Conference Session

Curriculum in Mechanical Engineering Technology: Part I

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cheng Lin, Old Dominion University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

operation, the air caneven be supplied by a bellow foot-air pump through a foot pedal, which can also be acted as thesingle actuating button. When an operator hits the foot pedal, the cover will be opened andremain in the opening position until the food pedal is hit the second time. The operation can berepeated.IntroductionThe course of Automation and Controls offered in the Mechanical Engineering TechnologyProgram of the Department of Engineering Technology at Old Dominion University has theobjective of teaching students: (1) Pneumatic components and pneumatic circuit designs. (2) Feedbacks from electrical sensors and related ladder diagrams. (3) Introduction to Programmable Logical Controllers (PLC) and PLC1,2 programs. (4) Integration of

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Electr-Mech ET

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Powers; Mary Fran Desrochers

controlprimarily because it allows us to focus on sensors and controls, not on the mechanics ofprogramming. It is also well accepted in industry and has led to job offers for our students.LabVIEW™’s integrated data acquisition and control environment includes excellent informationpresentation capabilities. This allows students to easily see what’s actually happening with anacquired signal and how applying various signal analysis tools affect it. This permits very rapidhands-on testing of signal processing routines to, for example, best reduce the effects ofelectrical noise on a desired signal.Why teach LabVIEW™ ?1,2,3 • It is fun for both the students and the faculty • It is an industry accepted standard that can translate into job offers • The

Conference Session

Innovations in Computer Engineering Technology Curriculum

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Xuemin Chen, Texas Southern University; David Olowokere, University of Alabama at Birmingham; Graham Thomas, Texas Southern University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

programming concept of Java. Therefore, it will be difficult for students to takeadvantage of object-oriented programming concepts. In this paper, an objects first Java teachingmethod with BlueJ, a simplified and virtualized development environment, is presented. A post-course assessment is conducted. The interpretation of the assessment results is also discussed.IntroductionJava was created by James Gosling at Sun Microsystems1. It combines object-oriented (OO)features such as data abstraction, inheritance, and dynamic binding with procedural features suchas variables, assignment, and control structures. The result is a powerful but complex languagethat is difficult for beginning programmer to master.The Java programming language has become

Conference Session

Communication in the Chemical Engineering Curriculum

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kenneth P. Mineart, North Carolina State University; Matthew Cooper, North Carolina State University

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

is the recipient of the 2014 NCSU Outstanding Teacher Award, 2014 ASEE Southeastern Section Outstanding New Teacher Award, and currently serves as the ASEE Chemical Engineering Division’s newsletter editor. Dr. Cooper’s research interests include effective teaching, conceptual and inductive learning, integrating writing and speaking into the curriculum and professional ethics. Page 26.927.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 Improving Technical Communication in the Chemical Engineering Classroom via Student-Based FeedbackAbstractOne area

Conference Session

Innovations in Computer Engineering Technology Curriculum

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Veeramuthu Rajaravivarma, SUNY-Farmingdale

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

be integrated into any Networking or Telecommunications courses. The firstpart of the paper will introduce the ideas and business models behind Joost. It will discuss whatmakes Joost different and its advantages and potential disadvantages over its rival technologies.Then it will address the new P2P network technologies discussed in the class used by Joost andother important technologies implemented like H.264 for encoding and decoding and X.509 forencryption. The second part of this paper will focus on classroom experiment of the peer-to-peernetwork technology as a TV. As a result, students (1) will learn how to install and setup Joostapplication as a TV; (2) will observe bandwidth requirements, type of protocols used and thequality of the

Conference Session

Aerospace Division Technical Session: Pedagogy and Curriculum

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Waterloo Tsutsui, Purdue University at West Lafayette (COE); Kenneth Park; Christopher Sculley, Purdue University at West Lafayette (COE); Ian Copenhaver, Purdue University at West Lafayette (COE); Marcial Gonzalez; Wayne Chen; George Takahashi; Michael Sangid

Structures Education via Virtual LabsAbstractWe implemented virtual labs enabling the opportunity for visualizing 1) deformation and 2)stress in an undergraduate aerospace structures course to enhance students’ understanding of themechanic concepts. For 1) deformation, the virtual labs provide the visualization of the overallview of an aircraft, followed by the deformation of specific aircraft components (e.g., wingcomponents) under particular types of loading (e.g., bending moment, torsion, and transverseshear). We used the deformation visualization before the user-interactive portion of the virtuallabs to provide students an in-depth understanding of the virtual and hands-on lab activities fromthe viewpoint of component deformation. For 2) stress

Conference Session

Course and Curriculum Innovations in ECE

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Tyson Hall; David Anderson

freq response function is shown in Fig. 8. For this example, thediscrete frequency response will be sampled at 100 Hz intervals over the valid frequencyrange with an 8 KHz sampling frequency. 30 ms of data will be measured for each samplefrequency, and as in the previous examples, 17 bits of resolution is selected by using a scalingfactor of 65535. The output of this function is plotted in Fig. 4b along with the theoreticalfrequency response generated in Matlab.4.2 FPGA InterfaceOn the FPGA side, five drop–in VHDL modules provide the complete interface to the USBport and the Matlab toolbox described in the previous section. As shown in Fig. 8, thelow–level USB module communicates directly with the Philips PDIUSBD12 integrated chip,which

Conference Session

Communication in the Chemical Engineering Curriculum

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Elif Miskioglu, The Ohio State University

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

enhance their curriculum. Students are asked to prepare a 30 second pitch of their proposal, which they present in a mock poster session to reviewers (graduate students). o Pitch / Proposal (Individual)—this final presentation of the course goes hand-in- hand with the proposal assignment described further (below). Students are asked to present their proposal to a defined set of reviewers, as applicable to the topic, using the medium they deem most appropriate. Evaluation is on building a convincing argument, choice and development of appropriate media, and presentation skills. • Critical Reading and Research Summary—similar to an

Conference Session

Curriculum in Mechanical and Power Engineering Technology

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alex Fang, Texas A&M University; Wei Zhan, Texas A&M University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

densities (darkness). Figure 14 shows a CR image of a high pressure steam pipe used in nuclear power plants. It can be seen that the pipe was wrapped with a thick layer of thermal insulation material which is typical for steam pipes. The main goal for this pipe CR inspection is to monitor and detect the flow-accelerated corrosion on the pipe walls. Flow-accelerated corrosion has been a major engineering and maintenance issue for the nuclear power plant which can be effectively detected with CR without the need to remove the insulation.≠ With today’s amazingly powerful image processing software as an integral part of the CR system, CR users can easily change the image density, enhance the contrast, zoom a selected region

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Computer Engineering Technology

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Dwight Egbert; Dave Williams

likelihood of theirsuccess in a conventional programming class in a future semester. Equally significant, the coursemaintains student participation in the technical curriculum and will therefore be likely toimprove student retention. Other students seeking Matlab instruction, additional problem-solvingdevelopment, or an introduction to elementary game programming are also invited to enroll. Thecourse has also been accepted as a technical elective for non-engineering majors but is notapplicable toward the college’s Engineering Technology or Engineering Science degrees.The structure, curriculum, and class project used in the initial offering of the course are presentedin this paper. The real centerpiece of the course was a collaborative class project

Conference Session

Innovative Curriculum in E/M ET

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Jerry Samples

, energize, model, objectives and problem-solvingto mention a few. These words encourage teachers to be leaders and leaders have power.Teachers have power of position but not all teachers are leaders. So what do teachers need to doto harness the power to be leaders? Should they harness that power?Students want their teachers to be of good character, competent in their role as a teacher andconnected to them as students, all traits of a leader 3. Another set of words, provided by thestudents, that characterize this leadership match some of the words in the Stice piece: honest,compassionate, enthusiastic, prepared, competent and integrity to mention a few. This overlap isa result of the fact that leadership is influence 4 and teachers spend their

Conference Session

Curriculum: Ideas/Concepts in Engineering Education

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Kofi Nyamekye; Yildirim Omurtag

loop, as a generic approach to reflect the fact that when the societal need changes thePh.D. program in engineering must adapt to it. An example of a newly established, innovativePh.D. program in Engineering at Robert Morris University (RMU) in Pennsylvania that attemptsto address some of these issues has been illustrated.1.0 IntroductionIn recent years, the U.S. has lost its manufacturing base to the emerging countries, such as Chinaand other Asian-Pacific countries. For example, China has now become the “factory floorcapital of the world.” The economic consequence of the loss of our manufacturing base isenormous. Today, U.S. engineering graduates must not only compete for the fewer engineeringjobs in the U.S., but they must also compete

Conference Session

Project-Based Education in Energy Curriculum

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sanjay Jayaram, Saint Louis University, Parks College of Engineering; Sridhar S. Condoor, Saint Louis University, Parks College of Engineering

Tagged Divisions

Energy Conversion and Conservation

the development of clean and renewable energy to the forefront of futuretechnological endeavors. This has ignited considerable interests in education and research onrenewable energy methods and renewable energy systems projects. As such, there is anunprecedented priority for educating and training a technologically solid workforce with anenergy focus. Senior design examples are discussed to show our experiences of incorporatingRenewable Energy projects in the senior design course. Introduction of renewable energyprojects into our curriculum has impacted students, faculty, and university community positivelyand promoted feasibility and adoption of more eco-friendly energy technologies.IntroductionEnergy literacy and renewable energy programs

Conference Session

Pedagogical Developments in BME

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Paul Denny, University of Auckland; Beth Simon, University of California, San Diego; Melissa Micou, University of California, San Diego

Tagged Divisions

Biomedical

, University of California, San Diego Melissa Micou is a Lecturer with the Potential for Security of Employment in the Department of Bioengineering at the University of California, San Diego. Her interests include identifying novel strategies to integrate teaching and research and enhancing the recruitment and retention of underrepresented populations in engineering. Dr. Micou is the program director of an NSF-sponsored Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) program in Regenerative Medicine, Multi-Scale Bioengineering, and Systems Biology. Page 15.540.1© American Society for Engineering

Conference Session

Global Issues in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Sadie Miller; Donna Riley

selecting a project in the Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineeringprevious section, as well as issues students may confront that have an ethical dimension. Ingeneral, we rely on the ethical training our students have received as part of the engineeringcurriculum30 and supply an additional reading specifically on engineering professionalismoverseas.31 Other course readings described above also ask many questions related toengineering ethics that are discussed and integrated into student writing assignments over thecourse of the semester.There is a

Conference Session

Curriculum Development and Assessment in Chemical Engineering

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Vincent Wilczynski, Yale University; Isabella M. Quagliato, Yale University: School of Engineering & Applied Science

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

and serve as a repository of submitted work, and aSchool-wide method to track the achievement of Student Outcomes using embedded assessmentsfrom all required courses within the curriculum. This systematic approach to preparing for anABET accreditation visit has improved the program's ability to address issues and manage theassessment process.IntroductionThe preparation of the ABET Self Study can be a daunting periodic process. The coordination ofall activities related to accreditation often falls to a single faculty member who not only mustbecome an expert at all aspects of accreditation, but also must instruct fellow faculty members oftheir roles and responsibilities in the accreditation preparation process. It is proposed, anddemonstrated

Conference Session

Reaching Students: Innovations to Curriculum in ET

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

C. Richard Helps, Brigham Young University; Mark Patterson, University of Dayton

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

instructional course design that provides the ability to adapt tochanging technologies and incorporate current research into the curriculum. Learning can beimproved and redesign costs minimized if there is a clear understanding of the relationship of thetechnical content to the overall instructional design. The instructional design presented here isconceived in terms of interacting layers analogous to Stewart Brand's architectural layers.Updating courses then becomes a process of changing the technical content layer while leavingmost of the teaching material, organizational structure and learning objectives unaffected. Thisparadigm not only reduces the costs of updating courses but provides for a better collaborativestudent learning environment. Some

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Electr-Mech ET

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Wm Evans

Engineering Education Annual Conference &Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering EducationSecond Course Description:The second course is more involved with integration of products than with programming.While the course is not intended to prepare the student for every aspect of life after theclassroom, it is intended to build an attitude that the very difficult systems can be brokendown into more manageable parts and then solved. The second course assumes a basicprogramming background of the instruction set learned in the first course.This course tends to be more intense. It involves the process of product integration.Students are being prepared for the interview process and later success with a first

Conference Session

Course and Curriculum Innovations in ECE

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Andrew Rusek; Barbara Oakley

the many circuit simulation packages in common usetoday, and for good reason–it has a free demo version capable of handling fairly complexcircuitry, it provides good connection with circuit level software, and it offers a fast learningcurve. Even so, there are many competitors: Matlab/Simulab, ViSsim, and Elanix among them.None of these offer substantive demonstration models, and an additional problem is that one mustoften know more about the inner workings of the simulation than about the processes beinginvestigated. PSpice offers flexibility in Fourier analysis through automatic scaling, along with thepossibility of easy customization. As a consequence, PSpice provides unbeatable advantages inmodeling communication-related circuitry and

Conference Session

Curriculum Innovations in Architectural Engineering Education

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bekir Kelceoglu, Indiana University Purdue University, Indianapolis

Tagged Divisions

Architectural

Design program for Ivy Tech Community College Columbus between 2006 and 2009. His research interests are: temporary shelter systems for post-disaster relief, living and working in extremely small environments, human-product - environment interaction, product development and usability, and human-centered design. Page 22.446.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011DESIGNING STEM KIOSKS: AN EXPLORATORY STUDENT PROJECT TO TEACH ERGONOMICS AND HUMAN FACTORSAbstractThis paper explains how sophomore-level Interior Design students in a three-dimensional studioclass were involved in

Conference Session

Curriculum in Mechanical and Power Engineering Technology

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Brian Vuksanovich, Youngstown State University; James Higley, Purdue University, Calumet

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

, adapting to the change hascaused many programs to become increasingly aware of what similar programs are doing inother parts of the country or even other parts of the world. A part of all strategic planningincludes comparing oneself to one’s competitors. In the educational world, we are notnecessarily so concerned with competition but with improving and serving students. Hence,institutions frequently collaborate, so the term benchmarking is used for the initial comparisonbetween programs. This paper benchmarks two urban Mechanical Engineering Technologyprograms and compares their background, objectives and outcomes, curriculum, and laboratories.It is hoped that this benchmark will encourage other programs to perform similar comparisons inan effort

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Computer/Communications ET

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Chandra Sekhar; Jai Agrawal; Omer Farook

Session: 2247 Designing A Free-Space Optical/Wireless Link Jai P. Agrawal, Omer Farook and C.R. Sekhar Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Technology Purdue University CalumetAbstractThis paper presents the design of a very high-speed data link between two buildings in aUniversity campus that will operate at gigabit rates. The project uses a cutting edge technology ofeye-safe laser communication through free space. This is an all-optical design is future-proof inregards to technological advancement in the rate of data transmission and

Conference Session

Curriculum in Electrical Power Engineering Technology

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Shiyoung Lee, Pennsylvania State University, Berks

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

motor – are introduced. The characteristics of these motors and applicationmethods are emphasized in the classes and labs.Programming with an industrial control trainer (ICT) from Bytronic Inc. is the second exercise.The purpose of this exercise is to become familiar with various motion control components suchas the permanent magnet dc motor (PMDC) and linear and rotary solenoids3. The experiments Page 15.400.2with the proximity sensors, both capacitive and inductive types, and the photo sensors are alsoincluded in this laboratory exercise. The ICT lab provides numerous topics that students couldapply to real world problem solving. The topics

Conference Session

A Serving Profession: Service Learning in Civil Engineering Education

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Leslie Inniss, Florida A&M University; Enos Inniss, University of Texas-San Antonio

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

Page 11.294.2Just as with general service learning, service learning in engineering has been defined in severaldifferent ways: A form of experiential learning that integrates classroom concepts with related community service. An educational philosophy that promotes active learning through community service. An educational experience that enables students to apply material learned in the classroom by volunteering in a real-world situation. A pedagogical strategy that combines community service with classroom learning. A form of experiential education in which students meet the learning objectives of a course by working with a community partner. A pedagogy that integrates academic

Conference Session

Curriculum and Instruction in Engineering Mechanics

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Scott R. Hamilton P.E., York College of Pennsylvania; Jakob C. Bruhl, U.S. Military Academy; Joshua Richard Wyrick, York College of Pennsylvania

Tagged Divisions

Mechanics

areas and would benefit from some updating. Among the updates, theydesired to teach their first course (which combines statics and introductory mechanics topics) aspart of the broader design process. Further, they wanted to integrate the use of computerprograms to begin the education of their students on the effective use of programs (andunderstanding their limitations). Finally, they hoped to provide the inspirational time, space, andstructure necessary for students to apply their knowledge in a way that demonstrated a broaderunderstanding of course principles through creating or discovering their own solutions (ratherthan simply performing calculations demonstrated in class).During their presentation the authors of those papers extended an

Conference Session

Teaching Design in Manufacturing Curriculum II

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bahram Asiabanpour, Texas State University; Chandrashekar Subbareddy, Texas State University

Tagged Divisions

Manufacturing

/verification,manufacturability analysis, and the manufacturing design of the product. This course has beencontinuously updated to offer the latest tools, software, and teaching and evaluation techniques.Students are assigned to teams based on their learning style, technical and academic background,and schedule. Students must complete an industry-supported project. In this course, students areevaluated both individually through performance on homework, quizzes, and exams; and also asteam members on the basis of a design and prototype review, final report, presentation, peerevaluation, and comments by a panel of experts. Course assessment is based upon a variety ofsurveys and feedback mechanisms. This paper describes several of this year’s projects

Conference Session

Teaching Design in Manufacturing Curriculum I

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mysore Narayanan, Miami University; Ronald Earley, Miami University

Tagged Divisions

Manufacturing

results of assessment documentation and offer suggestions forcontinuous quality improvement.IntroductionTraditional methods of instruction may not be very resourceful in service learningcourses pertaining to engineering disciplines. Student learning styles are completelydifferent and instructors have to accommodate new and different learning strategies(Schmeck, 1988). The instructor responsible for Senior Design Capstone course ischarged with the responsibility of creating an active learning environment. Theinstructor may have to utilize some innovative modern technology to design developand present interactive lecture demonstrations (Sokoloff & Thornton, 1997). Hereinthe instructors should utilize Silberman’s guide. He offers several

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Katrina Donovan, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology; Jon Kellar, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology; Michael West, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology; Cassandra Birrenkott, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology; Stuart Kellogg, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology; Deborah Mitchell, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology; Matthew Whitehead, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology

toimplement far greater steps towards making creativity, innovation, collegiality, entrepreneurshipand critical thinking a given.We strive to understand what motivates students to pursue and succeed in an engineering degreeprogram and the role that an integrated STEAM curriculum can have in this process. The initialimpetus for this project was a campus visit by a prospective student who was blacksmithing andforging metal into functional and creative objects. The research presented is evidence-based andbuilds on prior NSF Course Curricular and Laboratory Improvement (CCLI) research that involvedhighly successful curricular and co-curricular programming associated with integration ofblacksmithing into the B.S. Metallurgical Engineering degree program

Conference Session

Program Delivery Methods & Technology

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Prathivadi Ravikumar

Session 2142 KEY ELEMENTS IN DEVELOPING AN ONLINE GRADUATE COURSE IN SYSTEMS ENGINEERING MANAGEMENT P. B. Ravikumar Professor, Mechanical & Industrial Engineering Department University of Wisconsin, Platteville, WIAbstractThe University of Wisconsin - Platteville offers a completely online Master of Engineeringprogram. The curriculum consists of core courses, technical emphasis courses, and electivecourses. The curriculum is enhanced consistently through improvements in existing courses andthe introduction of

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Civil Engineering Technology

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nirmal Das, Georgia Southern University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

. Page 13.1172.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2008 Teaching Reinforced Concrete Design with Mathcad ApplicationAbstractReinforced Concrete Design is typically offered as a senior-level required course in anundergraduate Civil Engineering or Civil Engineering Technology curriculum. The design ofvarious components of a building structure is performed based on the American ConcreteInstitute (ACI) Building Code 318. One of the major topics covered in the course is design ofbeams. The design involves myriad computations to account for several aspects of the design:from determining the required strengths of the beam, to selecting an adequate beam size and thenecessary amount of steel reinforcement, to checking for deflection and