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Innovative Teaching Techniques in the Classroom

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Goli Nossoni, Manhattan College

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Civil Engineering

Paper ID #8759An innovative way to teach sustainability in Civil engineering Material ClassDr. Goli Nossoni, Manhattan College Dr. Goli Nossoni specializes in the area of civil engineering structures and materials she has worked in multidisciplinary research laboratory. Her research recently expanded to include innovative green and recycled materials. She taught the Civil Engineering Materials course the last two years, and has tried to encourage her students to think critically about the environmental impact of the materials they use and be more creative. She recently has received an EPA-P3 grant for a multidisciplinary

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Alley; Jenny Lo; Bevlee Watford

experimental, computational, or theoretical research inactual laboratories. The benefits would not only be that the students would gain a valuableresearch experience, but that the students’ appreciation for the communication would deepen,because the students would be more likely to assume ownership of the content. This document presents the initial phase of a proof-of-concept test [10] for whether anundergraduate technical communication course could effectively be linked to larger researchexperiences, such as those offered by Summer Undergraduate Laboratory Initiative (SULI), LosAlamos, Virginia Tech, or other universities. Presented in this paper is a description of thetechnical course to be tested. Following that are the two tasks that

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New Trends in ECE Education

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Steven Reyer; Stephen Williams; Glenn Wrate; Joerg Mossbrucker; Owe Petersen

increased emphasis on developing the professional skills of ourgraduates.Curriculum modifications include a greater focus on microprocessor based systems, interfacing,signal processing, and material science. Core electrical engineering topics are introduced duringthe freshman year and include both lecture and laboratory experiences. The curriculum hasretained its broad range of content topics and its traditional strong design and laboratory focus.The curriculum changes are intended to provide the breadth and depth of technical knowledgeand the professional skills that will enable our graduates to: enter industry with immediateproductivity, pursue changing career opportunities, adjust to life-long technological changes, andpursue graduate school

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Electrical & Computer Engineering Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Morrow

teams arerequired to prepare a written contract detailing the members’ responsibilities (rotation of respon-sibilities is required), weekly meeting arrangements, and how disputes will be resolved. The teammaintains a lab notebook throughout the course, and meets weekly with the course instructorand/or teaching assistant.The course is structured to contain both a lecture component ( three 50 minute periods per week)and an intense laboratory/project component (one 3 hour period per week). The lecture compo-nent initially focuses on giving the students the required background to successfully implementa design using the course’s hardware and software platforms. The focus then shifts to a sam-pling of more pragmatic design issues that most students

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ann Beheler; Wayne Jones

present to a customer ‚" Present the solution to the class Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference &Exposition Page 9.4.1 Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering EducationWhile the Convergence Lab includes a variety of high-technology equipment ranging from ATMswitches to SONET rings, to DSLAMS, a college could set up a more limited lab with availableequipment to accomplish different but similar types of case study learning events. This paperdetails essential elements that are present in the Convergence Laboratory as well as themethodology for using those

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ismail Fidan

collected information on their homework or exams. Some classes, if studentsare lucky, have accompanying laboratory practices where they can gain hands-on experience.There have been several attempts to revise engineering curriculum to improve understanding and Page 9.767.1foster creative thinking3. “Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Conference & Exposition Copyright©2004, American Society for Engineering Education”The Manufacturing and Industrial Technology (MIT) Department of the College of Engineeringat TTU currently has four courses in the CAD/CAM/CNC areas. In order to eliminate

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Course and Curriculum Innovations in ECE

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Yingzi Du; Robert Ives; Delores Etter; Thad Welch

secure sites, making financial transactions, allowing access tonetworked computers, or identifying a terrorist in a public place. Due to the potential for researchthat this relatively new field holds, and its importance to homeland defense, we have built a newBiometric Signal Processing Laboratory, and developed a new course in biometric signalprocessing. This course was designed for seniors in the electrical engineering major so that theycould become familiar with the basis for these new technologies. The course was organized togive the students some background in image processing, from which the identificationalgorithms are formulated, and had them design simple identification algorithms. The studentswere exposed to state-of-the-art

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Recruiting, Retention & Advising

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

William Jordan; Cheryl Sundberg

. Page 9.806.1 “Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Education”IntroductionOur involvement in this outreach program was a natural outgrowth of our previous involvementwith introducing pre-service teachers to engineering concepts. We have created a course inengineering problem solving for future teachers1. A key part of this was to use laboratories toteach engineering skills to these future teachers2. We had an outreach into the K-12 communityas a result of this class. In the past, our students have made presentations on topics covered inthe class and related topics to fourth grade classes in our community

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Educational Research Initiatives at NSF

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Krishna Vedula

) - utilizes the extensive network of ResearchExperiences for Undergraduates (REU) Sites as a platform for providing in-service and pre-service K-12 teachers with discovery-based learning experiences in the MPS disciplines that theycan incorporate in their classroom activities. The EEC Division also funds RET sites. RET sitesprovide groups of in-service and pre-service K-12 teachers and community college faculty withdiscovery-based learning experiences in Engineering laboratories and facilities, which will thenbe incorporated into their classroom activities during the school year.Nanotechnology Undergraduate Education (NUE) - program has an emphasis on:• introductory undergraduate courses presented through the development of text, software

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Innovations in Nuclear Education I

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Gary Sandquist; Brian Moretti; Edward Naessens

taught by the Departments of Civil and Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineeringand Computer Science, Geography and Environmental Engineering, and Mathematics. Exposureto a wide range of disciplines broadens the science knowledge of the cadet and prepares the cadetfor lifelong science literacy and study. Cadets in the program augment their education throughan Advanced Individual Academic Development (AIAD) program that provides research anddevelopment opportunities with national and military laboratories such as the Los AlamosNational Laboratory, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Sandia National Laboratory,Aberdeen Proving Ground, and others. These intense summer training programs offer cadets theopportunity to participate in ongoing

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Innovative Curriculum and Outreach

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Elizabeth Eschenbach; Eileen Cashman

environmental science majors via hands-onprojects, case studies and active learning. The air resources module is taught over a three-weekperiod in a fifteen-week semester. The module curriculum is delivered over 6 lectures and two3-hour laboratory periods. This paper describes the lectures, labs and out of class activities. Thepedagogical approach incorporates web-based teaching strategies including Just-in-TimeTeaching (JiTT), developed by physics instructors and used by many different disciplines. Aftercompleting assigned readings, the students take online quizzes that summarize these readings.The lecture period is used to clarify misconceptions that were discovered in the students’responses to the online quizzes as well as present new material

Conference Session

Design Experiences in Energy Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Heather Cooper

and kinetic energy in a simple mechanical system. Laboratoryexperiments help alleviate the difficulties in some cases, but even a lab-based introductorythermal science course in the Mechanical Engineering Technology department at PurdueUniversity does not consistently improve student understanding of the basic principles. Thispaper describes the development and implementation of simple open-ended projects, used inconjunction with the laboratory portion of the course, as a means for increased studentunderstanding. Project topics have ranged from proving basic equations to investigating morecomplex problems, such as the effect of window treatments on cooling requirements or thefeasibility of alternative energy sources. Results from Fall 2003

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ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Zollars; Jim Henry

Assessment of Remote Experiments and Local Simulations: Student Experiences, Satisfaction and Suggestions Jim Henry Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering University of Tennessee at Chattanooga Chattanooga, TN 37403-2598 Richard Zollars Department of Chemical Engineering Washington State University Pullman, WA 99164-2710AbstractThis paper has a comparison of student reactions to having laboratory experimentsconducted with simulation software and being conducted remotely through the Web.The students in a

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Maria Suchowski; Frank Severance; Damon Miller

complete the degree given their enormous investment of time and money. The end results arelow retention rates and too many underachieving students.One Approach: A Freshman Level Introduction to Engineering CourseIntroductory engineering courses are one tool to address these problems1,2. The WesternMichigan University (WMU) Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering has offeredsuch a course (ECE 123 Mobile Robots: An Introduction to Electrical and ComputerEngineering) to incoming engineering and science students for four consecutive semesters.ECE 123 is centered on building StiquitoTM robots3,4. Class meetings consist of a brief lecturefollowed by extensive laboratory work; students learn by doing. The course is designed toprovide a wide

Conference Session

Materials Science for Nonmajors

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jamie Workman

understanding of how all this academicinformation will be important and utilized in the future. To help the students maximizetheir learning in the classroom and begin to understand the complexity of themanufacturing industry, various activities, laboratories, and tools have been developedfor this Introduction to Materials course. These ideas were developed to engage thestudent in this course and help them obtain a deeper understanding and appreciation ofthe material world than they would get with a traditional lecture format. This paperdiscusses the strategies and tools used to present various materials concepts to thestudents along with the guided activities and laboratory experiments performed by thestudents.IntroductionYoung children are very

Conference Session

Pre-College Initiatives in Engineering Education

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Lang Wah Lee; Tamer Ceylan

consisted of lectures, laboratory work, and group discussions.Activities in the afternoon session were to complement the work covered in the morning sessionwith emphasis on instructional design, delivery, and evaluation and with special attention to readingin the content areas. Teachers studied the group investigation and other models of teaching forimplementation in their classrooms. Coaching in the models took place in the summer institute andduring the school year.C) Preparatory Work. To make the program more effective, we conducted an initial survey ofparticipants’ needs and interests prior to the workshop. Based on the results of the survey, wefinalized our education plan. The following six areas were emphasized in our curriculum: (a

Conference Session

Improving Communication Skills in ME

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Alley; Harry Robertshaw

, these slides can emphasize key points, can show images too complex to explainin words, and can reveal the organization of the presentation. In addition, well designedslides can increase the retention of the audience from 10 percent, for just hearing, to 50percent for both hearing and seeing the material [1]. However, are the designs that mostengineering instructors use, and that programs such as Microsoft PowerPoint offer asdefaults, the most effective at communicating technical information? This paper arguesthat they are not. Specifically, this paper challenges the typical designs that rely on phraseheadlines and bulleted lists and offers a dramatically different design. Having its roots atthe national laboratories [2], this new design

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Merredith Portsmore; Chris Rogers

Session 2366 Data acquisition in the dorm room: Teaching experimentation techniques using LEGO Materials Chris Rogers, Merredith Portsmore Tufts UniversityAbstractData acquisition and analysis concepts taught in introductory courses in experimentation aremost effectively learned by engaging students in hands-on activities. Traditional laboratories areusually available on a limited basis to students due to supervision and hardware restrictions. Weselected a set of LEGO materials to enable students in our experimental methods course toperform hands

Conference Session

Trends in Energy Conversion/Conservation

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Doug Ramers

efficienciesthan conventional combustion processes. The upper performance efficiency limits of combustionprocesses (35 – 40%) are the minimum efficiencies for practical fuel cell systems2. Free energyefficiencies as high as 60-80 percent have been obtained for fuel cells in laboratory settings.These efficiencies are higher than the 40-50 percent efficiencies achieved in fielded fuel cells,which indicates opportunities for improvement.Losses in fuel cells reduce cell potential and release heat proportional to the difference betweenthe real and reversible electrical work of the cell. Losses are primarily due to slow chargetransfer across the electrode-electrolyte interface (activation polarization), mass transport

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Trends in Mechanical Engineering

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Hugh Jack

utilize most of the techniques of classical linear control,such as block diagrams, Bode plots and root-locus diagrams. The course includes a major laboratory component. In the first half of the semester the labora-tories focus on modeling physical components. The models can then be used to predict theresponses of systems to given inputs. As the semester progresses the labs transition to usingindustrial motor controllers to reinforce the value of the course material. The paper describes the course in detail, including a custom written text book available on thecourse web page (http://claymore.engineer.gvsu.edu/courses.html).Introduction At Grand Valley State University (GVSU) all junior Mechanical and Manufacturing engineer-ing students take

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Curriculum Development in BIO Engr.

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Zdzislaw Pawlowski; Krzysztof Zaremba; Roman Morawski

guaranteed by including in the curriculum requirements severalsubject classes not directly related to a given area of concentration.3. Biomedical Engineering - program requirementsThe program requirements for undergraduate study in Biomedical Engineering are presented inTable 2. They are defined in terms of subject classes, i.e. the required number of credit units isgiven for each subject class and the courses belonging to this class are listed. Moreover, thenumbers of lecture (L), classes (C), laboratory (?) and project (P) hours per week for each courseare given there (in the column LC?P), as well as requirements concerning the completing of thecourse (in the column E/B where E means "examination", B – "no examination"). The last threecolumns of

Conference Session

Design, Assessment, and Curriculum

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Myron (Ron) Britton

a new preliminary year curriculum was introduced. It featured two requiredcourses structured to address the distinct, but linked, questions of professional and designeducation. Introduction to Engineering, a one credit course, explores the Engineering professionfrom legal, philosophical and practical perspectives. The objective of this course is to provide anunderstanding of the nature of the profession our graduates will eventually enter. This isfollowed by Engineering Design, a four credit course that is split between instruction incomputer aided drawing and team-based design projects. Lectures in the design component ofthis course cover the design process, safety, interaction with marketing, and designresponsibility. Laboratories involve

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Ruben Rojas-Oviedo

newengineering programs are brought up on-line in Huntsville, Alabama, a highly focused regiondedicated to world class advanced space systems, communications and manufacturingtechnologies.This paper describes examples of collaboration between Alabama A&M University andindustry. Collaborative efforts have aimed at: accreditation issues under the ABET criteria2000, technical information exchange, promotion of internships, company tours, studentscholarships, engineering laboratory development, implementation of industry best practices forproject development, research contracts and grants.Industry and Government Agencies seek partnerships and alliances with universities andresearch institutes to benefit from key know-how expertise found in university’s

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Mariano Savelski; Stephanie Farrell; Robert Hesketh; C. Stewart Slater

and laboratory experiments widely used in the pharmaceutical sciences,to teach engineering principles. Material from the seven modules is being integrated verticallyinto the curriculum beginning with the Freshman Clinic, then fundamental Engineering courses,followed by Junior-Senior Clinic research projects, and finally advanced level electives onpharmaceutical topics. At the freshman level, students are engaged in the scientific discoveryprocess with exciting hands-on analysis of commercial drug delivery systems. In more advancedcourses, students design and formulate drug delivery systems and investigate the variablesaffecting their behavior. The Junior/Senior Clinic provides an opportunity for students toperform research projects related to

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Luis Ortiz; Elisa Mestorino Bachofen

Perry´s Model, with important savings in classroom time.The Experimental Methodology was initially applied in Aeronautical Estructures at the UTN,and according with the results was expanded to Mechanical and Civil Estructures in the UM.During 1999 the Argentine Federal Counsel of Deans of Engineering Schools (CONFEDI),adopted a similar criteria of the ABET 2000, in the Manual for Acreditation of EngineeringCareers.Regarding the Laboratories, this Manual recommends that students must acquire aptitudes to:design and improve components, systems and processes, plan and conduct investigations andexperiments on their own, analyzing and expounding the results, stressing teamwork, whichmatch the objectives of the Experimental Method.After three years

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

George Karady; Khaled Nigim

. The paper presents the experience gained in conductingenergy conversion course at ASU department of engineering with interactively integratingGPMS within the computer laboratory environment.1. INTRODUCTION Time and energy are saved once GPMS’s are incorporated as an aid to teaching in theclassroom. GPMS’s are mathematical software capable of manipulating a general variety ofmathematical equations and variables. The incorporation of GPMS into the classroom and in thelaboratory experimentation enhances the interactivity between the student and the coursematerial. This is one way to encourage the students to integrate with the course material that doesnot directly involve computerized tasks at early stages such as power and electrical

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Ho; Jack Hopper; David Cocke; Daniel Chen; Carl Yaws; Kuyen Li; John Gossage

provides tools to help students conceptualizedproblems, explore the influence of relevant parameters, and test fundamental engineeringprinciples. The aim of our Course, Curriculum, and Laboratory Improvement project is to meldthe problem-based learning pedagogy with CAMS to produce students with an in-depthunderstanding of the fundamentals of chemical engineering as well as the ability to use computersimulation packages effectively in the workplace. The approach used here is to integrate the useof CAMS throughout the entire chemical engineering curriculum. The Accreditation Board ofEngineering and Technology’s Engineering Criteria 2000 framework will be followed to evaluatethe outcome of this project. This reform process will beneficially affect

Conference Session

First-year Programs Division Poster Session

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Chitra Javdekar, Massachusetts Bay Community College, Wellesley Hills MA 02481; Stephen W. McKnight, Northeastern University; Michael E. Pelletier, Northern Essex Community College

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First-Year Programs

opportunities to solve engineeringproblems in a laboratory with sophisticated engineering tools and thus develop an appreciationfor the engineering profession. The contact of community college engineering students with theengineering profession is often even more meager.Engineering programs at two-year institutionsNearly forty percent of engineers who graduated between 1999-2000 attended a communitycollege at some point during their studies[7]. Despite this broad contribution of communitycolleges in our engineering education system, the equipment and financial resources available tothese two-year undergraduate institutions remain considerably less than that of their four yearinstitution counterparts. In addition, due to the lack of resources or time

Conference Session

Comparing Different Aspects of the Cooperative Education Experience

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Craig J. Gunn, Michigan State University

Tagged Divisions

Cooperative & Experiential Education

Page 22.863.3 EGR 100 – Freshmen Design Resumes, email, short engineering focused reports, engineering writing demands, problem solving, speaking, ethics, and orientation to the university/college/majorsSoph.Year ME 201 – Thermodynamics Student communication survey, refresher for past grammatical expertise Tools: MS Word, Email, WWWJuniorYear ME 332 – Fluid Mechanics ME 371 – Machine Design I Laboratory Reports: (Approx. 9 @ 4-6 pages each) Short Technical Reporting Brief narrative of procedure, measured data, deduced and Design Analysis Reports (2 @ 4-6 pp. analyzed data, plotted results with

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Qualitative Research Programs & International Research Experience from Around the World

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Xia Wang, Oakland University; Laila Guessous, Oakland University; Gary Barber, Oakland University; Qian Zou, Oakland University; Michael A. Latcha, Oakland University; Li Jia, Beijing Jiaotong University; Zhuqian Zhang, Beijing Jiaotong University

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International

project related and the other was lifeexperience in China.Other activities were also arranged to improve students’ understanding of fuel cell technologyand enhance their research ability. These activities include:1) Visited Green Energy Company in Beijing: This is one of the largest fuel cell manufacturers inChina.2) Visited Research Laboratories at University of Science and Technology Beijing and ShanghaiJiaotong University3) Gave a seminar on life in US universities at Beijing Aeronautic and Astronautic University.4) Presented in conference and research symposium in China: Two IRES participants presentedtheir findings in two different events: one is the Competition for Research Presentation by YoungInvestigators at North China Electric Power