Conference Session

Trends in Engineering Economy

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

David Dryer; Paul Kauffmann; William Peterson

Session 1139 The Value Added By A Semester Paper In A Graduate Engineering Economy Course William R. Peterson, Paul J. Kauffmann, David A. Dryer Old Dominion UniversityAbstractThis paper reports the authors’ experiences with including a semester project as a portion of thecourse requirements in a graduate course in engineering economy. The required projects areintended to allow the students the opportunity to apply course concepts in real applications.Since the majority of the students in the program in which the course is taught are workingprofessionals, this

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Computer ET

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Gregory Dick

process of building those tools is in bettersuited to the discipline of Computer Science.A primary goal of this course now is to prepare students for subsequent courses inembedded system development. These courses focus on the hardware, software, andapplication of microprocessor and microcontroller based systems. C has become thelanguage of embedded processors and C is gradually replacing assembly language inmany applicationsi,ii. In fact, 80% of new embedded systems are developed using the Clanguageiii. Integrated development environments, e.g. Embedded Workbench from IARSystems, include powerful C development tools and simplify the management of multiplesoftware modules. The user is presented with a familiar project environment thatresembles

Conference Session

Leadership, Entrepreneurship and Ethics Education

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ronald W. Welch, The Citadel; Keith Plemmons PE, PMP, The Citadel

Tagged Divisions

Manufacturing

Engineers for over 24 years including eleven years on the faculty at the United States Military Academy.Dr. Keith Plemmons PE, PMP, The Citadel Dr. Keith Plemmons is a project management and education professional. Currently, Keith is an Asso- ciate Professor in The Citadel’s School of Engineering and the CEO of VAB Group, LLC, a sole-proprietor business services company. Keith is a registered Professional Engineer in South Carolina, with 30 years of multi-disciplinary engineering, management and higher education experience across public and pri- vate sectors in the United States and Japan. His credentials include a B.S. in Civil Engineering from The Citadel, and a M.S. and a Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from Clemson

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Lawrence Carlson

) Page 10.1052.12. Modeling an existing part (testing comprehension)3. Creating a new part from scratch (application) Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering EducationIn this paper, I discuss how these steps are implemented in a large-size, required first-yearengineering graphics course in the mechanical engineering curriculum. The third step isemphasized and illustrated through a unique rapid prototyping project in which students design anew body for a radio-controlled model car that is subsequently fabricated through the generouscontribution of

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Frank Oreovicz; Phillip Wankat

Session 3630 Cooperative Learning in a Course on Teaching Engineering Phillip C. Wankat, Frank S. Oreovicz Purdue UniversityAbstractGraduate classes can be improved by reducing lecture and increasing active learningapproaches. Group work, in particular, in class and on projects should be encouraged. Itis especially important that professors and other presenters use a number of cooperativegroup exercises and other active learning approaches in courses and workshops on“Improving the Teaching of Engineering.” New professors are much more likely to usecooperative group and other active learning

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Bahador Ghahramani

help their students to solve complex projectmanagement and scheduling problems. The SA&D model discussed here was developed toprovide a scheduling process for a large construction project in a major city in the United States.The paper will attempt to answer such critical issues as sequencing, timeline analysis, seasonalfactors, and lead/lag time of the project. A scheduling model that makes use of SA&D isdescribed. The model was required to incorporate sequencing, timeline analysis, seasonalfactors, and lead/log time for the project. Also, this paper discusses the relevance of the SA&Din the EMGT education, and how students will benefit from this model.1. IntroductionThe primary goal of this paper is to educate engineering

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Virginia Elkins; Roy Eckart; Catherine Rafter; Ali Houshmand; Eugene E. Rutz

Session 2793 Evaluation of Learning Styles and Instructional Technologies Eugene Rutz, Virginia Elkins, Catherine Rafter, Ali Houshmand, Roy Eckart University of CincinnatiAbstractThe paper describes the initial efforts of a project to evaluate the impact of various instructionaltechnologies on student learning, and to determine if there is a correlation between learningstyles of individual students and the efficacy of specific instructional technologies. The projectwill use basic engineering science courses (Engineering Mechanics and Basic Strength ofMaterials) as a platform for evaluating the technologies

Collection

1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Ajay Mahajan; David McDonald

Session 1559 Data-Acquisition Systems: An Integral Part of Undergraduate Engineering and Technology Programs David McDonald and Ajay Mahajan Lake Superior State UniversityThis paper describes example student projects and course activities in data-acquisition systems inundergraduate engineering and technology programs at Lake Superior State University. Thefocus of the paper is to show that students from electrical, computer and mechanical engineeringas well as manufacturing engineering technology programs study and use modern data-acquisition systems in several courses

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Urszula Zalewski, Stony Brook University; Marianna Savoca, Stony Brook University; Monica Bugallo, Stony Brook University

Tagged Topics

Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Faculty Director of the Women In Science and Engineering (WISE) Honors program at Stony Brook University. She received her B.S., M.S, and Ph. D. degrees in computer science and engin ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024Serving Community Needs while Sharpening Engineering SkillsAbstractThis paper reports on a novel experiential course, Service Learning in STEM, which aimed tocreate opportunities for students to apply their technical skills to community-based problems.The course has been piloted as part of the Women In Science and Engineering (WISE) Honorsprogram. Incorporating service projects as part of required curriculum ensures that

Conference Session

Best of Computers in Education Division

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nathaniel Bird, Ohio Northern University

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education

Junior-Level Undergraduate Microprocessors CourseAbstractThis paper outlines the benefits of incorporating the Arduino microcontroller board into ajunior-level course on microprocessors for students majoring in electrical engineering andcomputer engineering. The Arduino is an open-source hardware platform that has recentlygained a wide following among hobbyist and artist communities for its ease of use and theability to build interactive projects with it quickly. A description of a microprocessorscourse that used these boards is provided. Results are presented demonstrating students’learning of microprocessors through their ability to develop projects of their own design.Survey results characterizing student enthusiasm for

Collection

1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Ruane

Session 2625 SPECTRE - An Extended Interdisciplinary Senior Design Problem Michael Ruane Electrical & Computer Engineering, Boston UniversityAbstractSPECTRE - the Student-run Program for Exoatmospheric Collecting Technologies and RocketExperiment, is a sounding rocket experiment in NASA’s Student Launch Program. Electricaland computer engineering seniors have worked on the flight hardware as a continuing capstonedesign project for five semesters, as part of an interdisciplinary student project team. Studentshave faced rich technical problems and unique project management challenges arising

Conference Session

Track 1 - Session II - Student Development

Collection

2013 ASEE International Forum

Authors

Robert O. Warrington Jr., Michigan Technological University; Madelyn Marie Espinosa, Michigan Technological University - Pavlis Institute; Helena Keller, Michigan Technological University

Tagged Topics

Student Development

4-8 students) are multidisciplinary, approximately 70% engineers and science majors, with a few other majors from social science, business, and other disciplines. 2. The students work on multiple technology projects while in-country, some are ongoing from previous years and some are new. The students also check on completed projects for sustainability and identify future projects for the next cohort traveling to the project center. 3. The in-country teams are student led, a faculty member spends 1-3 days at the start of the experience for orientation and introductions and then leaves. A local person is “employed” by the university to be 24/7 contact for the student’s in case of emergencies and to

Conference Session

Capstone Design

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Roy McGrann

Capstone Design: Sculpture and Structure Roy McGrann, Gary Mackiewicz, Jacquelyn Walsh, Katherine Williams, Jill Griffin/Yvonne Hobbs/and Margaret Crocker Binghamton University / Sculptor /The Discovery CenterAbstract Obtaining funding for senior design projects can be a challenge. This paper presents anexample of a community and university project for which the funding was obtained from acharitable foundation. The project was successfully completed as one of the projects in theinterdisciplinary capstone design course at Binghamton University (SUNY). The Discovery Center, which is a hands-on children’s

Conference Session

Manufacturing and Machine Component Design

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Scott F. Kiefer, York College of Pennsylvania

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

traditional role of teaching and administering a modest research program. At Trine University, a small private school in Angola, Indiana, Scott taught ten different courses from introductory freshman courses to senior design, while serving as advisor to many undergraduate research projects. For the last three years, Scott has been at York College of Pennsylvania where his concentration is on undergraduate education in mechanical engineering. Page 24.879.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2014 Machining Experience in a Mechanical Engineering CurriculumAbstract

Conference Session

FPD 9: First-Year Engineering Courses, Part III: Research, Sustainability, and Professionalism

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Dirk Colbry, Michigan State University; Katy Luchini-Colbry, Michigan State University

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

participants were members of the University’s Honors College and completed the coursein their first or second year on campus.In the initial offering, the course focused on a single problem: how to increase the sustainabilityof the supercomputer center on campus? Students enrolled in this problem-based researchseminar learned about the problem area through in-class instruction and homework assignments,and then worked with the instructors to develop individual projects examining various solutionsto the shared research problem. In the second year the course was offered, the focus shifted froma specific problem to the broader topic of image analysis workflows, which are used in manySTEM disciplines to analyze data from photos and videos. In this workflow

Collection

2005 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

R. L. Kolar; K. Gramoull; T. R. Rhoads; R. C. Knox

Preliminary Results from a “Course-less” Curriculum Study R.L. Kolara, K. Gramoullb, T.R. Rhoadsc, R.C. Knoxa a School of Civil Engineering and Environmental Science b School of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering c College of Engineering University of Oklahoma Norman, OK 73019 kolar@ou.edu (contact author) ABSTRACTIn 2002, we received an NSF planning grant that builds upon our Sooner City project,which was funded through the Action Agenda program

Collection

2015 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Wayne Blanding; Scott Kiefer; Kala Meah; Tristan Ericson

essentially a full summer semester) and the following spring. The first semester isfocused on research and design, and the second semester is dedicated to build and test. At thebeginning of the first semester, students are already placed on capstone projects and the researchphase begins in earnest to allow enough time to complete a project design by the end of thesemester. We have historically targeted projects that require at least eight students, andsometimes up to twenty, that require students from our various engineering disciplines(mechanical, electrical, computer). Recent examples include autonomous robots for theInternational Ground Vehicle Competition (IGVC) and formula style race cars for the Society ofAutomotive Engineering Formula Student

Collection

2010 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

Brian Savilonis

Societal Impact of Thermo Fluid Design Brian Savilonis Department of Mechanical Engineering Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester MA Topic: Project Design CoursesAbstract ABET accreditation criteria include non-technical topics such as knowledge of contemporary issues and the consideration of design within a larger context. Mechanical engineering criteria require students be able to work professionally in both mechanical and thermal systems. Students in the WPI Thermodynamic Analysis and Design course work in project teams on design projects such as geothermal heat pumps, co

Conference Session

Architectural Engineering Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Sydney Nguyen, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo ; Gabriel Medina-Kim, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Franz J. Kurfess, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo ; Elise St. John, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo ; Jingzhe Wu, The World Bank; Gudrun Socher, Hochschule München University of Applied Sciences; Anurag Uppuluri, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo ; Angie Paola Garcia Arevalo, The World Bank; Erin Sheets, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

Tagged Divisions

Architectural Engineering

can save time and money in determining the structural type of school buildings to assess their vulnerability. Under this collaboration, students felt empowered working on such a highly impactful international development project involving real-world challenges, and considered it a transformative learning experience.IntroductionThe siloed structure typical of higher education institutions makes cross-disciplinaryproject-based collaborations organizationally challenging to support. With the exception ofdiscrete general education courses, students rarely work closely with other students outside theirmajors in project-based learning exercises. The work described here was done at CaliforniaPolytechnic State University, San

Conference Session

Assessment of K-12 Engineering Programs & Issues

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Marcelo Caplan, Columbia College

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

, therefore it is necessary forthe educational community, to explore and develop valid and reliable assessment tools specific forengineering and technology education.When teaching engineering and technology, the expectation is that students will demonstrate theiracquired knowledge through the design of projects that will serve as an alternative assessment. Toencourage the creativity of the students, it is desirable to use self-directed projects, where students decideand select the project they will design, which will be then graded through a rubric. The structure andassessment protocol for the self-directed project will be introduced and discussed in conjunction withsamples of different projects produced by students at the college level in the

Conference Session

Social Identities and STEM Experiences: Equity, Culture & Social Justice in Education Division Technical Session 6

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lizabeth Thompson, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Andrew Chan, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Julia Cannon, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Jane Lehr, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

, Director of Women’s Engineering Programs, and CENG Interim Associate Dean. Although she has taught over 25 different courses she current teaches Financial decision making, First year engineering, Senior project, and Change management. Her research is in Engineering Education where she has received $9.8 million of funding from NSF as either PI or Co-PI. She researches equitable classroom practices, integrated learning, and institutional change. She spent the 2019-2020 academic year at Cal State LA where she taught and collaborated on research related to equity and social justice. With her colleagues at Cal State LA she recently received an NSF grant called Eco-STEM which aims to transform STEM education using an asset-based

Conference Session

Labs and Experiential Learning

Collection

2021 Illinois-Indiana Regional Conference

Authors

David Olawale, R.B. Annis School of Engineering, University of Indianapolis; Payton Ashby Staman, University of Indianapolis; James T Emery II, University of Indianapolis

Tagged Topics

Labs and experiential learning

project management professional (PMP).Mr. Payton Ashby Staman, University of Indianapolis Payton studied Mechanical Engineering at the R.B. Annis School of Engineering at the University of In- dianapolis. Among the first class to graduate from the program, Payton has remained in the Indianapolis area, working for a local utility company, Citizens Energy Group. Working for Citizens as a mechan- ical engineer, he enjoys supporting the community while maintaining Indianapolis’s system for water, wastewater, gas, and thermal utilities. Payton is also a member of ASME.Mr. James T Emery II, University of Indianapolis James Emery is the Laboratory Manager for Mechanical Systems at the R.B. Annis School of Engineering at the

Conference Session

Global Engineering in an Interconnected World

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gregg Warnick, Brigham Young University; Spencer Magleby, Brigham Young University; Robert Todd, Brigham Young University; Alan Parkinson, Brigham Young University

Tagged Divisions

International

AC 2008-1230: GLOBALIZATION: A NEW FRONTIER FOR CAPSTONECOURSESGregg Warnick, Brigham Young University Gregg Warnick came to Brigham Young University (BYU) in May 2006 as the External Relations Coordinator for the Department of Mechanical Engineering. He actively works to recruit approximately thirty industrially-sponsored projects each year for the Engineering and Technology capstone course. He is currently working to increase international project opportunities for students and faculty. He is also the internship coordinator and helps students develop and improve their resumes and interviewing skills and to help identify potential job opportunities. In addition, he is responsible for

Conference Session

Integrating Sustainability and Social Responsibility into the Curriculum

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michelle Marincel Payne, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; John Aidoo, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

Institute of Technology to weavesustainable design principles throughout our civil engineering undergraduate curriculum, withthe expectation that the civil engineering students incorporate sustainable design principles in amore thoughtful and logical manner in their civil engineering projects.The CE Department has previously reported the incorporation of sustainable design principlesfrom freshman to senior years and its impact on our students’ understanding of sustainability.However, we found that many students still struggled to incorporate social sustainability in theircapstone project designs. In response, we created and implemented a community engagementengineering module for our Codes and Regulations course. The module consisted of

Collection

2023 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Rebecca Kassa; Ibilola Ogundare; Brian Lines; Jake Smithwick; Kenneth Sullivan

Management4Professor, Arizona State University, Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering School of Sustainable Engineering & the Built Environment *Corresponding AuthorAbstractThe construction industry confronts a critical workforce shortage that significantly impacts projectperformance and productivity. Traditional project performance metrics such as time, cost, quality,safety, and client satisfaction rely on skilled professionals’ competence. However, the prevailinglabor gap necessitates targeted talent development strategies. Construction organizations’investment in effective talent-development programs is a pivotal approach for attracting,developing, and retaining staff. This paper proposes

Conference Session

Materials Division (MATS) Technical Session 2

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sarah A Goodman, Stevens Institute of Technology; Emily L Atieh, Stevens Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Materials Division (MATS)

engineering majors. As a result,one of the ever-present challenges in teaching a required introductory MSE course to a broadengineering audience is creating student buy-in. We posit that this barrier can be overcome bysituating materials selection within the context of a college campus. In this study, we implementa final project in an undergraduate Intro to Materials Science course which requires students toweave together technical knowledge from the course with their own life experience to solve aproblem on campus. Through a student survey, we seek to understand the sources of knowledgestudents leverage in order to identify and address an on-campus materials-related challenge. Wefurther explore the impact of this project and the MSE course as a

Collection

2021 Northeast Section Meeting

Authors

Courtney D. Giles

and bias, and the ability to leveragecampus resources. A project-based structure was adopted to incorporate these learning outcomesinto two projects: (1) “Micro-Design Projects”, to practice teamwork and design while buildingsimple mechanisms and structures (floating table, mechanical hand, water-balloon launcher), (2)“Semester-long Projects”, in which students address a campus-based problem, posed by apartnering campus organization (Facilities, Waste, Transportation, Health and Wellness). In bothcases, students voted on their desired project and were placed into interdisciplinary teams.Semester project options spanned three themes (Energy, Resources, Health) and seven specificchallenges. Students presented their proposed solutions to the

Collection

2010 North Midwest Section

Authors

AnnMarie Thomas; Amy Miller; Heather Spicuzza

Dance + Engineering: A Collaboration for Freshmen Engineering Design Students AnnMarie Thomas1, Amy Miller2, Heather Spicuzza2 University of St. Thomas, Saint Paul, MN1/ The Ordway Center for the Performing Arts, St. Paul, MN2ABSTRACTThis paper examines a collaboration between the freshmen-level engineering graphics and designclass at the University of St. Thomas (UST), dance students at Macalester College and theUniversity of St. Thomas, Ordway Center for the Performing Arts, and Diavolo Dance Theater.Traditionally, students in ENGR171 completed a design project for a fictitious client. Throughthis collaboration, however, the students were

Conference Session

Technical Session 10: Simulation and Modeling

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stephen W. Crown, University of Texas, Rio Grande Valley; Constantine Tarawneh, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education

project.After students became comfortable with using some of the analysis tools, listed in Figure 1 andshown in Figure 2, they were challenged to develop their own modelling tool for use in asupersonic nozzle design project. A survey of student perspectives on the various modellingtools developed by the students was used as an evaluation tool to help determine the mosteffective platforms for future projects and to expose students to a variety of analysis tools.Figure 1: Web Site with sample programs for evaluating thermodynamic systems of equationsFigure 2: Samples of web page platform for thermodynamic systems (supersonic nozzle and ICengine)Project AssignmentFor many years, in an advanced undergraduate thermodynamics course, students have been

Conference Session

Minorities in Research

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

G. Padmanabhan

pre-college students in such programs need to involve tribal college, university, and school faculty inthe development and implementation of those activities. This paper describes the experience ofthe authors in a multi-year, multi-site project funded by the Office of Naval Research providingenhancement activities for reservation middle and high school students and activities to facilitatesmooth transfer of tribal college students to four-year colleges or universities. The studentactivities in the project were planned, designed and implemented jointly by tribal college,university, and high school teachers. The program has been a success not only in terms of theincreased student enrollment in the activities but also by systemically impacting