procedures and the lowcost of the supplies and chemicals. The experiment also allows instructors to use the lab activityas a platform to introduce students to fundamental chemistry and chemical engineeringprinciples, including unit conversions, stoichiometry, kinetics and catalysis, and conservation ofmass. The activity has an even broader impact on students’ perceptions of chemical engineering,as it generates a product that nearly all students use on a daily basis and illustrates how chemicalengineering has a direct impact on their lives and society as a whole. Students become aware ofthe future of the chemical process industry by demonstrating technology from a rapidly growingindustry that is poised to transform fuel and chemical production. The
that can converttechnological know-how into products. To do so, technological proficiency is necessary, but notsufficient. The added ingredient is the presence of individuals with the creativity to imagine newproducts, the preparation to engineer them and the desire to see the products to market. The newB.S. degree in Robotics Engineering will provide a solid foundation in state-of-the-arttechnology, give sufficient hands-on experience to build confidence and stimulate theimagination, and foster the entrepreneurial spirit that leads to the establishment of start-upcompanies and creation of jobs.2.0 Why robotics engineering?The decision to create a new major in robotics engineering was the result of intense discussionamong a group of faculty
testablerequirements for the serious game. Delivery of milestone documents (requirements, project plan,software quality, risk management, design, and testing) at the same time or before gameprototypes are delivered also helps prevent students from coding first and documenting later.Students should justify technology decisions and game feature decisions by considering (anddocumenting) the cost and benefit analysis for each alternative, rather than just including afeature that seems cool.Traditional software engineering documents are similar in structure to those used in the gamedesign industry. Our students find that it difficult to use a design document template that mightbe useful for a project involving the creation of a form fill-in database application
battalion, a SEABEE Regiment, and all Reserve CEC officers for the Atlantic Division of the Naval Facilities Engineering Command. He is a retired Captain in the Civil Engineer Corps (CEC) of the U.S. Naval Reserve. Page 13.1004.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2008 Professional Practices in Civil Engineering: Meeting and Exceeding the New Civil Engineering Program CriteriaIntroductionThe emerging global nature of the worldwide marketplace for products and services coupledwith the exponential rise in technological advancement in the industrialized world has led to thenear-term, long-term, and
AC 2008-2236: OUTCOME ASSESSMENT PROCESS IN A MANUFACTURINGENGINEERING PROGRAMJahangir Ansari, Virginia State University Jahangir Ansari is an Associate Professor of Manufacturing Engineering in the Department of Engineering and Technology at Virginia State University. He received his M.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering in 1979 and Ph. D. degree in Mechanical Design and Production Engineering in 1983 both from Seoul National University. He joined the faculty at VSU in 2002. He has over 18 years of industrial experience in different areas including shipbuilding and cement plant industries. His research interests include Structural Vibration, FEM, CAD/CAM/CNC, and Computer Integrated
comprise 57% of allstudents taking the courses in the past 30 years, a clear demonstration of the usefulness of thesecourses from the student perspective. Note that the course evaluations are not mandatory;students are encouraged to provide a response, but there is no method for insuring that thestudent evaluates the course.Industrial scientists and engineers familiar with the program were polled in 1998 regarding theiropinion of the CPS Program. This was a group of industrial scientists and engineers, includingsome CPS Advisory Board members and some alumni from industrial corporations; both groupshad hired students from our program. Their comments are summarized below: • “…our products and manufacturing technology must remain at the forefront
one of thirteen engineering majors. This university has taken several initiativesin recent years to promote internationalization of campus. This paper presents summary ofvarious international activities introduced in the GE program during last 3 years and students’responses are analyzed. In addition, some innovative ideas, aided by latest technology, toenhance global education experiences for engineering students are presented.1. Introduction:The General Engineering (GE) (also called freshman engineering) program at Virginia Tech isbeing reformed as a part of a Department-Level Reform (DLR) grant from the NSF.“Engineering Exploration EngE1024,” is a 2-credit first semester course in the GE program. Thiscourse, required of all engineering
American Society for Engineering Education’s Prism [3] magazine provides further evidenceof this trend. Most companies and organizations no longer conduct business from a regional oreven U.S. perspective, but rather from a global perspective. Because the IE field traverses boththe engineering and business world, it is particularly important that IE curricula provide studentswith this advantage.A challenge facing engineering educators is how best to take advantage of the global, flattened,technology-enabled playing field to improve engineering education, and as Friedman, and othershave proposed, enable the U.S. to retain its lead in innovation and university education andresearch. Further, to meet and exceed accreditation requirements, it is
Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) YoungerMembers group. The Memphis Canstruction® competition is a unique, non-profit, multi-disciplinary design competition where high-school students interested in Science, Technology,Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) fields work in teams with science and math teachers,undergraduate civil engineering student mentors, and faculty members from local universities tobuild structures from unopened cans of food purchased through support of local consulting firms.Section 3: Educational Values, Professional Values, and Life-long Learning SkillsIn addition to ASCE student chapter mentors, each high school team is also provided aprofessional mentor from the Memphis civil engineering consulting community. Theprofessional
: Page 13.182.11 What Makes a Difference? Frontiers in Education Conference, 1996. FIE'96. 26th Annual Conference., Proceedings of, 1996. 1: p. 78-829. Pierson, H.M. and D.H. Suchora, Freshman Engineering Drawing and Visualization at Youngstown State University. 2005 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition: The Changing Landscape of Engineering and Technology Education in a Global World, 2005: p. 2005.10. Brannan, K.P. and P.C. Wankat, Survey of First-Year Programs. 2005 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition: The Changing Landscape of Engineering and Technology Education in a Global World, 2005: p. 2005.11. LeBold, W.K., H. Diefes, and W.C. Oakes, Helping First Year Students Make Critical Career Decisions
Research. He holds the MS in Nuclear Science and Engineering from the Air Force Institute of Technology. During his Air Force career he directed diverse research programs in modeling and testing of system performance, compositional mapping of submicron materials and machine translation of text. He was instrumental in establishing the college’s freshman program. Page 13.625.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2008 Freshman Engineering Student Perceptions on Global WarmingAbstract Managing the problems that global warming is being forecast to cause requires the educatedattention of many
apparentsuperiority of Japanese firms in managing advanced technologies, and the quest to understandhow Japanese engineers have produced high quality and low cost products in less timestimulated comparative studies of engineers and engineering practice in advanced industrial Page 13.308.3societies17-25. Relatively few concepts developed in this literature have found widespread usein developing countries because the role of engineers and technical people is different incountries that are catching up26. In most of these studies there is a clear message: skill andutilization of engineers directly relates to labor productivity. Detailed comparisons ofproduction
AC 2008-2064: AN INTERNATIONAL UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCHEXPERIENCE IN SUSTAINABLE ENGINEERINGCurtis Larimer, University of Pittsburgh Curtis James Larimer is a senior undergraduate majoring in Engineering Physics in The University of Pittsburgh's Swanson School of Engineering. He expects to graduate in the spring of 2008 and plans to go on to pursue a graduate engineering degree.Michaelangelo Tabone, University of Pittsburgh Michaelangelo Tabone is a junior at the University of Pittsburgh majoring in Chemical Engineering. While in school, he works as resident assistant in on-campus housing, volunteers as a teaching assistant of Organic Chemistry, and has served as a paper reviewer for the
students useful skills that will help distinguish themfrom other job candidates. Microcontroller technology is new enough that recent graduates cansuccessfully compete with more senior engineers who have never learned to design withmicrocontrollers.Microcontrollers are becoming ubiquitous in many modern products and machinery, due to theirability to perform complex electronic functions for low cost, and understanding how to use thesesystems is a valuable skill set for any engineer. While some projects will require an electricalengineer to implement the microcontroller design, having the ability to design simplemicrocontroller systems will give a mechanical engineer the ability to be responsible for theentire design of many mechatronic devices, as
tabulations of U.S. Department of Education. 2006, National Center for Education Statistics, Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System.3 Engineering Workforce Commission, Engineering & Technology Enrollments: Fall 2005 2006, Washington, DC.BRENDA G. HART is Director of Student Affairs at the J.B. Speed School of Engineering. Her researchinterests include recruitment and retention programs for females and under-represented minorities as wellas activities for first year engineering students.VERONICA HINTON-HUDSON is currently an Assistant Professor in the Computer Information SystemsDepartment within the College of Business. Her research interests include Quality Engineering and appliedstatistics, Production Operations
continents and countries.As a result, US engineering schools are seeking ways to make the curriculum and theundergraduate experience more international, and to build opportunities for studentsand faculty to gain global perspectives. But we have a long way to go: according tothe Institute of International Education’s Open Doors 2007 Report, in 2005-06, only2.9% (about 6,500) of US study abroad students were studying engineering.Meanwhile, about 15% of all international students (or close to 90,000) who came tothe US for degree study were in engineering.2The figures below, generated using the Open Doors 2007 Report referencing currentand historical data on the percentage of students abroad in Science, Technology,Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM
AC 2008-1386: ENHANCING LABORATORY EXPERIENCE TO STUDENTS BYINTRODUCING USB CONNECTIVITY INTO LAB ENVIRONMENT USING FTDIGurinder Singh, Future Technology Devices International Ltd. (USA) Lakshmi Munukutla received her Ph.D. degree in Solid State Physics from Ohio University, Athens, Ohio and M.Sc and B.Sc degrees from Andhra University, India. She has been active in research and published several journal articles. She is the Chair of the Electronic Systems Department at Arizona State University at the Polytechnic campus.Lakshmi Munukutla, Arizona State University Gurinder Singh brings almost a decade of experience in the electronics industry to his position as Senior Field Applications Engineer
AC 2008-1514: ASSESSING THE TRUE COST OF DELIVERING NANO-HYPEJohn Robertson, Arizona State University John Robertson is a Professor in the Electronic Systems Department at Arizona State University Polytechnic. He was formerly an executive with Motorola and now participates in many senior technical training programs with the JACMET consortium.Michael Kozicki, Arizona State University Michael Kozicki is a Professor in the Electrical Engineering Department at ASU. His interests center on development of new non-volatile memory structures. He holds a number of key patents in this emerging area of nano-technology and has spun-off two companies.Slobodan Petrovic, Arizona State University
Services in the NASA Center for Success in Math & Science at Estrella Mountain Community College, she utilizes her academic preparation and extensive engineering background to prepare students for successful careers in the science, technology, engineering and mathematics fields through student internships and summer research experiences. Page 13.1289.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2008 Tinkering Self-Efficacy and Team Interaction on Freshman Engineering Design TeamsIntroductionIn the book Talking about Leaving, Seymour and Hewitt interviewed hundreds of
Illinois State University, and a technology education teacher at Central Catholic High School in Bloomington, Illinois. His professional activities have included directing several curriculum development projects for the State of Illinois, researching people's attitudes towards technology, working with public schools to enhance their technology education programs, and serving as a curriculum consultant for the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He is currently an active member in the National Center for Engineering and Technology Education.Linda Katehi, University of Illinois Linda Katehi is the Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs at the University of Illinois at
AC 2008-1040: RISK ASSESSMENT OF A MECHANICAL ENGINEERINGDEPARTMENTGreg Kremer, Ohio University-Athens Dr. Kremer is an Associate Professor and Chair of the Mechanical Engineering Department at Ohio University. He teaches in the Mechanical Design area and has primary responsibility for the Capstone Design Experience. His main research interests are Energy and the Environment, especially as related to vehicle systems, and engineering education, especially related to integrated learning and professional skills. Dr. Kremer received his B.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering from Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology in 1989, his Ph.D. degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of
Military Academy, the Department of the Army, or the Department ofDefense.”Bibliography1. Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary. http://www.m-w.com/dictionary/ethics, accessed 15 January 2008.2. FM-1, The Army, 14 June 2005, http://www.army.mil/fm1, accessed 17 December 2007.3. Accreditation Board of Engineering and Technology, Engineering Criteria 2000, ABET website,http://www.abet.org/eac, accessed 4 December 2007.4. National Council of Examiners For Engineering And Surveying, Fundamentals of Engineering Supplied-Reference Handbook, Seventh Edition, 2005, pp. 99-100.5. FM 6-22, Army Leadership: Competent, Confident, and Agile, October 2006,http://usacac.army.mil/CAC/CAL/FM6_22.pdf, accessed 14 December 2007.6. FM 27-10, The Law of Land Warfare, July
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/technology/9d37485a9f492110vgnvcm1000004eecbccdrcrd.html10. Anonymous (2007, December) The Best Inventions of the Year – Health: The healing hand. Time Retrieved January 15, 2008 from: http://www.time.com/time/specials/2007/article/0,28804,1677329_1678169_1678150,00.html11. Faculty of Engineering (2007, February 9) Engineering students develop life-saving CPR Glove. The Daily News. Retrieved January 16, 2008 from: http://dailynews.mcmaster.ca/story.cfm?id=449812. Anonymous (2007, April 4) Gallery: LFP Photos for April 4, 2008. London Free Press. Retrieved January 16, 2008 from: (http://lfpress.ca/cgi-bin/publish.cgi?x=galleries&s=gallery&p=1889&pg=3
AC 2008-830: REAL–TIME SIMULATION OF ELECTRIC MACHINE DRIVESWITH HARDWARE-IN-THE-LOOPOsama Mohammed, Florida International UniversityNagy Abed, Quanta Technology Page 13.1026.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2008 Real–Time Simulation of Electric Machine Drives with Hardware-in-the-LoopAbstractThis paper presents a real-time Hardware-in-the-Loop (HIL) simulator on PC-cluster, ofelectric systems and drives for research and education purpose. This simulator was developedwith the aim of meeting the simulation needs of electromechanical drives and powerelectronics systems while minimizing the complexity and programming burden
the 2009 volume of Research in Social Problems and Public Policy on bridging between the social sciences and other sciences, technological, and engineering fields.Jennifer Kadlowec, Rowan University Jennifer Kadlowec is an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Rowan University. She received her BS in physics at Baldwin-Wallace College and her MS and PhD in mechanical engineering at the University of Michigan. Her current research interests are injury biomechanics and engineering education. She has been actively and regularly publishing at ASEE and has served in officer roles in the Mechanics and ERM Divisions
AC 2008-2457: ENHANCING LEADERSHIP SKILLS THROUGH SERVICELEARNINGJames Ejiwale, Jackson State UniversityDella Posey, Jackson State University Page 13.546.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2008 Enhancing Leadership Skills Through Service LearningAbstractService learning has been adopted in the Department of Technology to help prepare and put thegraduates of the Industrial Technology (IT) program at the forefront of employment in the newindustrial revolution. It is therefore essential that the IT majors should participate in servicelearning so as to improve their leadership skills. This paper addresses the enhancement ofleadership skills through the
Bioengineering from Clemson University.William Moss, Clemson University William F. Moss is an Alumni Distinguished Professor of Mathematical Sciences at Clemson University. He has a BS in Electrical Engineering from MIT and a Ph.D. in Mathematics from the University of Delaware. He has 37 years of teaching and research experience at Lockheed Aircraft, the Naval Nuclear Power School, Georgia Institute of Technology, Old Dominion University, and Clemson University. His research involves mathematical modeling and the use of active learning strategies and technology to improve learning outcomes in mathematics and engineering courses. He is current supported by an NSF Engineering CCLI grant: Adapting
AC 2008-2424: DESIGN AND EXPERIMENTAL CAPSTONE: AN INTEGRATEDEXPERIENCEJeffrey Johnson, University of Cincinnati / EngineeringMary Beth Privitera, University of CincinnatiDaria Narmoneva, University of CincinnatiBalakrishna Haridas, University of Cincinnati Page 13.359.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2008 Design and Exper imental Capstone: An Integr ated Exper ienceAbstr actWe report on student outcomes across three phases in the development of the BME seniorcapstone experience. The BME department provides a comprehensive capstone experience to itsseniors. All students enroll in a two-course, team-based, device design capstone sequence and aconcurrent
students who complete engineering degrees to enter engineering professionsAPS addresses the following fundamental research questions: • SKILLS: How do students’ engineering skills and knowledge develop and/or change over time? How do the technological and mathematical fluencies of engineering students compare with those found in professional engineering settings? • IDENTITY: How do these students come to identify themselves as engineers? How do students’ appreciation, confidence, and commitment to engineering change as they navigate their education? How does this in turn affect how these students make decisions about further participation in engineering after graduation? • EDUCATION: What