Conference Session

Industry and Practice Topics

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Brad Wambeke P.E., United States Military Academy; Aaron T. Hill Jr., United States Military Academy

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

Colonel Aaron Hill is an Assistant Professor and Design Group Director in the Department of Civil & Mechanical Engineering at the United States Military Academy, West Point, New York. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree from West Point, a Master of Science degree in Engineering Management from Missouri S&T, a Master of Science degree in Civil Engineering from Virginia Tech, and a Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from The University of Texas at Austin. Aaron has served in the military for 24 years as an Engineer Officer with assignments around the world to include Afghanistan, Egypt, and Bosnia- Herzegovina. He is a licensed Professional Engineer in Virginia and a Project Management Professional. Aaron’s primary

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Tameshia Ballard Baldwin, North Carolina State University at Raleigh; Callie Womble Edwards; Latricia Walker Townsend, North Carolina State University at Raleigh

Tagged Topics

Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

Mathematics andScience Education Network Pre-college Program (MSEN), a rural school district in NC, and thelocal advanced manufacturing industry began. The goal of this Innovative TechnologyExperiences for Students and Teachers (ITEST) project was to create community-basedengineering design experiences for underserved middle school students (grades 6-8) from ruralNC aimed to improve their cognitive (STEM content knowledge and career awareness) and non-cognitive (interest, self-efficacy, and STEM identity) outcomes, and ultimately lead to theirincreased participation in STEM fields, particularly engineering. The project leverages strategicpartnerships to create a 3-part, grade-level specific Engineering Design and Exploration coursethat engages middle

Conference Session

Engineering Libraries Division Technical Session 2: Special Topics

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Qianjin Zhang, University of Iowa; Brian Westra, University of Iowa

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Libraries

data services through outreach toresearch faculty, staff and students, and deeper connections with institutional stakeholders. Theseactions have resulted in a set of services that includes data management plan consultations,workshops and course-based instruction, data curation for deposits in the institutional repository,and involvement in institutional data policies discussions.The Iowa Superfund Research Program (ISRP) is a multi-project center grant, funded by theNational Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) since 2006, to conductcollaborative research on sources, exposures, toxicities, and remediation of polychlorinatedbiphenyls (PCBs). This multidisciplinary program is currently composed of 22 faculty, 10 staff,and 25

Conference Session

Mid Atlantic Papers

Collection

2017 Mid-Atlantic Section Fall Conference

Authors

Peter Raymond Stupak, Raritan Valley Community College

Tagged Topics

Mid-Atlantic Section Fall Conference

topotential internship and professional employers. Fall 2017 Mid-Atlantic ASEE Conference, Oct 6-7 – Penn State BerksThe spirit of this project is aligned with previous and on-going efforts to expose and engagestudents in “authentic” engineering experiences and environments through, for example, Hands-on projects1-5, Project Based Learning6, Service Learning7, Learning Factories8, and CapstoneProjects9.Industry Skills FocusAll project activity was hands-on and “live” – without classroom lectures or Labs. Principlesand skills were experienced first-hand. The focus was for the student team to learn by doing.Concepts and skills emphasized were those directly useful for engineers in aprofessional/industry environment and included

Conference Session

1st and 2nd Year Instruction in Design

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Quamrul H. Mazumder, University of Michigan - Flint

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

experience between HighSchool and University students.H3. There is no significant difference in importance and satisfaction between male andfemale students of High School and University students.Literature ReviewEngineering design is a critical element of engineering education and a competency thatstudents need to acquire1. Previous investigations have shown that students engaged intechnological project learning achieve higher grades than those taught using traditionallab experimentation2. The students involved in these projects demonstrated a strongpositive correlation between learning principles and their applications and achievedhigher grades. In the capstone design course, students were required to design anddevelop a product from concept to

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Zhaoshuo Jiang P.E., San Francisco State University; Juan M. Caicedo, University of South Carolina; Robert Petrulis, EPRE Consulting LLC

Tagged Topics

Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

and high-rise projects. His current research interests mainly focus on Smart Structures Technology, Structural Control and Health Monitoring and Innovative Engineering Education.Dr. Juan M. Caicedo, University of South Carolina Dr. Caicedo is a Professor at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of South Carolina. His research interests are in structural dynamics, model updating and engineering education. He received his B.S. in Civil Engineering from the Universidad del Valle in Colombia, South America, and his M.Sc. and D.Sc. from Washington University in St. Louis. Dr. Caicedo’s teaching interests include the development of critical thinking in undergraduate and graduate education

Conference Session

Technical Session II

Collection

2018 FYEE Conference

Authors

Jenahvive K. Morgan, Michigan State University

Tagged Topics

Diversity, FYEE Conference Sessions

Michigan. 2018 FYEE Conference: Glassboro, New Jersey Jul 25 Full Paper: Examination of the Development of Grit in First-Year Engineering StudentsIntroductionThis paper describes a first-year engineering course, and the students’ responses to a grit study.Since this course is a first-year engineering course, and students are faced with difficult decisionsduring their freshman year, the discussion of grit is pertinent to the experiences that the studentsare facing. This first-year engineering course is an introduction to engineering design, wherestudents work on interdisciplinary team design projects. There is a lecture and a lab each week,and the lecture topics discuss project

Collection

2019 CIEC

Authors

Maher Shehadi

Session ETD 545 Building a Filtration and Control System for Auto-Parts Corrosion Oil Immersion System Maher Shehadi, Ph.D. School of Engineering Technology, Purdue Polytechnic Institute Purdue UniversityAbstractThe purpose of this capstone project was to design and build an immersion system that pumps arust preventative oil through a filtration system after being applied to protect automotive parts suchas camshafts. The system improves a pre-existing immersion system, used by an automotive partspackaging company, that has no

Conference Session

What's New in Dynamics?

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jiang Zhou; Paul Corder, Lamar University; Kendrick Aung, Lamar University

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

inspired to learn the resulting similaritiesand differences. The MATLAB graphical user interfaces were developed for second orderdynamic systems for both free vibration and forced vibration. The visual interface presentsresults in a way that students can immediately identify the effects of changing system parameters.Both time response and frequency response are clearly shown in the interface. In the course, aresearch related project is assigned to identify the dynamic response of a portabletelecommunication device. In this project, students are required to use both analytical andnumerical approaches to show the insight of the material selection affects the reliability of theportable telecommunication devices.1. IntroductionA course in system

Conference Session

ChE: Retention and Outreach

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Richard Zollars, Washington State University; Donald Orlich, Washington State University; William Thomson, Washington State University

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

. Six faculty arerecruited for each summer session, with each faculty member mentoring two teachers, either anin-service and a pre-service teacher or two in-service teachers. Page 12.141.3 The first activity in the program is a one-day meeting that was held in May involving theteacher participants and the faculty mentors. The purpose of this meeting is to start formingrelationships among all of the participants to address the desire to form a community (item #3mentioned above), firm up housing arrangements for the summer, distribute information on theresearch projects that would be available for the summer, and tour the campus and

Conference Session

Engineering Entrepreneurship and K-12 Education

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Donald Carpenter, Lawrence Technological University; Gregory Feierfeil, Lawrence Technological University

Tagged Divisions

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

,Entrepreneurial Program Growth and Increased Student Participation, Foster EnterpriseOpportunities, and Program Sustainability. Those goals (further described in thefollowing paragraphs) are supported by the individual program components as indicatedin Figure 1 in the Appendix.Goal 1: To coordinate entrepreneurial efforts across all disciplines and class levels toensure opportunities for entrepreneurial mindset development for all students.The University seeks to establish a culture, which fosters an entrepreneurial mindset forall graduates. This will be accomplished by re-inventing our pedagogical approaches toinclude problem based learning, rich media, student team projects throughout thecurriculum, and by introducing entrepreneurial skills in freshman

Conference Session

Foster Excellence

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Claude Villiers, Florida Gulf Coast University; Neville Parker, The City College of The City University of New York

Tagged Divisions

Minorities in Engineering

AC 2007-605: FOSTERING EXCELLENCE IN HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTSEXPOSED TO TRADITIONAL RESEARCH IN A SUMMER TRANSPORTATIONINSTITUTE PROGRAMClaude Villiers, Florida Gulf Coast University CLAUDE VILLIERS is an Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering at Florida Gulf Coast University. He received his Ph.D. in Civil Engineering with a concentration in Materials and Construction from the University of Florida in 2004. Previously Dr. Villiers was an Assistant Professor at The City College of New York. Prior to this position, he was employed by the Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) as a research engineer. Dr. Villiers also was employed by The University of Florida and worked on several projects

Conference Session

Student Learning Techniques & Practices in Engineering Technology

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

B. Sridhara, Middle Tennessee State University; Joseph Prince, Middle Tennessee State University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

absorbers.Introduction The Engineering Technology (ET) program at Middle Tennessee State University hasthree concentrations; computer, electromechanical and mechanical. The mechanical engineeringtechnology (MET) concentration was started in 2004 fall and currently we have approximatelyone hundred majors. Our students are required to take several ET and MET courses includingEngineering Fundamentals and Vibration. Our objective is to introduce hands-on projects in asmany courses as possible so that the students better understand the theory and its applications toengineering systems and components. We feel there is a great need for such projects to alleviatethe fear of mathematics in our students in courses such as Vibration. In this paper, we look atthree

Conference Session

Civil Engineering Teaching Part One

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Reynaldo Pablo, Jr., Indiana University Purdue University, Fort Wayne

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

algorithms thatwill measure the safety reserve in a structure covering the focused uncertainty involved. Theconcept of structural reliability will be used for the assessment of bridges. Bridge reliability willbe measured using the structural reliability index β, which has been used in several recentresearch projects related to bridge safety1, 2, 3, including NCHRP Project 12-33 Development of Page 13.1032.2LRFD Bridge Design Specifications. In that project, the LRFD bridge design code wascalibrated with respect to structural reliability index β. The design load can be examined in thecontext of the load and resistance factor design (LRFD) following

Conference Session

Sustainability and Engineering Programs

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Brian Thorn, Rochester Institute of Technology; Andres Carrano, Rochester Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Environmental Engineering

area,others by students interested in working in the area of sustainability. Many of the innovationsare curricular in nature while others evolved from the convergence of volunteerism andprofessional development. This paper describes the forces that motivated the development oftwo Master’s level programs in Sustainable Engineering, and the interdisciplinary curriculathat comprises them.2. Early Graduate Student WorkSome of the early sustainability oriented work in the KGCOE was undertaken by graduatestudents in the Mechanical Engineering (ME) and the Industrial and Systems Engineering(ISE) departments working on their MS theses. Typically, these thesis projects involved theapplication of traditional optimization or analysis techniques to

Conference Session

Computer Simulation and Animation I

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Essam Zaneldin, Indiana University Purdue University Fort Wayne; Suleiman Ashur, Indiana University - Purdue University Fort Wayne

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education

designed for each project to beused for estimating and control purposes.Ickert and Huston4 developed a spreadsheet that can be used to analyze multiple solutions forengineering problems efficiently and accurately, and to produce graphs that convey the solutionto the end users. Thiriez5 developed several spreadsheets as educational tools for students. Oneexample is to use the drawing capabilities of Excel to represent decision trees and where window Page 13.1356.2switching and macros allow the educator to animate his presentation. Another example presentedby Thiriez5 is the use of Excel in dynamic programming, deterministic or stochastic, where

Conference Session

Women in K-12 Engineering

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joy Watson, University of South Carolina; Jed Lyons, University of South Carolina

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

class, and thus do not try8. Both males andfemales need to learn to work in a group environment. It has been suggested that by usingteaching strategies that accommodate gender-related differences, one will see increases in middleschool females’ self-esteem in science and males’ willingness to try through competition9. Insingle-gender classrooms, middle school students are able to focus more on learning and less onthe opposite gender. There can be a sense of additional security for students, emotionally andintellectually. Females can ask more questions or answer a teachers question correctly withoutfear of being laughed at by the males. Males, on the other hand, enjoy the competition andgames that can be played in the classroom8.Project

Conference Session

Research and Education in Radiation and Radiologic

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mitchell Pryor; Sheldon Landsberger

Tagged Divisions

Nuclear and Radiological

and industry. A course structure and timeline is outlined andmapped to the proposed curricula and project development. Students in the program areadditionally mentored by DOE personnel to complete interdisciplinary research projects relevantin nuclear application areas.Background and MotivationThe idea of automating the multitude of hazardous tasks associated with all phases of the nuclearfuel cycle (whether it be weaponized or energy producing) is not a new one. The positive impactof successful automation for safety and security is clear, yet the few successes have been costlyand time consuming. A review (as examples, Y-121, LANL2, INL3, ORNL4, SNL5, 6, andAcademia7) of the multitude of projects teaches an important lesson. Automation in the

Conference Session

Issues and Direction in ET Education and Administration: Part II

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David Spang, Burlington County College; Vladimir Genis, Drexel University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

investigator on both NSF and NASA grants, as Adjunct Professor of Project Management (cost, risk, contract & procurement) at the Keller Graduate School of Management and as Adjunct Professor of Material Science at SUNY Maritime College. Dr. Spang has also served on the Editorial Board of the International Materials Reviews, a publication of ASM International and is a frequent reviewer of ASEE proceeding submissions.Vladimir Genis, Drexel University Dr. Vladimir Genis, Associate Professor and Program Director of Applied Engineering Technology in the Goodwin College, Drexel University, taught and developed graduate and undergraduate courses in physics, electronics, nondestructive testing

Conference Session

Preparing and Retaining Engineering Students

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Prue Howard, Central Queensland University

Tagged Divisions

Cooperative & Experiential Education

preparation and reflection requirements for the workplacement. The changes included a move to Project Based Learning (PBL) with a partiallyinverted curriculum, and the introduction of a dual award, the Bachelor of Engineering(Coop)/Diploma of Professional Practice.PBL and an inverted curriculum was introduced in 1998, with the aim being to ensure thatstudents were sufficiently prepared to work as junior engineers in industry at the end of theirsecond year of study. The PBL curriculum was intended to teach students in context, withcontent being integrated instead of delivered in discipline silos, as well as developing a numberof the professional practice skills required, such as teamwork, communication, critical thinkingand problem solving.The Diploma

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1996 Annual Conference

Authors

Luis G. Occeña

problems. This paper presents the result of a NSF-ILI project to examine the alternative of teaching students howto integrate system components themselves, from the ground up, making use of basic principles and seeing firsthand how everything does not always fit together nicely. A laboratory was established consisting of modular,table-top system components that can be mixed and matched to build many different computer integratedsystems using a variety of configurations. The development of this lab and the outcome on student learning ofCIM are described in this paper and in the presentation.INTRODUCTION Systems integration and control refers to the design, development, and orchestration of both the majorand supporting components and

Collection

1997 Annual Conference

Authors

Kevin Wedeward; E. Eugene Mitchell; George E. Piper; John Watkins

method usually provides faster and smootheranimation.Described below are two design projects from an introductory modeling and simulation coursethat involve animated simulations. In these projects the students were required to develop amodel and simulation of a physical system then evaluate its performance. The simulations weredeveloped in VisSim. The intent was not to teach animation, but to use animation as avisualization tool and provide motivationHydraulic Network ProjectThe hydraulic network for this project is shown in Figure 1. It consists of a pump that produces aconstant pressure, Pd, and two interconnected tanks with hydraulic capacitance C1, C2. Theheight of the water levels in each tank is indicated by h1, h2. Water from a reservoir

Conference Session

Best Practices in IE Education

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Terri Lynch-Caris, Kettering University; Daniel Ludwigsen, Kettering University

Tagged Divisions

Industrial Engineering

technicalprograms. Intern, co-op and capstone experiences and preparation for professional certificationare popular benchmarks for relevance in these programs.2, 3 At Kettering University, all studentsparticipate in a mandatory co-op program from their first year, alternating every quarter betweenacademic terms and co-op work at an industrial or research-oriented sponsor. These culminate ina sponsor-driven thesis project, required for graduation.This fully co-operative model of education demands connection to practical applications inacademic courses. Students expect course topics explicitly tied to industrial needs orprofessional skills. Additionally, students bring a rich variety of experiences from their workterms, and will readily share what they’ve

Conference Session

Innovations in ECE Education I

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Xingguo Xiong, University of Bridgeport; Linfeng Zhang, University of Bridgeport; Junling Hu, University of Bridgeport; Lawrence Hmurcik, University of Bridgeport

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

till finally the nano-devices are shaped. Thenanolithography techniques, such as extreme UV lithography (EUV), X-ray lithography,E-beam projection lithography (EPL), ion projection lithography, microcontact printing,nanoimprinting, and SPM (scanning probe microscope) based techniques are used in top-down approach. In bottom-up approach, it creates a construct by assembling simplebuilding blocks (atoms, molecules, etc.) according to pre-designed scheme. It relies onthe self-assembly and self-organization of the molecules, which is totally different fromthe top-down approach used in VLSI fabrication in the past decades. In conclusion, microand nano fabrication techniques are important knowledge backgrounds to understand theMEMS and

Conference Session

Sustainable-energy Education: Lessons Learned

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Linfeng Zhang, University of Bridgeport; Xingguo Xiong, University of Bridgeport; Junling Hu, University of Bridgeport

Tagged Divisions

Energy Conversion and Conservation

solar cells 2 weeks: power deliveringThis part may be difficult to most of the students and it will cover some basic knowledge inpower electronics, such as DC Regulation and Voltage Conversion, Inverters, Fuel Cell/PV cellor Capacitor Hybrid Systems Page 14.752.6In the teaching of the above contents, discussions in the class are helpful to ensure that studentsare not overwhelmed by the multidisciplinary material or the course pace, thus they can followthe lecture notes with strong interest. In the mean time, the feedback from the discussion is veryhelpful to improve the course design, especially in the homework and project

Conference Session

Computer Applications in Energy Conversion

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Liping Guo, Northern Illinois University; Paul Curtis, Northern Illinois University; Andrew Barendregt, Northern Illinois University; Anthony Surillo, Northern Illinois University

Tagged Divisions

Energy Conversion and Conservation

of Phi Kappa Phi.Paul Curtis, Northern Illinois UniversityAndrew Barendregt, Northern Illinois UniversityAnthony Surillo , Northern Illinois University Page 14.122.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2009 Design and Implementation of A Sun Tracking Solar Power SystemABSTRACTA senior design project is an integral part of the undergraduate engineering technologydegree program requirements at a four-year engineering technology institution. Allstudents are required to complete a two-semester long (4 credit hours) senior designproject. Three electrical engineering technology undergraduate students formed a seniordesign project

Conference Session

Installing & Assessing Technology Literacy Courses

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Matthew Ohland, Clemson University

Tagged Divisions

Technological Literacy Constituent Committee

graduate students to K-12 curriculum development, hosting K-12 science andengineering competitions.19Each year at the University of Missouri Rolla, 300-400 first-year engineering students engage ina team design-build activity as a part of Engineering Design with Computer Applications, arequired Basic Engineering course. Five-person teams receive some funding support incompleting projects like a human-powered water pump, a portable bridge, a disc launcher, abubble machine, and a hands-free pencil sharpener. In spring 2003, the course objectives wereextended to develop educational materials for the K-4 classroom including designing andbuilding a device and an accompanying educational game or activity. The extension of the BasicEngineering course was

Conference Session

ECE Pedagogy and Assessment

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sandra Yost, University of Detroit Mercy

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

Collection Assessment Alumni Surveys (2002-2003) College/ Department Senior Design Exam Project JuryFigure 1: Electrical Engineering Program Educational Objectives Evaluation and Outcome AssessmentProcessThe Electrical Engineering Program Outcomes (provided in Appendix A) are assessedusing a number of assessment strategies: College/Department Exam, Senior ExitSurvey/Interview, Coop Employer Survey, Alumni Survey, Senior Design Project Jury,and a number of In-Course Assessment Instruments implemented in the curriculum. Inthis paper

Conference Session

Engineering in High School

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Venkat Chandrasekhar, Northwestern University; Marcel Grdinic, Glenbrook North High School; Nathan Unterman, Glenbrook North High School; R.P.H. Chang, Northwestern University; Emma Tevaarwerk, Northwestern University

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

prototype design project showthat the design project was successful in engaging student interest, and that themacroscopic models and activities were helpful in facilitating student understanding ofhow a scanning probe microscope works. All of the students were able to successfullybuild a working atomic force microscope and acquire an image.IntroductionThe introduction of the “iPod Nano” this past year is proof enough that the word “nano”has entered into the mainstream of public awareness. The buzz about nanoscience andnanotechnology is that it may generate up to $1 trillion/year in new business ineverything from pharmaceuticals to computers. To support this new business, it isestimated that we will need 3 million workers trained in nanotechnology

Conference Session

Division Experimentation & Lab-oriented Studies Electrical Engineering and Circuits

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Christopher Miller, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

Paper ID #19320Use of an Automated Grading Circuit for a Lab-based CourseDr. Christopher Miller, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Chris is an Assistant Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering at Rose-Hulman Institute of Tech- nology. His interests include engineering education, embedded systems, and ubiquitous computing. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 WIP: Use of an Automated Grading Circuit for a Lab-Based CourseAbstract: Laboratories and hands-on projects are an important part of courses in embeddedsystems and microcontrollers