Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Design II

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ralf Oliver Schneider, Syracuse University

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Diversity

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

Kunsthochschule Berlin Weißensee in Berlin, Ger- many. A competitive stipend from the German government (Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Di- enst) supported graduate coursework at The University of Cincinnati (UC), Cincinnati, USA, where Ralf Schneider was awarded a Master in Design degree in 2005. He worked as an Assoc. Director/Senior Design Researcher at the Live Well Collaborative, founded by Procter & Gamble and UC with a unique mission to foster the collaborative, interdisciplinary design process between industry leaders and academia. In this role Schneider worked with Hill-Rom and P&G on various projects. Ralf Schneider is interested in solving complex problems with interdisciplinary teams. His current re

Conference Session

The BEST InDEED

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Chris Gewirtz, Virginia Tech; Daria A. Kotys-Schwartz, University of Colorado, Boulder; Daniel Knight, University of Colorado, Boulder; Marie C. Paretti, Virginia Tech; Sidharth Arunkumar; Julie Dyke Ford, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology; Susannah Howe, Smith College; Laura Mae Rosenbauer, Smith College; Nicholas Emory Alvarez, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology; Jessica Deters, Virginia Tech ; Cristian Hernandez

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Diversity

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Design in Engineering Education

Jessica Deters is a PhD student at Virginia Tech in the Department of Engineering Education. She holds a B.S. in Applied Mathematics & Statistics and a minor in the McBride Honors Program in Public Affairs from the Colorado School of Mines. Jessica is engaging in projects that emphasize the sociotechnical na- ture of engineering with a focus on social justice and diversity. She aims to educate the next generation of engineers to understand and value the social, political, economic, environmental, and human implications of their designs.Mr. Cristian Hernandez c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 New engineers’ first three months: A study of the transition from capstone

Conference Session

Energy & Technology in Pre-College Engineering Education

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Matthew J. Traum, Engineer Inc.; Sharon Liz Karackattu, Oak Hall School

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Pre-College Engineering Education

of the top-ten undergraduate-serving engineering universities in the U.S. Dr. Traum coordinated MSOE’s first crowd-funded senior design project. He also co-founded with students EASENET, a start- up renewable energy company to commercialize waste-to-energy biomass processors. Dr. Traum began his academic career as a founding faculty member in the Mechanical & Energy Engineer- ing Department at the University of North Texas - Denton where he established a successful, externally- funded researcher incubator that trained undergraduates to perform experimental research and encouraged matriculation to graduate school. Traum received a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Conference Session

Mechanical Engineering Technical Session: Feeling the Heat - Thermodynamics and Heat Transfer

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Jordan Farina, University of Portland; Heather Dillon, University of Portland; Rebecca D. Levison, University of Portland ; Nicole Ralston, University of Portland

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Mechanical Engineering

Rebecca Levison is a graduate research fellow working on her doctorate in education at the University of Portland. As a research fellow, Rebecca works on a KEEN assessment project and partnership between the School of Education and the School of Engineering to improve engineering education. When not working on the KEEN project, she works full time for Portland Public Schools as an ESL Teacher on Special Assignment. In that role, Rebecca writes science curriculum accessible to language learners that aligns with the Next Generation Science Standards and trains teachers how to implement new strategies for all learners.Dr. Nicole Ralston, University of Portland c American Society for Engineering

Conference Session

Online and Professional Graduate Programs

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Bharani Nagarathnam, Texas A&M University

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Diversity

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Graduate Studies

&M University. He has developed and implemented mobile learning solution with iPad, eBooks and educational apps for the MID program – first of its kind at Texas A&M University for working professionals in distance education graduate program. He has more than 20 years of experience in teaching, applied research, academic program management and business development. For more than 15 years he has worked with the Global Supply Chain Lab- oratory at Texas A&M University on applied industry consulting projects, consortia and professional development programs for more than 100 industrial manufacturers and distributors. He has published in academic journals and industry publications. His research areas include

Collection

2019 ASEE Zone I Conference & Workshop

Authors

Michael Martin

), would typically be taken in the freshmanyear. The core of the CNC concentration are the three MF classes which focus on CNCprogramming of mills and lathes. The first class of the sequence is MF233. This course is broken into two sections; which areCNC programming for a vertical mill, and CNC programming for a lathe. Both of these topicsreview manual G&M code programming, as well as CAM programming utilizing Mastercam inconjunction with Solidworks 3D modeling software. One of the highlights of this course is aproject in which the student must complete a project of some type. The projects are usually aservice to the community or university. Examples of projects completed in MF 233 are fluidtransfer valves for the university power plant

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Mechanical Engineering Technology

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ivana Milanovic, University of Hartford; Tom Eppes, University of Hartford

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Engineering Technology

Electrical Engineering from Texas A&M University and a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Michigan. Page 13.905.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2008 Modular, Adaptable and Reusable Approach to Thermal-Fluids: Outwitting the Norms (MARATHON)This paper describes the results of a project that implemented modular, adaptable and reusablethermo-fluids laboratories in the undergraduate Mechanical Engineering Technology (MET)Program. MARATHON (Modular, Adaptable and Reusable Approach to Thermal-FluidsOutwitting Norms) successfully engages students in inquiry and learning, gradually

Conference Session

Sustainable Engineering

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Josh Goldowitz, Rochester Institute of Technology; Karl Korfmacher, Rochester Institute of Technology

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Environmental Engineering

from Rochester Institute of Technology have provided engineering and environmentalservices in this environment since 2002. Projects have included a low cost drip irrigation systemdesign/build for a 3.5 acre community vegetable garden, and field scale trials of low-cost leadphytoremediation. This paper reports on an environmental assessment project completed insupport of a community rebuilding effort. Two students completed 19 ASTM Phase IEnvironmental Assessments (EAs) during the summer of 2004 to determine suitability of city-owned abandoned properties for urban renewal redevelopment. The EAs were completed onbehalf of a neighborhood association. The EAs included records searches for past ownership andland use, fuel and chemical storage, and

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Course Innovation

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jeff Frolik, University of Vermont; Frederic Sansoz, University of Vermont; Donna Rizzo, University of Vermont; Adel Sadek, University of Vermont

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

First-year Design Offered since ~80 Utilizes CricketSat wireless sensor EE & ME Experience Spring 2004 as project platformSenior/Grad Wireless Sensor New offering ~15 Utilizes commercial wireless All Networks for Fall 2006 sensors to develop networks forEngineering custom applications & CS Junior Mechanical Revised for ~40 Integration of commercial wireless ME Engineering Lab Spring 2007 sensors for beam mechanics and III vibration monitoring Junior

Conference Session

NSF Grantees' Poster Session

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Christopher D. Schmitz, University of Illinois; Michael C. Loui, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Renata A Revelo, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

, the teaching assistants, and even the instructor to discern.In this study, we investigated whether we could maintain student interest by using students'previous experiences to personalize the course material throughout the semester. When studentsfind the course material relevant to their own interests, they are likely to become engaged and toachieve deep learning.1 By continually applying the course topics towards personal interests, thestudents are primed to tackle a final project where they are encouraged and guided whileapplying their skills to a project of personal interest.To personalize the course material, we pose a general question to the students, evaluate theiranswers, and then hopefully convert one or more answers into an example

Conference Session

Robotics and Automation

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Thomas B. Stout, Tidewater Community College; Steve C. Hsiung, Old Dominion University

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Engineering Technology

c American Society for Engineering Education, 2014 A Collaborated Process with a Wireless Autonomous Vehicle at Its CenterIntroduction According to a study by Marken and Lewis1, 46 percent of 1550 degree-granting post-secondary institutions report that over one million high school students took courses for collegecredit within a dual enrollment program during the 2010-2011 academic year. This indicates thatthere are more and more high school students interested in studying at post-secondaryinstitutions. It presents opportunities for community college and university engineering andtechnology programs to recruit already interested students to become majors. This project used an

Conference Session

Programs in Support of Systems Engineering Education

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Chet Boncek Jr, Raytheon Company

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Systems Engineering

phones,GPS devices, and the wireless devices regularly used today. The non-existent or casualtreatment of these topics positioned students only to be avid consumers or perhaps savvyend-users, but, fell short by failing to impart at least some understanding of what is takesto design, manufacture and bring such items to market. These topics have begun toappear in curricula driven by the demand for a technically competent work force at a timewhen a large population of the current work force prepares to retire. 1A simulation developed by Raytheon in partnership with the Business Higher EducationForum (BHEF) permits trade-off studies and analyses of hypotheses and parameterswhich are supposed to impact the strength of the projected STEM

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Norb Delatte

profession – the Quebec Bridge, the Kansas City Hyatt Regency, and others• With appropriate course materials, these cases can be integrated into a number of civil engineering and engineering mechanics courses• Most faculty do not have the time to develop case studies themselves, and would welcome a web-based source of case materials. Survey respondents asked in particular for a thorough online bibliography.In response to the survey results, the National Science Foundation has funded a researchproject at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) entitled “Developing CaseStudies in Failures and Ethics for Engineering Educators,” as project number DUE0127419. The two-year project began 1 March 2002. The project is being carried outwith the

Conference Session

Technology in Environmental Engineering Courses

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Carlos Ortiz

sand filters, an aerobic digester anda UV disinfection system. The treated effluent is currently used for irrigation of a golf course.The hydraulic conditions were constant throughout the duration of the pilot test. The onlyparameter changed in the tests was the concentration of solids in the biological system. The firstphase of the study was conducted with an average mixed liquor suspended solids (MLSS) of 9370mg/L for a period of 60 days. The second phase of the study was conducted with an averageMLSS of 6470 mg/L for approximately 30 days.Waste CharacterizationThe students participating in this project were instructed on the operation of the pilot system andsampling of the influent and effluent, as well as the type of samples required for

Conference Session

Environmental Justice and Sustainability

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Walter Weber; Deborah Ross; Angela Lueking

sustainability while obtaining a traditionalengineering Master's degree. Students from several engineering departments complementtraditional disciplinary course requirements with courses in environmental regulations, policies,and technology. A required case studies course of the ConsEnSus Program brings practicingengineers together with students to discuss real-world sustainability problems. The industrialparticipants interactively present relevant case studies, and provide opportunities for experientiallearning through classroom activities and term projects. This paper will further explain theConsEnSus Program, its implementation, the initial successes of the program, and the case studiescourse and term project that was developed in collaboration with

Conference Session

K-12 Outreach Initiatives

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

William Smith; Angela Quick

Session 2530 The Unique Research Curriculum, Motivations, and Results of the Rockdale Magnet School for Science and Technology William W. Smith, Jr / Angela Hinson Quick Georgia Tech / Rockdale Magnet School for Science and TechnologyIntroductionOpening in the 2000 academic year, the Rockdale Magnet School for Science and Technology isan alliance between the Georgia Institute of Technology’s College of Engineering and theRockdale County (Georgia) Public Schools. This magnet high school provides a uniquecombination of required research classes and projects, an international research

Conference Session

Assessment in BME Education

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

John Gassert

component of the biomedical engineeringcurriculum at the Milwaukee School of Engineering (MSOE). That goal is to provide studentswith the tools needed to practice the profession of biomedical engineering after graduation.Those tools or outcomes include the ability to: • develop an understanding of the engineering design process and learn that it is not trial and error. • apply engineering topics, and topics in the life sciences, mathematics, physics, chemistry, and the social sciences, to the design process; • apply team-building concepts; • develop and apply project management; • understand of the role of regulatory agencies; • develop skills in written and oral communications. • develop and maintain an

Conference Session

Attracting Young Minds: Part II

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Amelito G. Enriquez, Cañada College; Wenshen Pong, San Francisco State University; Hamid Shahnasser, San Francisco State University; Hamid Mahmoodi, San Francisco State University; Hao Jiang, San Francisco State University; Cheng Chen, San Francisco State University

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Minorities in Engineering

math and engineering courses, contextualized teaching approaches thatincorporate NASA-related content as hands-on activities and projects are developed. A ten-weeksummer research internship program specifically designed for community college students hasalso been developed to provide research opportunities on various engineering topics includingperformance-based earthquake engineering, circuit design for biomedical applications, andembedded systems design. Additionally, a group of community college students are selected toparticipate in year-long upper-division and senior design courses at San Francisco State Universityto help develop skills and attributes needed to succeed in a four-year engineering program. Resultsfrom the first year of

Conference Session

Methods, Cases, and Directions

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joseph C. Hartman, University of Florida

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Economy, Engineering Management, Industrial Engineering, Systems Engineering

thismaterial can be covered in a large-class setting, including how it can be examined. Our datasuggests that spreadsheets must be incorporated into quizzes and or examinations in order toassess student abilities in these areas. Thus, while our teaching has evolved to includespreadsheets, so must our examination procedures.IntroductionCapital investments require analyses by engineers with tools and insight into whether theinvestment is sound. The field of engineering economy provides these tools. In order to make asound decision, a three-phase approach to evaluate the risk of a project is necessary: 1. Identify the risk, or risks, of an investment project. 2. Analyze the identified risk(s) of the project. 3. Assess how the identified risks

Conference Session

Frontiers in Engineering Economy

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joseph Hartman, University of Florida; Jennifer Smith, University of Florida

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Engineering Economy

Developing an Online Undergraduate Engineering Economy CourseAbstractGiven shrinking university budgets, increased enrollments and limited teaching space, a push hasbeen made to develop online courses at the undergraduate level which will allow for large classsections and increase access, both on-campus and remotely. The development of online coursesin engineering at the undergraduate level is new at the University of Florida. We discuss theprocess of developing an online course in engineering economy. We specifically address how toallow for students to interact in groups in an online environment through projects. We alsodiscuss the ability to modularize delivery in order to appeal to different majors in the course,which

Conference Session

NSF Funding for Educational Scholarship

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Patrick Carriere

nation'sscientific and technological enterprise. One of the principal strategies in support of NSF's goalsis to foster integration of research and education through the programs, projects, and activitiesit supports at academic and research institutions. These institutions provide abundantopportunities where individuals may concurrently assume responsibilities as researchers,educators, and students and where all can engage in joint efforts that infuse education with theexcitement of discovery and enrich research through the diversity of learning perspectives. Thisapproach emphasizes the strong bond between learning and inquiry. It recognizes theimportance of building a solid understanding of math and science principles, as well asdeveloping skills for

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Yongpeng Zhang, Prairie View A&M University; Cajetan Akujuobi, Prairie View A&M University; Yonghui Wang, Prairie View A&M University; Suxia Cui, Prairie View A&M University

control.Title III, October 1, 2007—September 30, 2012. This project is to initiate two undergraduateteaching laboratories including Mixed Signal Systems Lab and DSP Solutions Lab. Also, anEngineering Technology Advanced Research Laboratory will be established in the ETDepartment to enhance the faculty body’s research capability.NSF HBCU-UP with Grant #0714885, September 15, 2008—August 31, 2010. This project isto revamp the current ET undergraduate lab courses with LabVIEW, aiming to improve thedelivery of laboratory and corresponding lecture contents, deepening student understanding ofthe abstract concepts through physical implementation, enhancing their comprehensive skillsfrom theory to practice, inspiring their interests in STEM subjects, and

Conference Session

Improving Mechanics & Structural Modeling Courses

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Timothy Doughty, University of Portland; Steven O'Halloran, University of Portland

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Mechanical Engineering

,affording students the opportunity to test the validity of the lumped capacitance model for thesystem. In the fall of their senior year, the same students in a technical elective Systems andMeasurement course are asked to design and conduct an experiment to validate their simulation.This includes generating LabVIEW code, setting data acquisition parameters, and determiningappropriate post processing for the data. Additionally, students are given a review of theirnumerical study just prior to their experimental work. Analysis of their performance and anassessment of survey results are used to determine the degree to which the integrated exercisehas been appreciated.IntroductionThis paper documents a heat transfer project that incorporates both

Conference Session

Internet Computing and Networking

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Gregory Mokodean; Xiannong Meng; Luiz Perrone; Maurice Aburdene

Analysis of Wireless and Mobile Computer Networks Courses Maurice F. Aburdene, Xiannong Meng, L. Felipe Perrone, and Gregory L. Mokodean Bucknell UniversityAbstractThis paper presents an analysis of wireless and mobile computer networks courses. The resultsare based on information collected from course Web sites of universities and colleges incomputer science, electrical engineering and information science departments. The dataanalyzed include course titles, course structure, textbooks, major topics and their presentation,projects, and laboratory exercises. We found that wireless and mobile computer networkeducation can be divided into three

Conference Session

K-12 Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Betsy Aller; Edmund Tsang; Andrew Kline

. These include projects for a classroom playhouse; an apparatus illustrating Archimedesprinciple; an apparatus to teach and experiment on electromagnetism, which has been throughseveral developmental iterations in the engineering design process involving students fromCEAS, COE, and K-12 teacher customers; and an interactive wind tunnel. Materials developedduring a joint workshop for practicing and pre-service K-12 teachers are discussed, where theparticipants worked with university faculty to develop their own STEM-related curriculummodules for classroom usage. Efforts continue to build and enhance a service-learningconsortium with academic units within WMU, other educational institutions, and communitygroups, including a project with Goodwill

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Mustafa Sanver; Li Yang

issues and concernsfrom students’ feedback and our own teaching experience. The following are some of them andour ways in dealing with them: 1. Undergraduates have no chance to learn database implementations. There are always gifted undergraduate students who are curious to know how a DBMS works or who want to apply what they have learned in data structures, algorithms and operating systems to the management of data. Our CS600-level courses are dedicated to graduate students. Putting database implementation into CS643 means that our undergraduate students have no chance to learn it. As a tentative solution, these students are encouraged to take database implementation projects in CS597. CS597 is a course on

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Chenhhsin Liu; Ken Patton

Session 1526 Curriculum Development for Rapid Prototyping Ken Patton and Paul Cheng-Hsin Liu, Saddleback College/ California State University, Los Angeles Project web address: http://www.rptechnician.comAbstractThis project (NSF ATE DUE 0302314) is in its last year of a three-year project. It was fundedJuly 1, 2001. The focus of the grant is to develop curriculum to train technicians in the use ofsolid modeling as a “Time Compression” tool to help manufacturers and designers reduce cycletime to market. Curriculum is

Conference Session

Trends in ME Education Poster Session

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

John Hochstein

.• Students will be asked to demonstrate the ability to size a pump for a given piping system and to select an operating configuration to avoid pump cavitation.• Students will be asked to demonstrate the ability to analyze a heat exchanger: given two flow streams, calculate expected outlet temperatures.• Students will be asked to demonstrate the ability to function as a member of a design team. [This is evaluated by performance as part of a group while solving the semester long design project.]Program Educational Objectives Supported 1. Graduates entering immediately into professional practice upon graduation are capable of performing duties of an entry-level engineering position. 2. Graduates pursuing graduate studies are

Conference Session

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Martha Sloan; Ashok Goel

circuits is described. Undergraduate students worked with electricalengineering graduate students and faculty members for ten weeks on projects rangingfrom designing & study of GaAs-based circuits using MAGIC and L-Edit to modelingthe very high-frequency effects and parasitic capacitances in the GaAs-based VLSIinterconnections to computer simulations of GaAs-and SOI-based devices and circuitsusing the semiconductor TCAD tools. In this paper, the undergraduate research projectscarried out by the REU students are summarized1. IntroductionIt is widely recognized that active research experience is one of the most effectivetechniques for training and motivating undergraduate students for careers in science andengineering. In the USA, National

Conference Session

International Collaborative Efforts

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Wayne Sanders

of the program. The Japanese studentsare surrounded by English speakers around the clock.While at Rose-Hulman the students attend lectures on English, American Culture, andEngineering Design. Each group of 3-4 students is asked to design, build, test, and give anoral report in English on a project they select. We have found that such programs arebeneficial for the visiting students as well as the counselors. Because of their positiveexperiences during the summer, some Japanese students have returned to the U.S. forfurther study. Also, some of the counselors have gone to Japan to study. Page 8.811.1“Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for