Collection

2010 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Christopher J. Lowrance

itmerits the attention of all educators of engineering because of its benefit to the instructor and thestudents.Most engineering experts would agree that engineering is a problem-solving science that must bepracticed in order become effective at solving complex problems. Undoubtedly, engineeringstudents across the country are getting plenty of practice solving problems outside the classroomin the form of homework, but for most engineering programs, the only time professors get toobserve their students solving engineering problems might be during laboratory hours or whileadvising on a design project. By observing our students, we gain invaluable feedback about theirknowledge and problem solving abilities. Therefore, why not observe our students

Collection

2007 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Yan H. Huang; Seong W. Lee

analysis and computation, modeling, design and experimental verification.Another goal is to have students gain experience in applying these methods to realisticengineering problems and processes [1]. Many students in the industrial engineeringdepartment have participated in the ongoing projects at the laboratories of Center for AvancedEnergy Systems & Environmental Control Technologies (CAESECT). These students tooksome courses (ex. Thermodynamics, design & analysis of energy systems, the advancedinstrumentation technology) and then they conducted experiments using advancedinstrumentation (ex. Laser based PDPA system and PIV system). This paper shows how thestudents improved their skills of designing the experiment and analyze the data

Collection

2013 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Masoud Fathizadeh; Gil Cabrera; Mark Werthman; George Zawislak

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Collection

2013 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

ASM Delowar Hossain; Zory Marantz; Djafar Mynbaev

in electronic coursesof the two-year engineering–technology program: We need to start with very basics ofsemiconductors and transistors and finish by introducing the principles of operation of modernIC circuits. In our department, we traditionally have an extensive theoretical electronics courseand independent laboratory course, both being taught at the second semester. The other 3rd-semester laboratory course entitled Communications Electronics is more specialized, as the titlesays. These three courses, clearly, are not able to cover all the needed material; we see thesolution on in a careful selection of the topics.In search for the criteria for this selection, we investigate the problem from various directions.First, we investigated the

Collection

2008 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Robert M. Brooks; Soumitra Basu; Shriram Pillapakkam; Kurosh Darvish; Keerthi V. Takkalapelli

theresearch papers provided to the students.For the purpose of this study, the category of learning included innovation, creativity, hands onprojects and presentation (4,5). To create a congenial atmosphere for learning, students weregiven several challenges and choices. The challenges were: the students should work with whatthe laboratory had; the students should not use any ready-made commercial parts; their productshould not cost more than $200 (excluding their labor) and all the parts of their model must beenvironmentally safe and recyclable (4,5). The overall course grading formulas for each coursetaught in each year are shown in Table 2. 2Table 2 Grading Formulas

Collection

2003 ASEE North Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Beckry Abdel-Magid; Yunsheng Xu

effects that occur during research. An important step in making anobservation is the immediate recording of the observation in a notebook. Thehypothesis is a formal expression of a preconceived relationship that the studentuses to guide his or her research. The experimentation phase is the systematiccontrolled testing of the hypothesis which can be performed in the laboratory,using computer simulation, field experiment, field study, or survey research. Inconducting the experiment, it is important to record every detail. Here again,keeping good records of work completed, decisions made, errors and correctionsduring experimentation is a key activity to successful research. The last step,induction, is the process of interpreting the data obtained

Collection

2009 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

Richard K. Herz; Gregory E. Ogden

student, and a quiz section. In the quiz section, students mustrun experiments, analyze their data, and then check to see if they have an answer within anacceptable range. The Lab charges virtual $ for each experiment to teach students that theyshould not run experiments indiscriminately, and then awards them virtual $ for correct answers.The Budget Report records the history of each quiz. Students must turn in their data, analysiswork, and a copy of the Budget Report which contains an authentication code. These quizzesincorporate the features Pavia9 lists that should be exhibited by a laboratory simulation.It is interesting to observe a new group of students start to use the software in a computer lab.Doing homework in the Lab is much different

Collection

2009 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

Stephen Beck; Joshua Brent; Thomas Brown; Agostino Cala; Eniko T. Enikov; Richard Lucio

395 Engineering 101: Peer Teaching with LEGO NXT Robotics Stephen Beck1, Joshua Brent1, Thomas Brown1, Agostino Cala1, Eniko T. Enikov2, Richard Lucio III1 1 Undergraduate Student Mentors; 2Faculty advisor Advanced Micro and Nano Systems Laboratory, Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, The University of ArizonaAbstractThe vast amount of knowledge and the multitude of disciplines encompassed by engineering canoften be intimidating and difficult, creating an educational barrier for beginning students. Thegoal of an

Collection

2010 Northeast Section Meeting

Authors

Christopher J. Lowrance

itmerits the attention of all educators of engineering because of its benefit to the instructor and thestudents.Most engineering experts would agree that engineering is a problem-solving science that must bepracticed in order become effective at solving complex problems. Undoubtedly, engineeringstudents across the country are getting plenty of practice solving problems outside the classroomin the form of homework, but for most engineering programs, the only time professors get toobserve their students solving engineering problems might be during laboratory hours or whileadvising on a design project. By observing our students, we gain invaluable feedback about theirknowledge and problem solving abilities. Therefore, why not observe our students

Collection

2008 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

Robert M. Brooks; Soumitra Basu; Shriram Pillapakkam; Kurosh Darvish; Keerthi V. Takkalapelli

theresearch papers provided to the students.For the purpose of this study, the category of learning included innovation, creativity, hands onprojects and presentation (4,5). To create a congenial atmosphere for learning, students weregiven several challenges and choices. The challenges were: the students should work with whatthe laboratory had; the students should not use any ready-made commercial parts; their productshould not cost more than $200 (excluding their labor) and all the parts of their model must beenvironmentally safe and recyclable (4,5). The overall course grading formulas for each coursetaught in each year are shown in Table 2. 2Table 2 Grading Formulas

Conference Session

Thermodynamics, Fluids, and Heat Transfer I

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Brent A Nelson, Northern Arizona University; Constantin Ciocanel, Northern Arizona University

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

their analysis, and although engineering students generally havecourses on experimentation, such courses are rarely combined with any significant theoreticalmodeling activities.1.2 A Low-Cost Joint Design Project1.2.1 Course StructureIn order to address the disconnect between theory and real systems that often occurs inengineering education, we developed a low-cost design project, administered jointly between atheory-focused course on heat transfer (ME450) and an experimental laboratory course inthermo-fluid systems (ME495). Note that the heat transfer course has been renumbered since theprevious implementation of the design project, when the number was ME350. The ME450course is focused on the physics of heat transfer, calculating and

Conference Session

Investigating Alternative Energy Concepts

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ignacio B. Osorno, California State University, Northridge

Tagged Divisions

Energy Conversion and Conservation

AC 2011-212: APPLIED MODELING OF SOLAR CELLSIgnacio B. Osorno, California State University, Northridge I have been teaching and researching Electrical Power Systems for over 25 years, and currently I am a professor of ECE. Published over 20 technical papers and given several presentations related to the ”smart grid” and electric power systems. Consulting with several major corporations has been accomplished in the areas of power electronics and solar energy. I am the lead faculty member of the Electric Power Sys- tems Program. I have established the electrical machines and microprocessor-relay laboratories and power electronics laboratory (in progress). Research interests are solar energy, wind energy, power

Conference Session

Technological Literacy and K-12 Engineering

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Steven Essinger, Drexel University; Ryan Coote, Drexel University; Pete Konstantopoulos, CAPA High School; Jason Silverman, Drexel University; Gail Rosen, Drexel University

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

AC 2010-2013: REFLECTIONS AND MEASURES OF STEM TEACHING ANDLEARNING ON K-12 CREATIVE AND PERFORMING ARTS STUDENTSSteven Essinger, Drexel University Steve Essinger is a graduate student at Drexel University in Electrical and Computer Engineering. His research involves applying machine learning techniques to the study of microbial communities. He has designed bioinformatics computer laboratories and improved image processing laboratories for the K-12 classroom.Ryan Coote, Drexel University Ryan Coote graduated from Drexel University in 2009 with a BS in Electrical and Computer Engineering.Pete Konstantopoulos, CAPA High School Pete Konstantopoulos is a mathematics teacher at the Creative

Conference Session

Track 2 - Session 1

Collection

2014 ASEE International Forum

Authors

Svetlana Vasilievna Barabanova, Kazan National Research Technological University; Vasiliy Ivanov, Kazan National Research Technological University; Mansur Galikhanov, Kazan National research Technological University; Alina Guzhova, Kazan National Reserch Technological University

Tagged Topics

Faculty Development

a certificate of professional development.According to students, the most effective educational technologies helping to better grasp the studymaterial are practical (laboratory) classes and seminars, during which the teacher discusses thepractical and professional issues from different perspectives.During the process of program revision the proportion of laboratory studies was increased and theyhave become more practice work-oriented. The program students and faculty noted the highefficiency working in the format of "round table" which allowed not only to listen to a report or alecture, hear about the final project and ask questions but also to jointly discuss the details of theprocess, consider the problem areas and discuss possible

Conference Session

Reception & Poster Session

Collection

2013 ASEE International Forum

Authors

Lueny Morell, Hewlett-Packard Corporation

Tagged Topics

ASEE International Forum

latest HP technologies, high quality learning solutions, faculty trainingand enablement. Page 21.58.4This brief youtube video shows http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwIHncvmLJs the goalsof the HP Institute and students’ testimonials.Other HP Programs for Higher EducationHP Laboratories Interns and PostDocs Opportunities8 9While HP corporate laboratories (HP Labs) has a long tradition of hosting postdocs andinterns (e.g., every year, HP Labs hosts about 100 interns at its Palo Alto facility), during thelast few years it has been providing postdocs, MS/PhD students and recently graduatedengineers opportunities to collaborate in R&D projects with our

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Electrical ET

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Walter Banzhaf

120 volt AC power cord Figure 2 - Prototype of Transmission Line Demonstrator Board Page 10.692.3 Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2005, American Society for Engineering EducationQuantitative ResultsSimple measurements of voltage and current, done with standard laboratory instruments, allowstudents to see the vast increase in efficiency (power out/power in) that using high voltageprovides. The table in Figure 3 provides quantitative evidence of

Conference Session

Program Level Assessment

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Edward F. Crawley; Doris Brodeur

build deeper conceptual understanding of disciplinary skills. Theemphasis on building products and implementing processes in real-world contexts gives studentsopportunities to make connections between the technical content they are learning and their professionaland career interests.Standard 6 -- CDIO WorkspacesWorkspaces and laboratories that support and encourage hands-on learning ofproduct and system building, disciplinary knowledge, and social learningDescription: Workspaces and laboratories support the learning of product and system building skillsconcurrently with disciplinary knowledge. They emphasize hands-on learning in which students aredirectly engaged in their own learning, and provide opportunities for social learning, that is

Conference Session

New Frontiers in Manufacturing Education

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

John Anderson

integrate those courses thatsupport design of machinery with a challenging project and with supporting lectures. LECTURE SERIESThe lecture series in this course is divided into the following areas. • Safety • Project management • Process analysis • Introduction to plastics • Applications of heat transfer • Industrial Controls Basic relay circuits Motor starters Motor speed control Programmable logic controllers Wiring practiceThe first lecture session and part of the first laboratory session is dedicated to safety. Since students willbe expected to work with voltages as high as 220 volts and with pressurized, molten

Conference Session

Developments in Chem Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Christi Patton; Daniel Crunkleton

electrical and mechanical systems. Thesestudents are excited about the opportunity to create the control strategy and beginimplementing this plan with actual equipment. The size and scope of the project appearsto be more appealing to them than the laboratory experiences they have seen so far.Finally, in Year One, ChE students have taken the first steps to designing a reformer forethanol that could eventually be used within the vehicle. The students have gathered datafrom the literature to learn the current state-of-the-art in reformer technology and haveinitiated contacts with researchers in this field. This information is being used along withHYSYS to create an initial design for a reformer. This technology is very new and,admittedly, ambitious for

Conference Session

International Engineering Education II

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Gary Kardys; Abraham Michelen

, design, specifications,materials, application notes, and many other important activities in the daily life of andengineer. Without Globalspec, or a tool similar to it, the essential task of locating a specificcomponent for a design would take many hours of browsing in manufacturer’s catalogs. Page 10.1409.1All these tasks are accomplished by just linking to the Globalspec site. This is the reasonwhy many engineers at important industrial manufacturers as well as research laboratories “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for

Conference Session

Outreach and Recruitment

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Lee Young; Sanjiv Sarin; Xiaochun Jiang

inmathematics and calculus. Additionally, students were orientated to the college campusexperience through faculty and student mentored activities including group rap sessions,extracurricular activities, and industry tours. NC-LSAMP funding provided Allianceinstitutions the opportunity to increase the number of participants and facilitated thesuccessful recruitment of highly talented minority high school graduates.NC-LSAMP students participated in Summer Research activities at Alliance institutionsand national laboratories. North Carolina A&T State University, North Carolina StateUniversity and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill supported LSAMP andother STEM students for summer research on their campuses. Students participated

Conference Session

Innovative Curriculum in ET

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

John Cremin

Communications. Background: The Communication Disorders Department at Saint Louis University has an audiology laboratory to train students in the clinical aspects of screening hearing-impaired people. One of the tests consists of generating signal of different amplitudes at specific frequencies and plotting the client's amplitude –vs.- frequency response for each ear. The shape of the curve and its level indicates the type of hearing impairment. There is a need to provide a set of simulated clients for student practice i.e. an electronic device that will simulate the response of a variety of hearing impaired people. The Problem Design a simulated client with hearing impairment that will use the

Conference Session

Instrumentation Poster Session

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Case; Binaya Acharya; Bruce Segee; Isaac Horn

Session 2559 Microprocessor Networking with a Minimum Number of External Connections Dr Bruce E. Segee (email: segee@eece.maine.edu), Binaya Acharya (email: bacharya@eece.maine.edu), Isaac Horn (email: isaac.horn@umit.maine.edu), Michael Case (email: michael.case@umit.maine.edu) Department Of Electrical and Computer Engineering Instrumentation Research Laboratory University of Maine, OronoAbstract Networking refers to the connection of multiple systems together to allow

Conference Session

ET Industrial Collaborations

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Jamie Workman

hours of coursework each semester.The MET and CIMT degrees have considerable emphasis on manufacturing, design, andproduction. CGT has a manufacturing graphics track, which also promotes the manufacturingarea. Typical with technology degrees, there are also a large number of laboratoriesaccompanying these courses. A partial listing of the laboratories includes materials and materialtesting, metrology, non-destructive testing, instrumentation, thermo-fluids, a machine shop withmanual and NC machines, and a foundry.Each student progressing through the MET, CIMT or, CGT (manufacturing graphics track)program is required to take a manufacturing processes course, which in part covers the art andscience of metalcasting. The CIMT students are also

Conference Session

Special Topics

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Mary Ayre; Julie Mills

other western countries. Curriculum reformis recommended to improve recruitment and retention of students from all of these groups too.What is an inclusive curriculum?Early approaches to teaching diverse students aimed to ensure that ‘different’ students wereincluded, as opposed to excluded, in lectures and laboratories, giving rise to the term ‘inclusive’teaching. Faculty were urged to examine their teaching practices and to ensure that in theassumptions they made about students’ backgrounds, in the examples and metaphors they used,and in the attention they gave to individual students, they were not excluding those students whocame from cultures which differed from the dominant culture represented in the class (usuallyyoung, white and male

Conference Session

Combining Research and Teaching

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Stanley Grant; Semsi Ensari

flood control channels on the coastal waterquality. As part of a class project, 14 undergraduate students, consisting of ChemicalEngineering and Environmental Engineering majors, performed this study during rising (flood)and falling (ebb) tides, and showed the distribution of FIB in flood control channels. While thestudents were exposed to field work and laboratory procedures for the water quality, the resultshave important implications in the design of the diversion systems during dry weather.IntroductionOnce viewed as being a sub-set of civil or chemical engineering, the discipline of environmentalengineering has established a status in its own right worldwide1-3. The industry requires that newgraduates have both increased knowledge in the

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Manufacturing ET

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Jihad Albayyari; Bob Lahidji

that the engineering technology curriculum iscomposed of 33% mathematics and sciences, 25% liberal studies, and 40 to 45% in themajor field of study. Approximately 67% of the coursework in the major field of studyare Engineering Technology subjects that involve some type of laboratory activities3.(Israel, 1995).Accreditation:The Technology Accreditation Commission (TAC) of the Accreditation Board forEngineering Technology (ABET) requires a minimum of 124 semester hour credits forthe baccalaureate degree. In addition, the engineering technology curriculum mustinclude the following components:The first component is the 48 semester hours of credit in the following areas:Technical science: Subject matter in this area requires the use of

Collection

2024 South East Section Meeting

Authors

Tien Yee; Sunanda Dissanayake, Kennesaw State University

then slowly extends into more advanced concepts. Whenthese concepts are presented, checkpoint activities are provided to participants to self-check theirunderstanding. The checkpoint activities are then used as classroom discussion items forparticipants to interact and share knowledge among themselves. Once participants had gonethrough the checkpoint activities, the training proceeded to allow them to extend theirunderstanding using laboratory activities. It was believed that by doing this, participants have theopportunity first to learn and then enhance and reinforce their learning and proceed by applyingconcepts during the lab independently. This same cycle is then continued to the next importantconcept or section.The planned training

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ying Tang, Rowan University; Sachin Shetty, Tennessee State University; Xiufang Chen, Rowan University

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees

laboratory setting of the four target courses, this approach immerses students inactual engineering design challenges where a selection of metacognitive and problem-solvingstrategies is unfolded. With no additional software and hardware required, the game system canbe installed, configured, and run in any personal computer, making this development costeffective and easily transportable.INTRODUCTIONEngineering Circuit Analysis (e.g., Network I and II offered at Rowan University) is so-called“gateway” course within the curricula of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE). It isfoundational in that many of the upper level courses have a heavy reliance on the application ofthe concepts from them, and therefore poor performance often discourages

Conference Session

Design in Freshman and Sophomore Courses

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Emre Selvi, Muskingum University; Sandra Soto-Caban, Muskingum University; Richard S. Taylor, Muskingum University; William R Wilson, Muskingum University

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

studentsaimed to find the maximum compression member and tried to minimize it by changing theirdesigns, which was indeed a redesign. That necessitates them to carefully examine their bridge’struss, which led them to better comprehend why the trusses are constructed the way they are.It has been observed that students enjoy and learn better from laboratory lectures when they areconnected together as a single project rather than a discrete set of unrelated exercises8. By meansof the bridge design project, students did not only perform an experiment with beams and loadcells but they used those equipments to test and improve their designs. They also had theopportunity to observe some reasons that caused the calculated and the measured values to bedifferent