Conference Session

International Division Technical Session 3

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sigrid Berka, University of Rhode Island; Walter von Reinhart

Tagged Divisions

International

 Familiarization with the tumbling press, especially programming and control (seek assistance from respective members of staff)  Planning of practical experiments, experimental approach and materials  Conduct experiments  Documentation of fiber orientation by means of destructive and non-destructive testing  Continuous documentation (images and video)  Final written documentation (10 pages in German)  Presentation (15 minutes in German)Benefits for and beyond Student Gains Page 24.777.9The right match between a student’s major and the focus of the research institute can beespecially valuable if the research project

Conference Session

CAD Assessments, Trends and Applications

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Richard Whalen, Northeastern University; Chirag Patel; David Joseph Tortoriello; Justin Baldacci, ASME Northeastern chapter; Jeffrey Speroni

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Design Graphics

, because we learned from students who have been on co-op and done SolidWorksdrawings for companies before. Their experience shone through and made everything wedid feel relevant and important. Especially the work with drawings and designing formanufacturability.”These comments are important in the sense they will help drive future upper-classmembers of ASME to continue the service to their fellow students providing themadditional access and training to a valuable engineering tool. In addition to and possiblemore importantly, they are providing first-hand knowledge of what to expect on their firstco-op.In the future, the undergraduate teaching assistants plan to refine and modify the modulesbases on the comments received from the assessment. Issues

Conference Session

Collaborations Between Engineering/Education

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Charles Feldhaus

Conference Session

Writing and Communication II

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

John Anderson; Jeanine Casler; Bugrahan Yalvac; H. David Smith; Gulnur Birol; John Troy; Penny Hirsch

Conference Session

Teaching Design

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Goff; Jeffrey Connor; Jean Kampe

Page 10.631.2 Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Educationsemester to the next (so we can envision hands-on implementation plans within these rooms).The classrooms are wide and shallow, and they are each currently furnished with three longtables that run nearly the width of the rooms, hence providing three rows per classroom. Seatsare individual stackable chairs that can be moved as needed. With 32 students per section, andusually four students per team for the hands-on activities, we can accommodate all sections ofthe course by providing the four classrooms each with eight sets of the needed

Conference Session

Undergraduate Research & New Directions

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Georgiopoulos

within the field ofMachine Learning, one of them at the Masters level in the field of communications). One ofthem chose to work in the industry and he has plans of enrolling at the Masters program at UCFwhen the opportunity arises. The last undergraduate student was an Army Officer and he wentback to his home base after graduating with a B.S. degree in the Spring of 2004. There were alsotwo graduate students in the CTML-II class that they are continuing to pursue their graduatestudies at UCF.6. Summary and ConclusionsWe have reported in this effort some of the work conducted towards the satisfaction of some ofthe deliverables of a funded NSF project entitled “Advances in Machine Learning forEngineering Education”. Our focus in this paper has

Conference Session

Engineering Education Research and Assessment I

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Frederick Berry; Patricia Carlson

was implemented in thecourse appears in Addendum A.Offered in the spring quarter (from 5 January to 21 May) of 2004, ECE 362 consisted of twosections, for a total of 55 students (12 women and 43 men). Both sections had the sameinstructor. In the college bulletin, the course is described as: System engineering, team projectinvolving conception, design specifications, conceptual design, scheduling, project management,business plan, market survey, and budgeting that culminates in a written proposal and oralpresentation requesting funds for development of a product.During the 10-week quarter, all students participated in six major CPR sessions. Table C givesadditional information on these writing assignments. Each is relatively standard in

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Computer Engineering Technology

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Dwight Egbert; Dave Williams

the enrollment was finalized at the start of instruction, a meeting washeld of all students enrolled and a mutually agreeable class schedule was devised. The smallenrollment in the pioneer offering of the course made this a viable plan of action. However, withlarger enrollments, establishing a set schedule in advance may be preferable.Western’s engineering curriculum is fully articulated to the College of Engineering at theUniversity of Nevada, Reno (UNR).3 Most notably, Western’s Computer Science classes haveadopted many of the instructional modules produced by the Combined Research-CurriculumDevelopment program in Computer Vision at UNR.4 These C++ instructional tools permitintroductory and intermediate programming students (CS1 and CS2) to

Conference Session

ECE Capstone and Engineering Practice

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Baladi; P. David Fisher

to the making of a profit and the turnover of good product. Time tomarket is constantly getting more and more difficult to meet as competition in the embeddedcomputer realm increases with more demand.Hierarchical Design ProcessThe design process of an embedded computer system will ultimately make or break a design. Forexample, the design process will affect the time-to-market, the reliability of the design, and theability to re-use portions product (IP) previously designed and tested. There are severalcomponents necessary to a successful design cycle. Organization of the design steps comes first.It should be easily understandable from many other life experiences that a successful design isone that is planned well. When designing a system of

Conference Session

Learning & Teaching Issues

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Kay C. Dee

Page 9.1045.7 Table 1, Continued. Q8 Q9 Q10 Q11 Q12 Q13 Q14 Q15 Q16 Q17 Helpful outside Tried to find Interested in Evaluated The course Provided The homework The text was: The The amount of the classroom out if material teaching and performance increased frequent was carefully instructor’s work was: was students accurately / knowledge, feedback planned / peformance understood fairly

Conference Session

Faculty Reward System Reform

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Stanford Thomas; Donald Keating

Conference Session

Technological Literacy I

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Robinson; M. Sami Fadali; Ann-Marie Vollstedt; Eric Wang

more creative because of the materials they are able to work with15.5. I don’t think so. All students can benefit from such a curriculum. A richer curriculum might help make up for the lack of outside experiences that more affluent children have.6. I did not use the 5E Model in a direct fashion. Most of the instruction was informal with small groups and one on one coaching and writing 5E Model lesson plans did not work well with Page 9.914.5 this. The exploration part of the 5E model fitted in with inquiry and problem solving when Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

George Nowak; Barry Shoop; Lisa Shay

assortment of courses, each carrying a defined number of credits and assuming a standard time in class. The degree certifies completion of a fixed number of these often disconnected fragments. There is little internal coherence in curricula or programs, and even less a plan for connected learning .… The departmental structure reinforces the atomization of the curriculum by dividing knowledge into distinct fields, even though scholarship, learning, and life have no such artificial boundaries.2We have experienced similar isolationism within the electrical engineering curriculum at WestPoint. Two years ago, we set-out to provide topical linkages both within individual courses andamong courses in the curriculum in an

Conference Session

Recruiting/Retention Lower Division

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

William Guerriero; Elizabeth Chain; Mary Vanis; Donna Zerby; Bassam Matar; Mary Anderson-Rowland

2003. Visits to the classrooms were begun in Spring 2004. The METS BridgeProgram and METS Fall Orientation were held for the first time during summer 2004. A total of Page 10.733.12 Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education Session22 METS and 10 CIRC/METS events have been held during Summer 2004 and Fall 2004.A totalof 45 METS and 20 CIRC/METS events are planned for the 2004/2005 academic

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Tim Ameel; Ian Harvey; Bruce Gale

Conference Session

Trends in ME Education Poster Session

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

John Hochstein

of 14 seniors felt that interacting with the freshmen did have a positive effecton the grades received by the seniors. Eight disagreed, and 4 were neutral.Item i asks the seniors about continuing the practice of involving freshmen in senior designprojects, and the majority of the responses (8 of 14) are negative. Only 6 of 14 thought it should becontinued.The plan is to continue this project for one more cycle, so that freshmen in Fall 01 who served asco op students will be seniors in Fall 04. This uniquely experienced group will help provideassessment data that will determine whether the freshmen senior collaboration should continue.Also, it is hoped that the unusual numerical imbalance of Fall 2003 will not be repeated next

Conference Session

Design in Freshman Year

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Anita Mahadevan-Jansen; Christopher Rowe

Conference Session

Innovations in Teaching Mechanics

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Gary Gray; Andrew Miller; Francesco Costanzo; Charles Randow

of each and every lecture? The more frequent the use, the more consistentthe appearance should be to avoid confusion—this may require more planning in thebeginning.Will these notebooks be used by the lecturer who is also the creator of the notebooks, another lec-turer, the students outside of the classroom, or a combination of these possibilities? The answer tothis question will have implications for how robust and how well documented the finalproduct must be. In the context of this project, the notebooks must be sufficiently portableas the primary intention is for them to be used by any lecturer during a classroom lecture.The notebooks may also be considered as templates for the students to refer to in solvingtheir own problems since the

Conference Session

Innovations in Teaching Mechanics

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

William O. Jolley; Hartley T. Grandin, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Joseph Rencis, University of Arkansas

significant number of publications available [5] on the theory, development and usageof the finite element method, it may be rather difficult for an instructor to identify aneffective plan of study. The educational objectives for a course depend on whether thestudent or practitioner is a user or a researcher/developer of the technology: • User. The user needs to learn the proper use of the finite element method for the solution of complex problems. This will require fundamental understanding of theory. • Research/Developer. The researcher/developer needs a thorough understanding of the finite element method theory in order to develop new and, perhaps, extend the existing methodologies and/or develop or modify a finite

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Stanford; R.J. Bennett; R. Jacoby; M.I. Mendelson; D.A. Keating

Conference Session

Instructional Technology--What Works

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Vijay Kanabar; Rumen Stainov; Tanya Zlateva; Eric Braude

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Donald Richards

Conference Session

Globalizing Engineering Education II: Best Practices

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nathan McNeill, University of Florida, Gainesville; Monica Farmer Cox, Purdue University, West Lafayette

Tagged Topics

ASEE Global Programs

learning to be adaptable. One participant statedsimply, ―I guess I became even more flexible, to be adjusted to different cultures.‖ He went on toexplain how he ―couldn‘t get all of the things that I liked in the States in China.‖ But, he learnedto get along without those things; particularly, he explained, the foods that he enjoyed eating atthe Purdue dining courts. The other participant talked about how the language barrier forced herto be more flexible. She explained, ―You have to adapt even though you do not know theirlanguage.‖ Participation in the GEARE program convinced some participants that they shouldconsider an international career. Before enrolling in the GEARE program, one participant wasalready planning to pursue an MBA at

Conference Session

FPD II: Increasing Engagement and Motivation of First-Year Students

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Holly M. Matusovich, Virginia Tech; Walter Curtis Lee, Virginia Tech ; John Andrew Janeski, Virginia Tech; Katherine E. Winters, Virginia Tech

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

engagement. Middle school science studentswho reported fulfillment of their needs for autonomy, competence, and relatedness were morelikely to continue enrolling in science courses and plan to pursue careers in science.5 Incomparing junior-high and elementary students’ autonomous motivation to complete homeworkassignments, researchers attributed the older students’ decreased motivation to their teachers’poor support of the students’ psychological needs, when compared to elementary school studentsand teachers.6 Students in physical education classes that perceived a more supportiveenvironment reported greater need fulfillment and engagement in physical education activities.7While fewer researchers have utilized self-determination theory among college

Conference Session

Qualitative Research Programs & International Research Experience from Around the World

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Yating Chang, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Joe J.J. Lin, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Juila D. Thompson, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Yi Shen, Purdue University; Brent K. Jesiek, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Eckhard A. Groll, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Edwin Daniel Hirleman, Purdue University, West Lafayette

Tagged Divisions

International

. Page 22.952.5Challenges For Global ExperiencesGender DifferencesMost IREE participants found their hosts very hospitable, especially in provisions such asarranging meals, transportation and shelter. Yet many of the students did come across challengesin the laboratory. Feelings of being an outsider often arose as well as complications in theresearch plan. It was found that the reactions to these events varied between men and women.Many women interviewed expressed their frustration at laboratory obstacles and theirassertiveness in their response while approaching such impediments. While describing thefeelings of isolation in the laboratory environment one woman said: When I first came in they (lab mates) were all very timid like. At times

Conference Session

Embedded System Design

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joseph A. Morgan, Texas A&M University; Jay R. Porter, Texas A&M University; Wei Zhan P.E., Texas A&M University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

Conference Session

Ethical Perspectives on the Grand Challenges of Engineering

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Dean Nieusma, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Xiaofeng Tang, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

engineering, littleattention is paid in engineering education to the actual indices being optimized. Response time,productivity, cost are all worthy of making more efficient in general terms, but in specificevaluations, each index is abstracted from a complex socio-technical context wherein competingindicators exist. For example, is labor productivity to be measured by work-hour, by overalllabor cost, or by physical work extended by laborers? By opening technical efficiency toanalytic scrutiny, students might learn a more comprehensive way of planning, conducting, andassessing engineering projects. The easy distinction between technical and social facets ofefficiency calculations makes little sense through the lens of the lifelong-learning framework

Conference Session

State of Manufacturing Engineering Education

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Hugh Jack, Grand Valley State University

Tagged Divisions

Manufacturing

Conference Session

Thermodynamics, Fluids, and Heat Transfer I

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Matthew A. Carr, U.S. Naval Academy

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

run various mill operations.This was attempted on some Newcomen-type engines, but was mostly satisfied by both Savery andNewcomen engines pumping water up to a reservoir and then running the water through waterwheels. This overall scheme included additional energy conversions, each with non-unityefficiency. Watt developed rotating shaft output engines in the 1780s. Watt’s plan to use acrankshaft was delayed until the expiration of a patent for use of this device in 1794. As a result, hedeveloped and patented a double gear rotational drive in 1781. After 1794, the crankshaft andflywheel were generally used.incorporating historic engines into current instructionThe graphics, description of operation, and calculations presented in this article

Conference Session

Thermodynamics, Fluids, and Heat Transfer II

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Paul Nicholas van Bloemen Waanders, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, Mechanical Engineering; Andrew Kean, California Polytechnic State University; Brian P. Self, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

per cycle or the thermalefficiency of the engine directly.We are writing to request your assistance with developing a thermodynamic model which accuratelyestimates the work produced by our engine per cycle, and determines the thermal efficiency of the engine.Please perform your primary analysis using the data we have provided. We plan to make frequent enginemodifications out in the field which will change the cycle details, so please also make your model easy toadjust with additional p-V data. Hopefully with the help of your model, we will be able to see how makingsmall changes to the cycle affects work produced and thermal efficiency. To keep the model easy to use, weask that you: 1) treat the fuel-air mixture in the combustion chamber as