Conference Session

Electrical & Computer Engineering Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Joerg Mossbrucker; Owe Petersen; Robert Strangeway

career option. These presentations and discussions give a vital overview over the many different career options in EE and EET. C. Aspects of professional registration, professional and honor societies. Graduate school opportunities and the mechanics for applying to graduate school are discussed. Long term financial planning is also introduced.The above areas are then covered by one ore more individual sessions as follows:Area A: 1. Gaining employment Presentations are given by in-house placement office staff. Placement office procedures, guidelines for good resumes and cover letters, interviewing styles and techniques, and internet resources for company profiles and

Conference Session

K-12 Outreach Initiatives

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Suzanne Olds

Session 2530Currently, the module’s lessons are divided into units. These units are categorized into twogroups (Figure 1). The first group consists of components we have deemed critical in meetingthe main instructional objectives, and are therefore required for module implementation. Thesecond group consists of optional components based in language arts, social sciences, and simplemathematics. These options allow teachers to complement the main engineering lessons andcustomize the module to fit their schedules.Figure 1 – A schematic of the constituent units of the PPHH lesson plans. The units acrossthe top are required to achieve the overall objectives of the module. The units below thearrow represent optional units teachers can use to complement

Conference Session

Minorities in Research

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Andrea Ogilvie

membersand graduate students. Through these relationships, TREX participants learn about opportunitiesthat may be available to them during and after a graduate education. This experience builds theirconfidence and convinces them that pursuing a graduate degree is both valuable and feasible.TREX participants receive a $2,600 research stipend ($1,300 per semester) and are required tospend an average of 10-14 hours per week on his/her research project during the academic year.In addition, TREX participants are required to develop a research proposal plan at the beginningof the program that clearly defines the project and ensures that the student, faculty andcoordinator expectations are met. Finally, TREX participants are expected to: attend

Conference Session

Mentoring, Outreach, & Intro BME Courses

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Shruti Mehta; Amanda Knudson; David Kanter; Suzanne Olds

have benefited students in ways notoriginally anticipated. When asked to comment on how they have benefited from the project, theengineering students indicated that they have had to reflect upon their own learning process inorder to devise this teaching unit in their specific field of interest:“There is great satisfaction in knowing that you aided in the educational development of a youngstudents. You also develop yourself in the process. The on-going development of this project notonly allows us to teach kids about the design process but it also allows us to improve the designprocess and learn it in a way that can be applied to BME and our other projects.”Many of the engineering students have found that in order to devise the lesson plan

Conference Session

TYCD 2002 Lower Division Initiatives

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Grace; Scott Klingenstein; Ron Ulseth; Nick Nicholson; Don Moen; Amy Hendrickson; Aaron Wenger; Kenneth Gentili; Paul Gordy; Jim Richardson

tounderrepresented groups) and that TYCs are a logical entry point to engineering if issues of curriculum,articulation, recruiting, and retention are addressed coherently. The proposed conference will bring togetherleading TYC engineering programs, transfer universities, and high school SMET teachers to begin thediscussion of how a national effort can involve the TYCs in producing a new generation of engineers andtechnologists. A primary focus of the conference will be upon forming a collaborative effor t between HS-TYC-University for the recruiting and retention of students to engineering. A pre-conference planningmeeting will be held with representatives from all areas of the collaboration. The pre-planning will result ina core set of HS-TYC-University

Conference Session

Closing Manufacturing Competency Gaps II

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

John Farris; Jeffrey Ray

manufacturing processes. 3. Students must apply design of experiments (DOE) knowledge to plan and execute experiments to determine optimal process settings. 4. Students must solve the practical manufacturing problems that arise.To meet these goals a generalized or idealized lab procedure was developed. Under the idealprocedure, teams of students designed a part to meet functional and geometrical specifications.The design of the part was optimized for production using the manufacturing process underconsideration. Next Students designed the manufacturing process to produce the part. Toolingwas designed and fabricated by the students. Design of experiments was then employed tooptimize the process parameters. Finally, parts were

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Zhengtao T. Deng; Xiaoqing (Cathy) Qian; Abdul Jalloh; Amir Mobasher; Ruben Rojas-Oviedo

Session 1566non-engineering courses. Therefore, the hours available for engineering courses arerather limited and must be used efficiently to ensure that students acquire the skillsneeded for a rapidly changing work environment.The Mechanical Engineering Program at Alabama A&M University has identifiedindustries and government agencies that form part of its constituency. Periodically, theDepartment faculty meets and discusses plans and programs that pertain to the two tracksoffered in the mechanical engineering program, one being in manufacturing systemswhile the other is in propulsion systems. The review process takes place on a continuousbasis by analyzing other specialized inputs through publications from professionalengineering

Conference Session

Engineering Economy Education Research

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Amber Lehrman; Heather Nachtmann

engineering students about theeffects of uncertainty and how to handle uncertain data. The research plan is presented alongwith a literature review in this area.IntroductionSeveral panel reports in the early 1990s claimed that undergraduate engineers lacked the abilityto succeed in the real world (Bordogna, et al., 1993; ASEE, 1994; National Science Foundation,1995; National Research Council, 1995). Around the same time, Condoor, et al. (1992) reportedthat students tended to primarily use subjective judgment in decision making as opposed toanalytical techniques. The research project discussed in this paper addresses both of theseconcerns. The objectives of this research are twofold: 1) to assess the current state ofengineering student abilities to

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

David S. Cottrell

methodologies as well consideration of alternatives and economic concernsrelating to the finished project.In the paragraphs below, the author describes two actual design projects included in themost recent offering of ET 200, “Graphic Communications.” The first project challengedthe student to develop three alternative design proposals responding to a well-definedscope for a residential constructive endeavor. Students created isometric and elevationdrawings and floor plans and completed comparative assessments for each of the finaldesigns. The second design project involved the application of a computer-aided design(CAD) software package that guides the user through the design of a truss-type highwaybridge, based on a specified design scenario; design

Conference Session

Future Directions of Continuing Professional Development

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kim A. Scalzo, State University of New York; Edward G. Borbely, University of Michigan; Nelson C. Baker, Georgia Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Continuing Professional Development

AC 2012-5363: QUALITY STANDARDS FOR CONTINUING PROFESSIONALDEVELOPMENT ORGANIZATIONS AND QUALITY MANAGEMENT THROUGHSELF-ASSESSMENT AND BENCHMARKINGMs. Kim A. Scalzo, State University of New York Kim Scalzo is the Director of the Center for Professional Development (CPD) for the State University of New York (SUNY). The SUNY CPD provides professional development and training programs for faculty and staff throughout the 64 campus SUNY system, and Scalzo is responsible for overall leader- ship of the Center, new program development, managing relationships with the campuses, and working with other university-wide programs to ensure alliance with the SUNY Strategic Plan. Prior to joining SUNY, Scalzo spent 18 years in a

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

William Peterson

teaching courses off-campus in the 12-week / three and a thirdhour scheme. I had taught students in these master’s programs before and had some feel for theirexpectations from a course. Theses expectations/preferences included relevance to their currentemployment situation and immediate applicability.PlanningWith the ground rules for the course established I set down to develop a syllabus. I quicklydeveloped a set of course objectives, a syllabus, a grading scheme, and a reading plan for thecourse based on what I thought would be interesting and valuable to the students taking thecourse. At this point my 20 years as an engineering manager kicked in and I started to rethink myplan. I also came to the conclusion that my research interest – improving

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Kauser Jahan; Shreekanth Mandayam; Douglas Cleary

mechanical. In the second semester, students work in teams on well- Page 6.738.1defined semester long design projects. The junior and senior clinics emphasize multidisciplinary Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2001, American Society for Engineering Educationdesign on projects of progressive complexity. Professors work with teams of 3 – 5 students onopen-ended design, planning, or research projects5-6.The Junior and Senior Clinic are project-based courses. Each provides a venue formultidisciplinary student teams to engage in semester or multi

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Edward Hensel

for Engineering Educationclass. Each faculty mentor is responsible for five to six project teams.This paper will present an overview of the design process originally developed for use within themechanical engineering senior capstone design course, and how the process is being adapted foruse in multi-disciplinary team projects.The twelve-faceted design process used in the senior capstone design class in engineering at NewMexico State University is outlined here. During each facet, students follow a Plan-Do-Check-Act(PDCA) cycle. During the “Plan” stage for the facet, the student teams, working with theirgraduate student manager, who is in turn being guided by the faculty mentor, develop a workbreakdown structure for the tasks that need to be

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Ted D. Loso; Raj Desai; Michael E. Courbat

internal stresses within anorganization unless a more structured and formalized change procedure is used. Attempting tochanging a university or college culture to welcome information technology is not a simple oreasy task. It requires a lot of planning, resources, patience and the efforts of a lot of people.A recent white paper by the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education states thatin applying information technology to the 21st century classroom, universities and colleges mustcreate a vision, develop a plan, allow experimentation and adopt a comprehensive approach.This approach would include understanding the changes needed in the infrastructure of theuniversity, developing appropriate compensation and incentives and recognition

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

William E. Cole; Walter Buchanan

. Introducing them tonew technologies through the readings on the Internet and performing experiments in the lab, notthrough the traditional lecture, would develop self-learning skills. Critical thinking skills wouldbe developed by requiring the students to think about what they did in the lab, consider theimplications, and extend the results to other situations.With these thoughts in mind, we decided to implement the instrument lab in our freshmanEngineering Technology Program. Our plan was to complete eight experiments from the Drexelsite in the fall quarter and an additional eight experiments in the spring quarter (NortheasternUniversity is on the quarter system with each quarter being 10 weeks long). Initialimplementation occurred in the fall of

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Melanie Basantis; Zenaida Otero Keil

program.Background: Industrial support and input have been a hallmark of the Rowan College ofEngineering from its outset. The College first offered graduate courses in September1995. Some of these graduate courses were taught at company sites. When the firstRowan undergraduate engineering class arrived on campus in September 1996, theCollege had already developed partnerships and established numerous industrial contactsin the region. The National Advisory Council consisting of recognized leaders in engineeringeducation and industry assisted in the initial planning of the College of Engineeringbeginning in July, 1993. The Corporate Committee of the Council consisted of industrialleaders who assisted in the development of the innovative Rowan

Collection

1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Dongmei Gui; Jens Jorgensen; Joseph A. Heim

project. The instructors will also use theForum as the basis for periodic evaluation of the student team efforts. Since the projects will beonline and accessible from any point on the Internet, we intend to involve senior engineeringexecutives in the review and evaluation of student projects. We believe that the involvement ofindustry will create a substantially richer reflection of the challenges the students will confront aspracticing engineers.4 Organization and ManagementFaculty, students and industrial partners that it will serve will guide the planning anddevelopment of the Electronic Forum and Workshop for Design and Manufacturing Education.It is critical, therefore, that guidance from those constituencies is solicited in the early

Collection

1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Khader

encouraging.Careers in this field include telecommunications engineering and management, public policy,consulting, research and development, vendor sales, marketing, and technical support. In responding to this opportunity, the Engineering Technology Department at New JerseyInstitute of Technology developed an undergraduate telecommunication concentration within theElectrical Engineering Technology program. To keep abreast with the market space and thedemands of the industry, we developed an assessment plan used as an input to the programimprovement process. Included in the assessment plan is a survey sent to the graduates of thetelecommunication concentration to track their progress and to gain an insight to the strength and

Collection

1998 Annual Conference

Authors

M.P. Hottenstein; C.O. Ruud

today not only refers to the making of hard goods, but also to enterprises that“produce” information, transportation, health care, etc. Manufacturing is not simply the cutting,shaping, grinding, and assembling of materials; it includes product design, materials andprocesses, plant design, capacity management, product distribution, product costing, performancemeasurement, plant scheduling, quality management, workforce organization, equipmentmaintenance, strategic planning, supply chain management, interplant coordination, and directproduction. This is sometimes referred to as “Big M”. All of the activities typically included in“Big M” manufacturing are part of the unique new integrated Engineering/Business graduateprogram at Penn State called

Collection

1997 Annual Conference

Authors

Marilyn Barger, Hillsborough Community College

STANDARDSThe ISO 14000 series of standards or principles is being designed to help industry better tracktheir own environmental operations, compliance, and performance. Many companies withexisting environmental management systems are evaluating their own plans and comparing themwith the draft ISO proposals for the various aspects of environmental management. The firsttwo components of this environmental management series will be released this year: ISO 14001and ISO 14010, the Environmental Management Systems Protocol and the Environmental AuditsSystems, respectively. Other environmental management issues that will become themes of anISO environmental standard include: product labeling (ISO 14020 series), environmentalperformance evaluation (ISO 14030

Collection

1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Paul Seaburg; Patricia S. Brown

lose their identity as Architectural Engineers. BothNSAE and AED have worked at correcting this problem, however the synergism provided by theAEI will be much more effective than either alone. In addition, the purpose of the AEI is to createa multi-disciplinary meeting place for the exchange of technical, educational and professionalconcerns for those involved in the building-related fields.This paper briefly describes the history, current organization and future plans for the AEI. Specialemphasis is on the relationships with student groups and support to the education process.I. IntroductionThe first Architectural Engineering (AE) program was offered at the University of Illinois. PennState offers the longest continuously operating program

Collection

1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Joseph Cecere

subjectsafter accountingwere Management Principles (4.149), Human Resources (3.987), and Business Law (3.941).Real Estate (2.739) and Real Estate Law (2.659) were the two lowest ranked subjects.In the "Business and Management" area Ethics (business/professional) was the highest rankedsubject as indicated in Table IV, with 4.435. The next two highest ranked were Cost Accountingand Accounting (basic) with 4.263 and 4.194 respectively. Three close subjects after accountingwere Management Principles (4.149), Human Resources (3.987), and Business Law (3.941).Real Estate (2.739) and Real Estate Law (2.659) were the two lowest ranked subjects.Data reported in Table V ranked "Construction Technology" area. The respondents ranked thesubject Contract Plans and

Collection

1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Andrew S. Crawford

-based model developed by the MichiganLeadership Initiative task force. It defines “competency,” “leadership” and “citizenship” from theperspective of how these concepts are applied in our program. The paper describes our conceptualmodel and shows the progression of skills to be obtained over the four years of undergraduateeducation. Plans for implementing the model in the College of Engineering are described. Thesewere developed by a committee with members from each of the departments in the College. Thefreshman module, currently in place, provides an example of how the plan will be implemented.Finally, the challenges of assessing progress and implementing future stages of the plan are

Conference Session

Faculty Development Division (FDD) Technical Session 2

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mayrismir Cordero, MPA, Palo Alto College; Anna Tanguma-Gallegos PhD(c), Arizona State University ; Caroline Vaningen-Dunn, Arizona State University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Faculty Development Division (FDD)

©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 Apoyando y Modificando el Currículo: Supporting our Next Generation Latinx STEM StudentsAbstract Work in Progress(WIP) Paper: To address inequity within higher education, the NSFINCLUDES ALRISE Alliance (NSF#2120021) has empowered faculty to modify theircurriculum, tackle inequity issues within Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSIs), and aim forsystems change benefiting Latinx/e students in STEM. Inequity manifests in various formswithin the classroom, by adjusting the curriculum, faculty can establish an equitable learningenvironment. The Plan-Do-Study-Act (PDSA) approach within the ALRISE Alliance equipsSTEM Team faculty with the tools to identify problems

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Marian Kennedy, Clemson University; Kristin Kelly Frady, Clemson University

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees Poster Session

fall or spring term in their classes.The second phase of the program took place off campus and consisted of the teachers further polishing andlaunching their lesson plan tied to the RET experience. These teacher activities were designed so thatfollowing the programmatic goals were met: 1. Expand content knowledge of advanced and traditional materials manufacturing for teacher to support integration into new STEM and workforce development teaching and learning materials; 2. Engage teachers in advanced manufacturing research where they take on the role as the lead researcher and increase their understanding of how research leads to knowledge development; 3. Provide teachers with beneficial professional development (mentoring

Conference Session

Computers in Education Division (COED) Poster Session

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Makayla Moster, Clemson University; D. Matthew Boyer, Clemson University

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education Division (COED)

students joining every semester and contributing to the community. Additionally, theyfound that students continue to communicate with past classmates, students in different years,and that it allows off-campus or distance students to still make friends and form study groups [6].Finally, they found that this Discord server helped students make industry connections to helpthem with their future job hunts [8]. Overall, this server has made a lasting impact on thestudents that contribute to its community. Unfortunately, not many of these case studies have been identified and examined withinthe literature. With our proposed study, we plan to add to the growing body of literaturesurrounding discipline-focused, educational communities by examining

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship Faculty Development

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cynthia C. Fry, Baylor University; William M. Jordan, Baylor University

Tagged Divisions

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

Entrepreneurship Education Network (KEEN)Innovators program to help faculty learn the importance of the entrepreneurial mindset, not onlyin how they approach their vocation, but also in how they expose students to these sameattributes. We discuss the program design, its initial implementation, challenges faced, lessonslearned, and plans for the future.In the last fifty years, the emphasis in engineering education has been to equip our students withthe analytical tools thought to be needed for success in the workforce and/or graduate school.This is in contrast to the more hands-on educational model employed before the rapidindustrialization seen during World War II.1,2 In Friedman’s book, “The World is Flat,” andPink’s book, “A Whole New Mind,” although

Collection

1997 Annual Conference

Authors

Gary Benenson; Benjamin Liaw

laboratories, whichare used in several required courses in our ME curriculum. Modern equipment procured forthese laboratories is used for education in CNC machining, robotics, computer-integratedmanufacturing, flexible manufacturing cells, and mechatronics using programmable logiccontrollers (PLC’s) and microcontrollers for measurement and control. Perhaps the most unique feature of our approach is the very extensive involvement ofstudents (both graduate and undergraduate) in all phases of the project. From the very beginningstudents formed teams, each of which took charge of a major piece of equipment. Theyparticipated in the planning of manufacturing courses; got involved in the selection process ofequipment purchase; learned to operate the

Collection

2015 ASEE Workshop on K-12 Engineering Education

Authors

Melissa Divonne Dean, Mobile Area Education Foundation; Judith French Duke, Mobile Area Education Foundation

industry leaders in the region. Participants willexperience a portion of one environmental engineering module developed using this model,“Don’t Go With the Flow.” Participants will reflect on their experience with the moduleand identify ways that the model could be applied to enrich their current STEM educationefforts. Planning documents and a summary of strategies will be provided.Workshop Description. Please provide a detailed description of the proposed workshop that, atminimum, explicitly addresses the following (maximum 4,000 characters): a. Learning objectives b. Hands-on activities and interactive exercises c. Materials that participants can take with them d. Practical application for teachers and outreach

Conference Session

Alternate Energy

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ahmed Khan; Velina Zlatkova; Azeem Mohammed; Adnan Walid

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

(ECET-390, Product Development: 8-Weeksession) students research, plan and develop a project proposal. And in the next three seniorproject courses (ECET-492, ECET-493 & ECET-494: three 8-Week sessions) studentsimplement a project plan by building and testing a prototype. The format of paper (sections II-XIV) parallels the required written report format of the capstone course at DeVry University.DeVry University’s Senior Project Capstone Course SequenceDeVry University’s Electronics Engineering Technology/Computer Engineering Technology(ECET) program senior project is a four 8-Week sessions course sequence in which studentssynthesize knowledge and skills learnt in the previous courses. In the first course (ECET-390,Product Development