Conference Session

Innovative Curriculum in ET

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jay Porter

equations. Students learnthe concepts of the plane wave, wave reflection and transmission, boundary conditions, andpenetration depth. These principles are then applied to waveguides, antennas, and free spacewave propagation. The final subject of the course is an introduction to RF communication links.Basic communication system architectures are presented and the concepts of noise, signal-to-noise ratio, and link budgets are introduced. This paper will discuss the course curriculum andthe laboratory in detail.Introduction In today’s industry where many electronic systems operate at increasing frequencies, anunderstanding of fundamental electromagnetics is becoming not only a desired trait but also arequirement for the entry-level engineering

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Cecelia Wigal

.20Many engineering courses require students to compose documents (such as laboratory reports,activity reports, and project reports) and to verbally present project findings or laboratoryresults. However, Walvoord expresses that engineering faculty, although they know that writingis important are often reluctant to “teach” writing to their students. The faculty worry that theirknowledge of technical writing and verbal communication and their ability to constructivelyrespond to student work is limited and their ability to constructively provide feedback to thestudents is inadequate. 19 In addition, many schools and programs do not recognize thedifference between what is being taught in introductory composition courses and industry’sneeds. Ramey

Conference Session

International Case Studies, Interactive Learning, Student Design

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Vera Galishnikova; Thomas Maleck; Paul Streng; Jason Merrill; David Prestel; Darren Mason; Ronald Harichandran

Engineering in Volgograd, Russia. This program successfullyaddresses such academic challenges in engineering education as the inherent verticalstructure of scientific curricula, courses with laboratory requirements, ABETaccreditation, and accelerated summer course calendars. Engineering disciplinesincluded are civil engineering, environmental engineering, mechanical engineering,chemical engineering, statistics, and construction management. Also featured in thisprogram is a unique curricular collaboration between the humanities and engineering.The paper also discusses the program’s treatment of such logistical issues as studentsafety, moving large groups of students through a cultural landscape where Russianlanguage proficiency is a necessity, as well

Conference Session

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Stan Harris

than if they did not experience such additional laptop computer applications. Advantage: Faculty Potential administrative pressure applied to faculty to use computers in instruction may be reduced. • Students who do not acquire the prescribed laptop computer in a timely manner may request special accommodation, e.g., the opportunity to complete the Q/E on a university personal computer in a computer laboratory. Disadvantage: Student Students who are granted special accommodation to complete Q/E on a university personal computer in a computer laboratory may need to determine availability of computer labs and of personal computers during Q/E time. Disadvantage: Student

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert LaFarge; Chaouki Abdallah

students majoring in STEM (Science,Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) fields and consisted of a four-week term. Eachweekday had 6 hours containing a blend of lecture and laboratory activities. The activities weredivided into two tracks: technical and non-technical. The technical track consisted mainly ofSOE faculty members making presentations on either their research areas or areas of expertise.The non-technical track consisted of the skill/information building activities.The Diversity Programs and the Electrical Engineering Computer Engineering (EECE)Department in the School of Engineering were responsible for the Bridge Program. Chaouki T.Abdallah (Graduate Advisor for EECE) was responsible for obtaining the faculty and other

Conference Session

Where Are Tomorrow's Civil Engineers?

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Tarek Rizk; Donald Carpenter; James Hanson

Page 8.509.4Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright2003, American Society for Engineering Educationwhich made for a comical load test with students standing on chairs). The award for mostvolumetric office space went to a team that ingeniously utilized cantilever structures.Geotechnical Engineering Activities A number of geotechnical engineering activities were conducted over the duration of twosessions of the program. Most geotechnical engineering activities were selected from the SoilMagic program developed through the sponsorship of ASCE. The Soil Magic program is aseries of laboratory experiments that demonstrate many of the underlying principles of soilmechanics

Conference Session

Global Issues in Engineering Education

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Figliola; Beth Daniell; Art Young; David Moline

laboratories. We address the questions:“What do we want to accomplish?” and “So how might we do this effectively and efficiently?”As part of Clemson University's Writing-Across-The-Curriculum Program, English departmentconsultants worked with Mechanical Engineering faculty and graduate assistants on technicalwriting pedagogy. We report on audience, genre, and conventions as important issues in labreports and have recommended specific strategies across the program for improvements.IntroductionPedagogical questions continue about the content, feedback and methodology of the technicallaboratory writing experience in engineering programs. In fact, there is no known prescriptionfor success, and different programs try different approaches. Some programs

Conference Session

Outreach and Freshman Programs

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Nadia Craig; Michelle Maher; Walter Peters

concepts, complex systemconcepts, and experiential learning about these simple and complex systems.Tools:To incorporate tools that the students will use in engineering school and in their career, wepresented the class with tools to model simple systems. Computational tools and informationtechnology were presented in the “Pit and Pit’um Laboratory.” Problem solving tools werepresented using problems from higher level engineering courses and simple systems weremodeled using a projectile motion problem.The “Pit and Pit’um Laboratory” took place in the computer lab during three class sessions.These lab sessions were used to introduce the students to computer software including MicrosoftWord, Microsoft PowerPoint, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Outlook

Conference Session

What Makes Them Continue?

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Daniel Knight; Jacquelyn Sullivan; Lawrence Carlson

Session 3553 Staying in Engineering: Impact of a Hands-On, Team-Based, First-Year Projects Course on Student Retention Daniel W. Knight, Lawrence E. Carlson and Jacquelyn F. Sullivan Integrated Teaching and Learning Program and Laboratory College of Engineering and Applied Science University of Colorado at BoulderAbstractThis study evaluates the impact on student retention of the First-Year Engineering Projects(FYEP) course at the University of

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert J. Voigt

material we wanted to cover.V. Hands on LearningThe task of fitting a large amount of material into a short span of time simply meant that we werenever going to get into depth in any one area. This was both disappointing and difficult. Inaddition, the first time this course was taught the students came from ten different majors. As afree elective, it was up to their academic advisers as to whether or not it fit their course matrix.The challenge was then how to describe some rather complex topics in terms which all wouldunderstand and develop meaningful laboratories which would re-enforce the material covered inthe lecture. There is not enough space in a conference paper to describe all of the methods usedin the course so I will highlight those

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Jeffery M. Saul; Rhett J. Allain; Duane L. Deardorff; David S. Abbott; Robert J. Beichner

Reproduction Service, ED 377038.13. Hake, R., (1998). Interactive-Engagement vs. Traditional Methods: A six- thousand-student survey of mechanics test data for introductory physics courses. American Journal of Physics, 66(1): p. 64-74.14. Hake, R.R., (1992). Socratic pedagogy in the introductory physics laboratory. Physics Teacher, 30: p. 546-552.15. Heller, P., T. Foster, & K. Heller. (Year). Cooperative Group Problem Solving in Laboratories. in International Conference Undergraduate Physics Education. of Conference.16. Hestenes, D., M. Wells, & G. Swackhamer, (1992). Force concept inventory. Physics Teacher, 30(3): p. 141-158.17. Holcomb, D., (1994). How will the introductory university physics

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Mark L. Smith; Kenneth E. Rowe; Carlos R. Morales; Rick L. Homkes

Session 3575 New Engineering Faculty For The New Millennium A/Prof. Rick Homkes, A/Prof. Carlos R. Morales, Mr. Kenneth E. Rowe, A/Prof. Mark L. Smith Purdue UniversityAbstractThree new faculty members team up to relate their experiences moving from industry toacademia. Major topics include teaching, laboratory development, service, publishing, and thebalancing of time among these areas. The teaching area includes incorporating industrialexperiences into classroom preparation and making the transition from industrial presentationsto academic teaching

Conference Session

Closing Manufacturing Competency Gaps II

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Doug Ramers

molding and metal casting, and deep drawing. After studying their selected processes, thestudents had to figure out how to provide the forces, heat, fluids, motion, geometry, etc. to thematerials they chose for objects used to demonstrate their processes.One student modified a polishing wheel in the Materials Laboratory to provide centrifugal forcesand designed and built the means to hold the mold to the wheel shaft to demonstrate vertical spincasting. Using a vacuum former as a model, a group of students built their own pressure formingsystem. Another group used silicon rubber to make molds to cast small parts of materials withmelting temperatures under 400oF. They designed and built molds with sprues and runners,machined patterns or used common

Conference Session

Programming and DSP Potpourri

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Delores Etter; Cameron Wright; Michael Morrow; Thad Welch

-Madison, WI Abstract Many digital signal processing (DSP) topics are difficult for undergraduates to internalize, but studies have shown that demonstrations and laboratory experiences can facilitate the process. In the past, many barriers prevented including real-time DSP hardware in an undergraduate curriculum. This paper describes a pedagogical model the authors have developed which includes theory, demos, lab exercises, and real- time DSP experience using Matlab, C, and real-time DSP hardware that overcomes the barriers. This model has been very successful.1 IntroductionA common complaint heard from electrical engineering (EE) undergraduates

Conference Session

Classroom Innovations

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Rachel Shinn

, vibration, mass properties, communications,sensor testing and propulsion (among others), generally require elaborate and expensiveequipment. Such equipment is generally outside of the budgetary range of an undergraduateuniversity. Using modest resources, the instructor must develop experiments that streamline thesetests for illustration purposes, and simplify the tests to illustrate key principles.This paper covers the experiments we have found helpful in meeting these goals and compareswhat we have done in our space lab to what has been done in other undergraduate aerospaceprograms.I. IntroductionThe US Naval Academy1, Virginia Tech2 and the US Air Force Academy3 have all implementedsome form of space laboratory experience for their undergraduate

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Anna Phillips; Jon Fricker; Paul Palazolo; Norman Dennis

this database extensively in planning afield and laboratory investigation program to characterize soil properties needed for the design oftheir facility.Paul Palazolo has customized the computational and project elements from “Sooner City” intohis undergraduate Civil Engineering Computation course at The University of Memphis withextension of the authenticity of the programming to relate to actual engineering audiences. Page 6.1138.1 "Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright @ 2001, American Society for Engineering

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Paul Lin; Hal Broberg

(EET), with options incomputer engineering technology. There are about 200 students majoring in EET andover 1100 students have received Purdue EET degrees from IPFW during the past 36years. The average age of ECET students is approximately 28 and most are employedfull-time while taking courses toward their degrees.The first two Internet courses offered in ECET were presented during the Fall 2000semester. Both courses introduce programming languages. One, EET/CS 114, usedVisual Basic 6 to teach introductory windows programming and is structured as a lecturecourse, with no scheduled laboratory. The other, EET 205, uses Microchip PIC Assemblylanguage to introduce assembly language programming and is structured as a lecturecourse with an assigned

Conference Session

Using IT to Enhance Design Education

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Reza S. Abhari; Friederike Mund; Anestis I. Kalfas

Session 1625 Integration of Software Tools into a Multi-disciplinary Undergraduate Student Design Project Friederike C. Mund, Anestis I. Kalfas, Reza S. Abhari Turbomachinery Laboratory Institute of Energy Technology Swiss Federal Institute of Technology 8092 Zurich, SwitzerlandAbstract This paper presents a pilot scheme for the integration of modern state-of-the-artturbomachinery design tools into project-based education of undergraduate students. This efforthas been part of a

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Earl Owen

assignmentsand/or laboratory experiments are outlined for the students, and tests are scheduled to verify thateach topic has been learned as prescribed. All students are required to learn the same topics, atthe same rate, and in the same way, under the false assumption that all students will share theteacher’s orientation, pace, and learning style. In a student-motivated approach, on the otherhand, students take primary responsibility for their own learning. They decide, within theconstraints allowed, what they will learn, in what order and manner. In the classroom sessions,the instructor outlines and contextualizes a body of knowledge; flags ideas, theories, andproblems for students to consider; suggests activities and experiments to aid learning

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Barrie Jackson

students directly into design andanalysis exercises. APSC400, (Technology Engineering and Management, TEAM) is a fourthyear engineering program. The Integrated Learning Initiative will extend the concepts developedin these two programs at opposite ends of an engineering student’s undergraduate career, tocover much of the intervening period, and accommodate more students in the first and fourthyears.Queen’s has traditionally had a common first year for engineering students. Some of the firstyear laboratories seemed to do more to dissuade students from pursuing an engineering careerthan to encourage them. Recognizing that students come to Queen’s to be engineers; the firstyear program was redesigned over a period of three years, starting with a

Conference Session

FPD V: Gender and Engineering Education: A Panel Discussion and Workshop

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Yevgeniya V. Zastavker, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering; Debbie Chachra, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering; Caitrin Lynch, Olin College of Engineering; Alisha L. Sarang-Sieminski, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering; Lynn Andrea Stein, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs, Women in Engineering

and Society, 20(4), 441-46422. Coleman, R. P. (1960), “The Significance of Social Stratification in Selling.” Marketing: A Maturing Discipline, Proc. of the American Marketing Association 43rd National Conf, ed. M. L. Bell, Chicago: American Marketing Association, 181-18423. Mclntosh, P. (1988). ‘White privilege and male privilege: A personal account of coming to see correspondences through work in women's studies.’ In Race, class, and gender: An anthology, 2st ed., edited by M. L. Andersen and P. H. Collins. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth24. Spertus, E. (1991). “Why are There so Few Female Computer Scientists?” MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory Technical Report 131525. Laboratory for Computer Science and

Conference Session

Research in Engineering Education I

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Hanjun Xian, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Krishna Madhavan, Purdue University, West Lafayette

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

5 - 50 4 2-3 0-1 Num. of awardees 2,232 3,395 4,171 3,378First, regardless of levels of scholars’ engagement in collaboration, the following topics gainalmost the same extent of attention from scholars: course, curriculum, undergraduate,mathematics, and instruction. Second, there are many areas that show a clear tendency to onlyone or two groups. For example, projects related to laboratory, computer, technology, software,design, and equipment are more likely to be conducted by scholars with fewer collaborators. Onthe contrary, grants about graduate, IGERT, community colleges, nanotechnology, integrate,NUE, workforce, and

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Erlandson

Session 2793 A Student Design Program that Integrates Research, Education, and Community Service Robert F. Erlandson, Ph.D. Enabling Technologies Laboratory, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI 48202IntroductionThe Enabling Technologies Laboratory (ETL) has created a unique student design program thatnot only complements and integrates a student’s previous academic experiences, but alsonaturally integrates research, education, and community service into the student design activity.Developing such a program is

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Andrew Rusek; Barbara Oakley

Session 2793 PSpice Applications in the Teaching of Communications Electronics Andrew Rusek, Barbara Oakley Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering Oakland University, Rochester, Michigan 48309AbstractMany parameters of circuits and devices commonly used in communication electronics can beprofitably simulated using the free educational version of PSpice. We have created a broadvariety of PSpice macromodules for use in classroom and laboratory teaching, includingmacromodules that simulate pulse width modulators and demodulators, delta encoders anddecoders

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Andrew N. Vavreck

. Anexample of a software screen, for link length and position input, is shown in Figure 1. Theprogram is relatively easy to learn and use, and relates clearly to analytical concepts describedin the text, so it avoids the so-called "black-box syndrome," where "students will notunderstand or perhaps even care what it [the software] is doing." [Wankat, p.156] Figure 1: Simulation Software Page 5.275.3In addition to the increased emphasis on the software, a sequence of classes in a modulararrangement was developed which would address a concept in a lecture format (50 minutes,two days a week), followed with a laboratory (2

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Ash Miller; Jeffrey Honchell

graduates tofill this niche.The paper is focused on the design/analysis techniques required for various antennatypes, specifically microstrip patch, dipole and helical, which can then be expanded toinclude many other types of antennas in the future. It was necessary to initially focus onantenna types that could be easily fabricated by the students in a laboratory environment.The paper is limited to the discussion of the following items for the microstrip patchantenna, due to paper length considerations: (1) Background information, design parameters and limitations, feeding methods, electro-magnetic field modes, and the mathematical methods required to accomplish the design. (2) Simulation methods and results based on the Ansoft

Collection

1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Wayne Hager; Jacques Lesenne; Dominique Saintive; Richard Devon

severaldiscussion sessions were conducted involving students at both locations. Several sessionsfocused on different cultural perspectives of technology. The course was concluded with an on-site workshop in Béthune in May 1997. Again, in 1997, five Penn State faculty memberstraveled to Béthune to conduct lecture and laboratory sessions and to collaborate on a conferenceon technology and the pedagogical potential of videoconferencing and the World Wide Web.Two Penn State students had industrial placements in northern France arranged by the IUT andthree Béthune IUT students had industrial placements with central Pennsylvania industriesarranged by the Penn State Altoona College. These short-term co-ops will be repeated in 1998with another small increase in

Collection

1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Bernard J. Weigman; Glenn S. Kohne

graduate. Of the 11 Advanced courses, 8 must be in one of the 3 tracks which thestudent desires to concentrate, CS, CE or EE. Of those 8, 4 must be the required coursesspecified in that track. The remaining 3 courses can be from anywhere in the program.Furthermore, the student needs at least a 3.00/4.00 GPA to graduate. There are no exceptions tothis requirement. A student is automatically dismissed from the program upon receiving one F or2 C grades. The dismissal may be appealed, first to the director of the MES program and, if theproblem cannot be resolved at that level, to the Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences.Lab FacilitiesWhen the program first started, it took a few years to develop quality laboratory facilities. Duringthis time, the

Collection

1997 Annual Conference

Authors

Tom Mase

. The current class is three-credit hours (based on a quarter system) which aredivided up into two credits engineering analysis and one credit engineering design. Aswith most three credit courses, this one meets for three hours per week. At GMI, the termis eleven-weeks long with one week added for final exams. In order to apportion theclass properly for the design credits, one hour per week is devoted exclusively to designprojects. The remaining two hours are conducted in a traditional lecture format withexams being taken from this part of the course. In the near future, a format that has two lecture periods per week (on separatedays) along with a two-hour laboratory period will be implemented. This is to remedy theneed for one-on-one

Collection

1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Morrow

laboratory stations in an advanced microcomputer course emphasizing real-time interface design and operation in embedded systems. Using the DSK as the basis of aprototyping system provides far greater speed, data bandwidth, and computational capabilities,while the straightforward register architecture and floating point hardware actually reduceprogramming complexity.A first stage demonstration prototype was constructed that augmented the DSK with anelectrically erasable memory, boot source selection, a reset controller, and a digital/analog wire-wrap prototyping area. This allowed for either hosted operation for debugging and programming,or stand-alone embedded operation. The demonstration system was designed to accept the DSKas a daughterboard