Conference Session

Think Outside the Box! K-12 Engineering Curriculum

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tara Gomez, California Institute of Technology; Oliver Loson, California Institute of Technology; Douglas Yung, California Institute of Technology; Sindhuja Kadambi, California Institute of Technology; Paul Lee, California Institute of Technology; Luz Rivas, California Institute of Technology

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

-week summer residential course that brings togetherextraordinarily talented high school students from underrepresented minority groups to study atthe California Institute of Technology. The YESS program is intended for students who exhibitan interest in engineering and science, and wish to engage in collaborative learning. During thethree-week program, students take science courses and are exposed to laboratory tours, facultylectures, and college admissions workshops.The neuroscience course for the 2008 YESS program was an intensive survey of many differentfields, and used lectures, demonstrations and laboratory activities to teach topics such as brainanatomy, Drosophila melanogaster pain perception, electrophysiology, recombinant

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanics Education

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Alan Zehnder

Session 1168 Virtual Labs, Real Data for Statics and Mechanics of Materials Peeyush Bhargava1, Christine Cunningham2, Michael Tolomeo1, and Alan Zehnder1 1 Cornell University / 2Tufts UniversityIntroduction Hands-on laboratory experience is a key element in learning the concepts of engineeringmechanics. Laboratory sessions provide examples that students can see, feel and hear, andprovide an alternate mode of learning to those for whom reading the textbook or hearing lectureis insufficient. Labs are also used to introduce data analysis, report writing, finding empiricalcorrelations

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephen G Ritchie; Carlos C. Sun

include the Edison International Field(Anaheim Angels baseball), and the Arrowhead Pond (Mighty Ducks hockey and Los AngelesClippers basketball). In addition, there are numerous hotels and convention center facilities. Thisprovides an excellent laboratory site for teaching students about traffic management related tospecial events. All special events in Anaheim are coordinated centrally at the TransportationManagement Center (TMC). Page 5.471.3 3Course and Laboratory DescriptionThe OAK-TREE course was divided into four major topics. The first topic is traffic controlhardware. This course was led by

Collection

2020 ASEE North Central Section conference

Authors

Ramakrishnan Sundaram, Gannon University

are seen as seniorengineers. To facilitate such an environment, the ECE department has, for the past several years,engaged in the revision of the curriculum for vertical (across each year) integration of the learningexperience in each course and the creation of a modular mini-Electric-Vehicle (mini-EV)laboratory platform to support such activities. This paper will outline the functionality of themodules designed for the centralized platform, the proposed usage of the mini-EV for course andpedagogical revisions to achieve the objectives of (a) improving the linking and retention ofcontent across courses and (b) emphasizing and strengthening the teaching and learningexperiences of system skills integration skills.I IntroductionThe ECE

Conference Session

Mentoring & Outreach for Girls & Minorities

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Keith Holbert, Arizona State University; Lisa Grable, North Carolina State University; Patricia Dixon, Florida State University; Sharon Schulze, North Carolina State University

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

track REU students 1999-2009, as well as a study on same-sex camps effects on course choice in high school and college. Dr. Dixon is also an adjunct instructor at Flagler College, developing their Science Methods for Elementary Teachers syllabus and teaching the course since 2001. In addition to overseeing all educational programs K-20 at the Magnet Lab, Dr. Dixon is actively engaged in educational research on the effects of programs from national laboratories on students and teachers.Sharon Schulze, North Carolina State University Dr. Sharon K. Schulze is the Director of The Science House and an Associate Faculty member of the Physics Department. She manages the day-to-day operations

Collection

1996 Annual Conference

Authors

William E. Barnes; Michael Khader

transparencies.LABORATORY BASED COURSES Teaching laboratory courses in the traditional distance education settings lacked the students’ability to ask questions related to instrument settings, instructors’ hands-on illustration to students at theremote site, and the ability of the instructor to keep students interested during the laboratory portion of theclass. To investigate the feasibility teaching laboratory courses over this network, one course was selectedfor an experiment. A circuit measurements course from the Electrical Engineering Technology curriculumwas selected. The laboratories at both sites were equipped with the same equipment including computers,instruments, and the General Purpose Interface Bus (GPIB) type equipment. Software

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

David Braun

A Senior Level Polymer Electronics Course: Unique Instruction or Just Low Cost? David Braun, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis ObispoAbstractAfter progressing from research laboratories to factories to the market, semiconducting polymersnow appear in commercial products and offer educational opportunities. Semiconductingpolymers are excellent materials with which to teach semiconductor device fabricationprinciples, device testing, optical and electronic properties, polymer synthesis, polymer filmpreparation, and structure-property relationships. Previous publications have emphasizedmultidisciplinary course modules based on semiconducting polymers.1 This work

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2011 Northeast Section Meeting

Authors

Kanti Prasad

A Consummate Model of VLSI Education for Preparing the Workforce towards Meeting the Challenges of the Hi-Tech Industry through Industrial Involvement Kanti Prasad Ph.D.; P.E. Professor/Founding Director Microelectronics/VLSI Technology Electrical and Computer Engineering Department University of Massachusetts Lowell Kanti_Prasad@uml.eduAbstract:In order to prepare the workforce for VLSI program, theoretical instructions must becomplemented with adequate laboratory facilities in order to validate the design from itsconception to

Conference Session

Mechanical Engineering Division Poster Session

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michele Miller, Campbell University

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Mechanical Engineering

. 285-288.5. J. Round and B. Lom, “In Situ Teaching: Fusing Labs & Lectures in Undergraduate Science Courses to Enhance Immersion in Scientific Research,” Journal of undergraduate neuroscience education, vol. 13, no. 3, 2015, pp. A206-A214.6. D. Hall, H. Hegab and J. Nelson, “Living WITH the Lab - a freshman curriculum to boost hands-on learning, student confidence and innovation,” Proc. Frontiers in Education Conference, 2008.7. J. W. Belcher, “Studio physics at MIT,” MIT Physics Ann., 2001, pp. 58-64.8. M. Weimer, Learner-centered teaching: five key changes to practice, 2nd edition. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2013.9. G. Subhash and S. Ridgeway, Mechanics of Materials Laboratory Course, Morgan & Claypool, 2018.

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Efforts in Introductory Courses

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tiffany L. Hesser, University of New Haven; Stefanie R. Bunyea, MacDermid Enthone

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

determined using previous chemistry experiments presented in thecourse. A team of teaching assistants, along with the course coordinator, developed anengineering driven problem to build off existing labs. These replaced the traditional chemistrylabs as found in Table 1.Table 1. Comparison table of changes for PBLE implementation Traditional Laboratory Problem Based Laboratory Experiments Experiments Week 1 Statistics and Experimentation Freezing Point Depression and Week 2 Freezing Point Depression Examination Quality of Various Deicers Week 3 Rates of Reaction Polymer Development and Examination

Conference Session

Introduction to Engineering Courses

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Hirak Patangia

team building, cooperative leaning, and oral/written communication skills.Course OrganizationThe course titled ‘Introductory Experience in Technology and Computers’ is a three credithour course with five contact hours per week, two hours of lecture and three hours oflaboratory. The lecture and laboratory contents have been designed to lead the students to aculminating project which is described in the next section. The teaching classroom is a well -designed facility with wireless internet access and the laboratory is equipped with modernAgilent test equipment. The course was first taught in the fall of 2001. Preparations for thecourse began in the summer of 2001 with a curriculum development grant from theuniversity. Three sophomore

Conference Session

New Trends in ECE Education

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Ruane

Fig. 1 Photonics Teaching Laboratory (partial view)the main teaching lab, and twoProceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & ExpositionCopyright © 2002, American Society for Engineering Ed ucationare in a more secure project space to support graduate projects and also BS capstone designprojects in photonics. Equipment was donated by industry or purchased using CRCD andUniversity funds. The four tables are also equipped with a suite of test equipment and anetworked PC controlling the instruments.In a typical semester, as many as three classes and several projects will use the laboratory. Thereuse of the tables puts more demands on the teaching assistants, but allows one facility to serve alarge

Collection

1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Douglas; Dean Lance Smith

Session 2548 A Revised Assembly Language Programming Course for a Computer Engineering Technology Program Dean Lance Smith, Robert Douglas The University of MemphisAbstractA new text was selected which teaches programming and uses the 80x86 family assemblylanguage as the vehicle. Laboratory exercises have been written or revised to support the text.Students assemble and run the programs on new networked Microsoft Windows NT personalcomputers. The programs are assembled with Microsoft MASM 6.11. Microsoft Visual C++Professional version 4.0 is used to assemble the

Conference Session

Real-Time and Embedded Systems Education

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Hardy Pottinger; Daryl Beetner

standard 8051 assembler.The addition of the Visual Wimp to the laboratory simulation environment reinforces conceptslearned in lecture, shows students the dataflow through the processor, and helps them debug theirprograms. Student performance in lab shows that students understand the operation of theprocessorbetter after using the Visual Wimp.The WIMP51 is an ongoing project. In the future, the Visual Wimp may also be used in thelecture course to demonstrate the operation of the processor when the concepts are firstintroduced. Future lab experiments will ask students to change the hardware of the WIMP51 toextend the instruction set. The WIMP51 and the Visual Wimp have already been shown to beeffective teaching tools and will continue to improve

Conference Session

Design Assessment

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kimberly Cook-Chennault, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey

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Design in Engineering Education

ferroelectric, dielectric and piezoelectric materials in the form of thin films and bulk composites for sensing/actuation and energy storage/harvesting applications. Dr. Cook-Chennault’s research group, the Hybrid Energy Systems and Materials Laboratory, conducts work towards understanding the fundamental mechanisms and processing parameters that allow for the control of physical material characteristics. In addition to this work, Dr. Cook-Chennault is the director of the Green Energy Undergraduate Program (GET UP) program which is funded through the National Science Foundation and the Student Learn and Achievent in Aerospace and Mechanical (SLAAM) Engineering Program. c American Society for

Conference Session

Capstone/ET Projects I: Electrical and Computer Focus

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Wei Zhan, Texas A&M University; Byul Hur, Texas A&M University; Boong Yeol Ryoo, Texas A&M University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

custom algorithms were necessary to handledifferent situations such as the wall contour changing suddenly and the robot needed to performa sharp 90 degree turn to the left or right. Another problem was the interference to theaccelerometers when the Zumo robot rapidly changed its movement. If not careful, theaccelerometers could falsely detect an angle as high as 20 degrees.Conclusions and future workThis paper discusses a case study where a part of the research project was used as capstone stoneproject and a part of the capstone project was used as laboratory material and a course project ina control systems course. It worked well for all three areas: teaching the control systems coursewith real-world problems; integrating control systems course

Conference Session

Engineering Technology Division Poster Session

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Wei Zhan, Texas A&M University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

manydifferent approaches proposed to improve statistics curriculum for engineering students. Bartonet al3 developed a laboratory-based statistics curriculum. Standridge et al25 did similar work.Bryce used data collected by students in his introductory engineering statistics course4. Levine etal16 used Microsoft Excel and MINITAB in their book to teach applied statistics to engineers andscientists. Zhan et al30 proposed to apply statistics in several courses in the curriculum instead ofhaving a separate applied statistics course within the curriculum. They found that applyingspecific statistical analysis methods in appropriate courses was an effective way for students tolearn to use statistics.Based on these findings, several laboratory exercises were

Conference Session

BME Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Daniel Walsh

program and to provide for an infrastructure that will annually provideresources, such as teaching assistantships and laboratory space and equipment. The jointprograms will take the form of a “specialization”, short three course sequences, which will fitinto a student’s existing curricula. These sequences will build on the common life scienceexperience for all engineers which is team taught by bioengineering faculty and biology faculty –which we hope will whet their appetite further for biomedical engineering exposures. Among theinitial specializations with established engineering programs are Agricultural Engineering,Materials Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering and Computer

Conference Session

DEED Poster Session

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James Mwangi, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Craig Baltimore, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

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Design in Engineering Education

week for three hours each meeting (for a total of nine hours a week). Thestudents use the ARCE 305 design course as prerequisites and other architecture courses toprepare complete structural documents (structural calculations, structural plans, sections, detailsand specifications) for real masonry buildings that the instructors bring to class from theirpractice. The laboratory course is limited to sixteen students per class. The course is usuallyconducted in smart rooms with layout as shown in Figure 3. In this format, the “learn by doing”comes to fruition similar to the old medical expression of: “see one, do one, teach one”.The two masonry courses are mandatory for all students in the ARCE program.Constructability is

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Naseem Ishaq; Salahuddin Qazi

Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2001, American Society for Engineering Education” Page 6.585.6including material on distance education. One of its publication “ Prism” includes useful Websites recommended by educators 21.VI. Virtual and Web-based LaboratoriesWith the popularity of web-based instruction for distance learning, the need for providing web-based teaching methods and virtual lab for experimental laboratory has also increased. Numberof universities and colleges are developing such facilities to supplement their distance educationprograms. A virtual lab is a simulation of a

Conference Session

Computer and Electrical Engineering Technology Innovations

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Omer Farook, Purdue University Calumet; Chandra Sekhar, Purdue University Calumet; Essaid Bouktache, Purdue University Calumet

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

Signal Processing Applied to Image Processing. He is a member of ASEE and senior member of IEEE.Chandra Sekhar, Purdue University Calumet CHANDRA R. SEKHAR is a member of the faculty of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Technology at Purdue University Calumet. Professor Sekhar earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Chemistry from the University of Madras (India), a Diploma in Instrumentation from Madras Institute of Technology and Master’s Degree in Electrical Engineering from University of Pennsylvania. Professor Sekhar’s primary teaching and research focus is in the areas of Biomedical and Process Control Instrumentation and Clinical Engineering.Essaid Bouktache, Purdue University Calumet

Conference Session

Three P's in Introduction to Engineering

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Jon Marvel; Charles Standridge

courses have fundamentally different objectives and educationalrequirements. The previous course was focused on a laboratory-based experience in engineeringstatistics. The redesigned course focuses on engineering measurement techniques. Thefundamental strategy change is to teach how engineers acquire and use data. Thus the statistics istaught in the context of its engineering application and not in isolation merely as a usefulmethodology.After the initial offering of the redesigned course, students were asked to provide feedback on thecourse design. The student feedback was positive and indicated that the significant amount ofhands-on data collection and use of laboratory equipment were important elements inunderstanding statistical analysis

Conference Session

Energy Conversion and Conservation Division Technical Session on Conservation and Optimization

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Radian G. Belu, Southern University and A&M College; Lucian Ionel Cioca, Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu; Richard Chiou, Drexel University

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Energy Conversion and Conservation

isour strong beliefs that the publication of appropriate smart grid textbooks has positive impacts onsmart grids education. However, in order to upgrade, restructure and improve our powerengineering courses, an integrative approach and co-active teaching methodologies are employedso that the course can effectively offer students a complete view of modern power industry.3. Project Challenges and Project DevelopmentMajor challenges faced with this project are the lack of adequate laboratory facilities, softwarelicenses, properly trained teaching assistants and longer time since such power engineeringcourses were offered. However, the project feedbacks from alumni and industry wereoverwhelmingly positive and supportive. We have also have to keep

Conference Session

DELOS Best Paper Nominations

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jerry Keska, University of Louisiana, Lafayette

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Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

working prototype (that included bothsystem and measurement sensors on prototyping boards), and concluded the project by conductinga feasibility study by writing a report and delivering a class presentation. Because the ELVISsystem has been used primarily as an instructional tool in electrical engineering laboratories, anextensive process that adapted it to the needs of mechanical engineering was implemented. Thisincluded the development of completely new experiments that involved newly-designed hardwareand instructions that were all developed and built in-house with student participation. IntroductionIn the undergraduate teaching process, both instructors and students often get bored solving simpletextbook

Conference Session

Faculty Development Division Poster Session

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Evelyn Sowells-Boone, North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University (CoE); Karreem Hogan

gauge the success of these activities by: • Beginning in Year 1, establish and sustain at least one faculty learning community consisting of 4 – 8 active members. Metric: Meeting agendas, attendance records, and artifacts • Beginning in Year 1, increase the percentage of faculty who report increase efficacy with cutting-edge software technology. Baseline: Established in YR1. Metric: ET Faculty technology efficacy survey, administered at least annually. • Beginning in Year 2, ET faculty who teach any of the eight revised ET courses or laboratories will earn at least one digital badge. Baseline: N/A Metric: Administrative Records.Table 1: Logic Model

Conference Session

Innovations in ECE Education I

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ian Papautsky, University of Cincinnati; Ali Asgar Bhagat, University of Cincinnati

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

microfluidics and MEMS devices for chemical and biological assays. He was the teaching assistant for the Biochip Laboratory course discussed in this paper. Page 12.971.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007 Introducing Microfluidics to Electrical Engineers: An Integrated Problem-Based Learning ExperienceIntroductionMicrofluidics is a multidisciplinary field comprising of physics, chemistry, engineering andbiotechnology that studies the behavior of fluids at the microscale and the design of systems thattake advantage of such behavior. The behavior of fluids at the microscale differ from“macrofluidic

Conference Session

New Concepts for Alternative and Renewable Energy Courses

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Radian G Belu, Drexel University (Tech.)

Tagged Divisions

Energy Conversion and Conservation

seems maybe the only effective and feasiblesolution. There is a need for new learning tools and practical experiences which can now be metby new teaching methods, such as virtual learning. In recent years due to the Internet advances,and the fast development of computer technologies, E-Learning has been well accepted in manydifferent education areas and at many universities. Computing and communication technologyhave had a significant impact on engineering education, improving online, distance, andcollaborative learning, as well as the use of the virtual and remote experiments, laboratories andsimulations. On the other hand, the renewable energy technology has a great development rateand it is mandatory also for professionals, engineers, and

Conference Session

Supporting the Capstone Experience

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Kun Zhang P.E., California State University-Chico; Pablo K. Cornejo, California State University-Chico; Chris Fosen, California State University-Chico

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

. “Developing Technical Writing Skills in the PhysicalChemistry Laboratory: A Progressive Approach Employing Peer Review,” Journal of ChemicalEducation, Vol. 87(1), pp 62-65., 2010.[9] R. M. Felder and R. Brent. Teaching and Learning STEM: a practical guide. John Wiley &Sons, Inc. 2016.[10] D. Kim and W. M. Olson. “Improving student lab report writing performances in materialsand manufacturing laboratory courses by implementing a rhetorical approach to writing,” Proc.122nd ASEE Annu. Conf. and Expo, 2015.[11] R. M. Felder, and R. Brent. "The intellectual development of science and engineeringstudents. Part 2: Teaching to promote growth." Journal of Engineering Education, 93(4), pp.279-291, 2004.Appendix A: Questionnaire Survey and Results PlotsDear

Collection

1996 Annual Conference

Authors

John Y. Hung; Carlee A. Bishop

scenarios. The most recent resolutions from NationalScience Foundation education conferences1 and engineering accreditation workshops2 are to improveengineering students' thinking and problem solving skills, rather than inculcating a heavy emphasis on basicscience. The evolving objectives have been accompanied by significant changes in teaching methods as well. Forexample, engineering courses have experienced cycles of varying emphasis on laboratory versus lecture content.The engineering education experience of the 1950's was punctuated by heavy laboratory content and thepracticing of design rules. As the curriculum objective moved to engineering science, the in-class lecturebecame the predominant tool for teaching. Rather than being fields

Collection

2011 North Midwest Section

Authors

Eshan V. Dave

of this class is to teach students about various types of infrastructurematerials. This class is designed to help students gain knowledge on following topics related toinfrastructure materials: Selection criteria and considerations; Behavior of materials for different types of loading and boundary conditions; Proceedings of the 2011 North Midwest Section Conference Fundamental and engineering properties of interest and their evaluation through laboratory testing; Design of construction materials (Portland cement concrete and asphalt concrete); Specifications for acceptance of materials; and Insight on sustainability of infrastructure materials.In order to achieve the