Conference Session

Student Division Technical Session 3

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Jeong Hin Chin, University of Michigan; Yuan Gao, University of Michigan; Herbert Li, University of Michigan; Magel P. Su, California Institute of Technology; Robin Fowler, University of Michigan

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Student

Michigan. At Michigan, he was a member of the Ultrafast Laser - Material Interaction Laboratory and the Engineering Honors Program. He also served as an instructor for several courses including Introduction to Engineering, Introduction to Materials and Manufacturing, and Structural and Chemical Characterization of Materials.Dr. Robin Fowler, University of Michigan Robin Fowler is a lecturer in the Program in Technical Communication at the University of Michigan. She enjoys serving as a ”communication coach” to students throughout the curriculum, and she’s especially excited to work with first year and senior students, as well as engineering project teams, as they navigate the more open-ended communication decisions

Conference Session

Virtual Instruction of Chemical Engineering Courses

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Milo Koretsky, Tufts University

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Chemical Engineering

the use of higher-level cognitive skills in engineering problem solving. His research interests particularly focus on what prevents students from being able to integrate and extend the knowledge developed in specific courses in the core curriculum to the more complex, authentic problems and projects they face as professionals. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 Student Responses to Remote Teaching during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Implications for the Future of Online LearningIntroduction:The COVID-19 pandemic brought a widespread shift in instructional practice as facultyscrambled to shift to remote instruction. One positive

Conference Session

Mechanical Engineering Division (MECH) Technical Session 3: Student Success

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Eleazar Marquez, The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley; Samuel Garcia, Texas State University

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Diversity

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Mechanical Engineering Division (MECH)

developing and implementing pedagogical methods in engineering education.Dr. Samuel Garcia, Texas State University Dr. Samuel Garc´ıa Jr. serves as an Educator Professional Development Specialist at Kennedy Space Center. Prior to his position at Kennedy Space Center, Dr. Garc´ıa worked at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, CA. As an education specialist, Dr. Garc´ıa is deeply committed to developing STEM educational mindsets, tools, and resources and facilitate educational experiences for educators and students. Prior to working as an education specialist, Dr. Garc´ıa served as secondary school educator in Rio Grande Valley in Texas for seven years. Dr. Garc´ıa, a first-generation college student, earned both

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2024 ASEE North Central Section Conference

Authors

Alexander Duke, Ohio Northern University; Ethan Krause, Ohio Northern University; Mia Prasinos, Ohio Northern University; Lewis Schafer, Ohio Northern University

website/database with an up-to-date view of sidewalks andother landmarks in different areas worldwide. Open Street Map is managed by community Proceedings of the 2024 ASEE North Central Section Conference Copyright © 2024, American Society for Engineering Education p. 5contributors, which enables the map to receive frequent updates and ensure its accuracy, even onsmall campuses like Ohio Northern’s⁵. The integration of Open Street Map allows MapBox todeliver a powerful solution by adding further functionality and features in addition to the strongnavigational component. This enables the team to focus

Conference Session

Faculty Development Division (FDD) Technical Session 5

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kathryn Dimiduk, Cornell University

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Faculty Development Division (FDD)

interests. Learningobjectives likely focus the course and allow effective assessment of whether the students arelearning the material. The instructor specifically teaches the big ideas, not just the details, andshows the students the structure of the content they ae learning. Often there’s an effort to showthe students where they can apply this material beyond the course. The instructor focuses onexplaining, not just covering the material and actively engages the students with thinking aboutthe content. This is apparent in the assignments as well as the lectures.Inspired teaching – This level describes courses students look forward to. The classes areinteresting, students are engaged, content feels relevant and fits the curriculum well

Conference Session

NSF Grantees' Poster Session

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Matthew W. Ohland, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Misty L. Loughry, Georgia Southern University; Richard A. Layton, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; rebecca lyons; Daniel M. Ferguson, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Kyle Heyne; Tripp Driskell, Institute of Simulation and Training; David Jonathan Woehr, University of North Carolina Charlotte; Hal R Pomeranz; Eduardo Salas, University of Central Florida; Andrew Caleb Loignon, UNC - Charlotte; Shirley C Sonesh, UCF

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

. Richard Layton is an associate professor of Mechanical Engineering at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology with a Ph.D. from the University of Washington. His professional work includes student teaming, persistence, migration, and retention of engineering undergraduates, and consulting in data vi- sualization and graph design. He is also a singer and songwriter.rebecca lyonsMr. Daniel Michael Ferguson, Purdue University, West Lafayette Daniel M. Ferguson is a graduate student in the Engineering Education Program at Purdue University and the recipient of three NSF awards for research in engineering education. Prior to coming to Purdue, he was assistant professor of Entrepreneurship at Ohio Northern University. Before

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Professional Papers

Collection

2025 ASEE Southeast Conference

Authors

Mazen I. Hussein, Tennessee Technological University

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Professional Papers

, commitment,and leadership backing rather than simply accelerating work. When implemented successfully,they enhance organization, efficiency, and workplace atmosphere, fostering teamwork, morale,and job satisfaction through gradual, low-cost improvements [5]. To implement Kaizensuccessfully in education, it should be integrated with the institution's strategic goals, aiming todeliver value to students by emphasizing simplicity, quality, speed, and cost-effectiveness.Establishing a culture of excellence grounded in Kaizen principles can drive sustainedimprovement, with strong leadership and an emphasis on reducing resistance to change helpingto address previous setbacks in educational reform [6].Antony et al. [7] demonstrated that management

Conference Session

Software Engineering Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Gregory Kulczycki, Virginia Tech; Steven Atkinson, Virginia Tech

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Software Engineering Division

, to healthcare and high performance networking. Dr. Atkinson’s academic experience includes a Ph.D. from University of Queensland, Australia and an Assistant Professorship at West Virginia University. He has publications in the areas of formal specification and verification of soft- ware systems, and software reuse. Dr. Atkinson’s interests currently include programming languages, high performance data transmission and re-architecture of larger existing software systems and software engineering curriculum development. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Industrializing Your Web Application Development ProjectAbstractIn any software development course, a good project is

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Effective Tools for Teaching Engineering Economy

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Phil Rosenkrantz, California State Polytechnic University-Pomona

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Engineering Economy

activities were planned for the course todeliver curriculum component 4.Learning Strategy #1: Personalize and engage the student in the subject matter and communicatewith them often 2.Learning Activity #1: This activity is an individual project. To generate engagement students areasked to create their personal retirement plan to illustrate the course concepts, terminology andmethods in a way that should interest them. The normal lecture approach was supplemented witha narrated four-part PowerPoint presentation on retirement planning that included informationabout retirement plans and investing options. A basic EXCEL template was provided as astarting point for each student to develop their own retirement plan and sensitivity analysis. Inthe end they

Conference Session

International Educational Experiences (2)

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Amy L. Freeman, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Julio Urbina, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Sarah E. Zappe, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Javier Fernando Del Carpio, Universidad ESAN; Nancy Matos P.E., Esan University

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Diversity

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International

eligible for an EngineeringPathways Fellowship.To retain the Fellowship from year to year, students had to have high academic standards,actively participate in program, and make clear progress towards a degree in engineering.Students were required to maintain a college average GPA of ≥2.7, and complete courses fortheir major consistent with the standard curriculum. Students who failed to meet these criteriawould be given an additional semester of aid on a provisional basis. In these cases, intensivecounseling would be provided. Active participation in program events was critical to generalsuccess of the program. In cases where students did not actively participate in at least 75% ofscheduled activities, they were counseled that they were

Conference Session

Architectural Division Technical Session 3

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sheena Nastasia Marston, The Ohio State University; Fabian Hadipriono Tan P.E., The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA; Michael Parke, The Ohio State University; Olga Maria Stavridis, Ohio State University; Lisa Elanna Burris, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA

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Diversity

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Architectural

. Figure 16: Relationship between the interior and the exterior In addition, the digital model presents the architectural information about the structure in acomprehensible manner, which is important in engineering education as well as architecture. Theflexibility of this model can also be applicable to other fields of study aside from civilengineering along with other structures and construction methods aside from the Devon House.Digital modeling in this way can thus be used in a variety of educational circumstances in thearchitectural field, and may be a critical process for helping architecture curriculums moveforward. Indeed, this practice is an important part of professional education in architecture andcivil engineering, and bringing

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Judson Singer

.---------------------------------------------------------------------- A mathematician, a physicist, and an engineer were all given a red rubber ball and told to find the volume of the ball. The mathematician carefully measured the diameter and evaluated a triple integral. The physicist filled a beaker with water, put the ball in the water, and measured the total displacement. The engineer looked up the model and serial numbers in his red-rubber-ball table. ________________________________________________________________ During the heat of the space race in the 1960's, NASA decided it needed a ball point pen to write in the zero gravity confines of its space capsules. After considerable research and development, the Astronaut Pen was developed at a cost of $1 million. The pen

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2011 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

John Syers

Teaching Error Correction to Core IT Students via Video Supplementary Instruction MAJ John Syers Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science United States Military Academy, West Point, NY 10996AbstractThe introduction to programming can be very difficult for students, particularly those who haveno IT background. Understanding and correcting syntax errors is an integral part ofprogramming, yet this topic is often given only perfunctory mention in course curriculums.The goal of this study is to determine whether providing supplementary instruction to students isan effective means of teaching error correction. It also

Conference Session

Student Division Technical Session 6

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Nathaniel Blalock, University of Tennessee at Knoxville; Alexis Rae Walsh, University of Tennessee at Knoxville; Daniel Patrick Mountain, University of Tennessee - Knoxville; Sarah Emily Norris; Courtney June Faber, University of Tennessee at Knoxville

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Student

corresponding conclusions will be used in some other meetings. It requires incremental implementation design for effectively connecting functional meetings [17]. 3. SCRUM: Scrum is an agile framework that promotes test-first and continuous integration in order to meet customers’ needs efficiently [17], [24]. Scrum framework promotes producing products faster by breaking large development projects into smaller pieces that can be completed in short timeframes. Examples of Scrum meetings include daily standups, sprint planning sessions, and sprint retrospectives [24]. Both XP and SCRUM emphasize continuously communicating with the users or clients in meetings [17], [24]. Students would meet with people affected by

Conference Session

FPD5 -- Placement & Early Success

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Beverly Jaeger, Northeastern University; Susan Freeman, Northeastern University; Richard Whalen, Northeastern University

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First-Year Programs

engineering design class. Each of the learning modes and activities were describedin a previous paper by the authors along with an assessment of related learning2. This workprovides examples of evaluating individual course components, identifies characteristics of someof the ostensibly successful learning modes, and proposes solutions to components and modespresently not hitting the mark. The hope is that other educators may identify with these learning-engagement patterns in their own courses and find opportunities to make considered adjustmentsin the interests of their course content and their population of learners.IntroductionHaving passed through multiple evaluations and iterations of our first-year engineering coursesat Northeastern University

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2015 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

Martin Koch

existing course content. It was a“stuck in the mud”, dry course that did give an insight into the processes but the labs were un-engaging. Probably the worst experiment that we had was one of sand control where a specimenof greensand was weighed in the wet condition, dried with an industrial hair blower and thenweighed in the dry condition producing data to be used to calculate the moisture content of thesample. It was as exciting as watching “paint dry”. Additionally the objects that were castconsisted of the standard old patterns of a large replica on an “Indian Head” coin, etc. Whateverwe had is what you were stuck with. The course was mired in the past and doomed forelimination. In order to survive, it need to morph into something more

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Allison Godwin, Purdue University at West Lafayette (COE); Brianna Benedict McIntyre, Purdue University; Jacqueline Ann Rohde, Purdue University at West Lafayette (COE); Herman Ronald Clements III, Purdue University at West Lafayette (COE); Heather Lee Perkins, Purdue University at West Lafayette (PPI); Joana Marques Melo, Purdue University at West Lafayette (COE); Andrea Lidia Castillo, University of California, Irvine

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Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

Paper ID #33847CAREER: Learning from Students’ Identity Trajectories to ActualizeLatent DiversityDr. Allison Godwin, Purdue University at West Lafayette (COE) Allison Godwin, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor of Engineering Education and Chemical Engineering at Purdue University. Her research focuses what factors influence diverse students to choose engineering and stay in engineering through their careers and how different experiences within the practice and culture of engineering foster or hinder belongingness and identity development. Dr. Godwin graduated from Clem- son University with a B.S. in Chemical Engineering and

Conference Session

Teaching Industrial Engineers Design

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Larry Dunn; Jessica Matson; Kenneth Hunter

to find time to incorporate experiential learning programs as part of teamworkinstruction. This paper describes an experiential team-building program that can be presented ina single fifty-minute class period and applied in classes with large enrollments. A summary ofthe program objectives, activities, and facilitation guidelines is included. The paper also presentsthe results of a study involving over 300 freshmen engineering students on 42 design teams. Thestudy addressed the question: Does the addition of a fifty-minute experiential team-buildingprogram significantly improve course outcomes as defined by student knowledge of teamwork,student attitudes about teamwork, and project quality? Pre- and post-project surveys and projectgrades

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2021 ASEE Pacific Southwest Conference - "Pushing Past Pandemic Pedagogy: Learning from Disruption"

Authors

Ahmed Osman, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Eric Cuellar, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Aimee Tai Chiem, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Christianna Bethel; Benjamin David Lutz, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

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Diversity

Paper ID #35188Investigating Student Perceptions of Team-based Brainstorming DuringConceptual Design: Challenges and RecommendationsAhmed Osman, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis ObispoMr. Eric Cuellar, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo Eric is an undergraduate student researching educational approaches to enhance creativity in engineering design teams. His interests include ideation tasks, idea selection, and metrics for creative capacity.Aimee Tai Chiem, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis ObispoChristianna BethelDr. Benjamin David Lutz, California Polytechnic State University

Conference Session

Advanced Aerospace Student Projects

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Changho Nam, Arizona State University, Polytechnic campus; Scott Danielson, Arizona State University, Polytechnic campus

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Aerospace

22.481.3inexpensive and highly adaptable. These criteria led to the selection of the Paparazzi softwareand the Tiny 2.11 autopilot board, adapted from an off-the-shelf Wi-Fi network board. The Tiny2.11 Autopilot board uses a Philips LPC2148 ARM7 based microcontroller, which is a low-power 32-bit RISC processor. The chip has 512KB on-chip Flash ROM, 40KB RAM and can beclocked at 60MHz. The Tiny 2.11 board also has an integrated LEA-5H GPS receiver with a0.71 in × 0.16 in patch antenna.The Paparazzi Project2 is an open source endeavor created at ENAC, the National Civil AviationUniversity in Toulouse, France. One of the main advantages of the Paparazzi autopilot system isthat it is fully open source, which means that the software has been developed under a

Conference Session

FOCUS ON EXHIBITS: Welcome Reception & NEW THIS YEAR! 2018 Best Division Paper Nominee Poster Session Sponsored by Engineering Unleashed

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alexis Papak

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ASEE Headquarters

assistant professor in physics at the University of Maryland in the Physics Education Research (PER) Group. Turpen’s work involves designing and researching contexts for learn- ing within higher education (for both students and faculty). Her research draws from perspectives in an- thropology, cultural psychology, and the learning sciences. Through in-situ studies of classroom practice and institutional practice, she focuses on the role of culture in science learning and educational change. She pursues projects that have high potential for leveraging equitable change in undergraduate STEM pro- grams and she makes these struggles for change a direct focus of her research efforts. She also serves on several national

Conference Session

Engineering Education Research and Assessment II

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Mary Nelson; Barbara Olds; Monica Geist; Ronald Miller; Ruth Streveler

at Manoa. She also holds aMaster of Science in Zoology from the Ohio State University and a Bachelor of Arts in Biologyfrom Indiana University at Bloomington. She is co-principle investigator of three NSF-sponsored projects: Developing an Outcomes Assessment Instrument for Identifying EngineeringStudent Misconceptions in Thermal and Transport Sciences (DUE - 0127806), Center for theAdvancement of Engineering Education (ESI-0227558), and Rigorous Research in EngineeringEducation: Creating a Community of Practice (DUE-0341127).BARBARA M. OLDS is Professor of Liberal Arts and International Studies at the ColoradoSchool of Mines. She has participated in a number of curriculum innovation projects and hasbeen active in the engineering education

Conference Session

Imagining Others, Defining Self Through Consideration of Ethical and Social Implications

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alexis Papak, University of Maryland, College Park; Ayush Gupta, University of Maryland, College Park; Chandra Anne Turpen, University of Maryland, College Park

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

professor in physics at the University of Maryland in the Physics Education Research (PER) Group. Turpen’s work involves designing and researching contexts for learn- ing within higher education (for both students and faculty). Her research draws from perspectives in an- thropology, cultural psychology, and the learning sciences. Through in-situ studies of classroom practice and institutional practice, she focuses on the role of culture in science learning and educational change. She pursues projects that have high potential for leveraging equitable change in undergraduate STEM pro- grams and she makes these struggles for change a direct focus of her research efforts. She also serves on several national leadership bodies

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2009 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Bruce Dvorak; Dennis Schulte; Mary Garbacz; Shari Aldrich; David Admiraal; Julia Soulakova

relationship (while still being significant)between students’ scores on the BWS test and the writing sample (R2 = 0.11, p<0.001).Interestingly, composite ACT score negatively correlated with the number of English classestaken (R2= 0.18, p=0.007), meaning that students who perform better on the ACT exam aretaking fewer English classes. This is evidence that some students with weaker academicpreparation, especially in Omaha, are already taking additional English classes beyond the onetechnical writing class required by the B.S. Civil Engineering curriculum. In Lincoln, studentswith <19 on the ACT English subscore (though few) must take an additional English class. Thistrend was in spite of the stronger BSEN students taking two writing classes for

Conference Session

Unique Laboratory Experiments & Programs

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Deisenroth

first step in reachinga judgment is a need to fully understand the goals of the traditional engineering laboratory. Oncethese goals are determined, ABET can determine whether a simulated or remote course is anadequate substitution for traditional hands-on experience. In January 2002, ABET held acolloquy to solicit input from a select group of experts to determine a taxonomy of engineeringlaboratory learning objectives. A list of 13 learning objectives was created that participants feltadequately describes the goals of the engineering laboratory. However, the participants of thecolloquy requested that the list be validated and any new issues or challenges related toachieving the objectives be documented. This paper takes an initial step in that

Conference Session

Continuous Improvement & Assessment of ET Programs

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert Chin, East Carolina University

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Engineering Technology

the University of Maryland, College Park. Chin is an active member of ASEE. He has presented numerous papers at annual conferences, FIE, mid-year conferences/meetings, and Southeastern Section meetings. He has had numerous journal articles published including several in the Engineering Design Graphics Journal. He has served as the ASEE’s Engineering Design Graphics Division's annual and mid-year conference/meeting program chair, and he is presently a review board member for several journals including the EDGJ. Chin has been a program chair for the Southeastern Section Meeting and has served as the Engineering Design Graphics Division's Vice-Chair and Chair and as the Instructional Unit's

Conference Session

Mathematics Division Technical Session 3

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Emre Tokgoz, Quinnipiac University

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Mathematics

Paper ID #21246Conceptual Power Series Knowledge of STEM MajorsDr. Emre Tokgoz, Quinnipiac University Emre Tokgoz is currently the Director and an Assistant Professor of Industrial Engineering at Quinnipiac University. He completed a Ph.D. in Mathematics and another Ph.D. in Industrial and Systems Engineer- ing at the University of Oklahoma. His pedagogical research interest includes technology and calculus education of STEM majors. He worked on several IRB approved pedagogical studies to observe under- graduate and graduate mathematics and engineering students’ calculus and technology knowledge since 2011. His other

Conference Session

Civil Engineering Teaching Part Two

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Steven Burian, University of Utah; William Johnson, University of Utah; Fred Montague, University of Utah; Arrin Holt, Cooper Roberts Simonsen Associates; Jim Nielson, Cooper Roberts Simonsen Associates; Rachel David, Cooper Roberts Simonsen Associates

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Civil Engineering

laborers, working inconcert. Helping future professionals innovate in such an atmosphere is difficult because itrequires a multidisciplinary learning perspective, which challenges the traditional universityparadigm. Toward this end, Professors from Geology and Geophysics, Civil and EnvironmentalEngineering, and Biology at the University of Utah working in collaboration with designprofessionals have developed a new multidisciplinary project-based learning environment forstudents interested in sustainability. The Sustainability Practicum course is described below andthe benefits of involving sustainable design professionals as mentors to student teams and usinglocal, on-going projects are described. Survey and interview responses are used to present

Conference Session

Project Management and Team Issues

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Sandra Furterer; Lesia Crumpton-Young

. P.O. Box 162993 Orlando, FL 32816-2993 furterer@mail.ucf.eduAbstract:The Industrial Engineering and Management Systems Department at the University of CentralFlorida has incorporated service experiential learning opportunities into the curriculum within aTotal Quality Improvement course. This graduate level course teaches the Six Sigma body ofknowledge, including quality management principles and problem solving tools. It provides just-in-time experiential learning opportunities to reinforce the in-class instruction. This paper willprovide examples of Six Sigma tools applied in the project case studies including Voice of theCustomer, Design of Experiments, and

Conference Session

Two-Year College Potpourri

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Julia M. Williams, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Indira Chatterjee, University of Nevada, Reno; Anne K Flesher, Truckee Meadows Community College; Ann-Marie Vollstedt, University of Nevada, Reno

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Two-Year College Division (TYCD)

change within the departments, involving students, faculty, staff, and industry in rethinking what it means to provide an engineering program [1] As one of the three funding tracks within the RED program, the Two-Year Colleges trackis intended to “develop radically new approaches among multiple two-year institutions to expandthe path to engineering and engineering technology [1]”. Clearly the NSF holds high aspirationsfor community college systems in the US. Addressing the current RED project teams at theirannual RED Consortium Meeting in September 2023, Dr. Jose Zayas-Castro, division director ofthe Engineering and Education Centers (EEC) of NSF, emphasized the importance of two-yearcolleges in providing students with access