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2000 Annual Conference

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Robin H. Lovgren; Michael J. Racer; Anna P. Phillips

- strengths, weaknesses, needs o Faculty Planning & Evaluation Records o Tenure & Promotion o Teaching o Research o Service o The College o Development of Personal 5-year Plan(This document is available from the authors.)While this mentoring effort is extremely time-intensive, it is also extremely valuable with respectto inculcating new faculty. At the same time, these new faculty members are encouraged to addto the framework of the Program; this "buy-in" has proven effective.New faculty have been instrumental in making changes in the classroom. The first author, nowin her fourth year, has already taken a leadership role in those activities mentioned earlier,creating a vibrant classroom atmosphere.After completing the

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Hugh Jack

read, can they be followed, do they convey the information? Layout - If you plan to refer to an earlier slide, make a second copy of it - don’t flip back. - Use titles to make the purpose of visuals obvious. - Use bullet points - long sentences crowd the screen and are hard to read. - Do not use more than 20 words per slide, do not try to write full sentences on slides, use it as a summary. - Don’t provide pages as 1/20, 2/20, ....., 20/20 - it makes the presentation feel like a countdown. Fonts and Text - Use upper/lower case only to draw

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Lloyd Barrett; Edward Young; David E. Klett; Jeffrey Morehouse; Jed Lyons

physics. Texts for the courseinclude popular technical books on automobile racing 1 and course notes developed by theinstructors especially for this course.The course is intended for all engineering students, and although nearly half of the students aremechanical engineering majors or are planning to elect mechanical engineering as their major,students from all undergraduate engineering disciplines in the engineering school participate.Emphasis is placed on multidisciplinary aspects of engineering, design considerations, anddecision making relating to engineering practice.Some laboratory sessions have been included in the course. One involves the identification ofautomobile parts on several production and racing automobiles and students are

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Suzanne E. Keilson; Randall Jones; Lester Coyle; Elliot King; Duane Shelton

the Page 5.629.4Board and generates an on-screen reproduction of the physical circuit as it is constructed. Apaper on IWB-1was presented in March 1999 to the American Physical Society on IWB.IV. Full Development ProjectThe full development of the ISI project is planned to proceed in a number of phases. Each is brieflydescribed below.A. The Interactive Web BoardBuilding on the IWB-1 prototype described above, the authors plan to construct a more advancedmodel (IWB-2) that will more closely resemble a standard electronics-training breadboard. Amuch larger array of circuit elements will be added to the system, including resistors, diodes

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Manuel D. Rossetti; Harriet Black Nembhard

supplied is greater than 350 (excluding from the material. Develop a method to teach the materialthe total all shipments for which the quantity is less to other members in your group. Prepare visual aidesthan or equal to 200) get the part number, the weight, for explaining the material. Plan active roles for yourthe color, and the maximum quantity supplied of that group members. Teach your groups members.part.” Find another pair with the same section of material to present. Review all materials. Revise bothThe resulting table should look like this: pair’s materials using the best material from both

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Nicole DeJong; Ken Van Treuren; Don Farris; Cindy Fry

the semester’s work, and it is a first introduction to the engineering design process, as well asto team building, project planning and scheduling, and presentation. Details on the coursecurriculum and syllabus are available on the internet and can be accessed at any time by thestudents. This paper will discuss in detail the freshman engineering design project, whichaccounts for one-fourth of the total grade for this course, and the way in which it reinforces theother course activities and contributes to the course objectives.Request for ProposalApproximately a fourth of the way through the semester, the freshmen are divided into three- tofive-member design-build teams. Students interested in functioning as team leaders e-mail

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Ernest W. Tollner

" ethical position. Such does not exist. Each person needs to beable to raise a conscientious defense for positions taken when ethical questions areinvolved. We hear constant reference to values and ethics, particularly when readingliterature on Total Quality Management (TQM). Here we are mainly concerned withconservation values and ethics versus resource development values and ethics.Engineers have an interest in and can offer solutions toward both points of view. ABETand state licensing boards are becoming increasingly interested in ethics and associatedassessment issues. An ethics introduction is presented to stimulate understanding and compassionfor widely diverse views. This introduction forms the core of a reading planned

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Shirley Fleischmann

Rapids PublicSchools and was able to schedule a visit with the director of physical plants for the schoolsystem and with the principal of Coit School. The school was, in fact, in painfully poorphysical condition. It had a new boiler system but the large windows were mostly singlepane plexiglass in wooden frames so badly dry-rotted that one could easily push thebottoms of most of the panes out at least 1/8 inch or more. The principal and I decided tohave my students come to the school during the lab periods scheduled for the class.Students would make the observations and measurements needed to complete a heattransfer analysis of the building and they would come up with a plan to make the buildingmore comfortable. There were 3 scheduled lab

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Sanjay Joshi; SangHa Lee; Timothy Simpson; John Wise; Thomas Litzinger

and practice the skills needed for self-directed learning in an Page 6.211.5appropriate context. Candy notes that while these approaches are more consistent with the Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright ©2001, American Society for Engineering Educationcontext-dependent nature of learning, they may still not achieve the desired outcomes. Thus athird approach exists which recognizes the critical role of context, but seeks to make the processof learning itself the object of reflection so that it can be “the object of conscious planning

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Benjamin Flores; Walter Fisher; Pablo Arenaz; Connie Della-Piana

Facilitators forthe clustered courses. These students undergo extensive training during the summer andthe academic year. They become part of the instructional team for the orientation andlearning communities and are involved in the planning of activities and teaching. Forexample, the Orientation Leaders are an integral part of the planning process for theOrientation. They develop the instructional modules, write the skits and oversee theengineering design project and the science laboratory experience.Peer facilitators in the Seminar participate in teaching xourse material and are rolemodels for the entering students. In addition, they are tutors and act as “translators” andmediators, helping students make sense of the university and university

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1998 Annual Conference

Authors

P. Hirsch; J.E. Colgate; J. Anderson; G. Olson; D. Kelso; B. Shwom

teams on design problems that have a real client and address a realcommunity or local industry need. Projects have included designs for new playgroundequipment for a nearby elementary school , a homecoming float for NU’s residential collegesystem, and a novel self-healing composite material. Regardless of the source of a project,student teams follow a fairly rigid framework defined by a series of communication assignments:project plans, weekly progress reports, midterm updates, final proposals or reports, and finalpresentations. Design mock-ups are strongly encouraged and in some cases required; prototypesare encouraged when appropriate. At the end of the course students complement their group workwith a portfolio of writing about what they

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1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Gary D. Keller; Fred Begay; Antonio A. Garcia; Albert L. McHenry

. For example, summer bridge programs recruit students from high school andneighboring community colleges who may actually attend college at a different institution withinour alliance. This provides students with a broader peer and mentor network than if they wereattending the same school in the fall. Graduate Preparation Institutes similarly recruit fromwithin our alliance, thus increasing the motivation factor for students to spend a summerperforming research and preparing for the GRE and increasing the pool of mentors that they candraw from for writing letters of recommendation for graduate programs around the country.Shared Planning And Management Our AMP is provided oversight by the Governing Board. The specific activities of our

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1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Zbigniew Prusak

area investigated and its historical development (through available books and journals)3- later searches done on the Internet were exploring more possibilities and stayed more focused (less hacking and more up-front planning)A positive side of using the web is high enthusiasm of students, rapid access to information and a very Page 3.297.4appealing tool. As suggested by early results of the project, before using the web there is an absolute 4necessity of doing preparatory work: defining the scope of search, listing basic ideas what to look for,learning about basics of problem on hand

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1998 Annual Conference

Authors

James L. Hales

day we flew to Shanghai; students were filling the streets demonstrating therealso. Four days later we flew to Wuhan. Our hotel was on the opposite side of the YangtzeRiver from the airport. The bus carrying us was stopped at the bridge crossing the river, asdemonstrating students had closed it to all traffic. We had to take a commuter ferry filled withpeople returning home from their work. While in Wuhan we met with the Yangtze River Planning Commission and were briefedon the plans for the Three Gorges dam and hydroelectric project. The multi-billion-dollar projecthas subsequently been approved and is underway. On May 31 we left Hong Kong and returned to the United States. We were verysurprised four days later to hear news

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1997 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert L. Reid; Bruce D. Hoeppner

the second place finish. Page 2.201.4Page 2.201.5War Eagle, 1993-94 Two years of planning culminated with ASME / Johnson Controls Solar Splash '94held at the Pewaukee Lake Yacht Club on August 18-21, 1994. As mentioned, discussionsabout the possibility of such an event had begun in 1990 between Dean Reid and GeorgeEttenheim. Dean Reid, as an ex-Chairman of the Solar Energy Division (SED) of ASME,was appointed to a Student Task Force of the SED in April of 1992. He proposed that theSED provide seed money to AEC to begin planning the event. The SED enthusiasticallyendorsed the proposed intercollegiate solar boat regatta and the approval

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1997 Annual Conference

Authors

John Tuttle

73 16 Ticonderoga Cruiser 27 79 15 Arleigh Burke Destroyer 29+ 85 ? TABLE 1: SURFACE WARSHIP CONSTRUCTION 1948 -- 1997The fundamental nature of design has changed little, “to conceive from a figment of imaginationthrough the aid of science to a plan on paper”(6). But, what is good design and how is it biasedby the viewer? The designer may see it as cost effective solutions to the design requirements,ignoring the failings in requirements. The historian’s whom the designer looks to for guidance

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1997 Annual Conference

Authors

Leslie Bondaryk

may also gain insight into what areasconcern them most, which will also help you to choose media.&RQFOXVLRQVNew media offers us an opportunity for self-evaluation. Use the advent of cheap, ubiquitouscomputing as an opportunity to reflect on what’s working well in your teaching, and what isn’t.The instructors who created the tools above developed their initial plans this way, and were trueto their goals, as demonstrated in the examples.I have demonstrated a project in which hypertext is used to bind a course together and give thestudent the freedom to explore the content in their own personal path. I’ve shown examples ofinverted course structure using hypertext and virtual labs, which will affect not only the way thenew media is used, but

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1998 Annual Conference

Authors

John T. Bell; H. Scott Fogler

, VR can beenhanced through wired clothing, body tracking sensors, tactile and force feedback systems,spatialized sound, and even olfactory displays. Some of the earliest uses of VR have been inmedical and military applications, where budgets are large and the consequences of even smallerrors are sufficient to justify the expense of high-quality equipment and initial softwaredevelopment. More recently VR has been used for computational fluid dynamics visualization,operator training, construction engineering, maintenance planning, and EPA site remediation.Although high quality VR still requires prohibitively expensive computers and equipment, it isnow possible to deliver VR simulations of a somewhat lower quality on student affordablepersonal

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1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Paul D. Schreuders; Arthur T. Johnson

filtered withthe resistor and capacitor. The output of this filter is checked by the comparator to see if itexceeds a 7v threshold voltage. If it does, then the Schmidt trigger produces a pulse, which iscounted by the digital counter. The combination of digital gates assures that when the counterreaches 12, a switch is turned on.“How diabolical of Moriarty. He planned to use the device to trigger an explosion on the twelfthpeal of Big Ben. But his own cleverness concealed his childish understanding of analog and Page 4.61.12digital circuitry.“From the measurements I made I determined that there are many errors that the peripateticprofessor made when

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1999 Annual Conference

Authors

John E. Nydahl; Colin K. Keeney; Ann Peck

and toimprove those skills. The primary motivational technique is the use of student interviews withpracticing engineers, allowing students to personally “discover” this real world phenomena byinteracting with professionals in their field and gaining first-hand understanding of theimportance of good technical writing skills. To help give a sophomore-level technical writingcourse immediate relevance, it is linked to a class/laboratory that was reformulated to include alarge writing component. The laboratory includes team written prelabs, draft reports that are peerreviewed, and final reports that use both a memo and formal report formats. The timemanagement plan and grading procedure that are used to effectively compact the technicalmaterial

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1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Patricia M. Yaeger; Rose M. Marra; Francesco Costanzo; Gary L. Gray

classroom [16], we hypothesizedthat students would develop a richer understanding of the principles of dynamics in the Interac-tive course than they would in the “chalk and talk” classes. Secondary goals of the interactive,team-based nature of the course were to provide students with an opportunity to develop theircommunications, technology and group skills. “Assessment is not about measuring everything. Instead priorities for collecting information in any context should be driven by a set of clear priorities, themselves established by faculty and key con- stituencies.” (Ewell, p. 107) [17].We developed the initial assessment plan in conjunction with the first offering of Interactive Dy

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1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Colin S. Howat

write a plan for every set of simulation runs and every set of altered specifications explaining why they are changing a specific specification and what the expected impact on the constraint closure will be. (Having students treat each simulation study as the equivalent of a laboratory experiment accomplishes two tasks. First, the requirement that they must write the explanation and justification of what they expect to accomplish focuses the simulation run. Second, writing the experimental plan eliminates unnecessary simulation studies and runs within a study.) • Enforce the development of a run log recording every run and elapsed personal times. (Run logs are the equivalent

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering Division (MULTI) Technical Session 1

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rea Lavi, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Aikaterini Bagiati, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Gregory L Long PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; M. Mehdi Salek; Amitava 'Babi' Mitra, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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Multidisciplinary Engineering Division (MULTI)

mentions of role models in participants’ responses as theyreported having encountered at MIT. 10Table 7. Role models encountered at MIT. Role model category N responses At NEET At MIT, non-NEET Faculty (research) 2 1 Faculty (instructor) 1 2 Staff (instructor) 2 0 Other students (peers) 2 2Examples quotes from participants:“[#1] I found two classes of role models in NEET. One class is the NEET instructors whoinfluenced me to pursue research and grad school. Before joining NEET, I didn't plan oncontinuing my

Conference Session

College Industry Partnerships Division (CIP) Technical Session 3

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Benjamin L Burson, Purdue University at West Lafayette (COE); Eric Holloway, Purdue University at West Lafayette (COE)

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Diversity

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College Industry Partnerships Division (CIP)

Partners’career services websites.Although advice on the cover letter was not originally planned to be discussed, the employersstill delivered insight on how to effectively use the cover letter. While not all positions require acover letter in the application, employers strongly urged students to use a cover letter to separatethemselves from their peers. Employers stated that the resume is very factual and can be used toexpress oneself at times, but the cover letter should be used to give a more colorful backgroundof the student. Employers claimed that students should use the cover letter to showcase how theyare moving forward, and it should clearly outline their career goals.Throughout the discussion of the elevator pitch, it was clear that employers

Conference Session

Fostering Diversity and Inclusion in STEM Education

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Amani Qasrawi, The University of Texas at San Antonio; Tulio Sulbaran, The University of Texas at San Antonio; Sandeep Langar, The University of Texas at San Antonio

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Diversity

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Minorities in Engineering Division(MIND)

College of Architecture, Construction, and Planning at The University of Texas at San Antonio. He received his Ph.D. in Environmental Design and Planning from the Co ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 A Pilot Program to Introduce Augmented Reality to Female Hispanic High School Students in STEM Education Author1 Name, Author2 Name, and Author3 Name Author1, 2, 3 AffiliationAbstractAugmented Reality (AR) allows users wearing special glasses (such as Microsoft HoloLens 2,Apple Vision Pro, Trimble XR-10, Oculus Quest 2, Vuzix Blade, etc.) to see and interact withinformation generated by a computer overlaid on the real world

Conference Session

Perspectives in Chemical Engineering Education

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Blake Lopez, University of Wisconsin, Madison

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Chemical Engineering Division (ChED)

the relative time spent covering the topic in terms of the credit hours for the course. Thismeans the sum of all the node sizes is the number of credit hours for the course. Topic connectivity isrepresented by the directional edges. A topic without any preceding topics, such as T1-1, means it can betaught without any other prior knowledge. These can be thought of as introductory topics like how onewould think about an introductory course. A topic with preceding topics, such as T1-6, means it requiresthe preceding connected topics (T1-4 and T1-5) to be taught. This follows the logic of ”I need to knownumbers and counting to learn addition.” These dependencies can also be used to help plan the courseby noticing topic T1-10 requires all other

Conference Session

Engineering Leadership Development Division (LEAD) Technical Session: Innovative Approaches to Teaching & Developing Engineering Leadership

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Brainerd Prince, Plaksha University; Sumita Ambasta; Vinayak Krishan Joshi, Plaksha University

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Engineering Leadership Development Division (LEAD)

research design. Therefore, we find various studiesdemonstrate the importance of teaching research design to engineering students [17],[18].The rationality model is one of the most well-known decision-making models. Therefore, itbecomes necessary to look at it in-depth to understand it better. Below are the fourcomponents of the rationality model of decision-making: a. Intelligence: when to make a decision b. Design: analysing earlier actions, making possible plans c. Choice: choosing the best possible plan based on merit d. Review: assessing past choicesIt is interesting to note that this model is very similar to the four-part structure of 'researchdesign’ which, being central to innovation, is already a part of the engineering

Conference Session

Systems Engineering Topics

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Daniel B Oerther P.E., Missouri University of Science and Technology; Sarah Oerther

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Diversity

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Systems Engineering Division (SYS)

nursing as a STEM profession may create barriers to collaboration,professional growth, and research funding [19], the similarities among the professions ofenvironmental public health nursing and environmental engineering offer an opportunity forcollaboration in the area of STEMpathy – of the integration of STEM with empathetic, or caring,professions [20, 21, 22].According to the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics (US BLS), job code 29-1141 describesthat, “Registered nurses [RNs] assess patient health problems and needs, develop and implementnursing care plans, and maintain medical records. [They] administer nursing care to ill, injured,convalescent, or disabled patients. [They] may advise patients on health maintenance and diseaseprevention

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MECH - Technical Session 10: Special Topics and Innovative Methods in Mechanical Engineering

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Zahra Pournorouz, Stevens Institute of Technology

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Mechanical Engineering Division (MECH)

toprogram a vehicle to follow a reference velocity and avoid obstacles using adaptive modelpredictive control (MPC). Their assumptions include but not limited to a rectangular shape forthe car, three lanes straight street, constraint on throttling range to avoid unpredicted accelerationor deacceleration, and etc.They also referenced MathWorks’ Automated Parking Valet to plan a feasible path in a parkinglot environment. Their goal was to find an optimized local trajectory or smooth the path usingsplines and generate a speed profile along the smoothed path. Their steps for simulation includedthe “Motion Planning to reference the path using the goal positions (utilizes MathWorks’plannerHybridAStar algorithm in the Navigation Toolbox).”, “Local Path

Conference Session

First-Year Programs Division Technical Session 3: Teamwork

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rui Li, New York University; Jack Bringardner, Colorado School of Mines; Victoria Bill, Colorado School of Mines

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First-Year Programs Division (FYP)

route for the class as some students has no initial project ideas. A hybrid teamformation strategy was suggested for first-year student project team: the MD approach is firstapplied in the class, then followed by the BD approach.IntroductionTeamwork is a common practice for engineering professionals in the form of project teams. Thegroup of individuals known as the "project team" is in charge of carrying out the activities andcompleting the deliverables specified in the project plan and schedule as instructed by the projectmanager, at the degree of effort or involvement specified for them [1]. The outcome of a specificproject is dependent on the collective individual contributions of every team member. Teamsutilizing individual knowledge and