Conference Session

First-Year Issues in ECE Education

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Girma Tewolde, Kettering University

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Electrical and Computer

this work is its focus on a number of hands-on practical activities thatare created for the students to perform.For the success of such introductory courses, it is essential to identify important topics that needto be covered and develop laboratory kits that offer opportunities for creativity and exploration ina meaningful manner, at manageable complexities and affordable costs. Small mobile robotshave been a common choice for many universities for teaching their freshmen introduction toECE courses3-6. Robots have been proven to be effective and engaging tool to excite the curiosityof students. Over the years several schools, including our university, have used the LEGOMINDSTORMS NXT7 or similar kits for building robots, and learning about

Conference Session

Project-Based Education in Energy Conversion

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Fanourios Chalkiadakis, California State Polytechnic University-Pomona

Tagged Divisions

Energy Conversion and Conservation

workforce. Figure 6. Transmission line simulation diagram and results.It is worth mentioning that though the author uses the education-priced version of the softwarefor class demonstrations and research, the students use the free version (limited to fifteen nodes)available in our laboratories and their personal computers. While the number of nodes may seemsmall, it is adequate for all the examples presented herein and with some smart thinking duringthe preliminary design it allows the number of nodes to stay within the constraints of the freeversion of PSCAD.The author believes that modern teaching facilities supported with digital simulation tools andwell equipped laboratories, have a great impact in the development of

Conference Session

Real-World Applications

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Jerome Tapper; Walter Buchanan

to take the newly developed“Industrial Control Systems I” course. The focus of this course is to provide students with a closeapproximation to what they will encounter in real-life engineering environments includingdependencies on others and the responsibilities that are required in such positions. This industrialcontrol systems lecture-laboratory course attempts to emulate these real-life environmentalfunctions as close as possible.In an effort to realize this scenario, industry partners were consulted and ideas were brainstormedbetween this author and the industrial advisors. Once these ideas were solidified, a formalspecification was developed and used as a “final project” model for students taking this class.Upon completion, industry

Conference Session

NSF Grantees' Poster Session

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael G. Mauk, Drexel University; Richard Chiou, Drexel University; Vladimir Genis, Drexel University; M. Eric Carr, Drexel University; Danielle Tadros, Drexel University; Christopher Sikich, Sun Valley High School

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

TUESprogram. Microfluidics provides miniaturized fluidic networks for processing and analyzingliquids in the nanoliter to milliliter range. Microfluidics ‘lab on a chip” technology offers manyopportunities for teaching students CAD/CAM, rapid prototyping and microfabrication, fluidmechanics, heat and mass transfer, instrumentation and control, optics, sensors, robotics,automation, machine vision and image processing, and nanotechnology. The followingactivities, laboratory experiments and projects are described here: 1) the design, rapidprototyping, and characterization of microfluidic chips, 2) robotic manipulation and machinevision of ferrofluids in microfluidic channels, 3) the development a PID microcontrollerpolymerase chain reaction (PCR) system

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in BIO Engr.

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Zdzislaw Pawlowski; Krzysztof Zaremba; Roman Morawski

Biomedical Engineering program hasbeen subject to external evaluation because of the lack of the corresponding evaluation body inPoland. The National Accreditation Committee has been established only recently, and soon willundertake its evaluation duties.The Faculty of Electronics and Information Technology is the largest teaching and research centerat Warsaw University of Technology. Its educational and research activities cover almost thewhole spectrum of relevant areas of concentration: from nano- and microelectronics, throughoptoelectronics, instrumentation, measurement, control and robotics, to computer engineering,computer networks and telecommunications. Currently, it has more than 3 500 full-time students;they are served by more than 300

Conference Session

Educating Students for Professional Success

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ajit D. Kelkar, North Carolina A&T State University; James G. Ryan, Joint School of Nanoscience and Nanoengineering

Tagged Divisions

Graduate Studies, New Engineering Educators, Student

AC 2011-1023: INNOVATIVE GRADUATE PROGRAM IN NANOENGI-NEERINGAjit D. Kelkar, North Carolina A&T State University Dr. Ajit D. Kelkar is a Professor and Chairman of Nanoengineering department at Joint School of Nanoscience and Nanoengineering at North Carolina A&T State University. He also serves as an As- sociate Director for the Center for Advanced Materials and Smart Structures and is a Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at North Carolina A&T State University, Greensboro. For the past twenty five years he has been working in the area of performance evaluation and modeling of poly- meric composites and ceramic matrix composites. He has worked with several federal laboratories in the

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Shirley J. Dyke; Phillip Gould; Kevin Truman

provided software. In addition to theshake table, the laboratory package purchased includes a twostory test structure and three accelerometer to measure theexcitation and system responses. The package also includesa stand-alone function generator for off-site demonstrations.The complete package allows students to reproduce earth-quakes, observe structural behavior, measure structuralresponses, and utilize sensors and modern computer controlsystems. Further the system purchased facilitates off-sitedemonstrations and other outreach activities.Additionally, several institutions opted to purchase an activemass driver (AMD) for the structure. The AMD (shown atthe top of the structure in Figure 1) consists of a moving cartthat is driven horizontally at

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Bruno Ramond; Abir Z. Qamhiyah

Page 1Submitted to the International Division of ASEE for presentation at the 2000 ASEE Annual Conference Session 2660To that end, a collaborative mechanical engineering education experiment titled Computer-AidedDesign Across Universities (CADAU) has been initiated in the Fall term of 1999 between theME department at ISU and the MS department at UTC. The objective of the experiment is thedevelopment and assessment of an international collaborative infrastructure between the twodepartments at the undergraduate level. CADAU is introduced within the computer-AidedDesign (CAD) courses2 that Dr. Qamhiyah and Dr. Ramond are currently teaching at ISU andUTC respectively. At UTC Dr. Ramond has previously worked on a distributed and

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Electrical ET

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jay Porter; Benjamin Brannaka

Session 3247 Using Signal Express to Automate Analog Electronics Experiments B.D. Brannaka, J. R. Porter Engineering Technology and Industrial Distribution Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843Introduction It is well known that many undergraduate students, especially in engineering technologyprograms, learn best through hands-on experience. Thus, when teaching analog electronics, it iscritical to provide the students with a meaningful laboratory experience. While this soundsstraightforward, it is often difficult to

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Electrical ET

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Walter Banzhaf

Session 3247 Electrical Fundamentals - Make Them Come Alive for Students Walter Banzhaf, P.E. College of Engineering, Technology, and Architecture University of Hartford, West Hartford, CT 06117IntroductionMany laboratory experiments we ask students to perform in electrical fundamentals laboratoryclasses are unnecessarily unexciting. Such tasks as determining the current through R7 of aladder network with eight resistors (does a first-semester student really care about R7, or itscurrent?), or verifying Kirchhoff's Voltage Law in a circuit with only resistors

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Bradley Burchett

successful.References 1. Manual for Model 210/210a Rectilinear Control System, Educational Control Products, Bell Canyon, CA, 1999. http://www.ecpsystems.com 2. Burchett, B. T., “Parametric Time Domain System Identification of a Mass-Spring-Damper System”, submitted to 2005 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition. 3. Burchett, B. T., and Layton, R. A., “An Undergraduate System Identification Laboratory”, Proceedings of the 2005 American Control Conference, Portland, OR, June 8-10, 2005.Author BiographyBRADLEY T BURCHETT is an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering. He teaches courses on the topicsof dynamics, system dynamics, control, intelligent control, and computer applications. His research

Conference Session

Controls, Mechatronics

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephen Pennell; Peter Avitabile; John White

andMathematics) material fits into all of their engineering courses. Because they have no clear-cutreason to embrace these concepts, the students hit the “reset button” after each and every course.This often comes back to haunt the students in subsequent upper level classes which require afirm understanding of this material.A new multisemester interwoven dynamic systems project has been initiated to better integratethe material from differential equations, mathematical methods, laboratory measurements anddynamic systems across several semesters/courses so that the students can better understand therelationship of basic STEM material to an ongoing problem. This paper highlights the overallconcept underlying the new approach. A description of the project

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Charles Forsberg

Session # 2793 A Senior Capstone Project in Pump System Design Charles H. Forsberg Department of Engineering, Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY 11549AbstractHofstra University recently received a grant from the American Societ y of Heating,Refrigerating, and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE) for students to design and build apump system demonstration unit for the mechanical engineering laboratories. The grant wasawarded through ASHRAE’s Undergraduate Senior Project Grant Program. Senior mechanicalengineering students designed and built the pump system as their capstone design

Conference Session

Capstone Design

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Rabb; Ronald Welch

PDJ Components Battlebots Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science AIAA Aero Design, Build, Fly AOG SAE Aero Design, Build, Fly AOG IEEE MicroMouse AOG MAGIC - Autonomous Unmanned Ground AOG Vehicle Competition Baja - SAE Off Road Vehicle Competition AOGResearch projects give the students an excellent opportunity to further existing research at anArmy laboratory or assist a faculty member at USMA with research. Many of these projectsallow students to have access to data and computing facilities not

Conference Session

Computers in Education Poster Session

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Ward; Eugene Simmons; Michael Doran

Session 1520 Using Mobile Robots to Explore Intelligent Behaviors: The Obstacle Course Challenge Michael D. Ward, Michael V. Doran, W. Eugene Simmons University of South Alabama School of Computer and Information Sciences Mobile, Alabama 36688Abstract: A recently concluded NSF-ILI grant provided equipment to create hands-on laboratoriesfor CIS students. The goal of this laboratory environment was to provide a setting to reinforcecourse concepts. One of the target courses was the Artificial

Collection

1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Ruane

Session 3353 Racing to Understanding: Instrumentation Lab with Radio-Controlled Cars Michael Ruane Electrical & Computer Engineering, Boston UniversityAbstractFreshmen engineering students are being introduced to electronic measurement and instrumentcontrol using radio-controlled cars in a new Introduction to Engineering module. The seven-week module is conducted as a hands-on laboratory experience using HP VEE, a commercialsoftware package for instrument control and graphical programming. Engineering contentincludes basic descriptions of signals, simple

Collection

2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

Amanda Zielkowski; Melody Baglione; David Wootton

- ! !!! On Teaching Approach,” Submitted to ASEE 2014 Zone I Conference,27   . As seen in Fig. 2, the graph has an increasing slope in April 3-5, 2014, University of Bridgeport, Bridgeport, CT, USA. !this range, and therefore the average value of τ would be [2] M. Baglione, “Incorporating Practical Laboratory Experiments tolarger than the value of τ at 50% level. Theoretically, if Reinforce Dynamic Systems and Control Concepts,” Proc. of the 2009 ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition,Method 5 was repeated going from 100% level to a steady- Nov. 13-19, Lake

Conference Session

Environmental Division Technical Session 4

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jenny Patricia Quintana-Cifuentes, Purdue University; Paul Asunda, Purdue University; Senay Purzer, Purdue University-Main Campus, West Lafayette (College of Engineering); Alejandra J. Magana, Purdue University-Main Campus, West Lafayette (College of Engineering)

Tagged Divisions

Environmental Engineering

laboratory as a place for innovation in education for sustainability for all students,” Educ. Sci., vol. 5, pp. 238–254, 2015.[52] J. E. Dyment, A. Hill, and S. Emery, “Sustainability as a cross-curricular priority in the australian curriculum : A Tasmanian investigation,” Environ. Educ. Res., vol. 21, no. 8, pp. 1105–1126, 2015.[53] J. Schon, K. Eitel, J. Hougham, and D. Hendrickson, “Creating a research to classroom pipeline: Clossing the gap between science research and educators,” J. od Sustain. Educ., vol. 8, no. January, 2015.[54] M. Hacker, D. Crismond, D. Hecht, and M. Lomask, “Engineering for all: A middle school program to introduce students to engineering as a potential social good,” Technol. Eng. Teach

Conference Session

New Learning Paradigms I

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Waddah Akili, Iowa State University

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

experiences and opportunities. In other words, thereal challenge in college teaching today is not covering the material for the students, but ratheruncovering the material with the students 2.There are several strands of pedagogies of engagement under the umbrella of active learningmethods that have received attention by engineering educators world-wide 2, 3. Thesemethods/approaches are known to increase students’ active engagement in learning and alsopromote cognitive elaboration, enhance critical thinking, and contribute toward social andemotional development. For many faculty, there remain questions about what “active learning” isand how it differs from traditional engineering education, since the latter involves activitiesthrough homework

Conference Session

Pedagogy and Learning 1

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Waddah Akili, Iowa State University

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

retention of new knowledge and acquisition of desirable personal traits.Any such method that engages students in the learning process is labeled as: “active learning”method. In essence, active learning requires doing meaningful learning activities in groups underthe guidance of an informed and experienced teacher. As stated by Christensen et al (1), “To teachis to engage students in learning.” The main point is that engaging students in learning isprincipally the responsibility of the teacher, who becomes less an imparter of knowledge andmore a designer and a facilitator of learning experiences and opportunities. In other words, thereal challenge in college teaching today is not covering the material for the students, but ratheruncovering the

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Curriculum Innovation

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael Ciaraldi, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; David Cyganski, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Michael Gennert, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Michael Demetriou; Fred Looft; William Michalson, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Bradley Miller, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Eben Cobb, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Lance Schachterle, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Kenneth Stafford, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Yiming Rong, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Gretar Tryggvason, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; James Van de Ven, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

integration, electric and pneumatic actuators, power transmission, materials and static force analysis, controls and programmable embedded computer systems, system integration and robotic applications. Laboratory sessions consist of hands-on exercises and team projects where students design and build mobile robots. RBE 2001 UNIFIED ROBOTICS I First of a four-course sequence introducing foundational theory and practice of robotics engineering from the fields of computer science, electrical engineering and mechanical engineering. The focus of this course is the effective conversion of electrical power to mechanical power, and power transmission for purposes of locomotion, and of payload

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kevin Hulme, State University of New York, Buffalo; Edward Kasprzak, Milliken Research Associates; Kenneth English, State University of New York, Buffalo; Deborah Moore-Russo, State University of New York, Buffalo; Kemper Lewis, State University of New York, Buffalo

1 capture the responses that are most relevantto the gaming laboratory experience. Omitted items relate more to teaching methodologyemployed in the course. The questions were on a 5-point Likert scale with 1 representingstrongly disagree and 5 representing strongly agree. An ANOVA was run for each item, andstatistical significance between means, was found for all of the survey items. These responsesprovide evidence that students perceived the RVD 2 course (and RVD 1 course), including thelaboratory gaming component, to be of significant value in their engineering education. Table 1. RVD Ratings Survey Results RVD 1 & RVD 2 Other

Conference Session

Issues in Computer Education

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Timothy Bower, Kansas State University-Salina

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education

Page 11.1394.2read and modify, if needed, any exported global variables and data structures. The ability toread the kernel’s global data makes them ideal for student projects that examine global datastructures to more closely observe the behavior of the operating system. These projects typicallyonly read the data, so the stability of the system is maintained.With the introduction of the bachelor degree in Computer Systems Technology, Kansas StateUniversity at Salina offered an operating systems class for the first time in the fall 2004semester. From the initial planning of the class, the laboratory programming projects were aprimary concern. It was felt that programming projects using real operating systems would beperceived as more relevant

Conference Session

Computers in Education Poster Session

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Hamed Farahani Manesh, Eastern Mediterranean University; Dirk Schaefer, Georgia Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education

components and trace the reaction ofholonic control for finding delivery routes, repairing workstations and dynamically updating theproduction schedules.Implementation of a ‘Virtual Reality-Based Holonic Manufacturing System (VR-HMS)’ inAgile Manufacturing Laboratory EducationThe VR-HMS module has been designed and developed for use as a visual demonstration andlaboratory support tool for teaching various multidisciplinary topics related to agilemanufacturing, including holonic manufacturing systems. The module has been used forteaching engineering students the theory and the operating principles of HMS and MAS throughinteractive demonstrations and the standalone experiments in the virtual environment.The VR-HMS provides several distinguished

Conference Session

Materials and Manufacturing Processes

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Mark Palmer

notes and exercises, laboratory experiences (joining, physical testing, and metalography),and assignments.This progress report will focus on all aspects of this newly developed course including pedagogy,course content, and course structure. Results of course assessments and continuous improvementwill also be presented.Motivation and Need for CourseBefore introducing the details of the course, it is felt that one needs to better understand themotivation for creating a new upper level course. In this section of the paper the motivation forchanging undergraduate engineering will be reviewed. This section concludes by demonstratingthat there is currently a need to change the upper level courses. “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for

Conference Session

Three P's in Introduction to Engineering

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Heidi Diefes-Dux; Robert Montgomery

Session 3453 Laptops in the Lecture to Promote Active Learning Robert E. Montgomery, Heidi A. Diefes-Dux Department of Freshman Engineering, Purdue UniversityAbstractUse of the traditional lecture format to teach software tool syntax and procedures is not engaging.Students find it difficult to take effective lecture notes and may not schedule time to practice withmaterials demonstrated by the instructor until several days after the lecture. The addition ofactive learning exercises to the lecture, enabled through use of a mobile LAN of wireless-equipped laptop computers, should improve the

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

P. David Fisher; Diane Rover

faculty members resided in different buildings, hindering interactions and cooperation.2. The CpE program was patched together using existing CpS- and EE-coded courses and had no distinctive qualities.3. Through the internal self study, the following areas were identified as having deficiencies warranting academic-program revisions: a. Use of high-level languages in the curriculum; b. Formal integration of hardware-software issues; c. Use of contemporary engineering design tools; and d. Major engineering design experience.4. The two electrical-engineering laboratories that serviced the CpE program were outdated.5. Only weak interactions existed between the employers of CpE graduates and the CpE faculty.6. Only weak

Collection

1997 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas R Phillips

rationale to support a marketing concept and strategy for theRAMP program? I soon found similarities among the course descriptions and curriculum charts.The topics listed in the standard engineering courses were much like ours - not surprising with theuse of standard textbooks and software.Not so apparent is an emphasis on applied engineering skills that increases as you go from Canada toMexico. In fact, Mexican universities feel that one of their strengths is a comparatively highpercentage of faculty members who teach and work in industry. This is viewed as a positive featurein the preparation of graduates for jobs in Mexico’s “productive sector.” While this approach favorsindustry, it slows faculty development in Mexican universities. Even some

Conference Session

Perspectives and Evaluation of Engineering Design Education

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Radian G. Belu, Southern University and A&M College; Lucian Ionel Cioca, Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu; Fred Lacy, Southern University and A&M College

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

engineering graduates relies not only ontraditional subject material, but increasingly on the development of skills for utilizing thisknowledge in a creative and innovative manner. A capstone design course requires senior-levelstudents to apply knowledge gained from previous engineering science, design and laboratorycoursework in accomplishing an extended design task. It is the hope of any engineeringinstructor that the capstone design sequence facilitates the student’s transition from an academicto an industrial environment. The capstone design course sequence also provides an opportunityto teach and allow students to apply some important topics not covered in traditional engineeringscience or laboratory courses, such as ethics, teaming, technical

Conference Session

NSF Grantees' Poster Session

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Susan L. Burkett, University of Alabama; David F. Bahr, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Shelley N Pressley, Washington State University; Kimberly R Schneider, University of Central Florida; John C Lusth, University of Alabama

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

Science Foundation (NSF) and the Army Research Laboratory (ARL). Her research interests are in the areas of semiconductor processing and advanced interconnect schemes. Dr. Burkett was a co-chair representing the IEEE Education Society for the 2011 Frontiers in Education (FIE) Conference. She is a senior member of IEEE, a member of the AVS: Science and Technology Society, and ASEE.Prof. David F. Bahr, Purdue University, West Lafayette Prof. David Bahr is currently head of Materials Engineering at Purdue University. Prior to his appoint- ment at Purdue, he served as the director of Mechanical and Materials Engineering at Washington State University and as the WSU director of Undergraduate Research from 2006 to 2010. He