Conference Session

Using Laboratories for Instruction in Mechanical Engineering

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Amanie N. Abdelmessih, California Baptist University

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

fees that varied from $300 to less than $1000 a year for small projectsinvolving undergraduate students. Also, that faculty wrote and acquired numerous micro grantsfor equipment, instruments, and software. These micro grants ranged from $500 to $25,000.Creative methods were used to create unique hands-on learning opportunities for undergraduatemechanical engineering students. The undergraduate senior students designed, manufactured,assembled, and built unique thermal engineering experiments, with instruction and advising fromthe author. These activities met numerous of ABET criteria for accrediting undergraduateengineering programs. The projects that were designed and built by the senior mechanicalengineering students were used in educating

Conference Session

Mathematics Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jing Zhang, Virginia State University; Yongjin Lu, Virginia State University ; Zhifu Xie, Virginia State University; Dawit Haile, Virginia State University; Keith Williamson, Virginia State University

Tagged Divisions

Mathematics

industrial research managers. Its benefits are substantial to both ends. The benefits are mutual, particularly in terms of students who complete university programs and join industry research and development teams. The U-I collaboration, on one hand, brings in ideas in the academic forefront to acceler- ate technological advancement in industrial firms, on the other hand, strengthens the education of engineers and mathematicians, and economists at universities by providing research projects generated by real technological issues from industry. It is clear that this marriage invigorates the current stereotype engineering educa- tion through new industrial challenges. However, not many university-industrial ties are

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Efforts in Upper-level Courses

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Timothy R McJunkin, Idaho National Laboratory; Craig G Rieger, Idaho National Laboratory; Aunshul Rege, Temple University; Saroj K Biswas, Temple University; Michael Haney, University of Idaho; Michael John Santora, University of Idaho; Brian K. Johnson, University of Idaho, Moscow; Ronald Laurids Boring; D. Subbaram Naidu P.E., University of Minnesota Duluth; John F. Gardner, Boise State University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

Justice at Temple University. Her main areas of research include critical infrastructure resilience and protection, cyber and cyber-physical security, infrastructure planning and policy, and global security and international affairs.Dr. Saroj K Biswas, Temple University Saroj Biswas is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Temple University specializing in electrical machines and power systems, multimedia tutoring, and control and optimization of dynamic systems. He has been the principle investigator of a project for the development of an intelligent tutoring shell that allows instructors create their own web-based tutoring system. His current research focuses on security of cyber-physical systems

Conference Session

College/University Engineering Students K-12 Outreach II

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Thaddeus Fowler; Suzanne Soled; Laura Koehl; Anant Kukreti

Creating Partnerships between the University and Secondary Schools Laura A. Koehl, Suzanne W. Soled, Anant R. Kukreti and Ted W. Fowler Colleges of Engineering and Education, University Of CincinnatiProject STEP (Science and Technology Enhancement Program) is a joint effort between theColleges of Engineering and Education at the University of Cincinnati to partner with schools inthe Cincinnati Public School system. Project STEP connects engineering graduate students(Fellows) with middle and high school science educators to help bring authentic learningactivities into the classroom. The project is funded through the NSF GK12 program to enhancescience education.The project had two primary goals; 1) to

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2014 ASEE Zone 4 Conference

Authors

John Murray; Erin Elder; Ryan Bingham; Glen Longhurst; Desmond Penny

268 The Design and Construction of a Tiny House: Small Is Beautiful John Murray, Erin Elder, Ryan Bingham, Glen Longhurst, and Desmond Penny Southern Utah UniversityAbstractThe Danish scientist and poet, Piet Hein said, “Art is solving problems that cannot be formulatedbefore they have been solved. The shaping of the solution is part of the answer.” Hein’sstatement sets the stage for a senior capstone project involving two Southern Utah University(SUU) students majoring in Integrated Engineering, and justifies their undaunted roving

Conference Session

Manufacturing Division (MFG) Poster Session

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Austin Talley, Texas State University; Kimberly Grau Talley P.E., Texas State University; Pablo Rodriguez Verde

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Manufacturing Division (MFG)

-consumerplastics. The molds for the project were CNC-milled in the Ingram Hall Makerspace bymanufacturing engineering students out of aluminum blocks. This paper will go through somelessons learned about the mold making process. As a part of the presentation, the evolution of themolds and sample products will be displayed. The paper also discusses some future projects thathave been started to move the overall project forward with the goal to make student-led post-consumer recycling an active part of the Ingram Hall Makerspace experience.BackgroundThis project is part of an ongoing effort to bring local on-campus recycling of post-consumerHDPE #2 plastics to the Ingram Hall Makerspace on the Texas State University campus. Amanufacturing engineering senior

Conference Session

COED: Spotlight on Diverse Learners

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Daniel A. Tillman, University of Texas, El Paso; Wei Yan, Texas A&M University; Song An, University of Texas, El Paso; Jeffrey Liew, Texas A&M University; Kien H. Lim; Lisa Garbrecht, University of Texas, Austin; Philip B. Yasskin

Tagged Topics

Diversity

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Computers in Education Division (COED)

Hispanics graduatefrom high school prepared to begin a STEM degree program or career [3][4]. This project aimsto overcome Hispanic students’ barriers by improving both cognitive and socio-emotionaloutcomes and enhance students’ informal learning communities by: (1) increasing participants’interest and engagement with mathematics and geometry specifically, (2) increasing participants’productive dispositions toward STEM subjects, and (3) enhancing the culture and broadeningparticipation in students’ informal learning communities. The after-school activities will bemodeled on the Math Circles which are a nationally recognized outreach program which allowsteenagers to investigate interesting and fun math concepts through inquiry-based learning underthe

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mark Chapman, University of San Diego

Education, 2022 Powered by www.slayte.com US-Sweden Bioinformatics IRES Year 1: Program Development and Initial Lessons LearnedAbstractThis National Science Foundation (NSF) project focuses on creating an immersive internationalsummer research experience for students enrolled in a primarily undergraduate institution (PUI).Over the course of a three-year grant period, this research seeks to: (1) train and mentor 18diverse undergraduate students from PUIs in Southern California in bioinformatics research in acollaborative and international setting; (2) disseminate the research outcomes at conferences andin peer-reviewed journals; (3) encourage and prepare undergraduate students

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ann Beheler, Center for Occupational Research and Development

Paper ID #38271Creating Employer-Driven Information Technology SkillStandards, the Process, and the ResultsAnn Beheler Ann Beheler has been in the Information Technology industry for over 30 years, and she currently leads several National Science Foundation grants including the IT Skill Standards 2020 and Beyond project, the National Convergence Technology Center (a National IT Center), and the Building Pathways to Innovation project. All work builds on many previous NSF and DOL grants. Ann has corporate experience at Rockwell, Raytheon and Novell; has led her own consulting firm; created and taught in the first

Conference Session

Technical Session VI

Collection

2018 FYEE Conference

Authors

John Edward Miller, Baylor University; Brandon Herrera, Baylor University

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Diversity, FYEE Conference Sessions

2018 FYEE Conference: Glassboro, New Jersey Jul 25 Full Paper: Tangible Electricity - Audio Amplifier and SpeakerAbstractProjects help students connect concepts to physical reality and allow students to experience theprocess of design, construction, and testing. Finding suitable projects can be difficult. Theyshould be challenging yet enjoyable, demonstrate the concepts in an understandable way, tangible(hands-on), not cost too much, and not require too much time of either students or instructors.This paper describes one such project: soldering an audio amplifier and building a speaker. Theprimary goal of this project was to make electrical engineering tangible, as early students (orthose in other disciplines) often complain that

Conference Session

Curriculum Development and Applications

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Holly Ault, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Design Graphics

AC 2009-1062: THE USE OF RAPID PROTOTYPE MODELS IN MECHANICALDESIGN COURSESHolly Ault, Worcester Polytechnic Institute Holly K. Ault received her BS, MSME and Ph.D. degrees from Worcester Polytechnic Institute in 1974, 1983 and 1988 respectively. She has worked as a Manufacturing Engineer for the Norton Company and Product Development Engineer for the Olin Corporation. She is currently Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, co-director of the Assistive Technology Resource Center, and director of the Melbourne Global Project Center. In the fall of 2001, she was invited as the Lise Meitner Visiting Professor, Department of Design Sciences, Lund

Collection

1996 Annual Conference

Authors

Rick L. Homkes; Kevin D. Taylor

and curricular mattersfrom the two local universities. The teachers receive a stipend and three graduate credits in education forcompleting the program. Improvements were made in the 1995 VISION project based upon lessons learned from the 1994 pilot.These included increased instruction time from faculty members of Purdue and Indiana Universities, especiallyin the areas of statistical control, quality management, biology, and physics. A second change provided theteachers more time to both reflect upon the industry experience and prepare the required instructional module.VISION 95 attracted more teachers, more industry partners and received funding from an Eisenhower grant. The major goals of the program continue to be increased

Conference Session

First-Year Programs: Monday Cornucopia (Classroom Innovations)

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Duncan Davis, Northeastern University; Jimmy Gitming Lee, Northeastern University

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

Paper ID #26516Building Escape Rooms to Increase Student Engagement in First-Year Engi-neering ClassesProf. Duncan Davis, Northeastern University Duncan Davis is an Assistant Teaching Professor in First Year Engineering. His research focuses on using gamification to convey course content in first year classes. Mostly recently, he has implemented a series of escape room projects to teach engineering to first year students through the process of designing, prototyping, and refining these play experiences.Jimmy Gitming Lee, Northeastern University c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session II

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sadegh Davari, University of Houston, Clear Lake; Nathanial David Wiggins, San Jacinto College; Krishani Abeysekera, University of Houston, Clear Lake; Sharon P Hall, University of Houston, Clear Lake

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees Poster Session

. Currently, she is a Senior Lecturer/Systems Administrator for the School of Science and Engineering at UHCL. She is also the Program Chair of the Information Technology program. Her research interests include Computer Forensics, Security and Graphics.Prof. Sharon P Hall, University of Houston, Clear Lake c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Bridges to STEM Careers: Hands-on Students ActivitiesAbstractThe Bridges to STEM Careers (BSC) project is funded by the NSF STEP program. The project isa collaborative effort between a university and three community college campuses. The maingoals of the project are to increase attainment of STEM associate and baccalaureate degrees, aswell as to

Conference Session

ECCD Innovations in Energy Engineering & Technology

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Glenn T. Wrate P.E., Northern Michigan University

Tagged Divisions

Energy Conversion and Conservation

signal (a variable voltage) and four120 V digital signals. All of these need to be modified. The PLC analog output does not provideenough current to drive the train, so a power op-amp circuit is used. The track switches require18 V ac, so the 120 V outputs are used to control an 18 V supply via relays.The student response to using this system has been extremely positive. The system has beenused by electrical, industrial, and mechanical engineering students, as well as by electrical andmechanical technology students. As a senior design project, the base system was expanded intoan elaborate system with four optical sensors, two inductive proximity sensors, and a limit switchthat could allow two trains to operate simultaneously. The system was also

Conference Session

Design for Community

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Timothy Prestero; Neil Cantor

students to build on each other’s work. Finally, DtM works with NGOs,corporate partners and local entrepreneurs to ensure that promising student innovations result inproducts and services for communities in need.Since its launch in 2000, DtM has reached over 400 engineering students—roughly half of themwomen and minorities, and many of whom have realigned their life trajectories to include workin underserved communities. In 2002, DtM completed a proof-of-concept implementation inMIT's mechanical engineering capstone design course with Prof. Woodie Flowers. DtM is nowexpanding within MIT and to other schools in the US and UK.2.1. DtM Project AreasDesign that Matters works to address the needs of underserved communities in developingcountries as

Conference Session

Interdisciplinary Approach to Env. Engrg

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Kathryn Hollar; Eric Constans; Kauser Jahan; Paris von Lockette; Linda Head

Engineering havecommon engineering clinic classes throughout their programs of study, in which undergraduateswork in teams on hands-on open-ended projects. The primary goal of Rowan University'sengineering clinic classes is to involve students in multidisciplinary design/research projects thatteach engineering principles in both laboratory and real-world settings. The clinics furtherencourage students to address environmentally conscious design and issues related to sustainabledevelopment. The Sophomore Clinic students work on a semester -long design project everyyear. Faculty drawn from all engineering disciplines teach the course. The design project forFall of 2001 was to design, build and test a semi-autonomous robot that uses power provided

Conference Session

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Brian West

study was conducted to: • determine where it will best fit into the curricula, • specify the appropriate pre-requisites and co-requisites, • investigate ways to improve the course (including upgrading calculus content), • determine the class goals and objectives, • determine class pedagogy, and • determine assessment requirements.If, upon examination, a class was found unsuitable to be transitioned into the BSE program, it wasexamined for any content that should be retained. Two of the author’s classes, Electrical Projectand Advanced Electronic Circuits, fell into this category, and some of the content was stillneeded.In Electrical Project, the class was conducted as a first coop work assignment. The students

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Heather Nachtmann

Society for Engineering EducationProposalA take home exam was assigned that required students to write a proposal to a potential clientrequesting funding for a proposed cost estimation system. The take home exam asked thestudents to evaluate the current cost estimation system, make recommendations based upon thecourse knowledge base, project potential development and implementation problems, andestimate the cost of implementing the system. The proposals were primarily assessed infollowing areas:• depth of analysis,• feasibility of recommendations,• assessment of potential problems,• validity of estimated system cost, and• writing quality.Student performance on these proposals exceeded the instructor’s expectations. This examallowed the students

Collection

1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert M. Koretsky

, Proceedings of the NSFSymposium on Modernization of the Engineering Design Curriculum, 1990, MechanicalEngineering Department, University of Texas at Austin, and uses the Barr/Juricic model of thecurriculum. Electrical, Civil, and Mechanical Engineering freshman develop a “sketch-as-plan”approach to their creation of images that vitalize design ideas. Image content is manipulated andre-worked in pencil and with AutoCAD Release 13 or MicroSim PSpice. A common final projectfor Civil and Mechanical Engineering revolves around solid model construction. An ElectricalEngineering project involves designing, building, analyzing and testing a milled printed circuitboard for a regulated power supply chip. The paper describes the history of the content

Conference Session

IE Technical Session II

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Heidi A. Taboada, University of Texas, El Paso; Jose F. Espiritu, University of Texas, El Paso; Abril Vazquez, University of Texas, El Paso; Olivia C. Moreno, University of Texas, El Paso

Tagged Divisions

Industrial Engineering

to work in teams to solve two different projects.The first project was mainly related to life cycle assessment (LCA) in which students were askedto perform an LCA for a particular product and provide an analysis of their results. The secondproject involved a presentation to expand one of the main modules of the class. Finally, thecourse was evaluated using student questionnaires and exit interviews. Moreover, one additionalsurvey was sent to the students six months after they took the class to collect data and assessstudent learning.1. IntroductionGiven the finite capacity of the earth, it is recognized that engineers of the future must be trainedto make decisions in such a way that our environment is preserved, social justice is promoted

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1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Mahmood Nahvi

engineering students. The goal ofthe courses is to teach digital signal processing for applications. Therefore, emphasis is placed onteaching and learning DSP through real-time, real-world examples. The approach is to “learnDSP by doing,” with synthesis and design as the main vehicle.The course integrates classical DSP theory, structured experiments, and design projects. Itrequires prior knowledge of continuous and discrete-time signals and systems analysis, andfamiliarity with concepts and techniques such as linear time-invariant systems, convolution,correlation, and Fourier transforms. The course runs for a quarter of the academic year andincludes three hours of lecture presentations, eight experiments and a design project. In all of theabove

Collection

1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Hossein Moini

mechanical engineering students on the integrated design andmanufacturing of intelligent systems. Specifically, students become familiar withmicroprocessors/microcontrollers and active materials as smart sensors/actuators that can be furtherinterfaced with conventional mechanical systems. Experiments cover software and hardwaredevelopment, interfacing electronic devices and mechanical mechanisms, and investigation of theadaptive capabilities of smart/active materials. In addition to the structured experiments, a designproject is also part of the lab activities. The design project involves design,manufacturing/assembly, and testing of integrated microprocessor-based systems composed ofanalog sensors & actuators, digital electronic devices, and

Conference Session

Multi-disciplinary Design

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Satish Mahajan; Joe Biernacki; Glenn Cunningham; Jeff Frolik

, vaccine delivery systems,digital light projectors and optical switches. With an ever increasing number of applications inautomotive, aerospace, medical and other industries, projections have the MEMS marketgrowing to $12 billion in 2002 1 and experts envision that MEMS will soon be as ubiquitous asmicrocircuits. As such, educating undergraduate as well as graduate students in this importantdeveloping area is no longer an interesting experiment in education but a necessary fact. In this paper, the results of an introductory multi-disciplinary, project-oriented course inMEMS are presented. The course is team-taught at Tennessee Technological University (TTU)by faculty from chemical (CHE), electrical (ECE) and mechanical (ME) engineering to a

Conference Session

Assessment & Quality Assurance in engr edu

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

John Anderson; Jean-Lou Chameau; Dick K.P. Yue

), Eidgenössische TechnischeHochschule Zurich (ETHZ), Imperial College London (ICL), Kungl Tekniska HögskolanStockholm (KTHS), Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen (RWTH)and Technische Universiteit Delft (TU Delft). The US schools were Carnegie MellonUniversity (CMU), Georgia Institute of Technology (GIT) and Massachusetts Institute ofTechnology (MIT). The project was administered and managed by two Swissorganizations, Engineers Shape our Future and the Board of the Swiss Federal Institutesof Technology (ETH-Rat). The project was managed day to day by the project team of consultants. Overviewwas achieved through a steering committee composed of representatives of the partnerschools and the project team. The project was divided into

Collection

2024 ASEE-GSW

Authors

Logan Michael Heck, The University of Texas at San Antonio; Rakib Hasan, The University of Texas at San Antonio

predicting the success of students’ final project grade.However, given the relatively small number of datapoints used for the study, the model’seffectiveness cannot be completely validated.KeywordsBloom’s Taxonomy, SVM Learning, Predictive Modeling, Active Learning Proceedings of the 2024 ASEE Gulf-Southwest Annual Conference Copyright © 2024, American Society for Engineering Education 2Introduction Various methods and frameworks have been developed in the realm of education. Eachmethod tends to serve a specific purpose, such as making coursework more organized or fosteringmore inclusive environments. One of the relatively younger methods comes in the

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2013 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

Binod Tiwari

college students from Cypress College, CA. The second cohort groupincluded 6 students from numerous community colleges in CA and several students from localhigh schools. The author supervised 3 students in two different projects for the first cohort group, Proceedings of the 2013 American Society for Engineering Education Pacific Southwest Conference Copyright © 2013, American Society for Engineering Education 405whereas two high school students and three community college students were involved in twoother projects for the second cohort group. This article includes the experience of the authorthrough those

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2010 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Leslie Guadron; Alen M. Sajan; Olivia Plante; Stanley George; Yuying Gosser

Genome Science Education for Engineering MajorsLeslie Guadron1, Alen M. Sajan2, Olivia Plante3, Stanley George4, Yuying Gosser51. Biomedical Engineering Junior, Peer-Leader, President of the Genomics and Bioinformatics Club, 20102. Biomedical Engineering Sophomore, Peer-Leader3. Biomedical Engineering Sophomore, President of the Genomics and Bioinformatics Club, 20094. Chemical Engineering Junior, Secretary of the ASEE Student Chapter at CCNY5. Faculty adviser of the ASEE Student Chapter at CCNY, Director of Undergraduate Research & ScholarshipsThe Human Genome project has profoundly impacted modern research, and genome science hasinfused into many science and engineering disciplines. The computer-lab based

Conference Session

Electrical and Computer Division Poster Session

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Steve Warren, Kansas State University; Charles Carlson, Kansas State University; Andrew McKittrick, Kansas State University; Shangxian Wang, Kansas State University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

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Electrical and Computer

Engineering and works in the biomedical lab with an emphasis in software development for instrumentation systems. He is interested in software engineering, data acquisition systems, and engineering education.Ms. Shangxian Wang Shangxian Wang is an undergraduate research assistant in the Kansas State University (KSU) Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. She is pursuing her bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering and supports various efforts in the KSU Medical Component Design Laboratory. Shangxian is a student member of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, and her interests include biomedical instrumentation, biomedical imaging, and K-12 STEM service projects

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Course Innovation II

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Andrew Willis, University of North Carolina at Charlotte; James Conrad, University of North Carolina at Charlotte

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

Houston, Texas; at Ericsson/Sony Ericsson in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina; and at BPM Technology in Greenville, South Carolina. Dr. Conrad is a Senior Member of the IEEE and a Certified Project Management Professional (PMP). He is also a member of ASEE, Eta Kappa Nu, the Project Management Institute, and the IEEE Computer Society. He is the author of numerous books, book chapters, journal articles, and conference papers in the areas of robotics, parallel processing, artificial intelligence, and engineering education. Page 13.371.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2008DESIGN OF