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

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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

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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

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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

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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

Collection

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

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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

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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

Conference Session

Special Session: Impacts of Service in Engineering

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Linda Barrington, University of Massachusetts, Lowell; John Duffy, University of Massachusetts Lowell

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Educational Research and Methods

their country 1965 College work-study programs established 1966 "Service-learning" phrase used to describe a TVA-funded project in East Tennessee with Oak Ridge Associated Universities, linking students and faculty with tributary area development organizations 1969 Atlanta Service-Learning Conference. Southern Regional Education Board defined Service Learning as the integration of the accomplishment of the tasks that meet human needs with conscious educational growth 1971 White House Conference on Youth report full of calls for linking service and learning. Circa National Student Volunteer Program (became the National Center for Service- 1971 Learning in

Conference Session

NSF Grantees' Poster Session

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Caye M Drapcho, Clemson University; Lib Crockett, Clemson University

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

Institutes, with 19 educators participating for 2 or more years. These educators thenincorporated the Biosystems Technology content into their courses of instruction. As a result,over the course of the project several thousand secondary students were directly impacted byenrollment in courses with Biosystems Technology content and more were impacted throughcareer day and special event presentations. The response from participating educators concerningthe Biosystems Technology material has been positive and transformative. Selected lessons havebeen implemented in SC agriculture courses and others (ie secondary biology and elementary)for four years.A second major accomplishment was the development and implementation of a secondarypathway in Biosystems

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division Poster Session

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Prashanth Asuri, Santa Clara University; Shraddha Chaplot; Navid Shaghaghi; Julia Scott

high school students – machine learning models for disease forecasting usingopen-source software (ML Project) [7] and biofeedback in virtual reality immersiveenvironments (VR Project). We also established a mentorship program that provides studentsopportunities to explore emerging engineering innovations and technologies in healthcarethrough a combination of co-/extracurricular activities and networking opportunities. Wetargeted students from underrepresented groups, with limited exposure to medical devices,biotechnology, and other healthcare areas, and with different levels of study. Through theseefforts, parity was achieved by gender and grade level across the different projects. Given theproject scope (i.e., ML, open-source data, VR

Conference Session

Computing and Information Technology Division Poster Session

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Geraghty Anne Ellis, Georgia Institute of Technology; Nicholas Mulka, Georgia Institute of Technology; Amit Shashikant Jariwala, Georgia Institute of Technology

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Diversity

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Computing and Information Technology

-term investment in a software platform.IntroductionExperiential learning is a relatively modern technique to supplement students’ education by“[developing] a wide range of thinking strategies and perceptual skills which are not called forthby books or lectures” [1]. The benefits of this method have long-term impacts that play a crucialrole in an individual’s professional success. Most ABET-accredited higher-education programsfeature a design course intended to leverage experiential learning by pairing the culmination ofstudents’ knowledge from their undergraduate program with a simulated real-world industryenvironment [2], [3]. There are also several supplemental outlets for continuous project-basedlearning on a larger scale, such as research

Collection

2013 North Midwest Section Meeting

Authors

Nischal Adhikari; Sima Noghanian

with environmental features and make their way to receiver. Interactionincludes: • Reflection off the ground • Reflection off the surface of a building face • Diffraction off of an edge of a building • Transmission through a wallThe software uses advanced high-frequency electromagnetic methods to provide accurate resultsover a frequency range from approximately 50 MHz to 40 GHz. In this paper, we have presentedthe ray tracing software with a unique approach to attract the student by giving a wholesome ideaof designing and running a project in WI. Wireless Ray Tracing Education Land (WRTEL)8,Urbana™ 3-D Wireless Toolkit9,10, SE-RAY-EM11,12 are a few examples of many ray-tracingsimulation software which has different features and

Collection

ASEE 2021 Gulf-Southwest Annual Conference

Authors

Lorena Isabel Velásquez, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology

Design Experiences in a Hybrid CurriculumIntroductionThe focus of this paper is to elaborate on the changes made to the mechanical engineeringintroductory course in order to provide a cohesive learning experience regardless of studentlocation during the pandemic. The paper will outline and discuss the effect of courseaccessibility modifications on student interaction and performance.The previous three-credit-hour course breakdown consisted of three sections: modeling, coding,and a semester project [1]. Designed to gradually introduce foundational design conceptsthroughout the semester, the modeling and coding sections of the course teach students the skillsthey need in order to complete the semester project.The original version of the project is

Conference Session

Introductory Materials Science Course

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David Cottrell, University of North Carolina at Charlotte

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Materials

preparation, testing, and properties of Portland cement. Implementing a methodologygenerally consistent a project based learning approach, the students worked in teams toexplore real-world problems involving mixing, placing, curing, and testing of concrete. It iswidely held that project based learning contains two essential components: (1) a drivingquestion or problem that serves to organize and drive activities, which taken as a wholeamounts to a meaningful project; and (2) a culminating product(s) or multiple representationsas a series of artifacts, personal communications, or consequential tasks that meaningfullyaddresses the driving question.1 In this project, the students were challenged to examine aeqoogtekcnn{"cxckncdng"Ðtgcf{-to-wugÑ"eqpetgvg

Collection

2008 GSW

Authors

Mohamad H. Ahmadian

• Analyzing and evaluating arguments, interpretations or beliefs • Synthesizing subject-matter insights and knowledge The Capstone CourseThe course enables students to: (1) complete two projects based on their field of interest, (2)prepare an effective written technical report, (3) plan and produce presentation materials whichmost effectively communicate the intended message for their technical oral presentation, and (4)apply concepts and practices of their field of experience to develop and effectively present their Proceedings of the 2008 ASEE Gulf-Southwest Annual Conference The University of New Mexico – Albuquerque Copyright © 2008

Conference Session

FPD2 -- Highlighting First-Year Programs

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Susan Freeman, Northeastern University; Beverly Jaeger, Northeastern University; Richard Whalen, Beverly Jaeger and Richard Whalen are members of Northeastern University's

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First-Year Programs

engineering design is to build a course out ofactivities that are woven around a well-established process in order to allow students toexperience design rather than just listen to how it is supposed to work. It is well known throughresearch and practice that incorporating learning activities into a course better facilitates thestudent learning process as compared with more passive approaches2,6,13,14,15. First-yearengineering design courses typically include standard design-and-build projects, designcompetitions, laboratory projects, and other projects that span many weeks. These projects areactive and hands-on, but are often relatively self-contained and separate from the exercises ofpresenting a design process and becoming familiar with other

Conference Session

Engineering Technology Division Poster Session

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Wes Stone, Western Carolina University; Michael Sean June, Western Carolina University

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Diversity

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Engineering Technology

Undergraduate Engineering Technology StudentsAbstractThe introduction of Six Sigma quality principles in industry has revolutionized production, aswell as many other sectors of society. Academia has not moved as quickly to adjust its curricula,as it should to keep pace with the demands of industry. This paper documents the need andstructure of a Six Sigma Green Belt Certification program, driven by the industrial advisorycommittee of the Engineering Technology program at Western Carolina University, a regionalcomprehensive university that works closely with its industrial partners in multiple modes. Thisnew program is targeted at undergraduate Engineering Technology students, and takes advantageof two existing courses and capstone projects that

Conference Session

Assessing URM Programs Targeting the K-16 Continuum

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Pablo Biswas, The Mercer University; Rohitha Goonatilake, Texas A&M International University; Gerardo Javier Pinzon P.E., Texas A&M International University; Mahmoud Khasawneh, Texas A&M International University

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Diversity

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Minorities in Engineering

several engineering disciplines and allowsthem to interact with engineering faculty and staff through several activities, includinginformation sessions, field trips, laboratory tours, and design projects. Based on the TRP andSYSTEM curriculum, The Engineering, Mathematics, and Physics, Biology and Chemistrydepartments at a major Hispanic-Serving Institution (HSI) in southern Texas, developed two-week long “Transfer and Retention Program (TRP) workshop” and “Summer Engineeringworkshop (SEW) during the summer at the university. Also, this provides the extent of what hasworked in achieving the goals set out for the cohort. Both of the platforms funded by the U. S.Department of Education envisioned at transferring and retaining highly motivated

Conference Session

Biomedical Division Poster Session

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Dianne Grayce Hendricks, University of Washington; Ken Yasuhara, Center for Engineering Learning & Teaching (CELT); Alyssa Catherine Taylor, University of Washington

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Biomedical

Paper ID #15682Work in Progress:Enhancing Student Leadership Competencies through Re-flectionDr. Dianne Grayce Hendricks, University of Washington Dr. Dianne G. Hendricks is a Lecturer in the Department of Bioengineering at the University of Wash- ington. She earned a BS in Molecular Biology at the University of Texas at Austin and a PhD in Genetics at Duke University. Dr. Hendricks’ teaching interests at the University of Washington include develop- ing and teaching introductory and honors courses in bioengineering, tissue and protein engineering lab courses, and capstone projects. She is committed to creating

Conference Session

Integrating HSS into the Engineering Curriculum

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Dave Hergert; Ron Earley; Suguna Bommaraju

designcourse is embedded with these attributes so that the student graduates with a well-roundededucation.This paper describes how the engineering technology capstone course (senior design project) atMiami University has been structured to facilitate Liberal education council’s guidelines. The fourcomponents of liberal education are explained in this paper and a discussion of how each of theseattributes is enhanced in the course is presented. For example, the capstone course offers a uniqueopportunity to learn about ethics (understanding contexts attribute). Because the department doesnot have a separate ethics course, a guest speaker lecture on ethics is arranged in the senior designcourse. Students apply this concept to a hypothetical scenario