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2002 ASEE North Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Paul Ross; Gisela Kutzbach

Office of the Dean of Engineering at the University ofWisconsin - Madison reported on a questionnaire sent to alumni asking about theirexperiences, professional careers, and education. A key question on the survey askedRoss and Kutzbach 1 In the Online Classroomalumni to identify the most important subjects they had studied in their undergraduateengineering programs. Another section asked what they thought they needed more of intheir education. In short, these questions asked alumni to reflect on their own educationas it affected their professional careers. More than 9,000 alumni responded to this survey(Perspective, 1994).In the list of subjects “which have been most useful in your career,” the top

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2013 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

Tina Smilkstein

a reflection of how they're doing in lab in general and how much they should be contributing to the lab”. Proceedings of the 2013 American Society for Engineering Education Pacific Southwest Conference Copyright © 2013, American Society for Engineering Education 438 “Great idea because more people try to keep up with the actual lab work instead of leaving it to lab partners to have the understanding”. “I really like the pre lab write up. It really helps me come into the lab more prepared. Even though I hate the extra work. They really do pay off because you know exactly

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2013 GSW

Authors

Amir Karimi; Randall D. Manteufel

shown in Fig. 1 more than once. One student repeatedMAT 1214-Calculus-I five times.Fig. 1. Number of students repeating courses required for the BS degree in mechanical engineering SurveyA survey was conducted to assess the perception of students on graduation rate issues. It isrelatively well-known that faculty have ideas about retention. These ideas are reflected in thecurriculum and in the assignment of instructors to particular classes. There is less information Proceedings of the 2013 ASEE Gulf-Southwest Annual Conference, The University of Texas at Arlington, March 21 – 23, 2013. Copyright 2013, American Society for

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2013 GSW

Authors

L. Massa; P. Jha

. Gordon and B.J. McBride. Computer program for calculation of complex chemical equilibrium compositions, rocket performance, incident and reflected shocks and Chapman-Jouguet detonations. NASA-SP 273, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 1971.LUCA MASSADr. Massa currently serves as an Assistant Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the University ofTexas at Arlington. His research interests include combustion, detonation, transition modeling, boundary layers andcomputational fluid dynamics.PALLAV JHAMr. Jha is a PhD student in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the University of Texas atArlington. He is currently a teaching assistant at this institution. His research interests are internal

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2013 GSW

Authors

Edward E. Anderson

Wankat and Oreovicz2 problem solving strategy, McMaster problem solvingprogram of Woods3 and Woods, et al.4, Gray and Costonzo5 structured approach to problemsolving, Mettes and associates6 Systematic Approach to Solving Problems, and Litzenger, etal.’s7 Integrated Problem Solving Model. The Wankat and Oreovicz strategy divides problemsolving into definite steps including motivation, exploration, and reflection as well as the morecommon define, plan, execute and check steps. The McMaster problem solving program uses astructure similar to that of Wankat and Oreovicz and implements it across entire curricula.Gray’s structured approach emphasizes pattern-matching that starts with a small number ofgeneral equations that students reduce to fit a

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2016 Rocky Mountain Section Conference

Authors

Jeffrey S. Bates; Taylor D. Sparks

class demonstrated that the students learned about innovation. Goal Outcome Think creatively The grades received on the first assignments were much lower than expected. Therefore, we made some modifications to the way we presented our expectations for each assignment. We did not decrease our expectations. We only changed the way we presented them so that students knew what we were looking for. As a result, student performance increased and their learning was reflected in their assignments. The final projects were very

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2005 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Thomas R. Marrero; Andrew K. Beckett

Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education” 12possible that these support mechanisms help counter the “chilly” classroom experiences andincrease their interest in the field of engineering.For institutions wishing to improve the undergraduate experience for engineering students, wesuggest a self-analysis of specific learning practices as outlined in Kuh, et. al. text. Thefollowing questions are designed to help institutions reflect on their commitment to studentsuccess:Are students academically challenged in their coursework? What expectations do faculty have forstudents? How are these expectations communicated in

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2004 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Joseph J. Rencis; Hartley T. Grandin

physics of the topic. The ability to define a problem’s physical model and to construct the corresponding mathematical formulation of the model should reflect this understanding. Having written the governing equations, any convenient mechanism may be employed to execute a numerical solution.2. Engineering Tools. The students gain a working familiarity with one or more of the available equation solving programs, and it is stressed that the programs, as well as the general approach to problem solving, has a carryover to their other courses. A symbolic formulation can be naturally and easily solved with the modern engineering tools such as Mathcad, MATLAB™ and TK Solver. Furthermore, these engineering tools reduce to a minimum

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2011 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Heath A. Schluterman; Kellie Schneider; C. Richard Cassady

to answer successfully on the Post-Test. The problems which best reflect this modelare 7, 10, and 13. These questions cover the topics of Excel References, Future Worth, and theFEP Homework policy. Problem 7 required the students to understand Microsoft Excel cellreferences. Again, most of our students had little knowledge of Excel initially, and many mistookthe multi-part question as a multiple-choice. The unique result is that scores were actually higheron the Post-Test than the exam. This could be due to the fact that Microsoft Excel continued tobe used in the Introduction to Engineering I course after the second exam. Problem 10 concerneddetermining a future value of a present sum of money. Students were able to easily learn how toapply

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2013 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

E. Carl Greco; Jim D. Reasoner; Scott Jordan

practicumrelative to their partner.It has been shown that students exhibit different learning styles which contribute to theircomprehension and assimilation of instructional information especially in a classroomenvironment with a single dimensional presentation format[10] [11]. In order to mitigate a learningstyle bias on the dissemination of the laboratory procedures, the laboratory assignments wereprovided prior to the laboratory exercise and contained both explanatory figures and diagrams.Students had time to study and reflect on the assignment and to ask questions prior to thescheduled laboratory period. An audio-visual pre-lab brief accompanied each lab to preview thelaboratory assignment and procedures. The instructor was available during the

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2013 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Cindi Mason; Janet Twomey; Lawrence Whitman

predication accuracy was 75% suggests that higheraccuracy could be achieved given additional student attributes. Although less tangible factorssuch as intrinsic motivation and self-efficacy may be reflected in data such as high school GPA,they are likely some of the highest drivers in ultimate student retention but are not specificallycollected in this study. A recommendation for future study would be to utilize questionnaires orsurveys to gather information pertaining to self-efficacy, intrinsic motivation, sense ofcommunity, and other less tangible factors for retention, along with an ultimate reason forleaving for those students who do not stay in engineering. Prediction accuracy may also beimproved with a larger number of students for training

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2018 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Edgar C. Clausen; James T. McAllister

progress of the course throughout the semester Periodically update course content to reflect evolving technology Relate curriculum to real life problems and to current events Draw on personal experience and use student examples for practical applications Provide suitable activities that appeal to each learning style Understand personal learning style Encourage class participation Use active or cooperative learning after careful planningReaching Students in Large Classes: A Seminar/DiscussionIn February, 2018, U of A faculty gathered for a seminar/discussion on how to better reachstudents in larger classes, sponsored by the U of A Teaching Support Center. The format for theevent was a short presentation by the moderator, the lead author in this

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2013 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Charles E. Baukal; Lynna J. Ausburn; John E. Matsson; Geoffrey L. Price

(e.g., verbally or visually), how information ispreferentially organized (e.g., inductive vs. deductive), how information is processed (e.g.,actively vs. reflectively), and how understanding progresses (e.g., sequentially vs. globally).7These styles are relatively stable and concern cognitive, affective and psychological behaviorsProceedings of the 2013 Midwest Section Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education 2about how learners perceive, interact with, and respond to a learning environment.8 Numerousprevious studies have considered learning styles for engineering students. One example is a studyof a small sample of

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2012 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

W.S. Khan; M. Ceylan; E. Asmatulu; R. Asmatulu

emissions from automobiles and factories in the form of carbon and nitrogen react with sunlight, they produce ozone.Life on Earth depends on sunlight. A part of sunlight is deflected by the outer atmosphere andscattered back into space. Some of it reaches the planet’s surface and is reflected upward again inthe form of infrared radiation. Greenhouse gases absorb infrared radiation and regulate theclimate by trapping heat and holding it in the form of an envelope that surrounds the planet. Thisphenomenon is called the greenhouse effect. When the emissions of greenhouse gases fromvarious activities increases, the infrared radiation trapped and held will be greater, thus resultingin a gradual increase in temperature on the Earth’s surface

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2010 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Dona Steffens Davidson; Kevin P. Drees

thesaurus was especially important because searching wasdone by subject rather than keyword, using print indexes. This was a tedious process incomparison to electronic databases which allow keyword searching of the citation, abstract, andin some cases full text.The Engineering Information Thesaurus reflects the controlled terms presently used and theprevious terms as well. When searching the online database all one needs to know is thecontrolled terms presently used; however, if one is searching the print index, then one mustfollow the indexing tool governing the respective index by year. As of January 1993, theEngineering Information Thesaurus has served as the indexing tool for the Engineering Indexand the Compendex database.2 In terms of breadth

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2008 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Dan Cernusca; Douglas R. Carroll

used as the categorical variable in this study.Attitude toward MecMoviesThe exploratory question for this part of the study was to see if the difference in students’attitudes toward MecMovies, the online environment used for about 20% of homeworkassignments is reflected in their performance in homework grade. Results were analyzed using aone-way ANOVA, between- groups design. For this analysis the homework score was thedependent variable while the attitude toward MecMovies served as the independent variable.The results showed a relatively equal split between students supporting the use of MecMoviesfor homework assignments, N = 43, and those against it, N = 31. The analysis revealed asignificant effect for the attitude toward MecMovies, F(1,72

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2011 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Radian Belu

concepts, which areindirectly taught in the undergraduate subjects on a Power Electronics, Digital and AnalogCircuits, Antenna Design, Electromagnetic Fields, and Microwave Engineering. In addition to 61these, students should be aware of various examples given by the teachers in the above courses,for examples when discussing reflection interfaces, references may be made of the shieldingeffectiveness of various materials. Adding an EMC class to an already packed curriculum is notan easy task and hard choices are necessary. Most EMC classes are offered at graduate level oras senior electives for electrical engineering students6-8. Moreover, these courses often require asprerequisite one or two

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2011 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

KENNETH WADE JACKSON

for the 21st Century-Balancing Engineering Science,Information Technology and Multidisciplinary Studies Kenneth W Jackson Ph.D., P.E. Southern Polytechnic State UniversityAbstractEducating engineers for success in the 21st century workforce will requirecontinually adapting the curriculum subject matter to reflect relevancies to publicand corporate stakeholders. The planet’s population is growing to unprecedentedlevels and making vital resources even scarcer. For decades after World War IIengineering education tended to focus primarily on engineering science or physicsusing reductionist analytics. The less mathematical sciences of design, synthesis,systems, organization and planning became relatively minor parts of anundergraduate’s

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2008 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Ashraf Ghaly; Megan Ferry

Chinese andthe role technology played in achieving this goal. Close attention is paid to China’s drive to modernize animpoverished region. This segment takes a specific look at the Yangtze during the height of socialism inChina.Political History and the CCP Legacy: Building Another Great Wall. This segment compares thebuilding of the Three Gorges Dam to another monumental technological feat, the Great Wall. While bothendeavors reflect the political and historical conditions of the governments in power we will examinewhat precipitated the CCP’s drive to create a modern legacy.The CCP and Ecology: Mao’s purported swim across the Yangtze River constitutes one of the mosticonic images of China’s modernization project: man conquering nature. This

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2007 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Levern Rollins-Haynes; Keith L. Haynes

. 3Pursuing scholastic goals is also considered being uncool or acting white, i.e., being anti-intellectual.Anti-intellectualism, as defined by Richard Hofstadter is “a resentment and suspicion of the life of themind and of those who are considered to represent it; and a disposition constantly to minimize the valueof life…. [and] is usually the incidental consequence of some other intention, often some justifiableintention.”10Engineering scientist, Keith W. Jones’ description supports this definition. He states, When the ability to understand and manipulate science, technology, mathematics, and abstract ideas reflects our intelligence, we try to play it down. Of course, as most of us know, in some parts of the African American

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2007 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

E. Hou; T. N. Chang; A. Dhawan; J. Ji; E. Luxford; D. Rodriguez; W. Stoddart; S. Siddiqui

, GPS (Global Positioning System), wheelencoders. To minimize lead time and cost, commercial off the shelf units are used.2.1.1 Perception The LADAR system will be used primarily for obstacle detection. Because of the high-resolutionoutput, we will be able to differentiate obstacles with relative ease. We also plan to use a ground scanningLADAR unit for lane detection. The drawback to LADAR is in the reflections. The Radar andUltrasound sensors will be used as bump-detection mechanisms. These will be low-range systems thatdetect the presence of objects. The vision systems will be used for road detection as well as obstacle avoidance. Also, since theDARPA specified waypoints would be sparse and not guaranteed to be accurate, our

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2007 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

John C. Giordano; J. Scot Ransbottom

the militaryleaders of the future.The views expressed are those of the authors and do not reflect the official policy or position of theUnited States Military Academy, the Department of the Army, the Department of Defense or the UnitedStates Government.[1] U.S. GAO, GAO/NSIAD-94-95, Military Academy: Gender and Race Disparities 13 (Mar. 17, 1994)[2] Sayles, A., Picart, J., Nadeau-Schaff. “Leading Diversity: How Diversity Works.”http://www.eecs.usma.edu/[3] United States Military Academy. Educating Future Army Officers for a Changing World, 2003.(at http://www.dean.usma.edu/support/aad/efaocw.pdf)[4] Felder, R.M. and R. Brent, "Understanding Student Differences." J. Engr. Education, 94(1), 57-72(2005). An exploration of differences in student

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2007 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Christopher M. Korpela; William J. Adams

robotics platformlike the Boe-Bot® can be programmed through a commonly used language like Java to form thebasis of undergraduate research exercises. The immediate feedback offered by programming andobserving the robot spurred students to find innovative and collaborative solutions to standardengineering problems. The confidence offered by the project also helped students overcomelinguistic and cultural obstacles, enabling cadets to learn about other cultures as well as robotics.The views expressed are those of the authors and do not reflect the official policy or position ofthe U.S. Military Academy, the U.S. Department of the Army, the U.S. Department of Defense orthe United States Government. Proceedings of the 2007 Middle

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2013 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Fangyang Shen; Bing Qi; Hong Li; Arvid Friberg

and IT focus. For systemeffectiveness, general surveys will be open, random, pertinent and online. Open forums willgather comments which can be discussed or analyzed at any time.Idea generation and feedback should be done in a way which can enhance the project design.After gathering all the feedbacks, the design of NA curriculum adapts the technology changingand reflectively embeds into teaching.2.Active, flexible and basic online NA trainingA simple training system will reinforce the technical basics of NA. The system will cover basicTCP/IP, naming conventions, backup, theory, DNS, topologies, basic user admin, rightsmanagement and databases. This system will allow self-study that frees faculty evaluation time.Ultimately it will guide

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2006 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Ronald E. Barr

published by Murray [3] indicate that engineering students are a smallminority in U.S. colleges. In 2000, the figures showed that just 4.7 percent of U.S.undergraduate degrees went to engineers, while 38.7 percent of the undergraduate degrees inChina were awarded to engineering students. Just in terms of raw numbers, the U.S. is waybehind China, and also behind Japan in the data. Further note that data from India is difficult toget and is not reflected in Table 1. But, popular opinion is that India graduates around 250,000engineers per year.Assuming that science and engineering education strongly influence the economic prosperity andstandard of living of a nation, the data does not bode well for America’s future. Engineeringeducation has shown a

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2006 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

William E. Kelly; Theodore A. Bickart; Richard J. Forselius

it is ambitious - Establish standards education as a high priority within theUnited States private, public and academic sector.One of the specific tactical initiatives under ten is to “Develop or significantly enhance standards education programs that address theneeds of specific groups within the United States. These programs must reflect the multidisciplinary environment in which standardsdevelopment takes place and address national and international standards development procedures; the relationship between privateand public sector standards; the environment, health, safety, sustainability, international trade, public policy, competition, legal,economic benefits, and strategic considerations; and how to balance the interests of

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2006 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Carlos Bertha

a roadmap for its application: In its traditional guise, casuistry involves five components. First, casuists attempt to classify the event in question drawing upon paradigms and taxonomies. Frequently this process involves analogical reasoning, drawing together similarities and differences between well-established paradigms and novel cases as an initial step toward “getting a handle” in such cases. Second, casuists identify which presumptions add to our perception of the morally salient features of the case. Third, casuists comment on the case’s circumstances and how these might affect our overall judgment of the event in question. Fourth, casuists often reflect upon the opinions of prior

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2006 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Mark Miles; C.M. Chewar

amount (less than 5% of theassignment) of bonus points were offered for the most efficient solution. As expected, the response that this particular problem invoked was “knowledge-seeking”behavior. Out of 22 students in the class, 14 came to the Instructor/Developer as they wereworking on the problem for feedback and guidance on how to take the next steps. Of those thatcame to the instructor for additional instruction, their attitude can be summarized: “Now that I’ve done this and know where I’m trying to get to, I’m not sure what to do next.”This provided the opportunity to provide clues, which were nudges toward analytical steps orinferences. Ultimately, the products that students submitted reflected many extremely complexand

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2006 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

LeeRoy Bronner; Peter Kazanzides; AmenRa Mashariki; Paul Domingo; Pauline Pelletier; Trevor Thomas

. • Figure 9: Ten Year Scientific Information System Archive – diagram showing a 10 year research archive and the researcher interface. • Figure 10: Scientific Information System Website: a depiction of a scientific information website.4. ObjectivesThe primary objective of this research study is to develop a solution for the ERC informationoverload problem as it relates to researcher communication and collaboration through intelligentinformation design and presentation techniques. The goals addressed by this research areoutlined below: 1. Develop an information design pattern3, 4, 5, 6 that: • uses scientific poster technology as a base, • reflects the input of

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2008 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Saikat Ray

. ConclusionComputer based testing enables an instructor of a course for M.S. students in a teaching oriented school tocondition them to the habit of regular studying without increasing the grading load. The author has usedthem in class successfully with increased student attendance and attention. There are issues with computeraccess, some time is lost if the class has to go to a computer lab for the test, possible web outages duringthe test, etc. However, the benefits of CBT significantly outstrip its disadvantages in creating bettermotivated students at the M.S. level.DisclaimerThis article reflects author’s personal scholarly view on the subject and is written based on his personalexperiences at different schools and anecdotes gathered from various sources