Conference Session

TIME 3: Thermal Systems

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephen McClain

, entropy, specific heat atconstant volume, and the specific heat at constant pressure for twelve chemical species ofthe carbon-hydrogen-oxygen-nitrogen (CHON) system. The MathCAD functions weremade available for students in ME 448/548 Internal Combustion Engines to use in theirhomework and projects. The CHON functions were generated to ease the complicationof using tabulated data for ideal gas properties and were used by the students to easilydetermine aspects of combustion such as the heat of combustion of a fuel, adiabatic flametemperature, equilibrium constant, and equilibrium compositions of reacting ideal-gasmixtures. The details and usage of the CHON-MathCAD functions are discussed, andspecific examples of their application to problems in an

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Kevin Dahm

insights. For example, usinga process simulator, one can create a detailed model of an isothermal reactor and use it tosolve many textbook problems, but never realize how difficult it is to design and build areactor that is truly isothermal. For these reasons, we are developing wet-lab experimentsthat complement the computer experiments.Since time, space and money limit the number of wet-lab experiments that can beincluded, the intent of this project is to design two experiments that, between them, meetas many pedagogical goals as possible.Previous WorkAn experiment investigating the following competitive-parallel reaction scheme hasalready been developed:(1) H2BO3- + H+ ↔ H3BO3(2) 5I- + IO3

Conference Session

International Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sushil Acharya, Robert Morris University; Lisa A. Nutt, Robert Morris University; Tony Lee Kerzmann, Robert Morris University

Tagged Divisions

International

travelled to Bremen andmet with some faculty from the University of Bremen. While staying in Bremen they visited withUniversity of Bremen professors that were working on ecological sustainability projectsincluding a project called ReviTech where reused coffee bags were packed with organic materialand seeds that would allow plant growth in almost any environment (as shown in Figure 7).These bags were designed to stop the spread of deserts and in some cases even reclaim portionsof the desert. Bremen also served as a home base for the group, where they were able to travel toand from the nearby city of Bremerhaven. Bremerhaven is arguably the leading city in offshorewind turbine production throughout the world. The group was able to tour some of the

Conference Session

Preparing Future Educators

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mary Lynn Brannon, Pennsylvania State University, University Park

Tagged Divisions

Graduate Studies

Paper ID #8691Applying Research-Based Principles and Theory to Practice: The redesign ofa graduate student instructor seminarMrs. Mary Lynn Brannon, Pennsylvania State University, University Park Mary Lynn Brannon is the Instructional Support Specialist at the Leonhard Center for the Enhancement of Engineering Education, College of Engineering, at the Pennsylvania State University, USA. She has a Master of Arts Degree in Education and Human Development specializing in Educational Technology Leadership. Her work focuses on projects that measure and assess student perceptions of learning related to their experiences with

Conference Session

Trends in Engineering Education 1

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Khairiyah Mohd-Yusof, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia; Fatin Aliah Phang, Faculty of Education, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia; Aziatul Niza Sadikin, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia; Syed Ahmad Helmi, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia; Mohd Johari Kamaruddin, Centre of Lipids Engineering & Applied Research (CLEAR), Faculty of Chemical Engineering, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, 81310 UTM Johor Bahru, Johor, Malaysia.

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

skills” Teams QuotationsTeam 1 The next thing needed is good communication skills. This is important to express ideas, to deal with bosses, clients, city councils and authorities. It is important to communicate with colleagues and other engineers as engineers cannot work alone.Team 4 Engineers also need to have excellent communication and leadership skills. They need to convince and explain the upper management as much as possible to make a project happens.Team 6 Engineers should also be equipped with soft skills such as communication and leadership skills to coordinate activities within a team, highly social, and have to

Conference Session

K-12 and Pre-College Engineering Division Poster Session

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nancy E. Study, Pennsylvania State University, Erie; Robert Edwards, Pennsylvania State University, Erie

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

pretest and posttest as part of regular classroom activities and themean scores for these students are similar to the expected mean for freshman engineers based onprevious research. Course content includes multiview projection, dimensioning, workingdrawings, creation of design solution alternatives, and CAD. Instruction techniques includesketching and the use of manipulatives along with lecture, demo, and CAD tutorials.In phase 2, the assessment of haptic tendencies of college students who plan to becomeelementary or secondary STEM teachers will be undertaken. Recruitment of subjects will beginlater in 2014. The primary reason for this testing is to determine if the haptic tendencies of thesefuture teachers are similar to students self-selecting

Conference Session

Mechanical Division Poster Session

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Craig J. Gunn, Michigan State University; Pavel M. Polunin, Michigan State University

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

pp.Brief narrative of procedure, measured Individual); Technical Analysis,data, deduced and analyzed data, plotted Economic Analysis, Recommendationresults with discussion and conclusions. for ActionME 391 – Mechanical Engineering ME 412 – Heat TransferAnalysis Design Project Documentation: FormalReading, thinking, and teamwork Report (1 @ 10 pp. + App., Individual) Memo Reports (X @ 2 - 5 pages App.IndividualME 451 – Controls (Senior)Laboratory and Project Reports: Laboratory Experiment Written Reports (2 Formal Reports,Individual); Abstract, Nomenclature, Introduction, Analysis, Results, Discussion

Conference Session

Research Experience in Stormwater Management

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Walter McDonald, Virginia Tech; Randel L. Dymond, Virginia Tech; Vinod K. Lohani, Virginia Tech; Daniel S. Brogan, Virginia Tech; Richard Lee Clark Jr., Virginia Western Community College

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

, computer-supported research and learning systems, hydrology, and water resources. In a major ($1M+, NSF) curriculum reform and engineering education research project from 2004 to 2009, he led a team of engineering and education faculty to reform engineering curriculum of an engineering department (Biological Systems Engineering) using Jerome Bruner’s spiral curriculum theory. Currently, Dr. Lohani leads an NSF/REU Site on ”interdisciplinary water sciences and engineering” which has already graduated 56 excellent undergraduate researchers since 2007. This Site is renewed for the third cycle which will be implemented during 2014-16. He also leads an NSF/TUES type I project in which a real-time environmental monitoring lab

Conference Session

Design in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Florian Misoc, Southern Polytechnic State University; Jeff Wagner, Southern Polytechnic State University

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

engineering, power systems engineering,where energy conversion concepts are the foundation of those programs, emphasis on powerelectronics requires an in-depth knowledge and skills, which can only be acquired through abalanced lecture-lab combination. While courses of power electronics have been an integralcomponent of electrical engineering and/or engineering technology programs, the lecture &project scheme has been the dominant method of course material delivery. Thus, it is uncertain todetermine what practical skills were acquired, through any power electronics course that does notinclude a formal laboratory component.Previous researchPrevious research has determined that the practicum/laboratory experience is instrumental in thegraduates

Conference Session

Orienting Students for Lifelong Learning Success

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michelle Spence, University of Toronto; Jason A. Foster, University of Toronto; Robert Irish, University of Toronto; Patricia Kristine Sheridan, University of Toronto; Geoffrey Samuel Frost, University of Toronto

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Libraries

learning indirectly from their teammates didnot give them sufficient understanding to be able to use the skills.Second, students found that having Stations at specific physical locations constrained teams fromexploring the spectrum of resources available in the library. For example some students mightspend the entire activity at a computer terminal or in the book stacks, and never visit physicaljournals or the reference desk. Having the students restricted to a given physical location did notpromote exploration and serendipity.Third, despite that the activities were intended to link to the students’ upcoming design projects,the students did not always see the relevance of the Stations. The Station that received the mostnegative student response

Conference Session

Learning and Assessment II

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Randy Dean Kelley P.E., University of Pittsburgh, Johnstown

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

enforces the material in the students’ intellect.2Other objectives include working with others in groups. There exists a perception thatengineering students lack personal skills in social situations. Many times perception is reality.By working in groups, students develop valuable inter-personal skills that will greatly aid themin the future. Also in engineering, a students’ ability to develop solutions to complex problemsis extremely important for their future. By allowing them to struggle with a problem, developsthese types of skills.“Mini” Research Project GuidelinesTo limit the amount of extra work for the students and instructor, the “mini” research paperswere limited to five double spaced pages excluding cover page, table of contents

Conference Session

It's Elementary

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Eduardo Alfonso Suescun-Florez, Polytechnic Institute of New York University; Ryan Francis Cain, PS 3 The Bedford Village School; Vikram Kapila, Polytechnic Institute of New York University; Magued G. Iskander P.E., Polytechnic Institute of New York University

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

, Polytechnic Institute of New York University Dr. Vikram Kapila is a professor of Mechanical Engineering at NYU-Poly, where he directs an NSF funded Web-Enabled Mechatronics and Process Control Remote Laboratory, an NSF funded Research Experience for Teachers Site in Mechatronics, and an NSF funded GK-12 Fellows project. He has held visiting positions with the Air Force Research Laboratories in Dayton, OH. His research interests are in K-12 STEM education, mechatronics, robotics, and linear/nonlinear control for diverse engineering applications. Under Research Experience for Teachers Site and GK-12 Fellows programs, funded by NSF, and the Central Brooklyn STEM Initiative (CBSI), funded by six philanthropic foundations, he

Conference Session

Difference, Disability, and (De)Politicization: The Invisible Axes of Diversity

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Julie L Taylor, University of Utah

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

difference may present challenges for engineers when they enter the workplace. Thus, thequestion becomes how do we adequately prepare engineering students for the diversity of values,ideas, and approaches to problem solving that characterize the workforce? The purpose of thisproject is to explore the concept of difference as represented through gender.A thematic qualitative analysis of data revealed that engineering students experience dissonanceand (re)negotiate their positionality of being an engineer in the presence of difference. Thesefindings not only have implications for how we model interdiciplinarity in the classroom, butmore importantly, results from this project show that acceptance of difference is conditional. Aseducators, we have more

Conference Session

Academic Standards & Issues/Concerns & Retention

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

R. William Graff; Paul Leiffer

importance in society, since the Internet offers freeaccess to technical information presented in an interesting format (unlike that of mosttechnical textbooks).3. CommunicationStudents communicate. 60% said they communicate with a professor at least once aweek8. They communicate with each other. E-mail and cell phones have madecommunication much easier.4. TeamworkThe emphasis on cooperation and working in groups, which has increased in our society,and which is being employed in K-12, has made the students more accepting to teamworkand group projects at the college level.5. DiversityStudents are more comfortable working together with those having backgrounds differentfrom their own; the trend toward diversity in our society, which has been

Conference Session

Using IT to Enhance Design Education

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Anand Srinivasan; Steve Shooter; Soundar Kumara; Robert Stone; Timothy Simpson; Janis Terpenny

are reduced. Companies have a greater ability to tailor their products to theneeds of different market segments or customers. Product development time is reduced. Systemiccomplexity is reduced by cutting the number of parts and processes. Also, the loweredinvestment required for each product reduces the risk2. Platform planning can be used as aneffective project management tool by using common platforms in order to reduce design anddevelopment time4.In the early 1970s, Black and Decker had 122 different power tool models which required thirtydifferent motors, sixty different housings and 104 different armatures. The tooling, inventory,labor cost for assembly, and various other expenses made for high costs. Black and Deckeraggressively

Conference Session

IE Enrollment/Curriculum Development

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Susan Freeman

course. This minor has now beenapproved, and many students are now enrolled through the Mechanical and IndustrialEngineering department. Currently, the topics covered in the course are:• History of Engineering and Industrial Engineering: Development and Scope• Manufacturing Engineering and Operations Planning• Facilities Location and Layout• Material Handling, Distribution and Routing• Work Design and Work Measurement• Quality Control• CAD/CAM. Robotics and Automation• Human Factors• Financial Management and Engineering Economy• Operations Research• Simulation and Queuing Systems• Project Management• Lean Manufacturing, Six Sigma, Supply Chain Management, other current topics…These topics can change, but follow the

Conference Session

Increasing Enrollment in IE/IET Programs Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Susan Freeman

course. This minor has now beenapproved, and many students are now enrolled through the Mechanical and IndustrialEngineering department. Currently, the topics covered in the course are:• History of Engineering and Industrial Engineering: Development and Scope• Manufacturing Engineering and Operations Planning• Facilities Location and Layout• Material Handling, Distribution and Routing• Work Design and Work Measurement• Quality Control• CAD/CAM. Robotics and Automation• Human Factors• Financial Management and Engineering Economy• Operations Research• Simulation and Queuing Systems• Project Management• Lean Manufacturing, Six Sigma, Supply Chain Management, other current topics…These topics can change, but follow the

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Civil ET

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Carmine Balascio

solved.• Since the computer does the grading, after problems are coded, demand on the instructor’s out-of-class time would decrease.Previous offerings of EGTE 321 used WebCT for posting of course materials and assignmentsand for group discussion features. Though it was possible to use LON-CAPA for these purposes,to ease transition effort, the instructor continued to use WebCT for its posting and discussionfeatures and used LON-CAPA for its homework system features only. The first two-thirds of thecourse were devoted to development of analysis and design skills in hydraulics and hydrologythat would be needed for a team project requiring the detailed design of storm-water

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Frederick Stern

theimplementations, especially as experienced by the students, including preliminary data onimmediate student outcomes as documented for Fall 2003. The project is part of a three-yearNational Science Foundation sponsored Course, Curriculum and Laboratory Improvement -Educational Materials Development project with faculty partners from colleges of engineering at " Page 9.460.1 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering EducationIowa, Iowa State, Cornell and Howard universities along

Conference Session

Vendor Partnerships with Engineering Libraries

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Charles Paulsen; Amy Van Epps; Lisa Dunn; Jay Bhatt

answered unless Knovel is accessed for solutions.The proof in the vendor/university relationship’s success is how users access Knovel to answerquestions and solve problems in their everyday coursework and research. Drexel University’sfreshman design project that 800+ burgeoning engineers must complete in their first year is anexample of this. The project pushes students to combine theory, statistics, and materials in onecohesive package. Many times, students have no idea where to begin, and Knovel offers them a“launching pad” to outline ideas and narrow them down as the project develops. For example, in2003 a student chose wood as a material and needed to know about the moisture properties inwood and how this impacts wood construction. Knovel

Conference Session

IS and IT Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Cullinane; Baris Yanmaz; Ronald Perry

process that projects the need for IT workers to grow to 146,000 by 2008, a 90% in-crease over 1998 figures 1. National figures also predict an increased need for workers in the ITfield. Most studies show that the greatest need is for people who constitute the researchers, crea-tors and designers of the new and advancing technologies. Page 9.1121.1 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Education Cycles of layoffs and shortages have been the labor market reality for technical profession-als in recent

Conference Session

Innovative Classroom Techniques

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Yasar Demirel

real-process applications, charts, diagrams,hands-on practices, and demonstrations beside theory, equations, and words.(15,22-26) An effectiveteaching technique should engage students actively, stimulate sense of enquiry, and facilitatecollaborative learning, through, for example, group work.(22-32) In group-work activity, two orthree students can apply a newly learned concept in a short application, such as problem solving,which promotes problem-based learning.(22,25,29,30) Group-design projects, in-class presentations,computer simulations, experiments, would be part of the active learning and deep learning.(28-33)This would enhance the skill of transferring knowledge in higher order within a course or acrosscourses.(15,16) Some current

Conference Session

Innovative Graduate Programs & Methods

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jennifer Dockter; Carol Muller

seeking or pursuing academic science andengineering careers. To that end, MentorNet is developing specialized components of its One-on-One Mentoring Program, enabling one-on-one mentoring relationships based on 1) matchinggraduate students and postdoctoral scholars with tenured faculty members as mentors (beginningin fall of 2003), and 2) matching untenured faculty with tenured faculty mentors (beginning infall of 2004). MentorNet will develop a comprehensive approach for this project, withprogrammatic features tailored to the needs of the specific protégé-mentor populations.Since the first matches in this new program were made in September 2003, participatingindividuals have not completed this eight month program, and thus evaluation results are

Conference Session

Abroad Educational Opportunities in Engineering

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Bethany Oberst; Russel Jones

project them into likely futuredirections.IntroductionWas spring 2000 one last season of irrational optimism in the United States? On January14 of that year the Dow Jones Industrials hit a high of 11,722.98. It wouldn’t be untilJune 1 that manufacturing data and a monthly unemployment report showed the firstconcrete signs that the US economy was cooling. Do you remember when the Fedactually raised interest rates? They did on May 16, 2000, when they bumped it up by .5 to6.5%. Back then, 911 was still a US phone number, the Euro had yet to be born, and onMarch 22, Pope John-Paul II, on a visit to Israel, pleads yet again for a homeland forPalestinian refuges.On May 1, 2000, the International Engineering Education Digest (the Digest) was born

Conference Session

Innovations in Teaching Mechanics

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Hall; Nancy Hubing; Vikas Yellamraju; Ralph Flori; Timothy Philpot

].In order to address these instructional challenges, a group at the University of Missouri – Rollahas developed a series of multimedia modules, as part of a large scale multi-year project tointroduce media-enhanced active learning into foundational classes in engineering [2-6]. Researchthus far has indicated that these modules can be used to enhance instruction in a number of ways.They can be effective as an adjunct to class in the form of homework [7], or even as a substitute Page 9.237.1 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition

Conference Session

Teaching with Technologies

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Linda Orth Wright; David Robinson; Carol Mullenax

. Automated email notifications inform all involvedpersonnel of changes in participant enrollment or event cancellation.The website was designed on a development-production server setup using MacromediaDreamweaver and ColdFusion technology, accessing a SQLserver database. The database wascreated with scalability in mind for use in upcoming semesters/years. With slight modifications,the website could certainly accommodate disciplines/departments outside of the School ofEngineering.The entire web-based, database accessible project was created from the ground up within threemonths with two full-time designer/programmers. A third programmer was brought in to assistwith the final-stage alterations and enhancements. The main lesson learned from this

Conference Session

Innovative Classroom Techniques

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Nihat Gurmen; H. Scott Fogler

documented resourcefor those students from other disciplines searching the web for information, as was thecobra module. Because the topics are modularized, the instructors can pick and choosethe ones they want to include in any particular termAcknowledgements The funding of this project is provided by NSF under the grant DUE-0126497.We would like to thank our collaborators Prof. Will Medlin, Siris Laursen, Dr. DucNguyen, Anna Gordon and Michael Breson.References1. Dutton, J., Dutton, M. and Perry, J. Do on-line students perform as well as lecture students. Journal of Engineering Education 90, 131-136 (2001).2. Edwards, C. and Fritz, J. H. Evaluation of three on-line delivery approaches. Paper presented at the 1997 Mid-South

Conference Session

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Louis Godbout; Hisham Alnajjar

combinations; Kirchhoff’s laws;voltage and current dividers; nodal, mesh, and loop analysis; Thevenin’s and Norton’s theorems;superposition; and first-order RL and RC circuits. This paper will explain this project and itsusefulness in teaching Introductory Circuits for non-majors. Of course, the animation files arealso extremely useful for the education of Electrical Engineering majors as well.Introduction and DiscussionAs stated earlier, teaching circuit theory to non-electrical students can be very challenging. Agood percentage of these students think that a passing grade is all they need because the subject isoutside their discipline. Many are also “turned-off” to Electrical Circuits because they feel thematerial is too abstract, thus making the

Conference Session

Graduate Education

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Shahram Varzavand; John Fecik; Recayi Pecen; Teresa Hall

the university as well as the role in society . As President of Johns Hopkins University,Steven Muller stated that “We are . . . already in an environment for higher education that representsthe most drastic change since the founding of the . . . great universities some eight or nine centuriesago.” He went on to assert that the university will be serving new clientele, delivering instruction innew ways, and reexamining what and how it is taught. Nyquist et al, conducting the Re-envisioningthe Ph. D. Project noted that there were over 30 reports and calls for reform in graduate educationwhich not only echoed earlier reports but emphasized the exact same issues [11]. The issues, whichhave been repeated, were: effective mentoring, economic

Conference Session

Global Engineering in an Interconnected World

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Eck Doerry

Page 8.1142.5initially registers for fall courses at NAU, which begin in late August. In mid-October, when the Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2003, American Society for Engineering EducationGerman falls semester starts, she participates via groupware technology, communicating with herdesign team members in Dresden, and submitting her contributions electronically. OverChristmas, she then flies to Dresden to participate in her team project in-person during thecritical second half of the term, when the design effort becomes more focused and intensive. Toavoid missing a critical core class for her NAU degree offered in the spring semester