AC 2011-2210: DEVELOPMENT OF EDGD WEBSITE AUTOMATED LEARN-ING AND ASSESSMENT RESOURCESAmanda Varricchio, Daniel Webster College Amanda Varricchio is a recent graduate of Daniel Webster College with a Bachelor’s Degree in mechanical engineering. She was honored for her academic achievement by being named to the Presidents List and has severed as captain of the softball team for the past two seasons. She is currently employed by Pratt & Whitney Aircraft as an associate test engineer.Theodore J. Branoff, North Carolina State University Dr. Branoff is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mathematics, Science and Technology Edu- cation at North Carolina State University. A member of ASEE since 1987, he has
Implementing Engineering Technology Curriculum,” Proceedings of the ASEE annual conference and exposition, 2005.4. V. Mitin, N. Vagidov, and X. Liu, “Developing a Lab Course in Nanotechnology for Undergraduate Engineering Students,” Proceedings of the ASEE annual conference and exposition, 2008.5. Science Daily, Science News: New Nanotechnology Products Hitting The Market At The Rate Of 3-4 Per Week, http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/04/080424102505.htm, (Accessed Oct. 2010).6. Kylie Catchpole, “Plasmons for Enhancing Solar Cells,” Invited paper, 2010 Conference on Optoelectronic and Microelectronic Materials and Devices (COMMAD 2010 - IEEE), Canberra, Australia, Dec. 2010.7. J. Ruparelia, A. Chatterjee, S. Duttagupta
, Bowling Green State University Jon M. Stevens is an Instructor of Architecture at Bowling Green State University. Jon primarily teaches first and Third year Design Studios, Design Build Seminars and Introductory Computer Aided Design courses. His interests / Research include Urbanism, Representation and Design Build projects. Page 22.370.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011 Connecting Concepts in Sustainable Design and Digital Fabrication: A Project- Based Learning Case StudyAbstractThis paper documents a project-based learning experience involving
electronics course covers basics of semiconductor devices, dc-dc, dc-ac, and ac-dcconverter topologies. Within the class, there is a strong emphasis on theoretical design andcontrol issues, e.g., component design, thermal considerations, and effects of non-idealities onthe converter. Even though these topics are important in their own right, students were neverexposed to newer technologies that are becoming predominant in power engineering. Technicaladvantages of digital control, combined with the tremendous growth of DSPs have resulted inwidespread adoption of digital control technology in all areas of power electronics applications.The lack of appropriate training on experimental aspects hampered students’ ability to advanceand apply state-of-the
AC 2011-2037: A REMOTE LABORATORY FOR ROBOTICS ACCURACYAND RELIABILITY STUDIESRichard Chiou, Drexel University Dr. Richard Chiou’s background is in mechanical engineering with an emphasis on manufacturing. Dr. Chiou is currently an associate professor in the Goodwin School of Technology and Professional Studies at Drexel University. His areas of research include machining, mechatronics, and internet based robotics and automation. He has secured many research and education grants from the NSF, the SME Education Foundation, and industries.Robin Kizirian, Drexel University Robin Kizirian completed his M.S. degree in Computer Engineering at Drexel University in Philadelphia and his B.S. degree in Computer
increasing commitment by Americanindustry and the Obama Administration to Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics(STEM) is further illustrated by the Change the Equation initiative(http://www.changetheequation.org). Key to achieving the goals of comprehensive STEMeducation initiatives is attending to the essential variables that contribute to developing highlycapable and inspirational STEM teachers. Using the extant literature, our experience, and theneeds communicated by the K-5 teacher community, we identified a number of these essentialcognitive, affective and pedagogical variables and used them as a guide to refine the SySTEMicSolution, a professional development program designed to enhance the STEM teaching capacityof teachers grades
AC 2011-2179: THE DESIGN PROCESS AS AN APPROACH TO UNDER-STANDING ENGINEERING AS A PROFESSIONRebecca N. Macdonald, University of Alabama NSF GK-12 Fellow, Doctoral student in Civil EngineeringBeth Todd, University of Alabama Dr. Beth Todd is an Associate Professor in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Alabama. Page 22.1438.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011 The Design Process as an Approach to Understanding Engineering as a ProfessionIntroduction and BackgroundThe importance of furthering science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) in
tools, design, simulation, and diagnosesof electrical distribution systems. All the real world components in electrical distributionnetwork such as residential, commercial and industrial building are modeled in this project.BackgroundThe purpose of this project1 is to design and implement a small scale electric power network by ateam of seven students, supervised by a faculty member. The students’ background is inelectrical engineering with emphasis in electric power system. The students conducted a study inthe field of Smart Grid technologies for history and background information. This work led todesigning and implementing a small model of a smart gird power distribution network. Thepower grid represents the real world aspirations of both
research include machine vision and image processing applications (digital watermarking, degraded fingerprint recognition, object detection and tracking), instrumentation, applications in biomedical engi- neering, and effective teaching pedagogies.Korinne Caruso, Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi Korinne Caruso is the Engineering Education Program Coordinator for Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi. She completed her Bachelor of Science in Control Systems Engineering Technology in 2002 and a Master of Science in Elementary Education in 2005, after which she received her Mathematics Certification for Grades 4-12. Mrs. Caruso was a researcher in the areas of Engineering and Computing Sciences and has
AC 2011-435: MEASURING THE EFFECTS OF INTEGRATING ENGI-NEERING INTO THE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL CURRICULUM ON STU-DENTS’ SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING DESIGN CONTENT KNOWL-EDGEMelissa Dyehouse, Purdue University Melissa Dyehouse is a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Institute for P-12 Engineering Research and Learning (INSPIRE). She received her M.S.Ed. and Ph.D. in Educational Psychology from Purdue University. She has conducted research on instrument development and validation, students’ perceptions of engineers and scientists, and the effectiveness of interventions to improve students’ perceptions and attitudes about science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) disciplines. Her research at INSPIRE focuses on the
AC 2011-2291: ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING PRO-GRAMS IN TWO COUNTRIES: A NEW PARADIGM FOR COOPERA-TIONOrlando R. Baiocchi, University of Washington, TacomaDavid A. Rogers, North Dakota State University David A. Rogers is a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at North Dakota State University (NDSU) in Fargo. His engineering technical interests are applied electromagnetics and fiber optics. He received the B.S.E.E. cum Laude from the University of Washington in 1961, the M.S.E.E. from Illinois Institute of Technology in 1964, and the Ph.D. (E.E.) from Washington in 1971. He earned registration as a Professional Engineer (Electrical Engineering) in the State of Washington in 1972. In
be presented. Preliminary findings from theJanuary 2011 field test will also be presented.Clearly a concept inventory for graphical communication is needed; the Delphi method provided Page 22.759.2such an instrument that can be used across multiple settings, universities, classrooms. Thisconcept inventory will help faculty and students learn more effectively in the current learningenvironments provided for engineering graphics.Context and Purpose StatementIn 2000, ABET, (originally named Accreditation Board for Engineering Technology), issued itsrevised objectives for the accreditation of undergraduate engineering programs. These
AC 2011-908: STEM INTEGRATION IN A PRE-COLLEGE COURSE INDIGITAL ELECTRONICS: ANALYSIS OF THE ENACTED CURRICU-LUMAmy C. Prevost, University of Wisconsin-Madison Ms. Prevost is a doctoral student in Education Leadership and Policy Analysis at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her research is focused on the STEM career pipeline, especially related to engi- neering, engineering education and the molecular biosciences. In addition to her work in education re- search, she is also the Director of scientific courses at the BioPharmaceutical Technology Center Institute in Madison, WI, where she coordinates curricula in the area of molecular biology.Mitchell Nathan, University of Wisconsin, Madison Mitchell J. Nathan, BSEE
AC 2011-792: THIRTY YEARS OF RUBE GOLDBERG PROJECTS: ASTUDENT-DRIVEN LEARNING LABORATORY FOR INNOVATIONR. William Graff, LeTourneau University R. William Graff is a professor in the school of Engineering and Engineering Technology at LeTourneau University, where he has taught since 1975. He received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees from Purdue University in electrical engineering. Prior to joining the faculty at LeTourneau, he was assistant professor of electrical engineering at Drexel University for six years, and then at Wilkes College for two years. His professional interests include antennas, microwaves, plasmas, teaching, and ethics.Paul R. Leiffer, LeTourneau University PAUL R. LEIFFER, PhD, PE Paul R
AC 2011-2416: MICROWAVE PLASMA CLEANER DESIGN FOR SEMI-CONDUCTOR FABRICATION AND MATERIALS PROCESSING LABO-RATORY USEMustafa G. Guvench, University of Southern Maine Mustafa G. Guvench received M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering and Applied Physics from Case Western Reserve University. He is currently a full professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of Southern Maine. Prior to joining U.S.M. he served on the faculties of the University of Pittsburgh and M.E.T.U., Ankara, Turkey. His research interests and publications span the field of mi- croelectronics including I.C. design, MEMS and semiconductor technology and its application in sensor development, finite element and analytical modeling
AppliedMathematics”.1 Laboratory courses are also important in accreditation and in ASEE Quality inEngineering Education Project.2,3 The Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology(ABET) requires that engineering programs demonstrate that their students attain elevenoutcomes, including one that most specifically addresses laboratory courses:2Outcome (b): Our students will have an ability to design and conduct experiments as well as toanalyze and interpret data.At the University of Kentucky, all mechanical engineering students are required to take asequence of experimentation courses: ME310-Engineering Experimentation I and ME311-Engineering Experimentation II. While ME310 focuses on fundamentals of measurementtechniques, instrumentation, interfaces
Page 22.1678.16References Cited1 Written Testimony of William H. Gates Chairman, Microsoft Corporation And Co-Chair, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Before the Committee on Science and Technology United States House of Representatives March 12, 2008.2 Vivek Wadhaw, ―Shortage of Engineers or a Glut: No Simple Answer,‖ available at http://wadhwa.com/blog/2010/12/04/shortage-of-engineers-or-a-glut-no-simple-answer/ (last accessed Jan. 13, 2011).3 Written Testimony of William H. Gates Chairman, Microsoft Corporation And Co-Chair, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Before the Committee on Science and Technology United States House of Representatives March 12, 2008.4 William P
Page 22.271.2 • Be just plain fun!In the context of the larger HMC curriculum, E11 also fills a number of gaps. Neither of the firsttwo required engineering courses (E4, Introduction to Design, and E59, Introduction toEngineering Systems) involve substantial amounts of detailed design informed by technology, somost students don’t get a sense of “what engineers really do” until far into their studies. Facultyhave observed that sophomores struggle in the Engineering Systems course partly due to a lackof context and practical applications for the theory of systems analysis. Moreover, the requiredCore computer science course focuses on Python; engineering majors are presently not requiredto learn C programming, limiting their ability to work
assistant professor and the director of Architectural Engineering Program at Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT). He was re- sponsible for developing the current architectural engineering undergraduate and master’s programs at the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT). During his stay at IIT, he taught fundamental engineering courses, such as thermodynamics and heat transfer, as well as design courses, such as HVAC, energy, plumbing, fire protection and lighting. Also, he supervise many courses in the frame of interprofessional projects program (IPRO). In few months, Dr. Megri will defend his ”Habilitation” (HDR) degree at Pierre and Marie Curie Univer- sity - Paris VI, Sorbonne Universities
Center faculty to develop a major research and technology transfer thrust in composite materials. Page 22.1354.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011 Summer Engineering Academy (SEA), a STEM initiative to recruit high-school students into engineering and science disciplinesIntroductionAccording to a recent report on K-12 Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM)education by the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) to thePresident, the success of the United States in the 21st century will depend on the
Distance Training in Robotic Applications," Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation (ETFA), 2007, pp. 1180-1187[11] D. Karadimas, K. Efstathiou, "An Integrated Educational Platform Implementing Real, Remote Lab- Experiments for Electrical Engineering Courses," Journal of Computers, Vol 2, No 2, 2007, pp. 37-44[12] Z. Allen, D. Schmidt, W. Wahlmann, " WebLab - Comprehensive Remote Laboratory System," Proceedings of the 2006 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, 2006-101, 2006[13] O. Ropohl, “Entwicklung einer Software zur Steuerung und Regelung eines realen Systems über das Internet,” Diplom-Thesis, Cologne, Germany, 2001.[14] A. Koroll, “Virtuelles Labor für regelungstechnische Versuche
shortening of the students’ learning curve and the reduction of the starting “torque” of theirmicrocontroller-based projects. The projects incorporated the reference designs weresuccessfully completed with positive feedbacks as indicated in their project reports. Thereference designs are suitable for engineering curriculums that emphasize hands-on experienceand should continually be updated and expanded to include the latest in technology if budgetspermit.Bibliography[1] Almy, T., Designing with Microcontrollers the 68HCS12, Rev. 1A, 2005.[2] Cady, F., Software and Hardware Engineering Assembly and C Programming for the Freescale HCS12Microcontroller, 2nd ed., Oxford, 2008.[3] Choi, C.H., “Undergraduate Controls Laboratory Experience,” Proceedings
growing, high-tech, global economy1. Yet the “talent pool” among manysectors of the population goes largely untapped2. As Legand Burge, Dean of the College ofEngineering, Architecture and Physical Sciences at Tuskegee University, one of the nation’spremiere Black colleges, noted, “there needs to be more of a national commitment to improvethe teaching of technology” at the high school level in order to promote engineering3. This meansthat reform of engineering education must address not only the design of post-secondaryprograms, but of K–12 education as well.Along with a growing urgency for promoting student understanding of the individual facets ofscience, technology, engineering and mathematics has come a drive to reconceptualizeinstruction in
AC 2011-1207: ENERGY EFFICIENT DESIGN USING BUILDING INFOR-MATION MODELING AND ENERGY SIMULATIONChristian Daniel Douglass, University Of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Christian received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the Department of Industrial and Enterprise Systems Engineering at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.James M Leake, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign James M. Leake joined the Department of Industrial and Enterprise Systems (formerly General) Engineer- ing in August 1999. His educational background includes an MS in Mechanical Engineering (1993) from the University of Washington, a BS in Ocean Engineering (1980) from Florida Atlantic University, and a BA in Art History (1974
appendix. The categorized data are analyzed with percentage of frequencydistributions. Subjects were chosen from the past three years who took the freehand sketchingclasses. Normally there are twenty students in each class session. The class is offered in both falland spring semesters. All the students are freshmen majoring in interior design and some of themare majoring in architectural engineering technology. Subjects’ portfolios were analyzed basedon the grading rubrics. Selected drawings from the portfolio were analyzed. a) Research Design The approach of this study is using assessment elements. These assessment elements weregenerated based on the rubrics in the grading sheets. All the rubrics were created based onfour perception skills
and 2007, respectively. From 1993 to 1997, he worked for Telefnica of Argentina for four years designing and planning telephony outside plant net- works. Then he worked for five years for Lucent Technologies Power Systems (later Tyco Electronics Power Systems) as a Technical Support Engineer and Sales Technical Consultant in Latin America. For three years, he was also a part-time instructor in charge of ITBA’s telecommunications laboratory. He is currently and Assistant Professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin and his research interests include power electronics, distributed generation, renewable and alternative energy, and analysis of the impact of
, Engineering Accreditation Commission, Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology, ABET, Inc., Baltimore, Maryland, 2009.2 A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK Guide), Fourth Edition, Project Management Institute, New Town Square, PA, 2008: 253-254.3 Durval Jacintho, “Challenges of Project Management for the Integration of Organizations Into Mergers and Acquisitions Process”, PMI Virtual Library, Project Management Institute 2009.4 Donald Watson, Dennis Tanczos, George List, “Integrating Architecture and Engineering in the Curriculum: a report on a joint architecture-engineering design studio”, ASCA Summer Conference University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, August 2-4 1996
AC 2011-585: DIFFERENTIATED INSTRUCTION AND ACTIVE LEARN-ING ENVIRONMENTSJohn Marshall, University of Southern Maine John Marshall received his Ph.D. from Texas A&M University and is the Departmental Internship Co- ordinator at the University of Southern Maine. His areas of specialization include Power and Energy Processing, Applied Process Control Engineering, Automation, Fluid Power, and Facility Planning. Page 22.500.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011 Differentiated Instruction and Active Learning EnvironmentsThe
/Urban Design. McKibben + Cooper specializes in sustainable urban design, architecture and site technologies, including master planning. Page 22.1629.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011 Using Building Performance Modeling as a Vehicle for Re-IntegrationSection 1 IntroductionSection 1.1 The Challenge One of the biggest challenges in today’s building design industry revolves around themanagement of an integrated design team. This issue is particularly painted by the need for deepenergy savings in buildings. An integrated team
AC 2011-1346: THE POTENTIAL OF BIM TO FACILITATE COLLABO-RATIVE AEC EDUCATIONJennifer Anne Macdonald, University of Technology SydneyJulie E. Mills, University of South Australia Julie Mills is Professor and Program Director in Civil Engineering at the University of South Australia in Adelaide, Australia. Prior to commencing at the University in 1996, she worked for fifteen years as a structural engineer in private industry on industrial, commercial and residential projects. She has a BE (Hons) from Adelaide University and a PhD from Curtin University in the area of structural engineering education. Her primary research interests are in cold-formed steel structures, engineering education and women in engineering