Conference Session

Division for Experimentation & Lab-oriented Studies Technical Session 2

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Brian M. Wood, Keysight Technologies; Alexander O. Ganago, University of Michigan

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Experimentation and Laboratory-Oriented Studies

should we learn about “X”? Insteadof traditional preaching that “X” would probably be useful in your profession, the answerbecomes: “Because it helps you do cool things with Arduino this week.”In the context of Engineering Education, at any level from high school to college, for ElectricalEngineering (EE) and non-EE majors alike, “X” may be any of the following: Sensors andcalibration; Ohm’s law and voltage division; Current and power; Sine and square waves;Transient responses; Analog and digital signals; Sampling rate, bits, and accuracy; Controltheory; Programming; Protocols for wireless communication; Test/measurement procedures;How motors work, etc.Use of Arduino-based projects as motivators for learning is beneficial to both the student and

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Minorities in Engineering Division Technical Session 5

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Keith A. Schimmel P.E., North Carolina A&T State University; C. Dean Campbell, North Carolina A&T State University; Marcia Gumpertz, North Carolina State University; Yvette Maria Huet, University of North Carolina, Charlotte; Ajit D. Kelkar, North Carolina A&T State University; John P. Kizito, North Carolina A&T State University

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Diversity

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Minorities in Engineering

. He has worked at other lead- ing research universities in a variety of administrator roles in graduate education, and presently serves as a co-investigator on the AGEP NC Alliance leadership team. His research interests and publication record include a focus on organizational effectiveness and diversity in higher education, administrator professional development, and faculty and graduate student socialization.Dr. Marcia Gumpertz, North Carolina State University Marcia Gumpertz is professor of statistics at North Carolina State University. She serves as PI of N.C. State’s AGEP North Carolina Alliance project: An Institutional Transformation Model to Increase Mi- nority STEM Doctoral Student and Faculty Success

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Engineering Leadership Development Constituent Committee Division Technical Session 1

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ella Lee Ingram, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Richard A. House, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Steve Chenoweth, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Kay C. Dee, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Jameel Ahmed, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Julia M. Williams, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Craig G. Downing, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Donald E. Richards, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

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Engineering Leadership Development Division

. and at Bell Labs. He specialized in starting new projects, and in reviewing such projects. All of these software development projects involved some associated social change. At Rose-Hulman he has been involved in starting the bachelor’s and master’s programs in software engineering.Dr. Kay C Dee, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Kay C Dee received a B.S. degree in chemical engineering from Carnegie Mellon University, and M.Eng. and Ph.D. degrees in biomedical engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. After completing her graduate work, Kay C joined the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana, and later joined the faculty at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

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Software Engineering Constituent Committee Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Janusz Zalewski, Florida Gulf Coast University; Fernando Garcia Gonzalez, Florida Gulf Coast University

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Software Engineering Constituent Committee

Paper ID #10496Creating Research Opportunities with Robotics across the UndergraduateSTEM CurriculaDr. Janusz Zalewski, Florida Gulf Coast University Janusz Zalewski, Ph.D., is a professor of computer science and software engineering at Florida Gulf Coast University. Prior to an academic appointment, he worked for various nuclear research institutions, including the Data Acquisition Group of Superconducting Super Collider and Computer Safety and Re- liability Center at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. He also worked on projects and consulted for a number of private companies, including Lockheed Martin, Harris, and

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Larry Cartwright

Paper 2081 HUMOROUS ENGINEERING 101 Larry Cartwright Carnegie Mellon UniversityAbstractThe Senior Design course is taught to Carnegie Mellon students each fall. This capstonecourse is required for all Civil and Environmental Engineering majors. The courseconcentrates on teaching the three levels of the design process by using projects that relateto the core areas of the discipline. This paper will provide an overview of the course withemphasis on the final design/build project. This project is humorous in nature and iseagerly anticipated by the students. Five examples of past projects will be

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade in Teaching II

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jennifer A Turns, University of Washington

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New Engineering Educators

powerful sets of instructional principles andillustrating how they can be mapped to educational practice, we will empower these educators totry out new ideas in their own teaching.ApproachWe first introduce the two teaching cases that we will be using. The first case, the squaresactivity, was a class exercise used at the beginning of the term with a class of just under 30undergraduate students. The second case, the journal landscape project, was one of threeprojects assigned in a graduate class of just under 30 students. These two cases arecomplementary in that they vary in the unit of teaching (class activity versus multi-week project)and in terms of student population (undergraduate versus graduate).We did not select these cases because of any

Conference Session

Sustainable Product Development and Manufacturing

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Guanghsu A. Chang, Minnesota State University, Mankato; William R. Peterson, WRP Associates

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Manufacturing

courses typically focus on different product realizationprocesses and manufacturing process analysis, which often involve a lot of design andmanufacturing issues and theoretical concepts. At Minnesota State University-Mankato manydesign and manufacturing projects attempt to provide the students opportunities to practice theirdesign for assembly knowledge and promote creativity and innovation. In recent years, almost 40students in our program are involved our DFA projects every year. All of the students are givenfoundational manufacturing and design concepts, principles, and methodologies of theengineering disciplines during their first two years. MET students have to finish their study ofMaterial Processing I (MET 177), Computer Aided Drafting

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1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Ben Erwin

flows from defining requirements and exploringalternative concepts to turning the requirements into a model and testing it. There is a shift inmathematics education to encourage students to do mathematics the way that mathematicians doit. A Systems engineering project in the classroom is doing engineering the way engineers do it. Systems engineering is not only good for education in terms of the good it can do forstudents, but for education as a whole as well. Education is a system like many other types of Page 3.385.2systems, and needs to be designed with a systems approach. The questions that education reformefforts should be asking are

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Engineering Leadership Development Division (LEAD) Technical Session: Innovative Approaches to Teaching & Developing Engineering Leadership

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert Benjamin Simon, Georgia Institute of Technology; James Field; Lauren Stewart, Georgia Institute of Technology

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Engineering Leadership Development Division (LEAD)

for several CEE undergraduate courses.James FieldLauren Stewart, Georgia Institute of Technology ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024Work-in-Progress: Applying Aspects of Professional Settings to Student Teaming in an Engineering and Design CourseAbstractAs group-based learning and team projects continue their recent surge in engineering education,there is still significant debate on effective pedagogies associated with teaching project teams.How student teams are formed and evaluated are key decisions instructors must make, all thewhile balancing important aspects such as team diversity, alignment with learning outcomes, andthe quality of the team’s work. What is often missing from the literature

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Accountability and Stewardship

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gail Baura, Loyola University, Chicago; Matt Miller, Loyola University, Chicago

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division (LEES)

situations and make informed judgments, which must consider the impact ofengineering solutions in global, economic, environmental, and societal contexts" [1]. Separatefrom ABET accreditation requirements, we wish our graduates to make informed choices duringtheir professional activities, especially if they work in an environment in which they are asked bya direct supervisor to falsify data. Ideally, this ethics training is conducted within engineeringcourses.At Loyola University Chicago (LUC), four social justice case study projects are embedded in thecurriculum. In this study, we hypothesize that the U.S. Senate Hearing social justice case studiesare effective in teaching engineering professional responsibility for several reasons. First, the

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

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Charlotte Marr de Vries, Pennsylvania State University; Qi Dunsworth, Pennsylvania State University; Doyle Dodd, The University of Oklahoma

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Design in Engineering Education Division (DEED)

in Communication Studies and a Ph.D. in Educational Technology. She supports faculty in their effort to improve pedagogy, course design, and interdisciplinary curricula.Dr. Doyle Dodd, University of Oklahoma Industrial & Systems Engineering Capstone Coordinator ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 Teaming Tribulations: Using a Role-Playing Game to Improve Teaming OutcomesAbstract:This paper discusses the development and implementation of a board game intended to simulateconversations and debates or negotiations that may occur in design-based projects. One of thechallenging tasks for a design group is learning how to collaborate and debate in a

Conference Session

MECH - Technical Session 2: Enhancing Learning through Hands-On Design

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Scott F. Kiefer, York College of Pennsylvania; Stephen Andrew Wilkerson P.E., York College of Pennsylvania; Ashley J Earle, York College of Pennsylvania

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Mechanical Engineering Division (MECH)

different undergraduate research projects. He then moved on to Michigan State University and took a position as a teaching specialist concentrating on undergraduate classroom instruction. Scott finally settled at York College of Pennsylvania. He has been at York College for over ten years and feels as if he has found a place where the focus on teaching and students aligns well with his background and interests.Dr. Stephen Andrew Wilkerson P.E., York College of Pennsylvania Stephen Wilkerson (swilkerson@ycp.edu) received his PhD from Johns Hopkins University in 1990 in Mechanical Engineering. His Thesis and initial work was on underwater explosion bubble dynamics and ship and submarine whipping. After graduation he took

Conference Session

Design Tools & Methodology I

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Junichi Kanai, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Samuel Chiappone, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

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Design in Engineering Education

- Manufacturing Education Excellence Award for AML Activities Page 22.1269.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011 Safety Policies and Procedures for Engineering Design Courses1. IntroductionIt is important for undergraduate engineering education to teach professional practice in additionto technical knowledge [1]. One of the core values of the profession is safety. It is also coveredin the program outcome (c) by ABET [2].Students in engineering design courses often face a variety of safety issues due to the diversenature of design projects. The program outcome (d) by ABET requires students to

Conference Session

Experiential Learning and Globalization in BME

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Eric M. Brey, Illinois Institute of Technology; David W. Gatchell, Illinois Institute of Technology

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Biomedical

Engineering Research Center. He joined the BME depart- ment at IIT in 2007, where he is interested in problems associated with molecular and cellular engineer- ing, specifically the computational modeling of cellular migration. David teaches several courses within the BME department, most notably the senior design capstone sequence (BME 419 and 420) which he co-instructs with Dr. Jennifer Kang Derwent. He also is the lead instructor for IPRO 2.0, an interdisci- plinary project-based course required of all undergraduate at IIT. David collaborates actively with IIT’s entrepreneurship academy as well as its math and science education department. David is a member of the Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES) and the American

Conference Session

Outstanding Contributions - Mechanical Engineering Education

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Matthew Green, LeTourneau University; Carolyn Conner Seepersad, University of Texas, Austin; Katja Holtta-Otto, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth

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Mechanical Engineering

future projects. Surveys also indicate strong agreement that extremeexperience interviews “inspired ideas that are better for average users as well.” An examinationof interview transcripts shows the extreme experience interviews are valuable not only foruncovering a much more comprehensive set of customer needs, especially with respect toproduct-user interactions, but also for obtaining innovative redesign suggestions from customersthemselves. The results collectively show extreme experience interviews are an effective andvaluable addition to the design process in these courses, with additional room for improvementin teaching technique.1 IntroductionIn the last decade the engineering design community has shown tremendous interest in

Conference Session

Accreditation and Related Issues in ECE

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Robi Polikar; Robert R. Krchnavek; Raul Ordonez; Peter Jansson; John Schmalzel; Shreekanth Mandayam; Ravi Ramachandran; Linda Head

, and technology focus electives. Project andlaboratory based instruction are employed as a tool for motivating students and to demonstrate therelevancy of material. Multidisciplinary courses provide the opportunity for students in differentdisciplines to work together. Some of the approaches—and lessons learned—may be of interest to otherstart-ups and programs considering transformation.Introduction Rowan University’s engineering programs are the result of an endowment by Henry and BettyRowan. The Rowan challenge was to create quality programs to develop engineers who could competein the new global economy. Four engineering disciplines (Chemical, Civil and Environmental, Electricaland Computer, and Mechanical) were started in 1995; the

Conference Session

Track 8: Technical Session 8: The Role of an Artificial Intelligence Certificate in the Computing Identity Formation of Hispanic-Serving Community College Students who Work

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2024 Collaborative Network for Engineering & Computing Diversity (CoNECD)

Authors

Sarah L Rodriguez, Virginia Tech; Taylor Y. Johnson, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Paul Charles Bigby Jr., Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

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CoNECD Paper Sessions, Diversity

Paper ID #40731The Role of an Artificial Intelligence Certificate in the ComputingIdentity Formation of Hispanic-Serving Community College Students whoWorkDr. Sarah L Rodriguez, Virginia Tech Sarah L. Rodriguez is an Associate Professor of Engineering Education and an affiliate faculty member with the Higher Education Program at Virginia Tech. Her engineering education research agenda centers upon engineering and computing identity development of historically marginalized populations at higher education institutions. Currently, Dr. Rodriguez is involved with several large-scale interdisciplinary research projects focused on

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Design in Engineering Education Division Poster Session

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ang Liu, University of Southern California; Stephen Y. Lu, University of Southern California

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Design in Engineering Education

key functions of complex systems. To date, however,few efforts have been devoted to apply the IDEF0 method to model a design course as a complexsystem. Next, we explain our interpretation of a (good) “design thinking” course with respect tothe four IDEF0 building blocks: input, output, mechanism, and control. The conceptual model isillustrated in Figure 1.Input of a “design thinking” course includes both design methods and design projects. Theformer specifies a particular process (or pattern) of performing design, which the instructor cansystemically teach step-by step. Whereas the latter allows the students to practice the newmethods that they learnt by solving real-world design problems. In some sense, a certain designmethod can be

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2013 GSW

Authors

Xiao Peng; Lex Gonzalez; Eric Haney; Amen Omoragbon; Bernd Chudoba

communities keep and use such valuable inheritance. Inthis context, we do routinely witness events such: (i) the failure of aerospace projects, like TitanIV, whose explosion has been deemed the responsibility of a design defect; (ii) the losing ofvaluable aerospace specialists and their expertise, like at Boeing, “…more than half of theBoeing work force will be eligible for retirement within the next decade. That's roughly 80,000employees’ cumulative corporate wisdom walking out the door.”; (iii) the ostensibly well-keptbut not easily accessible knowledge has seldom shown its value and contributed to activities, likethe books and journals covered by dust in library.In order to efficiently use energy, time and money, and apply previous precious

Conference Session

Joint Session: Experimentation and Laboratory-Oriented Studies Division and Chemical Division

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gautom K Das, University of Maryland, Baltimore County

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Experimentation and Laboratory-Oriented Studies Division (DELOS)

outcomes.Results indicated positive attitudes and their enthusiastic time investment. The at-home projectsenhanced learning, fostered critical thinking, and aligned with evolving engineering educationpriorities. In future iterations, we plan to allocate more time and extend project timelines forgreater learning experience.Keywords: Unit operations laboratory, at-home experiments, critical thinking, bridging corecourse silos.1. INTRODUCTIONIn the 2022 report, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicinerecommended an increased emphasis on experimental learning to facilitate effective connectionsamong core courses, often referred to as 'the silos' [1]. ABET also mandates that students acquirethe skills to design and conduct experiments

Conference Session

ELOS Technical Session 6: Bring Your Own Experiment!

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joseph Richard Midiri, Rowan University; Kathy Trieu, Rowan University; Wei Xue, Rowan University; Mitja Trkov, Rowan University; Cassandra Sue Ellen Jamison, Rowan University; Smitesh Bakrania, Rowan University

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Diversity

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Experimentation and Laboratory-Oriented Studies Division (DELOS)

earlyin their academic careers. With the primary construction materials being from readily available componentsand craft supplies, the project can easily be implemented in both college and high school learningenvironments with limited resources. The completed robot design involves three main functionalchallenges; maneuverability, ability to pick up small objects, and storage of the objects. Students’ robotswill then compete in a simulated biological environment, with small objects that can be placed at differingheights to vary the task difficulty and represent food sources at multiple elevations. Each team of studentswould be tasked to strategically design their robot to optimize performance in a competition for points. Tooptimize their robots

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Institutionalizing Entrepreneurship and Innovation

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Victoria Matthew, VentureWell; Jeffrey E. Froyd, Texas A&M University; Raina Michelle Khatri, Western Michigan University; Thomas M. Katona, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Robby Sanders, Tennessee Technological University; Bonnie J. Bachman, Missouri University of Science & Technology; Renee Cole, University of Iowa; John Lovitt, Wichita State University and Missouri University of Science & Technology; Melissa Geist, Tennessee Technological University; Charles Henderson, Western Michigan University ; Debra May Friedrichsen; Phil Weilerstein, VentureWell

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

Technology. At Rose-Hulman, he co-created the Integrated, First-Year Curriculum in Science, Engineering and Mathematics, which was recognized in 1997 with a Hesburgh Award Certificate of Excellence. He served as Project Director a Na- tional Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering Education Coalition in which six institutions systematically renewed, assessed, and institutionalized innovative undergraduate engineering curricula. He has authored over 70 papers and offered over 30 workshops on faculty development, curricular change processes, cur- riculum redesign, and assessment. He has served as a program co-chair for three Frontiers in Education Conferences and the general chair for the 2009 conference. Prof. Froyd is a

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First-year Programs Division Technical Session 4: The Best of the All: FPD Best Papers

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John K. Estell, Ohio Northern University; David Reeping, Ohio Northern University

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First-Year Programs

Epsilon). His research interests involve first year engineering course analysis, authentic projects and assessments, and K-12 engineering. Page 26.1280.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 Providing Authentic Experiences in the First Year: Designing Educational Software in Support of Service Learning ActivitiesIntroductionEducators have often sought to incorporate experiential learning into the curriculum through theuse of authentic, reality-based projects. One mode that has been successfully employed is servicelearning, where classroom instruction is combined with

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2023 Fall Mid Atlantic Conference: Meeting our students where they are and getting them where they need to be

Authors

Doug Kim, Farmingdale State College

adapted to cover moreadvanced topics such as signal propagation, phase distortion, and advanced wireless networks.To demonstrate the practical knowledge the students learned from the RF curriculum, theprogram should require a student-driven RF-related project. This senior capstone project doesnot necessarily have to involve building an RF device. It could be a methodology inmeasurements or an automated process development. The only requirement is that the projectshould fully display the knowledge and skills acquired from the curriculum. The projectdemonstrates the capabilities and readiness of the students to take on real-life RF engineeringtasks.Curriculum Design – Lab ActivitiesThe laboratory activities are centered around three major RF test

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2005 GSW

Authors

Dr. Saleh M. Sbenaty; Chad Lloyd

. MethodologyThis project is divided into two main sections, hardware and software. The hardwarediscussion will detail the microcontroller, the development environment and allrequirements necessary to recreate a working model. The software section will brieflyillustrate the Keil C IDE and JavaKit applications as well as the firmware written for themicrocontroller.HardwareThe DS80C400 is a microcontroller with onboard network support. In addition, themicrocontroller has seven bidirectional parallel ports, four counters/timers and threeserial ports with onboard UARTs (3). The instruction execution speed has beendramatically increased with a maximum input clock speed of 75 MHz and the original8051’s 12 clocks-per-instruction cycle has been reduced to four

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2022 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

sunil Dehipawala, City University of New York, Queensborough Community College; Harsha Rajapakse, Medgar Evers College, CUNY ; Breeya Evans; Tak Cheung

innovations, collaborative studies, entrepreneurship, intellectual and ethical responsibility, and service to the scientific, national, and international communities.Breeya EvansProf. Tak Cheung Tak David Cheung, Ph.D., professor of physics, teaches in CUNY Queensborough Community College. He also conducts research and mentors student research projects. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2022 Absorption and distribution of Arsenic by plants & role of soil conditions Sunil Dehipawala1, Breeya Skye1, Tak D, Chung1, Harsha Rajapakse2 1. Physics Department, Queensborough Community College CUNY,Bayside NY 11364 2

Conference Session

We Love our MOMs (Mechanics of Materials)

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Reihaneh Jamshidi, University of Hartford

physical lab does notaccompany a theoretical course, as is the case for Machine Design course at University ofHartford. This is a valuable opportunity for students to build career preparation skills,specifically, since FEA is commonly used in industry for machine element design to understandthe interplay between machine elements and how to implement them in complex systems. Thesimulation project of this study is assigned to students after the theoretical concept and practiceproblems have been covered on the deflection topic. Students will then perform model setup andanalysis of deflection simulations. Later in the semester, when failure criteria for static loadingfor ductile and brittle materials are covered, students are asked to discuss their

Conference Session

DEED Technical Session 9 - Design Across the Curriculum

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kathryn Schulte Grahame, Northeastern University; Courtney Pfluger, Northeastern University

developed and ran for 8 years a faculty-led international program to Brazil focused on Sustainable Energy and Brazilian Culture. This program educates students on the effects of various energy systems and the challenges of social and environmental justice in developing countries. In 2017, Dr. Pfluger moved into the ChE department where she implemented improvements in the Transport 2 Lab and Capstone courses. She assists Capstone students to develop dynamic design projects that address and help solve real-world, global challenges. Dr. Pfluger has served as the AIChE Student Chapter Faculty Advisor for 10 years and will become chair of the AIChE Student Chapter Committee in November 2021. She is a Mathworks Teaching Fellow and

Conference Session

International Division Technical Session 5: COVID-19 Pandemic Lessons and Best Practices

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gloria Kim, University of Florida; Yong Yoon; Jin-woo Choi, Louisiana State University and A&M College

are sent to South Korea for8 weeks to work on their own research project at their assigned laboratories. In Summer 2019,the first cohort of five students completed their 8-week immersive research internship at a top-ranked Korean university.COVID-19 affected most, if not all, in-bound and out-bound international programs. IRiKA wasno exception. In late February 2020, the program was canceled altogether because no viablealternative could be offered for Summer 2020, as institutions world-wide were grappling withdisruptive challenges the pandemic brought on. In Fall 2020, with contingency plans in place andan additional Korean host site aboard, the project team solicited applications. However, in early2021, before the final selection of the 2021

Conference Session

ETD - A Technology Potpourri II

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Samia Afrin, East Tennessee State University; Christopher Hudson, East Tennessee State University

industrialworkplace organization but also extended to domestic ground. It provides a systematic approachto good housekeeping.A homeowner’s garage is a harbor for the security and protection of one’s vehicles and typicallyserves as the central storage area for the tools used to maintain/repair the home and its contents.Many homeowners face the problem of an increasingly cluttered and disorganized garage.Research and effort invested in the application of a 5S program for the homeowner’s garage takesaim at improving the safety and available space in the garage. This paper provides a reasoningbehind the case study, techniques of garage space optimization, and outline the benefits offollowing project completion.1. IntroductionThe ergonomics process is mostly