technological University; Jason Keith, Michigan Technological University; Melissa Roberts, Michigan Technological University

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

education. At Michigan Technological University (Michigan Tech),we had three different groups (faculty, graduate students and upper level undergraduate students)develop design activities. These activities were developed for the ENG1001/1100 coursesequence for first-year students who were enrolled in pre-calculus as their first math course atMichigan Tech as part of an NSF CCLI Phase 1 grant (DUE: 0836861). All groups developedengineering activities that included a: Design/Model/Build sequence, Matlab mathematicalmodel, spreadsheet analyses, and technical communication of their activities. For thecomponents listed previously, lectures and class activities, project description and deliverablesand example Matlab codes were developed for the

Conference Session

Goal Specific First-Year Courses

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lesley Strawderman, Mississippi State University; Bill Elmore, Mississippi State University; Arash Salehi, Mississippi State University

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

AC 2009-62: EXPLORING THE IMPACT OF FIRST-YEAR ENGINEERINGSTUDENT PERCEPTIONS ON STUDENT EFFICACYLesley Strawderman, Mississippi State University Lesley Strawderman is an assistant professor in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering. She conducts research in the area of human factors and ergonomics, specifically looking at the impact of large scale service systems on human use. She has received her IE degrees from Penn State and Kansas State Universities.Bill Elmore, Mississippi State University Bill Elmore is an Associate Professor and Associate Director in the Swalm School of Chemical Engineering. His research interests include K-12 and undergraduate education reform and