Conference Session

Curricular Issues in Computer-Oriented Programs

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Thomas Hacker, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Krishna Madhavan, Purdue University

Tagged Divisions

Information Systems

limited space, equipment, and high-end computing resources. Weare using the laboratory for two hands-on courses and four research projects, and have found thatthe flexible and reconfigurable concepts we have embedded into the design of the laboratoryhave already proven their worth. In this paper, we describe our efforts in developing this lab, thechallenges we face, specific goals and objectives, and specific outcomes we have alreadyobserved in the process of developing and utilizing this lab. The results presented in this paperwill be useful and interesting to groups seeking to develop curriculum and research programs inhigh performance computing and cyberinfrastructure.1.0 IntroductionThe department of Computer and Information Technology in

Conference Session

Instructional Strategies in AEC Education

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ahmed Megri, University of Wyoming

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Architectural

recognized as the key to an effective and efficient buildingoperating building. The process involved in the integration of a fire protection subsystem, alongwith additional MEP subsystems within a building is quite challenging, and can have a profoundimpact on the client’s satisfaction. This process becomes especially important once furthertechnological system integration within a proposed building is considered in addition to thepossibility of future system upgrades and their incorporation into the structure, as newertechnologies enter the market place. The objective of this paper is to discuss the project-basedlearning integrated with formal lectures approach in which the goal is the integration of safetyand fire protection measures into the

Collection

1996 Annual Conference

Authors

Leevones Dubose; Jean Newman; Cecil Ramage; Burke Johnson; Brenda Litchfield; Edmund Tsang

course by providing the context of teaching and learning design. The emphasis is on experientiallearning, and service is a by-product of the learning experience. At the University of South Alabama, ServiceLearning is implemented by a partnership between the SECME (Southeastern Consortium for Minorities inEngineering) program of the Mobile County Public School System in Mobile, Alabama and the MechanicalEngineering Department. First-year mechanical engineering students are formed into design teams, and eachteam is paired with two middle-school teachers serving as customers for the design projects. The design teamsdesign, produce and test an instructional module and manipulate(s) that promote a thematic approach tomathematics and science

Collection

1996 Annual Conference

Authors

Osama Ettouney; Don L. Byrkett

—.”. Session 2263 Learning about CIMS by doing Design: An integrative Model for Manufacturing Education Osama M. Ettouney, Don L. Byrkett Manufacturing Engineering/Systems Analysis Miami University, Oxford, Ohio Abstract This paper describes an integrated experience to teach students about computer-integratedmanufacturingsystems (CIMS) by engaging them in hands-on team projects to design and build usefulproducts for

Conference Session

Mechanical Engineering Poster Session

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael Anderson, United States Air Force Academy; Matthew Snyder, United States Air Force Academy; Michael Maixner, United States Air Force Academy

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

capstone courses.The manufacturing processes presented include wood working, machining, welding andcomposite lay-up. In addition, software tools are introduced and compared including MicrosoftExcel®, MatLAB®, MathCAD®, and Inventor®. Key aspects of technical communicationincluding reading, writing and presenting are introduced and practiced. Finally, a two-lessonseminar on engineering ethics completes the content. A small desk set is constructed by thestudents as a capstone project, and draws on many of the skills learned throughout the course.To evaluate the course, students were surveyed frequently and faculty feedback was collected.The results presented show that the welding, machining and Excel® content was very successful,while general

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering and Business

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Howard Clayton, Auburn University; Chetan Sankar, Auburn University; Evelyn Thrasher, Auburn University

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

instructionalmaterials for use in engineering classrooms to adapt the instructional materials for use inbusiness classrooms. The purpose of this paper is to report on the instructional materials thatintegrated methods to teach fundamental statistics skills with the introduction to businessapplications. We also tested these instructional materials in classrooms during summer 2005 andthe results of the test are reported. The ultimate goal of this project is to develop innovative andwell-tested instructional materials that help teach statistics to students in the colleges of businessand engineering.Literature Review Contemporary business practice has undergone a drastic change in this informationage where the business processes, accounting systems, and

Conference Session

SED Technical Session: Applications

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Angran Xiao, New York City College of Technology; Rafaela Alba, New York City College of Technology; Ozlem Yasar, City University of New York, New York City College of Technology; Andy Zhang, New York City College of Technology; Gaffar Barakat Gailani, New York City College of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Systems Engineering

York, New York City College of Technology Prof. Yasar is currently working as an assistant professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering Technology at City Tech. She is also the director of Research Laboratory SET – Scaffolds for Engineered Tissues. Her research interests are: - Design and Fabrication of Tissue Constructs - Bio-fabrication - Biomechanics - Soft lithography Techniques for Cell Micro-patterning - CAD/CAM ApplicationsDr. Andy Zhang, New York City College of Technology Dr. Andy S. Zhang received his Ph.D. from the City University of New York in 1995. He is currently the program director of a mechatronics project in the New York City College of Technology/CUNY. For the past 15 years, Dr. Zhang

Conference Session

Manufacturing Division Technical Session 6

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bahaa Ansaf, Colorado State University, Pueblo; Nebojsa I. Jaksic, Colorado State University, Pueblo

Tagged Divisions

Manufacturing

Course Using Design-Based Teaching ApproachAbstract: Introduction to Manufacturing Processes is one of the core courses in most mechanicalengineering, manufacturing engineering, and industrial engineering programs. The current coursecurriculum and teaching style mainly depend on the lectures for the manufacturing processes thatare aligned and synchronized with the laboratory work (project) to gain the required knowledgeand skills. According to students’ feedback for this course as well as similar courses offered at otheruniversities, the course is time intensive, involves no critical thinking, requires limited classparticipation, and is not well connected with real-world manufacturing problems

Conference Session

Engineering Management Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Peilin Fu, National University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Management

. Likewise, instructor satisfaction will also increase and it will be abetter learning experience for all.This paper introduces the framework of Trifecta of Engagement. The author shares theexperiences in designing and teaching an online Operations Management Course. Through well-designed class activities such as online sessions, instructional videos, assignments, threadeddiscussions, journals and group projects etc., student-to-content, student-to student, and student-to-instructor engagement have been greatly improved. The students' feedback and the end-of-course survey were collected at the end of the course, which demonstrated that these teachingmethodologies stimulated students’ curiosity and critical thinking, improved students’ problem

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division Technical Session 10

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Melany M. Ciampi, Safety, Health, and Environment Research Organization; Claudio da Rocha Brito, Science and Education Research Council; Rosa Maria Castro Fernandes Vasconcelos, Universidade de Minho; Luis Alfredo Martins Amaral P.E., University of Minho - ALGORITMI; Victor F. A. Barros Ing.-Paed IGIP, Science and Education Research Council

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

Associate Professor at the Department of Textile Engi- neering since 2005. Degree in Textile Engineering by the University of Minho. Professor at the University of Minho since 1984. PhD in Engineering –Technology and Textile Chemistry by the University of Minho in 1993. Rieter Award, 1993. Responsible for several curricular units in the integrated study cycles in Textitle Engineering and Engi- neering and Industrial Management, in the 1st cycle course of Design and Fashion Marketing, and also in the 2nd cycle courses of Fashion Design and Communication, Textile Chemistry, Advanced Textiles and Design and Marketing. Head research and research member of several R&D projects, has presented as main author or co

Conference Session

Novel Teaching Methods in a Multidisciplinary Context

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kelsey Joy Rodgers, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Heidi A. Diefes-Dux, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Yi Kong, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Krishna Madhavan, Purdue University, West Lafayette

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

Network for Computational Nanotechnology (NCN) education research team at Purdue University. She received her M.S. in agriculture in Fishery Resources from Huazhong Agricultural University and B.S. in Biological Science from Shaanxi Normal University in China. Her research includes evaluating first-year engineering students’ communication of nanoscience concepts through project-based-learning activities.Krishna Madhavan, Purdue University, West Lafayette Dr. Krishna Madhavan is an Assistant Professor in the School of Engineering Education at Purdue Univer- sity. He is Co-PI and Education Director of the NSF-funded Network for Computational Nanotechnology (nanoHUB.org which serves over 330,000 global researchers and

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Approaches to Sustainability and Grand Challenges

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Magdalini Z. Lagoudas, Texas A&M University; Jeffrey E. Froyd, Texas A&M University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

Director where she was responsible for the structural and thermal analysis of payloads. She served as Director of the Space Engi- neering Institute and in 2010 she accepted a position with the Academic Affairs office of the Dwight Look College of Engineering where she oversaw outreach, recruiting, retention and enrichment programs for the college. Since 2013, she serves as the Executive Director for Industry and Nonprofit Partnerships with responsibilities to increase opportunities for undergraduates engineering students to engage in experiential learning multidisciplinary team projects. These include promoting capstone design projects sponsored by industry, developing the teaching the Engineering Projects in Community

Conference Session

Course Development / Curriculum Development

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Carlotta A. Berry, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education

field. The first step involved determining what topics toemphasize as well as how to meet the learning objectives. This course was created to have aspecial emphasis on HRI design as it applies to mobile robotics. The presentation will providethe learning objectives as well as the details of the assignments necessary to meet thoseobjectives. These assignments included weekly readings, quizzes, labs and projects. A big partof this course involved the implementation of the HRI concepts on an actual robot platform. Thelabs included creating a robot dancer, music machine, touch free robot racer, robot conga line,robot remote control, and Braitenberg vehicles. The first phase of the final project involved thecreation of an urban search and rescue

Conference Session

Construction Session 1: Sustainable Practices

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Min Jae Suh, Sam Houston State University; Annie R Pearce, Virginia Tech; Faruk Yildiz, Sam Houston State University; Myung Hwa Jeon, POSCO A&C

Tagged Divisions

Construction

Alternative Energy Systems. Research interests include: low power energy harvesting systems, renewable energy technologies and education.Dr. Myung Hwa Jeon, POSCO A&C c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Training and Education for Green Construction: Corporate Education Provision in the U.S.AbstractThe construction industry is rapidly becoming convinced of the benefits to begained by introducing green building design and planning technologies andstrategies that affect green building operation and maintenance processes duringthe post-occupancy phase. Innovative green construction technologies are alsoreceiving considerable attention as a way to ensure that projects will not

Conference Session

Research on Design Learning

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mark W. Steiner, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Junichi Kanai, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

transferring new technologies to Panasonic product divisions in Japan. He was also responsible for managing his groups’ patent portfolio. From 2002 to 2004, he was a man- ager at the system group of Panasonic’s sales company in Secaucus, NJ providing system integration and software development for clients. He was also an Export Control officer. Dr. Kanai joined the Design Lab at RPI in 2004. He is currently the Associate Director of the lab and and Professor of Practice of in the Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering department. The Design Lab provides industry spon- sored and service oriented multidisciplinary design projects to 200 students/semester. His responsibilities include managing the operation of the

Collection

2018 ASEE Conferences - Conference for Industry and Education Collaboration / San Antonio proceedings

Authors

Frederick Berry; Anne Lucietto; Andrew Scott

Session ETD 5225 Engineering Technology Students: Do they approach capstone courses differently than other students? Anne M. Lucietto1, Andrew Scott2 and Frederick Berry1 Purdue University1/Western Carolina University2Using data collected from students in engineering technology, engineering, and other areas suchas computer science a comparison of student reactions to the capstone course are coded andsorted. Using content analysis methods, the researchers compare and contrast the variousstudent groups and their reactions to assigned capstone projects. They are also able to assessstudent

Conference Session

Engineering Education in the Arab World / Mid-East Region

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Suzanne Scott, The Petroleum Institute; Jamal Ahmad, The Petroleum Institute

Tagged Divisions

International

, decision-making,communications skills, and graphical demonstration.The authors wanted to know what our Arab engineering students knew about sustainability.What were their perceptions about their responsibilities as engineers in the 21st century? Didthey care? What’s being done to foster awareness in this part of the world? Shouldenvironmental sustainability and global stewardship be at the core of our engineering designprogram? How could we introduce our students to humanitarian engineering? The answers tothese questions along with data collected over two semesters are discussed in this paper.The Fall 2006 STEPS II project involved the development of a Plastics Recycling Plan for thePetroleum Institute, with applications locally and globally. The

Conference Session

Digital and Embedded System Design

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Clint Kohl, Cedarville University; Keith Shomper, Cedarville University

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

concludes with some lessons learned through the Senior Design Capstone experiencefrom which this multi-threaded software was designed, written, debugged, revised and releasedfor experimentation in DLD. CedarLogic's 10,000+ lines of code is written in C++ and utilizesthe wxWidgets GUI library and OpenGL to render the graphics. CedarLogic can be freelydownloaded at http://sourceforge.net/projects/cedarlogic .Background and NeedDigital Logic Design is a foundational course for many engineering and computer sciencestudents. The first author has been teaching a freshman level Digital Logic Design course forover twelve years. The course includes laboratory projects in which students physically wire upTTL gates on a breadboard, use the CedarLogic software

Conference Session

Capstone Design Courses and Tools in support of Systems Engineering Education

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Xiaojing Yuan, University of Houston (CoT); Heidar Malki, University of Houston (CoT); Xiaohui Yuan, University of North Texas

Tagged Divisions

Systems Engineering

Paper ID #8146Developing System-Thinking Oriented Learning Modules of Networked Mea-surement Systems for Undergraduate Engineering CurriculumProf. Xiaojing Yuan, University of Houston (CoT) Dr. Xiaojing Yuan is Associate Professor in the Computer Engineering Technology program of Engineer- ing Technology Department. She is the founder and director of the ISGRIN research lab and actively incorporating undergraduate research activities as part of final project requirements in several undergrad- uate junior and senior level courses dealing with sensors, instrumentation, and microprocessor hardware and software. Her research

Conference Session

Simulation and Programming

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Guanghsu A. Chang, Western Carolina University; Wesley L. Stone, Western Carolina University

Tagged Divisions

Manufacturing

CAD/CAM knowledgeand promote creativity and innovation. In the last two years, almost 40 students in our programwere involved robotic workcell design projects. In general, all of the students are givenfoundational manufacturing and design concepts, principles, and methodologies of theengineering disciplines during their first two years. MET students have to finish their study ofMaterial Processing I (MET 177), Computer Aided Drafting (MET 142), and productdevelopment and design (MET 144) courses before they are accepted by the program (see Figure1). Page 23.159.3 Figure 1 - MnSU MET program of study

Conference Session

Student Chapters - Formulas for Success

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Mark Evans; Eric Lachance; Allen Estes

efforts on short duration activities, tryingto get the biggest benefit for the most valuable student resource: time. With limited and tightlycontrolled increments of available time, we attempt to tailor our activities to accommodate thisconstraint. Those USMA chapter activities that add the greatest value to our CE program, arelisted below, and described in the sections that follow: • Community service and outreach through adopt-a-highway clean up, Habitat for Humanity participation, and support of those community service independent study 6 projects in the CE program . • Exposure to professional societies such as ASCE, ASEE, The Society of American Military Engineers (SAME), and the

Conference Session

The Biology Interface

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Patricia Mosto; Gregory Hecht; Kathryn Hollar; Stephanie Farrell

to introduce students to avariety of biological principles that are relevant to chemical engineering. Additionally, Page 8.722.1 Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Educationseveral laboratory modules and projects that can be easily incorporated at the freshmanand sophomore levels have been developed. These modules include reverse engineering ofthe human body, reverse engineering of the beer making process, and designing amicrobial fuel cell. Modules developed for the freshman year expose students to

Conference Session

Exploring New Frontiers in Manufacturing Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Trevor Harding

environmental burden of a product, process or activity byidentifying and quantifying material and energy usage and waste outputs at every life stage.LCA involves three steps: identification of scope of analysis, life cycle inventory, and impactanalysis. Such an approach has two attractive features for engineers. First, it is a rational andquantitative process that is easily appreciated by engineers. Second, because it examines allstages of the life cycle, it allows engineers to easily identify what design or processimprovements will lead to the greatest reduction in environmental impact.The present paper will describe a laboratory experience used in a senior level materials andprocess selection design course developed by the author. The project

Conference Session

NSF Grantees’ Poster Session

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Irina Nicoleta Ciobanescu Husanu, Drexel University (Tech.); Yalcin Ertekin, Drexel University (Tech.); Radian G. Belu, Drexel University (Tech.)

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Tagged Divisions

Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

Paper ID #10330Development of Agent-based Tutor & Simulator System and Assessment ofInstructional Modules Implemented in areas of Quality Control, Metrologyand PrototypingDr. Irina Nicoleta Ciobanescu Husanu, Drexel University (Tech.) Dr. Ciobanescu –Husanu received her PhD degree in mechanical engineering from Drexel University in 2005 and also hold a MS degree in aeronautical engineering from Polytechnic University of Bucharest. Her dissertation was on numerical investigation of fuel droplet interactions at near zero Reynolds numbers. Other research projects involved computational evaluation of Icing Scaling Methods

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Shirley Fleischmann

of tools, machines, and components), and cultural literacy(knowledge of how to communicate and how to properly place a design into a socialframework). Design-based instruction includes aspects of all 5 steps in design and alsoincludes the supporting types of literacy for those steps. A planning matrix that enablesthe instructor to plan the mix and balance of design steps and types of literacy ispresented. This approach can also be used to clearly document how ABET 2000 criteriaare met in a given project or course presentation. Specific projects used by the author arepresented to illustrate the planning matrix and also the ABET 2000 documentation.IntroductionImagine having a major design project that is so popular that students enter

Conference Session

New Concepts for Alternative and Renewable Energy Courses

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Craig J. Hoff, Kettering University; Jennifer Aurandt, Kettering University; Matthew R. O'Toole, Kettering University; Gregory W. Davis, Kettering University; Steven Nartker, Kettering University

Tagged Divisions

Energy Conversion and Conservation

23.10.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013 Motivating Student Learning Using Biofuel-based Activities AbstractStudent learning is greatly enhanced when students are intrinsically motivated by the subjectmatter. For many students the topic of biofuels appeals to their intrinsic desire “to make adifference” with respect to the environment. At Kettering University an interdisciplinary groupof engineers and scientists have found success in motivating students by introducing biofueltopics into the classroom and by offering undergraduate research and project experiences.Through these experiences students are learning both the fundamentals of their disciplines anddeveloping an understanding of the

Conference Session

High School Students Thinking and Performance

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tamecia R. Jones, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Monica E. Cardella, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Senay Purzer, Purdue University, West Lafayette

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

knowledge and conceptual knowledge can be challenging. Ideally,teachers would be able to trace thinking through the design rationale as the design proceeds, notjust retrospectively or from static project artifacts. They would also be able to use technology tosupplement teaching documentation and communication. The use of technology and culturaltechnology methods of communication has potential to impact assessment in K-12 engineeringeducation. Seventy-five percent of teens have cell phones2 and over 50% of teenagers 17 andyounger have access to the Internet outside of school and send email or text messages at leastonce a week. Twitter and other text-messaging tools help to motivate and encourage students todo more writing and encourage interactions

Conference Session

Electrical and Computer Poster Session

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David H. Hoe, University of Texas, Tyler

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

FPGAsAbstractState-of-the-art Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) can now implement designs withmillions of logic gates at speeds and power dissipation that rival custom integrated circuitdesigns for many applications, but at a fraction of the development cost. This paper will discussrecent experiences on working with undergraduate researchers in the area of FPGA design at theUniversity of Texas at Tyler. Criteria for the selection of appropriate research projects will begiven. Issues such as methods for supervision, motivation, and funding will also be discussed.Assessment of using undergraduate student researchers in the area of FPGA design are carriedout through faculty observations, generation of conference paper submissions and posterpresentations

Conference Session

Integration of Research and Education in ECE

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tali Moreshet, Swarthmore College; Uzi Vishkin, University of Maryland, College Park; Fuat Keceli, Intel Corporation

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

underrepresented groups of undergraduate engineering studentsto pursue an engineering career path, academic or otherwise.In this paper, we describe a pilot of an on-going, multiple-year research project, carried out byundergraduate female students incorporating research and education in computer science andengineering (CS&E). Many-core processors are becoming increasingly popular ingeneral-purpose computing. While most researchers agree that this requires introduction ofparallelism to mainstream CS&E practice, and hence education, parallel programming difficultiesremain obstacles that are yet to be overcome. For concreteness, the research project involves acertain many-core framework, called eXplicit Multi-Threading (XMT). The XMT

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Nicole DeJong; Ken Van Treuren; Don Farris; Cindy Fry

, and data collection and analysis. The students ultimately develop their confidencein problem solving and design skills using a balsa wood bridge design project. The skills, tools,and techniques developed during the semester in class and in laboratories are applied to thedesign and construction of the bridge. Students, operating in teams of three to five, also learn towork with their peers. The teams are given a Request for Proposals (RFP) and allowed toexercise creativity within the scope of the RFP. Students progress through the design process(concept, preliminary, and final phases) using both written and oral communication. The finalgrade of the design process is based on their prototype and on written and oral presentations. Atthe