Conference Session

Biomedical Division Poster Session

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jeffrey Stock Garanich Ph.D., The City College of New York; Lola A. Brown, The City College of New York

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Biomedical

spent six years with Boston Scientific Corporation. During this time, he progressed from a doctoral entry-level position to manage the day-to-day activities of five direct reports along with the operation of a corporate cell biology research laboratory staffed with ten scientists. He also worked with senior management to propose and develop a cross-Divisional collaboration network to improve communication and eliminate redundancies within the Company’s billion-dollar research and develop- ment (R&D) organization and drive the completion of cross-disciplinary medical device R&D projects critical to products’ commercialization. Prior to Boston Scientific, Garanich served as both Associate and Analyst with The

Conference Session

Women in Engineering Division Technical Session 5

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alandra Kahl, Pennsylvania State University, Greater Allegheny

Tagged Topics

Diversity

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Women in Engineering

Allegheny). Student participation in the group was entirelyvoluntary. Our student pool is primarily first year, first generation college students. As it is asmall campus, the total number of students involved in the project is not large (~20), andstudents are primarily freshman and sophomore level.Each meeting, participants were given a discussion prompt which related to a current topic inengineering. Some were specific to the female experience in engineering, such as how toapproach a superior with a problem, while others were more broad, such as how to give aneffective presentation. Topics were determined from a wide variety of sources, such as theSociety of Women Engineers, American Association of University Women, and Association forWomen in

Conference Session

ME Demonstrations and Laboratories

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Thomas A. Feldhausen, Kansas State University; Bruce R. Babin, Kansas State University, Department of Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering; Emily Dringenberg, Kansas State University

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Mechanical Engineering

each of these issues, literature wasreviewed to develop a curriculum-wide solution.Course integration has been shown to promote student engagement2. Project based scenarios areoften used to connect course concepts that are individually important for the students tounderstand. Previous works demonstrating this include studies of vertical integration frameworkfor capstone design projects by Hardin and Sullivan4, an investigation of the importance ofintegration of engineering curricula by Froyd and Ohland2, and the use of a spiral learningcurriculum in the first two years of mechanical engineering by Roemer and Bamberg5. Researchof hands on learning has been shown to increase student retention6. Diverse courses such asmechanical design and

Conference Session

A Technology Potpourri I

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Suranjan Panigrahi, Purdue University-Main Campus, West Lafayette (College of Engineering)

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Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

two examinations (one mid-term and onefinal), the class projects were also important aspects of the class. Table 2describes the grading criteria of the course.In the image acquisition segment (described above), the key thrust was to teachstudents on how to identify the needs of a real world application and then use thatinformation to design and integrate a complete computer vision system for thegiven application. The relevant fundamental and applied aspects of optics,illumination, cameras, lenses, communication, and storage were covered in theclass. Associated cost and safety issues in the design and development of thecomputer vision system were also taught in the course.In a typical computer vision system, the image acquisition system

Conference Session

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering Division: Sustainability and Interdisciplinary Practices in K-12 Engineering Education Curriculum

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Diana Lynne Ibarra, ISF Academy

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Pre-College Engineering Education Division

opportunities for the students to design and engineer possible solutions.The faculty works closely with classroom teachers (K-12) to ensure that the above mentioned projects are incorporated intothe curriculum throughout the school. Interdisciplinary units (IDU) of study between the STEM subjects are being developedthat encourage faculty and students to work across subject areas. Projects include Personal Projects, Extended Essays,bilingual roof-top farming for primary school students, and opportunities for students to work with outside researchers.There are also specific enrichment courses taught: green chemistry, earth systems, sustainability in a changing world, andnatural water systems.IntroductionThe environmental challenges facing Hong Kong will

Conference Session

International Division Technical Session 8

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Scott I. Segalewitz, University of Dayton

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

International

American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 Developing Industry Partnerships for Student Engagement in ChinaAbstractThe University of Dayton (UD) opened a campus in Suzhou, China in August 2012. One of theobjectives of the University of Dayton China Institute (UDCI) is to develop partnerships withindustry that will both benefit the companies and provide rich educational experiences forstudents studying in China.Partnerships between UDCI and companies in China are multifaceted, and varied among thecompanies. The standard Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) essentially says that bothUDCI and the partner company will endeavor to form collaborations for such items as studentrecruiting, research, innovation center projects, continuing education

Conference Session

K-12 & Pre- College Engineering Division Poster Session

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Danial J. Neebel PE, Loras College

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

focused on the theory and practices of Interdisciplinary Topicsdelivering meaningful learning opportunities in  Action Research Project Part I and IISTEM and related disciplines with the  How Students Learnunderstanding that integrated STEM allows  Assessment for Teaching/Learning instudents the skills and perspectives necessary to STEMdeal with the problems of the world in which we  Teachers as Researchers: Communication of Action Research findingslive. The degree program is for teachers in theelementary grades through high school and Figure 1: Ordered list of courses in theinformal educators. The

Conference Session

Engineering Physics & Physics Division Technical Session 4

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Franz J. Rueckert, Wentworth Institute of Technology

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Engineering Physics & Physics

of general physical principles.In the past, student engagement has suffered as students struggled to relate class topics to thedesign fields. Borrowing from successful aspects of engineering education, I have recentlyredesigned this course to better complement the practical and applied nature of these disciplines.Rather than traditional problem solving and calculations, students learn through analysis ofcomplex systems. In lieu of homework and exams, the focus of the class has been shifted togroup projects and case studies which demonstrate the application of important topics. As acenterpiece of the course, students are tasked with the construction and presentation of RubeGoldberg chain-reaction machines. This provides a structure by which

Conference Session

Architectural Division Technical Session

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Janet Fick, Ball State University; James W. Jones, Ball State University

Tagged Divisions

Architectural Engineering

Paper ID #22385LEED R LabTM : Which Compliance Path is Best for Your University?Mrs. Janet Fick, Ball State University Janet Fick is an Instructor in the Construction Management program in Ball State University’s College of Architecture and Planning. She has taught in the areas of sustainability, immersive projects, Auto- CAD/Revit and construction management for fifteen years. She is a Registered Architect and LEED AP with more than twenty years professional experience in the architecture, interior design and construction management fields.Dr. James W. Jones, Ball State University Dr. James W. Jones is the Chair of the

Conference Session

Design and the Capstone Experience

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

R. Alan Cheville, Bucknell University; Michael S. Thompson, Bucknell University

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

interested in engineering design education, engineering education policy, and the philosophy of engineering education.Prof. Michael S. Thompson, Bucknell University Prof. Thompson is an associate professor in the department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Bucknell University, in Lewisburg, PA. While his teaching responsibilities typically include digital design, computer-related electives, and senior design, his focus in the classroom is to ignite passion in his students for engineering and design through his own enthusiasm, open-ended projects, and connecting engineering to the world around them. His research tends to focus on the application of mobile computing to a variety of non-technical problems. He holds

Conference Session

Best In DEED

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Robert T. Bailey P.E., Loyola University Maryland; Billy Friebele, Loyola University Maryland

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Design in Engineering Education

asked to design and fabricate an artistic piece comprised of manually-formed and 3-D-printed elements. This final project incorporated both artistic objectives andengineering constraints and reinforced the similarities and differences between the artistic andengineering design processes. As the course unfolded, and again at the end, students were askedto evaluate the extent to which the course goals and learning outcomes were satisfied and toprovide suggestions for improving the course the next time it is taught. This paper describes thegoals, outcomes, structure, and assignments associated with the course, as well as the challenges,evaluation results, and lessons learned. Although several areas for improvement were identified,both the

Conference Session

Technical Issues in Architectural Engineering I

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Phillips, Oklahoma State University

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Architectural

Society for Engineering Education, 2006 “Assessing the Comprehensive Design Studio Course through Alternate Methods”AbstractCourse assessment typically consists of the review of a course by the teaching faculty memberbased on student grades from the course. This process, without additional methods, can lead to afalse sense of success in a course, and it becomes necessary to find alternate methods for furtherassessment.For the comprehensive design studio course, alternate methods of assessment have beenemployed. This course is a semester long architectural and engineering design studio where allphases of an architectural design project are covered, from schematic design through designdocumentation. In

Conference Session

Integrating Research Into Undergraduate ECE Education

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kathleen Hayden, California State Polytechnic University-Pomona; Yi Cheng, California State Polytechnic University-Pomona; Zekeriya Aliyazicioglu, California State Polytechnic University-Pomona; Tim Lin, California State Polytechnic University-Pomona

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Electrical and Computer

cutting-edgeNASA-related research into the undergraduate curriculum. Cal Poly Pomona chose toincorporate the Jet Propulsion Laboratories (JPL) robotic technology research into theundergraduate curricula of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, theEngineering Technology Department, Mechanical Engineering Department, and the ComputerScience Department. We proposed to conduct an interdisciplinary project, "Deep SpaceExploration using Smart Robotic Rovers", and develop an autonomous robotic rover.During the last three years, students and faculty participating in this program have developed arobotic rover that has successfully accomplished the initial goals of the project: (1) semi-autonomous navigation systems for remote robots, (2

Conference Session

Abroad Educational Opportunities in Engineering

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

William Smith; Angela Quick

to Georgia Tech's French campus (Georgia Tech Lorraine) is the Frenchhigh school, the Lycée de la Communication. In early 2002 and with the support of the GeorgiaTech’s Atlanta and French administrations, the Lycée de la Communication (in Metz, France)and Rockdale Magnet School for Science and Technology (25 miles from Georgia Tech’sAtlanta campus in Conyers, Georgia USA) agreed to an experiment in which French and USstudents are paired to perform joint research projects. In autumn 2002, ten US students visitedFrance to meet with their French research partners. In April 2003, French students willreciprocate and visit Georgia. Each visiting group resides in local homes and participates in theacademic and home life of their host families. The

Conference Session

Administering First-Year Programs

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rick Williams, East Carolina University; William Howard, East Carolina University

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First-Year Programs

AC 2010-1457: ASSESSMENT-DRIVEN EVOLUTION OF A FIRST-YEARPROGRAMRick Williams, East Carolina UniversityWilliam Howard, East Carolina University Page 15.210.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 Assessment Driven Evolution of a First year ProgramAbstractThe general engineering program at East Carolina University (ECU) was established in 2004. Inthe fall of 2007, a major curriculum change was initiated that introduced three new courses intothe first year. These courses are Engineering Graphics, Introduction to Engineering, andComputer Applications in Engineering. Each of these courses contains projects or assignmentsthat directly assess the achievement of

Conference Session

Capstone and Senior Design in Engineering Technology: Part II

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Marshall, University of Southern Maine

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Engineering Technology

Helps Engineering Technologists Hit the Job Market!IntroductionThe purpose of this paper is to provide insight into the “laboratory/design based problemsolving learning environment” that has been developed with financial and technicalassistance from local industries. The discussion will also identify how the “need” for thistype of project based curriculum became obvious. Four prerequisite courses are brieflydescribed before focusing on the project based capstone course. These four coursesprovide the students with the technical skill sets needed to succeed in the senior levelcapstone course. Accomplishments and outcomes from the student perspective, theUniversity perspective, and the industry perspective will also be shared.Our advancing world

Conference Session

Industry Collaboration in Construction Education

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lisa M. Holliday, University of Oklahoma; Matthew Reyes, University of Oklahoma; Kenneth F. Robson, University of Oklahoma

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Construction

inconstruction management faculty and has sponsored summer internships to increase facultyindustry experience. The internship program is structured by a three party agreement betweenAGC, the sponsoring university, and a local contractor. Each of the three parties pays a third ofthe faculty intern’s regular monthly salary. Thus, each entity has a vested interest in the facultyintern’s success in the program and its benefits to education.The University of Oklahoma took this opportunity to partner with a local general contractor toincrease faculty construction experience and to train the faculty member in the use of RevitStructure. The faculty intern joined the contractor’s pre-construction team and developed theRevit model for an upcoming project. The

Conference Session

Energy Conservation and Conversions for Green Buildings

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jimmy Antoine Chahine; Minh Nguyen Ha, Forum Energy Technology; Vong Hem, Lectrus Corporation - Applications Engineer; Vassilios Tzouanas, University of Houston, Downtown

Tagged Divisions

Energy Conversion and Conservation

, the design of a photovoltaic system is presented for a small model house along with itsassociated instrumentation, real time data acquisition and automation using NI® LabVIEW. Thestudy clearly shows that energy requirements can be met using renewable energy sources andthat the goal of a zero energy house is attainable in many locations.This work was performed in partial fulfillment of the requirements of the Senior CapstoneProject course in controls and instrumentation of the Engineering Technology department at theUniversity of Houston - Downtown and then was continued as research project as part ofcontinuing education. Student experiences are summarized and the need for teamwork andeffective project management methods is emphasized.I

Conference Session

BME Introductory Courses

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Samantha Richerson; Daniel Cavanagh

for the final project thatintegrated concepts from these three areas.The final project description (as given to the students) is provided below to further provide thereader with insight in to goals of the course. The overall goal of this project is for each group to proceed through the process of designing and making experimental measurements within a fluid flow system. After constructing the recirculating system used in prior experimental protocols, each group will design their own additional modifications which will individualize each group’s project. The objective of modifying the experiments is to create a setup with will permit your group to quantify the effect of the changes to the system. Each group will be monitoring

Conference Session

Advances in Civil Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Justine Stiles; Ashly Middelberg; Farhad Reza; Subhi Bazlamit

who choose to do so. Students areencouraged to develop their full intellectual potential within a continuing community ofscholarly excellence that offers exciting and enhanced varieties of academic experiences. Honorsprogram experiences are designed to nurture students' curiosity, their written and oralcommunication skills and their leadership capabilities as well as to provide an opportunity forstudents to be more actively involved in their education.Each honors student is required to complete a series of honors seminars, "contract" courses and afinal honors project. The project is a major research, performance or creative endeavor guided bya full-time faculty member. Two existing courses at the junior-level or higher must be completedwith

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Lakshmi Munukutla, Arizona State University

and Depar tment of Electr onics and Computer Engineer ing TechnologyAbstr actThe Microelectronics Laboratory Curriculum development, for both associate and bachelordegrees, is a project between Arizona State University East (ASU East), three communitycolleges in the Maricopa Community College District, and Maricopa AdvancedTechnology Education Center (MATEC) and is funded by the National ScienceFoundation. This paper describes a model curriculum development strategy to create user-friendly material for students and the instructor. The development team consists of facultyfrom community colleges, ASU East and industry subject matter experts (SMEs). Tomaximize the efficiency of the development team an Online Authoring Tool is

Conference Session

Innovative Teaching/Learning Strategies

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Harry Franz

from two-year collegesthat have differing academics. The software is used to both create standalone projects, and todesign and interact with course hardware projects.Innovative laboratory exercises to acquaint the safety and fire students with LabVIEW areused in the “Fire Alarm” course. The exercises both familiarize the students with the use ofLabVIEW and the subject area of alarm systems.The alarm systems software exercises incorporate the detection of fire signatures that includesmoke, heat, and other changes in ambient conditions. The exercises also include thelogic to activate alarms and fire suppression. Use of both digital logic and analog functionsand systems are included in the exercises.The exercises for the alarm systems laboratory

Conference Session

The Fundamentals of Fun

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Joseph Hanus; Stephen Ressler

transfer of learning in an introductory course inStatics and Dynamics at the U.S. Military Academy. The authors developed a rather unorthodoxcourse project that was explicitly designed to provide students with an opportunity to practice theapplication of newly learned concepts in an unfamiliar context.The Statics and Dynamics course is taken by second-semester sophomores and first-semesterjuniors at the Academy. The student population includes approximately equal numbers ofengineering majors and non-engineering majors (to include many humanities and social sciencesmajors). Thus the course must address a broad range of student capabilities and motivations. Inpractically all cases, students are taking this course as their first engineering course

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Chih-Ping Yeh; Mulchand Rathod

Session 3547 Enhanced Electric Machines and Power Course Chih-Ping Yeh, Mulchand S. Rathod Wayne State UniversityAbstractThis paper presents our experiences in developing a NSF-funded CCLI project for enhancing the‘Electric Machines and Power’ course. The objective of this project is to provide a new structure tothe existing course to enhance student learning of electric machines. The project involves (1) improvingthe long existing rotating machine laboratory by adding modern power electronic drives and devisingreal time data acquisition for measurement and analysis

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard D. Wilk; George H. Williams

assignments[Oakes, 1999], engineering economic case studies, and studio exercises that cover designmethodology and that prepare students for the culminating design project and competition.Course Organization and AdministrationThe First-Year Design course is taken by all majors in engineering (civil, computer systems,electrical, mechanical, and undecided), and majors in computer science. The course schedule isa two-hour classroom meeting and a three-hour studio/laboratory meeting each week. Thesetime periods are used for lecture, discussion, studio/laboratory time as appropriate for the coursemodulesEach offering of the First-Year Design course has involved a multidisciplinary team of faculty[acknowledged at the end of the paper] who administer, teach

Conference Session

Improving the Pedagogy of Laboratory Courses

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Marshall, University of Southern Maine; William Marshall, Alief Independent School District

Tagged Divisions

Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

industries. The discussion will also identify how the “need” for thistype of project based curriculum became obvious. Four prerequisite courses are brieflydescribed before focusing on the project based capstone course. These four coursesprovide the students with the technical skill sets needed to succeed in the senior levelcapstone course. Accomplishments and outcomes from the student perspective, theUniversity perspective, and the industry perspective will also be shared.Our advancing world of computer integration, process control, industrial automation, andtelecommunications requires technical problem solvers and knowledgeable decisionmakers. “The activities of problem solving and decision making are closelyintertwined”,1 and both skills can

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Marian S. Stachowicz; Christopher R Carroll

Duluth (UMD) in whichstudents implemented microcontroller applications using the principles of Fuzzy Logic as Page 5.312.1contained in the features of the MC68HC12 microcontroller. This workshop providedstudents with a unique opportunity to merge their academic understanding of FuzzyLogic techniques with their ability to design and implement microcontroller systems.The paper describes the MC68HC12 microcontroller features that support Fuzzy Logic,introduces Fuzzy Logic and intelligent control, and details student projects suggested inthis design workshop. The goals of these studies are: to illustrate Fuzzy Logic theory, to apply Fuzzy Logic

Collection

1997 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael B. Kelley; Joseph D. Myers; John H. Grubbs

, we need to realize that theproblem was born on a two-way street. Until now, collectively we have done very littleto improve the situation. This paper describes continuing efforts1 to effect a culturalchange in the interaction between the mathematics and engineering communities.Through the use of ‘ILAPs’ - Interdisciplinary Lively Application Projects - this initiativefocuses on insuring the mathematics education serves as a ‘pump’ for student success inengineering, as opposed to being a filter. An environmental engineering example of the‘ILAP’ is presented using concepts in hydrogeology. In solving problems related togroundwater flow in their junior year elective mathematics course, cadets from the UnitedStates Military Academy who are

Collection

1997 Annual Conference

Authors

Willie E. (Skip) Rochefort; William F. Reiter; Milo D. Koretsky

the electronic classroom, where very fast and cheap computers wouldmake the virtual chemical engineering laboratory a possibility. All of these concepts areaddressed with the curriculum development project described in this paper.There are a number of excellent examples where programs have been developed to address achange in undergraduate engineering education to emphasize the practical experience andinterdisciplinary teamwork concepts suggested by industry (2 - 7). The unique aspects of thecurrent project are that the curriculum and laboratory development focus on two distinctphilosophies: Page 2.75.1 • Providing the students an interdisciplinary

Collection

1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Kevin Schmaltz; Morrie Walworth; Ajay Mahajan; David McDonald

the senior design project experience at LakeSuperior State University. The School of Engineering and Technology offers a verystrong senior design experience that involves inter-disciplinary student teams.[3,4]During the 1997-98 school year, a senior design team made significant progress on thelaboratory by identifying the six unique lab stations, purchasing or building the systems,and providing development work on each. During the 1998-99 school year, a secondsenior design team is completing the development work in the laboratory, focusing on thegeneral-purpose stations and implementation of the lab exercises for the specializedstations. The remainder of this paper will expand upon the integrated concept, outline theintegrated set-ups, and