Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Mohammed Fadali; Michael Robinson

knowledge and mathematical applications to make applications and connections to society? 2. Do the science textbooks use the science and/or mathematical knowledge in technological applications? 3. Are any applications of engineering principles and design included in the laboratory activities and the problems and questions within and at the end of the chapters? Page 6.543.2Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & ExpositionCopyright Ó 2001, American Society for Engineering EducationII.1 Objectifying the DataWe designed a scale of 0-3 to indicate the degree to which each of the three

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

John Bridge

Session 1664 Incorporating Active Learning in an Engineering Materials Science Course Lieutenant Colonel John W. Bridge United States Military Academy, West Point, New YorkAbstractThis paper shares the experiences the author has had over the last several years incorporatingactive learning in the classroom and laboratory. Examined are ways to engage and motivate thestudents to take an active role in their learning which includes direct instruction, cooperativelearning, hands-on “exploratory” classroom and laboratory experiences, reading logs, etc. Theauthor

Conference Session

Mentoring Minority Students

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Christine S Grant, North Carolina State University; Tuere Bowles, NC State University; Olgha Bassam Qaqish, North Carolina State University; Rex E Jeffries, North Carolina State University; Barbara Smith, North Carolina State University

Tagged Divisions

Minorities in Engineering

Adult Education at the University of Georgia.Mrs. Olgha B Davis, North Carolina State University Mrs. Davis earned her BS degree in Biomedical Engineering from Boston University and MS degree in Biomedical Engineering from North Carolina State University (NCSU) and UNC Chapel Hill. Currently, Mrs. Davis is the education coordinator for the BioMed-Connect Mentoring Incubator at NCSU College of Engineering. Mrs. Davis main responsibilities include conducting research and writing grant propos- als and final reports, developing the educational curriculum for the mentoring program, and facilitating weekly laboratory group meetings, and organizing professional development seminars for the participants. Mrs. Davis also is a

Conference Session

Projects in Alternative Energy

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Wagdy Mahmoud, University of the District of Columbia; Esther T. Ososanya, University of the District of Columbia; Pradeep K. Behera, University of the District of Columbia; Abiose Adebayo, University of the District of Columbia; Xueqing Song, University of the District of Columbia; Mademba Cisse, University of the District of Columbia; Ismael DJibril Boureima, University of the District of Columbia; Ashish Bhandari, University of the District of Columbia; Mekonnen Hailegiorgis, University of the District of Columbia

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Energy Conversion and Conservation

production. Our goals in this phase of the study are: (i) to get an understanding on the characteristics of organic waste from hotels and restaurants and study the feasibility of implementing the proposed anaerobic digester for biogas production for District of Columbia hotels and restaurants, and (ii) to build a mini anaerobic digester that can generate biogas in the laboratory and to provide preliminary data and identify key aspects of the design for an efficient, reliable, and low-cost anaerobic digester for waste processing. The specific research objectives for goal (1) include understanding of organic waste collection methods in hotels and restaurants and possible quantification of organic waste. The research methodology include (i

Conference Session

Energy Education Courses, Labs, and Projects

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gene Yeau-Jian Liao, Wayne State University

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Energy Conversion and Conservation

energy storage laboratory.The motivation of this project is to develop an interactive and computer-controlled test systemfor three different electric energy storage units that serve as a teaching-aid. This paper presents Page 25.1261.2a funded project that develops, designs, and implements an electric energy storage educationallaboratory. The laboratory is capable of demonstrating and displaying the principles,performance characteristics, and applications of electro-chemical batteries, electro-mechanicalflywheel (or flywheel battery) and supercapacitors (or ultracapacitors). The integrated systemis computerized for measurement and control hence

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Franklin King; Keith Schimmel

% = Partially met, <40% = Not Met. • Exam Question Results - The target was the average score on a regular exam question or CAT exam question designed to demonstrate accomplishment of the objective: >70% = Met, 50% = Partially Met, <40% = Not Met. • Oral Presentation Assessment - The target was the percentage of students rated as having satisfactory oral communication skills using a rubric designed to evaluate accomplishment of the skill: 80% of students should have satisfactory oral communication skills. • Lab Report Assessment - The target was the percentage of laboratory reports rated as meeting reporting skills using a rubric designed to evaluate accomplishment of the skill

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Sandra Courter; Narayanan Murugesan; Jacob Eapen; Donna Lewis; Dan Sebald; Jodi Reeves

courses,Advanced Laboratory (undergraduate level) and Computer Aided Design for VLSI (graduatelevel). Nana knew that he would need to deal with several teaching issues in the undergraduatelevel lab course since it involved more responsibilities such as lecturing, proctoring, and gradingquizzes and projects. The graduate level course involved creating a course website, holdingdiscussion sections, and grading. The Advanced Laboratory course was new to Nana since hehad not done a similar course in his undergraduate studies. He chose to use peer mentoring,which was encouraged by the College and emphasized in the NEO training program. Nanaworked with Jacob (an experienced TA for that particular course) to get acquainted with therequirements and

Collection

1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Don L. Dekker

stops "designing" and "fiddling around" with their design. If theconstruction group has any problems, they have to contact the design group and settle thedifferences. This provides the opportunity for meaningful communications to take place and itdoesn't go through the instructor. The construction phase takes two weeks, although most groupsare able to perform the required construction tasks in 4 to 6 hours.TESTINGThe device is then passed to a third group for testing. Although the heat exchanger is designed tobe used with a heat transfer fluid as the hot fluid of about 600 degrees Fahrenheit, it is tested withhot water for safety and economic reasons. The testing takes place in a laboratory on a testing setupwhich was designed for testing heat

Collection

1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Brian Butz

they see over what they hear, and are more comfortable with visual learning . While textsare certainly visual, they tend to be static while computer software and computer networks haveintroduced students to dynamic visual material that may be modified by the user. Interactive multimedia software can play a key and unique role in the educationalprocess. It may be used as a stand-alone educational module that is intended to enable aninterested individual to learn about a particular topic or subject 9 . It may be used as asupplement to classroom presentations 10 and engineering laboratories 11 , or it may be used as adynamic textbook 12 . Recently interactive multimedia has become an effective way ofeducating disabled students 13-15

Conference Session

Student Division (STDT) Poster Session

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tahlia Altgold, The Ohio State University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Student Division (STDT)

can result in high-stakes harm to human and animal participants. Thus, empathy is not onlyeasily integrated in BME ethics education but can be considered a critical skill for BME students learningto make ethical decisions in the field.Critical reflection is an instructional method that may facilitate deep student learning and empathy withinBME ethics education. Hess, et al. [10], sought to understand how ethics education within a first-yearbiomedical laboratory course impacted the students’ empathy and ethical becoming. This work generatedinstructional activities to embed empathy through ethics education in a biomedical laboratory course.Empathy was operationalized with the dimensions of empathy (Affective/Cognitive and Self-Oriented/Other

Conference Session

Materials Division (MATS) Technical Session 3

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Adrian Nat Gentry, Purdue University; Langdon A. Feltner, Purdue University; Paul Mort, Purdue University

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Materials Division (MATS)

classrooms and reaching engineeringprofessionals. While virtual and remote laboratories are not new to engineering education, thereis an increasing need for these alternate methods of teaching due to decreased availability of labtime (from increased undergraduate classes) and the rise of remote higher education programs,such as remote graduate degrees and continuing education [4], [5].In this study, we perform a scoping literature review to explore the tools and labs available toPSET educators. Specifically, we focus on virtual and remote tools that might aid in theeducation of continuing education students and programs with rigid curriculums that do notallow for additional lab time. We were guided by the two following research questions

Conference Session

Student Success in ET

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ali Zilouchian, Florida Atlantic University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology Division (ETD)

145 66.9% 11.0% Biomedical Sciences 326 60.1% 11.3% Data Analytics 29 72.4% 41.4% Homeland Security 314 64.0% 14.6% Cyber Forensics/Information Security 137 74.5% 13.9% Information Technology 1116 71.0% 16.8% Medical Laboratory Science 12 50.0% 0.0%More than half of those STEM students who leave before completing their degree (55.4%) identifyas underrepresented minorities. The full picture of which students began the program, graduated,or left

Conference Session

MECH - Technical Session 13: Technological Advancements and Applications

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael Alley, Penn State University; Robert J. Rabb P.E., Penn State University; Alyson G. Eggleston, Penn State University; Ibukun Samuel Osunbunmi, Penn State University; Siu Ling Leung, Penn State University; Stephanie Cutler, Penn State University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering Division (MECH)

, the Associate Head for Undergraduate Programs, and the Director of Undergraduate Laboratories of the Mechanical Engineering Department at the Pennsylvania State University. She develops new engineering laboratory curriculum to empower students’ cognition skills and equipped them to solve real-world challenges. Her past engineering education experience includes undergraduate curriculum management, student advising, and monitoring department-level ABET assessment. Her current research interest focus on creating new learning tools to enhance student engagement.Dr. Stephanie Cutler, Penn State University Dr. Stephanie Cutler has degrees in Mechanical Engineering, Industrial and Systems Engineering, and a PhD in

Conference Session

Advancing Equity in Engineering Education

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Benjamin C. Flores, University of Texas at El Paso; Audrey Boklage, University of Texas at Austin; Maura Borrego, University of Texas at Austin; Emily Violet Landgren, University of Texas at Austin; Karina Ivette Vielma, The University of Texas at San Antonio; Ernest Chavez, Colorado State University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Minorities in Engineering Division(MIND)

theseoutcomes extend to individuals from outside educational institutions (i.e., industry and DoEnational laboratory professionals) (National Academies, 2017b).Yet poor mentoring practices are still prevalent. In the Carnegie Initiative on the Doctorate(Golde et al., 2006), researchers explored best practices for developing graduate students asstewards of their respective disciplines. Upon examination of current practices, researchersrecognized that undesirable Darwinian strategies pervaded their departmental mentoringpractices. Examples of these theories include: ● the osmosis theory (students learn by reading good research and being near faculty who are doing high-quality research); ● the sink or swim theory (students are thrown into their

Conference Session

Women in Engineering Division (WIED) Technical Session 7

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Karen Watkins-Lewis, Morgan State University; Heather Dillon, University of Washington; Rebecca N. Sliger, Tacoma Community College; Bonnie J. Becker; Erica Cline; Cheryl Greengrove; Petronella A. James, Morgan State University; Angela Edes Kitali; Adrienne Scarcella

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Women in Engineering Division (WIED)

achievement, retention and leadership in science and engi- neering among students of color. She is currently in partnership with a number of institutions, including the University of Washington Tacoma. Dr. Lewis is affiliated with the Meyerhoff Scholars Program, where she has lectured incoming cohorts on race, science, and social Justice.Dr. Heather Dillon, University of Washington Dr. Heather Dillon is Professor and Chair of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Washington Tacoma. Her research team is working on energy efficiency, renewable energy, fundamental heat transfer, and engineering education. Before joining academia, she worked for the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) as a senior research

Collection

2008 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Richard B. Mindek

control, and remote I/O.Today, PLC’s are used in all facets of industry, provide a broad range of functions, can be programmedusing a desktop personal computer, and can be purchased for as little as several hundred dollars. Withsuch broad use in industry, wide-ranging application in engineering related fields and availability to usersat all levels, it is imperative that engineering educators provide young engineers with a fundamentalunderstanding of the operation and capabilities of PLCs. This task has recently been undertaken withinthe Mechanical Engineering Program at Western New England College, through the building of a PLCplatform and development of a PLC laboratory. This laboratory is unique in that it is designed to allowstudents to self

Collection

2008 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

Richard B. Mindek

control, and remote I/O.Today, PLC’s are used in all facets of industry, provide a broad range of functions, can be programmedusing a desktop personal computer, and can be purchased for as little as several hundred dollars. Withsuch broad use in industry, wide-ranging application in engineering related fields and availability to usersat all levels, it is imperative that engineering educators provide young engineers with a fundamentalunderstanding of the operation and capabilities of PLCs. This task has recently been undertaken withinthe Mechanical Engineering Program at Western New England College, through the building of a PLCplatform and development of a PLC laboratory. This laboratory is unique in that it is designed to allowstudents to self

Conference Session

Integrating Technical Research into Professional Development and K-12 Classrooms

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Muhittin Yilmaz, Texas A&M University, Kingsville; Carlos A. Garcia, Texas A&M University, Kingsville; Tamara D. Guillen, Texas A&M University, Kingsville; David Ramirez, Texas A&M University, Kingsville

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

research camp restrictions such as specific grade levels, minimum GPAsor a camp fee for the underserved minority population of South Texas, a state with a significantunderserved minority student population18. The end of camp survey verifies the camp outcomesand implies that the research-based outreach camps may have a larger impact on studentperspectives of engineering disciplines. Page 22.49.2The ESF Camp: The high school day-camp aimed to attract students to STEM disciplines byoffering a week-long hands-on advanced research experience for teams of three students on asingle subject under close faculty supervision in university laboratories. The camp

Conference Session

Computational Tools

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joel Esposito, U.S. Naval Academy; Carl E. Wick, U.S. Naval Academy; Kenneth A. Knowles, U.S. Naval Academy

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education

the robot’s functionality from within MATLAB’spowerful integrated development environment, which already includes numerical solvers, imageprocessing routines, neural network libraries, and control system design tools. We describe thedevelopment process and the toolbox’s features; and illustrate its capabilities with some projectsfrom our own Introductory Robotics class where it was beta tested. A student opinion surveyindicated that the toolbox was well received, but suggests its stability could be improved.1. IntroductionIt has been widely noted that engineering students benefit from a variety of teaching approaches,in particular visual and experiential learners prefer hands on laboratory experiences [1].Teaching robotics is no exception [2

Conference Session

Innovative Curriculum in ET

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Ganapathy Narayanan

Society for Engineering Educationplots of the system responses. The MATLAB software and its control commands tool-box rescue the instructor and students in this course with many advantages for both,especially for the ET student. Of course, some special virtual laboratory time needs to bespent by students to get trained in the use of these select MATLAB control commands.Thus, the ET student is trained in solving the control analysis/design problem withoutgetting distracted with many intermediate calculations, and subsequently, the student’scomprehension of the controls subject is much better. The student can then concentrateefforts in the overall design/analysis of a control system, leaving computationalcrunching to the virtual computer program

Conference Session

Teaching about New Materials

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Tadeusz Majewski; sudhakar vadiraja

. Instructional lectures on each experimental method aregiven during each group’s (having maximum 5 students) laboratory classes. Each group has onelaboratory class of 3 hrs duration per week. A written laboratory report is required to be turned-in by the students before the commencement of next experiment/laboratory class. The ultimategoal of these practical exercises is to provide hands-on experience for students in analyzingfracture behavior in biomaterials. Also, we strongly believe that these laboratory exercises helpstudents in developing their learning, analyzing and creative thinking skills/abilities.As already mentioned in the course methodology (section 2.1.3), mechanical testing includingmicroindentation hardness testing, fracture toughness

Conference Session

Electrical & Computer Engineering Poster Session

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Karl Stephan

course entitled “DigitalElectronics” (TECH 4374) has been taught in a four-credit-hour format of one two-hour lectureand one two-hour lab per week. When we designed the manufacturing engineering curriculum,we decided to reorient this existing digital electronics course toward the needs of the increasingnumber of manufacturing engineering undergraduates who will take it as a requirement, whilekeeping it at a level that is accessible to technology students as well. In 2001 we began a curriculum-improvement project funded by the National ScienceFoundation’s Course, Curriculum, and Laboratory Improvement (CCLI) program. We chose theDigital Electronics course as one of the main targets of our efforts. In this paper we will describe

Conference Session

IE Outreach and Advancement

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Bullen Frank

control - Assignment Assignment Examination case studies Assignmentquality accreditation.Theory of metal cutting and Examination Examination Laboratory Examination Assignmentpractical machining processes.Modelling of threedimensional tool/workpieceinterference for performanceprediction.Introduction to group Examination Assignment Laboratory Case studies Case studiestechnology, flexible (Aluminium (Aluminiummanufacturing systems and

Conference Session

Writing and Communication I

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

David Adams; William Manion

curricula. Civil Engineering Materials Laboratory (CIE 111) was the first course to incorporate the new plan. CIE 111 is a 1-credit laboratory component of a basic course in civil engineering materials, incorporating topics in material variability, plastics, metals, wood and concrete. Historically, students produced five full academic lab reports during the semester, with less than satisfactory results for the most part. Recent enrollment growth (to around 100 students) introduced further complication. The new ECP approach replaced the academic lab reports with five case-based memo assignments, which allowed for more specific instructional goals, more meaningful feedback to students and a

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Carlotta Berry

evaluate student performance based upon gender, major,class, requisite performance, and the number of times an introductory circuits course was taken.This circuits course is required by all engineering majors including civil, architectural,mechanical and electrical engineers and it is the gateway to all upper level courses. This datawill be used to determine general trends in student performance in order to redesign the courseand laboratory to be more successful. Success in this context is defined as a reduced attritionrate as well as increased student performance as determined by final grades. This document willpresent the results of the statistical analysis of the student data and the presence of anysignificant negative or positive

Conference Session

Using Technology to Improve IE Education

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Jerry Davis; Paul Stanfield

educational reform without thedevelopment of model curricula. Without proper planning and forethought, changes will be madein apiecemeal manner; lacking any examination of the motivation for change, the factors that haveresisted change, or the unintended consequences of the changes being considered 10.2. Virtual EnterpriseThe NC A&T State University Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering VirtualEnterprise (VE) is a full scale manufacturing supply chain, integrated using informationtechnology, and producing actual product. Departmental laboratories are organized as businessdepartments within an information system-integrated enterprise. The VE departments, theirfunction, and conceptual structure can be seen in Figure 1 with the physical

Conference Session

Knowing Students:Diversity and Retention

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

John Demel

Program (IEP) and the Freshman EngineeringHonors (FEH) Program. These new programs retain part of the traditional material but add inhands-on laboratory experiences that lead to reverse engineering and design/build projects. Therelational practices – teamwork and project management, along with report writing and oralpresentations and ethics have assumed important roles in this program. The programs aredesigned to have faculty from all of the degree granting departments teach freshmen. Theseprograms were developed to improve the retention and early decision to stay or leave for newfreshmen and to lay a foundation to better address some of the ABET 2000 accreditation criteria.Retention has improved markedly. This paper provides a brief description

Collection

ASEE Zone 1 Conference - Spring 2023

Authors

Buket D Barkana, University of Bridgeport; Ioana A. Badara, University of Bridgeport; Navarun Gupta, University of Bridgeport; Junling Hu, University of Bridgeport; Ausit Mahmood, University of Bridgeport

Tagged Topics

Diversity

science students an opportunity to participate in authentic research experiences with faculty and graduatestudents. It has two components as lecture and research activities. Students spend two to four hours per week workingon research projects as a team. Introduction to Scientific Research is cross-listed among Computer, Electrical,Mechanical Engineering, and Computer Science programs. The course objectives are (1) To identify real-worldproblems and survey their broader impacts, (2) To brainstorm possible solutions to real-world research problems, (3)To apply the scientific method while solving a real-world research problem, (4) To develop basic laboratory skills andsafety procedures relevant to the project, (5) To communicate scientific

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Zenaida Otero Gephardt, Rowan University; Stephanie Farrell, Rowan University; Mariano Javier Savelski, Rowan University; Stewart Slater, Rowan University; Maryfaith Rodgers, Rowan University; Pavlo Kostetskyy, Rowan University; Keith McIver; Haddy Diallo; Kaitlyn Jean Zienowicz; Jason J. Giacomelli, Rowan University; Vladimir de Delva

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees

in laboratory develop- ment and experiential learning, particularly in the areas of biomedical and sustainable engineering.Mariano Javier Savelski, Rowan UniversityC. Stewart Slater, Rowan UniversityMaryfaith Rodgers, Rowan UniversityPavlo Kostetskyy, Rowan University Coauthor as a 4th year undergraduate student at Rowan UniversityKeith McIverHaddy Diallokaitlyn jean zienowiczJason J. Giacomelli, Rowan UniversityVladimir de Delva Page 22.931.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011 Integration of Particle Technology with Pharmaceutical Industry Applications in the

Conference Session

IE Technical Session I

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Elizabeth A. Cudney, Missouri University of Science & Technology; Steven Michael Corns, Missouri University of Science & Technology; Jennifer A. Farris, Texas Tech University; Stephen Gent, South Dakota State University; Scott E. Grasman, Rochester Institute of Technology (COE); Ivan G. Guardiola, Missouri University of Science & Technology

Tagged Divisions

Industrial Engineering

the fall semester of 2010, Stephen developed and taught a cross-listed undergraduate and graduate level course on simulation- based modeling and design using computational fluid dynamics. Prior to being at South Dakota State University, Stephen worked with the Simulation, Modeling, and Decision Science Division at Iowa State University’s Virtual Reality Application Center. His research while at these institutions included modeling complex multiphase fluid flows and systems of models to optimize engineering designs of energy systems. Stephen has been a coordinating instructor for undergraduate engineering laboratories, including fluid mechanics and heat transfer laboratories. Also, Stephen is actively involved with