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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Elliot Douglas, University of Florida

standardintroductory materials curriculum (diffusion, strengthening mechanisms, eutectic phasediagrams, etc.). Rather, its goal is to teach engineering applications of fundamental chemistryconcepts. This course consists of four basic units: atomic, molecular and supermolecularstructures; synthesis and processing; stability of materials; and biological materials. Each ofthese units consists of topics designed to show how fundamental concepts in chemistry can beapplied to engineering problems. For example, liquid crystal display technology is used to teachthe concept of molecular shape. The course also contains a laboratory section. This paper willdescribe the detailed contents of the course and its relation to the engineering curriculum.1. IntroductionThere is

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Danny Bee

Session 1533 Back to the Future Manufacturing Engineering at Stout Danny J. Bee University of Wisconsin-StoutAbstractManufacturing engineering education at the University of Wisconsin-Stout has gone back to thefuture. Today’s undergraduate manufacturing engineering program utilizes laboratory- andindustrial project-based instruction throughout the professional component of the curriculum.The century old Stout tradition of hands-on, minds-on instruction emphasizes engineering andindustrial applications balanced with a strong basis of engineering sciences. In

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1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Douglas H. Baxter

-engineering course in 1991, there were two major goals. The first was to teach thefundamentals of engineering graphics using solid modeling as opposed to a user course inthe specific solid modeling software. The second goal as to provide the students with anopportunity to use solid modeling as an engineering tool for conceptual design, detaileddesign and engineering analysis.This paper will present the development of Rensselaer’s course, Engineering Design andComputer Aided Design (EG&CAD). The development of the course from a lecture withlaboratory using CADAM to a full laboratory course using Pro/ENGINEER will bepresented. Pro/ENGINEER training files were written to allow students to have on-linedemonstrations of the lecture material. The

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1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Daniel Walsh; David Gibbs; Alan Demmons

modern technology, both established and growing. The central theme of the course ismaterials, a natural link between science and engineering, between engineering disciplines and between student’slives and their classroom experiences. This course is the initial exposure which provides students with thebackground to select subsequent course sequences offered by the participating colleges. A key theme of the courseis its hands-on nature, its learn by doing approach, a central character of Cal Poly’s technical education. Coursemodules are self-contained one hour lecture / three hour laboratory experiences. They do not require preparation bythe active learner prior to the lecture or laboratory or any post activity. The program endeavors to provide

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1999 Annual Conference

Authors

E. H. Shaban

Session 2460 Electrical Engineering Education In Under Developed And Developing Countries E. H. Shaban Electrical Department, Southern University Baton Rouge, LA 70813 Email: eshaban@cluster.engr.subr.eduAbstract:Transfer of Technology in the classroom and/or the laboratory for engineering education inunderdeveloped and developing countries lags far behind developed and industrial countries.Personal computers, interactive multi user mainframe computers, engineering software forsimulation purposes

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1999 Annual Conference

Authors

J. W. Pierre; Robert F. Kubichek; Jerry Hamann

hand will most likely not learn very effectively or work very hard unlessthey see the application. Laboratories are an excellent way of having students do activeexperimentation, but unless the laboratory exercises are well written, the application may still behidden from the student. Many signal processing courses are complimented by a laboratory anda number of excellent signal processing laboratory books1,2,4,5,7,8 have been written. Yet notall DSP courses have a laboratory, and there is little discussion in the literature of homeworkexercises that reinforce active experimentation and concrete experience.Here we propose a number of audio signal homework exercises for signal processing whichinvolve active experimentation and concrete

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1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Winston F. Erevelles

Session 2263 Experiences in Integrative Research and Education Projects with Undergraduate Engineers Winston Erevelles Kettering UniversityIntroductionAcademic careers offer engineering faculty an array of activities that they are expected toparticipate in - these include teaching, research and publications, laboratory development,student advisement, accreditation documentation, committee work, and service to professionalorganizations, to mention a few areas of involvement. Time constraints, the diversity in the setof responsibilities, and

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1999 Annual Conference

Authors

J. Bredeson; M. E. Parten

, inductance and impedance À 3 hours Differential equations and electric circuits À 2 hours Transient response À 2 hours Steady state response À 2 hours AC circuit analysis À 9 hours AC power À 3 hours Transformers and three phase À 3 hours Tests and reviews À 4 hours Professional Component: This course prepares students with the basic skills of circuit analysis. This course includes engineering topics. Relationship of course to program objectives: This course addresses program objective A.One of the unique features of the Electrical Engineering Department at Texas Tech is thelaboratory structure.2-6 There are five 3-hour credit project laboratory courses not directlyassociated with any

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1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Enno 'Ed' Koehn

with a score below 15% in the high category. These include: probability andstatistics, general chemistry, structural materials laboratory, and procurement of work. Thisindicates that additional attention and departmental/university resources may be necessary inthese areas. However, approximately 40% of the undergraduates responding to the survey arerequired to enroll in at least one additional semester to complete their degree requirements. Thisincludes taking construction management and senior systems design. It is not unreasonable,therefore, to assume that many undergraduate students have not been exposed to the concept ofprocurement of work at a high level of intensity. Therefore, the ratings most likely reflect theincomplete background of

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1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Daniel M. Chen

to acquire the CAE skills , because a CAE software can provide very accurateresults without dealing with in-depth theories and complex mathematical calculations. Manystudents in engineering technology have already had the experience in this area. They havestarted taken the courses which incorporate CAE software. The purpose of this study is to assesstheir learning outcomes via the evaluation of classroom and laboratory performance.At Central Michigan University, the CAE course was originally developed eight years ago formechanical engineering technology majors. Nevertheless, more students in both industrialtechnology and computer-integrated manufacturing (CIM) today want to take this course even itis not required for their majors. Most of

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1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Arthur M. Clausing

course to be a quality experience and accomplish many of our objectives, weconcluded that a small class size was an absolute necessity. Thus, we have limited the size of thesections of our “Discovery Seminar” to 20 students and have taught nine sections of our courseeach of the past four fall semesters. Each of these nine sections is taught jointly by a facultymember and an outstanding senior—the Learning Assistant (LA). This arrangement ensures thateach incoming freshman learns to know well an M&IE faculty member, one of our outstandingseniors, and several of their classmates during their very first semester on campus.The course consists of two one-hour lectures, nine two-hour laboratory periods, and a one-hour

Conference Session

Best of Computers in Education Division

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nathaniel Bird, Ohio Northern University

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education

the weekly directed laboratory assignments as well as the quarter-long project.As part of the course, students were required to purchase their own Arduino board and afew other parts. This is a departure from the way this course has been run in the past inour department, where the school maintained a set of microcontrollers that were onlyavailable during the laboratory sessions. However, due to the desire to incorporate aquarter-long project and potentially longer laboratory assignments, restricting the use ofthe Arduino boards to laboratory sessions was not feasible, so students were required topurchase their own boards. Costs were kept in line with previous iterations of the courseby requiring a much cheaper textbook, however.The following

Conference Session

Computers in Education General Technical Session II

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Willie K. Ofosu, Pennsylvania State University, Wilkes-Barre Campus

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education

by providing the students with realizable concept ofelectromagnetic radiations. The versatility of the computer enables different types of antennameasurements to be made, and various parameters to be determined. This paper discusses theusefulness of computers in antennas laboratory exercises in a Telecommunications course. Italso discusses student design experiments, and experiments planned for the next step of thelearning experience.IntroductionExplosion of information transmission in the information age is evidenced by the dependenceon information in all spheres of life. In its electrical form, information may be in the form ofvoice, video, or data and transmissions of these require different ranges in the frequencyspectrum. As a result of

Conference Session

First-year Programs Division Poster Session

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Byron L. Newberry, Oklahoma Christian University of Science and Arts; Richard Miller, Oklahoma Christian University of Science and Arts; Robert Andrew Stevenson, Oklahoma Christian University

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

enrollment, in the fall of 2009 Oklahoma Christian Universityadopted aspects of the Wright State University model1 for mathematics education by introducingan introductory ENGR-1113 Foundations of Engineering Mathematics course as a prerequisitefor first-level calculus enrollment. This course consists of both lecture and laboratory periodswhich are designed to strengthen basic algebra and trigonometry skills while also introducingstudents to foundational elements in calculus, differential equations and other higher-levelmathematics.The early part of the course is designed to cover trigonometric and algebraic fundamentals inorder that students may review these basics necessary for upper-level mathematics andengineering courses. The later-half of the

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1999 Annual Conference

Authors

F. Andrew Wolfe; Christine M. LaPlante

stretched between twoboxes filled with soil. The students first used sand as the fill material in the boxes. The sand Figure 1. Laboratory One Set-Up Page 4.109.3 Figure 2. Laboratory Two Set-Uphad a low resistance to pull out of the geosynthetic. Next the students used a silty - claymaterial to anchor the geosynthetic. They packed the material above and below thegeosynthetic. This setup supported the seventy pound weight. The geosynthetic was thenloaded to pullout. It was possible to see the slip plane on the soil which gave the students abetter understanding of how the geosynthetics worked

Conference Session

Contemporary Issues in Chemical Engineering Education

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jason Keith, Michigan Technological University; Daniel Crowl, Michigan Technological University; David Caspary, Michigan Technological University; Jeffrey Allen, Michigan Technological University; Jeff Naber, Michigan Technological University; Dennis Meng, Michigan Technological University; Abhijit Mukherjee, Michigan Technological University; John Lukowski, Michigan Technological University; Jay Meldrum, Michigan Technological University; Barry Solomon, Michigan Technological University

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

AC 2010-747: INTERDISCIPLINARY MINOR IN HYDROGEN TECHNOLOGY ATMICHIGAN TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITYJason Keith, Michigan Technological University Jason Keith is an Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering at Michigan Technological University.Daniel Crowl, Michigan Technological University Dan Crowl is the Herbert H. Dow Professor of Chemical Engineering at Michigan Technological University.David Caspary, Michigan Technological University Dave Caspary is the Manager of Laboratory Facilities in the Department of Chemical Engineering at Michigan Technological University.Jeffrey Allen, Michigan Technological University Jeff Allen is an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at

Conference Session

Impact of the Gulf Coast Oil Spill on Chemical Engineering Education & Misc.

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Daniel Knight, University of Colorado, Boulder; Frances C. Ray-Earle, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado Center for Biorefining & Biofuels (C2B2); Nancy S. Tway, University of Colorado

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

practices in engineering education. His current duties in- clude assessment, evaluation and research for the ITL Program’s and BOLD Center’s hands-on initiatives.Frances C. Ray-Earle, Colorado Center for Biorefining & Biofuels (C2B2), University of Colorado at Boulder FRANCES C. RAY-EARLE is the center coordinator for the Colorado Center for Biorefining and Biofuels (C2B2), a collaborative research and education center of the University of Colorado at Boulder, Colorado State University, Colorado School of Mines and the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable En- ergy Laboratory. She holds a B.A. in Spanish and Interdisciplinary Humanities from the University of San Diego and is an MBA candidate at the University

Conference Session

Electrical and Computer Engineering Poster

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

William Dillard

department. Having no room in the curriculum for a formal laboratory, the centraltheme is to combine theory, simulation and hardware within the existing classroom/study timeallotments. Teams of 5 or 6 students construct experiments “at home” and submit their circuitsas homework for grading. PSPICE simulations are used to support both the lecture material andthe hardware experience. Additional reading materials and tutorials have been created for betterutilization of both in-class lecture and out-of-class study time. Lecture style has been modifiedto incorporate class time for introduction to hardware and digital simulation with PSPICEwithout sacrificing course content. This approach has proven to be an effective tool inintroducing students to

Conference Session

Internet Programming and Applications

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Paul Lin; Aik Mon; Harold Broberg

lab is also described.I. IntroductionMany on-line software development systems such as WebCT, Blackboard, etc., are used bydistance education instructors to develop and deploy non-technical courses. These softwaresystems normally integrate such desired functions as design of presentation of the course,educational tools to facilitate learning, communication and collaboration page design, andadministrative tools to assist the process of management and continuing improvement of thecourse. However, technological realities and lab hardware requirements/constraints of thesesoftware systems present challenges to educators who want to develop online technicalcourses in the fields of engineering or engineering technology with laboratory

Conference Session

Interdisciplinary Approach to Env. Engrg

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Daniel Oerther

anational challenge. At the University of Cincinnati, the author has begun to address thischallenge by developing a new course entitled, “Molecular Methods in EnvironmentalEngineering.” The objective of the course is to teach students to adapt techniques from molecularbiology to address important issues in environmental engineering. A hands-on laboratory formatencourages students to develop scientific questions, learn appropriate methodology, conductcareful experimentation, analyze data, and draw conclusions worthy of presentation to peers.Although the initial offering of this course to well prepared graduate students was considered asuccess, future offerings must continue to address the daunting challenge of providing asupportive, yet independent

Conference Session

CE Projects: International Perspective

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Alberto Gomez-Rivas; George Pincus

responsibility for creation and design of structures4.Construction surveying is perhaps the best example of an application of modern technology inthe Structural Analysis Design program. With sponsorship of industry, students are exposedevery summer to the latest technologies in total stations, global positioning systems (GPS), andglobal information systems (GIS). GPS and GIS have revolutionized surveying, because of theability to determine a position with high precision and obtain its corresponding information5.Hands-on laboratory testing on a variety of structures is conducted in the laboratory (located inthe same room as the classroom). Figures 2 through 4 show students at work in the laboratory.Figure 2 - Structural Analysis and Design students

Conference Session

Computer Hardware

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mark A. Hopkins, Rochester Institute of Technology (KGCOE); Alexander Michael Kibbe, Rochester Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education

Education, 2014 Open-source hardware in controls education Abstract — In teaching undergraduate automatic controls, the laboratory experience is animportant and irreplaceable component. Historically, good platforms for a controls laboratoryhave been expensive, because the equipment has typically been very specialized for educationalpurposes. Moreover, the equipment often is not physically robust in the face of studentmanhandling, creating major difficulties and costs in maintaining such a lab. The advent ofinexpensive open-source controller hardware is revolutionizing this situation because it is nowpossible to have good controls-hardware capability at relatively low cost. The Arduino Mega2560, in particular, is supported by

Conference Session

Engineering Physics and Physics Division Technical Session

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Patrick Carzon, Franciscan University of Steubenville; Megan Elizabeth Mericle; Jessica Raley, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; Julie L Zilles, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Physics and Physics Division (EP2D)

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. We examined course materials to identify where writing is explicitly or implicitly referenced, the genres that were assigned, and writing concepts that were represented. Analyzing course materials allowed us to identify a wide range of activities and assignments related to writing. We observed that implicit references to writing are prevalent, writing activities are weighted toward upper-level classes, and the most common genres are related to laboratory activities. Writing concepts that occurred frequently in upper-level laboratory courses correspond to disciplinary values of precision and clarity, while concepts of novelty and evidence were infrequent. This

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2013 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

Eniko T. Enikov; Jesus Acosta Iriqui

majors at the University ofArizona. The project illustrates the entire control systems design cycle from systemidentification, through analysis and design of dynamic compensators in classical (transferfunction based) and modern (state space based) control theory. Advanced topics such as systemidentification tool box of Matlab, design and testing of an observer/controller pair is alsoillustrated in an intuitive way suitable for undergraduate students. A summary of the mainlearning gains is also presented.The workshop will conclude with a question and answer session as well as individualizedexperimentation with the portable hardware.IntroductionHands-on laboratories are an essential part of the engineering curriculum since its inception.Their

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2008 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Peter LoPresti; Theodore W. Manikas; Jeff Kohlbeck

teach about the engineering profession and the field of electricalengineering. Activities included laboratories in electrical circuits, designing an electric car,soldering, a field trip, and discussion about ethics. Students worked in two and four-personteams, and made presentations on their experiences.The academy was evaluated using formal assessment instruments and faculty observations. Eachof the individual activities attained an overall rating of at least 4 on a scale of 1 to 5, with mostactivities rated at 4.5 or greater. A formal evaluation of the entire academy revealed ratings of4.5 or greater out of 5 on most aspects of the academy, though some areas indicated a need forimprovement, such as clarity of written materials and the

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2008 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Joseph Robert Yost; Randy D. Weinstein

Engineering (ChE), Civil and EnvironmentalEngineering (CEE), Electrical and Computer Science Engineering (ECE) and MechanicalEngineering (ME). During the semester faculty from each department deliver two 50 minutelectures and one three hour laboratory. This format is designed to provide a generalunderstanding of each engineering discipline, so that freshman can make an informed decisionwhen selecting their engineering major in the spring. Time spent with each of the fourengineering departments is then unified through an end of the-semester engineering competition.The competition is designed to foster teamwork in a multi-disciplinary open-ended problemsolving environment, where students work in groups designing an electrochemically poweredvehicle to

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2008 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

Joseph Robert Yost; Randy D. Weinstein

Engineering (ChE), Civil and EnvironmentalEngineering (CEE), Electrical and Computer Science Engineering (ECE) and MechanicalEngineering (ME). During the semester faculty from each department deliver two 50 minutelectures and one three hour laboratory. This format is designed to provide a generalunderstanding of each engineering discipline, so that freshman can make an informed decisionwhen selecting their engineering major in the spring. Time spent with each of the fourengineering departments is then unified through an end of the-semester engineering competition.The competition is designed to foster teamwork in a multi-disciplinary open-ended problemsolving environment, where students work in groups designing an electrochemically poweredvehicle to

Conference Session

Professional Papers

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2025 ASEE Southeast Conference

Authors

Priscilla J Hill, Mississippi State University; Bill B Elmore, Mississippi State University

Tagged Topics

Diversity, Professional Papers

questions. Therefore, it is desiredto use a low cost open educational resource (OER) that can be adapted to the needs of eachcourse. One such OER is MyOpenMath, a mathematics based online tool that integrates intocommon learning management systems and is free for both faculty and students. In this paperwe discuss how this tool is currently implemented in a senior capstone design course and a unitoperations laboratory in chemical engineering. This presentation includes characteristics ofMyOpenMath, benefits for instructors, available instructor training, and benefits over usingcurrent quizzes in the Canvas LMS. Not limited to chemical engineering courses, MyOpenMathis applicable to any equation based course. This paper focuses on the faculty

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2023 IL-IN Section Conference

Authors

Julie Mendez

-determined “bundles” of assignments [18].The last several years have seen an increase in the use of specifications grading in highereducation courses in STEM, including examples in chemistry [19], biology [20], physics [21],mathematics [22], first-year engineering [23], [24], engineering computer applications [25],engineering mechanics [26], thermodynamics [27], fluid mechanics [28], biomedical engineeringstatistics [24], a chemical engineering laboratory [29], a biomedical engineering elective course[30], and capstone design [24].This paper will describe the implementation of specifications grading in two offerings of anundergraduate fluid mechanics course, one with lecture and laboratory components and a lecture-only course the following year

Conference Session

Engineering Technology Division (ETD) Technical Session 7

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Israa Azzam, Purdue University ; Farid Breidi, Purdue University at West Lafayette (PPI); Peter Soudah

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology Division (ETD)

technologies being created and added to our everyday lives despite theongoing mere theoretical and abstract exposure of these advancements to students [3]. Suchtechnological advances can add more expenses to educational institutions that strive to integratejob market applications in a pedagogical setting to expose students to real-world applications.Many educational institutions have been developing new styles and instruction tools that could bereadily integrated into undergraduate engineering laboratories [4]. The role of the laboratory inengineering is to teach students how to extract data for a specific design, analyze a new device,and discover a new piece of information to their knowledge of the world [5]. Capstone projectsare one of the well