Conference Session

Product and Venture Creation Curriculum

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Taylor

program has threephases: a seminar series, a project experience with strong ties to entrepreneurial business, and aformal course of study leading to a certificate. Student interest has been excellent, withattendance at the seminars being as high as 160. Approximately 30 students are pursuing thecertificate in the second year. The program has been endowed by an alumnus who established theJack Hatcher Chair in Engineering Entrepreneurship. An advisory board of successfulentrepreneurs is providing leadership for the program.Introduction The role of the engineering entrepreneur in the expansion of the economy is self-evident.Engineers with entrepreneurial sprit and skills are the locomotives of the technology-based startupcompany and, perhaps

Conference Session

BME Courses

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Douglas Christensen

Bringing an Integrative Modeling Experience to a Freshman Biomedical Engineering Course Douglas A. Christensen Department of Bioengineering, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UTAbstract – As an integrating lab experience in our Fundamentals of Bioengineering freshman course,we have included a Major Project that ties together many of the principles of biomechanics andbioelectricity covered in the lecture. It uses the human systemic cardiovascular system as amodel. During the first half of the semester, students solve finite-difference equations describingthe flow of blood in the cardiovascular system using Matlab. During the second half, teams oftwo

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Laura Bottomley; Aaron Clark

the Department of Education Office of Vocational and AdultEducation (OVAE) set forth an agenda to meet these demands for the future of our workforce inAmerica.In January of 2001, the Department of Education (OVAE), under the direction of StateSupervisors (NASDCTEc), developed a strategy to update current curricula to meet future needsof employers. This movement was funded by the US government and called the “Career ClustersProject.” This joint effort by states throughout the US was to develop curricula guidelines thatcould be used in future curricula development to ensure that the products will meet future needsof employers. The project was designed for both secondary and post-secondary education, but

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

John Mihalasky; Gina Boesch; Keith Sheppard

an educational environment that has beennamed Technogenesis™ to capture an orientation towards entrepreneurship that permeates thebroader institutional mindset, from undergraduate programs through to graduate programs andfaculty scholarship. Technogenesis has been embraced as a strategic direction for the Institutethrough retreats, group discussions and forums over a number of years involving faculty,trustees, administrators and students.Curriculum development has seen the introduction of entrepreneurship elements into theundergraduate engineering core, mostly through the eight-semester design sequence, as well aselective coursework and seminars. Students are encouraged to work with faculty on projects thathave the potential to spawn

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Moujalli Hourani

their graduates have the ability to design and conduct experiment, as well as toanalyze and interpret data”. The innovative approach is a project consisting of designing,constructing, and testing of structural systems made of different materials, and subjected todifferent loading and support conditions. The paper presents the detailed description of theproject, all the steps performed by the students, and the difficulties faced by the students in theirfirst attempt of this project. In addition, the paper concentrates on the Outcomes and theAssessments of the project according to criterion 3.of ABET 2000.Introduction In the fall of 2002 the school of engineering programs at Manhattan College have gonethrough the accreditation process

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Priya Olden; Nikunja Swain; Maurice Robinson; James A. Anderson; James Parker; Cristal Caroll; Alan Seedarsan

Based VirtualEngineering Laboratory (CBVEL). The CBVEL consists of IBM compatible computers with softwareand hardware from National Instruments (NI), and is connected to School of Engineering Technologyand Sciences (SETS) network and existing equipment. This CBVEL can also be accessed from remotesites using Internet.This CBVEL is also used to conduct research activities related to a NASA funded project grant. This isa multi-year project involving space science related activities, and generally involves the use of agraphical programming language called Laboratory Virtual Instrument Engineering Workbench(LabVIEW) for instrumentation, data acquisition, and analysis. This visualization software allows oneto design, build, and test VI modules that

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Jeffrey Newcomer

Fluid Power course at WWU covers both an introduction to fluid mechanics and anintroduction to hydraulics and pneumatics. The course includes a team-based design project, ahy- Page 6.379.2 “Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2001, American Society for Engineering Education”draulics research paper, and laboratory exercises, as well as traditional homework and tests thatare found in most technical courses. The course meets numerous student learning objectives,which are summarized in Table 1.Table 1: Fluid Power Course Learning Objectives

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Joanne M. Goode; James B. Stenger

Session 2793 An Intervention to Improve Information Research Skills James B. Stenger, Joanne M. Goode Miami University, Oxford, OHAbstractReviewing the literature cited by undergraduates in research and design projects revealedsignificant use of World Wide Web resources and a lack of journal citations. To determine whythe imbalance of information sources was occurring a survey of students was conducted. Thesurvey sought to determine their knowledge of and comfort level in using the variousinformation resources available to them. The results of the survey led to the creation of a

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Turton; Roger A. Schmitz; Mark J. McCready; Mark A. Stadtherr; Joan F. Brennecke; Wallace B. Whiting; Joseph A. Shaeiwitz

an increasingly important part of the average Chemical Engineer’s jobresponsibilities. Therefore, in the Departments of Chemical Engineering at the University ofNotre Dame, West Virginia University and the University of Nevada at Reno, we areimplementing through courseware, research, and design projects a program to 1. develop the students’ appreciation of the impact of pollutant release from chemical processes and of the environmental, ecological, and long-term economic benefits of pollutant minimization or elimination, 2. equip them with active knowledge of the technology that is being developed for minimizing the environmental impact of chemical manufacturing processes, 3. show students how this new technology can be

Conference Session

Interdisciplinary Engineering Education

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Jeff Turk; David Gattie

the ability to generate sets of working drawingsthrough an intense final group project. For the past three years, the approach to this final projecthas been for the instructor to give a fairly well defined description of a problem and leave thedevelopment of an early-stage solution to the creativity of the students. This approach hasyielded positive results with respect to preparing them for their sophomore and senior levelengineering design courses. However, in order to incorporate the ethical and societalresponsibility of the engineering profession, while maintaining the traditional emphasisnecessary in graphics science, a service-learning element has been included in the final projectbeginning Fall 2001 wherein the students define their

Conference Session

Biomedical Engr. Design and Laboratories

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Wayne Christianson; Paul King

a discussion of case studies from texts suchas “Set Phasers on Stun” or “Medical Device Accidents”, and/or through a discussion of clinicalconsulting cases. A review of methods for hazard analyses and fault tree analysis for hazardidentification is useful if time permits, otherwise a more limited discussion and use of one or twotechniques is recommended. The use of a structured safety analysis software package to providestudent experience with safety analyses on both homework and on student design projects will bediscussed in this paper.Introduction: ABET requirements for design state that “Students must be prepared forengineering practice through the curriculum culminating in a major design experience based uponthe knowledge and skills

Conference Session

Technological Literacy for Undergraduate Students

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Randy Libros, Community College of Philadelphia

Tagged Divisions

Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering

is designed to promote technological literacy byintroducing students to basic scientific principles in Biology, Chemistry and Physics, showinghow these principles are applied in areas such as biotechnology and nanotechnology, andexploring societal issues related to these technologies. An intended outcome of the course is thatstudents will be able to apply this framework to a technology not explicitly covered in the class.Assessment of this outcome is based upon student performance on a final project, where they areasked to do just that.Technological literacy has been defined as “an understanding of the nature and history oftechnology, a basic-hands-on capability related to technology, and an ability to think criticallyabout technological

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Technical Session

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ali Khabari, Wentworth Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

crucial to provide advanced trainingto America’s future workforce [1-3]. In keeping with industry demands and the Wentworthtradition, hands-on nanotechnology laboratory experience is a central component of Wentworth’semerging nanotechnology and engineering course offerings. The impact on undergraduatescience and technology education is significant, and the project is generating new researchopportunities for undergraduate students. The nanotechnology laboratory allows students todevelop nanotechnology-related knowledge and skills through their coursework that can later beapplied to further research, improve design projects, and create solutions to improve the overallquality of life. The laboratory is used not only by undergraduate students, but

Conference Session

Manufacturing Education for Emerging Technologies and Competitiveness

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Yalcin M. Ertekin, Drexel University; Richard Chiou, Drexel University

Tagged Divisions

Manufacturing

AC 2012-4756: DEVELOPMENT OF A WEB-BASED RAPID PROTOTYP-ING AND PRODUCT DESIGN COURSEDr. Yalcin M. Ertekin, Drexel University Yalcin Ertekin received his B.S. degree in mechanical engineering from Istanbul Technical University. He attended the Business School of Istanbul University and received a M.S. degree in production man- agement. After working for Chrysler Truck Manufacturing Company in Turkey as a Project Engineer, he received dual M.S. degrees in engineering management and mechanical engineering from Missouri University of Science and Technology (MS&T), formerly the University of Missouri, Rolla. He worked for Toyota Motor Corporation as a Quality Assurance Engineer for two years and lived in Toyota City

Conference Session

Attracting Young Minds: Part II

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Carl White, Morgan State University; Clifton Sean Martin, Innovative STEM Foundation and Bluford Drew Jemison STEM Academy; Givon Forbes, Innovative STEM Foundation; Charles Lamont Clark, Academic Training Management Organization; Joseph White, Innovative STEM Foundation; Albert Edward Sweets Jr., iSTEMS

Tagged Divisions

Minorities in Engineering

. Albert Edward Sweets Jr., iSTEMS Albert Edward Sweets, Jr., is a Senior Engineer/Scientist with 15 years of experience and increasing responsibility in high volume Electronic Manufacturing Service (EMS), development, and customer en- vironments. He has several leadership experiences that include 21 years of Military Service (honorably Page 25.1280.1 discharged), being an Entrepreneur Lead Engineer, and being an educator. He has a broad engineering c American Society for Engineering Education, 2012background that encompasses project engineering, process engineering, test engineering

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Mohamed. E. Brihoum; Ahmad Ibrahim

now referredto as; communication skills, team work, critical thinking, ethics, applied research, and provenskills. Such attributes are still considered important as demonstrated by more recent studies [3]and are taken into account in assessing quality of education [4]. These attributes are fundamentalto the “new” rules of the accreditation board for engineering and technology [5].The extent of these attributes is usually assessed through a successful completion of a technicalproject before graduation. The way is paved for the technical aspects of such project by the workdone in numerous laboratory courses where students perform experiments with progressivelevels of sophistication in both design and analysis. Instructors can form cross

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Vislocky; Cecil Beeson

Session 2586 Let’s Build a College Level Technology Club Cecil E. Beeson, Dr. Michael Vislocky University of Cincinnati ClermontI. Introduction This paper covers the history of and planning for the formation a Technology Club at the University of Cincinnati Clermont. The idea for such a project was hatched during discussions about existing high technology programs at the college. A club to eventually serve technological inquiry and experimentation across the various curricula was a natural extension of offerings at the college. This project, currently in an early stage of

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Edward H. McMahon

Session 3425 Engineering Design and Common Household Devices Edward McMahon The University of Tennessee at ChattanoogaAbstractMost design is redesign. Some might suggest this is an overstatement, while others may say alldesign is redesign. An engineering manager at a large appliance manufacturer told me, "Someengineers, fresh out of school, think they are going to be working on innovative, far out, projectsand are disappointed when asked to work on a redesign of one our standard products". Onecomponent of our junior level methodology course is and individual project is aimed at

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Gray; Robert Weissbach

curriculum Satcomtechnology. This year, two industrial sponsored senior design projects involve electricalengineering technology (EET) students. These projects provide the students involved withhands-on Satcom experience in solving real-world industrial problems. In the first project,one EET student is working with two electrical engineering (EE) students as interdisciplinaryteammates to test the link margin effects of a Satcom receiver due to environmentalconditions such as rain, snow, ice, etc. In the second project, two EET students are alsoteamed with two EE students to test bit error rates for a newly-designed Satcom receiver. Inthe future, it is anticipated that the need for technologists who understand Satcom systemswill allow Penn State

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Ronald Adrezin; Michael Nowak; Donald Leone

advisor, each student sought a laboratory in his/her area ofinterest. The research is structured as two course equivalents (100 hours each). “BiomedicalEngineering Capstone Research I” was designed to immerse the student in a wide range oflaboratory functions. “Biomedical Engineering Capstone Research II” is designed to give thestudent in-depth experience by functioning as an engineer on a project, either ongoing in thelaboratory or being developed.Grading of each course is via written and oral reports, as well as laboratory supervisor input.The first course requires the writing of a report on the experience, while the second requires aformal research paper in the style of journal articles.The experience from these courses has been excellent for

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1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Dongmei Gui; Jens Jorgensen; Joseph A. Heim

constructing a repository of information and resources for design andmanufacturing educators will provide the core around which the long term, and what we believewill be the most influential, goal of the project will be undertaken: creating a forum, a publicmeeting place for open and on-going discussions of issues important to those involved ineducation and employment of manufacturing and design engineers. Research we are conductingin parallel with the construction of the Forum and Workshop will help us gain a betterunderstanding of how these technologies can be used most effectively to expand and extendcollaborative efforts of faculty, industry and students. Our mission is to create an infrastructurefor collaboration. We have identified three primary

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1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Gerard N. Foster

Session 1547 Using Sound and Music in Technology Gerard N. Foster Purdue University - School of Technology at KokomoIntroductionThis paper presents work aimed at adding the aspect of sound, and music, to technicaldemonstrations, presentations and projects. The focus of this work is to explore themathematics and technology of sound at a basic level, to create a background for laterexperimentation. To enhance the apparent relevance of technology to everyday concerns, thehuman voice and musical instruments are employed as sources of sound. It is postulated that bystirring the

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1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Ron Bailey; Richard DeBlasio; David Freeman; Rommel Simpson; Devdas Pai

year; sometimes, even later.In this paper, the authors describe a novel collaborative effort between freshmen students andmore-experienced students (sophomore, senior and graduate students), in developing anexperiment of relevance to industry and commerce. The experienced students collaborated indeveloping the test apparatus and test procedures. Then they mentored the freshmen inconducting the test, collecting data, analyzing the results and generating recommendations.The objective of this experiment was to measure the greatest height from which aluminumbeverage cans may be dropped without appreciable damage to the can structure. The project wasdivided into different tasks, and the tasks distributed to three classes in various

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1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Wayne Woldt; Mohamed Dahab; Bruce I. Dvorak; Dennis Schulte

Session 3151 Partners in Pollution Prevention Internship Program: Success Stories and Lessons Learned Bruce I. Dvorak, Wayne Woldt, Mohamed Dahab, and Dennis Schulte University of Nebraska-Lincoln An innovative internship program in pollution prevention (P2) has been developed at theUniversity of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL). This program contains educational, research andextension components and has been successful in the first year of its four-year project period.The Partners in Pollution Prevention program is funded by the US EPA, Region VII (Nebraska,Iowa, Kansas, and

Conference Session

Educational Research and Methods Division (ERM) Technical Session 7

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Djedjiga Belfadel, Fairfield University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods Division (ERM)

) program, aimed at promoting undergraduate research. Theprogram offers students the opportunity to engage in voluntary research, receive stipends, andaccess paid residency dorms. It contributes to academic growth and practical experience,enhancing communication skills, presentation abilities, resilience, teamwork, and problem-solving capabilities.The program spans eight weeks from June 1st to July 27th. Students are required to dedicate 20hours per week to their respective research projects and attend weekly seminars organized by thedean's office on important topics such as responsible conduct of research training, intellectualproperty rights, regulatory aspects of research including Institutional Review Board (IRB) andInstitutional Animal Care

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Amy B Chan Hilton, University of Southern Indiana

Tagged Topics

Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

Faculty Communities Exploring Data and Sharing Their StoriesMotivation and Project OverviewThis NSF Improving Undergraduate STEM Education (IUSE: EHR) Institutional andCommunity Transformation (ICT) capacity-building project is designed to support faculty tocollaboratively explore questions on student learning and success in introductory and gatewayundergraduate STEM courses, such as early engineering courses as well as prerequisite math andscience courses. The project is motivating faculty to consider evidence-based teaching strategiesby including them as co-designers of learning analytics tools and storytellers inspired by the dataand their reflections. Learning analytics uses data about learners and learning to draw

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering Division (MULTI) Technical Session 7

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Abdullah Ibrahim, Texas A&M University at Qatar; Roudha Saif Al-Khaldi, Texas A&M University, Qatar; Doaa Elamin Emam; Yasser M. Al Hamidi, Texas A&M University, Qatar; Marwan Khraisheh, Texas A&M University, Qatar

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering Division (MULTI)

Engineering and Arts majors. It sheds the light on how engineering students can beprepared to become ‘outside the box thinkers’ by interacting and working on commonprojects with students from the arts and design majors. The collaborative effortsrevolved around the aspects of “design thinking”, an innovative and broad project basededucational model that uses a systematic approach towards problem solving. Withtraditional engineering education, students are accustomed to breaking down theoreticalproblems and solving them using standard procedures. Although such a way of teachinginstils analytical and methodological thinking, but it is not enough to prepare studentsto be creative in solving future problems. Research shows that engineers who practiceone

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2007 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

Nhut Tan Ho

A Framework for Improving Learning and Retention in a Diverse Student Population Dr. Nhut Tan Ho Department of Mechanical Engineering California State University, Northridge AbstractMeeting the projected U.S. engineering workforce needs for increased representation ofunderrepresented minorities will be challenging due to the poor retention and academicperformance of too many minority engineering students. As a response, this psaper describes anapproach built upon an innovative undergraduate education initiative pioneered by MIT calledConceive-Design

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2007 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Nathaniel Jensen; Philip Brach; Ahmet Zeytinci

1 PEER ASSESSMENT (JURY) OF EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING Nathaniel Jensen, Civil Engineering Technician, FHWA Philip Brach, Ph.D., P.E., F-NSPE Distinguished Professor, Emeritus Ahmet Zeytinci, Ph.D., P.E., Professor University of the District of Columbia Washington, DC Abstract The use of a student’s work experience involving the investigation, inspection, collection, and analysis of data for the rating of park service bridges in the United States, is presented as a Senior Capstone Project for Civil

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2003 ASEE North Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Michael P. Hennessey

: mphennessey@stthomas.edu Abstract The project-based undergraduate J-term course Kinematics and Mechanism Design is described, both technically and from a pedagogy point of view. In this course students discovered the kinematic car, a classic example of a nonholonomic mechanical system that everyone can relate to; especially mechanical engineering students. Technical work entailed kinematic modeling using    MATLAB /SIMULINK and CAD modeling and visualization using SolidWorks along with corroborating experimental work using scale model vehicles (i.e. Jeep Liberty SUV, Allis