Conference Session

Integrating H&SS in Engineering I

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jerome Lavelle; Joseph Herkert

programs. While most study-abroad experiences have been in Europe, FranklinScholars have also studied in Africa, Asia, Central and South America, and Australia.IV. Co-curricular ActivitiesA. Franklin CouncilThe Franklin Program has an active student council that plans and sponsors a variety ofprofessional, service, and social activities. Officers of the council as well as representatives ofthe upper-class cohorts are elected at the end of each academic year for service in the followingyear. The first-year cohort elects their council representatives during the third or fourth week ofthe fall semester. Professional activities include guest speakers from industry and field trips;service includes volunteer activities with such organizations as Habitat

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade for Teaching II

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Chris Smaill, University of Auckland

not appear to be the case: a numberof commentators and researchers have spoken in favor of smaller classes3-5.It is easy to understand why instructors might prefer smaller classes. Being confronted with twoor three hundred students simultaneously, particularly when one can hardly make out the faces ofthose seated at the rear, can be daunting. Classroom management skills become more important.For example, dealing with paper darts can become problematical if one cannot identify thestudents responsible for them. Course management skills also become critical. Everything mustbe planned very carefully and well in advance. Tests cannot be written and reproduced at the lastminute when hundreds of copies are required. Marking also becomes a major

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering Programs II

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Kimberly Whelan; Sharon Jones

categories (i.e. construction management, finance, technical sales, etc.). Participants are also categorized by their decision to enter graduate school and, if they entered, the field of graduate study they pursued (i.e. Business, Education, Engineering, Law, etc.). The survey requested the graduate’s assessment of the BA Engineering program to determine overall satisfaction and suggestions for program improvement. As an optional question, the participants were asked to disclose their current annual salary. In addition to these appraisals, the survey asked the alumni whether they feel having a BA degree as opposed to a BS degree is a drawback in their career plans and looking back, if they have any regrets about completing the

Conference Session

Academic Standards & Issues/Concerns & Retention

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Brian Manhire

, and endless playing fields mostly covered with grass, not athletes. Just take a tour of any Ivy League school and observe not just the facilities but how much use they get. This marketing madness is now occurring on the other side of the barbell with the mass suppliers getting into the act. So the University of Houston has a $53 million wellness center with a five-story climbing wall, Washington State University has the largest Ja- cuzzi on the West Coast (it holds fifty-three students), Ohio State is building a $140 mil- lion complex featuring batting cages, rope courses, and the now-necessary climbing wall, and Southern Mississippi is planning a full-fledged water park. These schools

Conference Session

Accreditation and Related Issues in ECE

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Fong Mak; Stephen Frezza

validity and effectiveness of the correlation between theprogram outcomes and the program educational objectives. As a by-product of the minimumpassing criteria process, faculty are immediately provided with straightforward method fordetermining useful objective evidence in support of meeting course objectives.To evaluate the proposed minimum passing criteria process, two courses were selected in theFall 2003 semester for a pilot implementation: ECE465 Power Electronics and ECE357 SeniorDesign. The plan was to review the effectiveness and effects of this new assessment processbefore a full-scale implementation is pursued. The following section illustrates this newmapping process as it was applied to the ECE465 Power Electronics course in the Fall

Conference Session

TIME 4: Pedagogy

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Odis Griffin

® Team. The group went through several iterations of the design over a period ofseveral months.Design of the lab began based on the funding provided by the university. With that funding and10,000 square feet of basically open space, we determined that we would be able to make thespace habitable, build partitions for a machine shop, welding shop, CAD Lab, and possibly putup some temporary partitions for project work areas. There would be little, if any, money left forfurnishing the labs and shops, so the plan was to use the current old machine tools, plus whateverCAD equipment could be scrounged, to furnish the lab. Since there was a fixed amount of space,we deliberately made the machine shop and welding shop somewhat small, but large enough

Conference Session

Capstone/Design Projects: Electr-Mech ET

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Andrew Vavreck; Rebecca Strzelec

the FDM to make the parts, which the students can handle anddiscuss.The paper describes • the history of the collaboration between art and engineering faculty; • experiences with EMET students and their use of the design tool; • observations of the impact of the FDM outreach effort; • operation, benefits and limitations of the FDM; • interesting senior project applications; • mechanical properties of FDM ABS copolymer; and • planned future directions for the design collaboration.IntroductionPenn State Altoona, one of 24 Penn State campus locations in the Commonwealth ofPennsylvania, is located in the south-center of the state, about an hour’s drive southwest of themain campus in State College. The campus is undergraduate and

Conference Session

Web-Based Laboratory Experiments

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Keith Koenig; Emmanuel Okoro; Viva Austin; Thomas Hannigan

-line asa test to both traditional and non-traditional students. Plans are formulated to extend the utilityof offering such laboratory exercises to other classes as well. Traditional classroom instructionis being supplemented with laboratory assignments tailored to the individual subject matter, andmade available through a standard web interface, WebCT. The primary purpose of this work isto document the continued progress made in updating the MSU aerospace engineering degreeprogram.BackgroundAs technology has developed and matured, particularly with regards to computers and relatedperipherals, engineering curricula have been expanded and revised to encompass new fields ofknowledge. In an effort to insure that our students possess the necessary

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Susanne Green; Michele Auzenne; Chris Burnham; Ricardo Jacquez

instructors for allcourses met bi-weekly to discuss student progress, instructional activities, and to plan, conduct,and monitor the five-week integrated design project, a balsa wood bridge design and constructionproject. For the design project, the majority of instruction was provided in EE 109. Studentsreceived instruction in fundamental engineering principles, tested a variety of balsa woodstructural members (T-beam, I-beam, and flat beams), and designed and built physical models.These models were then tested and evaluated on several criteria including strength, aesthetics,and conservation of materials. At the end of the semester, students used PowerPoint software topresent their designs and test/evaluation results to the ILC faculty in a joint

Conference Session

ERM Potpourri

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Erastus Njage; Alicia Davis; Solomon Alao; Craig Scott; Yacob Astatke; Bert Davy; Pamela Leigh-Mack; Masud Salimian

dimensions be includedin performance tasks development. For each of these two dimensions, performance tasks werecreated with particular reasoning processes in mind. Since the performance tasks are based ondeclarative knowledge (what students should know) and procedural knowledge (what studentsshould be able to do), DOL2 is naturally a part of the performance tasks.Faculty Development and Training It was planned that engineering students from the three departments of civil engineering(CE); electrical and computer engineering (ECE) ; and industrial, manufacturing; andinformation engineering (IMIE) would be enrolled in the innovative Pre-Calculus course. Inorder to ensure that the performance tasks were interesting to all student students from

Conference Session

College Engineering K-12 Outreach III

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Sarah Nation; Leah Jamieson; Jill Heinzen; Carla Zoltowski; William Oakes; Joy Krueger

(s) is completed and delivered, new projects are identified by the team andcommunity partner allowing the team to continue to work with the same community partner formany years. Each undergraduate student may earn academic credit for several semesters,registering for the course for 1 or 2 credits each semester. The credit structure is designed toencourage long-term participation, and grants multi-year projects of significant scope and impactto be undertaken by the teams.Each student in the EPICS Program attends a weekly two-hour meeting of his/her team in theEPICS laboratory. During this laboratory time the team members will take care ofadministrative matters, do project planning and tracking, and work on their project. All studentsalso

Conference Session

Graphics Applications in ME

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Wilk

detailed CAD drawings when applicable insubsequent design courses. All parts made in machine shop for senior project and other designprojects require a CAD drawing that is checked, and signed off by the faculty advisor.Assessment of Communication SkillsAs part of the assessment plan developed for ABET EC 2000, several performance criteria weredeveloped for evaluating achievement of outcome 3g, the ability to communicate effectively(oral, written, graphical, electronic). Appendix C. presents the current performance criteria used,lists the assessment method used to measure the attainment of that performance criteria, andresults from the class of 2000. Feedback from the students and alumni (items 10 and 11 inAppendix C) is one of the major sources of

Conference Session

Engineering Management Curriculum

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Jeffrey Short

organizations, but it is now being proposed asan individual performance measure also.III.A. The Balanced Scorecard for OrganizationsUsing the strategic goals and mission of the company, the balanced scorecard attempts toenumerate and measure several key indicators of strategic performance for an organization.Kaplan and Norton also expand the use of the balanced scorecard from a simple measurementand control tool to a planning, goal setting, communication, and learning instrument. Thebalanced scorecard is comprised of four key sections: · financial perspective, · customer perspective, · internal-business-process perspective, and · learning and growth perspective.The perspectives are sequentially

Conference Session

Learning Styles

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Philip Parker

Plans for Future WorkResults from this administration of the KAI instrument supported our conjecture that thecognitive styles of students enrolled in CE334 may be slightly skewed towards the adaptive endof the KAI continuum. Determining whether this is a long-term trend will require furtherinvestigation with repeated administrations of the KAI over several years. If consistent overtime, this skew is relevant to the engineering educator through predictable relationships betweencognitive style and classroom behaviors. For example, the more adaptively oriented the class,the more frustration they are likely to experience with open-ended assignments and writing-to-learn exercises. A more innovatively oriented class, on the other hand, is more likely

Conference Session

New Ideas

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Oguz Soysal

(McHenry, MD) management plans to build an incliner trolley system for transportation of guests between the hotel and the top of the hill*. Two cars will operate continuously 24-hours a day, 7-days a week in such a way that when one of the cars is ascending the other car will be descending. The management would like to supply the cars from a wind-power plant to save energy. Four engineering teams will submit a proposal for the supply system, and one of the projects will be funded for realization. The basic design criteria are: • Feasibility • Efficient operation • Low cost over the economical life of 20 years • Reliability • Safety Engineering teams will determine the customer needs, make a

Conference Session

Developing ABET Outcomes F--J

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Karim Nasr; Raymond Berg

A-K outcomes, as well as the supplemental M. E. Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Page 7.141.2 Copyright © 2002, American Society for Engineering EducationDepartment L-S outcomes, are amply assessed by the traditional mechanical engineering, cross-engineering-discipline, science/mathematics and liberal sciences courses. In addition, thecapstone design courses supplement this experience, particularly for the multi-disciplinaryoutcomes involving integrated design.This paper describes the development of a capstone course-level assessment plan

Conference Session

ET Web Based Laboratories

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Hall

, and engineering technology courses. The previously mentioned equationeditor and symbol fonts are critical among the needed upgrades.IV. SuggestionsWe plan to continue to develop and present electronics courses and laboratories on-line. As wedo this, we are working closely with our EET Industrial Advisory Committee. After initialreservations, the committee members realized the great potential of an on-line degree. In fact,they began to recognize the value to their own companies. Since our first discussion with theadvisory committee, we have been contacted several times with questions of how soon we wouldbe able to go on-line with an electronics degree.As mentioned above, Blackboard is cumbersome when trying to present technical content in

Collection

ASEE Mid-Atlantic Section Spring Conference

Authors

Alexander John De Rosa, University of Delaware; Teri Kristine Reed, OU Polytechnic Institute

conceptualframework described in Figure 1. For example, early in the problem solving process asparticipants are generating the frame and their representation of the problem, they would beasked what type of problem they think they are dealing with, their plan for solving it, and so on -assuming they were not verbalizing these ideas already. Following the problem solving portionof the protocol, space was given to allow for open discussion and responses, for example askinghow often the participant had used these skills in the past, following up on observed behaviors,etc. Interviews were anticipated to be around 45 minutes in length, would be conducted in anoffice or conference room in a private setting, and will be transcribed using Otter.ai ©. The

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ASEE Mid-Atlantic Section Spring Conference

Authors

Pooja Thakkar Singh, American Society of Mechanical Engineers; Debra Ann Pothier, Autodesk, Inc.; Anand Sethupathy, American Society of Mechanical Engineers; Geraldine Gooding, American Society of Mechanical Engineers; David Soukup P.E., American Society of Mechanical Engineers; Jarrett Reich, American Society of Mechanical Engineers; Morgan Lamarre, American Society of Mechanical Engineers; James Stewart Warrick

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Diversity

students’ minds within 2-4 years. Therefore, hard, and soft skills need to be introduced at the K-12 stage. 2. Bringing real-world problems into the classroom via capstone problems and other hands- on exercises is not only the most effective way to spark interest in engineering, but also teaches soft skills like problem solving and collaboration. 3. With so much screen time on mobile phones, computers, and other electronic devices, engaging with students and incorporating soft skills into lesson plans is very difficult. 4. Internships and paid employment are great opportunities and motivators. However, a strong, skills-focused program can easily mold future engineers as well.Faculty

Collection

2024 ASEE North East Section

Authors

Sunil Dehipawala, City University of New York, Queensborough Community College; Kelvin Kai Yao; Philip Park, City University of New York, Queensborough Community College; Tak Cheung

activate the “To remember” disposition outcome in the engineering literacyrecommendation of Reference 13, and to align with the videos of Engineerguy by Bill Hammackof Reference 10. The inclusion of “interaction with students” and the reading and application ofEducation Science materials in a programming skill-learning project would further enhanceaffection deliverables to enforce engineering literacy, summarized in Reference 13. In ouropinion, programming skills are useful in the third and fourth years in any engineering programs,and that the undergraduate research activities in the third and fourth years are more productiveand realistic regarding employments, graduate school decisions, and career plans. In otherwords, since time is finite, the

Conference Session

Pre-College Engineering Education Division (PCEE) Poster Session

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jeffrey D. Radloff, SUNY Cortland; Allison Antink-Meyer, Illinois State University; Ryan Brown, Illinois State University; Ibrahim H. Yeter, Nanyang Technological University; Dominick Fantacone

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Diversity

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Pre-College Engineering Education Division (PCEE)

then develop original multi-day engineering design-based lessons for enactment in their classrooms over the following two semesters. Following theirNUWC visit, teachers participate in ongoing professional learning workshops (i.e., fall andspring) where they learn to use the 7E model of STEM instruction (Eisenkraft, 2003) to guidetheir lesson planning and implementation and reflect on their lesson development with theirpeers. Aligned with our framework, engineering design-based instruction is at the core of thismodel. Teachers self-identify their Naval STEM lesson topics and form teams of 3-5 teachers(based on these interests) to develop their lessons. “Naval STEM” tasks are those contextualizedusing Naval research that include NUWC-based

Collection

2024 ASEE PSW Conference

Authors

Anahid Behrouzi, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Kennedy Angel Gomez, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Aaron Dewey, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

reports.Similarly for drafting, surveyed practitioners described wraparound scripts:  Python to read CAD files by layer and construct a full RISA 3D model including the correct member material type.  Python to extract linework synced with ultrasonic thickness testing data to create a heatmap of the structure.  Excel VBA to optimize the design foundation piles, print the associated calculations, and draft all the piles in plan and elevation view in CAD.There were many more examples gathered in the surveys, but these illustrate the overarchingthemes: the ability to leverage programming in structural engineering practice to createefficiency, improve accuracy when transferring information from one software tool to another

Conference Session

Student Performance and Learning & Open-ended problems

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Huihui Qi, University of California San Diego; Minju Kim, University of California San Diego; Yu Li, University of California San Diego; Carolyn L. Sandoval, University of California, San Diego; Curt Schurgers, University of California San Diego; Marko V. Lubarda, University of California San Diego; Xuan Emily Gedney; Saharnaz Baghdadchi, University of California San Diego; Alex Phan, University of California San Diego

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with learning outcomesin the end-of-quarter assessment. The correlation difference between the early assessment andlater assessment outcome may be due to the fact that impact of the explanatory learning activitiesneeds some time to build up on students. Overall, students perceived the new learning activitiesvery positively. In the cognitive aspect, students acknowledged that the explanatory learningactivities encouraged them to think about the deeper structure of the homework problem, to domore planning before solving the problem rather than rushing, to review lecture materials/textbook rather than just rush to complete the homework. These learning behvaiors changes arecharacteristic of deeper learning.There is a limitation in this study

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2024 South East Section Meeting

Authors

Sreekanth Gopi, Kennesaw State University; Nasrin Dehbozorgi, Kennesaw State University; Md Abdullah Al Hafiz Khan, Kennesaw State University

thoughts and plan for the future. This techniqueis particularly relevant for individuals experiencing stress-related disorders, characterized by psychological distressfrom unresolved emotional conflicts and stress-inducing cognitive patterns formed during traumatic events. Thisstudy intends to measure CM-II’s effect on stress levels by conducting a detailed HRV analysis on the heart pulsedata collected during the same experiment. The central hypothesis of this study is that CM-II can reduce stress levels among college students. The contri-butions of this research are multifaceted and include: 1) Develop meditation practices. 2) Compose music for enhanced attention. 3) Conduct an in-person experiment with 15 participants to measure HRV

Collection

2024 South East Section Meeting

Authors

Sarah K. Bauer, Mercer University; Adaline M. Buerck, Mercer University; Hannah Nabi; Bremen Vance, Mercer University

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Diversity

Institutional Review Board for Human Subjects Research(“Mercer on Mission Program Evaluation”, H2304083).Results & DiscussionThis study evaluates the summer 2023 cohort of the MOM program at Mercer University.Service-learning projects for the summer of 2023 ranged in scope from examining clean wateraccess, teaching English or STEM topics to communities, fitting prosthetics to aiding in buildingsmall business plans for beginning entrepreneurs, etc. In total, 224 students participated in theprogram during the summer of 2023. Of those that participated in the program, 65% were femaleand over half were from the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (44%) and the School ofEngineering (21%). Thirty-seven percent of participants were in their first or

Conference Session

Track 4: Technical Session 4: The Pink Paradox: Tensions in How STEM Toys are Marketed Toward Girls

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2024 Collaborative Network for Engineering & Computing Diversity (CoNECD)

Authors

Theresa Green, Purdue University; Artre Reginald Turner, Purdue University at West Lafayette; Ruth Wertz P.E., Purdue University at West Lafayette (COE)

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CoNECD Paper Sessions, Diversity

present narratives drawn from traditionally feminine hobbies and interests,such as caring for animals, planning parties, and focusing on friendships, which assume aspecific set of life experiences and interests. Using stereotypes in marketing these toys may beharmful to young children, especially those who are already less likely to see themselves inrepresented in engineering, and are also developing their engineering identity, sense of self, andfuture career aspirations.This review concludes by describing areas of future research, namely, the need to understand therelationship between toy narrative, engineering identity, and children’s interest in and access toSTEM toys. Understanding the relationships between these constructs can help girls

Collection

2023 PSW

Authors

Helen Choi

welcomed by graduatestudents and many of their advisors. It is a unique resource - distinct from traditionalwriting centers in its disciplinary focus of engineering graduate students and in itspedagogical stance vis-a-vis multilingual speakers. It is also a highly welcomedresource, as shown by student feedback.Currently, there is no commitment from the school or elsewhere in terms of continuingthe Hub beyond its first year. However, the Hub's instructors plan to re-apply for internalfunding and continue investigating external sources. If the Hub continues beyond its firstyear, there are plans for expanding the number of tutoring hours with additionalinstructions, along with offering more community-building events for Ph.D. students,such as more

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Ray Morelock, University of Georgia; Dominik May, University of Wuppertal; Aileen Reid, University of North Carolina, Greensboro; Ayesha Sherita Sherita Boyce; Nicola W. Sochacka, University of Georgia; Joachim Walther, University of Georgia; Chaturved Janaki, University of Georgia

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Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

planning for the worst case scenarios, andthe use of some analytical software such as NVivo. In addition to these hard skills, someparticipants also referred to soft skills they had gained during their training. Some examples theyprovided were related to working with others in a team and communication skills. For instance,one participant reported: I feel like I'm better at communicating things. Almost like I have a better vocabulary. I have better communication skills because of the institute. I'm trying to think of like specific things, having the social reality was really nice, being able to show that to my students, being able up to get them to kind of wrap their head around what that looks like and what that means

Conference Session

Ocean and Marine Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Radian G Belu, Drexel University (Tech.); Irina Nicoleta Ciobanescu Husanu, Drexel University (Tech.)

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Ocean and Marine

and pressure. The paper presents the design, testing and implementationof such EH system, supplying power to a WSN node, and the lessen learned during this project. 3. Low-Coast Energy Harvester for a Costal Monitoring Wireless Sensor NodeThis project is an underway project for MET 421/422/423 (Senior Project Design), preformed bya team of four students, two electrical and two mechanical seniors. MET 421/422/423 is asequence of three-quarter capstone project design courses required for all the BSET majors. Thecourse focuses on planning, development, and implementation of an engineering design project,which includes formal report writing, project documentation, group presentations, and projectdemonstrations. The goal of these courses is to

Conference Session

Mentoring Minorities: Effective Programs, Practices, and Perspectives

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joi-Lynn Mondisa, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Minorities in Engineering

mentor) acts as arole model and guide for a less experienced person (a protégé) specifically advising he or she inacademic, personal, and/or professional aspects of their lives 14-16. The term “mentor” comesfrom the Greek poet Homer, in which Odysseus in The Odyssey selected “a trusted friend,Mentor, to educate, tutor, protect, and guide his son” (p. 66) 17. Professional mentoringoriginates in teaching, medical, and clinical practices 18,19. The meaning of the word “mentor”can have multiple contextual meanings such as “teacher”, “counselor”, or “advisor” relative tocorporate and educational environments. In general, mentors provide feedback regarding career plans and interpersonaldevelopment and are committed to helping protégés succeed in