Conference Session

Teaching Strategies in Graphics

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

S. C. York; Tamara Knott

Supporting a Meaningful Design-Build Challenge for Freshman Engineering Students S. C. York and T. W. Knott Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech)The second semester Introduction to Engineering course taught by the Department ofEngineering Education (EngE) at Virginia Tech contains a semester-long, design-build, team-based project that constitutes a significant portion of each student’s grade in the course. For thepast three years, EngE has directed students toward the ASEE Engineering Design GraphicsDivision (EDGD) freshman design challenge as the required design project and EngE hasutilized the ASEE project as a vehicle

Conference Session

Three P's in Introduction to Engineering

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Mary Clare Robins; Elizabeth Parry; Laura Bottomley

Session 3453 Service Learning in the Freshman Engineering Course Laura J. Bottomley, Mary Clare Robbins, Elizabeth Parry North Carolina State UniversityAbstractThe College of Engineering at NC State University has had an NSF-sponsored GK-12 project forthe past four years that sent engineering students in to K-8 classrooms as science and/or mathresources for teachers. Using the same model, in fall 2002, the Introduction to Engineeringcourse that is required of all freshmen offered a design project that included service learning as anoption. The “Outreach Project” required students

Conference Session

Capstone Design

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Brian Thompson; Craig Gunn; Craig Somerton

Session 2425 The Role of the Faculty Advisor in the Capstone Design Experience: The Importance of Technical Expertise Craig W. Somerton, Brian S. Thompson, and Craig Gunn Department of Mechanical Engineering, Michigan State UniversityIntroductionThe capstone design experience in the mechanical engineering program at Michigan StateUniversity is achieved through the Mechanical Engineering Design Projects course: ME 481.This course utilizes industrially sponsored design projects for which the company makes both afinancial investment ($3500) and a personnel investment (a staff engineer is

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Sohail Anwar

Session 1648 Minority Student as a Scholar Program: A Research Grant Program for Minority Students at Penn State Altoona Sohail Anwar Penn State AltoonaAbstractThis paper describes an innovative research grant program for undergraduate minority students atPenn State Altoona. The program allows teams of faculty members and qualified minoritystudents to develop proposals for research projects in various academic disciplines includingengineering. These proposals are reviewed by a committee of faculty members and based ontheir recommendations, research grants are

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Jeffrey Schiano; Claudia Mincemoyer

program are to: 1) develop a series of hands-on activities thatintroduce youths to basic concepts of electrical science and technology, 2) foster a natural curiosityregarding electrical science and technology in youths, motivating their study of science and math, and3) develop important life skills. A key component of the program is the generation of an Internetresource that provides a repository of low cost projects with detailed assembly instructions andbackground material, information on careers in electrical science and technology, and links to otherrelevant Internet resources. We present an overview of the program by describing some of the projectsand discussing the logistics of recruiting and assisting adult leaders.ChallengesDespite the

Collection

1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael A. Cornachione; Harriet S. Cornachione

has theresponsibility for the majority of design work performed on a project. Senior level engineerreview and comment on the progress and quality of the work, but most of the design is in thehands of the engineering team. New engineers-in-training may find they have what appears to befar more responsibility than they either want or feel they are capable of handling. Problems areno longer scripted with a single correct answer. In fact, there frequently is no clear right orwrong answer. Engineers must create a solution based on various parameters including soundengineering practices, time and budget constraints, and capabilities and best judgment of theengineering design team.To facilitate the successful transition from “engineering student” to

Conference Session

Transfer issues between 2-year colleges and 4-year Engineering and Engineering Technology programs 3

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Eric Davishahl, Whatcom Community College

Tagged Divisions

Two-Year College Division (TYCD)

Paper ID #43306A Model for Course-Based Undergraduate Research in First-Year EngineeringProf. Eric Davishahl, Whatcom Community College Eric Davishahl serves as professor and engineering program coordinator at Whatcom Community College in northwest Washington state. His current project involves developing and piloting an integrated multidisciplinary learning community for first-year engineering. More general teaching and research interests include designing, implementing and assessing activities for first-year engineering, engineering mechanics, and scientific computing. Eric has been an active member of ASEE since 2001

Collection

1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard K. Sase; Julie H. Wei

Session 1421 Approaches in Teaching “Construction Estimating” Julie H. Wei, Ph.D., P.E. and Richard K. Sase, P.E. California State Polytechnic University, Pomona/ Main San Gabriel Basin Watermaster “Estimating” skill is a basic requirement in the construction industry. Typicallycontractors specialize in one of the following two types of projects: 1) buildings and 2)industrial facilities and heavy civil work. Building construction can generally be classified intoresidential and commercial projects, and heavy

Conference Session

Capstone Design and Engineering Practice

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

John Gesink; S. Hossein Mousavinezhad

senior status and permission of the department chair to enroll in thesequence. In the first course, students form design teams, identify a project topic, produce adesign project proposal and are instructed in topics relating to engineering professionalism.During the second course, the design teams, following their proposals prepared in Design I,implement their design project, evaluate it for compliance with their original specifications,create a project report and orally present their results at a public, formal, day-long, college wide"Conference on Senior Engineering Design Projects".ECE Design I ECE Design I is a two credit course and formally meets twice a week in a class roomformat. To be admitted to the course, each student completes

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship and Design

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kevin Dahm, Rowan University; William Riddell, Rowan University; Tom Merrill, Rowan University; Leigh Weiss, Rowan University

Tagged Divisions

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

State University in 1967/8. Page 15.597.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 Fostering Entrepreneurship while Teaching DesignAbstractRowan University has a unique 8-semester Engineering Clinic sequence. Thissequence helps develop professional skills identified in the ABET A-K criteriathough project-based-learning. The Freshman Engineering Clinics are anintroduction to the profession, teamwork, and measurements. The SophomoreEngineering Clinics provide an introduction to technical communication andengineering design principles, and in the Junior/Senior Engineering Clinics, studentswork in multidisciplinary

Conference Session

Design in Engineering Education Division (DEED) Poster Session

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kyung S Kang, Marian University

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education Division (DEED)

introductory first-year course, Introduction to Engineering, the engineeringdesign process was introduced with small practical exercises at major design steps, anddiscussion. Then, two different design projects were assigned to apply the engineering designprocess that they had learned. The learning experience as a team of 2-3 students through theseprojects is emphasized in this paper. The instructor provided a guideline for the design process,however, the instructor’s direct inputs towards the problem-solving in the projects wereminimized to encourage self-learning and learning while working together. These first-yearengineering students as a team independently navigated to complete these two engineeringprojects. The survey data showed that majority

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Kauser Jahan; Douglas Cleary

developed following a review of other capstone courses describedin literature. Open-ended design projects are developed with assistance from industry advisorsand presented to the students at the start of the course. The students then spend two semesterspreparing solutions to the problems. The first year the course was offered went much asexpected based on the instructors’ previous experiences. Students complained of vagueinstructions, too much work, and lack of experience. However, additional student concerns withfairness and inequitable workloads were expressed. Refinements to the project selection processand course administration were made to address these concerns.1. IntroductionThe relative newness of the Civil and Environmental Engineering

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering by Design II

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Paul Leiffer

Five Curriculum Tools to Enhance Interdisciplinary Teamwork Paul R. Leiffer, R. William Graff, and Roger V. Gonzalez LeTourneau UniversityAbstractAn ability to function well in a multidisciplinary team has become an expectation of modernindustry and a major goal for engineering students. Since LeTourneau University offers a generalengineering degree with five concentrations, multi-disciplinary design projects naturally arise atall levels of the curriculum. Current capstone projects involve student teams from up to threeengineering disciplines, plus computer science, design technology, and marketing. Obstacles tomulti-disciplinary teamwork, including disciplinary competition

Conference Session

Capstone Mechanical Engineering Design

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Mark Archibald

Session 3566 RECONCILING WELL-DEFINED CAPSTONE OBJECTIVES AND CRITERIA WITH REQUIREMENTS FOR INDUSTY INVOLVEMENT Mark Archibald, Mark Reuber, Blair Allison GROVE CITY COLLEGEAbstractMechanical engineering capstone design students benefit from interaction with practicingengineers. This is widely recognized, and many programs require students to work onprojects that originate with local industry. This approach has the appeal of “real-world”engineering, and the benefit of external project evaluation. However, it can be difficult toreconcile industry-sponsored projects with established

Conference Session

Circuits and Systems Education 1

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jacquelyn Kay Nagel, James Madison University; Stephen Keith Holland, James Madison University; Brian Groener, James Madison University

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

circuit analysis arecovered along with instrumentation topics. The laboratory portion of the course reinforces the conceptslearned in lecture and assignments while building skills in circuit prototyping and measurement. Labexercises have traditionally been a time when students follow a given procedure, collect data, andinterpret the data. The highly structured experience often leads to students focusing on the procedureand not fully thinking through the concepts being covered. To encourage a deeper understanding ofcourse concepts and how they translate to physical systems, two open-ended design projects wereoffered in place of structured labs in the most recent offering the circuits and instrumentation course.The design projects are undirected

Conference Session

Civil Engineering Division Technical Session 7

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Dan Budny P.E., University of Pittsburgh; Sina Arjmand, University of Pittsburgh; David V.P. Sanchez, University of Pittsburgh

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

- versity of Pittsburgh, Freshman Engineering, 126 Benedum Hall, Pittsburgh, PA 15261; 412-624-6474. [budny@pitt.edu]Mr. Sina ArjmandDr. David V.P. Sanchez, University of Pittsburgh Page 26.156.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 ADDING AN INTERNATIONAL SENIOR DESIGN COMPONENT INTO THE CIVIL CURRICULUMAbstractInternational exposure as well as project-based service learning for undergraduate students hasgained much attention for their positive impact on students. Additionally, ABET engineeringcriteria require international exposure for all undergraduates. As

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2013 ERC

Authors

Peder Maarbjerg

ARPA-E: Changing What’s Possible 2013 ASEE Engineering Research Council (ERC) Annual Conference Peder MaarbjergMarch 4, 2013Evolution of ARPA-E 1ARPA-E Mission 2Creating New Learning Curves 3What Makes an ARPA-E Project? IMPACT ‣ High impact on ARPA-E mission areas ‣ Credible path to market ‣ Large commercial application TRANSFORM ‣ Challenges what is possible ‣ Disrupts existing learning curves ‣ Leaps beyond today’s technologies BRIDGE ‣ Translates science into breakthrough technology ‣ Not researched or funded elsewhere ‣ Catalyzes new interest and investment TEAM

Collection

2013 ERC

Authors

Peder Maarbjerg

ARPA-E: Changing What’s Possible 2013 ASEE Engineering Research Council (ERC) Annual Conference Peder MaarbjergMarch 4, 2013Evolution of ARPA-E 1ARPA-E Mission 2Creating New Learning Curves 3What Makes an ARPA-E Project? IMPACT ‣ High impact on ARPA-E mission areas ‣ Credible path to market ‣ Large commercial application TRANSFORM ‣ Challenges what is possible ‣ Disrupts existing learning curves ‣ Leaps beyond today’s technologies BRIDGE ‣ Translates science into breakthrough technology ‣ Not researched or funded elsewhere ‣ Catalyzes new interest and investment TEAM

Conference Session

BIM in Architectural Engineering

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stan Guidera, Bowling Green State University

Tagged Divisions

Architectural

, and integrating digital applications into the design process. He is skilled with a variety of digital modeling tools including Revit, Rhino 3D, Grasshopper, 3DS Max Design, and AutoCAD Architecture. In addition to university teaching he is an Autodesk Certified Revit Professional and provides training and consulting services. Page 26.1660.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 Using BIM to support Habitat for Humanity: A case studyAbstract This paper documents a graduate level research project intended to enable students togain experience with Building

Conference Session

Product Development and Manufacturing

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Wei Zhan, Texas A&M University; Jyhwen Wang, Texas A&M University; Manoj Vanajakumari, Texas A&M University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

ofthe initiative is to provide engineering students at all levels with opportunities in learning productdevelopment in the real-world setting.This article discusses the details of the activities organized by PID Initiative and how theyimpact the student learning. The focus of PID Initiative activities is innovative productdevelopment. Undergraduate students from ETID department are recruited to form teams thatdevelop new products. The student teams, with the help of faculty members, generate ideas fornew products, conduct market analysis, design and manufacture the product, sell the products,and provide technical support to the customers. The PID Initiative projects generate revenue tosupport student learning. The objective is to become self

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2016 Rocky Mountain Section Conference

Authors

N. Fang; L. McNeill; Robert Spall; P. Barr

engineering graduation and retentionrates at U.S. universities are not keeping up with the nation’s increasing demands for engineeringtalent. In 2000, less than 5% of all undergraduate degrees were awarded to engineers.Engineering bachelor’s degrees have grown only 1% since 2005.This presentation describes the overall framework of a project that has been recently funded bythe Scholarships in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Program (S-STEM) ofthe National Science Foundation. The goal of the project is to provide S-STEM scholarshipsupport for academically-talented, financially-needy engineering students, and to train thesestudents to become effective scientific and technological contributors when entering theengineering workforce. The

Conference Session

Off the Beaten Path

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gerald Sullivan, Virginia Military Institute; Jon-Michael Hardin, Virginia Military Institute

Tagged Divisions

New Engineering Educators

at amilitary academy, where highly structured time schedules scatters study time through outthe day, and where students face all of the same hi-tech distractions as their civiliancounterparts. To compete for time in this new study-scape, the study of engineeringconcepts must be re-cast into exercises that entice students with interesting and evenentertaining results. In this paper we describe several projects that have been incorporatedinto the ME curriculum at the Virginia Military Institute (VMI) to keep students engagedin their studies and improve the acquisition of engineering concepts as well as designskills. In this paper the authors examine case-study projects used at VMI and, based ontheir experiences with these projects, conclude

Conference Session

Innovation in the Civil Engineering Classroom

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Diane Bondehagen, Florida Gulf Coast University; Simeon Komisar, Florida Gulf Coast University

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

Resources DesignAbstractA first semester, senior level civil and environmental engineering course, Water ResourcesDesign is, for most, the first experience for students at Florida Gulf Coast University in workingwith non-trivial design projects. To make the course experience as transferable as possible tofuture graduate engineering employment, students learn and apply hydraulic software to projectdevelopment and execution. The course takes an innovative case study approach with 5 designprojects required with rotating teams assigned to each project. The projects are taken from "realworld" engineering problem assignments which impart to students an appreciation of theconstraints and uncertainties inherent in the design process. Project 1 necessitates

Conference Session

Building a Better Program - Construction Curriculum Enhancements

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Philip A. Dunn Jr. P.E., University of Maine

Tagged Divisions

Construction

Page 23.390.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013 Developing Across the Curriculum Examples to Use in the Construction ClassroomAbstractThis paper presents an across the curriculum case study used at the University of Maine withinsome of the core courses of the Construction Management Technology program. Exercises havebeen developed using this case study as the reference project. Students are first introduced to theproject as sophomores and refer to the project in select exercises in courses through andincluding in their senior year. The consistency in using a familiar project helps students graspconstruction concepts within the context of a working project

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1997 Annual Conference

Authors

James vanPutten; Brad Mulder; John Krupczak

Session 1661 Multidisciplinary Student Experiences in a Liberal Arts Engineering Program John Krupczak, Jr., Brad Mulder, and James vanPutten, Jr. Hope College AbstractA two-semester senior undergraduate design sequence has been developed for an engineeringprogram in a liberal arts college. The courses provide a wide range of design experiencesincluding: study of structured design methodologies, individual and team projects, prototypeconstruction, communication of design results, incorporation of industrial design

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Hong Man, Stevens Institute of Technology

introductory course. A possible solution is to keep thesesubjects at a conceptual (or qualitative) level and allow students to visualize the physical effectsthrough lab exercises.Developing and maintaining a medical imaging laboratory is quite expensive, and it may requiremany specialized equipment and hazardous materials. Although many schools and programshave been offering some kind of lab exercises for this course, not many of them can actuallyafford and support a comprehensive laboratory that can cover all the aspects and modalities ofmedical imaging4,5.The objective of this CCLI Phase 1 Project is to develop a computer simulation labenvironment—SimuRad, that can help junior or senior undergraduate students from differentmajors to understand the

Conference Session

College Industry Partnerships Division Technical Session 3

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lori M Houghtalen, Abilene Christian University; Timothy Kennedy P.E., Abilene Christian University; Raymond Earl Smith, Abilene Christian University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

College Industry Partnerships

. Entering the 2015-2016 academic year,program faculty envisioned a capstone design experience that would engage student teams in ayear-long, professional level design project sponsored by an industry client. The first two yearsof the capstone design program have been inarguably successful, and in this paper we identifyand reflect on the keys to our success. The intention for writing this paper is to ensure thesuccess of the program is repeatable, and to assist other programs, especially those residing insmall liberal arts universities, in starting or revising their own senior design experience.Our key factors in assembling a successful industry-sponsored capstone design program havebeen: (1) faculty buy-in and involvement, (2) engaged industry

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Frederick Berry; Patricia Carlson

reflect on whether they have gained a deeper level of understanding for the assignment and its outcomes.How We Applied CPRAfter some experimentation with CPR, it was very obvious that with proper design of exercises,CPR could be used to assess EC3(g). In fact, CPR could be used to make writing a method oflearning engineering design. Therefore, the ECE Department has developed a complete courseusing CPR assignments to help our students develop proposals for their senior design projects.This course, ECE362 Principles of Design, is a junior level required course for all computer andelectrical engineering students. ECE362 includes intellectual property, research methods, designspecifications, conceptual design, scheduling, project management

Conference Session

Computer and Informtion Technology-related Issues

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Se Jun Song, Texas A&M University, College Station

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

) undergraduate programs have been offering a “Mobile Computing ApplicationDevelopment with Android (ENTC 489)” course from 2009. For the nature of the open programenvironment, Google’s Android becomes major development platform along with Apple’siPhone Operating Systems (iOS). The course has provided various opportunities to harness thestudents’ mobile application development skills for their research and development projects. Thecourse curriculum is designed to learn the Google’s Android application developmentenvironment by examining various hands-on software technologies. Then students (working inteams) identify application ideas for delivering their final project. The course also covers theusability issues of mobile devices. The detailed course

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Beatrice Isaacs; Donald Leone

) with a sociology course, “Ethics in the Professions”. The ILBmechanism allows for the study of specific ethical issues associated with the design projectsbeing undertaken by the engineering students. In the sociology course, engineering studentsbenefit from wide ranging discussions of ethical issues, and non-engineering students and facultyare brought to understand the nature of engineering work and its broad social context. Severalworkshops were held to engage the faculty teaching “Ethics in the Professions”, and to defineoutcomes for the ILB.In order to formulate realistic design projects with identifiable ethics components, an OutreachCommittee, comprised of local professional engineers, was formed and met as a group to discussthe types of