Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Andrew Rose

develop improved student writing skills. The “Writing Assignments for TechnicalCourses” workshop sponsored by the Liberal Education Division at the 2000 ASEE Conferencediscussed how student peer review can be used with well-designed writing assignments intechnical courses. Based on this workshop, writing assignments in a junior level civil engineeringtechnology course have been used to help students improve their writing skills. Writingassignments varied from transmittal memos, technical memos, laboratory reports and a five toseven page research paper on topics that time constraints prevent from being covered in class. Tocompare the effectiveness of peer reviewed writing assignments with non-peer reviewedassignments; the peer review process was

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Lombardo; Stephen R. Fleeman

admonish proponents with, "Youcan’t do labs, so it can’t be done". The authors, both practicing engineers in addition to servingas educators, would prefer to take a more open-minded view. Applying DE to a laboratory-based curriculum is challenging, but this is certainly not the first obstacle EET educators haveever faced. The authors envision a "hybrid" delivery method, where the lecture material iscompleted online, and the lab work is still done in the laboratory. (The intent here is to addressthe needs of the time-bound student rather than the place-bound student.)In this paper, we will explore the EET curriculum with respect to the national skill standards1developed by the Electronic Industries Alliance (EIA)2. Each skill standard will be given

Collection

2007 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Graham Walker

process project.2 Background Several efforts have been made over the years to improve the experimental experience thatstudents obtain at the undergraduate level. With respect to teaching students about mathematical design ofexperiment concepts and statistical analysis Gleixner, et al.2 and Munson-McGee4 both introduced theseelements into a laboratory course in chemical engineering. Equally, Lyons, et al.3 has introduced theteaching of instrumentation and experimental practices into a mechanical engineering laboratory, whileCyr, et al.1 has exposed students to open ended experimental process projects to promote creativity andinnovation. However, there is no documented case of where all of the material and practices necessary toaddress a

Conference Session

Student Division (STDT) Technical Session 1: Student Success and Mentoring

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Duncan H. Mullins, State University of New York, Buffalo ; AraOluwa Adaramola, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Student Division (STDT)

grading and recitations as a TA. Ask to be involved in developinghomework assignments or exam questions. Ask if you can deliver a lecture or help make materialfor a class session.Bibliography[1] J. M. Mutambuki and R. Schwartz, “We don’t get any training: the impact of a professional development model on teaching practices of chemistry and biology graduate teaching 14 assistants,” Chem. Educ. Res. Pract., vol. 19, no. 1, pp. 106–121, 2018, doi: 10.1039/C7RP00133A.[2] J. A. Luft, J. P. Kurdziel, G. H. Roehrig, and J. Turner, “Growing a garden without water: Graduate teaching assistants in introductory science laboratories at a doctoral

Conference Session

Best of NEE

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stephen M. Williams P.E., Milwaukee School of Engineering; Robert W. Hasker, Milwaukee School of Engineering; Steven Holland, Milwaukee School of Engineering; Adam Redd Livingston, Milwaukee School of Engineering; Kerry R. Widder, Milwaukee School of Engineering; Josiah A. Yoder, Milwaukee School of Enginering

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New Engineering Educators

Division of the American Society for Engineering Education; chair of a new IEEE program on Early Career Faculty Development; editorial board of IEEE/HKN The Bridge magazine; and ABET EAC program evaluator.Dr. Robert W. Hasker, Milwaukee School of Engineering Rob is a professor in the software engineering program at Milwaukee School of Engineering, where he teaches courses at all levels. He was recently at University of Wisconsin - Platteville, where he taught for 17 years and helped develop an undergraduate program in software engineering and an international master’s program in computer science. In addition to academic experience, Rob has worked on a number of projects in industry ranging from avionics to cellular

Conference Session

Graduate Student Experiences

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Timothy Hancock; John Norton

scholarship of teachingand learning.Graduate student instructors (GSIs) are an important component of the CoE teaching staff.There are 318 faculty, including assistant, associate and full professors, as well as 62 non-tenuretrack instructors. An average of 215 GSIs supplement the instructional faculty each term, along Page 9.596.1with an untold number of graders. The duties of a GSI are varied and range from leading Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Educationdiscussion and laboratory sections to holding

Conference Session

Professional Graduate Education and Industry

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Carla C. Purdy, University of Cincinnati; Xuefu Zhou, University of Cincinnati

Tagged Divisions

College Industry Partnerships, Graduate Studies

changes in our environment and to better prepare ourstudents to be future academic leaders.IntroductionPreparing Future Faculty (PFF) programs typically meet three standard requirements: 1. they focus on the full spectrum of faculty roles and responsibilities with regard to teaching, research, and service, and how these responsibilities may be interpreted in different institutions; 2. they provide participants with multiple mentors and feedback not only on their research but also on teaching and service; 3. to accomplish these goals, they involve a cluster of institutions, with one doctoral degree-granting institution partnering with a variety of other institutions.The 12-year-old Preparing

Conference Session

Flipping ECE Courses

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rafic Bachnak, Pennsylvania State University, Harrisburg; Sofía Carolina Maldonado, Texas A&M International University

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

retention.Studies have shown that students are more likely to stay in college if they have clear goals, areactive learners, and are active participants in classroom activities. In other words, students learnmore when they are intensely involved in their education and have opportunities to apply whatthey are learning. Students also benefit when they are engaged in the teaching and learning oftheir peers, such as group work, peer review, study groups, and peer teaching in and out of class.Flipping the classroom is a relatively new active learning technique that faculty at manyinstitutions have incorporated in their teaching. In a flipped classroom, laboratory and in-classactivities replace typical class-lectures. Lectures are normally delivered over some

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2008 GSW

Authors

Arup Maji; Mahmoud Reda Taha

Engineering and Construction Management. In an attempt to better integratethe Engineering students and Management degree students as well as to seek newefficiency in teaching, the Construction Management students were required to take a 4credit course that was previously required only of the Engineering students. The courseon “Civil Engineering Materials” includes a significant laboratory component and was tobecome the only laboratory course taken by the Construction Management students intheir 4-year curriculum. Starting Fall 2006, the prerequisites and course content werechanged to accommodate the new clientele. The integration proved to be challengingpartly due to the diverse academic background of the two cohorts of students(management and

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1996 Annual Conference

Authors

W. M. Waite; Rommel Simpson

thenecessary skill acquisition. This paper discusses the structure and support of this course, and our experiencewith teaching it.1. BackgroundFalling enrollments and problems with retention of sophomores prompted us to examine our curriculum in1992. We interviewed students, looked at initiatives at other schools, consulted with industryrepresentatives, and debated strategy and tactics internally. Our conclusion was that we needed to improvethe students’ laboratory experience and integrate it more closely with lecture material. In that way, we feltthat we could provide stronger motivation for the lecture material and also reinforce it through immediateapplication.There has been a trend at the University of Colorado towards a separation of lectures

Conference Session

Trends in Energy Conversion/Conservation

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Camille George

Session 2233 Fuel Cells and Discovery-Oriented Teaching Camille George Programs in Engineering & Technology Management University of St. Thomas, St. Paul MinnesotaAbstractFuel cells and the hydrogen economy are mentioned in every media outlet. However, the averagegraduating mechanical engineer does not know any more about fuel cells than an interestedlayman. Are our future engineers equipped with the inquiry-based skills needed to adapt torapidly changing technologies? A fuel cell engineering class has been introduced at theUniversity of St

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2018 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Nahid Uzzaman; Dale Schinstock

Evaluation of Inexpensive Hardware for Control Theory Application Nahid Uzzaman, Dale Schinstock Department of Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering Kansas State University Email: nuzzaman@ksu.edu, dales@ksu.eduAbstractWith the increasing class size, it is necessary to increase the laboratory size associated with thatclass. However, that creates problems like cost and space issues. If smaller and cheaperlaboratory hardware is used these problems might be minimized by having hardware thatstudents can purchase and use at home. However, inexpensive hardware may lead to poormatches between theoretical models and experimental data

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2012 Northeast Section Meeting

Authors

James A. Lee; Michael J. D'Agostino

for SustainabilityThe estimated volume of concrete produced in 2011 in the U.S. was 500 million cubic yards. In terms of rawmaterials, this volume represents the consumption of 900 million lbs. of stone, 600 million lbs. of sand, 300 millionlbs. of cement and 18 million gallons of water. The Portland Cement Association, (PCA), estimates that the cementindustry is responsible for 1% of mankind’s carbon footprint, while others claim it is as high as 5%. As a teachinginstitution that has numerous degree programs preparing graduates in construction and related built environmentcareers, it is necessary to both teach and practice principles of sustainability in regard to construction materials.While an academic laboratory consumes very small

Conference Session

Physical Models and Other Interactive Tools

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Douglas Cleary, Rowan University

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

physically observe thetypes of failures in reinforced concrete that were being studied in the course. The testing was toprovide hands-on experience with the failures to supplement the reading and lecture material.This provided an opportunity for alternative patterns of teaching and learning. The physicaltesting is especially valuable in providing opportunities for visual vs. verbal, inductive vs.deductive, and active vs. reflective learning – patterns that may be less emphasized in atraditional lecture format9, 10.Specific goals include: • Students are able to classify service and failure load behavior in reinforced concrete beams based on observed and recorded data • Students are able to collect and analyze of laboratory data

Conference Session

Energy Efficiency and Capstone Projects

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David McDonald P.E., Lake Superior State University

Tagged Divisions

Energy Conversion and Conservation

related systems. That combination ofyears of consulting and teaching helped create the foundation for the course.The course is specifically required for mechanical engineering majors who have elected thevehicle systems concentration within mechanical engineering. Other students who meet thebasic course requirements of Electrical Circuits, and Physics are welcome to take the course as atechnical elective.Course Format and General Content:The Vehicle Energy Systems course involves a typical lecture and laboratory format with twolecture hours and a three-hour laboratory each week. The initial lecture content briefly reviewsfundamental electrical and mechanical basics, and applies basic DC, single phase and three phaseAC content as well as power and

Conference Session

Graduate Education in ET

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Biwu Yang; Tijjani Mohammed

affordability ofcomputing and networking technologies have made Internet-based teaching and learning of boththeory and lab-based courses and programs very practical1,5,9,13. Advances in Internet accesstechnologies like dial-up, broadband, satellite, and personal wireless communication serviceshave propelled online teaching and learning to unprecedented levels. Additionally, thetremendous processing power and reduced cost of today’s personal computers and networkingequipment have made Internet-based programs much more appealing and practical than othertraditional DE based counterparts. As a result of these and other technological developments,there is a flurry of activity as academic institutions attempt to capitalize on this new wave ofenrollment

Conference Session

Faculty Development Division (FDD) Technical Session 3

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Swetha Nittala, Uber Technologies; Sheri D. Sheppard, Stanford University; Helen L. Chen, Stanford University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Faculty Development Division (FDD)

instructors to proactively incorporate inclusive principles in various aspects oftheir course design, such as syllabi, content, assessment, pedagogy, and laboratories. Bydoing so, they can help students feel included and promote their sense of belonging. Whilethe comprehensiveness and breadth of the checklist may seem overwhelming, courseinstructors and faculty members are encouraged to read through the checklist and considerincorporating practices and strategies as they see fit for their courses and context.Alternatively, an instructor might choose just one of the categories listed in the frameworkand see what course changes might be possible with a more focused approach. The checklistincludes elements of inclusive teaching practices that can be

Conference Session

Bringing Industrial Applications into the Classroom

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Zenaida Otero Gephardt, Rowan University; C. Stewart Slater, Rowan University; Stephanie Farrell, Rowan University; Mariano Javier Savelski, Rowan University

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

ideas. Participants could attend workshopsof their choice fitting their professional and teaching interests. The workshop described in thiswork was attended by 30 participants and the workshop slides and references were disseminatedto all 150 Summer School attendees.Particulate systems can be found in more than 90% of chemical and pharmaceutical processes.5Integration of laboratory experiments and demonstrations that include particulate systems is anexcellent way to integrate particle technology into the traditional engineering curriculum andfamiliarize students with this important technology and the pharmaceutical industry. Thepharmaceutical industry employs one in eight chemical engineers, second only to the chemicalprocess industry. The

Collection

1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Lyn Mowafy

hours of instructional activity. Electronic Delivery SystemA MATEC module consists of background information, learning plans, and support resources toenable successful delivery of the learning activities by the instructor and mastery of the targetedcompetency by the learner. Because these modules contain the technical core of a rapidlyevolving industry, it is critical that MATEC develop an equally nimble system for deliveringthem to the faculty. Traditional paper-based or conventional electronic delivery systems wouldprohibit rapid response to industry change. Therefore, MATEC is delivering the modules andtheir associated teaching materials to the faculty electronically, using a hybrid Internet/CD

Conference Session

Balancing Personal and Professional Life

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Penny Knoll; Lisa Bullard; Ann Saterbak

Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition CopyrightÓ 2002, American Society for Engineering EducationWill you ever pursue a tenure-track position? “At the end of the most intense laboratory course Iteach, one student asked me, ‘How will you ever get tenure when you spend so much time withus?’ I explained that I did not do research and thus could devote most of my time to teaching. Ialso explained that I will never get tenure unless the criteria for tenure at Rice Universitychanges. Some days I think I should get tenure for my contributions in bioengineeringeducation, and maybe at another university it could happen. Together with two colleagues, Ihave a contract with Prentice Hall to develop the content of the

Conference Session

Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies - Bring Your Own Experiment

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Carl J. Spezia P.E., Southern Illinois University, Carbondale; Garth V. Crosby, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale

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Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

, Strategies for Success”, Proceedings of the ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, San Antonio, TX, 2012.4. Radian Belu, “Virtual Laboratory For Study of the Electric Machines Parameters and Characteristics”, Proceedings of the ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Louisville, KY, 20105. Radian G Belu, Irina Nicoleta Ciobanescu Husanu, “Using a Virtual Platform for Teaching Electrical Machines and Power Systems”, Proceedings of the ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Atlanta, GA, 20136. S. Ayasun and G. Karbeyaz, DC motor speed control methods using MATLAB/Simulink and their integration into undergraduate electric machinery courses, Computer Applications in Engineering Education, vol. 15, 2007, pp. 347 - 354.7. J.R

Conference Session

Chemical Engineering Division Poster Session

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jason R White, University of California, Davis

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Chemical Engineering

quarter in the redesigned course. It shouldalso be noted that in the redesigned course, students were required to attend the once a week one-hour laboratory section in order to work with their design group. The students honored thisrequirement and only rare absences due to illness or conference participation were noted. A BFigure 1. Evaluation of Student Engagement and Perceptions on the Relevance of theCourse Material. (A) Students responded to the prompt “Please indicate the overall educationalvalue of the course” on an end-of-term student evaluation of teaching using a Likert-type scale(1 = Poor to 5 = Excellent). The percentage of responses for each category is presented for the‘15 (black, n = 68/122), ‘16 (dark grey, n = 57/145), ‘17

Conference Session

Innovations in Upper-level Biomedical Engineering Courses

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Anton E. Bowden, Brigham Young University; Ruth Ochia P.E., Temple University; Dennis Lee Eggett, Brigham Young University

Tagged Divisions

Biomedical

theinstructor responses, the available texts have a low cost/benefit ratio for students, do not containhelpful homework problems, software examples, or laboratory exercises, and do not adequatelycover the topics that the instructor would like to teach. The highest mean score for textbook wasin “Appropriate writing level for the class you teach”, which averaged a 3.71/7.0 (stdev 1.64).The lowest mean score for textbook was in “Helpful laboratory exercises”, which averaged a Page 26.1446.51.56/7.0 (stdev 1.59).Figure 3: Responses to textbook satisfaction where 7 represents “extremely satisfied” and 1represents “extremely dissatisfied.” A rating of 4.0

Conference Session

Trends in ME Education Poster Session

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Hyun Kim

power area.The mission of the Center is: • to support the missions of the University and the College of serving its major constituents and striving to create a teaching and learning environment that promotes academic excellence and fosters intellectual growth and scholarship. • to promote and develop fluid power technology. • to develop a productive partnership between the University and the fluid power industry through cutting edge research and innovative educational programs3. Structure of the CenterThe Center consists of four functional units that include two laboratories and two programs. Thelaboratories are a hydraulics laboratory and a computational laboratory. The two programs are atechnical assistance

Conference Session

Innovations in Mechanical Engineering Education

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Qingli Dai, Michigan Technological University; Zhanping You, Michigan Technological University

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

numericalproblems and generate charts and graphs using MATLAB. This course is designed to givestudents opportunities for hands-on practice through the lab work and project studies. The authoralso instructed senior students to use MATLAB for experimental data analysis in course MEEN4131 (Mechanical Engineering Laboratory). In this paper, these successful teaching experiencesare summarized and some additional suggestion is also addressed.IntroductionMATLAB has been largely used in many engineering schools, because it provides a friendlyinteractive system that incorporates numeric computation, symbolic computation, and scientificvisualization [1-2, 4-10]. Authors taught a sophomore course to help the students apply theMALAB tool for engineering problem

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2010 North Midwest Section

Authors

Waddah Akili

, the paper relates author’s preliminary findingson teaching-learning practices in selected engineering colleges, sheds light on the pros and consof the lecture format, and identifies meanings and substance of different active learningprotocols focusing on cooperative engagement strategies. Next, it identifies common barriers toreformation in general, and to the use of modern pedagogical skills in particular. It is also arguedthat any meaningful change in classroom practices today (dominated by traditional lecture-basedmethods) must be mandated and supported by the university administration. What is necessary tocreate a change, is for the department or college, to have a comprehensive and integrated set ofcomponents: clearly articulated

Conference Session

Global Engineering in an Interconected World

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

S. Ratnajeevan Hoole; Dushyanthi Hoole

education, is vitiated, particularly for women and thepoor and more particularly in the physical sciences where women do especially badly, by thenecessary laboratory, quiz and examination components that cannot be offered in distance mode.The solution we have come up with is as follows: 1. Use web-based teaching 6 so that students, communicating over the Internet, do not have to come to meet their teachers. Further, the attendant peer-interaction over the network will diminish the prospects of failure. 2. Redesign traditional experiments so that they can be done at home through home-kits7 and thereby obviate the need to come to a central campus for laboratory sessions. 3. Use the opportunity of using the web to make women

Conference Session

Supporting Successful Progression From First-year Studies

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Charles Riley P.E., Oregon Institute of Technology; Dave Kim, Washington State University Vancouver; Ken Lulay, University of Portland; John D. Lynch, Washington State University Vancouver; Sean St. Clair, Oregon Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

classroom demonstrations and illustrative laboratory and field experiences. He has served as an ASCE ExCEEd Teaching Workshop mentor for five years as well as the founding coordinator for the Oregon Tech Excellence in Teaching Workshop.Dr. Dave Kim, Washington State University Vancouver Dr. Dave Kim is Professor and Mechanical Engineering Program Coordinator in the School of Engineer- ing and Computer Science at Washington State University Vancouver. His teaching and research have been in the areas of engineering materials, fracture mechanics, and manufacturing processes. In par- ticular, he has been very active in pedagogical research in the area of writing pedagogy of engineering laboratory courses. Dr. Kim and his

Conference Session

Electromagnetics & Power Education

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nurhidajat Sisworahardjo, University of Tennessee, Chattanooga; Ahmed Eltom P.E., University of Tennessee, Chattanooga; Abdul R. Ofoli, University of Tennessee, Chattanooga; Edward H. McMahon P.E., University of Tennessee, Chattanooga

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

real time simulation of the powersystem. The GPS units are available for time stamping data received from PMUs and relays. Thelab has been featured in a prominent industrial trade publication 9 and is set to double in size witha $1 million equipment donation from Doble Engineering.The Setting and Testing Digital Relays laboratory course is taught by faculty and experiencedengineers from industry, with TVA routinely supplying adjuncts to teach actual industry practiceto a diverse group including traditional graduate students as well as practicing engineers.To expose students to a wide variety of equipment present in the smart grid, a new laboratorycourse was developed with specific assignments including: • Phasor Measurement Unit setup

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert Roemer, University of Utah; Stacy Bamberg, University of Utah; April Kedrowicz, University of Utah; Debra Mascaro, University of Utah

, sequentially:1) Newton’s and Faraday’s laws as applied to Cartesian particle dynamics, plus an introductionto elasticity, 2) the same concepts extended to rotational systems, 3) fluid dynamics, and 4)conservation of energy and heat transfer. Teaching of the fundamental technical and physicsemphases will be done through lectures, and their application will occur in the team-based designprojects. Laboratories will be used to teach about, test and characterize the mechanical andelectrical devices associated with the physics emphasis, and to teach the associated softwarepackages and manufacturing techniques to be used in modeling and constructing the student