Conference Session

Capstone Design II

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Janak Dave, University of Cincinnati; Janet Dong, University of Cincinnati

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

Rechargeable Electric VehicleAbstractThere is a need to improve the efficiency and reduce tailpipe emissions while maintaining theaffordability of vehicles that are currently used for daily commuting. As petroleum depositsdwindle, automobile populations soar, gas prices inflate and cities become choked withcombustion emissions, the internal combustion engine (ICE) is increasingly becoming the victimof its own success. Assuming that private automobiles continue to be a vital link in modernsocieties, they must become cleaner and more energy efficient.Students working toward a baccalaureate degree in Mechanical Engineering Technology at theUniversity of Cincinnati are required to complete a “Design, Build, and Test” Senior CapstoneDesign Project. During

Conference Session

Innovation in Teaching Engineering Economics

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

J. Cunha, University of Alberta

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Economy

2006-18: DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF AN ADVANCED RESOURCESECONOMIC AND RISK ANALYSIS COURSEJ. Cunha, University of Alberta J. C. Cunha is an associate professor at the School of Mining and Petroleum, University of Alberta, Canada. His main research and teaching interests are in the areas of well design, horizontal wells, deepwater developments and risk analysis applied to various petroleum engineering processes. Prior to joining UofA, Cunha has worked for 25 years at Petrobras where, as a senior technical advisor, he worked in a number of onshore and offshore projects in Brazil, various South America countries, Gulf of Mexico, Africa and the Caribbean. Originally a civil engineer

Conference Session

Innovative Teaching Methods in IE Education

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Judith Norback, Georgia Institute of Technology; Ron Billings, Georgia Institute of Technology; Garlie Forehand, Georgia Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Industrial Engineering

in Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISyE)Senior Design courses. The tool was designed to help members of student project teamsanalyze their audience for their project-related communications.To enhance our understanding of the students’ analyses, in this study we investigatedhow the students’ perceptions of characteristics of audience members compare with theself-descriptions of the audience members. During a recent ISyE Senior Design class, weobtained self-descriptions from clients who played significant roles in the projects. Inaddition, we obtained student perceptions of these same clients at three different stages ofthe project. In this report we compare the student perceptions with the client self-descriptions. We examine similarities

Conference Session

College-Industry Partnerships Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alyson Grace Eggleston, The Citadel; Robert J. Rabb P.E., The Citadel

Tagged Divisions

College Industry Partnerships

. And while the conventional focus on rhetoricalpositioning in technical writing courses can result in more careful student writers, this paper callsfor a return to producing effective authentic documents—those written work products thatdemonstrate awareness of known and unknown readers, document project management, and arewritten to make reading easy. Moreover, these authentic documents should be situational, andproduced in response to real project demands, as opposed to written products that exclusivelyattempt to imagine appropriate responses to hypothetical situations.Realizing this need, this paper identifies key pathways for developing and strengthening tiesbetween academic institutions and industry stakeholders that have been successful

Conference Session

Electrical and Computer Division Technical Session 6

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sasan Haghani, University of the District of Columbia

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

the courseand the students’ projects and presentations that have resulted from its offering.I. INTRODUCTION AND BACKGROUNDAlmost two decades ago, the US National Academy of Engineering developed a list of the 20most significant and greatest engineering achievements of the 20th century which have had themost impact on the lives of people. Electrification, as supported by the electrical power grid, wasfirst on the list (compared to the Airplane, Telephone, and Internet which ranked 3rd, 9th, and13th respectively) [1]. Our century-old power grid is the largest interconnected machine onEarth, so massively complex and inextricably linked to human involvement and endeavor that it 1has alternatively

Conference Session

Engineering in Societal Context

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Neil Littell, Ohio University; Sara Lohrman Hartman, Ohio University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

early childhood development class with an engineering design class. Thefocus of the project was to allow the students to partner to accomplish an open ended designchallenge. The challenge presented by the professors was to design and develop the engineeringspecification and collateral documentation to execute the fabrication of a museum display. Themuseum displays are targeted towards teaching early childhood through middle childhoodintegrated STEM topics.The professors systematically grouped the students into 13 groups of 4-6 students from bothearly childhood education and engineering technology and management. The professors held abrief seminar with the students, where they explained the requirements of the design project aswell as providing

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Design I

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Wesley L. Stone, Western Carolina University; Robert Scott Pierce P.E., Western Carolina University; Sudhir Kaul, Western Carolina University

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

to design, build, and test alphaprototypes that are student-generated ideas. Students propose ideas that are electro-mechanicalin nature; they are grouped into teams; and they go through the product development cycle of asubset of the project ideas. Not only has this course become an outstanding opportunity to assesseach program at a common point, it has served as a key feeder to the senior capstone project, atwo-semester sequence that is industry sponsored. Projects that have been implemented inENGR 350 have been wide-ranging in nature, such as a motor-driven fishing reel for anglerswith the use of one arm; an inexpensive water-filtration system for countries with waterchallenges; a self-propelled longboard (skateboard) with braking

Conference Session

Engineers and Communities: Critical Reflections of Challenges, Opportunities, and Practices of Engaging Each Other

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert L. Nagel, James Madison University; Jacquelyn Kay Nagel, James Madison University; Callie J. Miller, James Madison University; Jason Forsyth, James Madison University; Shraddha Joshi, James Madison University; Kyle G. Gipson, James Madison University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Community Engagement Division

practitioners to increase exercise adherence and clinical evaluation.Dr. Shraddha Joshi, James Madison University Shraddha Joshi earned her Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Clemson University with her research focused on understanding the role of requirements in engineering design by novices. Dr. Joshi received her MS in mechanical engineering from Clemson University and her BE in mechanical engineering from Nirma University, India. At Clemson, Dr. Joshi has worked on multiple industry sponsored research projects (Michelin tweel –low rolling resistance for non-pneumatic tires, IFAI ballast friction testing project). She was actively involved in mentoring and advising Capstone design projects. She has ad- vised over

Conference Session

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering Division: Diversity Issues in K-12 and Pre-College Engineering Education

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Miles J. Mabey, Arizona State University; Micah Lande, Arizona State University; Shawn S. Jordan, Arizona State University

Tagged Divisions

Pre-College Engineering Education Division

thinking, making and design innovation project courses. Dr. Lande researches how technical and non-technical people learn and apply design thinking and mak- ing processes to their work. He is interested in the intersection of designerly epistemic identities and vocational pathways. Dr. Lande received his B.S in Engineering (Product Design), M.A. in Education (Learning, Design and Technology) and Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering (Design Education) from Stan- ford University. Dr. Lande is the PI on the NSF-funded projectShould Makers Be the Engineers of the Future? He is a co- PI on the NSF-funded projects:Might Young Makers Be the Engineers of the Future?,I-Corps for Learn- ing:Leveraging Maker Pathways to Scale Steam

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session I

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Spencer Seung Kim, Rochester Institute of Technology (CAST); Elizabeth Dell, Rochester Institute of Technology (COE)

Tagged Topics

Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

nominated for the Eisenhart Award for Outstanding Teaching, RIT’s premiere teach- ing award at RIT. Dr. Kim has directed numerous undergraduate research projects and several students won the first place in the undergraduate and graduate research competitions at the 2012 and 2013 GPEC (Global Plastics Environment Conference; Division of Society of Plastics Engineers).Prof. Elizabeth Dell, Rochester Institute of Technology (COE) Professor Dell is an associate professor in the Manufacturing & Mechanical Engineering Technology department at RIT. She serves as the Faculty Associate to the Provost for Women Faculty and is co-PI for RIT’s NSF ADVANCE project. Her research interests include: characterization of biodegradable

Conference Session

Experimentation and Laboratory-oriented Studies Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Cyrus Habibi P.E., University of Wisconsin, Platteville; Darius Fieschko, University of Wisconsin, Platteville

Tagged Divisions

Aerospace, Experimentation and Laboratory-Oriented Studies

logic elements.While many engineering programs have already implemented PLC courses in their curricula,instruction remains lacking in many others. Since engineering students with some PLC trainingmay have better career opportunities than those who do not, this may represent an area forimprovement for some programs.Introduction to Projects and Tools is a freshman level course offered to electrical engineeringstudents at [XXX University]. This one-credit laboratory course serves to provide students withhands-on experience with a variety of projects such as the implementation of 555 timers, basiclogic circuits, and measurements of electrical quantities.A two-week PLC module was developed and implemented in the Introduction to Projects andTools

Conference Session

Capstone Design II

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James Wronecki, East Tennessee State University

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

stage. In the course, these process stages and visual steps are used tostructure and facilitate a semester long, student-directed, teacher-facilitated design project inwhich students are asked to design an innovative, inventive, or inspirational idea. Students arefree to choose a project focus in their area of interest. Students in the Digital Media program tendto choose topics such as: character, product, and game design, and architectural, interior, andenvironmental visualization. Self motivation, individuation, and actualization are pedagogicaldrivers that dramatically improve the students’ work ethic and academic performance.ScopeThe scope of this paper is intended to provide an outline of a design process and to describevisual thinking

Conference Session

Introducing Active Learning into ME Courses

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Pedro Orta, ITESM Monterrey; Ricardo Ramirez Medoza, Institute Tecnologico De Monterrey; Hugo Elizalde, Monterrey Tech; David Guerra, Monterrey Tech

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

, the student occupies a main role, revolvingaround his/her self-learning, and following fundamental principles such as constructivismand experimentation [1, 2]. The active-learning (AL) technique is specifically emphasized in this model [2],following these basic principles: • Students must discover new phenomena and concepts by themselves, and they must be able to relate these concepts with previous knowledge. • Motivation is the key driving force. • Team work is strongly promoted. • More established techniques such as Problem Based Learning (PBL) and Project Oriented Learning (POL) are incorporated into this model [3, 4]. The learning process is inductive instead of deductive, so the students can develop

Conference Session

New Topics in IE Education

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jamie Workman-Germann, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis; Heather Woodward-Hagg, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis

Tagged Divisions

Industrial Engineering

, increase the capacity to perform CT/MR services, and regain a portion of the referralbase lost to outpatient diagnostic centers. To address these issues, Lean/Six Sigmamethodologies were implemented. Considerable success has been documented in themanufacturing industry using these models, but little has been done in the service-based industryof healthcare so an uncharted area was being entered.Specially organized teams were created for the project within the hospital organization. Facultyexperts provide education and training to these individuals in Lean/Six Sigma methodologiesmodified to fit healthcare services. The radiology project has been initiated and current resultspositively support the successful transferability of these manufacturing

Conference Session

Tools and Support for Software Education

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Barbara Gannod, Arizona State University; Kevin Gary, Arizona State University; Harry Koehnemann, Arizona State University

Tagged Divisions

Software Engineering Constituent Committee

recite the basicprinciples, but who lack the comprehension to apply them. These types of courses are thenfollowed by courses that delve into a specific process area in significant depth, for example aSoftware Design or a Software Quality Assurance course. These courses focus on deep skillsdevelopment within the narrow process area. Students then complete the program with thecapstone project, which asks them to apply this knowledge in a full semester project. Studentsdo not get exposure to the full engineering process spectrum in a manner that allows them toapply the deeper skillsets they may have developed in a particular area. The results are studentswho can claim knowledge of a particular skill, but lack the context in which to apply

Conference Session

Undergraduate Research & New Directions

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Martin Johnston; Christopher Greene; Jeff Jalkio

non-engineering clients to define the technicalrequirements of their projects. In parallel, individuals from other disciplines can benefit fromexposure to engineering problem solving techniques. In this paper the authors present the resultsof an ongoing effort to integrate the benefits of both student-faculty collaborations and real-world design by incorporating undergraduate engineering students into physics research projects.Over the course of several years, engineering students at the University of St. Thomas have beenincorporated into physics department research laboratories, working side by side with physicsstudents and faculty. These students design, build and test instrumentation and other equipmentused in all aspects of the physics

Conference Session

Impact of Community Engagement on Communities

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Andrea Kubicki, The Pavlis Institute for Global Technological Leadership; Laura Lynn Lynch, Pavlis Institute for Global Technological Leadership; Robert O. Warrington Jr., Michigan Technological University

Tagged Divisions

Community Engagement Division

the future.Ms. Laura Lynn Lynch, Pavlis Institute for Global Technological Leadership I am a fourth-year biomedical engineering/pre-medicine student at Michigan Technological University in Houghton, Mi. I traveled to Malta this past summer through the Pavlis Institute for Global Technological Leadership. While in Malta I completed service projects that both enhanced my leadership skills and pro- vided me insights to the differences in learning outcomes associated with leadership and cultural literacy in developed versus developing countries.Dr. Robert O. Warrington Jr., Michigan Technological University Robert O. Warrington is currently Director of the Institute for Leadership and Innovation, which houses the

Conference Session

Design and Computation in ChE Courses

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

David Miller; Atanas Serbezov

Redesigning Senior Process Design David C. Miller* and Atanas Serbezov Department of Chemical Engineering Rose-Hulman Institute of TechnologyIntroductionSenior design is widely regarded as an important capstone experience for undergraduateengineering students. By integrating material from previous courses, it provides a conceptualframework for tackling a wide variety of open-ended, real-world engineering problems.Traditionally, senior design consists of the following common elements: process economics,capital costing, simulation and a grass-roots design project. As the nature of the chemicalengineering profession has evolved

Conference Session

Capstone Design

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Jeff Will; Doug Tougaw

in 1999 based onfeedback from several stakeholders. Among these were alumni who reported that theywork in a very multidisciplinary environment and need to understand how to work withother engineering disciplines. A pilot study was run during the 2000-2001 academic year,and all seniors in the past two years have completed the integrated program.The primary result of this curriculum change has been a significant increase in the qualityof projects that students complete. The number of commercially sponsored projects hasincreased substantially since the multidisciplinary sequence was introduced, and students inthe course have received national recognition for the quality of their work. Additionalbenefits have included closer working

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Batchelder; Elaine Linde; Dan Dolan; Daniel Dolan

Document 2003-1235 Session 2526 Mechatronics for Multidisciplinary Teaming Elaine Linde, Daniel Dolan, Michael Batchelder South Dakota School of Mines and TechnologyAbstractAt the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, students from MechanicalEngineering, Electrical Engineering and Computer Engineering all take a Mechatronicscourse during their sophomore or junior year. The course follows the textbookMechatronics by Alciatore and Histand rather closely. For the lab projects, students use asmall computer circuit board containing a PIC microcontroller

Conference Session

Internet Programming and Applications

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Eric Crahen; Bina Ramamurthy

paper, we present a pedagogy that seamlessly integrates the modernconcepts to the existing conventional methods for teaching distributed systems. Wepropose a set of laboratory experiments that will not only illustrate how to integrate thenewer concepts into existing framework but will also provide the students with hands-onexperience in the application of these concepts. The design and description of threelaboratory projects that cover newer topics in Distributed Systems, namely, (i) location-independence, (ii) active discovery and (iii) interoperability and persistence are shown.These projects will serve as models for development of similar projects illustrating otherconcepts of interest. A major contribution of this paper will be the pedagogy

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Jr. , John A. Hamilton; Jeanne L. Murtagh

, consistent, and reasonably complete requirements provided by theinstructor in the project assignment. It is critical that the students continue beyond the designphase and actually implement, test and document their projects, because some design flaws arenot obvious to inexperienced software developers until they attempt to write code based on theflawed design.This paper discusses how we focused on the design phase of software development andencouraged design practices that would be effective for industrial projects, as well as our muchsmaller academic projects.I. IntroductionIn this paper, we discuss how to focus on teaching software design principles that can be appliedon industrial-sized projects, within the constraints of an academic environment

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephen Dyer; Robert Krchnavek; John Schmalzel; Shreekanth Mandayam

circuits(microelectronics) to the system as a whole (what we term macroelectronics). Ourpreliminary experience with the concept was positive at our respective institutions; agrant1 allowed us to develop the approach more fully.The macroelectronics approach can be summarized as consisting of two primaryelements: (i) treatment of topics chosen by the instructor—later complemented by topicsderived from student projects, and (ii) utilization of a project-based learning environmentto increase motivation, highlight important topics, and facilitate knowledge-integration.Materials developed to support the macroelectronics approach include an instructor’smanual and a variety of exemplar project descriptions.IntroductionAn electronics course is a standard

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Bradley E. Bishop

Session 2220 Design of a Cooperative Autonomous Mobile Robot System at the Undergraduate Level Bradley E. Bishop Weapons and Systems Engineering, United States Naval AcademyAbstractThis paper describes an undergraduate-level design project in a course on autonomous mobilerobot systems. The project is intended to allow a great deal of latitude in implementation and topromote teamwork and integrated design methodologies in a framework that is bothinstructional and interesting. The technical challenges of the project include limited bandwidthcommunications, cooperative multi-agent

Collection

1998 Annual Conference

Authors

G.J. Freeman; A.M. Mankowski; Daniel J. Pack

.military professionalism[3]. In this paper, we illustrate the role of a fire-fighting robot project inan engineering curriculum and its contribution to these educational outcomes. Our primary focusin this paper is on outcomes number two and five with some discussion of how the experiencealso contributes to the other educational outcomes.The goal of the fire-fighting robot project is to create a wheeled robot with capabilities tonavigate through a specially designed maze, detect a candle flame (simulating a fire), extinguishthe flame, and return to a designated location within the maze. To obtain this goal, four different“low level” modules must be successfully developed: a motion control module, a sensor module,a fire-extinguishing module, and a

Collection

1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Scott A. Stefanov; Daniel J. Pack

Session 3520Fire-Fighting Robot: The United States Air Force Academy Experience D. J. Pack and S. A. Stefanov Department of Electrical Engineering United States Air Force Academy USAFA, CO 80840-6236 ABSTRACTIn this paper we present an overview of the ongoing study on fire-fighting robot projectsat the United States Air Force Academy. The main objectives of this paper are: 1) todemonstrate the usefulness of a fire-fighting robot project as a tool for students tointegrate their undergraduate knowledge and 2) to present the

Conference Session

Design in Engineering Education Division (DEED) - Teamwork in Design Education

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Brian Roth, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Prescott

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education Division (DEED)

formation sets the foundation for success (or struggle) in capstone design teams. Hence, asignificant body of literature has been dedicated to developing best practices in team formation.Researchers have suggested the consideration of more than a dozen different factors includingethnicity, culture, gender, personality, schedule, academic ability, engineering maturity,motivation level, project preference, prior relationships between team members, and teammember preference. Additional studies have documented the relative advantages anddisadvantages of instructor-based and student-based team selection. Recently, Lane (2011) andPearlstein (2020) developed and implemented hybrid methods that incorporate both student andinstructor perspectives. Both

Conference Session

Chemical Engineering Division (ChED) Poster Session

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Desen Sevi Özkan, University of Connecticut; Monika Crowl, University of Connecticut

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering Division (ChED)

for the course design. Building new context-richcourses can be a challenge that is often underestimated and undervalued [3-5]. Ultimately, wedesigned the course to prepare students for their senior engineering design experience through alocally informed engineering design project based on interviews with sustainability andeducation stakeholders. Through this work, we developed three objectives of the course: (1) helpstudents bridge their theoretical knowledge of energy with their understanding of the localenergy infrastructure, (2) give students the opportunity to apply sustainability concepts withinthe chemical engineering framework, and (3) analyze the economic, social, and technical impactsof engineering decision-making.IntroductionAs many

Conference Session

Concurrent Paper Tracks - Session I

Collection

2015 ASEE International Forum

Authors

Jacqueline Gartner Ph.D., Washington State University; Bernard J. Van Wie, Washington State University

Tagged Topics

International Forum

establish, launch and maintain international relationships that fosters successful trans-continental research efforts and second, a practical application focusing on research exchangecentered on developing and implementing a biogasification system for use in the classroom witha team of undergraduate students from each respective location. These two components arenatural progressions, and takeaways for successful research collaboration include a solidunderstanding of differences in cultures and values, a mutual understanding between each groupto undertake pieces of the project within the capabilities of their own facilities as well asrecognition and adaptability when technological constraints hinder project progression.In addressing energy demands

Conference Session

Track 2 - Session II - Curriculum Development

Collection

2013 ASEE International Forum

Authors

Masakatsu Matsuishi, Kanazawa Institute of Technology; Hiroko Fudano, Kanazawa Institute of Technology; Jun Fudano, Kanazawa Institute of Technology; Scott Clark, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Richard Eugene Stamper P.E., Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

Tagged Topics

Curriculum Development

Paper ID #8254An Interim Report of a Four-Year Joint Global EngineerDr. Masakatsu Matsuishi, Kanazawa Institute of Technology 1969, Dr. Eng., Osaka University 1966-1999, Hitachi Zosen Corp. 1999-present, Professor, Director of Project Education Center, Kanazawa Institute of TechnologyDr. Hiroko Fudano, Kanazawa Institute of Technology Ph.D in Japanese Language Teaching, Nagoya University MA in Education, International Christian Uni- versity MA in English, East Texas State University BA in Liberal Arts, International Christian UniversityDr. Jun Fudano, Kanazawa Institute of Technology Professor of Science and Engineering