Conference Session

Fostering Business and Professional Skills in the Engineering Classroom

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Andrea Goncher, Charles Sturt University

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

students commenced their placements in July 2017, after 18months of project-based and self-directed online learning.Figure 1. Engineering students on industry placementsSeventeen students enrolled in workplace learning placements and the planning and review-focused class. Students on placement worked with 15 host organizations, where theorganizations exist at the local, national, and international levels. Students were involved invarious projects across the civil engineering discipline. Example projects that studentsworked on included a pedestrian and cyclist river bridge, dam safety upgrade, commercialbuilding upgrade, local effluent disposal investigations, and road and roundabout design.Local government organizations hosted the majority of

Conference Session

STEM Issues in ET II

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Rustin Webster, Purdue University, New Albany; Matthew Turner, Purdue University, New Albany

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

University of Alabama at Birmingham. Dr. Webster has received various professional certifications from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, SOLIDWORKS, and the Project Management Institute. His research interests include engineering technology outreach and design education with focus areas in CAD and project-based learning.Dr. Matthew Turner, Purdue Polytechnic Institute Dr. Matthew Turner is an Associate Professor of ECET at Purdue University New Albany where he teaches courses in power systems and engineering capstone design. Prior to joining the faculty at Purdue, Professor Turner worked as a researcher at the Conn Center for Renewable Energy Research in the area of power and energy systems, with a focus

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Course Innovation I

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert Rabb; David Chang, United States Military Academy

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

topics with2.0 credit hours allotted to engineering science and 1.0 credit hour to engineering design. Thecourse builds upon the foundations from the basic engineering mechanics course in statics anddynamics, and the basic electrical engineering course covering electrical circuits andcomponents. The course provides the background, experience, and fundamental designknowledge to complete capstone design projects requiring dynamic modeling and controlexpertise. The course is multidisciplinary and is conducted as a joint offering with the Page 13.788.3Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and the Department of Civil andMechanical

Conference Session

International Division Poster Session

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Eric Boyer, Pennsylvania State University-Harrisburg; Aldo Morales, Pennsylvania State University-Harrisburg

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International

University at Harrisburg. Page 13.16.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2008 A Color Image Merging Algorithm Using MATLAB Eric Boyer and Aldo Morales Electrical Engineering Program Penn State Harrisburg Middletown, PA 17057Abstract:Students in the Electrical Engineering program at Penn State Harrisburg have manyopportunities to apply their acquired knowledge through hands-on course projects andlaboratory experiences in electronics, digital and image processing, VLSI, power andother courses, in addition to their capstone

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Henry Sneck, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Donald Bunk, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Douglas Baxter, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

both solid modeling, technical reports and memorandums, problem solving, andpresentation.IntroductionIt is safe to say that few entering Engineering students have an idea of what practicing Engineersreally do. They arrive at college with a variety of expectations which are often not realized untilthey reach their Junior or Senior years. Their backgrounds in mathematics and science areprobably strong, and they may have participated in science fairs or class projects that are relatedto technology. However, they most likely have little or no sense of the complexity and attentionto detail that Engineering requires, or just how Engineers work and think as they solveengineering and design problems.Some engineering schools have required first

Conference Session

NSF Grantees' Poster Session

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael G Mauk P.E., Drexel University; Richard Chiou, Drexel University (Eng.); Vladimir Genis, Drexel University (Tech.); M. Eric Carr, Drexel University

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees Poster Session

isaided by using colored or fluorescent dyes. A thermal camera can also be used to maptemperature profiles where heating and cooling effects are important.In the following, we describe some of the experiments we are developing that use microfluidicchips as projects and case studies for undergraduate engineering technology. These areincorporated into current traditional courses on fluid mechanics, engineering measurements, heattransfer, prototyping, robotics, and microcontrollers, as well as capstone Senior Design projects.The advantages of microfluidics-based experiments for instructional purposes include modestequipment costs, small space requirements (all of the experiments can be done on a table top),miniscule generation of waste products, and

Conference Session

Environmental engineering pedagogy and innovation

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sukalyan Sengupta, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth; Jeffrey A Cunningham, University of South Florida; Sarina J. Ergas, University of South Florida; Ramesh K. Goel, University of Utah; Dilek Ozalp, University of South Florida; Teri Kristine Reed, Purdue University, West Lafayette

Tagged Divisions

Environmental Engineering

Paper ID #6675Development of a Concept Inventory for Introductory Environmental Engi-neering CoursesDr. Sukalyan Sengupta, University of Massachusetts, DartmouthProf. Jeffrey A Cunningham, University of South Florida Dr Jeffrey Cunningham is an Associate Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engi- neering at the University of South Florida (USF). Dr Cunningham’s research and teaching interests are related to the fate, transport, and remediation of contaminants in the environment. His current students are working on projects related to the clean-up of soil contaminated by hazardous chemicals, the fate of

Conference Session

Design Experiences in Energy Education

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Tim Meyers; Robert Weissbach

Society for Engineering Education” Session 2433Project conclusion and student evaluationDuring the fall semester of his senior year, the student decided to terminate work on hisundergraduate thesis project. A number of factors contributed to this decision. They include: • Time constraint – The student felt that there wasn’t sufficient time to simultaneously work on the thesis while also maintaining excellence in his schoolwork and being involved in extracurricular activities, such as student government and his fraternity. He was also concerned about making satisfactory progress on his capstone senior design project. This team

Conference Session

The Role of Robotics in K-12 Engineering

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Richard S. Stansbury, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach; Farahzad Behi, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

AC 2012-4304: INSPIRING INTEREST IN STEM THROUGH SUMMERROBOTICS CAMPProf. Richard S. Stansbury, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach Richard S. Stansbury is an Associate Professor computer engineering and computer science in the Depart- ment of Electrical, Computer, Software, and Systems Engineering at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical Univer- sity, Daytona Beach, Fla. He teaches courses in artificial intelligence, data structures and algorithms, and the capstone senior design course. His research interests include unmanned aircraft, mobile robotics, and applied artificial intelligence.Prof. Farahzad Behi, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University

Conference Session

Potpourri

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Afsaneh Minaie, Utah Valley University; Reza Sanati-Mehrizy, Utah Valley University; Paymon Sanati-Mehrizy, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai; Ali Sanati-Mehrizy

Tagged Divisions

Computing & Information Technology

fundamentals of analog and digital wireless communications. Includes baseband and bandpass, analog and digital signaling techniques along with appropriate mathematical background in Fourier transforms, probability and random variables. Introduces both software and hardware designs.19. ECE 4800 Computer Engineering Senior Design Project Prerequisite: ECE 3740 Description: Serves as a project-oriented capstone course for computer engineering majors. Emphasizes major hardware and software design. Includes identification and completion of a suitable design project to be mutually selected by the faculty supervisor and student. Requires weekly written and oral presentations as well as a final written project report and an oral

Conference Session

Institutional Perspectives and Boundary Work

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kenneth Reid, Ohio Northern University; Tyler J Hertenstein, Ohio Northern University; Graham Talmadge Fennell, Ohio Northern University; Elizabeth Marie Spingola, Virginia Tech Department of Engineering Education

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

Talmadge Fennell, Ohio Northern UniversityElizabeth Marie Spingola Elizabeth is a junior at Ohio Northern University. She is the Project Manager of an organization at school that is designing and fabricating a model Mars Rover for a local museum. She is, also, has leadership roles in Phi Sigma Rho, the engineering sorority at ONU. Other organizations she belongs to include SWE, ASME, Flute Choir, JEC, and more. Page 23.238.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013 Bachelor of Science in Engineering Education: Differentiating from Traditional

Conference Session

Manufacturing Laboratory Experience

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Derek Yip-Hoi; Zbigniew Pasek

line. Important CIM and production concepts in areas such asComputer-Aided Process Planning (CAPP), production planning, customization, reliability andreconfigurability can be demonstrated with this system.FEASIBILITY STUDY PROJECTSThe Lego factory development effort was initially set up as a senior level capstone design(ME450) project that consisted of two teams. One team worked on a design for sorting anddelivery of the Legos and the other team worked with the robotic end effector and cell design forassembly of a finished product. Each team was able to generate several design concepts andeventually a final detailed design that was fabricated and integrated with a commercialeducational 5 axis robot for a competent working design (Figure 4

Conference Session

Wider Contexts of Ethics for Engineers

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Matthew Carroll; Nael Barakat

, capstone course (EG491 Engineering Design Project I) of which the teaching ofethics and, more generally, engineering professionalism is a major component.The first major issue that the students were surveyed on is one of “Consensus,” asembedded in the questions: “What ethical standards are “universal” (i.e. across all nationsand cultures) in engineering? What standards should be relative to a national and/orcultural setting?”The advent of a global marketplace makes inevitable the sale and use of productsinvolving engineering design in one nation that were produced in a completely differentnational and cultural setting. To buy a product from a faraway location involves trust thatsomehow the prevailing ethos at that location precludes the

Conference Session

Manufacturing Laboratory Experience

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

William Kline

building andsimulating the production system being studied in Promodel. The student version of Promodel isintroduced early in the class and is used as a complement to class and homework problems toverify the textbook solutions. Building the Promodel solution forces students to think about andidentify the process structure, connections, and parameters as they would in a real productionsetting. Students both build their own simulation solutions to problems as well as experimentwith models provided by the instructor.As the textbook does not integrate the simulation approach, several new homework assignments,case studies, and a student project covering generic production and logistics processes have beenintegrated into the course to illustrate course

Conference Session

CE Body of Knowledge

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Robinson; Kevin Sutterer

Engineering Education”much modification to satisfy the complete formal education component of the BOK and that itwould be to our students’ disadvantage to seek a BOK B.S. Our current B.S. curriculumemphasizes project-based design and a broad civil engineering education, with an outside-client-based senior capstone design project. Therefore, we can not achieve the Specialization Areaoutcome (outcome 12) with the existing curriculum. Further, it was clear that even withsignificant modification to the scope of course work, additional credit hours would have to beadded to the curriculum. The Civil Engineering Department has a high success rate in graduatingstudents in four years. The additional credit hours may reduce that success and lead to anincrease

Conference Session

Recruitment and Retention

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Elaine Craft

projects. Teams generally meet weekly to discuss the progress of students andto plan the sequence of instruction for the coming week. Instructors are routinely in theclassroom at the same time only when students are making team presentations that are jointlygraded by the teaching team. Students enroll in all four ATE classes simultaneously unlessexempt from a course within the ET Core because of previously earned credit. It is not essentialthat courses in the ET Core be scheduled in an uninterrupted block of time, but this type ofscheduling helps keep students focused.Senior projects and capstone courses often "pull it all together" for four-year college engineeringor engineering technology students who persist to become seniors. For two-year

Conference Session

Assessment in BME Education

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Jendrucko; Jack Wasserman; Monica Schmidt

funding to providing information to a medical department for budget decisions. The audience for each presentation is specified to develop the student skills. The written and oral presentations affect both the team scores and the individual scores. This process results in team participation in both processes. The roles of the team • Team Captain – Planner • Spokesperson – Presenter • Recorder - Documentation • Reflector – Assessment of team function Are rotated so that each member will perform each role. The teams then have a capstone research project at the end of the course, which is evaluated by biomedical faculty to determine

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Roger Minear

a senior level laboratory course was designed to bridge the existinggap between class room theory and practical measurement techniques. The experimentsare structured to let the students participate in common field and laboratorymeasurements that are used in environmental engineering to design monitoring programsand treatment systems in air, water, wastewater, hazardous waste and ecology. Thestudents are directly involved in evaluating data reliability and assessing QA/QC issuesas a part of performing the experiments. They make decisions on the use of their data inclassroom projects simulating assessment or the development of design parameters fortreatment systems.A series of experimental modules have been constructed that represent the

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Ralph Staus; Henry Ansell

being stocked with large numbers of books relating to the courses that they aretaking, has not been particularly important to their studies for their technical courses. In most technical courses, the information that a student needs is provided during thelecture sessions, or it is available by reading the textbook. Technical courses typically have notrequired information gathering from the library’s resources. Our colleagues in the liberal artsoften require a term paper to be written, which requires library research, but that is uncommon inmath, physics, in engineering technology, and other technical courses. An exception occurs with capstone design project courses, in that the student will likelyhave to search for information

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Ed Clausen; Carolyne E. Garcia

planning tool for students in both assessing strengths and weaknesses in both theiracademic and professional careers. Table 1. Documentation for Criterion 3 Outcomes Outcomes Documentation a b c d e f g h i j k Quantitative metrics, including transcripts, X X X X X X X X scores of FE, MCAT, GRE Job Offers/Alumni Career History X X X X X X Performance in Capstone Design courses X X X X X X X X Employer Satisfaction

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Layton

programs must demonstrate that their graduates have an under-standing of professional and ethical responsibility.”1In response to this need, educators can adopt a number of strategies. Among them are the fol-lowing, paraphrased from Alenskis2:• A stand-alone course in ethics.• An ethics component in a stand-alone course in professionalism.• An ethics component in a senior project, thesis, or capstone course.• Integration of ethics across the curriculum.• Commingling ethics instruction in technical courses.Each approach has advantages and disadvantages (reference 2 cites studies that investigate eachof these approaches). As Alenskis states, “The issue is often how to present ethics as an impor-tant aspect of the technical profession

Conference Session

Issues in Computer Education

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Naiqian Zhang; Masaaki Mizuno; Gurdip Singh; Amy Gross; Mitchell Neilsen; Donald Lenhert

Copyright 8 2002, American Society for Engineering EducationSystems. In this module we present the details of a microkernel, how it is used and whichmicrokernels are typically available for various microprocessors. The third module is Real-TimeEmbedded Systems. This module deals with interconnection of more complex peripherals than onespresented earlier, such as CAN networks, DA/AD converters, and PWM (Pulse Width Modulation) --- all of such devices come with variations of various microprocessors. Through such lab projects,students learn how to control various peripherals and build a (small but) complete real timedistributed microcontroller system. With the NSF CRCD grant, twenty Phytec Microcontrollerboards containing an Infineon C 167

Conference Session

Computational Tools

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Thad B. Welch III P.E., Boise State University; Sam Shearman, National Instruments

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education

live signals for realistic, real-worlddemonstrations, laboratory exercises, capstone design projects, and cutting-edge research. Youare invited to participate in what we hope will become an ever increasing community ofLabVIEW/USRP users.7 ConclusionsThe universal software radio peripheral (USRP) family of products has become a popularplatform for hardware-based research and test bed validations conducted by universities in thesoftware defined radio (SDR) and cognitive radio (CR) fields. The recently released universalhardware driver (UHD) as part of the LabVIEW, along with the USRP now offers a simpler,scalable and easier to use combined platform that will both broaden the accessibility of thetechnology and platform for hands-on applications

Conference Session

Ethical Issues I: Sustainability and Environmental Ethics

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

April A. Kedrowicz, University of Utah; Maria Dawn Blevins, University of Utah

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Ethics

is that of problem solver, or rescuer, such that engineers need only “design theirway out” of any problems we face as a global society. Rather than a reactionary focus, engineersmust be proactive and contemplative and emphasize sustainability as a top design constraint tobe considered thoughtfully in terms of people, nature, and future generations. A focus onsustainability must be as heavily weighted as cost, aesthetics, ease of use, etc. But, if we are toget there, we must first change the culture of engineering education.Currently, engineering education treats sustainability as one of many design constraints thatlikely receives consideration in a classroom module, typically in a capstone design class. Onelesson is hardly enough to instill

Collection

1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Philip Doepker

in the profession. The measurement criteria forinput from the industrial advisory committee proves to be somewhat elusive. Should themeasurement criteria state that 60% of the committee should agree with…? Up until now itremains without a quantitative measure and only identifies that the industrial advisory committeewill agree that…In the mechanical design laboratory (capstone course) students are required to provide oral aswell as written presentations. A survey of the corporate sponsors provides feedback indicatingthat the goals of the project were met or nearly met. The appropriateness of the oral and writtenreports when compared to industry standards is also determined. Continuous communicationbetween student teams and industry mentors

Collection

1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Maurice Walworth; Kevin Schmaltz; Ajay Mahajan; David McDonald

airplane, a model train anda wind tunnel make heavy use of data-acquisition systems, programs written and developed inLabVIEW and MATLAB, and modern communication protocols such as RS485. The entireinterface is through virtual instrumentation, and the lab is also being given the capability of remoteaccess to the students. There are other indirect advantages of this approach in terms of financialeconomy and faculty professional development. This project has been funded by the NationalScience Foundation (NSF) and has resulted in the development of the Integrated SystemsEngineering Laboratory (ISEL) that houses vertically integrated laboratory exercises for twelvecourses from three different curricula.1. IntroductionMost universities have limited

Collection

1998 Annual Conference

Authors

J. A. Isaacs

. Drivers for Environmental and Economic FocusStudents can gain a broader understanding and strengthen their comprehension of the economicand environmental consequences of materials choices by incorporating these ideas into existingtechnical courses or new technical electives. Within the Department of Mechanical, Industrialand Manufacturing Engineering (MIME), there are three undergraduate course offerings thatfocus on materials science. Current graduate materials courses provide a good foundation forgraduate students focusing on a degree in materials science. Through required and electivecourses available in the industrial engineering curriculum, students have opportunities to learnabout engineering economy, project management and other pertinent

Conference Session

Biomedical Engineering Division (BED) Postcard Session (Best of WIPs)

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sarah Ilkhanipour Rooney, University of Delaware; Shameeka M Jelenewicz, University of Delaware

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Biomedical Engineering Division (BED)

Work in Progress: Development of a Medical Devices Course for Sophomore Biomedical Engineering Undergraduate StudentsIntroductionThe biomedical engineering (BME) workforce requires competency in professional and technicalskills. BMEs often use knowledge in design, administration and management, and customerneeds assessment [1]. Typical work activities of a BME include analyzing data or information,organizing and planning work, determining compliance with standards, building teams, anddrafting and specifying technical device parts [1]. The undergraduate BME capstone designcourse is often used as a “catchall” to develop these critical professional skills; however, to buildcompetency, it is recommended that these skills be practiced

Collection

2005 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Judith Collins; Alysia Starkey; Beverlee Kissick; Jung Oh

. Strategic selection of information sources based on audience needs and quality of information. An annotated bibliography demonstrating the relevance of each selected source to the rhetorical situation (audience and purpose).Overall, the assignment sequence and related skill-development require 10 weeks of a16-week semester. After students receive this major assignment, the librarian providestwo full-hour visits to technical writing sections to give specific instruction in skills fordeveloping key words (the controlled vocabulary of a discipline), and for navigatingsubscription databases. After each visit, students are required to apply the demonstratedskills to their own major project and turn that work in as an exercise for evaluation

Collection

2014 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Hong Li; Ashwin Satyanarayana

. . REFERENCES[1] BUTKUS, M.A., AND KELLEY, M.B. 2004. Approach for integrating professional practice issues into undergraduate environmental engineering design projects. Journal of Professional Issues in Engineering Education and Practice 130:3, 166-172.[2] CATALANO, G.D. 2004. Senior capstone design and ethics: a bridge to the professional world. Science and Engineering Ethics 10:2, 409-415.[3] CHUMER, M.J. 2002. Towards An Understanding Of User- Centeredness Within Information Technology Diffusion: A Self- Ethnography. Doctoral dissertation, Rutgers The State University of New Jersey. Advisor: Ronald E. Rice.[4] CSTB99: Committee on Information Technology Literacy, National Research Council 1999. Being Fluent with