Conference Session

Outstanding Contributions to ME

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Hakan Gurocak, Washington State University-Vancouver

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

AC 2007-150: MECHATRONICS COURSE WITH A TWO-TIERED PROJECTAPPROACHHakan Gurocak, Washington State University-Vancouver Hakan Gurocak is Director of School of Engineering and Computer Science and Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Washington State University Vancouver. His research interests are robotics, automation, fuzzy logic, technology assisted distance delivery of laboratory courses and haptic interfaces for virtual reality. Page 12.1052.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007 Mechatronics Course with a Two-tiered Project ApproachAbstract - In this paper, we present a

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics Division - Technical Session

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jodi Reeves, National University; Larysa Nadolny, Iowa State University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Ethics

- ble for failure analysis of thin film materials. She also managed collaborations with national laboratories, Air Force and Navy research groups, and universities. She invented new quality control tools and super- vised interns from local universities and community colleges as part of a $5.0 million technical workforce development initiative funded by New York State. She has published diverse articles on topics ranging from engineering education to high temperature superconductors and has spoken at many national and international conferences. Her doctorate in materials science and engineering are from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and she has four patents issued and one patent pending.Dr. Larysa Nadolny, Iowa

Conference Session

Delivery Methods in Mechanical Engineering Courses

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Raghu Echempati, Kettering University; Anca L. Sala, Baker College, Flint

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

, which effectively limits access to the class to senior students only. MechanicalEngineering core courses are taught in the evening starting after 5pm to allow full-timeworking students to attend classes at a convenient time. Evening classes meet one timeper week, with the four instructional hours associated with a 4-credit class being taught ina continuous block.The Mechatronics course, which includes lecture and experimental laboratories, wastaught in a hybrid format. Students and instructor met in-class for 60% of the course andonline for the remaining 40%, which allowed for more flexibility in students‟ schedules.The senior students taking the course had mature study habits and abilities, and they

Conference Session

NSF Grantees' Poster Session

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ying Tang, Rowan University; Sachin Shetty, Tennessee State University; Kauser Jahan, Rowan University; John P Henry, Sustainable Learning Systems; S. Keith Hargrove, Tennessee State University; Talbot Bielefeldt, International Society for Technology in Education

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Design.Dr. S. Keith Hargrove, Tennessee State University c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013 Paper ID #6357 Dr. S. Keith Hargrove currently serves as professor of Mechanical & Manufacturing Engineering and Dean of the College of Engineering at Tennessee State University (TSU). He received his B.S. in Me- chanical Engineering from TSU, his M.S. from the Missouri University of Science & Technology in Rolla, MO., and his Ph.D. from the University of Iowa. He has worked for General Electric, Battelle Pacific Northwest Laboratories, NIST, Oak Ridge Laboratories, and General Motors. Dr

Conference Session

Design in Engineering Education (DEED) Engineering Poster Session

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gerald Sullivan, Virginia Military Institute; Jon-michael Hardin P.E., Virginia Military Institute

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

-basedprojects now constitute about 40% of the current course curriculum, with the remainder of thelabs/projects consisting of both standard “follow the procedure and report a result” style oflaboratory and skills development labs, such as basic welding and machining. It should be notedthat the „design challenge‟ hovercraft project has been implemented without additional staff orspace resources.The purpose of this paper is to examine the effects of design-based projects referred to as „designchallenges‟, on the retention of students in the Mechanical Engineering program, as well as toexplore the preferences of engineering students towards design-based projects versusconventional laboratories. In the first section of the paper, the original lab sequence

Conference Session

Integrating Engineering & Liberal Education

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bill D. Bailey, Southern Polytechnic State University

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

and Mold Making program, leadingto an Associate of Applied Science degree.Identifying linkage to outcomes such as these is fairly common at the program and course level.In this study, the relevant skills are integrated at the assignment level as well. In courses whereassignments did not support these skills, assignments were added or modified as appropriate.For example: communication, critical thinking, and teamwork were integrated into laboratory(machining) sections through the use of individual and team based projects. These projectsrequired written plans, written evaluations at the conclusion, a reflective paper to cementlearning, and a presentation to the class and others.This paper will provide a detailed description of how this

Conference Session

Ocean and Marine Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert W. Whalin, Jackson State University; Thomas William Richardson, Coastal Hazards Center of Excellence; Himangshu Shekhar Das, Jackson State University; Donald L Hendon

Tagged Divisions

Ocean and Marine

Engineering Building. He is Director Emeritus of the Engineer Research and Development Center. Dr. Whalin completed 36 years of exemplary civilian service in the Department of Army including 20 years in the Senior Executive Service as Director, Army Research Laboratory (ARL); Director, USACE* Waterways Experiment Station; and Technical Di- rector, USACE Coastal Engineering Research Center. The ARL program exceeded $1,100,000,000 and had a 2,200 person workforce at six primary locations throughout the United States plus small groups in Japan and the United Kingdom. Dr. Whalin was the recipient of the Distinguished Presidential Rank Award, two Meritorious Presidential Rank Awards, Exceptional Civilian Service Award, three

Conference Session

NSF Grantees' Poster Session

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Weizhao Zhao, University of Miami; Ann G Bessell PhD; Nurgun Erdol, Florida Atlantic University; Anthony J McGoron, Florida International University; William T. Rhodes, Florida Atlantic University

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Paper ID #6716Collaborative Development of Internet-Accessible, Interactive, Medical Imag-ing Teaching Courseware and Application to Undergraduate CurriculaDr. Weizhao Zhao, University of Miami Dr. Weizhao Zhao’s fields of study include medical imaging and image processing, image-guided surgical intervention, medical imaging simulation for BME training. At the University of Miami, Dr. Zhao has been the director of the Bioimaging Laboratory; the co-director of the Medical Physics Graduate Program; and an associate professor of Biomedical Engineering, Neurology and Radiology.Ann G Bessell PhDDr. Nurgun Erdol, Florida Atlantic

Conference Session

Socio-cultural Dimensions of Community Engagement

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sandra Loree Dika, University of North Carolina, Charlotte; Brett Tempest, University of North Carolina, Charlotte; Miguel A. Pando, University of North Carolina, Charlotte

Tagged Divisions

Community Engagement Division

attitudes and perceived learningopportunities (research question 3).Description of Study Abroad Experience The study abroad course was developed in conjunction with the institution’s Engineerswithout Borders chapter. Students participating in the experience completed a total of four credithours – three hours for an interdisciplinary course entitled Engineering for DevelopmentWorkers, and one hour for a structural or geotechnical engineering laboratory course. Prior to thetrip, participants attended a seminar series which included four half-day sessions led by subject-matter experts from other academic departments, including Development Patterns in LatinAmerica, The Ethics of Assistance, Technical Challenges in Development, and Social

Conference Session

Robotics, Mechatronics, and Control Systems - Multidisciplinary Perspectives

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Devdas Shetty, University of District of Columbia, DC; Arunkumar Chandrashekarappa Giriyapur, B.V.Bhoomaraddi College of Engineering & Technology

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

. Because of the integrated multidisciplinaryapproach, the scope for innovation in product engineering is ever increasing. With rapidchanges in technology and more applications becoming real-time and embedded, teaching themechatronics course only through laboratories or course projects is not sufficient. The leapfrom the traditional sequential design approach to the mechatronics philosophy is very big.Added to this are the various definitions that have evolved and the various methodologiesdeveloped for the mechatronics system design. Mechatronics is at a stage of evolutionaryprocess of modern engineering design and involves systems thinking. “V-cycle” is aprescribed industrial process for mechatronics. It is a graphical construct used tocommunicate

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Design

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Josue Njock-Libii

design projects in advanced mechanics of materials; Atherton (1998) 1 discusses controls;Schilling & Hagen (2000) 34, sanitary engineering; Lightner, Carlson, Sullivan, Brandenmuehl &Reitsma (2000)17, the concept of a living laboratory in Colorado; and Westerberg &Subrahmanian (2000)43, product design.D. Senior year: Capstone Design courses: These courses are offered toward the end of theundergraduate career of students to allow them to integrate what they have learned. Typically,they solve a practical problem that is both substantial and relevant. Capstone design courses aretaught in a wide variety of approaches. Two sample references to capstone designs are: a casestudy in which senior designs were supervised and evaluated by

Conference Session

Engineering Technology Poster Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Paul Ranky

the modernconcurrent, object oriented approach to integrated product / process design.In terms of delivering our cases we follow the Virtual Product Demo concept, in that wevirtually take the learner with us to factories, R&D studios, exhibitions and professionallaboratories and give them interesting demos explained by real-world experts withchallenging problems to solve. In all cases we show them high quality, interactive videosand often 3D objects and panoramas so that they can interrogate them and evenparticipate in digital, virtual factory tours. (Note, although this approach does NOTreplace real, working laboratories for the class, it nevertheless takes the learners into high-quality labs, that are often not in many universities

Conference Session

Computers in Education Poster Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Mary Englebert; Tom Owen; Stephen Kuyath

using these synchronous modes of delivery, in addition to the WebCTcourse structure, have been found to include a more conventional (and comfortable) interactionbetween the instructor and students, the ability to share applications (e.g., sketches on thewhiteboard and PSpice simulations), and the capacity to record the session for playback at a latertime for any student who was unable to attend the live session or wishes further review.Lab Classes:Faculty debated the best way to offer laboratory classes. The compromise reached was that alllaboratory classes were to be offered to DE students during the summer session on the UNCCharlotte campus. Students travel to UNC Charlotte to perform laboratory activities four timesduring the summer. Lab

Conference Session

Industrial Collaborations

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Peter Schuyler; Kenneth Quinn

Services Infrastructure-MS1562 STW 493:[2] Administering a Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Database-MS 2072 STW 494:[2] Programming a Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Database -MS 2073The next step was identifying the facilities necessary to teach the courses. It was decided that the best location to runthese courses would be at the local New Horizons office. This decision was made since New Horizons hadnumerous excellent classroom facilities and computer laboratories, as well as having the ability to devote entirelaboratories and hardware to the courses. Ward College’s computer laboratories would be unsuitable since they aremulti-use facilities that are shared by several programs and scheduled in traditional one to one and a half hour

Conference Session

Innovative Teaching/Learning Strategies

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

William Maxwell; James Johnson

beaccomplished in such a short time; however some exposure can be provided. The first of theseskill presentations is a lecture on drafting, since the teams will be required to show their plats withthe home footprint delineated. The lab will be a practice for the drafting requirementWeek 5. Week 5 will be an introduction to surveying in the most general of terms. Since thestudents will be expected to have very limited math skills, the lecture must be very general. Theassociated laboratory will be limited as well, but will at least allow the students to touch andmanipulate surveying equipment.Week 6. Student lecture material and laboratory during this week is aimed at allowing the studentto see the problems associated with site preparation. The drafting

Conference Session

Computed Simulation and Animation

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Mohan Ketkar; Gopal Reddy

by two different numerical methods to obtain temperature distribution.In the first case, the results are obtained using Euler method, which is an explicit formulation, andsecond method is the Crank-Nicolson implicit and explicit method and the results are comparedwith analytical solution. The accuracy of the numerical results is examined with various grid sizesand graphical comparison of the results is presented.Similar methods are employed in the Heat Transfer laboratory of the Mechanical EngineeringDepartment of the Texas A & M University to verify the experimental results 2, 3.MATHEMATICAL FORMULATIONIn this example, one dimensional transient heat transfer with boundary and initial conditions isconsidered. The pictorial representation

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Karen High; Cynthia Mann

feedbackwas readily available for unique responses.The first day of class, each student was given a notebook to serve as a journal and a laboratorynotebook for the project. Throughout the semester they were instructed to use the journal tocomplete some assignments, keep track of project related information (and data), and also providefeedback about class activities through journal entries. This was found to be an effective methodof illustrating the importance of laboratory notebooks—a concept foreign to many engineeringstudents. The success of this project relied on the students’ comfort in interacting with theinstructors, the notebooks seem to be a non-threatening forum for feedback.The last 12 weeks of the semester integrated the Pizza Project into

Conference Session

Instrumentation and Control Applications

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Marcus Soule; Bruce Segee

Demonstrating Motor Control using NMOS Exclusive H-Bridge Design Marcus J. Soule (email:Marcus_Soule@umit.maine.edu) Dr. Bruce E. Segee (email:segee@eece.maine.edu) Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Instrumentation Research Laboratory University of Maine. OronoAbstractDelivering power to high voltage devices is a common requirement in an industrial setting.It is often required to be able to source current in two directions from the same supply. Itis common to implement an H-bridge to supply power to these devices. An H-Bridge is adevice with four switching elements that resembles a capital H. These devices

Conference Session

International Collaborative Efforts

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Frank Duda

Bunyoro-Kitara.Our Current WorkOver the last 4 years we have been working closely with a group of people who have a 10 yearcommitment to doing projects in the Church of Uganda Diocese of Bunyoro-Kitara, District ofBunyoro-Kitara, Uganda, Africa7. This work has been undertaken with the support of the localleadership and with acceptance and recognition of the federal government of Uganda. Theseprojects are built around 7 initiatives: 1. Developing a coffee plantation 2. Eradicating malaria in the diocese 3. Developing medical dispensaries with basic laboratories 4. Education analysis and microcomputer training Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference

Conference Session

International Engineering Education I

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Fazil Najafi

2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & ExpositionCopyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Education”Curriculum ComparisonThe first aspect taken into account in the comparison is the different definition of “credit”between both universities. UF defines the credit as the one semester hour, generally representingone hour (50-minute) per week of lecture or two or more hours per week of laboratory work.On the other hand, credits at UCN are the total hours that students attend a course, which is setby the institution. Total credits per course are defined by using: C = L + E + Lab + PD C = total credits for the course L = # of 45-minutes lectures E = # of 45-minutes

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Charles Forsberg

forcedconvection, the unit includes a blower to provide a uniform flow of air across the surface of theplate. With measurements of air velocity, power input, and temperature, the convectivecoefficients for forced convection can be experimentally determined for a variety of platetemperatures.The demonstration unit is small and portable, and is easy to set-up on the table in the front of theclassroom. It is low-cost, utilizing instrumentation available in the engineering laboratories. Inits typical use during a lecture class, the instructor first introduces the theoretical and empiricalequations available for calculation of convective coefficients. Using these textbook equations,the students make calculations of convective coefficients for the parameters of

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Sue Scheff

opportunities. New in Fall2001, is the "Engineer in Residence" program. Students living in Blanding III will have theopportunity to interact with an electrical engineering graduate from the College of Engineeringnow employed at Lexmark, International in Lexington, Kentucky. Evening programs areoffered to support and encourage all dorm residents. Learning communities have shown to bevery successful in retaining students.Undergraduate Research Program: The Undergraduate Research Program creates researchpartnerships between first-and second-year students and faculty researchers. The program offersstudents the opportunity to work and learn along side a research faculty. Undergraduatestudents are given the real-life experiences of working in laboratories

Conference Session

Materials and Manufacturing Processes

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Prince Anyalebechi

microstructure related. Wherever feasible,student engineers should also be introduced to advance techniques that are used tocharacterize microstructures and composition; e.g., the scanning electron microscopes. It isimportant for them to be aware of the capabilities of these modern techniques and to be ableto ask for relevant information from them.Measurement of the effect of processes on properties should be a necessary component ofmanufacturing processes laboratory studies. For example, measurement of hardness and/ortensile properties as a function of heat treatment conditions and alloy composition isprobably the easiest and simplest means of helping students understand the interactionsbetween process and materials. Engineering students also need to

Conference Session

ETD Design I

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Shekar Viswanathan, National University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

major changes – initiated and advanced by the advisory board –have been made in the MSWC program: 1. Two major recommendations of the Advisory Committee were to establish a course on wireless economics and to establish a wireless communications laboratory. In 2007, the School of Engineering and Technology received a significant grant from the San Diego-headquartered wireless network operator, Cricket Communications, (arranged by an advisory board member) for establishing a Wireless Communications Laboratory. In 2008, a new course Page 25.739.5 (WCM 612) entitled Current Topics in Wireless Economics was added, The

Conference Session

Capstone and International Experiences

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Scott Danielson, Arizona State University, Polytechnic; Chell A. Roberts, Arizona State University, Polytechnic

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

engineering education practices and then argued in support ofan educational model where components of engineering science, laboratory work, and designactivities interact with one another in an approximation of professional practice. Happily, thereare examples of engineering education programs that have created or modified their programobjectives and curricula to meet such curricular calls5, 6, 7. More recently, the ASME Vision2030 Task Force has joined others in endorsing the utilization of a design spine across thecurriculum. Ideally, this design spine is multidisciplinary in nature, providing the students withmultiple experiences working with people from other disciplines as they progress through theircurriculum culminating in a yearlong senior

Conference Session

Sustainable Product Development and Manufacturing

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Devi K. Kalla, Metropolitan State College of Denver; Aaron Brown, Metropolitan State College of Denver

Tagged Divisions

Manufacturing

College of Denver Aaron Brown is Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering Technology, at Metro State College of Denver since 2008. He has a M.S. in mechanical engineering, University of Colorado, Boulder, 2004, and a B.S. in mechanical engineering, California State University, Chico, 2001. He has industry ex- perience from SpaceDev, 2007-2008, where he worked on mechanical design of space systems, including the Mars Science Laboratory (AKA ”Curious”) landing mechanism. He worked at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, 2006-2007, where he was a Design/Test Engineer in the Super Conductor Research Laboratory; the University of Colorado at Boulder department of Physics, 2006-2007, as a re

Conference Session

Potpourri

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Afsaneh Minaie, Utah Valley University; Ali Sanati-Mehrizy, Pennsylvania State University; Paymon Sanati-Mehrizy, University of Pennsylvania; Reza Sanati-Mehrizy, Utah Valley University

Tagged Divisions

Computing & Information Technology

WSN Course at Portland State UniversityIn the Computer Science Department at Portland State University, they introduced an in-classlaboratory component to their undergraduate sensor networks course that had previously beenentirely lecture-based. For the laboratory exercises, they used Sun’s Java-programmable SunSPOT sensor network technology. They found that their first hands-on laboratory-basedundergraduate-accessible wireless sensor networks course to be a success. They feel that thegentler learning curve of the SPOTs was a necessity for developing labs that reinforce important Page 25.823.3concepts from the lecture, and this would have been

Conference Session

Professional Issues in Ethics Education

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Heather E. Canary, University of Utah; Joseph R. Herkert, Arizona State University; Karin Ellison, Arizona State University; Jameson M. Wetmore, Arizona State University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Ethics

one credit courses that are not necessarily focused onethics, but have some ethical content. One was taught in spring 2009 on “Energy Policy.” Thesecond, entitled “Science, Technology & Developing Areas,” was taught in fall 2009. There arecurrently discussions to expand this program into the School of Sustainability in the future.Lab-Engagement ModelThis model is based on the idea that scientists and engineers sometimes disregard traditionalethics training in the classroom because they don’t see how the lessons could pertain to theirdaily work or how the ethics instructor could understand their situation. Holding these sessionsin laboratories where the students are comfortable helps convey the message that the ethicsinstructors

Conference Session

Curricular Developments in Energy Education

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Patrick Cunningham, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Energy Conversion and Conservation

. This also brings in the importanceof membrane humidification for charge transport to occur and supporting empirical relations forconductivity. Then concentration losses at high current densities are discussed based on the localdepletion of reactants at the respective electrodes due to diffusion limited mass transfer.In week 2 the first experimental lab on open-circuit voltage is presented and relevant calculationsfor fuel cell experimentation and characterization are introduced, such as, relative humiditybased on humidifier temperature set points and reactant utilization or stoichiometric ratio (basedon Faraday’s laws). In weeks 3 and 4, the laboratory experiments continue with focus onpolarization curves, mirroring the theoretical content

Conference Session

Software and Hardware for Educators I

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Fadi Obeidat, Virginia Commonwealth University; Ruba Alkhasawneh, Virginia Commonwealth University; Jerry Tucker, Virginia Commonwealth University; Robert Klenke, Virginia Commonwealth University

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education

experience,2) curricula and contents, and 3) labs and platforms. For example, the importance of enhancingthe laboratory environment for improving embedded systems education process is shown in [12].This work points to the significant role of using current available technologies and tools such ashard/soft-core processors, IP (Intellectual Property) cores, and the EDK (embedded developmentkit) tool in embedded systems labs. It also shows the importance of transition from using TTL Page 15.1268.2ICs (transistor–transistor-logic integrated circuits) to reconfigurable devices such as FPGA. In[13] a set of experiments are proposed to enable students to