Conference Session

Engagement In Practice: Integrating Community Engagement into Engineering Curricula

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Wei Lu, Texas A&M University; Malini Natarajarathinam, Texas A&M University; Mary E. Campbell, Texas A&M University; Mary K. McDougal, Texas A&M University; Lauren Neala Holder, Texas A&M University

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Community Engagement Division

. Malini Natarajarathinam, Texas A&M University Dr. Malini Natarajarathinam joined the faculty of Industrial Distribution Program at Texas A&M Univer- sity in 2007. Natarajarathinam received her Ph.D. in Supply Chain Management from The University of Alabama. She received her Bachelor of Engineering (Major: Industrial and Systems Engineering) from Anna University [Tamilnadu, India], her MS in Industrial Engineering from Auburn University, her MA in Management Science and MS in Applied Statistics from The University of Alabama. She has experi- ence working with many industries such as automotive, chemical distribution etc. on transportation and operations management projects. She works extensively with food banks

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Xia Wang, Oakland University; Anica Gwenell Bowe, Oakland University; Chris J. Kobus, Oakland University

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Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

Automotive Engineering and Alternative Energy Research at a University SiteAbstractThe department of mechanical Engineering at Oakland University was awarded by the NationalScience Foundation (NSF) a three year Research Experience for Teachers(RET) grant to supporta group of secondary STEM teachers to conduct Automotive Engineering and AlternativeEnergy research at Oakland University. The program has run successfully for three consecutivesummers between 2016 and 2018. The program aims to inspire K-12 STEM teaching andlearning by engaging the secondary STEM teachers in the research project as well as exposingthem to engineering education pedagogy. A total of 36 teachers from 12 different schools havetaken part in the program. More

Conference Session

Concurrent Virtual Sessions

Collection

2016 ASEE International Forum

Authors

Jeffrey R Seay, University of Kentucky; John Christopher Higgins, University of Kentucky; Chandni A Joshi, University of Kentucky ; Sarah Frances Willett, University of Kentucky

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International Forum Virtual Presentation

University of Kentucky Appropriate Technology and Sustainability(UKATS) research group is an undergraduate, service learning and sustainability focused research group atthe University of Kentucky (UK) College of Engineering Paducah Extended Campus Program. This grouphas established successful partnerships with Non-Governmental Organizations (NGO) in Cameroon andIndia as part of a non-traditional study abroad course in global service learning in engineering. The servicelearning projects undertaken by the UKATS research group as part of the EGR 390: Global ServiceLearning in Engineering course at UK are focused on the development and dissemination of technologybased on the principles of appropriate technology and sustainability – particularly the

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering Design I

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Benjamin Goldschneider, Virginia Tech; Nicole P. Pitterson, Virginia Tech

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Diversity

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

projects in a collaborative environment. Yet, anoverwhelming majority of programs do not provide students with the chance to workcooperatively across disciplinary lines. Those that do typically only allow for interactionbetween groups within the same overarching discipline such as Mechanical or ElectricalEngineering. Ideally, the capstone experience is meant to foreshadow the type of interaction andwork that a student will engage in, easing their transition into the work environment followinggraduation. In industry, engineers are expected to work collaboratively with experts in severaltechnical and non-technical domains. Subsequently, capstone classes are lacking the ability toprepare undergraduate students for membership on the interdisciplinary

Conference Session

Instructional technologies - Simulations, VR, Remote Education

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Tzu-Liang Bill Tseng, University of Texas at El Paso; Md Fashiar Rahman, University of Texas at El Paso; Richard Chiou, Drexel University; Ivan Arturo Renteria-Marquez, University of Texas at El Paso; Aditya Akundi, University of Texas, Rio Grande Valley; Amit J Lopes, University of Texas at El Paso; Jeevarathinam Senthilkumar

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Manufacturing

Paper ID #30992Embedding Computer Simulation Based Classroom Activities to Enhance theLearning Experience for Manufacturing SystemsProf. Tzu-Liang Bill Tseng, University of Texas at El Paso Dr. Tseng is a Professor and Chair of Industrial, Manufacturing and Systems Engineering at UTEP. His research focuses on the computational intelligence, data mining, bio- informatics and advanced manu- facturing. Dr. Tseng published in many refereed journals such as IEEE Transactions, IIE Transaction, Journal of Manufacturing Systems and others. He has been serving as a principle investigator of many research projects, funded by NSF

Conference Session

Construction Engineering Division Technical Session 5

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Jeyoung Woo P.E., California State Polytechnic University, Pomona; Hyun Woo Kim, Incheon National University; Elaine Rawley Goetz, Ohio University Office of Sustainability

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Diversity

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Construction Engineering

Paper ID #28509Student Construction Sustainability Evaluations: A LEED Lab Case StudyDr. Jeyoung Woo P.E., California State Polytechnic University, Pomona Dr. Jeyoung Woo is an assistant professor in the Department of Civil Engineering at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona (Cal Poly Pomona). He is a registered Professional Engineer (Civil - Construction) in Texas. He has worked in the industry for nine years as a project manager, a corporate quality manager, a field engineer, and a designer. Also, he conducted several research projects about construction labor productivity, construction safety, engineering

Conference Session

Innovations in Mechanical Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jesse Maddren, California Polytechnic State University

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Mechanical Engineering

with several unknowns and optimization problems with one ormore independent design variables. Over the years, the laboratory has been used to test othertypes of projects including longer term projects that are more applied, such as the design of asolar domestic hot water system for a dormitory and the design and construction of small thermalsystems, such as a soft drink cooler.This paper presents a survey of how thermal systems design is taught in mechanical engineeringprograms. The paper also outlines the author's personal experiences with teaching thermalsystems design, what has worked and what has not worked.BackgroundA brief investigation into different mechanical engineering programs across the United Statesshows that many programs offer

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Scott Schaffer, Purdue University; Kimfong Lei, Purdue University; Lisette Reyes, Purdue University; William Oakes, Purdue University; Carla Zoltowski, Purdue University

AC 2007-2202: ASSESSING ACTIVITY SYSTEMS OF DESIGN TEAMS IN ACOLLABORATIVE SERVICE LEARNING ENVIRONMENTScott Schaffer, Purdue UniversityKimfong Lei, Purdue UniversityLisette Reyes, Purdue UniversityWilliam Oakes, Purdue UniversityCarla Zoltowski, Purdue University Page 12.262.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007 Assessing Activity Systems of Design Teams in a Collaborative Service Learning EnvironmentAbstractThis study focused on an assessment process and cross-disciplinary team learning frameworkpotentially useful in the design of collaborative environments for project teams. Thisfollowing research questions addressed were: 1) Did

Conference Session

ECE Poster Session

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

K Krishnamurthy, University of Missouri-Rolla (ENG); Keith Stanek, University of Missouri-Rolla; Vittal Rao, University of Missouri-Rolla

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Electrical and Computer

10 female students from 27 different institutions from aroundthe United States and Puerto Rico have participated in the program.IntroductionWith funding from the National Science Foundation, an REU site program in the areas of micromechatronics and smart structures has been conducted for the last four years at UMR. The goalof this study was to provide a multidisciplinary research experience for the benefit ofundergraduate students in Aerospace, Computer, Electrical and Mechanical Engineering, andEngineering Mechanics. The objectives were to: i) introduce micro mechatronics concepts tojunior and senior undergraduate students; ii) provide a collaborative project-based research withhands-on experience in a multidisciplinary atmosphere; iii

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Course Innovation

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James Sweeney, Florida Gulf Coast University; Diane Bondehagen, Florida Gulf Coast University; Claude Villiers, Florida Gulf Coast University

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

VILLIERS is an Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering at Florida Gulf Coast University. He received his Ph.D. in Civil Engineering with a concentration in Materials and Construction from the University of Florida in 2004. Previously Dr. Villiers was an Assistant Professor at The City College of New York. Prior to this position, he was employed by the Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) as a research engineer. Dr. Villiers also was employed by The University of Florida and worked on several projects sponsored by the FDOT and the Federal Highway Administration. Page 12.319.1© American

Conference Session

Distance Education and Engineering Workforce Professional Development

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Vedaraman Sriraman, Texas State University, San Marcos; Wayne W. Wheatley; Valerie Ann Little

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Continuing Professional Development

author served with the industrial engineering (IE) division of the aforementioned companyover a period of two and half months. During this period, the author participated in all IE staffmeetings and worked as the resident “IE” on two projects, each one week long, in which leanmanufacturing techniques were deployed to improve key production related metrics. Duringthese projects, the author had the opportunity to work with multiple professionals within thecompany and external management consultants and thereby obtained the equivalent of a crashcourse on the implementation of lean manufacturing. These experiences facilitated thedevelopment of a new course on lean manufacturing at Texas State University-San Marcos(Texas State hereafter) and to the

Conference Session

Robotics and Automation I

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Saeed Khan, Kansas State University, Salina; Lee J. Gatton, Gatton Research and Development; Beverly Gatton, Fidelity Information Services

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Engineering Technology

in 2008 to pursue his interest in developing Socially Assistive Robots.Mrs. Beverly Gatton, Fidelity Information Services Beverly Gatton is the IT project manager at Fidelity Information Services Beverly Gatton manages soft- ware implementations of commercial banking systems across the United States. She received her B.S. in Business from the University Of Texas at Dallas in 1977, her associate’s of Engineering Technology from Kansas State University in Salina in 1986, and a master’s of Management in Information Systems from Friends University in Wichita, Kansas in 1998. Gatton’s has built her career in the application of Information Technology to the business world

Conference Session

Computers in ME

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Ronald Goulet

Session: 3566 Medieval Engines of Siege Warfare and Modern Engineering Tools Ron Goulet College of Engineering and Computer Science University of Tennessee at ChattanoogaAbstractThe College of Engineering and Computer Science at UT Chattanooga offers second yearengineering students a three credit hour lecture course in Engineering Dynamics. Seeking tosupplement the traditional lecture approach, experiential problem-based learning projects areinserted. EPBL is the outcome of a ‘learner centered

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Karen High; Cynthia Mann

Session 2793 A Pilot Study for Creativity Experiences in a Freshman Introduction to Engineering Course Cynthia Mann, Karen A. High Oklahoma State UniversityAbstractA program launched at Oklahoma State University seeks to enhance the creative abilities ofengineering students. The project objectives are to: improve recruitment and retention; increasethe value of our graduates, and maximize job and lifetime satisfaction for our engineers.The motivation for this program comes from the observation that engineering students may not beenjoying their education

Conference Session

Teaching Entrepreneurship to Engineers

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Steven Howell; Pat Shamamy; Feierfeil Greg; Chris Reidel; Tarek Rizk; Lisa Anneberg

Tech’sengineering program while maintaining the same credit hour requirements for a B.Sc degree.This is accomplished by redefining some technical electives and restructuring the traditionalengineering capstone project sequence as a student enterprise.Table 1: Entrepreneurial Program at Lawrence Technological University Fall Semester Spring Semester Credit CreditYear 1Year 2 Technical & Professional Finance for engineers Communication 3 credits 1 credit Marketing for Engineers Engineering Enterprise 1 credit 1 creditYear 3 Business

Conference Session

Graduate Education and Undergraduate Research-related Issues

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nina Robson, Texas A&M University; Joseph A. Morgan, Texas A&M University

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Engineering Technology

as the Program Director of the Electronics and Telecommunications programs and as the Associate Department Head for Operations. He received his B.S. degree in electrical engineering (1975) from California State University, Sacramento, and his M.S. (1980) and D.E. (1983) de- grees in industrial engineering from Texas A&M University. His education and research interests include project management, innovation and entrepreneurship, and embedded product/system development. Page 25.841.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2012 Introducing Faculty Research to Undergraduate

Conference Session

Outreach: Future Women in Engineering II

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Sue Ellen Haupt; Jessica Gregory

Planning Approach for the Society of Women Engineers Mentoring Girl Scouts Sue Ellen Haupt, Jessica D. Gregory Utah State University/ Pennsylvania State University Abstract Utah State University College of Engineering is actively working on recruiting and retaining women in engineering. This project is one that combines the two toward affecting both goals at once. The Society of Women Engineers (SWE) section at USU has organized a mentoring system with the local Girl Scout council. The primary idea is a top-down mentoring approach where activities are designed and run by women and girls that are a step ahead of the participants. In

Conference Session

Instrumentation and Laboratory Systems

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Adam El-Mansouri; Kevin Buck; Herbert Hess

Session: 2220 Technical Aspects of Creating and Assessing a Learning Environment in Digital Electronics for High School Students Adam S. El-Mansouri, Herbert L. Hess, Kevin M. Buck, Timothy Ewers Microelectronics Research and Communications Institute Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Idaho Moscow, IdahoAbstract To develop an interest and an understanding of digital electronics for high schoolstudents, we have created digital electronic projects using a Field Programmable Gate Array(FPGA). The approach is module-based

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Dilip Mirchandani; Kathryn Hollar; Beena Sukumaran; John Chen; Yusuf Mehta

development; and (iv) understand the environmental impacts of development andexplore the role of appropriate technologies in developing sustainable strategies.The second in the series is an engineering course called Sophomore Clinic II, which is taken byall engineering students at Rowan University. Sophomore Clinic II is the 4th course in aninnovative eight semester multidisciplinary engineering design and practice, project-orientedcourse sequence that is a hallmark of the Rowan Engineering program. The students in thiscourse work on projects related to reducing greenhouse gas emissions. As part of the course,students participate in a semester-long project in which sophomore students from all engineeringdisciplines calculate CO2 emissions for the

Conference Session

Innovative Teaching in Environmental Engineering

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Wafeek Wahby

- termecological and environmental effects of building the Three Gorges Dam. Other far-reaching effects of the project on areas such as energy, industry, business, culture, societyand transportation are now starting to become a tangible reality rather than speculations.Time will show to what extent the fears and concerns that many are having were justified.SummaryThe largest project in the world, China’s Three Gorges Dam (TGD) – 1.44 miles (2.31km) long and 620 ft (185 ms) high – is well into its third and final phase. Since Sunday,June 1, 2003, waters of the Yangtze River – third longest river in the world after the Nileand the Amazon – have been flowing through water diversion holes at the bottom ofTGD in the portions completed during Phase I (1993-1997

Conference Session

BME Research and Design

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Blair Rowley

BME Senior Design and Freshmen Engineering Blair A. Rowley, Ph.D., P.E. College of Engineering & Computer Science Wright State University Dayton, Ohio 45435AbstractThis paper reports the results for a senior-freshman teaming event that took place during the fallquarter 2004. It describes the rational for the event, the design leadership required of the seniors,the structure of the design environment, project reports, student reactions, and the eventevaluations.This is the second year that our biomedical engineering seniors have been coupled with ourengineering and computer science

Conference Session

Cross-Section of Construction Education

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Joseph Cecere

Capstone Course in Construction Management Joseph J. Cecere , Ph.D., CPC Pennsylvania State University/ HarrisburgABSTRACTCapstone courses offered in most construction engineering programs are designed to pull together much of whatthe student has already learned in previous courses. This will enable the student to gain an appreciation of howthe different aspects of a construction project come together. The course is not an in depth study of any onefunction or technical aspect, but rather a synergistic overview of the project

Conference Session

Capstone Design and Engineering Practice

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Marian Stachowicz; Rocio Alba-Flores

completing the ECE program at UMD can satisfythe requirement for a senior design project. The design workshop topic for the spring 2002 wasthe use of fuzzy logic to control mobile robots. In this workshop, students worked in smallgroups and were required to design, build and program a mobile robot with intelligent behaviorsusing fuzzy logic. In this workshop no formal lectures were taught, however the studentsreceived an intensive review covering the topics of the 68HC12 microcontroller, principles ofmobile robots, sensors, and fuzzy logic.IntroductionIn the last decade, the topic of mobile robots has become very attractive to engineering students.It has been shown that students working in this topic show more interest in learning digitalelectronics

Conference Session

Assessment of Entrepreneurship Programs

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Jack McGourty

University of Pittsburgh to identify new methodsto develop these important capabilities in engineering and science students. Over the past twoyears, multi-source assessment and feedback processes have been used to support students’development of specific design team skills in Columbia’s first year design course and in theUniversity of Pittsburgh's senior level product realization course. Many of these team skills arerelevant to and highly correlated with entrepreneurial behaviors. This paper addresses how theseinnovative, entrepreneurial traits were: a) identified and defined, b) integrated into the students’learning experience, and c) measured and correlated with team project outcomes.Engineering educators are focusing more on the identification

Conference Session

Learning and Teaching Issues

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Gul Okudan Kremer

StateUniversity during fall 2002 using two sections of an Introduction to Engineering Design course.The pilot study used 16 engineering design teams that completed two design projects. The firstdesign project is a guided project and the second one is an open-ended, industry-sponsoredproject. The data collection was done during the second design project, which lasts about 8weeks of the semester. Preliminary results indicate that design experience affects the performanceof design teams. In addition, despite the fact that the gender orientation of the design task is notfound to be significant—as it is quantified for this preliminary study—the increase of femalestudents in design teams result in lower design performance. However, the data set included

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Kevin Renken; George Abraham

Session 1359 EXPERIMENTAL SETUP OF A LOW DIFFERENTIAL PRESSURE PERMEABILITY APPARATUS FOR CONCRETE SAMPLES Kevin J. Renken, George T. Abraham University of Wisconsin-MilwaukeeAbstractThis paper presents the results of a mechanical engineering senior design project that was carried-outin the Radon Reduction Technology Laboratory at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM).The objective of the student's project was to design, setup and test an experimental apparatus tomeasure the air permeability coefficient of concrete samples under low pressure differences (∆p ~5 - 10 Pa) that

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Technical Session

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stacy Gleixner, San Jose State University; Patricia Ryaby Backer, San Jose State University; Elena Klaw, Ph.D., San Jose State University

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

; hydropower; fuel cells;biofuels; geothermal; and ocean, wave, and tidal energy. In all of the topics, the class coversenough of the engineering fundamentals to allow for mini-design projects in each technology.The classroom periods use an active learning methodology. The classes are structured such thatthe students work together in multi-disciplinary teams where each student is able to bring theexpertise of their major to understanding the technology. For example, the background ofmechanical engineers combined with electrical engineers will allow a team to begin to grasp thebasic fundamentals of fluid flow and power generation needed to understand how a hydropowerplant operates.A significant assignment in the class is a community-based service

Conference Session

Robotics and Automation

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cheng Y. Lin P.E., Old Dominion University; John R. Hackworth, Old Dominion University

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Engineering Technology

. Page 25.247.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2012Automation Laboratory Development Focusing on Industrial Hands-on Experience, Simulation Software, and Application Research ProjectsAbstractThis paper describes the development of an Automation Control Lab in the Departmentof Engineering Technology at the University. The lab facility includes pneumaticactuators/sensors, electrical relays/switches, and Programmable Logic Controllers (PLC).The major goal of the development is to help students gain hands-on industrialexperience by conducting simple projects during the lecture hours and more advancedprojects during the lab hours. Simulation software is also applied to reduceimplementation time when

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Willis Tompkins, University of Wisconsin, Madison

AC 2001-1092: USING DESIGN AS THE BACKBONE OF A BME CURRICULUMWillis Tompkins, University of Wisconsin, Madison Page 6.1104.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2001 Session 2209 Using Design as the Backbone of a BME Curriculum Willis J. Tompkins Department of Biomedical Engineering University of Wisconsin-MadisonAbstractIn this paper, I summarize my experiences as an advisor supervising biomedical engineeringdesign projects in three different programs: 1) first-year

Collection

1997 Annual Conference

Authors

Jawaharlal Mariappan

cross-platform skills and knowledge.These courses are heavily laboratory and project oriented. However, there are no establishedprocedures or standards for a mechatronics laboratory, which is essential for the success ofmechatronics courses. This paper presents various issues associated with development of amechatronic laboratory, the experiments and projects that have been designed and the GMIexperience.INTRODUCTION Mechatronics is a term that represents the synergistic integration of Mechanical, controlengineering and electronics, and intelligent computer control of products. Examples ofmechatronic products can be found in all sectors of engineering including automotive, machinetool, and aerospace industries, consumer electronics and