Conference Session

New Trends in ECE Education I

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Fred Cady, (Retired) Montana State University; John McLellan, Freescale Semiconductor

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

hardware, software and courseware learning ecosystem that has beencreated to capture student attention and develop a broader skill set. Laboratory and in-classexercises use POGIL (Process Oriented Guided Inquiry Learning) – based laboratory modules toengage students in learning through exploration, critical thinking, and team and cooperativeparticipation exercises. Laboratory and in-class exercises are designed to teach the student howto explore a new technology to be able to learn more about it. In fact, learning how to learn is akey outcome. Laboratory hardware is designed to provide easy connection to real-world devicesand allow students to extend their explorations from classroom theory to the practical applicationof technology they are

Conference Session

Mechanical Engineering Division Technical Session 9

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Xiaobin Le P.E., Wentworth Institute of Technology; Richard L Roberts, Wentworth Institute of Technology; Anthony William Duva P.E., Wentworth Institute of Technology; Herb Connors

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

-4 (3 lecture hours-2 lab hour-4 credits)credits course which had 2 one-and-half-hour lectures and one two-hour laboratory per week.Main topics of the course were stress and strain calculations, failure theories resulting from staticloading, fatigue failure resulting from cyclic loading, and design of typical mechanicalcomponents. The textbook used for this course was Shrigley’s Engineering Design [1].According to the syllabus of this course, fatigue theory was covered in two-weeks out of the total14-week-semester. For this course, we had both lecture and laboratory, so we developed andimplemented an integrated active learning approach for teaching fatigue theory which includedfour different exposures to discuss and to explore fatigue theory

Conference Session

Engineering Education and Comparative Studies at Universities throughout Asia, Far East

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rajarajan Subramanian, Maryland State Highway Administration; Thavavigna Thanikachalam, University of Florida; Fazil T. Najafi, University of Florida

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International

AC 2012-4620: CIVIL ENGINEERING EDUCATION AT THE ANNA UNI-VERSITY, INDIA, AND AT THE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDADr. Rajarajan Subramanian, Maryland State Highway Administration Rajarajan Subramanian is currently working as a Transportation Engineer at Maryland State Highway Administration. He earned his Ph.D. and master’s degree in engineering from the Department of Civil & Costal Engineering, University of Florida. He has 20 years of experience with government, academia and industry. He was a Senior Lecturer at Annamalai University, India, teaching civil engineering for nine years. He also worked in Linton Institute of Technology as a Senior Lecturer in Ipoh, Malaysia, for three years. In Watertown, Mass., he

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1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Deran Hanesian; Angelo J. Perna

Session 2670 Chemical Engineering and Chemistry Experimentation as an Introduction to Engineering for K-12 Students Deran Hanesian, Angelo J. Perna New Jersey Institute of TechnologyAbstractThe New Jersey Institute of Technology sponsors a wide range of outreach programs gearedtoward K-12 students in order to expose and interest them in science and engineering as acareer. These programs have a chemical engineering and chemistry component which is alecture/laboratory format that is directed to experiential learning and communication skills.Depending on the educational level of the

Conference Session

Mechatronics

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Noah Salzman, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Peter H. Meckl, Purdue University School of Mechanical Engineering

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

undergraduate engineering programs.Dr. Peter H. Meckl, Purdue University School of Mechanical Engineering Peter H. Meckl is a Professor in the School of Mechanical Engineering, where he has served since 1988. Peter obtained his BSME from Northwestern University and MSME and Ph.D. degrees from MIT. His research interests are primarily in dynamics and control of machines, with emphasis on vibration reduc- tion, motion control, and engine diagnostics. His teaching responsibilities include courses in systems modeling, measurement systems, and control. In addition, he teaches a course entitled Technology and Values, which introduces students to the social and environmental impacts of technology through a series of readings and

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Alexander; Jay Porter; James Ochoa; Rainer Fink

. An important questionthat must be continuously addressed is: how do engineering technology faculty, who live in anenvironment of research expectation, combine their classroom and laboratory teaching interestswith research interests? This paper will discuss a process for bringing together what manyfaculty feel is a dichotomy between teaching and research. How engineering technology facultymight develop a rewarding career in both teaching and research will be outlined.I. IntroductionMany engineering technology faculty in the United States are employed at universities whereresearch is an integral part of the university’s mission. Faculty performance at those schools ismeasured in various combinations within the triad of teaching, research and

Conference Session

"Best" of BED

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Megan F. Campanile, Illinois Institute of Technology; Frederick Doe, illinois institute of technology; Elana Rose Jacobs, Illinois Institute of Technology; Norman G Lederman, Illinois Institute of Technology; Eric M Brey, Illinois Institute of Technology

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Biomedical

mentors related to Academic Programs andCareers and 100% reported influential experiences related to Teaching and Learning andBuilding Relationships. In exploring Academic Programs and Careers further, many of theexperiences were related directly to the undergraduates’ academic and career paths and exposureto graduate school and laboratory careers. In Teaching and Learning, REU students describedvarious methods and strategies (i.e., demonstration, questioning, and discussion) the graduatestudents used to teach them about their research project. In regards to Building Relationships, thegraduate students were described as mentors, collaborators, and supervisors. In summary, thisresearch provides insight into role of the graduate student mentors in

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2014 ASEE Zone 4 Conference

Authors

Baird Brueseke; Gordon Romney

tailored to their teaching methods. Proceedings of the 2014 American Society for Engineering Education Zone IV Conference Copyright © 2014, American Society for Engineering Education 89Now that this practice is become widespread, institutions need new methods to define and deployeasily laboratory configurations in a repeatable manner which is consistent with course learningobjectives. This need applies to courses taught in both brick and mortar classrooms as well asthe virtual classrooms populated by distance learners.The nation faces an ever growing number of cyber security threats from causal hackers

Conference Session

Electrical Energy Courses, Labs, and Projects II

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Herbert L. Hess, University of Idaho, Moscow; Brian Peterson, U.S. Air Force Academy; Susan Elmore, US Air Force Academy ; Al DUPE Mundy, United States Air Force Academy

Tagged Divisions

Energy Conversion and Conservation

concepts and methods and enthusiasm for learning.Equipment DevelopmentA search of relevant literature quickly reinforces the notion that equipment for this training isusually developed in-house. This is true of universities, community colleges, technical institutes,and even on-line training. Much of the equipment is large, highly realistic, and definitely notportable.Universities and community colleges have developed equipment to teach electrical code in arealistic fashion. At the Milwaukee School of Engineering, there is a laboratory with a nicerange of electrical panels for teaching distribution wiring. The laboratory focuses primarily onthe motor loads. Students get a strong experience in investigating existing installations and inbuilding

Conference Session

Creative Ways to Present Basic Materials

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

M.L. Meier

discussion session where the instructor, usuallya teaching assistant, helps prepare the students to do the experiment, the laboratory sessionwhere they all do the experiment, and finally a written formal report. These laboratory activitiesoffered many opportunities to employ spreadsheets in all phases of each experiment.In the past we (myself and eight teaching assistants) tried simply encouraging students to usespreadsheets by demonstrating how they can be used to organize and plot their data, by using anautomated (macros) spreadsheet to import and plot their data, by exporting data to a spreadsheet-friendly format, and by showing them how we personally had used spreadsheets in variousprojects. Each quarter a few students showed an interest and we

Conference Session

Software and Hardware for Educators I

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Warren Rosen, Drexel University; Eric Carr, Drexel University

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education

organization andarchitecture, programming models, and control theory.The lectures and laboratory exercises form a complete teaching module centered around amicrocontroller-based “smart” house. The students use a low-cost microcontroller to measurestatus and control functions such as temperature in the house. The house is essentially a foambox with electric heater, thermoelectric “air conditioner” and an attic vent fan. After anintroduction to basic microcontroller functionality and a small subset of the microcontroller’sinstruction set, the students learn to measure inside and outside temperatures and actuate thecooling and heating elements. They then program the microcontroller to implement aconventional hysteresis-based control system and measure

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2015 Northeast Section Meeting

Authors

David Willis; Jeremy Vaillant

Introduc-tion to Mechanical Engineering.3.0 The ‘ New’ I ntr oduction to M echanical Engineer ingThe new Introduction to Mechanical Engineering course is a 2-credit freshman year experiencecourse comprising 1-hour of lecture and 2-hours of laboratory contact per week. In the Fall 2014offering in mechanical engineering, a single lecture/meeting of ~160-165 students was held eachweek. There were also 9-assigned laboratory sections, each comprising 19 students or less. Thelecture component used clickers to assess attendance and gain real-time feedback from students.Homework is deployed using the Blackboard course management system. The Fall 2014 teach-ing team was comprised a pair of professors, 3 half-TAs (one responsible for CNC

Conference Session

Curriculum in Mechanical and Power Engineering Technology

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Wei Zhan, Texas A&M University; Ryan Beasley, Texas A&M University; Jay Porter, Texas A&M University; Joseph Morgan, Texas A&M University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

couple of issues that needed to be addressed. First,teaching AC before DC in ENTC 210 was confusing for the students since the textbook coversthe DC material first. Second, the review of circuit analysis techniques scheduled for thebeginning of the second course took much longer than anticipated since there was a substantialamount of material to review. Student feedback also indicated a need for more problem solvingexamples and experience before they were ready to apply the circuit analysis techniques taughtin the first course to the more complex topics introduced in the follow-on course. Third, thearrangement for laboratories became an issue: the students did the DC experiments, but did notfinish all of the AC experiments in the first course

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1996 Annual Conference

Authors

Winston F. Erevelles

Session 3263 Experiential Learning in Computer Integrated Manufacturing Through Team Projects Winston F. Erevelles GMI Engineering& Management InstituteAbstract The paper describes projects undertaken by student teams in a senior level course in ComputerIntegrated Manufacturing. Students generate concepts for a product, synthesize this concept into multipledesign alternatives, select the most feasible design based on manufacturability and assemblabilityconsiderations, manufacture the product on CNC machines in the CIM Laboratory, develop solutions

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Rafic Bachnak

organization of industrial facilities. Another goal is to familiarize students withthe responsibilities of technicians, technologists, and engineers working in various technicalpositions. Delivery of the course involved three mechanisms: lectures, laboratory lessons, andfield trips. This paper describes how lectures, laboratory lessons, and field trips contributed toaccomplishing the course objectives. The paper also presents the results of a survey wherestudents showed satisfaction with their learning experiences but made some important suggestionsfor improving the course.IntroductionEngineering and engineering technology programs have recognized the importance of involvingindustry in the educational process1-6. Similarly, the engineering technology

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Ronald Adrezin; Michael Nowak; Donald Leone

Session 1109 Biomedical Engineering Senior Capstone Research at the University of Hartford Michael Nowak, Donald Leone, Ronald Adrezin University of HartfordAbstract:Graduating biomedical engineers often work along side medical professionals with littleengineering background and must be able to communicate technical issues clearly. With theseissues in mind, we decided that all our students should have the experience of working inclinically-based research laboratories in the local area or near the students’ homes.With the assistance of a faculty

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1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Nancy L. Denton

from each student. The instructor makes a similartime commitment to adequately provide timely thorough feedback for each laboratory reportduring the semester.The author has undertaken an experiment to determine if concurrent engineering practicescan be successfully adapted to design an optimal writing/grading process which remainsconsistent with accreditation requirements regarding written communications. The resultingwriting/grading process is explained and its successes and failures documented below. Theexperiment is discussed in the context of the continuous improvement process in place for theauthor’s department, an additional accreditation requirement for engineering technologyprograms.BACKGROUND1997-98 accreditation criteria published by

Conference Session

Computer Based Measurements

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Steven Widmer; Jan Lugowski

more competent. · Teamwork is encouraged, which helps develop interpersonal skills, which are of benefit in an industrial environment. · Laboratory time is used efficiently, with all participants fully engaged in the learning process. · Enables to expose weak spots in students’ knowledge and address them right away. · Teaches students take responsibility for their learning. Even with the instructor’s help, students are required to understand and solve the problems. · Provides instructor with a valuable feedback for selecting lecture topics. · Students leave the lab more mature and confident about their skills. They know they can solve other problems when they encounter them in other classes, or

Conference Session

Simulations and Project-Based Learning II

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Matthew Turner, Purdue University (Statewide Technology); Chris Foreman, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Rajeswari Sundararajan, Purdue University, West Lafayette

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

Symposium (NAPS), 2009 , vol., no., pp.1,8, 4-6 Oct. 20098. Kezunovic, M.; Abur, A.; Huang, G.; Bose, A.; Tomsovic, K., "The role of digital modeling and simulation in power engineering education," Power Systems, IEEE Transactions on , vol.19, no.1, pp.64,72, Feb. 20049. Bloom, Benjamin S., et al. "Taxonomy of educational objectives: Handbook I: Cognitive domain." New York: David McKay 19 (1956): 56.10. Stice, James E. "Learning how to think: Being earnest is important, but it's not enough." New directions for teaching and learning 1987.30 (1987): 93-99.11. Feisel, Lyle D., and Albert J. Rosa. "The role of the laboratory in undergraduate engineering education." Journal of Engineering Education 94.1 (2005): 121-130.12. Karady, George

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2008 GSW

Authors

Jerry K. Keska

laboratory for a course in Instrumentation and Measurements.The course, designed for the undergraduate junior level, was a two-semester course for a total offour credits, and it took place in conjunction with a one-hour classroom lecture in mechanicalengineering. A modified version of this approach, however, can easily be used at all levels of themechanical engineering curriculum. This laboratory’s development process began by writing asuccessful proposal for outside funding in order to create a hands-on teaching laboratory. A two-semester long, open-ended project was utilized, a process which required the students to come upwith creative approaches to problem solving. Consequently, a full-cycle learning experience tookplace. The students began with

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gerald Recktenwald, Portland State University; Jenna Faulkner, Portland State University; Robert Edwards, Penn State Erie, The Behrend College; Douglas Howe, Portland State University

& Learning Practice. University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. October 19-20, 2007.3. Edwards, R., G. Recktenwald, and B. Benini. A laboratory exercise to teach the hydrostatic principle as a core concept in fluid mechanics. ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition. Austin, TX. June 14-17, 2009, American Society for Engineering Education.4. Recktenwald, G., et al. A simple experiment to expose misconceptions about the Bernoulli equation. 2009 ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition. Lake Buena Vista, Florida. November 13-19, 2009, American Society of Mechanical Engineers.5. Recktenwald, G., et al. Using a blender to teaching qualitative reasoning with the first law of

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michelle Baker, Rowan University; Brian Lefebvre, Rowan University; Stephanie Farrell, Rowan University

. Biochem. Mol. Biol. Educ. 32, 7-10.7. Hesketh, R.P., Slater, C.S., Farrell, S., and Carney, M. (2002). Fluidized bed polymer coating experiment.Chem. Eng. Ed. 36, 138-143.8. Burrows, V.A. (2004). Experiments and other learning activities using natural dye materials. Chem. Eng. Ed.38, 132-135, 141.9. Komives, C., Rech, S., and McNeil, M. (2004). Laboratory experiment on gene subcloning for chemicalengineering students. Chem. Eng. Ed. 38, 212-215, 221.10. Wankat, P. (2001). Teaching separations: why, what, when, and how. Chem. Eng. Ed. 35, 168-171.11. Lefebvre, B.G, Farrell, S., and Dominiak, R.D. (2007). Illustrating chromatography withcolorful proteins. Chem. Eng. Ed. 41, 241-246.12. Lefebvre, B.G. and Farrell, S. (2005). Illustrating

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1996 Annual Conference

Authors

Mohamed I. Dessouky; Murali Krishnamurthi

thelearning cycle. This is to ensure that the laboratory experiments also address the four quadrants of the learningcycle and accommodate students’ different learning preferences.4.3 Teaching Styles Similar to students’ learning styles, teachers also have preferred teaching styles which also can impact acourse and the information conveyed to the student. Claxton and Ralston [2] have classified teaching stylesunder four different categories as: Type 1 (Motivator), Type 2 (Expert Transmitter), Type 3 (Promoter orCaoch), and Type 4 (Stimulator) teachers. Claxton and Ralston have concluded from their studies that Type 2,the professor-dominated teaching style, is the most prevalent one in engineering curriculum and that the facultydo not generally

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1996 Annual Conference

Authors

Mohamed I. Dessouky; Murali Krishnamurthi

class discussion. Type 2 teachers focus primarily on the (Thi~king) transmission of knowledge in a hierarchical manner from Abstract Conceptualization teacher to the student and their teaching style is F i g u r e 1. Four Quadrants of Learning and Learning Styles [7, 10] professor-centered lectures. Type 3 teachers primarily focus on promoting productivity and competence and want their students to acquire the necessary skills and be independent and their teaching style is usually the traditional lecture format coupled with laboratories and out

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mark Yeary, University of Oklahoma; Robert Palmer, University of Oklahoma; Kevin Kloesel, University of Oklahoma; Tian Yu, University of Oklahoma; Kent Johnson, University of Oklahoma; Mike Biggerstaff, University of Oklahoma; Phil Chilson, University of Oklahoma; Guifu Zhang, University of Oklahoma

AC 2008-1809: A PROGRESS REPORT ON A HANDS-ON INTERDISCIPLINARYPROGRAM FOR SEVERE WEATHER AND NEXT-GENERATIONMULTI-FUNCTION RADARMark Yeary, University of Oklahoma Dr. Mark Yeary is an Assistant Professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Oklahoma. He has many years of experience as a teaching assistant, lecturer, and assistant professor. Since January of 1993, he has taught many students in various laboratories and lecture courses, culminating in approximately 13 years of teaching experience. For the 1999-00 academic year, he received the Outstanding Professor Award, given by the Texas A&M student chapters of IEEE and Eta Kappa Nu, and IBM in Austin. His

Conference Session

Innovations in ECE Education I

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Susan Burkett, University of Alabama; Charles Snead, University of Alabama

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

this laboratory.Project ImplementationA few years ago, ECE faculty at The University of Alabama decided to focus on teaching circuitanalysis in an introductory course (ECE 125) to better prepare students for subsequent Circuitsand Electronics courses, courses that rely on fundamental concepts and skills and are thecornerstone of the ECE curriculum. This course is the first required course in the ECEcurriculum and sets the stage for the remaining courses in the curriculum. The lecture portioncontains instruction on fundamental circuit analysis techniques as well as lectures on engineeringethics and the profession. The laboratory spans two hours and includes instruction in basiccircuits, breadboarding and solder skills, analyzing an automobile

Conference Session

Innovations in Communications and Wireless Systems Education

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Wayne A Scales, Virginia Tech; J Michael Ruohoniemi; Geoff Crowley

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

excellentopportunity to effectively train students on state-of-the-art applications, a broad spectrum ofengineering and science fundamentals, and the interrelationships between multiple engineeringdisciplines. We describe our experience and lessons-learned in teaching an advancedundergraduate-level GNSS capstone design course in the department of Electrical and ComputerEngineering at Virginia Tech over the past 15 years. We report on the objectives of the course,the topic selection, the capabilities of laboratory hardware, approaches to GNSS data extractionand analysis, and the importance of the accompanying teaching laboratory. Student perceptionsof specific measurable learning objectives are provided which underscore the importance of ahands-on laboratory

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1996 Annual Conference

Authors

Jerry W. Samples; Colonel Kip P. Nygren

-+-. Session 3630 Becoming a Better Teacher: Adjusting From the Baseline Jerry W. Samples,Kip P. Nygren United States Military AcademyAbstract: The notion that teachers at the college level are effective based on their disciplinary technical skills is acommon one. Teachers develop their entry teaching skills based on desire, needs of the student, and importanceplaced on teaching by their institutions and their colleagues. Every teacher must have some fundamental

Conference Session

Graduate Student Experience

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sunni Newton, Georgia Institute of Technology; Lydia Soleil, Georgia Institute of Technology; Tristan Utschig, Georgia Institute of Technology; Donna Llewellyn, Georgia Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Graduate Studies

development ofskills related to teaching, professional communication and the job search3.Table 1: GSGA Survey ResultsSKILL RATINGConduct independent research 3.57Teach (small “seminar” or “problem-based” learning courses 2.00Teach (large “lecture” course) 1.79Teach (laboratory) 2.05Assess performance outcomes from teaching, supervising, or leading 1.70Prepare written credentials (CV, resume, cover letter) 2.14Interviewing skills

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1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Barry Jackson

studio merges the preceding teaching paradigms, building oncurrent research and the experience of the faculty. The studio establishes the premise that archi-tectural design studio and engineering laboratories (structural and mechanical) need to be or-ganized across departmental boundaries as team oriented activities. The learning modules arebeing developed initially in a multimedia format (analog video and hypertext). They will befinalized in an entirely hypertext format using digital video and browsers, allowing latitude forthe development of additional material in the future. The paper discusses the continual shiftbetween synthetic and analytic processes in the context of problem solving, methods of repre-sentation, design assignments, methods