Conference Session

Graduate Student Experiences

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Elizabeth Van Ruitenbeek, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Tagged Divisions

Graduate Studies

decisions.Second, ASEE student chapters teach skills to equip graduate students to be successful as futureengineering educators. These vital skills include preparing a curriculum vitae (CV), applyingand interviewing for a faculty position, writing research funding proposals, starting andmaintaining a research laboratory, teaching effectively, and balancing teaching and researchresponsibilities. Equipping graduate students to be successful educators is the most direct way to Page 13.674.2impact the future of engineering education.Third, ASEE student chapters promote engineering and careers in engineering education.Promoting engineering and academic careers

Conference Session

Venturing Out: Service Learning, Study Abroad, and Criterion H

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David Ollis, North Carolina State University; Anthony Smith, CPE-LYON FRANCE

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education

chemical engineering or chemistry, who have completed oneor two years of university study.WHAT DOES THE PROGRAM CONTAIN ?• A course of French as a foreign language.• An undergraduate practical course in Chemistry and/or Chemical Engineering. You willcarry out at least 8 experiments in the teaching laboratories of CPE Lyon. At least 40hours will be spent in the laboratory. Examples of experiments to be carried out: • Fluid flow: Determination of the general expression for pressure drop in a linear tube. • Mixing: The determination of the relationship between the power number Np and the Reynolds number Re. • Ebulliometry: Liquid-vapor equilibrium. • Stephan’s tube: Mass transfer

Conference Session

Balancing Personal and Professional Life

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Vladimir Goncharoff; Patrick Troy; John Bell; Dale Reed; Cathleen Theys; Ann Ford; Susan Montgomery

tends to be my research that gets put off while I prepare myclass materials, as opposed to cutting corners on my teaching to get more research done. I havealso been fortunate to be affiliated with the Electronic Visualization Laboratory[7] at UIC, whichis one of the world's leading research groups in the development of virtual reality ( my area ofresearch. )Lecturers at UIC are considered full members of the faculty, attending all faculty meetings andhaving full voting privileges. The salary is generally lower than assistant professors, and theteaching duties are higher. ( However the teaching load can be reduced for lecturers whomaintain significant research programs or who undertake significant administrative duties. )Lecturers do not have

Conference Session

International Engineering Education

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Mohammed Ali Satter; John Pumwa

and Communication (3 hrs/wk) 6. EF190: Chemistry for Engineers (2 hrs/wk)Each subject was yearlong, taught across two semesters, and examined at the end of eachsemester. EF140 was basically physics. EF160 was a mixture of statics, dynamics andelectrical engineering. EF190, chemistry, was optional for all students except for mineralprocessing students within the Mining Engineering Department. Teaching hours for eachsubject was divided into lecture, tutorial and laboratory/practical (where applicable). Adetailed exposition of the teaching load is shown in appendix-1. It shows a total of 2265 man-hr/semester is required [2]. Taking an average of 10 hrs/week of teaching load, a total of 15teaching staff members were required per

Conference Session

Remote Instruction/COVID-19 Strategies

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Christine Delahanty, Bucks County Community College ; Susan Herring, Bucks County Community College; Tracy Timby, Bucks County Community College; Vladimir Genis, Drexel University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

lab exercise allowed students to communicate and collaborate similar to a faceto face lab setting. The College provided necessary resources to students in need such ascomputers and lab kits. Companies provided free software to students as well during theshutdown, which made the transition from face to face to remote teaching even smoother. AtBucks, our laboratory assistant prepared a collection of tutorial videos on how to use the variousmeasuring devices that were in the laboratory, and how to conduct the experiments. These videoswere used for all modes of course delivery, including remote, online, and hybrid instruction.Students in the hybrid courses were able to view the instructional videos before coming to lab.Students in the online and

Collection

1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Jerz

-ended laboratory assignments were introduced to stimulate thinking and to add designcontent. Integration with other engineering courses was carefully considered. Improvements inthe classroom lectures and laboratory assignments were made. St. Ambrose University’s industrial engineering program is small and operates on alimited budget. The small budget presented a particularly difficult challenge in determiningwhich equipment and software to use or purchase. Course development has been financedthrough creative use of existing laboratory equipment, internal department funding, facultyredevelopment initiatives, educational discounts for software products, in-kind gifts, and low costupgrades of existing laboratory computers. It was discovered

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Weiling Cai, Rowan University; Chenchen Huang, Rowan University; Cheng Zhu, Rowan University; LuoBin Cui

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees Poster Session

creativity and problem-solving ability of geotechnicalstudents; 2) To equip students with a methodology of systematically developing ageotechnical project (i.e., geothermal pile); 3) To develop an educational paradigm forimproving the learning experience and interest by using the teaching technique of mixedreality games. Geothermal Pile Design Geo-Educational Game Site investigation Sampling of Geomaterials Thermo-mechanical Laboratory testing properties Shear Thermal Input

Conference Session

Materials Division (MATS) Technical Session 3

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Yljing Stehle, Union College

Tagged Divisions

Materials Division (MATS)

real-world problems, underlying theories, and hands-on laboratory work. Consequently, it enhances overall learning outcomes and advancesengineering skills. The outcomes of this study, coupled with positive student feedback, suggestthat combining traditional stand-alone labs into project-based laboratories could represent amore effective, efficient, and sustainable pedagogical approach for engineering laboratorycourses. This study not only provides valuable insights but also proposes a pedagogical designthat can guide future improvements in laboratory teaching. By introducing students to the open-ended lab experience at the junior level, this approach facilitates a seamless transition to moreadvanced project-based laboratories in senior courses

Conference Session

Dimensions of Engineering Literacy and Engineering in General Education

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John W Blake PE, Austin Peay State University; John Krupczak Jr, Hope College

Tagged Divisions

Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering

engineering to the general education of college undergraduates … 1) Promote the addition of an engineering course for non-majors to the university core requirements. This needs to be promoted at the highest levels (governors, legislatures, and state boards for state institutions; governing boards for private institutions) as mandates from above will be needed to change university core requirements. 2) The course should be a full three credit (quarter or semester) hour course. 3) The course should include laboratories as well as classroom time. The lab portion may require an additional credit hour. 4) While teaching engineering, the course should incorporate a broad view of technology as well. 5) Institutions should

Conference Session

Perspectives on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Beyond the Undergraduate Years

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cliff Fitzmorris, University of Oklahoma; Deborah A. Trytten, University of Oklahoma; Randa L. Shehab, University of Oklahoma

Tagged Topics

ASEE Diversity Committee, Diversity

military Frank: 7 years engineering Greg: 21 years engineering Henry: No professional experience James: No engineering experience Kimberly: 8 years, engineeringFour of the participants rose to positions of influence in their organizations before leaving to become facultymembers. Alan was the senior engineering manager, reporting directly to the CEO of his company. Codywas a senior developer in charge of overseeing the team of engineers on his projects. Ethan was a divisionmanager at a prestigious laboratory after completing his career in the military. Greg was the director ofengineering at his company before retiring.Henry began his teaching career immediately after earning his master’s degree in computer science. Jameshad a particularly

Conference Session

Design in the Engineering Core

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Mark Palmer

Page 7.653.3on teaching programming in the context of the introductory course. We had chosen to use theVisual Basic programming language as it would enable the students to write a Windows basedprogram, and most macro languages were based on Visual Basic.Business - Engineering students need a sense of business. The sponsors of the engineeringschool made this clear, and we tried to expose the students to business issues.To meet these challenges we designed a statics course with the following “novel” features. 1) Assignments which required analysis and explanation. 2) A series of open ended laboratory assignments. 3) A series of computer assignments to complement the laboratory investigations and allow the students to

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Karl Stephan; Vedaraman Sriraman

thenconnected into the rest of the system and replaces the former maze of interconnected fixed-function MSI chips. While it is too ambitious to teach students anything substantial aboutmicroprocessors in a course of this scope without neglecting other important topics, our ultimategoal at the end of this enhancement project is to involve students in computer-based design,simulation, and execution of digital logic circuits and systems. By the end of the project, we planto introduce PLD-related lectures and laboratories using Quartus II® software and PLD hardwarefrom Altera Corporation.1 As a first move in this direction, during step 1 we introduced the useof computers for digital circuit analysis with MultiSim® general-purpose electronics

Conference Session

NSF Funding for Educational Scholarship

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

David Jeff Jackson

. He is currently an Associate Professor and Interim Department Head ofElectrical and Computer Engineering at The University of Alabama. He is a primary developerof the Computer Engineering degree program at the University of Alabama, director of theComputer Architecture Research Laboratory and associate director of the ElectromechanicalSystems Laboratory. Dr. Jackson's teaching experience includes course and laboratory materialcovering logic design, microcomputer software and hardware, high level language programming,digital systems design, image and signal processing, computer networking, computer Page 10.442.5architecture, and senior

Collection

1999 Annual Conference

Authors

James Rehg

overcome the third problem, availability of good resource material for teachinglaboratories equipped with Allen Bradley SLC 500 PLCs. The web site provides the followingprogram development support: 1) an introduction to the SLC 500; 2) an overview of thecommand structure used in PLCs and the SLC 500 in particular; 3) discussion of the hardwareinterface for the SLC family of modules; 4) SLC 500 command reference and definitionsaccessible by symbol, name, or command group; 5) command syntax and example ladder logicprogramming applications; 6) introduction to programming; 7) introduction to development ofhuman machine interfaces; and 8) laboratory exercises. The paper describes the developmentand use of this site in teaching introductory and advanced

Conference Session

Innovative Curriculum Development in MET

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Salvatore Marsico

students are required to take an accompanying courseproduction design laboratory. During the pre-bench top era this laboratory course was offeredduring a summer session at the end of the freshman year. This format provided students with acommon laboratory experience. However, the summer laboratory experience lacked the capacityto correlate lecture materials with actual laboratory exercises. This disjoint provided stimulus forchange, and change did occur in the form of two concurrent course offerings. In response tothese changes each campus location of Penn State University offering the associate degree inmechanical engineering technology was required to procure equipment for these courseofferings. In conjunction with a grant received from The

Conference Session

Graduate Student Experiences and Funding

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Audeen Fentiman

Session 2177 Supporting Graduate Students: A Catalog of Opportunities Audeen W. Fentiman The Ohio State UniversityIntroductionFinding support for graduate students in Nuclear Engineering can be a challenge. Many studentsare supported as Graduate Research Associates (GRA) on faculty projects, and some serve asGraduate Teaching Associates (GTA) helping to teach undergraduate nuclear engineeringcourses. As enrollments in Nuclear Engineering programs grow, the number of promisingstudents can exceed the number of traditional GRA and GTA positions available. There are,however, a

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Mackay; George DeLancey; Richard Cole; Bernard Gallois; Keith Sheppard; Gerald Rothberg

first semester of sophomore year is the coupling of a design course, Engineering Design III(2-credit lecture/lab.) to the introductory course in thermodynamics. The latter has beenexpanded from 3 to 4 credit-hours to include energy-conversion topics.2. Integration of Engineering CoursesThe revised engineering curriculum at Stevens puts high priority on at least some integrationamong different courses. While very tight integration is not necessarily a goal, interplay betweendifferent courses is required to be conscious, recognizable, and representative of the mutualinterdependence that exists among “different” engineering subjects.In the third semester, opportunity exists for integration of the design laboratory withThermodynamics & Energy

Conference Session

Programs Using New Instrumentation Concepts

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jerry Keska, University of Louisiana, Lafayette

Tagged Divisions

Instrumentation

that were all developed and built in-house with student participation.Topics: laboratories and experiments; innovative experiments; instrumentation emphasis inundergraduate programs. IntroductionDuring the undergraduate teaching process, instructors and students often get bored solving simpletextbook problems that require little, if any, imaginative thinking. These types of problems areusually significantly simple compared to real life situations, and more often than not, they havevery limited connections to the real world. They are also very limited in terms of their usefulnessin incorporating the individuality of the students involved, and they make it difficult to givestudents genuine

Conference Session

New Trends in CHE Education I

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jason Keith, Michigan Technological University; David Silverstein, University of Kentucky; Donald Visco, Tennessee Technological University

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

to remain inthe time domain. Furthermore, the utility of frequency response methods often result insimilar debates among members of academia and industry.Tom Edgar (University of Texas at Austin and co-author of the textbook ProcessDynamics and Control) suggests61: ≠ De-emphasize frequency response, but keep Laplace transforms ≠ Reduce coverage of multiple approaches for PID controller tuning ≠ Increase use of simulation in sophomore and junior courses ≠ Introduce a number of short laboratory experiences ≠ Use case studies to show how process control can solve real engineering problems ≠ Teach process control in the senior yearA thorough discussion of the question of what to teach in process control was recentlypublished62.Once

Conference Session

ECE Curriculum Innovations

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mehmet Ozturk, North Carolina State University; Michael Escuti, North Carolina State University

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

capacitor are explained. Thisknowledge is then applied to analysis of first order RC circuits. Equations for capacitor chargingand discharging are derived using the circuit laws introduced in the previous chapter. Thesolution to the differential equation is given and verified without teaching the techniques used tosolve differential equations. Similar to the first chapter, the primary objective of this chapter isto emphasize the fundamental concepts such as understanding of the RC time constant asopposed to analysis of complex RC circuits, which are covered in the next course on circuits.In the laboratory, the students use the same experiment box used in the previous experiment.The experiment begins with measurements performed on a simple, first

Conference Session

Engineers & Mathematicians Communicating

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Peter Avitabile; Tracy Van Zandt

foundation courses can too easily become a “blur” to the students—nothing more than a “bunch of words” intermingled with sines, cosines, integrals, Taylor seriesexpansion, etc., with no particular reason or intent.In the UMASS Lowell Mechanical Engineering curriculum, an effort is being made to try torectify this by interweaving some of the fundamental STEM material between multiple coursesso that students obtain a deeper understanding of important concepts. In particular, it is helpfulto integrate the well-defined, theoretical material of foundation classes with the hands-onenvironment of later laboratory classes. Laboratory can be effectively used to reinforce lecturematerial that is presented in related courses [2]. It can also be the perfect

Collection

1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Mahmood Nahvi

engineering students. The goal ofthe courses is to teach digital signal processing for applications. Therefore, emphasis is placed onteaching and learning DSP through real-time, real-world examples. The approach is to “learnDSP by doing,” with synthesis and design as the main vehicle.The course integrates classical DSP theory, structured experiments, and design projects. Itrequires prior knowledge of continuous and discrete-time signals and systems analysis, andfamiliarity with concepts and techniques such as linear time-invariant systems, convolution,correlation, and Fourier transforms. The course runs for a quarter of the academic year andincludes three hours of lecture presentations, eight experiments and a design project. In all of theabove

Collection

1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Valerie L. Young

only because test questions fail to expose fundamental misconceptions. Stories abound ofstudents who believe the two streams entering the heat exchanger mix inside and then magicallyseparate when exiting. Because it is often idle, equipment in the unit operations laboratory canbe used to reinforce and extend course content in undergraduate classes, without interfering withthe laboratory course. Wankat and Oreovicz1 note that visits to local facilities are anunderutilized teaching method. However, they also point out the loss of time to cover content,and the failure of some students to take the trip seriously since it is not covered on an exam. Theauthor has addressed these drawbacks by incorporating "field trips" into graded projects

Collection

1998 Annual Conference

Authors

John E. Shea

quadrant learning cycle2:1. Why is the material important? Provide a concrete experience for the student to understand the situation that makes the material relevant.2. What are the facts, the body of knowledge. This is typically done through lecture.3. How does it work, how can the theory be applied to solve a problem? This is usually accomplished through laboratory exercises and homework.4. What-if the situation is changed, what-if some real-world components are added to the problem? It is a circular model for learning because what-if questions can lead directly to newquestions where the student learns why the next set of material is important. Completing severalcycles is important in a course like SPC because dealing with real-world

Collection

2007 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Kamesh Namuduri

are either currently offering or planning to offer Associate (2-year)degrees in the Information Assurance (IA) discipline in the near future. The mission of this consortium is“to promote security awareness within the region through collaboration with local communities,community colleges, private industry, and law enforcement agencies and to pursue education, training,and research activities in information assurance and security disciplines". The partnerships range fromsharing IA teaching materials and laboratory resources, to forming state-wide working groups andorganizing state-wide education and training workshops. This paper provides the details of the activitiesbeing pursued by Wichita State University to bring cybersecurity awareness in

Conference Session

Using Student Competitions to Enhance Learning

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Chris Carroll, University of Louisiana, Lafayette

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

attributed to a student’s ability to learn. For example, the teachingstyle of most university professors contradicts the typical learning styles of most students in awide range of disciplines. And in regard to curriculum, the vast majority of university systemsacross the United States have managed to squeeze more and more theoretical information intoengineering curricula, while limiting the contact of undergraduate students with physical, hands-on projects, through laboratories and design projects. In 1988, a paper was published by Richard Felder and Linda Silverman entitled Learningand Teaching Styles in Engineering Education which has become one of the most referenceddocuments in the field of Engineering Education [1]. In that paper, Felder

Collection

2021 ASEE Pacific Southwest Conference - "Pushing Past Pandemic Pedagogy: Learning from Disruption"

Authors

Matthew Robin Kohanfars, UC San Diego; Edward I Lan, University of San Diego California; Huihui Qi, University of California, San Diego; Tania Morimoto, University of California, San Diego

evaluation of the maximum velocities their robotcould achieve was evidence of a complex understanding of the FTPE analysis. The success ofthese project kits can be translated into laboratories and courses that teach the fundamentalconcepts of engineering.Future Work In future studies, the implementation of pre and post assessments immediately prior toand after the completion of the assignment will provide an understanding of the conceptualgrowth of the student’s knowledge. As an alternative to written assessments, oral tests canprovide a better evaluation of a student’s understanding of the key principles and can be used toverify the depth to which students have learned the key principles. As virtual learning spacestransition back to in

Conference Session

Safety and Sustainability in the ChE Classroom

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Laura P Ford, The University of Tulsa; Gary A Aurand, Penn State University; Chris Barr, University of Michigan; Frank Bowman, University of North Dakota; Hema Ramsurn, The University of Tulsa; Janie Brennan, Washington University in St. Louis; Tracy L. Carter, Northeastern University; Kevin D. Dahm, Rowan University; Luke Landherr, Northeastern University; David L. Silverstein P.E., University of Kentucky; Stephen Ward Thiel P.E., University of Cincinnati; Bruce K Vaughen P.E., American Institute of Chemical Engineers; Troy J. Vogel, University of Notre Dame

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering Division (ChED)

Chemical Engineering at Penn State University. He earned a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from North Carolina State University and a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Prior to joining Penn State in 2018, Dr. Aurand was on the faculty in the Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering at the University of Iowa for over two decades. In addition to teaching chemical process safety, Dr. Aurand has extensive experience with all aspects of teaching and managing undergraduate chemical engineering laboratory courses. He also has taught design, thermodynamics, and energy courses multiple times.Dr. Chris Barr, University of Michigan Dr. Christopher Barr is the instructional laboratory

Conference Session

Engineering and Public Policy Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Amro El Badawy, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo ; Marie Yeung, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; James L. Hanson, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Nazli Yesiller, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

Tagged Divisions

Engineering and Public Policy

with changing regulations. The microbiology students analyzed the implications ofthe new policy from the perspective of identifying populations of microbes present in wastes withvarying amounts of organics content to represent current and future wastes. Results of the analyseswere shared between classes by the students. Teaching and learning effectiveness were evaluatedusing direct assessment (homework assignments and laboratory reports) and indirect assessment(student self-perception surveys and oral presentations) methods. Bloom’s Taxonomy ofeducational objectives were used to evaluate levels of cognitive achievement attained throughproject activities. The assessment results demonstrated that the students advanced their knowledgein the

Collection

2010 ERC

Authors

Michael Gibbons

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