Conference Session

Student Engagement in ECE

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cordelia Brown, Purdue University; Yung-Hsiang Lu, Purdue University

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

AC 2010-1820: INTEGRATION OF REAL WORLD TEAMING INTO APROGRAMMING COURSECordelia Brown, Purdue UniversityYung-Hsiang Lu, Purdue University Page 15.785.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 Integration of Real World Teaming Into A Programming CourseAbstractHistorically, teaming experiences for engineering students has primarily been found infirst year engineering courses, design courses, and laboratory courses. Occasionally,other types of engineering courses integrate teaming as a part of some of the courseprojects. In this paper, we are reporting our findings of integrating teaming into aprogramming course. This study examines team projects and team interaction in a

Conference Session

Communication Skills in Aerospace Engineering

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Patric McElwain; James Helbling; Angela Beck

. English has both active and passive voice.5.1.1 Active Voice Active voice emphasizes the performer of the action while not emphasizing the action performed: The engineer filed the report. Dr. Rudolph Lehmann conducted the experiment in the laboratory as planned. In these examples, the engineer and Dr. Rudolph Lehmann, as subjects performing an action, are emphasized by their placement at the beginning of their respective sentences; the subjects’ actions (filed the report and conducted the experiment) are, thus, not the sentences’ focus.5.1.2 Passive Voice Passive voice emphasizes the action performed by the subject, while either not emphasizing the

Conference Session

ME Education Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Hakan Gurocak

todevelopment of a new set of courses to be offered only to the Institute students on theuniversity campus by the community college faculty. For example, the Institute physicssequence is now 12 quarter (8 semester) credits. As the credits were adjusted for theInstitute in Vancouver, the content of all lower division courses were also streamlined tomatch their equivalents at the main WSU campus in Pullman, WA. The new Institutelower division courses automatically transfer to the university when students get to thejunior level.Getting faculty involved early in the development process was the key factor in oursuccess. Community Colleges provided stipends or release time for their faculty whofaced significant course or laboratory development.IV.1.a. Lower

Conference Session

Scholarship in Engineering Technology

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Abi Aghayere

to, case studies, development of design aids, and laboratory testing. Students would typically be required to prepare and submit a proposal to the faculty mentor and the department chair for approval. Independent study projects could be used as an elective course. Students could be required to present a seminar to faculty and peers and prepare a scholarly paper on their work. 12 To provide greater publicity for the projects, faculty should be encouraged to publish a list of potential projects and scholarly works for undergraduate students at the beginning of the fall term. Page

Conference Session

Curriculum Topics: Industrial ET/Industrial Technology

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

John Mativo

. Most institutionshave the equipment related to materials study and only need minimal adjustment incurriculum to achieve this comprehensive approach. The paper presents a curriculumdesign used at Ohio Northern University. Three phases of materials study arechronologically presented including sample laboratory exercises and concludes with amaterial selection case study.Phase 1 [1/5 time of the course]The structure: A critical component of the materials study that educates about buildingblocks that include atom, cell, grain, and crystalline compositions and formations1. Whenthe structure of materials is studied well, it can be used as a reference point indetermining material behavior and selection. It is essential that students learn

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Computer/Communications ET

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Veeramuthu Rajaravivarma

laboratory experiences and practices developedin the Information Technology (IT) industry. The targeted audiences are from the ABETaccredited programs in Computer Engineering/Technology or Computer Science studentsin their senior year with a background in (i) Internet; (ii) IP Addressing; (iii) Local AreaNetwork technologies, such as Ethernet; and (iv) Basic router configuration. In the firsthalf of the paper, the key concepts related to Internet Protocol Security (IPSec) andVirtual Private Network (VPN) technologies are discussed in detail. In the second half ofthe paper, the lab time procedure to setup a VPN test lab at Central Connecticut StateUniversity (CCSU) is described. This section also focuses in configuring the VPNHardware Client and

Conference Session

Social Responsibility & Professionalism

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas DiStefano; P. Aarne Vesilind; Richard Kozick; Thomas Rich; James Baish; Xiannong Meng; Margot Vigeant; Daniel Cavanagh

) Each of these books was selected because it highlighted an interaction betweenengineering and society in which many, often incorrect, ethical decisions were made. Each bookwas sponsored by one faculty member, who led the book discussion laboratory for that book andgraded the resulting papers. Students ranked their interest in the books, with the majority ofstudents receiving their first or second choices. In addition to buying and reading their elected book, students also read The Right Thingto Do: An ethics guide for engineering students, a book on ethics written specifically for thisaudience by Aarne Vesilind [4]. The book serves as a written reference for the material coveredin the lectures discussed above, including the seven step

Conference Session

Curriculum Issues in Software Engineering

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Massood Towhidnejad; Thomas Hilburn

viewed as different from the rest; hence, the question of “Is this reallyengineering?” arises. Also, in order for SE to fit into a common core it may have to sacrificecurriculum quality. For example, other engineering program rarely will require a programmingcourse in their first semester, or even worst require two programming classes during their firstyear, but it is critical for software engineering students to begin programming as soon aspossible.Another problem with software engineering being part of the college of engineering is theuniqueness of the SE laboratory. The SE program requires computers and appropriate softwarein their laboratory, and they occasionally require a special laboratory set up (i.e., area wherestudents can work on a

Conference Session

ECE Education and Engineering Mathematics

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Roland Thomas; Albert Rosa

on interface circuit design.These two lectures occur just after eight lectures on fundamentals. The lesson on signal transferprepares students to know that circuits have limitations on how much voltage, current or powercan be delivered to a load. Interface circuit design enables students to deliver to a fixed loadfrom a fixed source a requisite voltage, current or power providing, of course, that the maximumpossible signal limit is not exceeded. In this section we also begin a discussion of loading – whatit is, when it is a bad thing and when it is a good thing. A suitable laboratory exercise is to havestudents design an interface circuit to deliver a certain voltage, current or power ±10% to a fixedload using a limited set of resistors, for

Conference Session

Computers in Education Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Igor Verner

assignments, develop instructional units (on subjects related to theseassignments), and practice teaching them using the project method.The course is given in the departmental laboratory of technology. It consists of three modularparts. The first part includes lectures and laboratories. The lectures consider pedagogicalaspects of experiential learning and subjects related to systems and control design. Thelaboratory activities include the following: (1) assembling sensor systems and implementingfeedback control processes; (2) computer aided design and producing machine parts; and (3)programming robot manipulations. The second part of the course focuses on roboticsprojects. The third part of the course is students' practice in teaching robotics to

Conference Session

Service Learning Projects

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

David Pines

used for allmonitoring and shall be collected during the first six hours of the storm event discharge. Eachsample collected shall be analyzed for twelve water quality parameters. Because all twelvewater quality parameters could not be easily done in the University of Hartford EnvironmentalEngineering Laboratory (e.g., oil and grease) and that the student engineering project should gobeyond only collecting and analyzing water samples, it was decided that the student projectwould supplement the data collected by a consultant that would specifically meet therequirement of the general permit. With this in mind, the objectives of the student project wereto: • Design and construct an automatic mechanical stormwater sampler • Collect and

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade for Teaching II

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Bijan Sepahpour

Activity/Project Course Title Year Term Laboratory Reverse Mini-Design Final Design TEAM Taken Taken Experiment. Engineer. Project(s) Project WORK Fund. Eng. Design 1 1 Υ Υ Υ Creative Design 1 2 Υ Υ Manufacture. Process 2 1 Υ Υ Engineering Materials // // Υ Υ Mech. of Materials 2 2 Υ Υ Υ Mech. Lab I

Conference Session

Innovative ET Leadership

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Arnold Peskin; Walter Buchanan

capstoneexperience for Engineering Technology students, documenting their ability to integrateknowledge from various technical and general education areas and apply it in ameaningful way. The portfolio development process requires students to reflect on pastexperiences, both academic and professional, and then use the information gained fromthis reflective process to develop learning statements that address specific learningobjectives.Excelsior’s Engineering Technology programs represent a laboratory of innovativeassessment, articulation and course delivery, whose techniques can be used by alleducational institutions to further the cause of educating and recognizing worthy studentswho might not otherwise be able to complete traditional degree requirements

Conference Session

Innovative Curriculum Developments

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Brian Adams

knowledge of management principles pertaining toequipment use. The class includes "hands-on" experience, such as field trips to farms andvineyards to a look at current farming practices around central Missouri. The students areparticularly fond of the "hands-on" experiences, and have requested more. Traction andballasting are two topics that are difficult to demonstrate in the lab due to availability and cost ofequipment. New laboratories have been developed using LEGO Mindstorms to demonstratetraction and ballasting. An introduction to autonomous vehicles is added in the form of an"autonomous tractor pull" to make the experience more exciting and educational for the students.By using small models of tractors, students gain an understanding of

Conference Session

Undergraduate Research & New Directions

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Max Rabiee

Session 1532 Student Projects in PLC Networking Max Rabiee, Ph.D., P.E. University of CincinnatiAbstract:A case study of Programmable Logic Controller (PLC) networking in the classroom and itsimplementation during the laboratory session will enable students to better understand thesubject. In this paper, we will present a PLC network project that was part of an honors contractprogram in a flexible automation course. Students who participate in the university honorsprogram can complete the project as partial fulfillment of their honors program’s

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Hauser; Robert Spall

Session Number 1526 Enhancement of Computational Engineering within an Undergraduate Mechanical Engineering Curriculum Robert Spall, Thomas Hauser Utah State UniversityAbstractThe NSF supported Course, Curriculum and Laboratory Initiative (CCLI) project describedherein addresses concerns regarding undergraduate education at research universities as high- 1lighted in the 1998 Boyer Commission Report by incorporating advances in information tech-nology into the curriculum. This has been accomplished by developing an

Conference Session

Innovative Curriculum in ET

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Miller; Joyce Pittman; Virginia Elkins; Max Rabiee; Eugene Rutz

Technology-Enabled Content in Engineering Science Curriculum Eugene Rutz, Virginia Elkins, Joyce Pittman, Max Rabiee, and Richard Miller University of CincinnatiAbstractEngineering technology technical courses often have both lecture and accompanying laboratorysessions. The laboratory assignments reinforce the understanding of the topics studied during thelecture sessions. A planning grant was awarded from the National Science Foundation throughtheir Bridges for Engineering Education Program to develop technology-enabled content inengineering science courses. Content was developed to appeal to a variety of learning styles andto support student-centered learning. This paper will describe the

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Ismail Orabi

Engineering Analysis, andundergraduate level thermodynamics, Measurement Systems, Engineering Mechanics and Introduction toEngineering. One of Professor Orabi's most recent projects involves the development of Learning Modules on theweb. These modules provide information, not only about particular course material, but also about more generaltopics relevant to engineering. He is also working on Computer-Aided Experimentations using LABVIEW.Professor Orabi has received a number of research awards from the State of Connecticut and Untied Technologies.He has established two Laboratories: the Materials Testing laboratory sponsored by the National ScienceFoundation, and the Engineering Multimedia Laboratory funded by AT&T. He is a member of ASME and

Conference Session

TYCD 2005 Lower Division Initiatives

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Edward Tackett; Cheng-Hsin Liu; Ken Patton

populated the rest of the workshop. The main target audience of thisworkshop was participants from two- and four-year institutions that are either considering orcurrently using Rapid Prototyping technologies. They were all impressed with the practicalhands-on activities in the laboratory and vendors' showcase. There were four Rapid Prototypingtechnologies present at the workshop: 3D Systems' ThermoJet, Stratasys' Prodigy andDimension, Z-Corp's Z310, Helisys' Laminated Object Manufacturing (LOM) 2030.Solidworks, the design software, and Materialise, the RP file enhancement software (Magic),also introduced their products in the workshop. Sony demonstrated its capability using the highend RP machine. BJB Enterprises showed how to make rubber silicon

Conference Session

Improving Mechanics of Materials Classes

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Kevin Sutterer

independentlyare acceptable. Since the project is typically too difficult for student teams to complete, studentson those teams who finish early are tempted by the faculty with extra credit opportunities tocarry the design farther. This opportunity appeals particularly to those students who arestruggling in the class, and they are thus encouraged to learn better and also work harder to finishearly so they can pursue extra credit work. Extra credit may be submitted by part of a team or bythe entire team.In the first course offering (Winter 2000-2001), ten different student teams designed a load framethat could test steel, concrete, timber, and composite beams up to 14 feet long for the structuralengineering laboratory at Rose-Hulman. The students knew the

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Roli Varma

. Disparities by social class and race/ethnicity are strongly relatedto pipeline progress in science and engineering related disciplines 7,10.This paper reports the findings from a case study conducted at the University of New Mexico(UNM), a Doctoral Intensive and a Minority/Hispanic-Serving Institution. UNM grantsundergraduate degrees in both key IT-related fields—CS and CE. Due to its proximity withnational laboratories (e.g. Sandia & Los Alamos laboratories), private industry (e.g. Intel), andthe state government, IT education at UNM offers excellent job and career opportunities for NewMexico residents, especially minorities. However, only 35% of undergraduate students enrolledin CS and 32% of those enrolled in CE are under -represented

Conference Session

Instrumentation Poster Session

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Mary Vollaro

RequirementsIn the IE314 Manufacturing Processes course, students experience the ‘learning beyond theclassroom’ activity of industrial field trips as an integral and required component of this course.The course is taught 2 times a week for one hour and fifteen minutes or 3 time a week for 50minutes and field trips are scheduled for a two-hour period by extending one of the sessions. Theadministration specifies a ‘laboratory period’, which corresponds to the working hours of mostcompanies and the student’s course schedules. The accompanying textbook is Materials and Processes in Manufacturing by E.Paul DeGarmo,J.T. Black, Ronald A. Kohser, Eighth Edition, Prentice-Hall Inc., Upper Saddle River, NJ,1997.The course description is as follows: “This

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade for Research

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Albert Lozano

service), with lesser emphasisplaced in the research and dissemination of new knowledge. Due to the innate undergraduateeducation nature of ET programs, even ET faculty with a doctoral degree, who were active inresearch and publication during their graduate studies feel limited in their ability to conductresearch work that may lead to scholarly publication. These limitations are mainly of infrastructuralnature, such as the absence of research laboratories, graduate students, etc. Finally there is someperceived feeling of “wasting one’s time” in involving themselves in the thorough process ofcreating, developing and submitting scholarly work for publication, that may be linked to previousunsuccessful attempts to publish their work.The previous

Conference Session

ET International Collaborations

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

A. A. Al-Anezi

Industries)· Civil Engineering Technology (Building, Highway, surveying)· Communication Engineering Technology· Electrical Engineering Technology (Electrical machine, Transmission)· Electronics Engineering Technology (Industrial)· Heavy Equipment Engineering Technology· Marine Engineering Technology· Mechanical Power Engineering Technology· Production Engineering Technology· Welding Technology· Physics Laboratories Technology· Chemical Laboratories TechnologyIn general the study system, as with all other institutions and universities in Kuwait,follows the credit system. It comprises of five semesters during which the student mustobtain 84 credits and successfully participate in a specified period of field training. CTSgraduates

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Abraham Michelen

(GUIs) using the Guide facility of MATLAB where theuser can interact with the GUI by using graphical objects. In this way, to change aparameter in a particular problem and repeat an operation with the new parameter can beaccomplished by clicking a push button or by dragging an interface.Guide is a set of tools designed to build GUIs from within MATLAB. In a matter ofminutes the experienced user can create complex graphical tools that can be used toteach the behavior of a system when one or several parameters are changed; even fullsimulation laboratory exercises can be created without a big effort. The author havedeveloped simulation labs for electronics and telecommunication courses that allow thestudents to study the behavior of systems

Conference Session

Teaching Materials Sci&Eng to Non-Majors

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Caroline Baillie; Adam Mannis

student feedback and an analysis of course results: § Important to be flexible to changes based on a review of the course.5) Since a common 1st year course involves teaching large classes in lectures, the course must be supplemented by tutorial and/or laboratory classes of smaller student numbers, in order to verify lecture content and to establish a relevance of the key material concepts for the separate engineering strands involved in the common 1st year: § Important to provide adequate resources for such supplementary tutorials and/or laboratory classes.Motivating students of mixed abilities and backgroundsKey Issues:“Materials for Engineers” classes often consist of students of mixed abilities andbackgrounds, with and

Conference Session

Mobile Robotics in Education

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Ronald Lessard

Session 2620 A Lego-Based Soccer-Playing Robot Competition For Teaching Design Ronald A. Lessard Norwich UniversityAbstractCourse Objectives in the ME382 Instrumentation Laboratory at Norwich University include1.Design of systems involving both computer hardware and software. 2.Use of modern computertools for data acquisition and control. By having the students use a Lego Mindstorms robot kitand Robolab graphical programming software as a rapid prototyping tool combination abeginning at achieving both outcomes can be efficiently accomplished. The problem to

Conference Session

Engineering Management Curriculum

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Waters

.4 It alsohas a genetic structure in the form of human knowledge and its prosthetic devices in the shape oflibraries, blueprints, computers, laboratories, and so on. As in biological evolution, knowledge isable to direct energy, to sustain temperatures, and to select, transport and transform chemicalelements into improbable structures, not only of skin, blood, and brains, but also of walls, waterpipes, and computers. 5The Process of Change in the Ecosystem- An ecosystem has innumerable niches for differentkinds of creatures and behaviors. A niche is the potential equilibrium population of a phenotype.The basic evolutionary process is the accumulation of knowledge, i.e. changes in genetic

Conference Session

Closing Manufacturing Competency Gaps I

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Mohamed Zarrugh

informationtechnology as a tool for increasing labor productivity and enhancing competitiveness.Successfully blending engineering, business, science and information technology, the coursesprovide a balanced contemporary treatment of manufacturing resource management, design andmanufacturing systems, and materials and manufacturing processes. Several laboratory modulesand group projects offered throughout the sequence provide opportunities for experientiallearning, hand-on experience and teamwork. The sequence addresses many of the criticalcompetency gaps in manufacturing engineering education reported in recent national surveys ofmanufacturing managers and practitioners.I. IntroductionEngineering education throughout its history has emphasized preparation for

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Jenkins; John Kramlich

Copyright © 2002, American Society for Engineering Education Figure 1 – Cone of learning showing increased retention of information with active learning (from Ref [5])involves a “do-say” aspect. A laboratory experiment with a formal written laboratory report isan example of such a “do-say” exercise. This 90% level of retention is in contrast to only 10%retention achieved through reading only such as in reading assignments out of a text book or aninformation search on the world wide web. The efficacy of active versus passive learning forincreasing retention of new information is shown graphically in Figure 1.These pedagogical observations give direction to the types of assessment methods that might beemployed