Paper ID #15677WORK IN PROGRESS: An Integrated DSP and Embedded MicrocontrollerLaboratory CurriculumProf. Todd D. Morton, Western Washington University Todd Morton has been teaching the upper level embedded systems and senior project courses for West- ern Washington University’s Electrical Engineering and Electronics Engineering Technology program for 27 years. He is the author of the text ’Embedded Microcontrollers’, which covers assembly and C pro- gramming in small real-time embedded systems and has worked as a design engineer at Physio Control Corporation and at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory as an ASEE-NASA Summer
Cellular System (SNCS) Research Center at the UT. The projects werecomplementary and multidisciplinary in nature giving the students the opportunity to getfamiliarized with product design, testing, integration, and deployment. The students were todesign and build as well as use off-the-self components. The products of the three student teamsare then integrated into an existing device, Mariner, to give it added capabilities. Marinerconsists of a marine platform used for monitoring fish habitat parameters in the Red Sea. Thestudents have made several public poster presentations throughout the year to both sharpen theircommunication skills and seek input. At the end, each group provided a comprehensive report,made a public presentation, and field
teaching and learning methods to power engineering education. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 An Introductory Laboratory in Power Engineering Technology: A Systems Approach Matthew TurnerAbstractThis paper presents the design of a curriculum and the associated hardware for the laboratory componentof an introductory power engineering technology course for sophomore students. The content wasdeveloped to implement a systems approach that uses the modern electric power network as aninterconnected system to be designed, analyzed, and tested. The major hardware components of theelectrical power system are studied and analyzed in individual laboratory
Engineering (2003- 2007), Director of the graduate program in Industrial Engineering ( August 2012 – August 2014), and she is currently the IE Department Head. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Integrated Curriculum Design for an Industrial Engineering Program in Latin AmericaAbstractThe Industrial Engineering Department at Universidad Icesi led a systematic review of theIndustrial Engineering (IE) undergraduate program curriculum. Universidad Icesi at Cali,Colombia is a private institution recognized among the best universities in the country. Thecurriculum review and design was conceived as part of the IE undergraduate program’scontinuous improvement process and
components.Mechatronics is a newer branch of mechanical engineering that is a synergistic combination ofmechanical, electrical, electronics, computer science, control techniques, and informationsystems. Integrating mechatronics content in mechanical engineering curriculum has been achallenge since it has been viewed as a significant deviation from traditional courses. In the past,pedagogical approaches like semester-long, project-based classes, or linking mechatronics toother engineering disciplines, have been used to integrate mechatronics into the mechanicalengineering curriculum, with varying results. Furthermore, teaching an interdisciplinary class ofthis nature within a semester is a difficult pedagogical endeavor. To overcome these issues, thetopics and
curriculum 16 .Reports on the successful integration of UAVs into the curriculum often focus on single classes orone day events. For example, Nitschke et al. developed a one day contest for students on taughtM.Sc. and undergraduate courses 9 . In their work they detail an interdisciplinary designcompetition where students use open-source libraries to develop a program to autonomouslyguide a drone from a start point to a final destination. Visual markers help the UAV navigate itsway along the course. It was observed that students taking part in the competition developed adeeper understanding of the potential uses and limitations of UAVs. It was also noted that therewas a steep learning curve associated with the drones used.The use of UAVs to develop
Paper ID #17162Systems Engineering of Cyber-Physical Systems: An Integrated EducationProgramProf. Jon Patrick Wade, Stevens Institute of Technology (School of Systems & Enterprises) Jon Wade is a Distinguished Research Professor in the School of Systems and Enterprises at the Stevens Institute of Technology and currently serves as the Director of the Systems and Software Division and Chief Technology Officer for the Systems Engineering Research Center (SERC) where he is leading re- search in the use of technology in systems engineering education and complex systems. Previously, Dr. Wade was the Executive Vice President
future activities will be included in this paper. The paper will conclude with theassessment process.IntroductionReplacement of paper-based engineering graphics by its computer-based counterpart expandedthe role of engineering graphics into engineering analysis, virtual and physical rapid prototyping,and computer-aided manufacturing.Graphics instructors have been discussing this evolution and fate of paper based graphics [1] [2] [3].Another critical discussion has been on replacing introductory graphics education withfundamental design education [4][5] or establishing product design/life-cycle management as thefoundation for engineering graphics curriculum [6][7].This paper presents an effort to help engineering students better understand the
Paper ID #15142Integrating Research and Education in Engineering Design ProgramsDr. Martin Edin Grimheden, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) Martin Edin Grimheden is an associate professor in Mechatronics at KTH, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden, and head of the Mechatronics and Embedded Control Systems Division. Martin Edin Grimheden is also Program Director of the KTH Degree Program in Mechanical Engineering. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Integrating research and education in engineering design programsAbstractThis paper addresses some of the challenges related
design in their respective field.The American Association of Engineering Societies (AAES) and the World Federation ofEngineering Associations state that engineers “strive to comply with principles of sustainabledevelopment”5 and “maintain and continuously improve awareness and understanding ofenvironmental stewardship, sustainability principles and issues related to your field of practice.”6 To prepare students for future professional practice, FGCU along with many otherinstitutions of learning, has an increased focus on sustainability in engineering with drivingforces present to incorporate concepts of sustainability into the undergraduate curriculum. Thegeneral topic of sustainability integration in engineering curricula is reflected
engineering concentrations. Strict avoidance ofpre-designed kits forced students to experience the frustrations and rewards of creating uniquedesign content. The project selected consisted of a magnetically levitated, wirelessly powereddesk lamp.A key initial assumption was that students enrolled in the class would have a wide range ofdifferent hardware and software skill sets. The assumption (which turned out to be correct)necessitated the selection of assemblies that could be integrated into a unique design withminimal prior knowledge or experience. This applied to both hardware and software tools. It alsomade the project choice more difficult, since there needed to be sufficient flexibility to giveadvanced students an interesting challenge while
testing tools based on varied IDE platforms (e.g.,Eclipse and NetBeans). The gamification design and mechanism is integrated in the social features and isdeveloped with several elements that are connected to the project objectives. We will discussthese elements, the mechanism, the psychological characters and system implementation in thenext section. An overview design and analysis is shown in Figure 2.Current Situation of Software Testing in the AAMU Computer Science Curriculum Table 2 includes a summary of the current situation of software-testing instruction withinAAMU’s computer science curriculum. Table 2. All Computer Science Class Studies at AAMUCourse Num Course Title
Con- ference on Bioinformatics & Bioengineering (IEEE BIBE 2007), Achievement Award of the 2007 World Congress in Computer Science, Computer Engineering and Applied Computing, and 2005 IEEE-Granular Computing Outstanding Service Award at 2005 IEEE International Conference on Granular Computing. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Integrating Security Education into a CS Curriculum - Practices and Experience1 Zhongli Ding, Michael Weeks, Yanqing Zhang, and Yi Pan Department of Computer Science Georgia State
, the idea of integrating GD&Tthroughout an engineering curriculum has found some traction. In a recent article18 published outof the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), researchers partnered with industry(mainly Caterpillar) to establish innovative, hands-on approaches to teaching GD&T throughoutseveral activities as part of a freshman engineering course on design and graphics. AlthoughGD&T was originally considered “difficult to teach and learn,” the new activities focused onmanufacturing and inspection, in addition to form, fit, and function of design. The new effortswere not assessed, but the authors do conclude that GD&T is a fundamental engineering tool thathas continued to gain emphasis in industry and
ones that focus on skill development related to engi-neering practice13, 17-19. Showing engineering students the significance and utility of bio-inspired design is easy.Teaching them how to do bio-inspired design without requiring them to be fully trained as biolo-gists is much more difficult. Teaching bio-inspired design in an engineering curriculum has tradi-tionally relied on either the ad hoc application of biological inspiration or research methods andtools that are tied to specific engineering design methodologies. Typically within the classroom,a tool or method is presented with an example that illustrates the technique and students are ex-pected to practice the inherent knowledge transfer steps required to understand the
which represents the spine of the curriculum for the Department of Engineering. The research and teaching interests of Dr. Nagel tend to revolve around engineering design and engineering design education, and in particular, the design conceptualization phase of the design process. He has performed research with the US Army Chemical Corps, General Motors Research and Development Center, and the US Air Force Academy, and he has received grants from the NSF, the EPA, and General Motors Corporation.Prof. Matt Robert Bohm, University of LouisvilleDr. Julie S Linsey, Georgia Institute of Technology Dr. Julie S. Linsey is an Associate Professor in the George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineer- ing at the Georgia
with faculty from his alma mater.Prof. Bradley C. Harriger, Purdue University, West Lafayette Brad Harriger has over 30 years of experience teaching automated manufacturing and has authored/co- authored several related articles. Professor Harriger has served in several leadership roles with Society of Manufacturing Engineers and the American Society for Engineering Education, and is a founding mem- ber of an international Aerospace Automation Consortium, serving on its steering committee for several years. He has invested over twenty-five years in the development and maintenance of a multimillion dollar manufacturing laboratory facility complete with a full scale, fully integrated manufacturing sys- tem. Professor
Paper ID #14584A Building-Block Approach to Industrial Controls Laboratories Using Pro-grammable Logic ControllersProf. Robert J. Durkin, Indiana University - Purdue University, Indianapolis Mr. Durkin teaches courses in Mechanical and Electrical Engineering Technology; including the capstone design and independent study projects. He serves as a Faculty Senator and earned the 2013 Outstanding Teacher Award. He has over 25 years of engineering and manufacturing experience including; design, project management, and various engineering, research and manufacturing leadership roles. He has been awarded two US patents. He is an
isin line with the department’s mission to prepare the next generation of civil engineeringprofessionals. Each selected SHRP 2 product has become an inherent part of the course module.These were taught immediately after the relevant theoretical content was presented in the course.Furthermore, the authors re-emphasized these concepts using SHRP 2 as a tool for a seamlesstransition from theory to practice. A pre-survey and post-survey were conducted to determine theimpact of introducing SHRP 2 modules within the courses. The results of the pre-and post-survey are presented. A detailed framework on how to seamlessly integrate SHRP 2 productsthrough the entire civil engineering curriculum in other institutions is also presented.INTRODUCTION
of high importance. All of our respondents emphasizedwhat an important tool and concept this is, and noted that it should integrated across thecurriculum if possible. It was suggested that the topic be introduced as a concept, used on anindividual basis later, and finally used in a team setting (either on new large code base or toaccess an existing code base). This topic was not covered in our curriculum except in the CScourse “Software Tools”, which our engineering students cannot typically fit into their schedule.Working with existing codeWhile it is a challenge to approach this in a class setting, the results indicate that it would behelpful if students could gain experience at working with code they didn’t develop, and withbodies of code
study took place, it seems to have been more successful due to itsapproach on how to integrate the courses. This initiative seeks to create a common groundapplicable to most areas to encourage the creation of hybrid courses to benefit the understandingof both students and teachers, by creating an integrated curriculum instead of isolated islands ofknowledge. This specific approach centers on the integration of the Physics I and Mathematics Icourses, named Fis-Mat, for its name in Spanish. While efforts have been made to create thefollowing courses and some implementations have been made for a Fis-Mat 3 course, the first oneis our center of study as it is the most mature.Different aspects of the course have been reported in previous
Society of America.Dr. Jorge Vargas, Florida Polytechnic UniversityDr. Christina Drake, Florida Polytechnic University Dr. Christina Drake is an assistant professor in the College of Engineering at Florida Polytechnic Uni- versity. She is also the chair of the Florida Polytechnic Faculty Assembly and the advisor to the Women in STEM Leadership Program. Her teaching focus is in Design curriculum and her research focus is in sensor technologies. Prior to Florida Polytechnic, Dr. Drake was a Senior Research Engineer at Lockheed Martin Missiles and Fire Control, a post she held since 2008. Prior to that, she was a Nanotechnology Research Engineer at Lockheed Martin. She started and co-chaired the Lockheed Martin Nano-Bio
Paper ID #14663Integrating Compassion into an Engineering Ethics CourseDr. George D. Catalano, Binghamton University Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Binghamton University Previously member of the faculty at U.S. Military Academy and Louisiana State University. Two time Fullbright Scholar – Italy and Germany. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Integrating a Compassion Practicum into a Biomedical Engineering Ethics CourseAbstractA required undergraduate course in the ethics of biomedical engineering has been developed andtaught. Students are required to design
Paper ID #16192STEM-Discovery – An Integrated Approach to DESIGNDr. Heath Tims, Louisiana Tech UniversityDr. Kelly B. Crittenden, Louisiana Tech University Dr Kelly Crittenden is a member of Louisiana Tech University’s Integrated STEM Education Center (ISERC), and the Harrelson Family Professor of engineering. He earned his PhD and BS in BioMedical Engineering in 2001, and 1996 respectively. Dr Crittenden’s interests lie in K-12 outreach, developing project-driven curricula, and product design. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 STEM-Discovery – An Integrated Approach to
. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Integrating an Introduction to Engineering Experience into a University Seminar CourseAbstractRetention statistics show that the most drastic decline in retention rates for engineering andengineering technology majors at Texas State University occur after the first and second years.To address this issue, the LBJ Institute of STEM Education and Research at Texas State isemploying a multi-faceted approach to implement proven strategies for increasing studentretention as a part of an NSF IUSE (Improving Undergraduate STEM Education) grant, TexasState STEM Rising Stars. One of these strategies is to introduce a new first-year introduction toengineering
Capstone Leadership Project and the S-Triangle Pedagogy to Guide Engineering Leadership Development EducationAbstractThis paper presents the methodology for teaching leadership development using an overarchingcapstone project to inform the teaching/learning of the understanding self, style, and situation,also known as the leadership “S-triangle.” In this model, the “needs of instruction” for executionof the capstone leadership project are delivered on a just-in-time basis to reinforce leadershipdevelopment. While the study of leadership styles and characteristics, understanding of self, andsituational strategies is not unique, the integrated approach guided by a capstone project hasquantifiably improved student self-reported
, which are then evaluatedusing the problem specifications16. During the early concept generation phase, students oftenbecome fixated on their initial concepts, and may prematurely begin evaluation10, 17, 18. Thisresults in a need for pedagogical strategies to aid students in enriching their conceptual designphase. Instructors must understand how concepts are generated, and how tools can facilitate theexploration of potential design solutions.One challenge in teaching concept generation in engineering is that techniques proven helpful inconcept generation may be slow to be adopted by instructors19-21. Thus, in this study, weexplored how an empirically-validated idea generation tool, Design Heuristics, was integrated byengineering instructors in
engineering design context,2 meaning that ethics is implicit throughout design processes.While recognition of major issues is important in an engineering education context, this view ofethics does not allow for an integrated understanding of the way ethics is implicated in themicro-level everyday decisions and reasoning associated with design.1 This more nuancedunderstanding would “provide a firmer basis for thinking about ethics in the engineering designprocess” (p. 514) and might encourage more incorporation of ethical thinking into the entiredesign process. Nuanced micropolitics are interwoven throughout the technical and otherdecisions that comprise the design process, and all decisions and agreements that emerge throughthis process could result
research interests include wearable medical devices, telehealthcare, bioinstrumentation, biosignal processing, and control systems. His educational research interests are laboratory/project-driven learning and integration of research into undergraduate education. Dr. Yao is a member of the American Society of Engineering Education and a senior member of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).Mr. Brent Walter Reed c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Facilitating Student Learning with Hands-on Projects in an Electronics Course in a General Engineering CurriculumIn a general engineering program at East Carolina University, an electrical
Currently a professor of Mathematics at Brigham Young University, where he has served on the faculty since 2005. He received his Ph.D. > in Mathematics from Indiana University in 2002 and was an Arnold Ross Assistant Professor at The Ohio State University from 2002-2005. Since then, he has won several grants from the National Science Foundation, including a CAREER award in 2009. His current research interests are in nonlinear and stochastic dynamical systems, numerical analysis and scientific computing, healthcare analytics, actuarial science, and network science. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Modeling across the Curriculum: A SIAM-NSF initiative