Collection

2013 GSW

Authors

Matthew Rivera; Vladimir Santalov; Andres Delagarza; Randall Manteufel

twenty-four hours of studying. A student’s time will quickly burnup and that is still without adding the time to work or do other important activities necessary ineveryday life. These impediments weigh heavily on the fact of graduation succession rates and that ofthe attendance rates of incoming freshman that are willing to take on the journey as an upcomingengineering major. Engineering is known to be a prestigious degree in that it is very difficult topass classes, understand the various topics of engineering, etc. But what should not makestudents deter from the road of engineering is the degree plan set forth by the college ofengineering. In a four year degree, the average semester calls for five to six classes and that iswithout

Collection

2013 GSW

Authors

Xavier Mirza; Amir Ali; Thomas Reyes; Jonathan Zea

. ConclusionWe were successfully able to complete our goal for harvesting the energy using heart vibrationsmodel. Although originally we had planned to work with an actual pacemaker, but unfortunatelythe manufacture had a tampering protection liquid on it which destroys the circuit if opened.After doing a bit more research we came across Volture energy harvesters, but after vigoroustesting we concluded that those harvesters were for higher frequency devices instead of apacemaker. Hence, we designed our own way of harvesting energy using miniSense100piezoelectric sensors that converts the heart’s vibrations and converts them into electrical energymounted parallel with LTC3588-1 that integrates a low-loss full-wave bridge rectifier with ahigh efficiency

Collection

2013 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Yacob Astatke; Farzad Moazzami; Craig Scott; Jumoke Ladeji-Osias

arequirement for future online students because we plan to form partnerships with test centers orlearning centers to allow them to take their exams from other locations. The ECE courses with online video lecture were offered during the Fall 2010 semester ashybrid courses and the Spring 2011 semester as completely online courses. The results shown inFig 4 are based on the students who enrolled in the Electric Circuits courses. The data shows thecomparison of the results for the 12 students enrolled in the online or hybrid courses during theFall 2010 and Spring 2011 semesters, versus those enrolled in the F2F courses in the Fall 2010semester (28 students) and the Spring 2011 semester (33 students). The results indicate that thesuccess of students

Collection

2013 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

David A. Vaccari

becomestudent members of their professional society, be active in the student chapter if there is one, andthen do the other things described.Finally, we need to directly assess student performance. Here, in contrast to most otheroutcomes, we may directly assess performance with a survey. It is direct if the survey is askingfor factual information, not judgements or opinions.A good place to do such a survey is in the senior exit interview. For example, one of thecommercially-conducted exit survey products [10] asks the following questions: • I have a good understanding of the professional opportunities offered by my chosen major. • I am planning to obtain an advanced degree in my field within the next 5 years.This same product

Conference Session

Retention and Persistence in Engineering

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Maria-Isabel Carnasciali, University of New Haven; Amy E Thompson, University of New Haven; Terance Joshua Thomas, University of New Haven

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

(Question 4). A separate study is planned for freshman to be executedduring the fall 2013 semester. Students were asked about their parents’ educational achievementlevel and results are shown in Figure 2 (Question 5). 40% Percentage of Participatats 30% 20% 10% 0% My mother and father At least one of my One of my parents is a Both of my parents are have never attended parents attended college graduate. college graduates. college. college, but

Conference Session

FPD 4: First-Year Engineering Courses, Part I: Multimedia, Large Classes, and TAs

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Farshid Marbouti, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Kelsey Joy Rodgers, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Hyunyi Jung, Purdue University; Alena Moon, Purdue University; Heidi A. Diefes-Dux, Purdue University, West Lafayette

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

about where they come from, what their plans and Help answer their questions helping them achieve them” (factors that help) students “As far as MEAs, there is a huge dis-connect from a classroom” (factors that Help regarding MEAs hinder) Page 23.588.5IV. ResultsIn this section, the first results reported are the frequencies of times that G/UTAs discuss theirvarious responsibilities along with their general perceptions of their positions. The three maintopics that both GTAs and UTAs discussed are training, grading, and helping students

Conference Session

New Concepts for Alternative and Renewable Energy Courses

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Radian G Belu, Drexel University (Tech.)

Tagged Divisions

Energy Conversion and Conservation

rapid progress in renewable energyutilization, there is a great need for trained professionals with adequate knowledge in this area tobe able to plan, design and operate RES systems, and perform analytic evaluation of their impacton power systems to which they are connected1-5. On the other hand, electric power systems,electric transmission and distribution systems are undergoing rapid changes due to deregulation,the penetration of dispersed and distributed energy resources (DER), renewable energygeneration and power electronics technologies, and the adoption of efficient computation,communications and control mechanisms. Due to these facts together with the interest of keepingstudents abreast of the current scientific and technological

Conference Session

Computational/CS Initiatives

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

A. Dean Fontenot, Texas Tech University; Richard A Burgess, Texas Tech University; Vinitha Hannah Subburaj M.S; Debra J Nash, Texas Tech University T-STEM Center

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

, andbecause high school Computer Science programs are on a decline, a significant time wasspent to help the participants create an action plan to incorporate computational thinking intheir respective school. The K-12 educators need to be exposed to the excitement and power Page 23.812.6of computer science and computational thinking. There were goals established in order toachieve this. The first goal was for the teachers, administrators, and students to understand thediscipline computer science. The second goal was to promote K-12 computing curriculum.The third goal was to encourage the teachers to incorporate the computational thinkingconcepts into

Conference Session

Delivery Methods in Mechanical Engineering Courses

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gregory Mason, Seattle University; Teodora Rutar Shuman, Seattle University; Kathleen E. Cook, Seattle University

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

. Page 23.828.4DescriptionThe course used in this study is Control Systems in the Mechanical Engineering program. TheControl Systems course is taught over 10-weeks as a four-credit quarter-long course required ofall senior mechanical engineering majors and is the students’ first exposure to control systemsconcepts in the curriculum. Prerequisite courses include Dynamic Systems and NumericalMethods. The course covers traditional controls topics including root locus, Bode plots, Nyquistplots, PID and lead/lag controller, see Table 1. Table 1. Control System Course Content (Planned)Topic DescriptionLadder Logic Design of simple discrete control logic using

Conference Session

Novel Pedagogies 2

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James A. Kaupp, Queen's University; Brian M Frank P.Eng., Queen's University; Ann Shih-yi Chen, Queen's University

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

about the purpose of supplemental material given? Questions · Did the participants clarify what questions they were supposed to answer? · Did the participants have a plan of action to answer the questions that they identified? Points of View · Did the participants ask whether there were other relevant viewpoints that should be considered? · Did the participants ask about the viewpoints expressed in

Conference Session

Using Student Competitions to Enhance Learning

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Chris Carroll, University of Louisiana, Lafayette

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

areevaluated by some form of a final report. In the traditional civil engineering curriculum, undergraduate students take courses withboth lecture and laboratory formats. While the lecture courses provide the opportunity forstudents to absorb new information, the purpose of a laboratory is to expose students to thephysical problems associated with a course and reinforce course content. The traditional type oflaboratory has well-planned experiments, typically containing step-by-step guides leading thestudents through each experiment. Generally in groups of four or five, students in-turn conductthe experiment, regurgitate the results, and prepare a laboratory report, arguably fulfilling ABETstudent outcome (b) “an ability to design and conduct

Conference Session

FPD 2: Retention

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Herbert P. Schroeder, University of Alaska Anchorage; Linda P. Lazzell, University of Alaska Anchorage

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

 Skill Building Academic Advising √ graduate from middle  Research Planning/ Summer Academic Enrichment √ school with algebra 1 Initiation successfully completed. Tutoring

Conference Session

Engineering Identity 2

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rachel McCord Ellestad, Virginia Tech

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

classified them as an engineer or non-engineer, the participants weregiven the opportunity to self-identify as an engineer or non-engineer at the end of the interviewprocess. Page 23.240.12Interview Process Interviews were conducted at locations that were convenient to each participant. Allinterviews were audio recorded for the purpose of review by the researcher. Field notes were alsorecorded during each interview. For the purpose of this study, interviews were not transcribeddue to the limited time in which this study was conducted. In future research, I will conduct moreinterviews with participants and plan to transcribe and code

Conference Session

Difference, Disability, and (De)Politicization: The Invisible Axes of Diversity

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Amy E. Slaton, Drexel University

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

with matters of identity and equity in science and technologyis less explicable still to his or her home discipline. And as little explored as race, gender, andLGBT identity might be, physical ability and disability in STEM disciplines remain subjects witheven less presence in social scientific spheres. This paper considers this absence: why dopersons with disabilities constitute an identity that remains underexplored in STEM educationtheory, marginalized in institutional planning, and nearly invisible in critical social scientificstudies of those fields, even where other forms of exclusion have come under study? What ideasabout bodies and intellectual abilities and the linkages between them are foundational to STEM,and why have social

Conference Session

Programs in Entrepreneurship

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Steven B. Shooter, Bucknell University; Seth Orsborn, Bucknell University

Tagged Divisions

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

willing to share their time and knowledge. The quality of their“lectures” was outstanding. We held several meetings with the guests to plan out their “lectures”.These meetings led to broader discussions about innovation and formed closer interdisciplinaryrelationships. The faculty then recognized that we have more in common then we had beforerealized. These relationships have led to other collaborations with guest lectures occurring in anumber of different courses. For example, one of us has given a guest lecture on kinematics andmechanisms to the sculpture class assigned to create mechanistic art. And Joe Meiser, professorin studio art, is team teaching a class for the MIDE program. Additionally, we have faculty nowworking together on

Conference Session

Institutional Perspectives and Boundary Work

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ron D Dempsey, Southern Polytechnic State University

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

professors not only have teaching experience but also the industry experience which adds to the quality of teaching. Engineering programs have a long way to go to perfection. They do not teach skills to students.7 See Purdue’s ET program at http://www.tech.purdue.edu/MET/academics/undergraduate/MET/plan-of-study.cfmor UNC-Charlotte’s ET programs at http://et.uncc.edu/undergraduate-programs/electrical-engineering-technology/4-year-academic-plan-of-study.html.8 ABET, the engineering accrediting body for U.S. programs, has separate commissions (the EngineeringAccrediting Commission and the Technology Accrediting Commission) with separate criteria for accrediting

Conference Session

Track 1 - Session II - Student Development

Collection

2013 ASEE International Forum

Authors

Edward J. Berger, University of Virginia; Reid Bailey, University of Virginia

Tagged Topics

Student Development

. GCOs 3(c) and 4(d)engage students in retaining "composure and equanimity when they don't have information tocope with uncertainty (tolerance for ambiguity)" and coping "with frustration, adversity, orchallenging circumstances (resilience)", both of which once again express the great challenges ofpracticing engineering in a global context. While the GCOs are written for the entire universityand all its disciplines, it is clear that many of them have a special resonance for engineeringeducation and practice.Pre-Departure Planning and the Beginning of the S.A. ExperienceThe student lifecycle for study abroad experiences at our university takes the following format.In brief, students are introduced to available programs via advertisements, flyers

Conference Session

Delivery Methods in Mechanical Engineering Courses

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David J. Dimas, The University of California, Irvine; Faryar Jabbari, University of California, Irvine; Jia Frydenberg, University of California, Irvine

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

had no effect 8% It was really helpful that I could go back to it later 56% It helped me understand things better 63%A majority of the students indicated that having prerecorded lectures would be helpful in more oftheir classes but it was interesting to note that 23% thought it was good for the current class(Dynamics) but not for other courses. In subsequent work, the authors plan to investigate thereason for this. Question 3 - Overall, how did you feel having the added resource of online lecture videos affected your performance in the class

Conference Session

Undergraduate Student Issues: Persistence

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Christine Valle, Georgia Institute of Technology; John D. Leonard II, Georgia Institute of Technology; Ann Marie Blasick, Georgia Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Women in Engineering

at least one D, F or W – all have a tendency to delay graduation, though the effect is much more pronounced for men than for women.Future work includes looking at additional behaviors of interest: students involved in the Greek system or other similar organizations on campus that take a lot of time outside of class, the influence of co-op semesters and internships, the influence of undergraduate research, living in on-campus housing or not, changing majors and/or Colleges.We also plan to look at ethnicity and race, and whether URMs also exhibit the same behavior aswomen and white men (we suspect that is not the case). We also plan to conduct interviews, bothone-on-one and in focus groups, to better uncover the rationales

Conference Session

Undergraduate Student Issues: Persistence

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cate Samuelson, University of Washington; Elizabeth Litzler, University of Washington

Tagged Divisions

Women in Engineering

students on both current work and future plans. These Page 23.1058.12connections not only provided female stayers with professionals to turn to for information andsupport, but also connections they could tap in the future when seeking employment. In other   words, these experiences helped them develop the kind of social capital that could be particularlyhelpful in their future engineering pursuits.2 In fact, some stayers reported that they had alreadysecured a job (i.e. post-graduation or additional internship or co-op) as a result of their

Conference Session

Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) Poster Session

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alexander Ganago, University of Michigan; Hongwei Liao

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

audience in the service course. Sincere and detailed answers toopen-ended questions are similar in depth and value to what can be collected (at a muchhigher cost) in focus groups. The frequency of surveys and prompt availability of theirresults render this feedback formative: some of the necessary changes can be readilyimplemented during the semester.An additional value of the student feedback involves continuity of the learners’experience: at the end of every semester we ask students enrolled in the course to provideadvice to the students who plan to take this course in the future, and we convey their(wisest) advice to new students as part of the course syllabus.In order to provide incentives to students and collect feedback representative of the

Conference Session

Global Competency and What Makes a Successful Engineer

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kari Wold, University of Virginia; Stephanie Moore Ph.D., University of Virginia

Tagged Divisions

International

transnational engineering programs and partnerships that do exist have oftenbeen fruitful. For instance, the Nanyang-Singapore-MIT Alliance, which was created in 1998by the National University of Singapore, Nanyang Technological University, and the Page 23.1209.3Massachusetts Institute of Technology has collaborated successfully to promote research andcollaborations in science and engineering education35. It has created five graduate degreeprograms focused on research in global engineering and is now one of the largest interactivetransnational education initiatives in the world with plans to expand its programs andinternational outreach in the coming

Conference Session

Mathematics Division Technical Session 4

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Hassan Moore, University of Alabama, Birmingham

Tagged Divisions

Mathematics

components, like units and dimensional analysis, tying mathematics andengineering together. The course added more of an engineering appeal to the traditionalmultivariable calculus and differential equations material with the use of engineering-basedhomework problems, test questions, and projects. The projects typically tackle problems inmechanics, electrical systems, population dynamics, optimizations, etc. designed to address themajor focal areas of the course. This paper includes projects that tackle first-order ordinarydifferential equations (ODEs), second order ODEs, and multivariable calculus.IntroductionWith a year of planning between the School of Engineering and the Mathematics Department, anew four-hour course was developed to incorporate

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics Division Technical Session

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

William J. Schell IV P.E., Montana State University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Ethics

engineering student whose immediatecareer plans are changed due to a family emergency and the subsequent potential foremployment in an industry whose work runs counter to the student’s personal and family beliefs. Page 23.723.5The second teaching technique employed was the utilization of ethics related applicationquestions on each of the two course exams. In both exams, these questions representedapproximately 20% of the available points and asked students to synthesize how a given ethicalframework applied to a management system they designed. The final traditional approach wasthat of short opinion pieces written within the online class discussion

Conference Session

Dynamics - Wow! They accelerate

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Brian P. Self, California Polytechnic State University; James M Widmann, California Polytechnic State University; Michael J. Prince, Bucknell University; Jeffrey Georgette

Tagged Divisions

Mechanics

seen. In the future, weplan to have a more in-depth discussion after the first horizontal pull, then have them completethe second portion with the vertical pull. We are also planning on developing a simulation Page 23.761.12module that would indicate the direction of the friction under different forces. Additionally, wewill assign a homework problem, including some conceptual questions, to help solidify theirlearning.The Cylinder/Pipe IBLA was successful, but we did encounter some difficulties duringimplementation. It is important to make the ramp angle shallow – otherwise small differencesare exacerbated as the objects “race” to the bottom

Conference Session

Online Learning

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mihaela Vorvoreanu, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Geovon Andre Boisvenue, Purdue University; Francisco Javier Portela II; Anna Bao

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education

order to identify and categorize the major features theyoffer and offered suggestions for integrating these tools into existing plans for online identitymanagement.Several limitations must be taken into consideration. First, it is possible that not all availabletools were captured and analyzed. Second, the market is very dynamic. From the time we firststarted collecting tools until the time of the content analysis, several services had becomeinactive, thus reducing the initial number of 51 identified tools to 41 tools that we analyzed.Many other services may emerge in the months after the analysis was conducted. Even though itis impossible to capture more than a snapshot of this dynamic landscape, we hope that theanalysis was able to identify

Conference Session

Involving Undergraduates in Research

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Randel L. Dymond, Virginia Tech; Vinod K Lohani, Virginia Tech; Daniel S Brogan, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Manuel Alejandro Martinez, Virginia Tech

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

only a few hours, continuous data from the LEWAS provided some reasonable explanation for Figure 4: Fish kill from the turbidity event the fish kill7.Integration of LEWAS into the Hydrology CourseFunding of the NSF/TUES program allowed the investigators to develop and implement plans tointegrate the LEWAS into the hydrology course as well as two pre-engineering courses at a localcommunity college. An introductory 1-day workshop was organized on August 2, 2012 forintroducing the LEWAS to the instructors of these courses. Presentations at the workshopcovered design of the LEWAS, procedures adopted to calibrate water and weather hardware, andexamples of various applications such as the case

Conference Session

Involving Undergraduates in Research

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Usama El Shamy P.E., Southern Methodist University; Tarek Abdoun, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Flora P McMartin, Broad-based Knowledge, LLC; Miguel A. Pando, University of North Carolina, Charlotte

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

course on geotechnical engineeringprior to that semester and were familiar with topics such as phase relationships, compaction,permeability and seepage, effective stress and stress distribution, shear strength of soils, andbearing capacity of shallow foundations as well as the traditional geotechnical lab experiments.The instructors at the three institutions collaborated in planning the learning activities for theproject. The instructors faced a number of logistical challenges associated with synchronizing theproject tasks at the three schools. To accommodate for different course schedules and start/enddates, students were informed at the start of each course that the project would require that theyattend one late afternoon during a specified

Conference Session

Novel Teaching Methods In Engineering Technology

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tianwei Wang, Clemson University; John R. Wagner, Clemson University; Kapil Chalil Madathil, Clemson University; Melissa Isabel Zelaya, Clemson University; Jeff Bertrand; Kristin Kelly Frady, Clemson University for Workforce Development; Anand K. Gramopadhye, Clemson University; Sabarish V. DUPE Babu, School of Computing, Clemson University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

project with the measurement devices given theirwidespread usage in automotive and aerospace systems. The metrology CAD modules werecreated and the interactive features designed in the virtual world. The objective was to help thelearner understand the basic functionality and the appropriate operation method of the caliper.The 3D visualization and virtual reality was seamlessly integrated into the courses and modulesincorporating course plans, exercises, quizzes, exams, and laboratory manuals resulting in anintegrated assessment approach.In the virtual environment, each module contains four sections - introduction, guided practice,exercise, and assessment as shown in Fig. 5. First, the introduction offers basic informationabout the instrument and

Conference Session

Information and Network Security

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Abul K. M. Azad, Northern Illinois University; Munish Sharma, Northern Illinois University

Tagged Divisions

Computing & Information Technology

with anintegrated learning management system. The first part of the paper provides a description of thedevelopment process of remote laboratory, while the second part details the LMS that is beingused to facilitate the remote laboratory. In addition, the LMS provides a means of monitoringand analyzing the usage of the facility through different web applications. Effort has been madeto use cutting edge technologies to maximize the benefits of modern technologies throughout thedevelopment process. The lead author is planning to deploy the developed system by offering alaboratory course over the Internet. Once completed, the authors will be able to share theexperience in the future.AcknowledgementThe authors would like to thank the National