Conference Session

DEED Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Mei-yi Lau; Ming-yin Chan

teacher assumes as an adviser. Students work in groups to solve challenging problems that are original,curriculum-based, and often interdisciplinary. Students take the active role to decide how totackle a problem and what activities to pursue. Students gather information from a variety ofsources and synthesize, analyze, and derive knowledge from it. Their learning is inherentlyvaluable because it is connected to something real and involves liaison skills such ascollaboration and mediation. The most important element is reflection. Students candemonstrate their newly acquired knowledge in the final report. Students are judged by thepresentation and peer assessment. The role of teachers, unlike traditional classroom teaching,is to provide

Conference Session

Equity, Culture & Social Justice Technical Session

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sara Al Humidi; Alena Sloan; Andrea Atkins, University of Waterloo; Rania Al-Hammoud, University of Waterloo

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Culture & Social Justice in Education Division (EQUITY), Equity

their studio course the same term. In thestudio course, students were asked to design a facade for an existing residence building oncampus. The students then had to use their mechanics knowledge and design a canopy for theentrance of the building that also integrated with the design of their facade. The objective was toallow them to see the feasibility of their designs. This project gave students the opportunity topractice design that is aesthetically pleasing but also structurally feasible. Thus, emphasizing thatthey cannot design abstractly without considering the structural integrity of their designs.The comments from the students in the end of term evaluation highlighted that despite projectsof this scale being enjoyable and beneficial to

Conference Session

Design in Engineering Education Division (DEED) - Best in DEED

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Emily Lawson-Bulten, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign; Samantha Lindgren, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign; Ann-Perry Witmer P.E., University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education Division (DEED)

Development Studies, Emily utilizes participatory approaches to increase engineering awareness and community agency throughout the design process. Emily integrates feminist and anti-racist methodologies into the classroom as well, finding new ways to engage students’ whole selves into engineering work.Dr. Samantha Lindgren, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign Samantha Lindgren is an Assistant Professor of Sustainability Education in the College of Education at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. She is affiliated faculty in the Grainger College of Engineering in Agricultural and Biological Engineering and the Technology Entrepreneurship Center, and the Women and Gender in Global Perspectives program.Dr

Conference Session

Inclusive Horizons: Shaping Diverse Pathways in Engineering and Design Education

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rachael E Cate, Oregon State University; Jacob Field, Oregon State University; Sierra Kai Sverdrup, Oregon State University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Culture & Social Justice in Education Division (EQUITY), Equity

. Not only do these practices help to support a strong foundation for educational action research studies, they also serve as a foundation for an educational culture within which transformative learning can occur. 2. Experiential design courses should be used to teach integrated skills, and also these courses should be extended throughout the curriculum in a way that allows for maximum scaffolding, possibly beginning as early as the freshman year in some form. 3. More broadly, experiential opportunities should be developed that complement engineering programs and empower students to build integrated practical and professional/interpersonal skills, to participate in an inclusive, supportive engineering

Conference Session

International Engineering Education I

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Janet Ellzey; Ted Aanstoos, The University of Texas, Austin; Kathy Schmidt, The University of Texas at Austin

diversity awareness as desirable traits of new-hireengineers. Similar goals appear in the ABET 2000 criteria. The Mechanical EngineeringDepartment at The University of Texas at Austin is developing an International EngineeeringProgram with the goal of increasing the number of undergraduate students with internationalexperience. A pilot six-week summer program in 2004 involved nine students earning six credithours in Grenoble, France. The program consisted of an upper-division technical elective“Engineering Standards and Industrial Policy in a Global Environment” and an American historycourse, “American Foreign Policy.” Student performance and feedback from this pilot semesteryielded positive results, and based on this success two additional

Conference Session

Electrical and Computer Division Technical Session 7

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

J. Craig Prather, Auburn University; Stuart M. Wentworth, Auburn University

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

Annual Conference & Exposition, Austin, Texas.[3] T. Roppel, J. Y. Hung, S. W. Wentworth, and A.S. Hodel, “An Interdisciplinary Laboratory Sequence in Electrical and Computer Engineering: Curriculum Design and Assessment Results,” IEEE Transactions on Education, Vol. 43, No. 2, pp. 143-152, May 2000.[4] J. Craig Prather, Haley Harrell, Lesley Bartlett, and Stuart Wentworth. “Enhanced Radio Lab Experience using ePortfolios.” 2016 ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, June 2016.[5] B. R. Wilcox and H. J. Lewandowski, “Open-ended Versus Guided Laboratory Activities: Impact on Students` Beliefs about Experimental Physics,” Physics Review Physics Education Research, 12, 020132, 2016.[6] B. M. Zwickl, N. Finkelstein, and H

Collection

2020 ASEE North Midwest Section Annual Conference

Authors

Ann M Gansemer-Topf, Iowa State University; Qing Li, Iowa State University; Shan Jiang, Iowa State University of Science and Technology; Gül E. Kremer, Iowa State University of Science and Technology; Nigel Forest Reuel, Iowa State University of Science and Technology; Rebecca Mort

New Investigator Award and Dean’s Excellence in Learning and Teaching Award. Dr. Jiang has received funding support for both his research lab and education initiative from several federal agencies including NSF, USDA and NASA. He recently received an NSF-IGE award for launching a new Gradu- ate for Advancing Professional Skills (GAPS) education program, which integrates project management training with thesis research for graduate students. ¨ E. Okudan-Kremer, Iowa State University of Science and TechnologyDr. Gul G¨ul E. Kremer received her PhD from the Department of Engineering Management and Systems Engi- neering of Missouri University of Science & Technology. Her research interests include multi-criteria

Conference Session

CoNECD Session : Day 3 Slot 5 Technical Session 3

Collection

2021 CoNECD

Authors

Annette L. Pilkington, Colorado School of Mines; Amy E. Landis

Tagged Topics

CoNECD Paper Submissions, Diversity

Paper ID #28523Increasing Retention and Graduation Rates for Women in STEMMs. Annette L. Pilkington, Colorado School of Mines Annette Pilkington is the Director of the Women in Science, Engineering and Mathematics (WISEM) Program at the Colorado School of Mines. She has a BA in Elementary Education from the University of Northern Iowa and a M.A. in Curriculum and Instruction from Columbia University Teacher’s College.Dr. Amy E Landis, Dr. Landis joined Mines in August 2017 as the first Presidential Faculty Fellow for Access, Attainment, and Diversity. Previously, she was a full professor at Clemson University from 2015

Conference Session

The Big Picture in Engineering Education

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stephanie Quiles-Ramos, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Donna M. Riley, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Atsushi Akera, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

canuniversity administrators structure their own policies and internal affairs to secure substantialconformance within their own institution and institutional contexts? Tensions and powerstruggles exist at every level.Relationship of ABET to Engineering and Engineering EducationTo understand the role of ABET in Engineering and Engineering Education, we must firstunderstand the governance of ABET and their historical roots as an organization. ABET is not amonolithic organization, but a volunteer-based organization with multiple moving parts. Thevolunteer nature of ABET can potentially be problematic for the integration of diverseindividuals who must participate in the review process in order to drive ABET’s accreditation ofprograms. The nature of

Collection

2022 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Yang-Seon Kim; Keren Tshimanga

, and the course introduces many new concepts, laws, definitions,and variables throughout the course. Unlike concepts in other engineering courses, these conceptsare not easy to visualize, tangible, or tactile senses in daily life. Therefore, many students werestruggling to understand the concept, or even though they understood the definitions, they haddifficulties applying these concepts to the actual engineering problems. Typically, the student hadsome difficulty in integrating the material until they arrived at the final chapters involving thepower and refrigeration cycles [3]. Therefore, the authors developed the EML-based project thatcan help students to apply their knowledge to engineering problems.Since this is a pilot study, we only

Conference Session

Design in Engineering Education Division (DEED) Technical Session 14

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cheng Chen, University of Georgia; Siqing Wei, Purdue University; Beshoy Morkos, University of Georgia

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education Division (DEED)

futureengineers.Joint embedding models coupled with an interface would enable engineers to modify designsmore efficiently. Rather than reviewing a large text document and manually determining the mostpertinent requirements, a future application will integrate an AI assistant to assist the designer inidentifying the most vital functional requirements. Since the cost of making changes for functionalrequirements increases exponentially over time, identifying and controlling engineering changesat an early stage will be crucial to reducing the failure rate of a product. A knowledge system likethis could help private sectors improve their cost-efficiency and increase their productivity in thedesign process.Limitations: Several technical limitations of this work and

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stephanie Farrell, Rowan University; Stewart Slater, Rowan University; Mariano Javier Savelski, Rowan University; William J Calvo, Chemical and Molecular Engineering Program, Stony Brook University (Stony Brook, NY)

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees

be obtained throughthe PharmaHUB. The problem sets have been incorporated into two easy to use documents thathave the problems organized by the chapter/section of Felder and Rousseau they would be usedin. If these problems are used in another course, such as a Freshman Engineering class, they canbe easily integrated them by using the chapter/topic outline found in the document onPharmaHUB. The complete module sets include an introduction and table of contents with indexproblems and solutions. The problems and solutions are on separate pages allowing the facultymember to easily use these for homework or in-class problems. The solutions are sufficientlydetailed to allow students with limited knowledge in the field to understand the

Conference Session

International Poster Session

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rodolfo Yzasmendi Arellano, Universidad de las Americas, Puebla; Enrique Palou, Universidad de las Americas, Puebla; Lourdes Gazca, Universidad de las Americas, Puebla; Aurelio López-Malo, Universidad de las Americas, Puebla

Tagged Divisions

International

informationtechnology requirements. Furthermore, UDLAP’s Quality Enhancement Plan: EnhancingCritical Thinking Skills in Our Undergraduate Students is an integral part of our generaleducation curriculum, as well as the community service project required for every UDLAPgraduate35.UDLAP has established a general education curriculum for undergraduate students regardless oftheir major to assist them in acquiring the traits valued by UDLAP. The general educationrequirements (31.5 credits) for the undergraduate programs are published in The InstitutionalCatalog and include since fall 2006 the following:≠ Spanish: two consecutive courses (3 credits each) regarding writing and oral communication in Spanish (Thought and Language and Writing in the Professions

Conference Session

Information and Network Security

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Chris Foreman, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Matthew Turner, Purdue University (Statewide Technology); Karl Perusich, Purdue Statewide Technology DO NOT USE DUPE

Tagged Divisions

Computing & Information Technology

Computer Information Science (CIS), but for students in engineering whoutilize ICS as a tool to control a physical process, e.g. critical infrastructure. Page 26.573.22. Integration into existing programsCyber-security concepts are at least generally addressed in CIS and related disciplines such asInformation Technology (IT) and Computer Science (CS), if not specifically addressed in cyber-security concentrations within these. What is missing from these is an understanding of real-timecontrol systems as they are deployed in industry, and their associated industrial processes, asthese tend to be addressed in the electrical, mechanical, and

Conference Session

Real World Applications

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Rainer Fink

benefitindustry by exposing future employees and/or customers to their technology, but can also have majorimpacts on the relevancy of the curriculum in an academic program.The Electronics Engineering Technology faculty at Texas A&M University is collaborating with severalmajor companies (Texas Instruments Inc., Freescale Inc., National Instruments Inc., IBM Inc. andTeradyne Inc.) to address a strong industrial concern at the lack of entry-level engineers who are preparedto do semiconductor testing. Concepts such as the real life performance of devices are not addressed in atraditional Electrical Engineering curriculum in favor of the more predictable ideal performance whichcan be easily modeled. Thus, students graduating are unaware that performance

Conference Session

New Approaches & Techniques in Engineering I

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Xianfgu Zong; Marcia Fischer; Malgorzata Chranowska-Jeske; James Morris; Fu Li; Cynthia Brown; Agnes Hoffman

member, and active in student advising,academic policy, and international issues on campus.JIM MORRIS is an IEEE Fellow and 22-year ASEE member, and has served as EE/ECE Department Chair atboth SUNY-Binghamton and Portland State. His research interests lie in electronics packaging, andnanoelectronics/thin films. He is actively committed to the development of international work/studyexperiences for engineering students. Page 10.1072.8FU LI is Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at PSU. He is a senior member of IEEE, withresearch interests in the areas of digital signal/image processing , computer systems integration, and

Conference Session

Studying Engineering Education Research & Institutions

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Atsushi Akera, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Xiaofeng Tang, Penn State University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods, Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

National and Institutional Responses to the Bologna Process: The Significance ofthe Danish CaseThe Bologna Process was initiated through a 1999 ministerial meeting involving the educationministers of 29 European countries. While expectations of professional labor mobilityaccompanied the Treaty of Maastricht, given the financial and monetary-policy orientation of theearly conversations about European integration, an explicit focus on higher education andworkforce development was absent from these conversations. The main concern behind Bolognawas that European universities, despite their reputation, were not producing the quantity orquality of graduates necessary for Europe to “succeed” in the global economy.2Following the general logic of economic

Conference Session

Motivation, Goal Orientation, Identity, and Career Aspirations

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Lorenzo Laxamana Ruiz, California Polytechnic University, San Luis Obispo; Dominick Trageser, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo ; Benjamin David Lutz, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

AbstractIn this research paper, we explore student responses to Utility Value Interventions in staticscourses. Introductory engineering mechanics courses (e.g., statics, dynamics) are critical pointswithin a curriculum, and student performance in these courses can have a strong influence onfuture success. And while these courses are often thought of as “weed out” courses, the ubiquityof these courses for engineers is what makes them an important place for students to develop themotivation to persist through their engineering education. One particularly promising tool for thisdevelopment has been Utility Value Interventions (UVIs) in which students are given opportunitiesto reflect on how their coursework aligns with their lives through short writing

Collection

2024 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Saurabh S. Singh; Adam C. Lynch; Abdulaziz Abdulaziz

enterprise, and the model outlines how digital technologiescan be applied at each level to enhance efficiency and effectiveness [7]. From an epistemological perspective, the Purdue Model embodies a systems thinkingapproach. It emphasizes the interconnectedness of different components within an enterprise andthe need for holistic solutions that consider the entire system. This approach is aligned withconstructivist theories, which posit that knowledge is constructed through the interaction ofvarious elements within a context. In the case of digital transformation, this means understandinghow different technologies interact and how they can integrate, achieving desired outcomes [3]. The Purdue Model's hierarchical structure supports a

Conference Session

Best Practices in IE Education

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Matthew Elam, Texas A&M University, Commerce; E. Delbert Horton, Texas A&M University, Commerce; Sukwon Kim, Texas A&M University, Commerce; Bob Wilkins, Texas A&M University, Commerce

Tagged Divisions

Industrial Engineering

their first two semesters to establish a learning community and to allow facultyto integrate concepts in the courses. Supplemental Instruction (SI) was provided for themathematics courses these first two semesters. SI was identified as a significant contributor tothe success of the ILC, as were the opportunity for students to use and apply mathematicsconcepts and bi-weekly meetings of the instructors to review issues of attendance, motivation,retention, student academic progress, curriculum integration, the status of assignments inprogress, and assessment.14 Page 14.137.4North Carolina State University put forth an effort to intervene on behalf

Conference Session

ELOS Technical Session 5 - Remote, Virtual, and Digital Realities

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Deborah Moyaki, University of Georgia; Isaac Damilare Dunmoye, University of Georgia; Cheryl T. Gomillion, University of Georgia; Dominik May, University of Wuppertal; Nathaniel Hunsu, University of Georgia

Tagged Divisions

Experimentation and Laboratory-Oriented Studies Division (DELOS)

Tissue Engineeringcourse. Our guiding research questions are:(1) How did learners' perceptions of VR labs vary across lab types?(2) To what extent did the perceived utility value and tool efficacy of the VR lab modulespredict learners’ perceived satisfaction with the learning experience across different labtypes?Study Course ContextThe Tissue Engineering course where these labs were integrated is an elective course offeredfor students in Biological and Biochemical Engineering degree programs. The goal of thecourse is to provide a foundational understanding of the areas of science and engineeringinvolved in the design and development of replacement tissues and organs for the body. Thecourse, although primarily taken by undergraduates in the

Conference Session

International Case Studies:Collaborations, Exchanges & Interactions

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Raghu Echempati, Kettering University; Butsch Michael, FH-Konstanz, Germany

Tagged Divisions

International

references are mentioned in this paper and therefore thelist is by no means complete. Study abroad programs and international educational experience insome form or the other have been in existence for many decades. Most recently, from around1995 to 2000, the number of U.S students studying abroad increased over 45% from nearly90,000 to almost 130,000 students. Here at Kettering University, we have seen enrollment instudy abroad programs in numbers from less than 20 to 80 students in the same period of time.Driving this trend is a strong commitment by the President of the University to increase numbersof students who study abroad in addition to the expectation among students that studying abroadis an integral and important part of their undergraduate

Conference Session

Biomedical Engineering Division (BED) Technical Session 3: Technology in Biomedical Engineering Education

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Deborah Moyaki, University of Georgia; Dominik May, University of Wuppertal; Nathaniel Hunsu, University of Georgia; Pravalika Irukulla, University of Georgia; Cheryl T. Gomillion, University of Georgia

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Biomedical Engineering Division (BED)

manufacturing, biomechanics, and other areas.Therefore, undergraduate BME students need intensive practical training on biomedical toolsand equipment to adequately prepare them for industrial careers. It is expected that upongraduation, most students would seek opportunities in industry [1]. Laboratories offer therequired real-world experience that is reported to significantly impact students’ learningexperience when integrated into the engineering curriculum [2].However, the use of physical laboratories comes with high monetary implications forinstitutions in terms of equipment acquisition, equipment maintenance, and staffingrequirements, especially in a rapidly evolving field like BME. Despite these challenges, thereremains an increasing industrial

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Karen Butler-Purry, Texas A&M University; Vinod Srinivasan, Texas A&M University; susan pedersen, Texas A&M University

games have become an essential part of children’s culture. Theemergence of the “Gamer Generation” presents interesting challenges to educators. Traditionalteaching methods and tools have clearly not had the same success as they had in the past. It hasbecome apparent that our instructional methods and tools need to take into account the changingprofile of students entering our schools and colleges. This paper reports on a National ScienceFoundation (NSF) Combined Curriculum and Laboratory Improvement (CCLI) project at TexasA&M University (TAMU) which entailed the development of a prototype implementation of avideo game to demonstrate its potential and identify needs for revisions and future designprescription. The video game will be

Conference Session

Academe/Industry Collaboration

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nabin Sapkota, Northwestern State University of Louisiana; Laurie D. Morrow, Central Louisiana Technical Community College

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

administrator for the Central Louisiana Technical Community College, Natchitoches Campus, Natchitoches, LA. Her career began as an account- ing instructor evolving into student services and finally administration. Areas of expertise include pro- gram accreditation, curriculum development, and workforce development through customized training. Ms. Morrow has been and continues to be instrumental in the development and implementation of the Advanced Manufacturing Technician Program of Louisiana. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Meeting Workforce Demand through Modified Apprenticeship Program: A case in Louisiana

Conference Session

NSF Grantees’ Poster Session

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Amelito G Enriquez, Canada College; Erik N Dunmire, College of Marin; Tom Rebold, Monterey Peninsula College; Nicholas Langhoff, Cañada College; Eva Schiorring, EduData4Action

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees Poster Session

strategy for improving access is to enhance availability of quality online courseofferings. Funded by a National Science Foundation grant, the Online and Networked Educationfor Students in Transfer Engineering Programs (ONE-STEP) project was developed in 2011 toaccomplish an important first step toward this objective of increasing the number of Californiacommunity colleges that now offer online engineering courses. ONE-STEP was developed byCañada College, a small Hispanic-serving community college in the San Francisco Bay Area toimprove community college engineering programs by aligning engineering curriculum,enhancing teaching effectiveness using technology, and increasing access to engineering coursesthrough online education. The project

Conference Session

ETD Accreditation and Assessment

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mir M. Hayder, Savannah State University; Mohamad A. Mustafa, Savannah State University; Asad Yousuf, Savannah State University; Alberto G. De La Cruz, Savannah State University; Lisa Yount, Savannah State University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

human conduct. ISLO 5: Quantitative Literacy A "habit of mind," competency, and comfort in working with numerical data. ISLO 6: Integrative Learning An understanding and a disposition that a student builds across the curriculum and co- curriculum, from making simple connections among ideas and experiences to synthesizing and transferring learning to new, complex situations within and beyond the campus.It was already been stated that Department of Engineering Technology at SSU offers CivilEngineering Technology and Electronics Engineering Technology programs, which are

Conference Session

Retention: Keeping the Women Students

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Meredith Aronson; Marie Reyes; Jeff Goldberg

students of color in engineering. It is to address feelings of isolation and lack ofrole models that we are attempting to build a community of engineering women that will stretchacross faculty and students.Hewitt and Seymour’s foundational work clearly demonstrated that altruism or service is amotivator for women and their participation/retention in technical areas. By integrating servicework oriented to the community into the curriculum, building linkages between the social contextfor engineering work and engineering science, the expectation is that women students will becomemore involved, and are more likely choose to remain within engineering.At many universities, a majority of the activities oriented towards increasing retention andimproving

Conference Session

Architectural Engineering Education II

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Joseph Betz

work professionally.Bibliography• Bean, John C. Engaging Ideas: The Professor's Guide to Integrating Writing, Critical Thinking and Active Learning in the Classroom. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2000• Dyment, Janet & O'Connell Timothy. "Journal Writing in Experiential Education: Possibilities, Problems, and Recommendations." ERIC Digest.• Gale, Xin Liu. "Theory Writing as Becoming: Past Experiences Thrice-Lived." Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the National Council of Teachers of English Conference on College Composition and Communication (49th, Chicago, IL, April 1-4, 1998).• Lester, Nanct, et al. " Writing across the Curriculum: A College Snapshot." Urban Education v38 n1 p5-34 Jan 2003• Monroe, Jonathan

Conference Session

Research and Project Initiatives in IT and IET

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Abed El Hameed El Madwar, University of Northern Iowa; Recayi 'Reg' Pecen; Hong 'Jeffrey' Nie; Julie Zhang, University of Northern Iowa

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

a standard form of wireless sensor networks (WSNs) based upon the Institute ofElectrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 802.15.4 standard. ZigBee protocol was engineeredby the ZigBee Alliance to provide OEMs and integrators with low-power consumption wirelessdata solution with multiple network structures and secure connections for monitoringapplications 1.This paper describes an experimental study for the design and implementation of a ZigBee IEEE802.15.4 wireless network to offer low power and low cost wireless networking applications inan industrial setting. The experiment has been driven by the problems associated with the use ofthe cables in industries such as the high cost of maintenance, limited mobility of workers, andpotential