Conference Session

Unique Laboratory Experiments and Programs

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Williams, University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign

Tagged Divisions

Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

, otherdepartments have had the test set up as a demonstration during another lab. The lab is a resource for other student courses, particularly senior capstone projects. Themost commonly used apparatus is the hardness tester. This efficiency has its costs. Effective utilization of time means that more tests can beconducted in a lab session. For example, there is an annual consumption of 850 metal tensilespecimens. Individual departments surrender control of equipment and facilities.Evaluation The basis for student assessment of this instructional facility is challenging. It is difficult toisolate the lab facility itself from the course and the effectiveness of TAs. The best method hasbeen to set up focus group meetings at the end of the semester

Conference Session

Innovative Curriculum in Engineering Technology

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gary Crossman, Old Dominion University; Anthony Dean, Old Dominion University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

Vehicle Dynamics 3 AE 477 High Performance Piston Engines 3 MET 435W Senior Capstone Project 3 ENMA 301 Engineering Management 3 ENMA 302 Engineering Economics 3 ENMA 401 Project Management 3 ENMA 420 Statistics 3 Total 45All of the courses listed above are currently being offered at the main campus. The MET coursesare also part of the MET program and

Conference Session

Best of Computer in Education Division

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Smitesh Bakrania, Rowan University; Sean Banger

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education

://gatsbyslight.com/essay-grader.php, accessed Sunday, January 6, 20139. Desire2Learn, https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/desire2learn-assignment-grader/id496587100?mt=8, accessed Sunday, January 6, 2013.10. Speed Grader, https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/speedgrader-for-ipad/id418441195?mt=8, accessed Sunday, January 6, 2013.11. HighMarks, https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/highmarks/id505953578?mt=8, accessed Sunday, January 6, 2013.12. K. Alfrey and E. Cooney, “Developing a Rubric to Assess Critical Thinking in Assignments with an Open-ended Component,” Proceedings of the ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, June 2009, Austin, TX.13. D. Jones, “Successful use of rubrics to assess student performance in capstone projects,” Proceedings of the

Conference Session

Product and Venture Creation Curriculum

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Wilburn Clouse

ideas into a business venture.This research is part of an ongoing research project between the Entrepreneurship EducationForum at Vanderbilt University and the School of Engineering Tennessee TechnologicalUniversity (TTU) to investigate ways of developing teams to think creatively andentrepreneurially. This is part of TTU's NSF grant on Innovation and Entrepreneurship. Thispresentation will report on the activities related to developing cross-discipline entrepreneurshipteams and the process related to taking ideas for the mind to the market place. Project objectiveare as follows:Project Objectives1) The introduction of the idea of an Entrepreneurship Team2) The development of an Entrepreneurship Team3) The development of a series of activities

Conference Session

Factors Impacting Engineering Career Choices, Including Engaging Families

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Matthew Boynton P.E., Virginia Tech; Marie C Paretti, Virginia Tech

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

AC 2012-3769: ENGINEERING AS A CAREER CHOICE AMONG RU-RAL APPALACHIAN STUDENTSMr. Matthew Boynton P.E., Virginia Tech Matthew Boynton is a doctoral student in the Engineering Education Department at Virginia Tech. Before entering Virginia Tech, he earned a B.S. and M.S. in civil and environmental engineering, and an Ed.S in instructional leadership from Tennessee Technological University. His engineering work experience includes work within a rural telecommunications service provider and an environmental consulting firm. While working toward his M.S. and Ed.S, Boynton worked with the Extended Education Department at Tennessee Technological University teaching Project Lead the Way engineering courses in rural high

Conference Session

Innovative Instructional Strategies and Curricula

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kingsley Reeves, University of South Florida; Bill Blank, University of South Florida; Victor Hernandez-Gantes, University of South Florida; Maniphone Dickerson, University of South Florida

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Mathematics

AC 2010-1675: USING CONSTRUCTIVIST TEACHING STRATEGIES INPROBABILITY AND STATISTICSKingsley Reeves, University of South FloridaBill Blank, University of South FloridaVictor Hernandez-Gantes, University of South FloridaManiphone Dickerson, University of South Florida Page 15.1322.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 Using Constructivist Teaching Strategies in Probability and StatisticsAbstractThis paper discusses the early results of an NSF EEC project that focuses on the impact of usingconstructivist approaches to teaching probability and statistics for engineers. Twelve exerciseswere developed and used in a modified version of the course to promote student

Conference Session

Design for Community

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Edmund Tsang

construction of a prototype, a group of business students enrolled in MGMT 301,“Project Management,” conducted a market study during Summer 2003 to assess the marketpotential of OPTX. A letter survey was sent to 100 private and public middle-school teachers inthree geographic (rural, suburban, and urban) areas of Michigan. Forty-nine responses werereceived (49% return rate). Sixteen percent of the respondents have taught between 1-to-5 years,31% 6-to-10 years, 22% 11-to-15 years, and 24% 16 years or more.The major findings of the survey were: 1. All respondents agreed a new approach is needed to teach light reflection, refraction, absorption, and transmission; 2. 90% of all respondents stated OPTX would be useful for multiple lessons; 3. 12

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics Papers Session

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

June Marshall; John Marshall

pilot characterprograms. As of May 1999, nine states have initiated such projects. In Virginia, Georgia,Florida, and Mississippi legislation has been passed mandating that Character Educationprograms be implemented statewide. As a result, teacher education programs are nowbeing called on to provide a basic framework of Ethics and Character Education topreservice teachers. Greer (1998) believes that matters will certainly grow worse if theschools of education-and their colleagues in the liberal arts colleges-do not prepare thenation’s future teachers to teach effectively about morals and character.Developing an Ethics Education ComponentIn the fall of 1998, discussions began in our traditional four-year teacher preparatoryprogram on how to

Conference Session

Best Zone Papers

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Scott DeLoach; Eric Matson

short lecture period with questions and answers. Then we show aNASA movie with robots venturing to Mars as a way to describe the future andpossibilities of robotics. The capstone experience is a set of experiments to allow thechildren to have a sensory experience with the robots. The agenda is identical for all ageswith the exception that the high school students are the only group to participate in theMulti-agent Race experiment.In the lecture, we discuss human and robot intelligence, then progress into learning andfinish with sensors. In each phase we compare and contrast the way humans use thesecapabilities to the way a robot is built and how it will use these capabilities.To begin the lecture, we compare and contrast human versus robotic

Conference Session

How We Teach Problem Solving?

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Mark Urban-Lurain; Taner Eskil; Marilyn Amey; Timothy Hinds; Jon Sticklen

Engineering. He teachesundergraduate courses in machine design and statics as well as advises senior engineering student teams working onindustrially sponsored capstone design projects. He also teaches a senior-level undergraduate international designproject course and has taught graduate-level courses in innovation and technology management.Mark Urban-Lurain is Director of Instructional Technology Research and Development in the Division of Scienceand Mathematics Education at Michigan State University. He is responsible for providing vision, direction, planningand implementation for using technology mathematics and science education and developed several introductorycomputer science courses for non-computer science students serving 2000 students per

Conference Session

Teaching Entrepreneurship to Engineers

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephanie Carter; John Feland

been usedin two Stanford classes to provide students with a pedagogical scaffold to assist students indeveloping their innovation process. In ME297x, Innovation with Emerging Technologies12, thismodel was used to study historical innovations across disparate domains. Students also used thismodel to analyze the diffusion of emerging technologies as a Solution biased innovation process.That is to say, viewing the transition of Emerging Technologies into the greater market is apractice of potentially compelling Solutions in search of compelling Needs to be paired with. InME116A, the first in the capstone design sequence for the undergraduate Product Designcurriculum, the framework was used to develop and evaluate product concepts as

Conference Session

Assessing Teaching and Learning

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Donald Headley; Sanjiv Sarin

processes is a cornerstone ofEC 20001.Given the limitations of achievement tests in fulfilling outcomes assessment requirements, theassessment community has recommended several alternative approaches for assessing studentoutcomes. These include portfolios, capstone design project evaluations, student, alumni andemployer surveys, and placement data of graduates. Yet, written surveys administered to currentstudents are the most frequently used assessment instruments, due in part to two reasons – one,they are relatively inexpensive to conduct, and, two, a high response rate is almost guaranteed. Anatural question is whether these student self-assessments are valid substitutes for test questionscreated and scored by an instructor.This paper reports the

Conference Session

Manufacturing Systems Design

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Devdas Shetty

graphical programming during the course, but this process isgradually built-in. A progressive exposure to create virtual instruments offer the best students theability to create their own virtual instruments, and develop capstone design projects. Theexperiences gained in teaching and research at the Korea university of Technology and Education(KUT), University of Hartford and Moscow State Technological University ‘STANKIN’ are usedin the development of case studies. Page 8.668.5CASE STUDIESCase Studies at KUTWeight Measurement System with Virtual InstrumentStrain gauges are used to measure the displacement -strain relationship of the aluminum beam. Inthis system, double strain

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

William Edward Howard; Joseph Musto

initiative, each new student was provided with aCompaq Armada 1750 notebook computer and a standard suite of software. Conventionalclassrooms were provided with network connections and projection equipment to facilitate theintegration of notebook computers into select classes. In conjunction with this program, a revisedMechanical Engineering curriculum was launched, designed to exploit the availability ofnotebook computing technology. The highlight of this curriculum revision is ComputerApplications in Engineering, a freshman-level Mechanical Engineering Department course Page 6.630.1 Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Ronald Miller; Ruth Streveler

4,19,20,21,23, 24,255,10,17 12 14 technical economic 3,8,9 7,11,13,18,22, 27,29 32 Posttest Results product Figure 3. Posttest Results of MDS Analysis for Senior Design TermsIn the pretest (Figure 2) four distinct clusters of terms were observed:1- A cluster containing all terms that pertained to the economic analysis of a project: capital cost (Term 1), cash flow analysis (Term 2), economic optimum

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering I

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Matthew Spenko, Illinois Institute of Technology; Jamal S. Yagoobi, Illinois Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

must be ableto promote prototyping and creativity. This suggestion was based on such spaces beingimplemented at many of the institutions represented by the workshop participants. A dedicatedspace helps develop a Confucian model of learning where students learn by doing. Anothersuggestion was to use this learning environment to teach reverse engineering techniques forunderclassmen as a way to understand how other engineers have solved specific designchallenges. One particular example used by the University of Notre Dame included havingsophomores reverse engineer projects from the previous year’s senior-level capstone designcourse.Case studies were suggested as a method to promote intellectual curiosity and passion.Participants noted the role of

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Muhsin Menekse, Arizona State University; Glenda Stump, Arizona State University; Stephen J. Krause, Arizona State University; Michelene T.H. Chi, Arizona State University

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees

, capstone design, and introductory materials engineering. His research interests are evaluating conceptual knowledge, miscon- ceptions and their repair, and conceptual change. He has co-developed a Materials Concept Inventory for assessing conceptual knowledge of students in introductory materials engineering classes. He is cur- rently conducting research with NSF sponsored projects in the areas of: Modules to Promote Conceptual Change in an Introductory Materials Course, Tracking Student Learning Trajectories of Atomic Structure and Macroscopic Property Relationships, and Assessing the Effect of Learning Modes on Conceptual Change.Michelene T.H. Chi, Arizona State University Micki Chi is a Professor in the

Conference Session

Development of Manufacturing Engineering Laboratories I

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Arif Sirinterlikci, Robert Morris University

Tagged Divisions

Manufacturing

I/Obox simulator, and the other with the actual work-cell. Valuable demos also strengthened thelearning experience.In the near future, the author plans to incorporate the vibratory bowl feeders (under a secondwork-cell – where the students will actually wire the entire cell), and a state-of-the-art machinevision system (in place of an outdated one) into his laboratories. The work-cell will sort screwsdelivered by the feeder. Efforts for this new cell development have already begun. Additionalfuture projects may involve addition of DELMIA Robotics Virtual Simulation tool to this courseas well as the capstone project course (ENGR 4950 – Integrated Engineering Design) for seniors

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Erlandson

accessibledesign principles or issues.Table 1. Strategies for inclusion of AD material into various class categories. Category of Example Strategy class Dedicated Rehabilitation Engineering Dedicated content covering Human Factors accessibility and AD principles. Telecommunications and E&IT Design Capstone Design AD issues raised and considered as part of the design specifications. AD principles applied as appropriate. Engineering Any

Collection

1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Charles W. P. Finn; William E. Cole

to incorporate design projectswithin the technical classes: A group design project, with a final written report, requires the use(and hence learning) of all of these skills. A second opportunity to emphasize these skills is inlaboratory reports. It is easy to fall into the mode of providing detailed directions for eachlaboratory experiment and to require individual written reports from each student. However, byproviding only superficial directions and goals for the experiment, the students must developtheir problem solving skills (how to do the experiment). Secondly, by requiring group reports,the students will develop their teamwork skills. On the basis of this survey, the authors haveincorporated design projects into all their courses and

Conference Session

Computing and Information Technology Division (CIT) Technical Session 1

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tarik Eltaeib, Farmingdale State College ; M. Nazrul Islam, State University of New York; Qinghai Gao

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Computing and Information Technology Division (CIT)

Application Administrator at a Mitsubishi Power Systems, where he built state-of-the-art Enterprise and Machine Learning Applications. Academic positions include Adjunct Professor at the University of Bridgeport, CT, and Assistant Professor – Computer Security where he is tenured at the School of Engineering Technology, Farmingdale State College - State University of New York. He has 6 years of higher education experience, and a total of 14 years. He has presented and published numerous conference papers, journal articles and contributed to a book chapter on Large-scale Evolutionary Optimization. He has excelled at going the extra mile, teaching not only his own classes but an additional Capstone projects, doing

Collection

2024 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Chinmaya Joshi; Clancy Milam; Corbin Russ; Stephen Pierson; Han Hu; Ying Sun

uses steady-state analysis to create a temperature profileacross the sample and subsequently calculate the thermal resistance and conductivity. This setupcan greatly assist students with thermal characterization requirements for testing materials in-house and reduce development time in capstone projects and research while allowing them tounderstand the fundamentals of heat transfer through practical applications. It is also a goodalternative for organizations looking into building their thermal characterization facilities.Keywords: Thermal Conductivity, Heat Conduction, Experimental Facility, UndergraduateStudent PosterNomenclature:k = Thermal ConductivityR = Thermal ResistanceT = Temperaturet = Timeq = Heat Flow

Conference Session

Civil Engineering Division (CIVIL) Technical Session - Professional Practice 2

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jennifer Retherford, University of Tennessee at Knoxville; Sarah Mobley, University of Tennessee at Knoxville

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Civil Engineering Division (CIVIL)

; Exposition, 2009, p. 14.223. 1- 14.223. 18.[5] S. D. Hart, “Applying the ExCEEd Teaching Model in a Flipped Classroom Environment,” in 2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, 2016.[6] J. Q. Retherford and J. K. Amoah, “Incorporating ASCE’s ExCEEd Principles in Capstone Project and Other Active Learning Courses,” in Proceedings of the American Society of Engineering Education Southeast Section Conference, 2014.[7] R. W. Welch and C. B. Farnsworth, “Using the ExCEEd Model for Distance Education,” in 2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, 2011, p. 22.1645. 1-22.1645. 22.

Conference Session

Experimentation and Laboratory-Oriented Studies Division (ELOS) Technical Session 1: Laboratories in Mechanics, Thermofluids, Embedded Systems, and Controls

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Fiona C. Levey, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Tagged Divisions

Experimentation and Laboratory-Oriented Studies Division (DELOS)

Paper ID #39357Work-in-Progress: Hands-on group activities for large fluid mechanicsclasses in a traditional lecture hall settingDr. Fiona C. Levey, Worcester Polytechnic Institute Dr. Fiona Levey is an Associate Teaching Professor the Department of Mechanical and Materials Engi- neering at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. She teaches materials science and thermal fluids classes and advises capstone design projects. She employs active learning and project-based learning in her curricu- lum, using varied approaches for different levels, and correlating course design and teaching techniques to learning outcomes. Dr. Levey

Collection

2016 Rocky Mountain Section Conference

Authors

Jackson J. Graham; Randy C. Hurd; Tadd T. Truscott

necessary prerequisite courses and student confidence in their ownunderstanding, we feel it safe to assume that students have already been exposed to two-dimensional heat transfer and have a reasonable understanding of the material.Questions three, four, and eight focus on whether the lab provided students with an increasedunderstanding of two-dimensional heat transfer and a greater ability to visualize the process.Students generally agreed with this notion, especially in terms of visualization. Additionally, inquestion five, students generally agree that participating in a numerical and experimental heattransfer project was more instructional than a similar project performed on paper. Questions 6and 7 indicate that the lab setting not only helped

Collection

2010 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Don Malzahn; Lawrence Whitman; Zulma Toro-Ramos; Julie-Ellen Acosta

engineering disciplines, it is not part of a capstone project andstudents have little or no formal experience in business or training in teamwork. AnotherProceedings of the 2010 Midwest Section Conference of the American Society for Engineering Educationimportant consideration is the difference between the experience of undergraduate students andthe experience of those for whom most leadership development programs are targeted. Table 4highlights some of the differences between industry and university students of leadership.Table 4 Situational comparison of Leadership Development environment for industry anduniversity participants. Professionals StudentsIdentified by others as having

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2011 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Richard Y. Chiou; Michael G. Mauk; M. Eric Carr; Bret Davis

of computerscience, electrical engineering and mechanical engineering. This paper discusseslaboratory development and the hands-on learning experience within the context of thiscapstone course on robotics and mechatronics. Topics covered include the innovation ofteaching industrial robotics to undergraduate students working on solving real-worldproblems, particularly as it applies to multidisciplinary fields such as bionics and solarenergy.IntroductionThis paper presents the establishment of a robotics and mechatronics laboratory forteaching and research integrated with the emerging fields of bionics and solar energythrough an NSF project involving undergraduate and graduate students, and faculty atGoodwin College of Drexel University

Collection

2007 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Michelle Albanese; Richard J. Puerzer

the desire outcome. 2learning journals and application to engineering 149 The teaching technique I selected is learning journals, where students write weekly journal entries(100-300 words per entry) discussing pertinent class topics and relating them to explicitly stated coursethemes. If desired, the instructor can provide leading questions or specific issues to be addressed inrelation to the overall weekly topic. The project will culminate in a significantly longer entry (minimum1000 words) tying weekly topics together by highlighting the common threads—the stated coursethemes—and using reason to make conclusions. Students

Conference Session

Mechanical and Architectural Engineering Laboratories

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

A. Simionescu, Texas A&M University, Corpus Christi; Mehrube Mehrubeoglu, Texas A&M University, Corpus Christi; Korinne Caruso, Texas A&M University, Corpus Christi; Gregory R. Reuter, Texas A&M University, Corpus Christi

Tagged Divisions

Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

experience based on the post experimentsurvey. The laboratory can be also integrated with more advanced classes, like rapidmanufacturing process as discussed by Creese9 or computer aided optimization of castings, thelatter being however better suited to graduate engineering education10.It is fortunate that Texas A&M University Corpus Christi has a metal casting facility thatengineering students can have access to once a semester and perform one of their laboratoryexercises. Plans are in the making for students to use this facility for casting parts for theirprojects, including capstone projects, and continue this fruitful collaboration with the colleaguesin the Department of Arts

Conference Session

Concurrent Paper Tracks - Session I

Collection

2015 ASEE International Forum

Authors

Monica Gray P.E., The Lincoln University - College of Science & Technology; Constance Loretta Lundy

Tagged Topics

Diversity, International Forum

seminars,internships, learning communities, and capstone projects compared to only two anecdotalreferences to study aboard.This paper postulates that ABET’s Student Outcome 3(h) “the broad education necessary tounderstand the impact of engineering solutions in a global, economic, environmental, andsocietal context” and Student Outcome 3(i) "a recognition of the need for, and an ability toengage in lifelong learning" are not mutually exclusive but rather interdependent and mutualisticin nature. Outcomes by their very nature describes what students should know or can do by thetime of graduation. The implication is therefore, that lifelong learning and a global perspectivemust originate within the 4-year engineering curriculum/program. The