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

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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

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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

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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

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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

Tagged Divisions

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

Tagged Divisions

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

Conference Session

Engineering Leadership Development Division (LEAD) Technical Session: Engineering Leadership Competencies and Skills

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Anuli Ndubuisi, University of Toronto; Philip Asare, University of Toronto

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Leadership Development Division (LEAD)

approval from twelve countries [4].This highlightsthe need for global engineering leadership competencies that can enable graduate engineers tocollaborate with diverse stakeholders across disciplines, geographical locations and cultures towork on complex global problems. Hence, engineering accreditation and research fundingorganizations have mandated that futures graduates develop global engineering leadershipcompetencies including global perspectives, multidisciplinary teamwork, and complexcollaboration skills that can enhance employability [5][6].Conventional pedagogical approaches by engineering institutions for incorporating engineeringleadership education comprise of experiential service-learning projects, problem-based learning

Conference Session

Learning through Instrumentation: Experiences and Applications

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David R. Loker, Pennsylvania State University

Tagged Divisions

Instrumentation Division (INST)

electrical and computerdisciplines. The goal of this paper is to utilize the Pico W as an inexpensive alternative to the dataacquisition hardware used for lab projects in electrical and computer engineering and engineeringtechnology programs. First, lab projects are shown to introduce students to MicroPython (a smallsubset of the Python standard library), Thonny (the software development environment for writingPython code and downloading it to the Pico W), and API functions for peripheral control. Examplesinclude LED control, analog input, OLED display, and a web server. Then, data acquisition projectsare shown to illustrate the design of measurement systems. These include the design of atemperature measurement system and a digital voltmeter system

Conference Session

Software Engineering Division (SWED) Technical Session #2

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Afsaneh Minaie, Utah Valley University; Reza Sanati-Mehrizy, Utah Valley University

Tagged Divisions

Software Engineering Division (SWED)

Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma. His research focuses on diverse areas such as: D ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 Serious Games in Computer Engineering EducationAbstractThe purpose of a capstone design project course is to provide graduating senior students with theopportunity to demonstrate understanding of the concepts they have learned during their studies.As with many computer science and engineering programs, students of the computer engineeringprogram at Utah Valley University (UVU) conclude their degree programs with a semestercapstone design experience. The intent is for students to utilize competencies developed in thefirst

Conference Session

Chemical Engineering Education: Underclass Years

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sundararajan Madihally, Oklahoma State Univ.; Marcus Duffy, Oklahoma State University; Lynn Franzmann, Stillwater; Rebekah Reece, Stillwater; Karen High, Oklahoma State University

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

middle school teachers (teaching Biology and Math) were selected toparticipate in research dealing with tissue engineering. Teachers worked for six weeks (fourdays a week) within the research laboratory on formation of porous structures usingbiodegradable polymers. Teachers were exposed to the technique of forming porous structuresusing chitosan and gelatin solution in various shapes using the apparatus available in thelaboratory. A low cost freeze drying system that is safe for operation by sixth grade students wasdeveloped. The overall cost of performing the experiment is also significantly cheap and lesstime consuming.An envisioned project for the current academic year under implementation in the sixth grade isfreeze drying chitosan-gelatin

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering I

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jorge Rodriguez, Western Michigan University; Alamgir Choudhury, Western Michigan University

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

, every factor in the life cycle of the product should be taken into account. Aspart of a Capstone Design Project, and with the goal of illustrating complete engineering designprocesses where factors besides the technical ones need to be taken into account, industry-sponsored projects are undertaken by teams of students. The project presented here deals with anautomotive subassembly that needed to be redesigned and evaluated. The system is a powerslider assembly which is installed in the rear of current-model trucks and powers the rearwindow. The current design is bulky, expensive, and takes too much time to install. Theobjective of the project was to introduce a new design for the power slider which would be moreefficient in terms of operation

Conference Session

Communication in Design

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Peter Schmidt, University of North Carolina, Charlotte; Deborah Sharer, University of North Carolina, Charlotte; Nabila (Nan) BouSaba, University of North Carolina, Charlotte; Daniel Hoch, University of North Carolina, Charlotte; James Conrad, University of North Carolina, Charlotte; Bruce Gehrig, University of North Carolina, Charlotte; Steve Patterson, University of North Carolina, Charlotte

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

information control processes and procedures that are expected ofpracticing engineers. Work in an organization with global reach increases theimportance of real time document and information control and sensitivity to therequirements of a modern Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system shouldposition the students exiting the program to be more competitive in theworkplace. This work describes a simple but effective system of requireddocumentation, naming conventions, release structure and revision controls thatenable student teams to track documentation changes during the life of theircapstone project, along with the rationale for any implemented changes.Additionally, the students learn to keep secure, controlled document archives andto standardize

Conference Session

Extending a Hand Back: Older Students Inspiring Younger Students

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kristine R. Csavina, Florida Gulf Coast University; Lisa Zidek, Florida Gulf Coast University

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

country where they learned about nursing practices, community assessment, medicalinstrumentation and engineering design principles, with much of the learning facilitated throughsmall group, community-based activities. Students concluded the trip back at FGCU, formallypresenting their work to local community members, from the campus and the greater Ft. Myersand Naples area; students were also interviewed by these community members one-on-one todetermine successes and areas for improvement in the program. While the paper will summarizeall components of the high school program, the focus of the paper is on the design topicsintroduced in Guatemala, including activities used to teach and learn engineering design, the in-country design project

Conference Session

Reception & Poster Session

Collection

2013 ASEE International Forum

Authors

Amos G Winter V, MIT; Robert James Stoner, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Charles H Fine, MIT Sloan School of Management

Tagged Topics

ASEE International Forum

. Page 21.63.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013 The Tata Center for Technology and Design at MITAbstractThis paper describes the Tata Center for Technology and Design at MIT, a new program aimedat creating high-impact, sustainable, and scalable technical solutions in developing and emergingmarkets through the rigorous application of applied engineering science and systems thinking.The program is funded by the Sir Dorabji Tata Trust and is based at MIT. The Center matchesstudents and faculty to projects in India and offers training to enable them to create viable andappropriate solutions. Tata Center projects serve as the basis for graduate thesis work to addresscompelling social

Conference Session

Unique Lab Experiments

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Dianne DeTurris

reusable first stagebooster rockets. The design for the vehicle originated from industry, and NASA supports theindustry proposal by funding the university for small scale construction and flight testing. Thestudents interact with both groups for direction and technical advice, which creates a tremendousamount of learning opportunities and motivation for the team. The project is organized as anextracurricular club activity that is purely voluntary and made up of students in severalengineering disciplines. The students gain practical knowledge and real world research experiencein a team-oriented systems engineering environment, all before completing their bachelors degree.IntroductionThe Aerospace Engineering Department at Cal Poly State University

Conference Session

Capstone Mechanical Engineering Design

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

William Janna

Systems,” involves groupsof seniors working on various semester-long design projects. Groups are composed of 3, 4 or 5members that bid competitively on various projects. Once projects are awarded, freshmenenrolled in the “Introduction to Mechanical Engineering” courses are assigned to work with thesenior design teams. The senior teams function like small consulting companies that employ co-operative education students; e.g., the freshmen.One of the objectives of building this collaboration is a desire to increase the retention rate of thefreshmen by involving them with the seniors in what appears to be some interesting design work.Additionally, the seniors benefit by developing the ability to communicate their ideas to a non-technical audience as

Collection

2023 ASEE GSW

Authors

Lance L.A. White; Sara Amani; Larry Powell; Karan Watson; Mark Clayton; Tracy Hammond; Sarhan Musa; Kelvin Kirby

Prairie View A&M University AbstractEngineering students are inundated with high-stakes scenarios like exams and projects saturatedwith expectations of excellence. Students rarely are granted an opportunity to escape theseexpectations and design, develop, and build a project lead predominately by their peers. We havetaken an opportunity to challenge these traditional expectations and offer a multidisciplinaryresearch experience spanning two universities addressing survivability during extreme weather. Thegroup of students on this project span multiple critical identities, many of which underrepresented inengineering. This work will qualitatively examine the experiences of those students and how it

Conference Session

Innovative IE Course Content

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Douglas H Timmer, University of Texas, Pan American; Miguel Gonzalez, University of Texas, Pan American

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Economy, Engineering Management, Industrial Engineering

pilot implementation, discussion, recommendations for future research,and acknowledgements.The Mouse FactoryThe Mouse Factory is a web-based simulation of a manufacturing plant for producing USBcomputer mice. There are four components for each laboratory or project of the online MouseFactory: a web site containing the learning assignments, a website containing a completedescription of the Mouse Factory and Java Server Face (JSF) web-based applications thatgenerate data. Note that the gauge R&R project does not use JSF applications to generate databut rather requires the students to make their own measurements of a set of gauge blocks.Students typically access the learning materials through the assignment web-site located athttp

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2010 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Allison L. Felix; Joel Z. Bandstra; William H.J. Strosnider

Design-Based Science for STEM Student Recruitment and Teacher Professional Development Allison L. Felix Science Outreach Center Joel Z. Bandstra, and William H.J. Strosnider Environmental Engineering Saint Francis University Loretto, PA 15940We have developed a design-based project for outreach efforts to recruit students to STEM fieldsas well as science teacher professional development. The project challenged high schoolstudents in a one-week high school summer outreach academy and

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2011 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Daniel Schmalzel

Photovoltaic System Optimization through Undergraduate Engineering Clinics Daniel Schmalzel, Rowan University, New Jersey, USA 745 Photovoltaic System Optimization through Undergraduate Engineering Clinics Daniel Schmalzel, Rowan University, New Jersey, USAAbstractAt Rowan University students have been introduced to Photovoltaic System Design, through theClinic Experience, at both the residential and commercial scale. The Clinic is a project basedlearning approach based on the Medical School Model [1]. These experiences have included theinitial feasibility assessments and continued all the way

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2008 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

Adam Halstead; Jennifer Zirnheld

taken at the completion of the course indicated that student interest in thisproject was very high. In the interest of providing long-term retention of fundamental skills,several inductive learning techniques were employed. By maintaining student interest, we hopethat the skills they learn from this experience will stay with them throughout their engineeringcareers.IntroductionThis project, entitled the “Rainbow Sculpture: Artistic Engineering”, adapted from CliffordMatthews’ Case Studies in Engineering Design 1, is a case-based learning study that extends intohybrid problem/project based learning. “Rainbow Sculpture” borrows bits and pieces from manydifferent techniques to reach and impress upon a broad array of audiences. Students that

Conference Session

Materials Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nabila Shamim, Prairie View A&M University; Anh Nguyen, Prairie View A&M University; Sheena Reeves, Prairie View A&M University; Ariful Bhuiyan

Tech University in 2013. His thesis was titled “Anterior Cruciate Ligament Response Due to Forces Resulting from Quadriceps Muscle and Ground Reaction.” He received his M.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering from the National University of Singapore in 2005 and earned B.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology in 2002. He has more than 10 years of industrial experience, playing different roles like lead project engineer, system engineer, principle mechanical engineer, and finite element analyst. Currently, he is conducting research on engineering education. © American Society for Engineering Education, 2022 Powered

Conference Session

Computers in Education 7 - Modulus 2

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Eman Hammad, Texas A&M University - Commerce; James Nelson, Texas A&M University; John Romero, Texas A&M University

learning that was implemented in onecybersecurity course with interactive learning modules. In this model, a closed-loop learningenvironment is established, where students are actively involved and guided to include theirgoals in an interactive set of learning modules of the course. Students were provided with theneeded infrastructure and technologies (such as IoT devices and the cyberrange platform) toenable them to proceed with those modules. The article summarizes the results based onstudents' feedback and observations, and concludes with a description of a methodology togeneralize this to other similar courses.IntroductionThe global gap in cybersecurity talent remains highly unfulfilled with projections expecting thisgap to extend with