Conference Session

Issues for ET Administrators

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Daniel Jones

early in their college experience. Many ET programsface the common challenge of recruiting and retaining qualified students. At the same time,substantial portions of the incoming students lack basic skills in math and science that are neededfor them to succeed in ET. Consequently, some introductory ET courses teach basic math andscience while exposing student to career opportunities in ET.This paper discusses the experience of faculty teaching Introduction to Engineering Technology,IET 120, over the past seven years. The course has gradually shifted from a pure lecture formatto incorporate hands-on activities, plant tours, and design-and-build projects. A questionnairewas developed to assess the effectiveness of the changes in the course. The

Conference Session

Attracting Young Minds: Part II

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Carl White, Morgan State University; Clifton Sean Martin, Innovative STEM Foundation (ISF); Maisha Drew, Innovative STEM Foundation (ISF); Givon Forbes, Innovative STEM Foundation (ISF)

Tagged Divisions

Minorities in Engineering

exposed to critical thinkingprinciples, system engineering basics, and team-working skills. During the program, the CASHstudents conduct NASA-related research, complete a project, and present their findings in aresearch exposition at the conclusion of the summer program.For the 2010 program, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (NASA-JPL) in Pasadena, Californiaworked with ISF over the spring and provided the CASH program with both a Solar-based and aTelecom-based project for its CASH students. These two projects allowed the CASH students towork in research areas relevant to NASA.Program DescriptionSelection of ParticipantsFor the first two years of the CASH program, students have been provided to the programthrough a partnership with the Bluford

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade in Teaching II

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Clark Hochgraf, Rochester Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

New Engineering Educators

little experience in scholarship but wouldenjoy working with a faculty member on research and publications. There are small steps that newfaculty can take in their classes that will help students be better prepared for scholarship. Forexample, conversion of a class project report from a generic format to a journal paper formatintroduces students to a logical and structured way of presenting information coupled with a processof multiple revisions. Results of using such an approach in a third year technical class are presented.The students’ efforts resulted in a professional-looking paper and a sense of pride in the finalproduct. IntroductionNew faculty members are often expected to produce scholarly

Conference Session

Engineering Education Ties and Engineering Programs in the Middle East and Latin America

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nicholas J. Dimmitt, Petroleum Institute; Jaby Mohammed, Petroleum Institute; David Moore, Petroleum Institute

Tagged Divisions

International

communication. The paper will also discuss activities andstrategies that are used in these technical communication courses. As a result ofthe various strategies used at the Petroleum Institute, the quality of writing in thefinal senior design projects have improved significantly.IntroductionMost universities in the US are multidisciplinary, presenting challenges in the technicalcommunication curriculum[1]. Technical communication programs are addressing thisissue by building partnerships with programs in mechanical engineering and industrialengineering as has been discussed by Wojahn, et al.[2] This paper describes and examinesthe technical and professional communication competency strategies taught at thePetroleum Institute (PI) of Abu Dhabi in the

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Graham Walker; Henry Chaya

Session 2525 A "Real-Life" Interdisciplinary Capstone Design Course. Henry Chaya, Graham Walker Manhattan College Riverdale, New YorkAbstractA new interdisciplinary design course has been developed. A unique feature of this course is theparticipation of alumni who have been involved with engineering practice for a number of years.These alumni assume the role of clients for the design project. Their involvement added uniqueinsights to the real practice of engineering design. It also greatly enhanced student interest in thecourse.I

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Ronald W. Garrett; Paul L. Stephenson III

Session 1463How a Course in Statistical Process Control Can Utilize Real-time Data from an Industrial Production Facility Paul L. Stephenson III and Ronald W. Garrett Grand Valley State UniversityAbstractEngaging students as active learners in applied statistics courses and getting them to thinkcritically about the workings of a full-scale production facility is a difficult task. Yet it isan important challenge that educators face when teaching a statistical process controlcourse.This challenge has been addressed at GVSU by giving students an opportunity toparticipate in projects and to interact

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Pedro Febles Cortez; John Dahlstrom; Chris Mattus; Aleksander Malinowski; Gary Dempsey

using simple microcontroller circuits. A Web server is used to provide the clientapplication to the operator. Since the decision was made, that Java2 would be the only targetimplementation language both client and server are platform independent.The engineering objective is to perform robust real time manual control over the Internetconnection characterized by varying bandwidth and latency. Although the presented system iscompletely different from full size professional robots, the problems encountered by seniorstudents designing it are similar to ones faced by design engineers at NASA who prepare fullsized vehicles for their trip to Mars. The current version of the project can be visited at the Website at http://sant.bradley.edu/~olekmali

Collection

1998 Annual Conference

Authors

S. A. Chickamenahalli; Rutledge Ellis

Session 1333 DEVELOPMENT OF A TMS320C30 DSP BASED CONTROLLER FOR A POWER CONVERTER S.A. Chickamenahalli, Rutledge Ellis Wayne State University/VisteonAbstract: This paper presents an undergraduate research project that involved the design,development, testing and installation of a DSP based controller for a power converter. Theparallel interface for a Texas Instruments TMS320C30 Digital Signal Processor (DSP)established to devise an economical real-time interface is discussed. Derivation of signals for thepower devices of a single-phase topology of the power converter

Collection

1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Lang-Wah Lee; Tamer Ceylan

prerequisite courses in Thermodynamics, Fluid Dynamics, AppliedThermodynamics, and Heat Transfer. The course is equipment-intensive. Students conductexperiments on test setups such as steam turbines, wind tunnel, centrifugal pump, refrigeration, heatexchanger, and compressor. To implement design education in this course, one needs to consider thefollowing questions: (1) What constitutes as design activity in the lab course and how to implementit? (2) How much design content should be included in the course? (3) What type of equipment isneeded? This paper will first discuss these important questions, followed by a brief description onsome typical design projects and discussion on the advantage and drawbacks of various approaches

Collection

1997 Annual Conference

Authors

Brian S. Mitchell

added and removed since the inception of the course.For example, linear regression was covered the first year, but was removed in subsequent yearssince essentially the same material is covered in Stoichiometry. Experimental design wasintroduced, including factorial analysis, but was removed in 1996 to make room for moreengineering economics and an expansion of the design project. One-hour lectures on safety andengineering ethics are also incorporated as time allows. The majority of the class, however, isdevoted to the five areas described above. Statistics for Engineering and the Sciences byMendenhall and Sincich1 is currently the textbook for this course.Descriptive statistics, probability fundamentals and probability distributions are covered

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1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Cathie Scott; Carolyn Plumb

new tools to evaluate theeffectiveness of writing instruction and the preparedness of students to write on the job.At the University of Washington, we have embarked on a portfolio assessment project thatinvolves collecting writing samples and other indicators of the engineering student writingexperience. Through this program, we hope to gain a better understanding of what students arelearning about written communication; we also plan to use the data from the project to establishclearer performance outcomes for our writing program.This paper describes the goal of the project and the rationale behind our decision to adoptportfolio assessment. In addition, it describes the information being collected and the processbeing used to collect this

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1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Milan Degyansky

Session 3592 GENDER EQUITY STUDY OF FEMALE CET STUDENTS/GRADUATES AT GEORGIA SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY MILAN E. DEGYANSKY GEORGIA SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY In 1995 five universities in Georgia (Georgia Southern University, the University ofGeorgia, Georgia Institute of Technology, Georgia State University and Clark Atlanta University)and the AAUW of Georgia received a three year $800,000 National Science Foundation grant fora collaborative project titled Integrating Gender Equity and Reform (InGEAR.) The projectinvestigated educational approaches

Collection

1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Anthony Brizendine

. Yet, the author’s observation about software is that it cantake on a life of its own - students can get bogged down in the computerassignments, and faculty get bogged down addressing hardware and softwarequestions at the expense of the fundamental concepts of the course. Still, itremains the author’s parallel desire to furnish cogent computer/video experiencesexpected by the MTV- or X-Generation10 while stealthily conveying thefundamentals necessary to evaluate and solve real problems and meanwhile,discern bad output – hence, the impetus for undertaking this experiment.Software Series in Civil Engineering Technology: An Independent LearningExperiment (SSCETILE)The project described in this paper, the Software Series in Civil

Conference Session

Technical Sessions 5

Collection

2024 Fall ASEE Mid-Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Arkadiy Portnoy, City University of New York, Queensborough Community College; Sunil Dehipawala, City University of New York, Queensborough Community College; Tak Cheung

Tagged Topics

Professional Papers

Paper ID #45301Preparing community college and high school students for inertial confinementfusion jobs in engineering and technologyArkadiy Portnoy, City University of New York, Queensborough Community CollegeDr. Sunil Dehipawala, City University of New York, Queensborough Community CollegeProf. Tak Cheung Tak Cheung, Ph.D., professor of physics, teaches in CUNY Queensborough Community College. He also conducts research and mentors student research projects. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 Preparing community college and high school students for inertial confinement fusion jobs in

Collection

15th Annual First-Year Engineering Experience Conference (FYEE)

Authors

Melissa C Kenny, Wake Forest University; Patricia Clayton, Wake Forest University

in engineering education, alongside structural engineering and natural hazards engineering. 15th Annual First-Year Engineering Experience Conference (FYEE): Boston, Massachusetts Jul 28 GIFTS: Crushing Cardboard: A Technical Design Challenge for First-Year StudentsIntroduction: This GIFTS paper describes the first iteration of a first-year engineering designchallenge which applies mechanics principles, the design process, experimentation, introductoryprogramming, and consideration of failure and factor of safety into a simple hands-on projectwith minimal pre-requisite knowledge. The objectives of the project are for students to applytechnical understanding to a hands-on problem, collect and evaluate

Collection

2013 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

Pamalee Brady; James Guthrie

Bringing Design and Construction into Elementary School Classrooms with Sandcastles Pamalee Brady, Ph.D, PE James Guthrie, SE California State Polytechnic UniversityAbstractThe design and construction professions face a continuing need to attract talented and trainedindividuals. A promising approach is to introduce these professions to students in elementaryschool classrooms. The Sandcastle Project is a collaborative effort that will bring students andfaculty in the Cal Poly College of Architecture & Environmental Design (CAED) and the Schoolof Education into local elementary school classrooms. The CAED

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2010 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Mir M. Atiqullah; Norman Russell

theapparatus. This paper describes the design and operation of the device as well as teachingmodules and user surveys to match the results with laboratory outcomes. Such an inexpensivebut functional apparatus can enhance a traditional undergraduate fluids laboratory. Studentlearning was positive after using it for a laboratory exercise. Included drawings and teachingmodules may benefit other faculty members who want to take advantage of the current design.Keywords: Fluid mechanics, fluid statics, hydrostatic, buoyancy, laboratory, design.INTRODUCTION The senior machine design class includes capstone design projects done by teams ofstudents. These students had already taken the Fluid Mechanics laboratory class where theneed for a hydrostatic

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2010 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Bill Lorenz; Pritpal Singh

, Villanova University, October 15-16, 2010Students taking a track must take a total of 21 credit hours worth of additional course work beyond thecore courses, 9 credit hours of which may be focused on a research project.While the tracks offer in-depth courses in specialized areas, the core courses offer a much morebroadening experience and the research projects that students perform in this program are much morecross-disciplinary. In the next section we describe the core courses in more detail, explain thepedagogical approach to teaching these core courses, and describe their impact on students to date.MS Sustainable Engineering Core Course SequenceThree courses make up the core courses of the MS Sustainable Engineering program:EGR 7110

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2007 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Robert Avanzato

vehicles, scuba diving, and dancing. Residents can engage in construction of 3Dmodels and access a variety of media. Many universities, organizations, and corporations haveestablished presence in Second Life to take advantage of this interactive, dynamic and globalenvironment. This author is currently teaching a project-based freshman-level information sciences andtechnology course at Penn State Abington College (Abington, PA) during the fall of 2007 whichincorporates a 7-week module on the use of virtual worlds to enhance undergraduate educationand campus life. The author has investigated a number of existing Second Life resources toprepare for the instruction of this module. The Second Life course module began with a scavenger

Collection

2016 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

AB Shafaye; Rafic Bachnak

  An Internship Program that Promotes Student Success in Engineering and Engineering Technology AB Shafaye and Rafic Bachnak School of Science, Engineering, and Technology Penn State HarrisburgAbstract - STEM education has been given much attention in recent years. A major concern,however, is that success rates in U.S. colleges and universities are still low. While a number offactors affect student success, active learning approaches such as research and internshipexperiences, hands-on experimentation and projects, challenged-based instruction and problemsolving, and peer

Conference Session

Concurrent Paper Tracks - Session II

Collection

2015 ASEE International Forum

Authors

Russell D Jamison, Virginia Commonwealth University

Tagged Topics

International Forum

constraints they embody – including cost, du-rability, maintainability, simplicity, and cultural fit. Students presented with problems of thistype must empathize with a consumer and an environment about which they typically have nofirsthand knowledge. This is the essence of design for the real world.ObjectiveThe objective of this project is to develop a sustainable mechanism by which engineeringsophomore and junior students can be engaged in a modified study abroad experience. In thismodel “study” becomes “work-study” and “abroad” becomes “developing countries.” Bypartnering with Non-Governmental Organizations (NGO’s), the project exposes students toenvironments of significant constraint in the developing world. Such an experience can pro-vide

Conference Session

Track 4 - Session II - Student and Curriculum Development II

Collection

2013 ASEE International Forum

Authors

Nimir Elbashir, Texas A&M University at Qatar; Hamid R. Parsaei P.E., Texas A&M University at Qatar; Elfatih E Elmalik, Texas A&M University at Qatar

Tagged Topics

Student and Curriculum Development

umbrella of the Qatar Foundation for Education, Science and CommunityDevelopment, both Education City and the Qatar Science and Technology Park operate.Education City is a campus comprising of several colleges, including Texas A&M University atQatar. It has the three-prong mission of research, teaching and community service. These goalsshould be realized in the projects undergone by the universities. Qatar’s work in facilitatingresearch and innovation can be compared to studies based on the same issue in New York State.The Governor of New York assembled the Task Force on Diversifying the New York StateEconomy through Industry-Higher Education Partnerships. This task force studied the

Conference Session

Best Zone Papers

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Mark Jones; Cynda Fickert; Alice Smith

Reaching 6th through 8th Grade Students through the National Science Foundation Research Experiences for Teachers Program Alice E. Smith1, Cynda Fickert2, Mark Jones3AbstractThe National Science Foundation instituted a novel program recently called Research Experiences for Teachers(RET) which allows principal investigators to request a funding supplement to existing grants to enable interactionwith K-12 teachers. At Auburn University in Auburn, Alabama, the Department of Industrial and SystemsEngineering received funding for two teachers for the summers of 2002 and 2003. A science teacher of 6th and 7thgraders and a math teacher of 8th graders joined the research team on the project “Relating Field

Conference Session

Real-Time and Embedded Systems Education

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Henry Chaya

-circuit debugging is a simple procedure and the device is very affordable.The present course is for sophomore electrical engineering students who have had a course inVisual Basic. Two goals of the course are to teach elements of C++ and to provide interface-programming projects that are creative and interesting. Another goal is to address programmingand performance issues relevant to embedded system programming such as timing and event-driven procedures. While the OOPic fulfilled the educational needs of this introductory course,its slow speed and limited memory preclude its use in more advanced courses.IntroductionRecently the Electrical and Computer Engineering department at Manhattan College has beenrevising its curriculum for electrical

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Rebecca Willits

– pharmacokinetic model 12. ASAIO Journal intravascular oxygenators 13. Kidney International diffusive transport in peritoneal dialysis 14. Journal of Biomedical Materials encapsulation of cells for insulin control 15, 16. Research Page 7.371.2 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2002, American Society for Engineering EducationTo accomplish the second objective, a semester long group project was assigned to develop anexperiment based on teachings in the first semester. The project constraints were

Conference Session

Assessment in Large and Small Programs

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Valerie Young

habit of a practicing engineer.However, we have learned by experience that even when students are provided with the rubric,they seldom evaluate their own work effectively. In an effort to counter this, students in asophomore-level “Energy Balances” course are asked to help develop a rubric that will be usedto grade and assess a team project in the course. The mechanism for including student input inrubric development and assessing the ability of the students to use the resulting rubrics for selfevaluation will be discussed.IntroductionThe chemical engineering curriculum at Ohio University requires students to complete open-ended assignments in a team environment at the sophomore, junior, and senior levels. Thedeliverable in these assignments is

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2024 ASEE North Central Section Conference

Authors

Andrew James Goodling, Grand Valley State University; Erik Fredericks, Grand Valley State University; Sara Jo Alsum-Wassenaar, Grand Valley State University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

colors, and user-drawn stamps to help them make visual connections,visualize data, and understand spatial relationships in places they visit.This project was created as a collaborative undergraduate research experience between multipledisciplines, including communications, art education, and computer science, as well as inpartnership with a local public K–12 school. Walk and Draw was developed as abrowser-based application using the p5js library to enable ease of development and rapidprototyping of ideas. The program itself presents users with a large map of their current areabased on a device’s current GPS location and supports both touch- and pen-based drawing. Proceedings of the 2024 ASEE North Central Section Conference

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2024 ASEE North Central Section Conference

Authors

Yingxiao Song, Muskingum University

that is usually open to most engineering students in their junior or senioryear, which means they have completed their introductory courses like physics and chemistry.Students who are at this stage are usually eager to solve more realistic problems than laboratorywork. This paper shows the integration of sustainability concepts with the Fluid Mechanics classthrough lectures, laboratory work, simulations, and projects. Educational objectives, assessmentmethods, and sample problems are presented in this paper.IntroductionEnhancing problem-solving skills in engineering students, particularly in the latter half of theirundergraduate studies, is paramount. This is acutely relevant in applied engineering courses suchas Fluid Mechanics, typically

Conference Session

Emerging Areas: Biotechnology, Microtechnology, and Energy

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Thuyoanh Truong, California State Universtiy, Long Beach, Department of Chemical Engineering; William Ferguson, Department of Chemical Engineering, California State University, Long Beach; Roger C. Lo, California State University, Long Beach, Department of Chemical Engineering

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

analysis time, muchlower sample and reagent consumption (in the nanoliter range or less), and enhanced systemperformance and functionality by integrating different components onto microfluidic devices1-2.These applications are usually called micro total analysis systems (!TAS) or lab on a chip (LOC)3-4 . Since its debut in the 90s5-7, microfluidics technology has made significant progress andgradually moved from pure research projects to commercialized products, such as AgilentTechnologies’ 2100 Bioanalyzer for biomolecule analysis8, Caliper Life Sciences’ LabChipsystems for biomolecule analysis and drug discovery9, and Fluidigm Corporation’s BioMarksystem for real-time PCR10.We notice that from the microfluidics technology industry (especially

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1999 Annual Conference

Authors

S. Andrew Hale; Roger Rohrbach; Larry Stikeleather; John Parsons; James Young; Susan M. Blanchard

to increasethe application of basic principles of fluid and heat transfer to biomedical applications andconsequently to reduce the application of these same principles to agricultural situations. Thishas primarily been accomplished through the semester long special projects rather than withchanges in the organization of the lectures or laboratory periods.Prior to 1997, special projects were assigned which integrated the concepts of resistance to flowthrough a system, performance of pumps or fans, heat transfer, and psychrometrics through aproblem involving a batch grain drying system. Beginning in 1997, the emphasis of the specialproblem was shifted to a study of the flow of blood through the human vascular system, theperformance of the