Conference Session

Potpourri

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jean Nocito-Gobel, University of New Haven; Amy Thompson, University of New Haven; Carl Barratt, University of New Haven; Michael Collura, University of New Haven

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First-Year Programs

Freshman CourseMuch research in recent years has verified that an active learning style approach to freshmanengineering design courses adds value to undergraduate engineering programs and improvesretention rates. Many universities have established First Year Programs to coordinate theactivities and classes for first year students. However, not all universities have the funds toestablish programs separate from disciplinary programs. How can faculty that are not assignedto a First Year Program efficiently manage multiple sections of a hands-on course with limitedresources?There are several models for teaching basic engineering concepts in electrical, mechanical,chemical, computer, civil and system engineering to freshman engineering students

Conference Session

Minorities in Engineering Division Technical Session 5

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nicole D. Jackson, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Kaitlin I. Tyler, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Yanfen Li, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Wan-Ting Chen, University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign; Chaoyang Liu, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Rohit Bhargava, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

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Minorities in Engineering

vibrational spectroscopy. Rohit has been at Illinois since as Assistant Professor (2005-2011), Associate Professor (2011-2012) and Professor (2012-). Rohit was the first assistant professor hired into the new Bioengineering department and played a key role in the development of its curriculum and activities. He later founded and serves as the coordinator of the Cancer Community@Illinois, which is slated to become the first technology-focused cancer center in the nation. Research in the Bhargava laboratories focuses on fundamental theory and simulation for vibrational spectroscopic imaging, developing new instrumentation c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017

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Energy Conversion, Conservation and Nuclear Engineering Division (ECCNE) Technical Session 4

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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

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Conservation and Nuclear Engineering Division (ECCNE), Energy Conversion

Paper ID #39253Making Electric Machinery Labs Easier to GradeDr. Glenn T. Wrate P.E., Northern Michigan University Dr. Wrate returned to his boyhood home and began teaching at Northern Michigan University in 2014. He was promoted to full professor in 2016 and tenured in 2018. He is a member of HKN and IEEE and is a past chair of the Energy Conversion and Conservation Division of ASEE ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Making Electric Machinery Labs Easier to GradeAbstractThe best way to teach electric machinery is with hands-on labs. At the beginning of the Fall2020 semester

Conference Session

Computers in Education 10 - Technology 2

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kenny Fotouhi, University of Maryland Eastern Shore; Mahdi Fotouhi; Abhijit Nagchaudhuri, University of Maryland Eastern Shore

in 1983. Thereafter, he worked in a multinational industry for a little over three years before joining Tulane University as a graduate student in the fall of 1987. He received a master’s degree from Tulane University in 1989 and a doctoral degree from Duke University in 1992. He is a member of the American Society for Mechanical Engineers (ASME), American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE), and, American Society for Agricultural and Biological Engineers (ASABE) and is actively involved in teaching and research in the fields of (i) robotics and mechatronics, (ii) remote sensing and precision agriculture, and,(iii) biofuels and renewable energy © American Society for Engineering

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Carol Shubin, California State University Northridge

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Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

Server Analysis Services (SSAS), Google BigQuery • cloud computing services: Amazon Web Service (AWS), Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud • data plotting and visualization: Matplotlib, Basemap, Seaborn, D3 and Google Visualization API • GIS tools • Computational environment: Jupyter (IPython) Notebook • making a Github siteThe bootcamp culminated with a choice of week-long projects designed with various levels of dif-ficulty. Most of the mini-projects used datasets from Kaggle, [5], or UCI, [6]. The first year thatwe ran the project we had trouble coordinating between the four instructors. The second year, wehad all teaching materials completed one month in advance of the bootcamp so things ran muchsmoother.We preferred students who had

Conference Session

Mechanical Engineering Poster Session

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Anca Sala, Baker College

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Mechanical Engineering

areas of computer simulations,scholarly research, team work, and oral presentation.The course will be further improved by creating our own library of motions for analysis, andadding laboratory experiments to supplement the computer analyses. In the area of assessment, astudent survey will be prepared and given to students to gather detailed data on students’perceptions of the class.Bibliography1. U.S. Dept. of Labor, Occupations Outlook Handbook, accessible at www.bls.gov/oco/ocos027.htm2. R. Polikar, R.P. Ramachandran, L. Head, M. Tahamont, “Integrating BME into ECE Curriculum: An AlternateApproach”, 2005 ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, paper AC2005-3993. D. Roberson, F. Hudson, “Biomechanics as a Tool for Teaching Minority Students

Conference Session

E-Learning in Chemical Engineering

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Christi Patton Luks, University of Tulsa

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Chemical Engineering

laboratories can no longer accommodate afull class. Instructors, accustomed to small, intimate class sizes where they could learn everystudent’s name within the first week, are now facing larger groups where students can easily slipinto anonymity.In the past decade, teachers began incorporating more active-learning activities and hands-ondesign projects. The freshman-level courses, in particular, benefitted from this change inphilosophy. Now, it should be noted that, at TU, freshmen select a major as they enter theuniversity. The introductory classes are discipline-specific and each department teaches theirfreshmen. In chemical engineering, the freshman year has a two-course sequence. ChE 1002 isa two-hour course taught in the fall semester to

Conference Session

Programmatic Issues in Physics or Engineering Physics

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert Ross, University of Detroit, Mercy; Eswara Venugopal, University of Detroit, Mercy; Daniel Maggio, University of Detroit, Mercy; Meghann Mouyianis, University of Detroit, Mercy

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Engineering Physics & Physics

replaced a traditional introductory collegemechanics laboratory curriculum, which was not inquiry-based and provided only limitedopportunities for students to construct their own knowledge by performing open-ended activities.Research into physics education provides insight for the design of innovative curricula andpedagogy. 3 The learning environments that are able to demonstrate the highest rates of studentachievement, as measured by standardized examinations, involve some form of what iscommonly called interactive engagement. Hake defines, ‘‘Interactive Engagement’’ (IE)methods as those designed at least in part to promote conceptual understanding throughinteractive engagement of students in heads-on (always) and hands-on (usually) activities

Collection

1996 Annual Conference

Authors

James Moller; D. Lee

measurement, analysis for design, prototype fabrication, inspection, testing,and evaluation. Laboratory sessions included creation of a product description, NC pattern machining, casting ofdies, injection molding, inspection, and testing. Students worked both individually and in teams. They beganwith brainstorming and had batches of products ready for testing two weeks before semester’s end. Futureofferings will include more active leadership through tasks, more review of important concepts from sciencecourses, and clearer communication of expectations.INTRODUCTION With the marketplace becoming increasingly competitive as notions of mass production and a serialdesign process have given way to lean, agile production and concurrent engineering

Conference Session

Issues in Digital Signal Processing

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Murat Tanyel, Geneva College

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Computers in Education

2006-814: VIRTUAL TOOLKIT FOR COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS AS A TOOLFOR INNOVATIONMurat Tanyel, Geneva College Murat Tanyel is a professor of engineering at Geneva College. He teaches upper level electrical engineering courses. Prior to Geneva College, Dr. Tanyel taught at Dordt College, Sioux Center, IA from Aug. 1995 to Aug. 2003. Prior to 1995, he was at Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA where he worked for the Enhanced Educational Experience for Engineering Students (E4) project, setting up and teaching laboratory and hands-on computer experiments for engineering freshmen and sophomores. For one semester, he was also a visiting professor at the United Arab Emirates University in Al-Ain, UAE

Conference Session

CEED Paper Session 2: Leveraging Internships and Experiential Learning in Higher Education

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Weican Xiao, Michigan Technological University

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Cooperative & Experiential Education

Computer Engineering Department HeadsAssociation, Mousavinezhad et al. started a workshop series for developing educational andresearch programs in a critical area of power and energy systems with the support of the NationalScience Foundation 3. Many recent efforts have been devoted to improve the teaching throughsimulation 4-7; nevertheless, few have been devoted to enhance hands-on skills. Recently Farhadiand Mohammed designed a Laboratory-Scale Hybrid DC power System to address that issue8.However, it requires tremendous effort from the instructors and a great amount of sourcefunding, which is hard to duplicate in most of the schools. In addition, the DC power system issparsely used in power industry as the AC power system is still dominant due

Conference Session

Technology Integration in the Classroom for Manufacturing II

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Anderson, Oregon Institute of Technology

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Manufacturing

AC 2007-2211: A COST-EFFECTIVE AUTOMATION AND ROBOTICS LABJohn Anderson, Oregon Institute of Technology Page 12.25.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007 A Cost Effective Automation & Robotics LabAbstractMuch work has been published in the area of design of laboratory exercises and facilities tosupport teaching robotics and automation. New opportunities are becoming available, however,to allow laboratory facilities that are portable, have applications to a wide range of subjects, andare inexpensive.A large software manufacturer has recently entered the robotics software arena with a uniqueapproach. They are supporting small hobby class robots

Conference Session

Mechanical ET Curriculum

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Anthony Dean, Old Dominion University; Gary Crossman, Old Dominion University; Alok Verma, Old Dominion University

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Engineering Technology

Marine Academy in 1964 and his M.E. degree in 1970 from Old Dominion University, where he has served on the faculty for over 34 years. Professor Crossman is a Fellow of ASEE and the recipient of the James H. McGraw Award for leadership in engineering technology education. He is also a registered Professional Engineer in VirginiaAlok Verma, Old Dominion University Dr. Alok K. Verma is Ray Ferrari Professor and, Director of the Automated Manufacturing Laboratory at Old Dominion University. He also serves as the Chief Technologist of the Lean Institute and MET Program Director at ODU. Alok received his B.S. in Aeronautical Engineering, MS in Engineering Mechanics and PhD in Mechanical Engineering

Conference Session

Lab Experiments in Materials Science

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Katherine Chen

Session 2464 How we learned to love the phase diagram with a Ti-Cr alloy characterization lab Katherine C. Chen Materials Engineering Department California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, CA 93407AbstractWhile many students learn how to read and use a phase diagram in introductory materialscourses, greater appreciation for such a tool can be garnered through the laboratory setting. Alaboratory module for a “Structures of Materials” class (a “core class” for materials majors) hasbeen developed to demonstrate

Conference Session

Capstone Design and Engineering Practice

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

William Ebel; Roobik Gharabagi

, performextensive tests, and develop operational and technical manuals. The final products arepresented in a poster session for review and are fully demonstrated in front of an audienceconsisting of faculty, students, and invited guests. This constitutes the FDR. Page 8.1163.1 Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering EducationI IntroductionThe department of Electrical Engineering at the Saint Louis University is ABETaccredited and fully dedicated to undergraduate teaching and research. The departmentoffers concentration

Conference Session

NSF Grantees’ Poster Session

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Milo Koretsky, Oregon State University; John L. Falconer, University of Colorado Boulder; David L. Silverstein P.E., University of Kentucky; Bill Jay Brooks, Oregon State University; Debra M. Gilbuena, Oregon State University; Christina Smith, Oregon State University

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Tagged Divisions

Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

research interests particularly focus on what prevents students from being able to integrate and extend the knowledge developed in specific courses in the core curriculum to the more complex, authentic problems and projects they face as professionals. Dr. Koretsky is one of the founding members of the Center for Lifelong STEM Education Research at OSU.Prof. John L. Falconer, University of Colorado Boulder John L. Falconer is the Mel and Virginia Clark Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering and a President’s Teaching Scholar at the University of Colorado Boulder. He has published more than 225 papers and has 12 patents in the areas of zeolite membranes, heterogeneous catalysis, photocatalysis, and atomic and

Conference Session

Mechanical ET Design & Capstone

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

John Anderson; Heather Cooper

mechanical engineering technology student. Proceedings of the 1998 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition (CD-ROM), American Society for Engineering Education.[2] Somerton, C.W., Elliott, G., Vance, R., (1999), Incorporating the design of experiments into a heat transfer laboratory course. Proceedings of the 1999 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition (CD-ROM), American Society for Engineering Education.[3] Somerton, C.W., Smith, M., Lu, M., (2001), A MATLAB program for teaching convective heat transfer. Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition (CD- ROM), American Society for Engineering

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Ku-Yen Li; David Cocke; John Gossage

fundamental content of chemical engineering, and c) develop computer skills with modeling and simulation packages that the students will need in the co-op program with industry and in all subsequent chemical engineering courses. Computer-Aided Modeling and Simulation (CAMS) – A Pathfinder Course In 1999, the authors along with their colleagues received a Nation Science Foundation CCLI-A&I (Course, Curriculum, and Laboratory Improvement – Adaptation and Implementation) grant. This led to the initiation of a prototype course to integrate problem- based learning (PBL) pedagogy into the chemical engineering curriculum by use of computer-aided modeling and simulation packages. It starts with a new course, CAMS (Computer Aided Modeling and Simulation

Conference Session

Manufacturing Systems Design

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Anthony Hotchkiss; Slade Gellin

those capabilitiesalready incorporated. For instance, the machine for which the VAL-CAM program wasoriginally written does not have an automatic tool changer, whereas one of the recently installedmachine tools does have such a tool changer. The program module for this new machine allowsthe user to specify the codes that are used by the new machine that will effect an automaticchange of tool. A variety of standard and non-standard codes are also provided so that the usercan tailor the code to operate most new machine tools.The significance of this project is that the generality and modularity of the post-processor lendsitself to utilization in similar laboratories at other educational facilities.Introduction and Problem StatementA CNC code

Conference Session

Undergraduate Research and New Directions

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Habibur Rahman

Session 1332 Development of an Undergraduate Course in Radar Systems Habib Rahman, Beshara Sholy Saint Louis University Saint Louis, MO 63103-1110AbstractThis paper outlines and presents the results of the development and teaching of a unique coursein radar systems to undergraduate students in electrical engineering and avionics majors at SaintLouis University. It also discusses the challenge of offering such a course, and proposes a coursecurriculum that is specifically tailored for undergraduate students.The important and

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Jagannathan Sankar; Devdas M. Pai

participate in the exploration of advanced materials.Materials Content of the Mechanical Engineering CurriculumThe curriculum aims to cover all 1four corners of the materialstetrahedron shown in Figure 1. Itis supported by a sophomore levelbasic materials science course, a 2junior level manufacturing 3 4processes course, two laboratory Figure 1classes and is capped with a senior Materials Tetrahedron1level course in materialsengineering. In addition, there are 1. Advanced Processingsome technical elective courses in 2

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Juan Herrera; Stephen Stafford

the failure. In the case of fatigue failures, the service history of the componentcan sometimes be read from the fracture face in a manner similar to the way that aforester interprets the growth rings of trees. Fracture patterns in glass and in variousbrittle materials, can also be very revealing as to the origin and progression of thefracture, and thus the likely cause.Fundamental to an understanding of design for failure avoidance is an equally thoroughunderstanding of how and why materials, in their fabricated forms, fail. The latterunderstanding is not generally obtainable from studying laboratory fractures of standardtest specimens. These fractures are usually quite different in appearance from thefractures typically found in

Conference Session

Projects in Alternative Energy: Wind and Solar

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Leonel Aguilera, University of Texas, Pan American; Jaime Ramos-Salas P.E., University of Texas, Pan American; Sanjeev Kumar, University of Texas, Pan American

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Energy Conversion and Conservation

the electric grid. He is the Principal Investigator for UTPA’s three main solar facilities: the ENGR PV Fixed Array, the TXU Sun Tracking Arrays, and the Solar Observatory. Ramos is a licensed Professional Engineer in the state of Texas and Chair of the Rio Grande Valley Chapter of IEEE Power & Energy Society. Before coming to Texas, he accumulated significant experience in manufacturing, consulting, and teaching electrical engineering courses. He obtained a Ph.D. in electrical engineering in 1976 from Stanford University. Ramos has been an educator since 1977 of national and international universities including the University of Texas, Pan American, Edinburg, Texas; Universidad Autnoma de La Laguna, Mexico

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Yaw Owusu

engineers. 2. Assess current instructional and student evaluation practices. EVALUATION 3. Assess state-of-the art teaching practices and inclusion of high technology techniques for instruction. 1. Propose revisions to current educational system, where necessary. 2. Integrate state-of-the-art instruction and learning practices, e.g. Distance Learning. 3. Determine the cost and socioeconomic benefits MODEL of the new educational model. DESIGN 4. Identify and implement role of computer in the educational model. 5

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas E. Hulbert; Robert B. Angus

laboratory,interwoven using J.I.T. methodology. More than 45 participants have taken the courseand provided feedback via a questionnaire. A Supervisors’ Course is being developed.Labs are provided; the supervisors will analyze and evaluate the lab material from theicons backwards.IntroductionFor several years, Northeastern University’s Continuing Education Center for CorporateOn-Site Training has been working to devise new courses that apply the Just-In-TimeEducation™ technique. This technique examines the technical topics desired to betaught to potential participants. It then sequences these topics so the knowledge andskills are gradually applied in the course. Potential participants are given a mathematicsDiagnostic Tool developed by the authors

Collection

1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Swami Karunamoorthy; K. Ravindra

cr.Advanced Mathematics 3 cr.ENGINEERING SCIENCE: (34 credits)Computer Science 3 cr.Freshmen Engineering 4 cr.Statics 3 cr.Dynamics 3 cr.Solid Mechanics / Lab 4 cr.Fluid Dynamics 3 cr.Thermodynamics 3 cr.Linear Vibrations 3 cr.Linear Systems 3 cr.Electrical Eng. / Lab 5 cr.ME MAJOR: (41 credits)Foundation to Eng. Design 3 cr.Kinematics 3 cr.Machine Design 3 cr.Material Science 3 cr.Measurements 3 cr.Manufacturing 3 cr.Mechatronics 3 cr.Applied Thermodynamics 3 cr.Heat Transfer 3 cr.Design I & II 6 cr.ME Laboratory 2 cr.Technical Electives 6

Collection

1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Albert Lozano-Nieto

Engineering and Engineering Technology, actualindustry experience is greatly appreciated not only by future employers, but also by the students.Employers feel more comfortable with future employees that have some experience beforegraduating from college, and have acquired a basic knowledge on how their specific industryworks (Lessard, 1996). Students recognize that the lectures and laboratory experiences deliveredwhile in college are necessary to learn the basic and theoretical principles for a given subject.However, they also recognize that due to the limitations of the campus infrastructure, they cannotreproduce as much as would be desirable, the actual industry settings. This is especially true inBiomedical Engineering Technology, as the teaching

Collection

1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Gerard N. Foster

processing of voice and musicsignals can add interest and understanding to the basic concepts that are taught in electricalengineering technology. The applications presented below are some of the ways that the soundsof voice and music can be included in technical laboratories and demonstrations.Transduction and display of soundThe function generator is the standard device for the creation of waveforms in the laboratory.Such waveforms can be displayed and measured with an oscilloscope. However, waveforms canalso be gathered from physical media and transduced with a microphone and amplifier circuit.The author has successfully used this method on a number of occasions to demonstrate to highschool students and teachers the nature of sound, electronics

Conference Session

Emerging Areas: Biotechnology, Microtechnology, and Energy

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Thuyoanh Truong, California State Universtiy, Long Beach, Department of Chemical Engineering; William Ferguson, Department of Chemical Engineering, California State University, Long Beach; Roger C. Lo, California State University, Long Beach, Department of Chemical Engineering

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Chemical Engineering

Beach. His research interests include microfluidics for organic synthesis, chemical and biological assays and fuel cells.Roger C. Lo, California State University, Long Beach,Department of Chemical Engineering Roger C. Lo is an Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering at California State University, Long Beach. He received his Ph.D. from Texas A&M University in May 2008. Roger teaches undergraduate and grad- uate required courses (fluids, math, and transport phenomena) and also numerical analysis using Excel and MATLAB for chemical engineering calculations. Roger’s research interest focuses on microfluidics and its applications to solving chemical and biological problems, such as fuel cells, microreactors, and

Conference Session

Sustainable Energy Education

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Liping Guo, Northern Illinois University; Mansour Tahernezhadi, Northern Illinois University

Tagged Divisions

Energy Conversion and Conservation

AC 2011-270: EMERGING TECHNOLOGY INSTITUTE - TRAINING MID-DLE AND HIGH SCHOOL TEACHERS IN ALTERNATIVE ENERGYLiping Guo, Northern Illinois University Liping Guo received the B. E. degree in Automatic Control from Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, China in 1997, the M. S. and Ph. D. degrees in Electrical & Computer Engineering from Auburn Uni- versity, AL, USA in 2001 and 2006 respectively. She is currently an Assistant Professor in the Electrical Engineering Technology program in the Technology Department at the Northern Illinois University. Her research and teaching interests are mainly in the area of power electronics, renewable energy, embedded systems and automatic control. Dr. Guo is a senior member