Conference Session

Professional Skills and the Workplace

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James Trevelyan, University of Western Australia

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

, I will ask for help fromcolleagues, I am sure I can learn that when I need to”, replies the candidate.Clearly the second candidate would have a hard time convincing the accreditation panel, yetthe first candidate has happily admitted ignorance of critical issues which we now know to lieat the core of engineering practice.The challenge in considering engineering education changes is to provide a more appropriatebalance between social science and technical issues, an appropriate level of rigorousintellectual treatment at different levels of the course, and an appropriate balance betweendidactic and experiential learning in laboratories, role playing exercises, fieldwork, co-op(industrial placement) programs and team projects. The balance can

Conference Session

Outstanding Contributions to ME Education

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stephen Turns, Pennsylvania State University; Laura L. Pauley, Pennsylvania State University; Sarah Zappe, Pennsylvania State University

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

., Woods, D. R., Stice, J. E., Rugarcia, A., “The Future of Engineering Education II. Teaching Methods that Work,” Chemical Engineering Education, Vol. 34, 2000, pp. 26-39.6. Bonwell, C. C., and Eison, J. A., “Active Learning: Creating Excitement in the Classroom,” ASHEERIC Higher Education Report No. 1, George Washington University, Washington, DC, 1991.7. Hake, R., “Interactive-Engagement vs. Traditional Methods: A Six-Thousand-Student Survey of Mechanics Test Data for Introductory Physics Courses,” American Journal of Physics, Vol. 66, 1998, p. 64.8. Redish, E., Saul, J., Steinberg, R., “On the Effectiveness of Active-Engagement Microcomputer-Based Laboratories,” American Journal of Physics, Vol. 65, 1997, p. 45.9

Conference Session

ChE: Innovations in the Classroom

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Thomas Marlin, McMaster University

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

Conference Session

Introducing Active Learning into ME Courses

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Julie Linsey, University of Texas-Austin; Brent Cobb, U.S. Air Force Academy; Daniel Jensen, U.S. Air Force Academy; Kristin Wood, University of Texas-Austin; Saad Eways, Austin Community College

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

Force Research Laboratory, and his research there focused on development of low ac-loss superconducting films.Daniel Jensen, U.S. Air Force Academy DAN JENSEN is a Professor of Engineering Mechanics at the U.S. Air Force Academy. He received his B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. from the University of Colorado at Boulder. He has worked for Texas Instruments, Lockheed Martin, NASA, University of the Pacific, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab and MacNeal-Schwendler Corp. His research includes development of innovative design methodologies and enhancement of engineering education.Kristin Wood, University of Texas-Austin KRISTIN WOOD is the Cullen Trust Endowed Professor in Engineering at The University of

Conference Session

FPD 2: Retention

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Anant R. Kukreti, University of Cincinnati; Kristen Strominger, University of Cincinnati - School of Energy, Environmental, Biological and Medical Engineering; Urmila Ghia, University of Cincinnati

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First-Year Programs

Conference Session

...by Design

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Amy Wilson-Lopez, Utah State University - Teacher Education and Leadership; Emma R. Smith, Utah State University; Daniel L Householder, Utah State University

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

PROBLEMS THROUGH DESIGN PROCESSES 16the base or “bottom part” more detachable to improve transportability, the group did not addressmaking the frame or “top part” more transportable as well. Because the students had devoted solittle of their conversation to re-stating the problem and clarifying what the client wanted, oneaspect of the problem did not emerge until after the design had already been produced.Research a need or problem. Many previous studies of novices’ design processes have been ina laboratory study where the only available source of information was the experimenter. In thesestudies, the researchers defined the ‘information gathering’ stage as asking for information fromthe experimenter, reading

Conference Session

Diversity Redefined: Nontraditional Views in Traditional Environments

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Chrissy Hobson Foster, Arizona State University; Shawn S. Jordan, Arizona State University, Polytechnic campus

Tagged Divisions

Minorities in Engineering

theoreticalmathematics and sciences with educators transmitting knowledge and using pedagogicalstrategies of presenting methods for structured, defined problems16,17. As engineering practicedemanded changes to be made, the curriculum was appended with time in the laboratory toenhance experiences with putting knowledge to practice, but maintained a focus on narrow,discipline-specific topics16. Since the turn of the new millennium, there has been national-leveldiscomfort that a traditional curriculum with a focus on technical problem-solving stilloverwhelms engineering education and has not prepared engineers to meet the needs of modern-day engineering1,17,18. Sheri Sheppard and the Carnegie Foundation for Advanced Teaching17write, “Although engineering schools

Conference Session

Teaching and Assessing Sustainability and Life Long Learning

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mary Katherine Watson, Georgia Institute of Technology; Elise M. Barrella, James Madison University; Thomas A. Wall, Georgia Institute of Technology; Caroline R. Noyes, Georgia Institute of Technology; Michael O. Rodgers, Georgia Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

Tech School of Civil and Environmental Engineering and a principal research scientist and distinguished technical fellow with the Georgia Tech Research Institute. Over the last thirty plus years, Dr. Rodgers has held various academic, research and administrative positions including serving as director of the Georgia Tech Air Quality laboratory from 1988 to 2008. He currently serves as deputy director for Research and Technology Transfer for National Center for Transportation Productivity and Management at Georgia Tech. Page 23.408.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013

Conference Session

Aerospace Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

William Michael Butler, Lockheed Martin

Tagged Divisions

Aerospace

weak correlation between the studentgroup and the professionals, 0.5 was moderate correlation between the student group and theprofessionals, and 0.7 or larger was considered to be a strong correlation between the studentgroup and the professionals. In addition, 95% error bands for the correlations were estimatedusing the bootstrap re-sampling method. This bootstrap analysis with Kendall’s Tau wasconducted by Jonathan Stallings of the Laboratory for Interdisciplinary Statistical Analysis(LISA) at Virginia Tech using code that was written in the R programming language. The results of Part 2 of the survey were checked for normality using the Kolmogorov-Smirnov and the Shapiro-Wilk tests. Based upon the results of these tests, it was

Conference Session

Engineering Education and Comparative Studies at Universities throughout Asia, Far East

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Samuel Ratnajeevan Herbert Hoole P.E., Michigan State University

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International

Conference Session

Creative and Cross-disciplinary Methods Part II

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Justin L Hess, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Jessica Erin Sprowl; Rui Pan, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Melissa Dyehouse, Purdue University; Carrie A. Wachter Morris, Purdue University; Johannes Strobel, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

strong a team solidarity causes inappropriate protectiveness”. (p.69)65Community InvolvementCommunity involvement is identified as one of the essential characteristics of programs thatattract women and minorities to engineering and science.66 An example of engineering programsthat encourage community involvement is EPICS (Engineering Projects in Community Service)which is built on the premise that students develop real-world skills by solving problems basedon the needs of a community.36,56 Such projects can provide students with experiences that Page 25.520.9“complement and reinforce classroom and laboratory learning” and “serve to demonstrate

Conference Session

Attracting Young MINDS in Engineering - Part I

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Juan Castilleja, The Boeing Company; Rachel Jackson, Rice University; Natalia Salies, Rice University; Brent Houchens, Rice University

Tagged Divisions

Minorities in Engineering

school students by providing a design project to work on for 5-7 weeksduring or after school, each academic semester. The students build and learn about physics andengineering principles with their college mentors. The design project provides a naturalmechanism to spur a mentoring relationship. After the mentorship sessions, mentees demonstratehow their designs fulfill the design requirements via a competition held during DREAM Day.DREAM Day takes place at the end of the program and includes lectures and panel discussionson financial aid policies, tours of engineering laboratories, and information on STEM careers.Many of the students do not realize the opportunities that engineering and college present tothem, but when the Rice mentors inform

Conference Session

Educational Research

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lisa Lattuca, Pennsylvania State University; David Knight, The Pennsylvania State University

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

Curriculum, Course, and Laboratory Improvement (CCLI) Program of theNational Science Foundation, the P360 research effort examines the curricular, pedagogical,cultural, and organizational features that support undergraduate engineering education that iswell-aligned with the goals of the National Academy of Engineering’s Engineer of 202012. (Anadditional goal of this study is to identify educational practices that facilitate the success ofwomen and minority students in engineering.)Our findings reveal how engineering faculty and administrators implicitly and explicitly defineinterdisciplinarity. After demonstrating the different, sometimes conflicting, understandings ofthe term, we comment on the conceptualization of interdisciplinarity that guided

Conference Session

FPD 8: Teaching Design in the First Year

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Wallace Martindell Catanach III, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Mary Lynn Brannon, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Christopher Stephen Smith, Pennsylvania State University, University Park

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

-Engineering, Shawnee Mission High SchoolMs. Mary Lynn Brannon, Pennsylvania State University, University ParkMr. Christopher Stephen Smith, Pennsylvania State University, University Park Mr. Smith is an instructor at the Pennsylvania State University in the School of Engineering Design, Tech- nology, and Professional Programs. He is also a research engineer at the Applied Research Laboratory at the Pennsylvania State University. His education consits of a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin, and an M.S. in Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering from The Ohio State University

Conference Session

The Philosophy of Engineering and Technological Literacy

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alan Cheville, Bucknell University

Tagged Divisions

Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering

professional level. above. of an engineering technologist. Career Goals • Research • Hardware design/development • Drafter • Conceptual design • Product analysis/development • Laboratory operations • System synthesis/development • System operation • System maintenance • Product innovation • Process management • Machine operations • Operations management • Technical sales and services • Data collectionFigure 2: A partial re-creation of

Conference Session

Engineering and Public Policy Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Heywood, Trinity College-Dublin

Tagged Divisions

Engineering and Public Policy

Conference Session

Enhancing the Underrepresented Student Experience

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kari L. Jordan, Ohio State University; Sheryl A. Sorby, Ohio State University

Tagged Divisions

Minorities in Engineering

across several majors within the college of engineering during Page 24.803.13the Fall 2010 semester at Michigan Technological University. These classes included but werenot limited to Calculus II, Engineering Economics, Mechanical Engineering Laboratory, Circuits& Instrumentation, Introduction to Spatial Visualization, Chemical Engineering Fundamentals,Environmental Engineering Fundamentals and Introduction to Materials Science & Engineering.The number of survey respondents was 1101. In terms of gender, 74.1% of the participants weremale, and 25.9% of the participants were female. White respondents made up nearly half of theparticipants

Conference Session

Basic Concepts in Entrepreneurship

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Leo E. Hanifin, University of Detroit Mercy; Ross A. Lee, Villanova University; Jonathan Weaver, University of Detroit Mercy; Kenneth F Bloemer, University of Dayton; Cynthia C. Fry, Baylor University

Tagged Divisions

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

Conference Session

Engineering Education Research and Assessment I

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Susan Mosborg; Robin Adams; Rebecca Kim; Monica Cardella; Cynthia Atman; Jennifer Turns

containment device). Sessions were conducted atthe participant’s workplace or in our laboratory. The “one model” task was given after theplayground task and before the flood task. In addition to being asked to think aloud as they readthe “one model” description, participants were prompted to comment on it in relation to howthey had just solved the playground problem. We also present results from three other tasks administered during the last part of thedesign session. These were given in the form of a written questionnaire (see Appendix B). Thefirst task, labeled “Your Illustration of Design,” asked participants to: “Use this paper to create apicture or representation of what you think the process of design is.” The second task (adaptedfrom

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Technical Session

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lisa R. Lattuca, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Lois Calian Trautvetter, Northwestern University; Sarah L. Codd, Montana State University; David B. Knight, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Carla M. Cortes, Northwestern University

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Mort Isaacson; Francis Di Bella

Conference Session

Educational Research and Methods Division (ERM) Poster Session

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

An Nguyen, University of Oklahoma; Javeed Kittur, University of Oklahoma

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods Division (ERM)

[23]. Many racing simulators, including TORCS, display sensors andparameters while the agent is on the track to capture its velocity, speed, Rotations Per Minute(RPM), lap time, etc... (More details are provided later in theme IV). This helps users to bettervisualize what’s going on and see things that need to be adjusted. Observing these parameters helpsthe user to better understand the cause-and-effect relationships of certain components andalterations, helping to identify mistakes and see where to improve [15], [24-25]. The simulatoressentially becomes a virtual laboratory for engineers to experiment on, learning from mistakes,and moving forward without any risk of action. This not only gives engineers a betterunderstanding of AI/ML, but

Conference Session

Instructional Showcase

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Aaron Richardson, University of Connecticut; Todd Campbell, University of Connecticut; Marina A. Creed, UConn Health and UConn School of Medicine; Kristina M. Wagstrom, University of Connecticut

Tagged Topics

Diversity, Professional Interest Council (PIC)

Tagged Divisions

Pre-College Engineering Education Division (PCEE)

for her immunosuppressed patients by reducing exposure to infectious and non-infectious air pollution in public schools and community spaces throughout the State of Connecticut. She founded and is the director of the UConn Indoor Air Quality Initiative, a cross-campus, multidisciplinary team of scientists and clinicians studying low-cost air purifiers in both laboratory and real-world settings.Dr. Kristina M. Wagstrom, University of Connecticut Dr. Kristina Wagstrom is an associate professor in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the University of Connecticut in Storrs, CT. She specializes in applying chemical engineering principles to better understand the human and ecosystem health impacts of air pollution

Conference Session

The Best of Design in Engineering

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Andrew L. Gerhart, Lawrence Technological University; Robert W. Fletcher, Lawrence Technological University

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

AC 2011-1570: PROJECT-BASED LEARNING AND DESIGN EXPERIENCESIN INTRODUCTION TO ENGINEERING COURSES ASSESSING AN IN-CREMENTAL INTRODUCTION OF ENGINEERING SKILLSAndrew L. Gerhart, Lawrence Technological University Andrew Gerhart, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Lawrence Technological University. He is actively involved in ASEE, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, and the Engineering Society of Detroit. He serves as Faculty Advisor for the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Student Chapter at LTU, chair for the LTU Leadership Curriculum Committee, director of the LTU Thermal Science Laboratory, coordinator of the Certificate in Energy & Environmental Man

Conference Session

Faculty Development for Distance Learning

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gene Dixon, East Carolina University

Tagged Divisions

Continuing Professional Development

Conference Session

Program Criteria, Assessment, and Sustainability in Civil Engineering

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mikhail Gershfeld, S.E., California State Polytechnic University, Pomona; Judith Ellen Sheine, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona; Gary LeMarr McGavin, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, Department of Architecture

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tirupalavanam Ganesh, Arizona State University; John Thieken, Arizona State University; Dale Baker, Arizona State University; Stephen Krause, Arizona State University; Monica Elser, Arizona State University; Wendy Taylor, Arizona State University; Chell Roberts, Arizona State University; Jay Golden, Ph.D., is a faculty member in ASU’s School of Sustainability and codirector of the; James Middleton, Arizona State University; Sharon Robinson Kurpius

and Practice presented students with a series of projects over a year longinformal experience. In our case, learners were presented with engineering design problemswhere solutions are achieved via an actual project. Participants had access to a wide range ofresources that included human and content rich media, Arizona State University art museum andengineering laboratories, the Phoenix Zoo, the Arizona Science Center, a number of differenttypes of hardware and software technologies. The project therefore is the culmination of thelearning process, and the solution is the finished product21,22,23,24. Using a project-challenge thatis analogous to complicated tasks encountered in today’s STEM workplaces, student teams wereconfronted with a

Conference Session

Design in the ECE Curriculum

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Randal Abler, Georgia Tech; James Krogmeier, Purdue University; Aaron Ault, Purdue University; Julia Melkers, Georgia Institute of Technology; Tamara Clegg, Georgia Institute of Technology; Edward Coyle, Georgia Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

various and sometimes unexpected ways: New computer hardware allows not only higher speed computers but also smaller, lightweight devices such as PDA’s and cell phones. New applications bring not only new or better services (voice/video over IP, etc.) but also new challenges as well as malicious applications such as viruses and email spam, which have become commonplace.James Krogmeier, Purdue University James V. Krogmeier received the BSEE degree from the University of Colorado at Boulder in 1981 and the MS and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1983 and 1990, respectively. From 1982 to 1984 he was a Member of Technical Staff at AT&T Bell Laboratories in

Conference Session

Professional Graduate Education & Industry

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

T.G. Stanford; S.J. Tricamo; R.N. Olson; R.E. Morrison; P.Y. Lee; L.M. Coulson; K. Gonzalez-Landis; J.P. Tidwell; J. O'Brien; Isadore Davis; H.J. Palmer; Gary Bertoline; Eugene DeLoatch; Duane Dunlap; D.H. Quick; Albert McHenry; Jay Snellenberger; Michael Dyrenfurth; Dennis Depew; Donald Keating

a number or years.” “The modal point on the distribution curve displaying length of employment against probability of making a useful contribution occurs at between seven and nine years of employment. Clearly if the professional turnover rate exceeds 10% to 15% per year, it will be most unlikely that the peak performance of the laboratory will ever be achieved.” Page 10.640.8 “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2005, American Society for Engineering Education”3. A Work in Progress: Defining the

Conference Session

Freshman Curriculum Development

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Rita Caso; Jeff Froyd; Jan Rinehart; Ahmer Inam; Ann Kenimer; Carolyn Clark; Jim Morgan

a control system as a nonlinear optimization problemin the time domain instead of placing poles and zeros or shaping the frequency response.Applications that students use in this category include office productivity suites, progra mminglanguages, simulation packages, numerical manipulation systems, symbolic manipulationsystems, computer-aided design packages, and laboratory systems. Within each categorybenefits to student learning and hindrances to adoption are similar. Therefo re, decomposingapplications of technology into these three categories facilitates productive conversations aboutimproving engineering education through the use of technology.Partner schools in the Foundation Coalition, including A&M, have concentrated on