Conference Session

Engineering Economy Education Research

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Amber Lehrman; Heather Nachtmann

Robinson, 1994).Introducing students to reality-based case studies allows them to appreciate real worldapplications of the course content. Case studies can be used to exemplify the importance ofaccurate data estimation and handling uncertainty.Article reviewsStudents are required to review and present a peer-reviewed article in a related course topic. Inaddition to providing a thorough overview of the article, the students are asked to address thefollowing questions:· What research was done,· How was it presented,· Did the results support the premise of the article,· Was the argument convincing, or did more or better work need to be done, and· How much of a contribution to the field it made.These article reviews provide students with the

Conference Session

Computers in Education Poster Session

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard LaRoche; R. Muralikrishnan; Barbara Hutchings

Page 7.566.6 “Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2002, American Society for Engineering Education”contour and vector plots of the CFD solution. The following X-Y plots are predefined wherestudents can input experimental data or literature values for comparison to the CFD results:• Wall Pressure• Wall Mach Number• Centerline Pressure• Centerline Mach NumberFigure 5. Fluent/Flowlab Showing Pressure Contours and Wall Mach Number for aConverging/Diverging NozzleUniversity CollaborationAt the time of this writing, FlowLab exercises are being evaluated and developed at engineringdepartments (aerospace, chemical, civil, mechanical

Conference Session

Unique Lab Experiments

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Nam Kim

inherently safe experiments, their industrial counter partsmay include dangerous processes. These exercises are designed to develop students’ safetyhabits, both through the experience of auditing their peers and being audited by the peers.Among these experiments, the exercises on distillation and the polymer reactor are integratedwith the state-of-the-art computer system and dubbed “Chemical Plant Operations Laboratory”.The distillation column is the central piece of equipment for the Solvent Recovery System and aCSTR is the key for synthesizing Polydimethyl Siloxane (PDMS). Dow Corning supplies uswith the reactants and takes back the product synthesized by the students. This facility integratesa multipurpose pilot plant and a Honeywell TDC-3000

Conference Session

Progress in Manufacturing Education III

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kevin L. Devine, Illinois State University; Corinne Zimmerman, Illinois State University

Tagged Divisions

Manufacturing

planning, robotprogramming, and the coordinate grid. Since the students had not yet been introduced to the X-Y coordinate system, a grid utilizing the cardinal directions of north, south, east and west wasused (see Figure 1). The grid was comprised of 3” squares which made it easy for groups of 4 or5 students to work together. Using a simple robot programming language developed for thistask (see Figure 2), students were asked to work with their group members to write a programthat would cause an industrial robot to move five 2” square wooden blocks, each having oneletter written on them, to designated grid locations to spell “ROBOT”. Small font size lettersprinted on the grid helped the students place the blocks at the same grid location at the

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sean Franey, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Anthony Gregerson, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Michael T. Braun, University of Wisconsin, Madison

Tagged Divisions

Student

, Madison. When not slogging through lines of simulator code, he enjoys brewing award-winning beer.Anthony Gregerson, University of Wisconsin, Madison Anthony Gregerson is a Ph.D. student in electrical and computer engineering at the University of Wiscon- sin, where he recently won the 2012 Exceptional Service Award for teaching assistants. He is a member of the UW’s Teaching Academy and the Delta Program in Research, Teaching, and Learning. He has eight years experience teaching as a tutor, Teaching Assistant, and instructor and occasionally writes about test- ing and assessment for PlusError.com. When not teaching, he designs real-time processing systems for CERN’s Large Hadron Collider.Michael T. Braun, University of

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Kauser Jahan; Shreekanth Mandayam; Douglas Cleary

in the 1 – 50 G Hz rangeare used.Student ActivitiesThe NDE junior/senior clinic project was held from the fall of 1999 through the fall of 2000. Ateam of 4 students (3 from Electrical & Computer engineering and 1 from Civil &Environmental engineering) was chosen to participate in the project. Weekly meetings wereorganized for planning research and development activity and reporting periodic progress.Students were also required to write a final technical report on their findings and orally presenttheir work to faculty. The students also conducted peer evaluations assessing each other’sperformance. This helped identify problems in team dynamics and evaluate individual studentefforts.The goal of the clinic project was to develop a

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Kathryne A. Newton; Duane D. Dunlap; Dennis R. Depew

with peers and faculty during three“weekend” sessions on campus. Students are able to optimize their time by the use of technology tolearn the bulk of the course content, but are then able to build their expertise in higher-levelexperiences provided by social interaction and feedback during case studies, project presentations,and other in-class exercises.Graduate Education in TechnologyTechnology and engineering technology programs continue to change and evolve in striving to meetsociety’s technological expectations and needs. It is imperative that graduate education beconsidered as an important element. A survey study conducted at Purdue University reported that92% of the alumni and faculty indicated that graduate education in technology is

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Ted D. Loso; Raj Desai; Michael E. Courbat

are, respectively, student evaluation, juried journal articles, bookspublished, peer evaluations and recipient of grants 6. The nearest category to the adoption ofinformation technology is a item called technology based projects. It placed dead last in a list of21 items evaluated.Clearly the question being asked shouldn’t be when this new technology will be adopted butwhy do you expect the faculty to adopt it at all? Any realistic analysis of the efforts required toutilize the world wide web in a university level course reveals it to be very time intensive.Activities including web page design, web document design, document conversion into HTMLformat, and file transfer times are all very time consuming 3,4,5. Without even anacknowledgment of

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

S. Hiranniah; N. W. Scott; B. J. Stone; M. A. Mannan

needs to be carried forward then it may be necessary toreturn to the previous page to check the first equation. The yellow trail arrows easily allow thiseven when the page was not the one previously being viewed. As an illustration of level twomaterial, Appendix B shows what happens when the shown link in Figure 5 is selected. Thispaper in fact uses the same strategy as the WWW pages. Detailed maths is "relegated" fromthe main body of the text. As a colleague who peer reviewed [6] the pages commented,I looked at the web address and like it. I would much prefer that treatment to that of a textbook(except that an equation editor would be helpful). The animations help but also theconcise economical manner of presentation. A general comment on the

Collection

1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Dominique McMillan

. It is a program of the University of California. MESA is an academically-based programthat provides a rigorous, all-sided learning environment. This includes MESA classes, academicadvising, peer group learning, career exploration, parent involvement and other services forstudents from elementary through college level. BACKGROUNDFounded in 1947, Cal State L.A. is one of 20 campuses comprising the California State UniversitySystem. Cal State L.A. is a comprehensive university dedicated primarily to undergraduateeducation and offering more than 50 undergraduate and graduate degree programs in academic andprofessional fields. With a student population that is 10 percent African-American, 48 percentHispanic

Collection

1997 Annual Conference

Authors

Sandra L. Doty; Dr. Kathryn A. Svinarich; Cynthia Finelli

research projects. We then discuss the formation of thecollaboration, the decision to initiate an off-campus project, and the positive and negative aspectsof this solution. Most institutions require research activity which is documented through grant proposalsubmissions and peer-reviewed publications. Before embarking on these time-consumingactivities, one must first choose a suitable research project. For junior faculty members freshfrom their Ph.D. work, this selection process can be discouraging, especially if the researchinvolves experimental studies. Unless their new institution has laboratory facilities similar totheir degree-granting institution and a substantial development budget or unless the new Ph.D.already has significant

Collection

1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Judy Grimes; Huiming Wang; Virendra K. Varma

criticalyear in college. That support can range from mentoring to peer group discussions, from facultyadvisors to special events to ease student transition into college life.”1 In this paper, Page 4.259.1recommendations are made to illustrate how Missouri Western’s Access Plus program can beapplied at other institutions to attract and retain students.II. Marketing Strategies for Recruitment: The New vs the OldI graduated from high school in 1961 with distinction in mathematics. Before I graduated, I knewI was heading for an engineering career. I applied to only one school for admission. It was oneof the top-notch schools in the country, and the

Conference Session

First-Year Programs Division Technical Session 6: Equity, Inclusion, and Access

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David Hicks, Texas A&M University, Kingsville ; Michael Preuss, Exquiri Consulting, LLC; Matthew Lucian Alexander P.E., Texas A&M University, Kingsville; Rajashekar Reddy Mogiligidda, Texas A&M University, Kingsville; Mahesh Hosur, Texas A&M University, Kingsville

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs Division (FYP)

(1996). His area of research includes engineering education, advanced composite materials, and nondestructive evaluation. He is a fellow of American Society of Mechanical Engineers. His work has been funded by NSF, NASA, DoD, ONR, ARO and AFRL. He has over 350 peer reviewed publications. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 Augmenting Introductory Engineering Courses to Include a Collaborative Learning by Design Project: Assessment of OutcomesIntroductionThis Complete Research paper examines the efficacy of a new introductory level course added todegree programs in the College of Engineering at Texas A&M University-Kingsville, a HispanicServing Institution (HSI). The new course

Conference Session

Architectural Engineering Division (ARCHE) Technical Session 1

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ryan Solnosky P.E., Pennsylvania State University; John J. Phillips, Oklahoma State University

Tagged Divisions

Architectural Engineering Division (ARCHE)

faculty member (14%).Instead, it is more common for a group of faculty to grade (64%) with the most common group approachbeing to average the scoring. According to some capstone literature [16,19], these trends do not align tomore civil and mechanical focused capstones. a) Technical items that are assessed b) Methods to assess technical Figure 14: Assessment of Technical Work Next in grading is a students’ writing ability. According to the survey, four types of assignmentsare leveraged by programs (Fig 15a): meeting minutes (@14%), short design narratives (28%), technicalreports (100%) and lastly, students providing peer-to-peer review summaries (28%). The documented lowresults for meeting

Conference Session

Mechanical Engineering Division (MECH) Poster Session

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Prashanta Dutta, Washington State University; Soobin Seo, Washington State University; Tahira M Probst, Washington State University; Joseph M Hewa, Washington State University

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering Division (MECH)

Paper ID #41456Board 137: Interdisciplinary Convergence in Robotics and Autonomous SystemsDr. Prashanta Dutta, Washington State University Prof. Prashanta Dutta received his PhD degree in Mechanical Engineering from Texas A&M University in 2001. He is a Professor in Mechanical Engineering at Washington State University and the Director of the NSF NRT-LEAD (Next Generation Robotics – Leadership, Entrepreneurship and Adaptive Design) program. He is a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. Dr. Dutta has published his research in more than 200 peer-reviewed journals and conference proceedings and delivered

Conference Session

Computing and Information Technology Division (CIT) Technical Session 2

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stephanie Jill Lunn, Florida International University; Edward Dillon, Morgan State University; Zubayer Ahmed Sadid, Florida International University

Tagged Divisions

Computing and Information Technology Division (CIT)

importance of peer support throughout struggles students may face inacademia or the workplace. As a result, they saw team-building as a valuable way to strengthen acommunity. One instructor elaborated, “I started to do that, like actually trying to get them towork together more, because I want, because there’s so few, there’s so few women, and there’s sofew, like you, African Americans, and Latinos.”Communication was cited as critical in the job interview process and more broadly. Several of theeducators described the need for students to be able to clearly present ideas to a range ofaudiences and how practice could be beneficial. They found distinctive ways to make this part oftheir lessons. For example, as one participant mentioned: I also

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jessica E S Swenson, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York; Mary McVee

Tagged Topics

Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

advance linguistic equity by creating space for more multilingual andmultimodal activities in elementary school classrooms.IntroductionThe number of elementary school students designated as English learners has increased and willcontinue to increase in U.S. schools. In schools emergent bilingual students are often subjectedto low-level content and lower expectations than their monolingual English-speaking peers. Forexample, school leaders may believe that multilingual children need to learn basic Englishlanguage skills first before they can engage in science inquiry and engineering design. Incontrast, other approaches position multilingual and emergent bilingual students in light of theirassets [1]. Our project, thus, views multilingual learners

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ying Tang, Rowan University; Sachin Shetty, Tennessee State University; Xiufang Chen, Rowan University

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees

), and finally to review what part of the problem has been resolved and what is yet to be solved (S). In this project, questions are deliberately presented in a coherent manner throughout the game to assist students in deciding what they already know about the problem and what needs to be explored further. Doing so forces students to conduct the sophisticated kind of thinking required for drawing inferences and developing interpretations. Fig. 2: A sample KWS enabled in Escape• Think-Aloud-Share-Solve (TA2S) training – As Vygotsky pointed out, learning is an inherently social and cultural rather than individual phenomenon [4-6]. The interactions among peers produce intellectual synergy of many

Collection

1999 Annual Conference

Authors

David Whitman; Sally Steadman

, studyskills, and career development. Programming efforts conducted for both floors by the RAshave included picnics and ice cream socials, finals study sessions, resume writing/internships,and information sessions on tutoring and advising. The RAs have also met with the residentsand discussed academic progress, how to improve academic performance, where to get help,and provided information on stress relievers.Costs associated with the engineering floor are minimal. The computer network is providedand maintained by the university, while the computer equipment, four PCs and a printer foreach floor, is provided by the engineering college. Funding for programming events isprovided by Housing & Residence Life. These expenditures are more than justified

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Joseph A. Shaeiwitz

reviewsand follow-up assignments address student weaknesses, providing them with rapid feedback.The parts of the design and lab component described above other than the individual projects area rich source of assessment information that can be cultivated. The writing in all reports isevaluated using an assessment rubric developed specifically for that purpose. A similar rubricwas developed for oral presentations. Oral presentations are often videotaped to assist in theevaluation process, and, as part of the feedback process, students are required to watch thevideotapes of their presentations. There are also rubrics for peer group evaluation available thatcan be adapted for this purpose.17,18Classroom Assessment. Yet another component of the

Collection

1997 Annual Conference

Authors

Patrick L. Walter

Session 2259 Rocket Payload Load Assessment and Motor Performance- An Instrumentation Challenge Patrick L. Walter, Ph.D., P. E. ASEE/Senior Design Lecturer-Texas Christian University AbstractA complete design experience encompasses many facets including: specificationinterpretation, project management, proposal writing, preliminary and final hardware design,communications, supplier/vendor relations, testing, and human interactions. All of thesefacets are contained in the Capstone design experience in TCU’s new engineering program.The first class from

Collection

1997 Annual Conference

Authors

Jon E. Freckleton

undergraduate DFMA course started as a required course 10 years ago. It was based on a verysuccessful graduate course. The graduate course was an evening course with almost all studentsholding full-time engineering jobs (‘) . Projects usually related to the students job or were obtainedfrom a peer at work. The few full time students were allowed to use a commercial product theyhad at home or purchased at a local store.RIT is a quarter based institution with a cooperative education program. For engineering studentsit is a five year program. As freshman and sophomores, they attend three consecutive quarterswith the summer quarter as vacation. As third, fourth, and fifth year students they alternateacademic quarters and work blocks. They must complete

Conference Session

Innovations in ECE Education

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jean-Claude Thomassian, State University of New York, Maritime College; Anoop Desai, Georgia Southern University

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

students per group). They had to build a night lamp given somespecifications, write a report, and give a 5-10 minute Powerpoint presentation. This exercisefostered a collaborative learning environment that facilitated student engagement where learningis active and interactive amongst themselves, their peers, and their professors inside and outsideof the classroom.PSpice, Personal Simulation Program with Integrated Circuit Emphasis, is a general purposeanalog circuit and digital logic simulation software used to check the reliability of circuit designsand to predict circuit behavior. SPICE4 was originally developed at the Electronics ResearchLaboratory of the University of California at Berkeley. PSpice is a commercial version of SPICEand is now

Conference Session

Leadership and Strategic Planning

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert Keynton, University of Louisville; James Fiet, University of Louisville; Pankaj Patel, Ball State University

Tagged Divisions

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

draft business and marketing plans being an end-product of the workshop. 5. Provide a step-by-step approach on how to take an idea and make it into a product. 6. Provide the presenters with information about the participants, and their projects, via a short write-up of what projects they were involved in and projects they have worked on in the past, so the instructors could find relevant case studies from journals, or better yet take one of the examples of the participants firms and discuss that in detail. 7. Create 'glossary' of terms that participants can go through before they attend the seminar, so less time is spent on concepts and much more time on application. 8. Devote more time to opportunity

Conference Session

Women In Engineering Poster Session / WEPAN Knowledge Center / Women in Engineering Poster Session

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

C. Diane Matt, WEPAN Inc.; Jenna Carpenter, Louisiana Tech University; Jane Langeman, Langeman Consulting; Lori DuBois, DuBois Information

Tagged Divisions

Women in Engineering

through Browse and Search interfaces.Information resources are annotations forresource types such as articles, books,literature reviews, U.S. national reports ornarrative profiles of organizations, programsand projects, database tools.The WEPAN Knowledge CenterInformation Repository and ProfessionalCommunity platform is an effectivemechanism for disseminating grant-relatedinformation resources and connecting thepeople responsible for creating them withboth their peers and the public outside theproject silos that currently exist. Page 15.425.4Figure 2. Example of Annotated Resource.Information resources can be accessed from the annotations and

Conference Session

Documenting Success

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Patricia White; Steven Mickelson; Thomas Brumm

, Initiative,and Teamwork. Next, students are asked to write a STAR for three of the seven corecompetencies, making sure that they describe their STAR completely enough to demonstrate thecompetency.During the second period students are asked to analyze a company job description in order todetermine the workplace competencies necessary for resume development/modification,interview STAR preparation, and ultimately career success. After analyzing the job descriptionsfor key phrases that relate to the competencies, the student chooses one of the more frequentlymentioned competencies to develop a STAR for interviewing preparation.During the second semester for each program, a one credit “experiencing” course is taught toexpose our students in a hands-on

Conference Session

A Renaissance in NRE Programs

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Sukesh Aghara; Irvin Osborn-Lee

U.S. TAMUhas the ability to offer courses to bothTAMUK and PVAMU through the Trans-Texas Videoconference Network (TTVN)system. This is expected to benefit the PVAMU program as the requirement to developcourses is reduced and students can enroll in all the courses offered by the nuclearengineering department at TAMU through TTVN. Being a new program, the challengelays in recruitment of students into the nuclear engineering classes. There are a couple ofpossible causes for this. First, lack of African Americans in nuclear related professionsnationally contributes to absence of role models and community of peers. Secondly,there has been a lack of physical presence of a faculty member with a nuclear engineeringbackground at PVAMU campus. The

Conference Session

Using Technology to Improve IE Education

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Joseph Hartman; Louis Plebani

assignmentwould include evaluation by their peers. After the due date, all students in the class were told toassess the games developed by their fellow students. They were required to submit an evaluationthat included an overall evaluation of the application and the results of their success in“breaking” (crashing) the application. Web Servers and Server Side Processing: There are many possibilities that could be used asexamples of web servers and server side processing. Because they are representative of thesetechnologies and also fairly ubiquitous in the real world, the course focused on the Apache Webserver and PHP server side scripting. Students were encouraged to install Apache with PHPcapability on the own computers so that they could develop

Conference Session

Retention: Keeping the Women Students

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Audeen Fentiman; Lisa Abrams

far.Recruiting – Long-Term ProgramsRecruiting women engineering students is a daily task within the College of Engineering at OhioState. The Director of Women in Engineering meets, writes to, or talks by phone with severalindividual women who are prospective engineering students each day. However, some programsare designed to reach large groups of young women. Four such programs are described below.Weekend for Women: High school junior and senior women interested in engineering andarchitecture are invited to OSU for a weekend in Autumn and Spring to learn more about OhioState and engineering at Ohio State. On Friday, the women and their parents, will get a tour ofthe engineering or architecture campus and will get the opportunity to meet and ask

Conference Session

Introduction to Engineering Courses

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Fuja; Stephen Batill; Jay Brockman

. Following the discussion onpedagogy, some of the specific organization and implementation issues surrounding EG111/112,including faculty participation, student peer mentors, scheduling, and communications arepresented. Next, the approaches used to assess the progress toward achieving the goals for thecourses are presented. Finally, the conclusion provides some additional comments on futureplans and how these experiences might prove useful at other institutions.II. Developing the Courses: A Multidisciplinary, Collaborative EnterpriseAs indicated above, the College embarked upon the task of developing a new, two-coursesequence that would build the foundation for the departmental degree programs, generate interestand excitement in engineering, and