Conference Session

Experiments and Laboratories in Mechanical Engineering

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Frank Liou, Missouri University of Science & Technology

Tagged Divisions

Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

orcomposite component, or matching and integrating with an ordered motor through thecatalog. The distributed websites allows students much more flexibility and resources inthe product development process. The integration, management, and communicationinvolved in the process creates a meaningful experience for all the students and facultyparticipating in the project.Modular Courseware for Curriculum SupportWe have adapted, developed, and implemented several modular courseware to supportthe capstone course and laboratory. Since the project oriented course teams aremultidisciplinary, we realize that students from different disciplines will have differenttechnical backgrounds. However, if they have to work effectively in a team, there needsto be some

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Norm Pumphrey; William M. Jordan

the mechanicalengineering materials lab course, while civil engineers take their own materials lab course.The students who were in this second year of the integrated curriculum are those who wereeligible to take the first math course in the sequence, Math 240. This required an ACT score of26 or placement by math placement exam. These students are not better than the averagestudent who is entering our program. Page 5.225.3II. Previous materials coursesBefore the new curricula were initiated college-wide, civil engineering students were required totake a 3-semester-hour engineering materials class at the junior level. This class was taught

Conference Session

What's New in Entrepreneurship Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Matt O'Connor; Kathleen Simione; Dale Jasinski; Chad Nehrt

have traditionally delivered core concepts through stand-alone courses.Critics suggest that this leaves students with little understanding of the interrelationships betweenbusiness disciplines. 8,9 In addition, students have difficulty applying tools learned in one field toissues arising in other fields. For example accounting, finance, marketing and management allconsider break-even analysis an important skill. However, students often see this singular tool asfour different skills instead of one tool applicable to many different situations.10 These concernsare not new. For example, Porter and McKibbin call for cross-functional integration of thebusiness curriculum.11 As noted earlier, the AACSB has also recognized the need to

Conference Session

Curricular Issues in Computer-Oriented Programs

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Azzedine Lansari, Zayed University; Akram Al-Rawi, Zayed University; Faouzi Bouslama, Université Laval

Tagged Divisions

Information Systems

arecollected. The data is then compiled and analyzed for each course. Results of the analysis arecompared to the course outcome matrix and used to update the achievement levels, refine the setof learning outcomes, or adjust the course learning experiences. This process allows facultymembers to examine how successful they were in integrating learning outcomes in their courses.Furthermore, an in-depth analysis may be performed on a regular basis to assess theeffectiveness of the IS curriculum in integrating various learning outcomes. Based on thisanalysis, specific learning outcomes may be modified or replaced as needed. This is a dynamicprocess that allows the IS curriculum to stay current and effective in focusing student learning as

Conference Session

New ET Curriculum and Teaching Methods

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nancy Denton, Purdue University; Heather Cooper, Purdue University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

2006-1353: JITT IN AN ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGY CLASSNancy Denton, Purdue University NANCY L. DENTON, P.E. CVS 3 Nancy L. Denton is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering Technology at Purdue University and associate department head. She teaches courses in basic mechanics, controls, and machinery diagnostics. She has held a number of positions within ASEE. She is also active in the Vibration Institute, serving on its certification examination committee and corresponding ISO standards group.Heather Cooper, Purdue University HEATHER L. COOPER, P.E. Heather L. Cooper is an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering Technology at Purdue University. She teaches courses in thermal science and

Conference Session

Interdisciplinary Integration at the Program Level

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Carrell, Texas Tech University; Joshua M. Cruz; Andrew Mark Herbert; Iris V. Rivero; Emily Lazarus; Erika Nuñez, Texas Tech University; Nafisha Tabassum; Xueni Fan, Texas Tech University

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division (LEES)

Paper ID #39132Efficacy of Humanities-Driven Science, Technology, Engineering, andMathematics Curriculum on Integrating Empathy into Technology DesignDr. John Carrell, Texas Tech University John Carrell is Assistant Professor of Engineering at the Texas Tech University Honors College. He received his doctorate in industrial engineering from Texas Tech University and his research focuses on enriching engineering education through the humanities.Dr. Joshua M. Cruz Joshua Cruz is an assistant professor of education at Texas Tech University. His specializations include qualitative methods, post-secondary transitions, and

Conference Session

Mechanical Engineering Technology Curriculum

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kevin Cook, Montana State University; Robb Larson, Montana State University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

importantly, theimprovements were designed to support defined core competencies of the MET program and tobuild and develop these core competencies in our students through curriculum integration.Inherently, MET is an applications oriented curriculum, and thus aligns itself well with project-based teaching and learning models in these core courses. In support of defined courseimprovements, and to support core competency development, the MET program is developing aproject-based model for integrating the senior year MET core courses with the senior yearcapstone design and build courses. This paper will detail the methodology utilized to integratetwo courses, MET460 – Advanced Instrumentation, and MET 449 – Design for Manufacturingand Tooling with

Conference Session

Integrating Engineering Ethics into the Curriculum

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kelley Walczak, University of Michigan; Cynthia Finelli, University of Michigan; Matthew Holsapple, University of Michigan; Janel Sutkus, Carnegie Mellon University; Trevor Harding, California Polytechnic State University; Donald Carpenter, Lawrence Technological University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Ethics

accreditation requirements to include ethics in engineeringeducation, many engineering programs struggle to incorporate ethics into the curriculum. Thesedifficulties stem from both institutional and personal contexts, but all have an impact on theethics curriculum and education of engineering undergraduates. Because of the importance ofdeveloping ethical engineers, it is critical to identify these obstacles so they can be addressed byengineering programs. This study investigates these obstacles and suggests ways to overcomethem.Literature ReviewThe importance of developing ethical engineers highlights the need to integrate ethics intoengineering education. Harris, Davis, Pritchard, and Rabins7 identify nine purposes ofengineering education which

Conference Session

Track 2 - Session I - Curriculum Development

Collection

2013 ASEE International Forum

Authors

Keith Willey, University of Technology Sydney; Anne P Gardner, University of Technology, Sydney

Tagged Topics

Invited - Curriculum Development

informal learning in professional practice, flipped learning, academic standards, and improving peer review. Keith is an Australian Learning and Teaching Council Fellow. He has received several awards including an Engineers Australia Engineering Excel- lence Award (Education and Training), the UTS Medal for Teaching and Research Integration and both the Australasian Association of Engineering Education (AaeE) Teaching Excellence and Research Design Awards. Keith has been a visiting scholar at universities in Australia, Europe, North America and Asia. His commitment to developing high quality teaching and learning practices is supported by his educa- tional research that has been published in numerous conference papers

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering: Curricula and Courses

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Simin Hall, Virginia Tech; Catherine T. Amelink, Virginia Tech; Deyu Hu, Virginia Tech

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

. Page 25.409.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2012 Designing and Implementing an Online Offering of a Nuclear Engineering CurriculumAbstractVirginia Tech restarted its nuclear engineering program in the Fall of 2007. The program hasgrown from a class enrollment of 60 students to about 200 students in 2009. When we restartedour program, we took the opportunity to be innovative and find ways to differentiate our programfrom other programs nationwide. In addition, we targeted the nuclear industry within our state byoffering the majority of our graduate nuclear engineering curriculum via distance learning. Weinitially started with live video teleconferencing to remote

Conference Session

Track 2 - Session I - Curriculum Development

Collection

2013 ASEE International Forum

Authors

Olga V Shipulina, Simon Fraser University

Tagged Topics

Invited - Curriculum Development

water’s edge, another is located in the water (Figure 1). The optimalnavigation VE Task is to find the path between the platforms which would minimize time oftravel. The setting is programmed to record time and distance traveled by land for each tripbetween the platforms. This information is indicated on white banners, one of which is shown in(Figure 1). The SL allows utilizing both egocentric and allocentric view perspectives.After each trip the student must transfer the data from the banners (time and distance traveled byland) into a specially designed guiding–reflecting journal, which is an integral methodologicalpart of the research design

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Manufacturing Engineering Technology

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Fred Vondra; Ali Sekmen; Ismail Fidan

, students’ assessments were an important factorto measure the success of the course. The feedback received from the students provedthat such an integrated design and manufacturing course was a great plus for anygraduating senior student. Students clearly mentioned that they improved their pastpractices, computer skills, presentation and writing skills. Then, starting Fall 2002 thisnew development became one of the elective senior courses in the department2.ConclusionAs a result, implementation of this senior level integrated design and manufacturingcourse was a great success. Students had a chance to practice their past learnings e.g.CAD, CAM, CNC and Casting via this new course right before their job hunting. Thegraduating students made many

Conference Session

Curriculum Exchange

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David Mitchell, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; John M. Keller, California Polytechnic State University; Victor M Castillo Jr, California Polytechnic State University

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

as examples ofhands-on activities that could later be used in their K-12 classrooms. The associated pedagogy of open-ended design challenges in meaningful context and the iterative engineering design cycle are also partof the curriculum. Hands-on engineering design activities are to be integrated into four of the six existingscience courses for Liberal Studies majors. The third course in the science sequence is an Earth sciencecourse. The engineering module for this course is called Saving Rivertown. This module is broken intofour activities, each taking 45-60 minutes of class time.The emphasis of this activity is computer modeling, with most of the activities done as simulations usingNetLogo. NetLogo is a free, downloadable program that is

Conference Session

CoED: Embedded Systems and Robotics

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ying Lin, Western Washington University; Todd D. Morton, Western Washington University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education

inspired by theneeds of creating meaningful hands-on DSP lab experiments in the allotted one term period (tenweeks) and by the goal of improving student success in implementing DSP-based culminatingprojects that meet desired goals within realistic constraints. The benefits of integrating the MCUtools in the DSP course are very promising. It permits more practical DSP laboratories and DSP-based capstone projects that render richer design experiences and makes meeting realistic designconstraints feasible. Furthermore, it provides an integrated laboratory curriculum structurebetween embedded microcontroller and DSP courses which reduces students’ unnecessary effortof learning new tools in different courses. Consequently, students can focus more on

Conference Session

Effective Projects and Experiments in Instrumentation and Control

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Akram Hossain, Purdue University, Calumet; Md. Rasheduzzaman, Purdue University, Calumet

Tagged Divisions

Instrumentation

Technology is a new program in the department ofEngineering Technology. The curriculum emphasizes high-speed packaging that involvesmotion control mainly with servomotors and induction motors. The students in this program, inaddition to many other courses, take courses in basic mechanics and mechanical design, electriccircuits, basic mathematics and calculus before taking four courses of the sequence of courses.Concepts of mechanical cams (Ref: “cam definition” Merriam Webster) operation andperforming an electronic cam using a servomotor control system for a given task are introduced.Writing ladder logic to perform a given cam operation for an application is also an integral partof the PLC course. A semester long project based on real life

Conference Session

Software and E-learning in the ME Curriculum

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rajesh Bhaskaran, Cornell University

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

AC 2007-2323: STRATEGIES FOR THE INTEGRATION OF COMPUTER-BASEDSIMULATION TECHNOLOGY INTO THE ENGINEERING CURRICULUMRajesh Bhaskaran, Cornell University Rajesh Bhaskaran is the Director of Swanson Engineering Simulation Program in the Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Cornell University. He is leading efforts in the Sibley School to integrate contemporary simulation technologies into the mechanical and aerospace engineering curriculum. As part of this initiative, he is developing web-based curriculum material for integrating the ANSYS and FLUENT packages into solid and fluid mechanics courses. He holds a Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering from Iowa State University

Conference Session

Women in Engineering Division Technical Session 4

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Angela M Kelly, Stony Brook University; Doreen Aveni, Stony Brook University; Monica Bugallo, Stony Brook University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Women in Engineering

Paper ID #23365Women in Science and Engineering: A Framework for an Honors Under-graduate CurriculumDr. Angela M Kelly, Stony Brook University Angela M. Kelly is an Associate Professor of Physics and the Associate Director of the Science Education Program at Stony Brook University, New York. She attended La Salle University, Philadelphia, Pennsyl- vania, where she received her B.A. degree in chemistry, and completed her M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in science education (2000 and 2006, respectively) and her Ed.M. degree in curriculum and teaching (2007) at Teachers College, Columbia University, New York. She is the recipient of

Collection

1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert M. Koretsky

students are able to complete it. A scaled-backversion of it or an integrated, interdisciplinary project run in conjunction with Civil andMechanical will be attempted in Spring 1998.There is no plan to repeat the same final projectswithin a given five-year cycle.References1 Engineering Design as Research in a Senior Capstone Course: An Integrative Approach, by Robert J. Albright, ASEE Conference Proceedings, 1995.2 The Engineering Design Graphics (EDG) Curriculum Modernization Project: A White Paper Summary, by Ronald Barr and Davor Juricic, Pp.23-42 in Proceedings of the NSF Symposium on Modernization of the Engineering Design Graphics Curriculum, 1990, Mechanical Engineering Department, University of Texas at

Conference Session

Anything New in Dynamics?

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Geoff Rideout, Memorial University of Newfoundland

Tagged Divisions

Mechanics

. Page 13.1168.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2008 Teaching Multi-Body Dynamics in an Undergraduate Curriculum: An Intuitive and Explicit Formalism Based on Parasitic ElementsAbstractTypical undergraduate mechanical engineering curricula in North America do not include acourse in multi-body dynamics. A rigid body dynamics course covering single-body kinetics isusually completed in early semesters, and often the material is not revisited before graduation.Students typically graduate without a sense of how to simulate the forward dynamics of evensimple multi-body systems such as slider-crank or four-bar mechanisms. Engineers should havesome increased depth of understanding in this

Conference Session

Best Practices and Structuring for Aerospace Curricula

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jiasheng Zhang, Northwestern Polytechnical University

Tagged Divisions

Aerospace

2006-1914: AN INTEGRATED CIVIL AVIATION ENGINEERING EDUCATIONPARADIGMJiasheng Zhang, Northwestern Polytechnical University ZHANG JIASHENG, born in March, 1966, graduated from Northwestern Polytechnical University in 1989 with a master degree in aircraft engineering and from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA, in 2002 with a master degree of management in science and technology. Now teaching in Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an, China Page 11.195.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006 An integrated civil aviation engineering education paradigmIntroductionInstead of operating

Conference Session

Experimentation and Laboratory-Oriented Studies Division Technical Session 5: Remote, Hands-On Laboratories

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael Robinson

several courses reducing time spent introducing newconcepts, equipment, and procedures. The time saved is used to advance higher-level learningobjectives as described below.Deployment of these integrated experiments was enabled by the development of a dataacquisition and control board based on the Arduino platform. This allows a single board to meetall data acquisition and control needs for a general engineering program. It also has theadvantage of being low cost, potentially enabling advances in remote laboratories. Furtherbackground and rationale for this project are presented below along with an overview of thehardware and examples of how content is threaded throughout the curriculum.1.2 Program backgroundThe experiments presented here were

Conference Session

Moral Development, Engineering Pedagogy and Ethics Instruction

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kevin Schmaltz, Western Kentucky University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Ethics

. Most importantly, this approach can marginalize ethics as side-topic,and not an integral or important part of engineering study from the students’ view.The ME faculty have chosen to spread ethics instruction throughout curriculum, takingadvantage of the existing Professional Component sequence. With this approach the studentswill hopefully perceive ethics as a common attribute of good engineering practice. In addition,instruction and student expectations can rise with progress through curriculum.The rising expectations can follow Benjamin Bloom’s taxonomy for categorizing levels ofstudent learning [8]: Knowledge: The student is capable of recalling words, facts, and principles

Collection

1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Peter W. de Graaf; Michael J. Walker; Cameron Wright; Thad Welch

, the students are learning in a vacuum: learning to pass an examination,rather than to understand the broader applications of the material.The motivation to use the integrated approach described in this paper came from a desire on thepart of the authors to improve the understanding of students in senior-level electrical engineeringcourses. At this level, students should have a rudimentary understanding of how the majorconcepts presented in an undergraduate engineering curriculum “fit” together. For example, theyshould see that a fundamental understanding of linear systems is a key to understanding thebasics of analog communications. Page 3.85.1

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Patrick Tebbe; Bijan Sepahpour

early in the current curriculum and arecontinuously emphasized from the first laboratory course to the last one. An integral part of eachgroup report is an evaluation sheet for assessing the performance and contribution of each of thegroup members (in a confidential manner). How group membership is defined differs fromcourse to course in the sequence. In the first laboratory course group size and composition variesfrom experiment to experiment. In latter courses, groups are specified at the beginning of thesemester and remain unchanged, due to equipment limitations and experiment rotations. Whilestudents have some choice in the group membership our preference is to assign students togroups. This tendency is based on the fact that in industry

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Mark R. Rajai; Keith V. Johnson; Robert Matthews

integrate these two somewhat incompatiblesoftware is explained in this paper. Now designers have an ergonomic CAD system to assist themto design products according to physical abilities and characteristics of their human operators.Utilizing this type of technology could revolutionize the way products are designed and significantlyreduce the alarming number of related injuries, thus saving millions of dollars. This integratedsystem could also substantially reduce the critical factor of time to market and lower overall cost ofdesigning new products by allowing designers to test their products for human fit without having tobuild a prototype or using real subject.I. IntroductionIf designers need to see how a human with a particular set of statistical

Conference Session

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Peter Meckl

Session 1532 Integrating Ethics into an Undergraduate Control Systems Course Peter H. Meckl School of Mechanical Engineering Purdue University West Lafayette, IN 47907-2088AbstractAn approach to inserting an ethics component into a control systems course is described. Sincethe technical content is rather complex, only limited time is available to focus on ethical issues.However, even limited discussions provide an opportunity to reinforce the importance of ethicsin a professional career

Conference Session

Models for Integrating Writing II

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Rebecca Pinkus

Engineering school environment, both students and staff working in writingcenters and WAC are faced with writing/reading about difficult technical concepts. Thereis a challenge faced with writing in the engineering field, and yet as difficult as sometechnical topics may be to discuss in writing, students benefit from going through theprocess of doing so. Writing Center and WAC staff and staff also have a challenge in thissituation, and that is dealing with the vast and complex content knowledge that studentsacross an engineering curriculum cover; where their counterparts in liberal arts andhumanities have relatively easy access to content, writing specialists in the engineeringfield must deal with material that is often quite conceptually difficult

Conference Session

K-12 & Pre- College Engineering Division Poster Session

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Danial J. Neebel PE, Loras College

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

 Place-based STEM educationdefinition of STEM from Vasquez et. al.: “…an  Curriculum Inquiry in STEMinterdisciplinary approach to learning that removes  Scientific and Engineering Practicesthe traditional barriers separating the four  *Robotics Engineeringdisciplines of science, technology, engineering and  Issues in STEM Educationmathematics and integrates them into real-world,  STEM for ALLrigorous and relevant learning experiences for  Using Research to Improve Teaching/Learning in STEMstudents.” [6] The Integrated STEM Masters is a  Mathematics and Technology asprogram

Collection

1999 Annual Conference

Authors

George M. Swisher; Corinne Darvennes

for the current text of James, Smith, Wolford and Whaley.4There are other excellent texts for this course. Three of them are cited in the references.5, 6, 7 Theauthors have used Rao and Inman in past years.Another very important consideration in an integrated course where classical solution techniquesas well as modern numerical techniques are taught is the careful balance of the two conceptsthroughout the course. If that balance is not maintained, the students may over emphasize theMATLAB part of the course to the detriment of the classical (differential equation)solutions/techniques; the course can easily become a MATLAB programming course rather thanusing MATLAB to facilitate the mathematical solutions. To that end, all weekly

Conference Session

Creative Ways to Present Basic Materials

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

M.L. Meier

Section 3664 Integrating Spreadsheets into an Introductory Materials Course Mike Meier Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science University of CaliforniaIntroductionWe hardly have to encourage students to use the latest software for many of their courseassignments, personal business, entertainment, and all the other things our computers can do forus these days. It is clear that they are not reluctant to jump in and teach themselves how to usethese new tools. It seems, however, that this may not be the case for less trendy or