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

Conference Session

Improving Multidisciplinary Engineering Education

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Joan Gosink; Catherine Skokan

Engineering, Physics multidisciplinary project) 28% • Specialties within related disciplines (for example Molecular Biology, Cellular Biology, Diagnostics, and Therapeutics in a combined project; or a program of Computer Science with Computer Information Systems and Computer) 28% • Science and/or Engineering and School of Education (for example Nanotechnology, Industrial Engineering, and K12 Teacher Preparation) 20% • Sensors and a science or engineering application (numerous biomedical projects partnering with electrical engineering through sensor technology; also many multidisciplinary engineering undergraduate laboratories with sensors) 7% • Engineering or science in

Conference Session

Labs, Demos and Software in Mechanics

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Bradley Burchett

the laboratory with a physical systemthat has small non-linearities which prevent the student from obtaining an exact match betweenmodel and experiment. This work describes an experiment designed for the sophomore systemdynamics course offered at the Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. This lab uses acommercially available hardware system and a digital computer. By a clever combination ofvarious response data, and using known differences between effective masses, the effective inertiaof motor, pinion, rack and cart are estimated without requiring disassembly of the system.Typical results are shown.IntroductionThe mechanical engineering and electrical engineering faculty at Rose-Hulman (RHIT) arecurrently upgrading the system dynamics and

Conference Session

TC2K Assessment: How to Really Do It

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Satyajit Verma

student. Itcan also be considered as a contract between a student and the course instructor.Assessment ActivitiesTypical classroom assessment activities include mid-term and final examinations, quizzes,homework assignments, laboratory exercises and reports, project work and reports, oralpresentations etc. However, assessment activities need not be confined to the classrooms. Thecourse instructor usually assigns % weights to each of these assessment activities (e.g. 15% each Page 10.923.2for each exam, 10% for laboratory reports etc.). Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition

Conference Session

Assessment and Evaluation in Design

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mysore Narayanan, Miami University

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

extent to which thestudent population was receptive to different delivery styles. Audiovisual Aids such as PowerPoint Slides were used to study the students’ learning capabilities in the visual mode. Lectureswere also delivered to accommodate the aural mode of learning. Research reports, reading andwriting assignments were included to examine the reading mode of learning. Lastly,laboratory demonstrations, experiments and exercises were set up to encourage students to learnin the kinesthetic mode. Students were later examined on all the topics, quizzes were gradedand tabulated using a rubric based on Washington State University’s critical thinking rubric.The author has provided full details in Appendix A.ConclusionsDr. Hunter R. Boylan, who is

Conference Session

Engineering Education in Africa and the Middle East

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bahawodin Baha, University of Brighton; Ogai Ahmadi, Kabul University

Tagged Divisions

International

 introduction will have a major effect on education system. As the learning resources such as fully stacked  libraries  and  fully  equipped  computer  laboratories  are  rare  in  the  country,  careful planning is required to prioritize the introduction of ICT into the mainstream education including  Page 15.1251.3higher education.While  the  world  has  changed  dramatically  in  the  past  few  decades  and  will  continue  to  do  so with  an  accelerating  pace,  the  learning  environment,  i.e.  the  classroom  has  not  changed  but  it will change in the near future. The education system in Afghanistan must follow its international

Conference Session

Innovations in Civil Engineering Education II

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tanya Kunberger, Florida Gulf Coast University; Robert O'Neill, Florida Gulf Coast University

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

read, individual article presentations and laboratory activitydiscussions were also included. Over the course of the semester ten round table activitiesoccurred. Half of these were the entire class reading the same journal article or conferenceproceeding, two were students discussing articles they read on a topic of their choice, two were Page 15.502.3wiki activities centered around three separate articles, and one was a discussion focused on 2triaxial laboratory testing. Each discussion was centered on a topic that correlated to the currentlesson topics of the course. Unless otherwise stated

Conference Session

Newly Developed Engineering Courses

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Thomas Dobrowski, Purdue University-North Central

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

making capabilities. While the top studentstoday would have been top students twenty, thirty, etc. years ago, it seems that the “average”student has seen a decline in their skills. Teaching a course in Materials Testing for twenty years Page 15.1006.2has been a source of great pleasure and searing frustration. The course itself is wonderful in that itreinforces the theoretical background that the students have been taught in the prerequisite courses,while simultaneously exposing the students to hands on testing with real world applications. Thegoal of the class is for the students to take data derived from laboratory tests and put the raw

Conference Session

BIM and Other New Construction Practices

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Hildreth, University of North Carolina, Charlotte; Bruce Gehrig, University of North Carolina, Charlotte

Tagged Divisions

Construction

. 3. Exhibit knowledge and skills consistent with the expectations of a practicing construction manager. 4. Articulate the viability of creative and realistic solutions to defined problems and projects. 5. Recognize the value of diversity and identify ethical and societal issues in business and technical tasks. 6. Solve complex problems utilizing discipline specific expertise: i. Utilize graphical techniques to produce engineering documents. ii. Conduct standardized field and laboratory testing on civil engineering and construction materials. iii. Utilize modern surveying methods for land measurement and/or construction layout. iv. Determine forces and stresses in

Conference Session

Design for Community

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Edmund Tsang

Michigan University Engineering Design Center for Service-Learning whichsponsors the project.The Initial Design Page 9.383.1 “Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright c 2004. American Society for Engineering Education”In the mid-to-late 1990’s when the primary author was an associate professor of mechanicalengineering at University of South Alabama, he adopted the service-learning pedagogy inteaching the first- year “Introduction to Mechanical Engineering”1. In ME 101, students workedin teams to design and build laboratory equipment and

Conference Session

BME Courses

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Larry McIntire; Ka-yiu San; Ann Saterbak

flowthrough a bone graft, oxygen consumption in bone, and toxin accumulation in a laboratory boneimplant. The principles of mass balances are illustrated first for open, non-reacting, steady-statesystems. Systems with multiple inlets and outlets and then systems with multicomponentmixtures are considered. More complex multiple-unit systems are illustrated by a two-compartment model of the kidney and by a wastewater treatment facility. Systems withchemical reactions, such as respiration, are explicitly covered. Terms such as reaction rate andfractional conversion are defined. Finally, dynamic systems such as drug delivery are addressed.Conservation of energy is the topic of Chapter 4. The challenge problem explores different typesof energy and how

Conference Session

Design Experiences in Energy Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Wanke; Stephen Williams; Michael Scheuerell; Glenn Wrate

andsterile academic laboratory, but in practical, industrial settings.Student involvement in this particular project began after the proposal was awarded but beforethe design of the experiment started. Under direct faculty supervision, undergraduate engineeringstudents coordinated testing efforts among the various constituencies on the project, designed theinstrumentation system used to collect data, installed the instrumentation system at the plasticmanufacturing facility, and finally collected data and assisted in data reduction and analysis.Hopefully this paper will provide a model for similar projects involving undergraduateengineering students in the energy conservation area.Experimental DesignA simplified system diagram is shown in Fig. 1

Conference Session

NSF Grantees’ Poster Session

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Steve C. Hsiung, Old Dominion University; John M. Ritz, Old Dominion University; Ece Yaprak, Wayne State University; Thomas B. Stout, Tidewater Community College; Richard L. Jones, Old Dominion University

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Tagged Divisions

Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

North Dakota in 1986 and Kansas State University in 1988, and PhD degree from Iowa State University in 1992. Steve can be reached at shsi- ung@odu.edu.Dr. John M Ritz, Old Dominion University Professor of STEM Education, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VADr. Ece Yaprak, Wayne State University Dr. Ece Yaprak is a Professor of Engineering Technology in the College of Engineering at Wayne State University. Her areas of interest include computer networks and communications where she has pub- lished extensively. She has held engineering positions at General Electric and Ford Motor Company, and research fellowships at NASA (John Glenn, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Ames Research Center, and the Johnson Space Center) and

Conference Session

ME Curriculum and Assessment

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Fazeel Khan, Miami University; Kumar Vikram Singh, Miami University

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

created for completion by students and fourexternal faculty. The latter were invited to participate in the project based on their expertise ineducational research and prior work on NSF Course, Curriculum, and Laboratory Improvement(CCLI) and Transforming Undergraduate Education in Science (TUES) projects. The ComEx Student Survey was co-developed by ComEx project personnel and the E&ACenter and administered online. This instrument consisted of three subscales with a total of 29items designed to obtain information about students’ experiences in using the ComEx Studios.The “Effectiveness of the ComEx Exercise/Activities” subscale consisted of nine items on a 5-point Likert-type scale ranging from strongly disagree (1) to strongly agree (5