Conference Session

Bioengineering laboratories: Bringing research into the classroom

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rupa Iyer, University of Houston (CoE)

Tagged Divisions

Biological & Agricultural

technologies haveprofoundly transformed the way scientists design, perform and analyze experiments. Asbiological concepts and models become more quantitative, biological research is increasinglydependent on concepts and methods drawn from other scientific disciplines. Thus as biologybecomes more quantitative and systematic, it will become a foundational science for engineeringsimilar to physics, chemistry and mathematics.The long term goal of this project is to design and disseminate interdisciplinary teaching materialthat will bridge different disciplines and provide an increasing understanding of the relevance ofconcepts of chemistry, engineering, and computing in biology. The objectives are to: (1)Develop an interdisciplinary biotechnology

Conference Session

Thermodynamics, Fluids and Heat Transfer - II

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jason Christopher, Rice University; Adam Parks, Air Force Research Laboratory, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base; Vipul Sharma, Air Force Institute of Technology; Michael Maixner, U.S. Air Force Academy

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

degree in Mechanical Engineering. He is currently stationed at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, OH where he works as a developmental engineer. He is in charge of several research projects with an emphasis on aircraft structural integrity.Vipul Sharma, Air Force Institute of Technology Vipul Sharma graduated from the United States Air Force Academy (USAFA) in 2007 where he majored in Mechanical Engineering and minored in Mandarin. Vipul is currently pursuing a Master of Science in Aeronautical Engineering at the Air Force Institute of Technology (AFIT) where his research focus is Ceramic Matrix Composites (CMC) and their applicability for use in turbine engines. After completing his tour at AFIT

Conference Session

Programming for Engineering Students

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael Filsinger, University of Cincinnati

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education

lessonslearned from this first attempt, and presents a more technology-based project-oriented approachto such a course, outlining a ten week AI course tailored to the needs of our ECET students aswell as providing samples of possible projects.IntroductionOnce considered a topic for purely theoretical computer science, the field of artificial intelligence(AI) has found its way into a large number of real-world technology applications, particularly inthe area of control systems. As such, a course in AI is becoming increasingly important forelectrical and computer engineering technology students. The key features of a technology-based AI course are that it must deal with students who lack the extensive mathematicalbackground of a typical computer science

Conference Session

Internet and Distributed Computing

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Fani Zlatarova, Elizabethtown College

Tagged Divisions

Information Systems

course offered at theauthor’s academic institution. They do not cover the complete set of views of abstraction. Thenewly emerging DB applications dealing with Web-oriented queries and multimedia queries(audiovisual queries, special queries, XML queries, queries performed in mobile environment,and others considered in1, 7, 8, 9, 11, 13) have been considered in the next DB-oriented course,Database Systems Development and Applications. Similar issues have been researched in theReadings and Projects in Computer Science and Information Systems course, and in the out-of-class student seminar on Information Systems, organized by the author.In the introductory DB course, students should be able to easily switch from one to another typeof the expression

Conference Session

Programs for High School Students

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bill Elmore, Mississippi State University; Adrienne Minerick, Mississippi State University

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

, in Columbus, MS (approximately 25 miles from theMississippi State campus) has joined in a program for providing research experiences for juniorand senior high school students. Three students participated in the program in the fall 2005semester. The goals of the program include recruiting high school students to consider programsof study in chemical engineering or related fields at Mississippi State and to increase students’technological literacy by participating in active research projects. Of the three participants forfall 2005, one has declared his intention of studying chemical engineering at Mississippi State.The authors felt that the program objectives were met for helping students to become morefamiliar with our program and curriculum

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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

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 laboratories.All of the teachers, whether they were able to visit the campus or not, then were asked to return alisting of the top three projects on which they would like to work. By the end of May all teachershad been assigned projects, with two teachers assigned to each project and each pre-serviceteacher paired with an in-service teacher. This allowed about two weeks for the teachers tocommunicate with each other, and with their mentor, prior to the start of the on-campus portion ofthe program. We found this two week period to be extremely

Conference Session

Teaching Design

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rashmi Jain, Stevens Institute of Technology; Anithashree Chandrasekaran, Stevens Institute of Technology; Bernard Gallois, Stevens Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

2006-1543: INTRODUCING ‘TOTAL DESIGN’ IN AN ENGINEERING DESIGNCURRICULUM: A PILOT EXPERIENCERashmi Jain, Stevens Institute of Technology RASHMI JAIN is Associate Professor of Systems Engineering at Stevens Institute of Technology. Dr. Jain has over 15 years of experience of working on socio-economic and information technology (IT) systems. Over the course of her career she has been involved in leading the implementation of large and complex systems engineering and integration projects. Dr. Jain is currently the Head of Education and Research for International Council of Systems Engineering (INCOSE). She teaches systems integration, systems design and architecture, and rapid systems

Conference Session

Teaching Strategies in Graphics

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jana Whittington, Purdue University-Calumet; Kim Nankivell, Purdue University-Calumet; Joy Colwell, Purdue University-Calumet; James Higley, Purdue University-Calumet

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Design Graphics

University Calumet, we useassessment measures which include faculty evaluation, class critiques and written peerevaluations that individually addresses each level of technical, aesthetic and creative aspects ofeach project or assignment. Discussions or critiques first address the success of technical aspects,then move to the aesthetic aspects, and then the overall creative attributes of the students’ work.This type of evaluation is not only valuable for the students to comprehend each level and puttheir soft skills to work, but also provides valuable assessment feedback to the faculty.The CGT program is relatively new, having been started in the year 2000 with 18 students, andhaving grown to its present size of about 200 majors. The program has

Conference Session

Teaching Design

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Nastasi, Stevens Institute of Technology; Keith Sheppard, Stevens Institute of Technology; Constantin Chassapis, Stevens Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

SolidWorksTMWeek 1 2 Surface Modeling/ Advanced Replication SolidWorksTMWeek 1 3 Bill of Materials / Analysis COSMOSTMWeek 1 4 Project Presentation/ Virtual Reality CATIATM / EON RealityTM The course commences with 3-D free hand sketching of contemporary objects withcomplex surfaces. The goal is to use the sketching exercises to help students think through howthey will tackle the graphical representation of complex three-dimensional objects before theyturn to the digital tool. This is in addition to learning the valuable skill of how to make effectivefreehand sketches for communicating

Conference Session

Building BIM into Construction Curricula

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Arundhati Ghosh, Arizona State University; Kristen Parrish PhD, Arizona State University; Allan Dee Chasey, Del E Webb School of Construction, Arizona State University

Tagged Divisions

Construction

facilitate energy-efficiency in the commercial building industry. Another research interest of Kristen’s is engineering education, where she explores how project- and experience-based learning foster better understanding of engineering and management principles. Prior to joining ASU, Kristen was at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) as a Postdoctoral Fellow (2009-11) and then a Scientific Engineering Associate (2011-2012) in the Building Technologies and Urban Systems Department. She worked in the Commercial Buildings group, developing energy effi- ciency programs and researching technical and non-technical barriers to energy efficiency in the buildings industry. She has a background in collaborative design

Conference Session

Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning through Laboratory Experiences

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Clark Hochgraf, Rochester Institute of Technology (CAST); Richard Cliver, Rochester Institute of Technology (CAST); David S Martins, Rochester Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

students did not engage deeply in trying to understand theconcepts, implementation methods, or the limitations of the implementation employed in thelabs.The redesigned course begins with foundational labs that build component skills such asmeasuring execution time, memory usage, and the effects of roundoff error in DSP algorithms.The later labs in the redesigned course focus on using component skills to design, implement anddebug FIR and IIR filters. The labs culminate in a final project that promotes the development ofintegration skills, as students must determine when, where, and how to apply component skillsappropriately.In addition to changes in the lab activities, the new format for each lab report now highlights itsrelation to the students

Conference Session

Distance Education and Engineering Workforce Professional Development

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kim A. Scalzo, State University of New York, HQ; Lisa Miles Raposo, State University of New York Center for Professional Development

Tagged Divisions

Continuing Professional Development

in an EU-US DAETE and DAETE2 projects to develop international quality standards for continuing education centers. She is also a co-creator of the Bray-Scalzo Partnership Model for creating and sustaining successful partnerships. Kim currently serves as Chair of the Continuing Professional Development Division of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE-CPD). She is also a member of the International Association of Continuing Engineering Education (IACEE) Council and serves as the Vice President for Products and Services on the IACEE Executive Committee. Additionally, she has served as a member of the National University Telecommunications Network (NUTN) Advisory Board and is currently a member of

Conference Session

Advancing Thermal Science Education

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Joseph Schroeder; Figen Lacin; Craig Somerton

extendedhomework assignment for the senior level heat transfer course, ME 410, and is shown in Fig. 8.For the ME 410 assignment, one lecture period was taken to introduce the students toFinSolver.xls using a computer projection system. For ENGN 385, the instructor spent aboutthirty minutes in the lab with students logged in on computers, so as to have the spreadsheetavailable in front of them, while the instructor, using a computer projection system,demonstrated features of the program and worked out a first trial case of the assignment. Theclear difference in the nature of these two assignments shows the utility of the spreadsheet. Page 8.174.9

Conference Session

TYCD 2003 Lower Division Initiatives

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Rod Townley; Stephen Kuyath

Session 2586 A Collaborative Effort at Program Development Stephen J. Kuyath, Rod M. Townley UNC-Charlotte Department of Engineering Technology/Central Piedmont Community College, Dean Southwest CampusBackground:The Regional Information Technology Training Collaborative Project is an outgrowth of theCharlotte Region Workforce Development Partnership and Advantage Carolina InformationTechnology Council (ITC). The Charlotte Region Workforce Development Partnership is a jointeffort of ten community colleges in the Charlotte region for workforce development. The ITC isan effort of the

Conference Session

Improving Statics and Dynamics Classes

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Ann Anderson; Ronald Bucinell

students at UnionCollege. More recently this single course has been divided into two courses, one in particlemechanics and one in rigid body mechanics. Using this approach, students are shown that staticsis a simplified case of dynamics. Free body and mass/acceleration diagrams, hands on laboratoryexercises, and design projects are used to illustrate this relationship. A summary of the successof the course being taught this way is presented.IntroductionEngineering students are traditionally introduced to topics in engineering mechanics throughtrimester courses in statics and dynamics. This is true throughout the United States and theWorld with few exceptions. During the reform of the Union College Engineering Curriculumthat took place in the mid

Conference Session

Innovations in the CHE Laboratory

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

R. Worden

Page 8.713.1curricula do not train students to work effectively in such teams. Several years ago, as part of anProceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering EducationNSF-sponsored Combined Research/Curriculum Development (CRCD) project, MSUestablished a Multidisciplinary Bioprocessing Laboratory (MBL) course to help prepare studentsfor a multidisciplinary work environment. The goal of this course is to teach students how towork effectively in multidisciplinary teams in a research environment. Students are recruitedinto the MBL course from several science and engineering departments and assigned tomultidisciplinary research teams of

Conference Session

Virtual & Distance Experiments

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Weber; Bernard Lwakabamba; Julie Dickerson; Carolina Cruz-neira; Diane Rover

Session 2426 CRCD: Low-Power Wireless Communications for Virtual Environments-Course Integration Julie A. Dickerson, Diane T. Rover, Carolina Cruz-Neira, Robert J. Weber, Eric Eekhoff, Bernard Lwakabamba, Feng Chen, and Zheng Min Iowa State University, Ames, IA, 50011I. Project OverviewThis project combines research from the areas of wireless communications, low-power embeddedsystems, virtual environments, and human factors in an interdisciplinary program. Education in thehardware and software of virtual reality (VR) systems serves

Conference Session

Spatial Visualization

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Theodore J. Branoff, North Carolina State University; Modris Dobelis, Riga Technical University, Riga, Latvia

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Design Graphics

(2002-2008); involvement in Epsilon Pi Tau, international honor society (2011); and Fulbright Scholar at NCSU, Raleigh, N.C., spring semester 2011. He has worked as CADEengineer on AP600 Project at the Westinghouse subcontractor’s company at Southern Company Services, Birmingham, Ala., (1994-1996). Currently, he is a professor and a Head of Department of Computer-aided Engineering Graphics at the Riga Technical University (Riga, Latvia). His present responsibility is education and teaching of engineering students in graphic communication, and computer-aided drafting and design. Page 25.548.1

Conference Session

Technical Issues in Architectural Engineering

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Gouranga Banik

2406 Teaching Real-life Risk Management to MS Construction Students Gouranga C, Banik, Ph.D., P.E. Associate Professor School of Architecture, Civil Engineering Technology and Construction Southern Polytechnic State University Marietta, GA 30060AbstractThe nature of the ‘messiness’ of the real projects in which we are involved determines how ourconstruction practice proceeds. In order to train future construction students, we need to preparethem with the skills to deal with this

Conference Session

Visualization and Computer Graphics

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Julie Petlick; Miriam Ferzli; Eric Wiebe; Aaron Clark

aligned with national science and mathematics standards. Therefore, in thefuture, students will come into engineering and technology programs at the post secondary levelalready having these basic visual skill. This paper will discuss this new national project and howits approach to technogical and visual literacy can impact instructional approaches to engineeringdesign graphics at the secondary and post-secondary levels.IntroductionThe NSF VisTE (Visualization in Technology Education) Project is designed to promote the useof higher order thinking and communication skills and the understanding of technology,mathematics, and science through the use of graphic visualization tools. High school studentsusing simple and complex visualization tools

Conference Session

Addressing the NGSS, Part 2 of 3: Supporting K-12 Science Teachers in Engineering Pedagogy and Engineering-Science Connections, Part 2 of 3

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mounir Ben Ghalia, The University of Texas, Pan American; Hasina Huq, University of Texas, Pan American

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

Paper ID #9317Developing Engineering Content for K-12 STEM Classrooms by Providing aHands-On Engineering Design Experience for Teachers: A Case StudyDr. Mounir Ben Ghalia, The University of Texas-Pan American Dr. Mounir Ben Ghalia is a Professor in the Electrical Engineering Department at the University of Texas- Pan American. He is the principal investigator and the director of the Research Experiences for Teachers in Emerging and Novel Engineering Technologies (RET-ENET) in the Rio Grande Valley project which is funded by the National Science Foundation. His current research interests focus on cooperative multiple mobile

Conference Session

K-12 and Pre-college Engineering Curriculum and Programming Resources, Part 1 of 2

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Pamalee A. Brady, California Polytechnic State University; James B. Guthrie, California Polytechnic State University

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

Paper ID #9051Building Engineering Interest and Sandcastles through Collaborative Instruc-tional DesignDr. Pamalee A. Brady, California Polytechnic State UniversityMr. James B Guthrie P.E., California Polytechnic State University Page 24.244.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2014 Building Engineering Interest and Sandcastles through Collaborative Instructional Design (Works in Progress)AbstractA collaborative research project between students and faculty in the California Polytechnic

Conference Session

CPD Technical Session

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mitchell L. Springer PMP, SPHR, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Mark T. Schuver, Purdue University, West Lafayette

Tagged Divisions

Continuing Professional Development

improving organizational systems. He is internationally recognized, has contributed to the literature more than 110 articles, presentations, books and reviews on software development methodologies, management, organizational change, and program management. Dr. Springer sits on many university and community boards and advisory committees. Dr. Springer received his Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from Purdue University, his MBA and Doctorate in Adult and Community Education with a Cognate in Executive Development from Ball State University. He is certified as a Project Management Professional (PMP), Senior Professional in Human Resources (SPHR) and in Alternate Dispute Resolution (ADR) and mediation.Mr. Mark T

Conference Session

NSF Grantees' Poster Session

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Palmyra Catravas, Union College; Michael E Hagerman, Union College; Brian D. Cohen, Department of Biological Sciences, Union College; Samuel Amanuel, Union College; Rebecca Cortez, Union College; Kevin Bubriski, Green Mountain College; Amin Meyghani; Seyfollah Maleki, Union College

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees Poster Session

concentrates on scientific studies in support of arts and cultural heritage conservation. Page 23.258.2 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013 Building bridges between the engineering classroom and the research laboratory: nanoscience at Union College supported by the NSF NUE programAbstract. This project focuses on building connections between the classroom andundergraduate research in nanoscience and on developing novel art-science activities as avehicle for outreach. Through support from the NSF NUE program, we have developeda new undergraduate nanoscale

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Stacy Wilson; Mark Cambron

COURSE REVIEW IN THE ASSESMENT PROCESS Mark E. Cambron and Stacy Wilson Department of Engineering Western Kentucky University Bowling Green, KY 42101AbstractA joint program in Electrical Engineering has been created with Western Kentucky University(WKU) and the University of Louisville (UofL). The program resides at WKU with UofLfaculty delivering 16-24 hours into the curriculum through distance learning methods. The focusof the new EE program is a project-based curriculum. WKU’s Electrical Engineering Programhas developed an assessment plan to insure a systematic pursuit of improvement. A

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ralph Rogers; Phil Lunsford; Paul Kauffmann

identifiedrecommendations for best practices in new engineering curricular models and the bullets belowsummarize these points. • Implementation of “engineering up front”: the exposure of freshmen to hands-on, real- world engineering practice early in their undergraduate education, ranging from ‘professional level’ laboratory facilities to realistic design projects. Many engineering programs have postponed this experience until the junior or senior year. • Integration of students working in teams rather than independently, including cooperative learning, especially in the earlier undergraduate years. Although the study found an emphasis on a team approach as a difficult process (including problems related to team composition, organization, methods

Conference Session

Technological Literacy II

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Knecht

complete with a challenge to map boundariesand trails for the National Park, to reduce erosion, or to improve water quality; all critical issuesto the infrastructure of the Island. Contracting by the Department of Environment and Tourism,teams from the International (EPICS) course practice engineering design in a culturally diverseenvironment. The Design (EPICS) program at CSM Technicalintroduces multi-disciplinary teams of first Process Knowledgeand second year engineering students to Knowledge Valuesdesign, technical communications, andteamwork through an open-ended, client- Researchbased project. The program emphasizes an Skills Design

Conference Session

Assessment of Graphics Programs

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Gregory Watkins

in today’sindustry (6).According to a recent informal survey of two and four-year engineering technology programs(1), 39 of 77 responding institutions (~51%) still teach some form of instrument drawing.Reasons given in support of this approach varied widely, but some central themes do emergefrom the data. They are broadly summarized as follows: • Can introduce fundamentals without simultaneously teaching software commands • Students with only CAD training lack visualization skills • Learning instrument drawing first eases later instruction in CAD • Concepts such as orthographic projection and tangency are best learned manually • Manual drawing teaches the thought process necessary to produce working drawings

Conference Session

Attracting Young MINDs

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Leslie Wilkins

Excite Camp 2004: An Updated Look at Integrating Science and Native Hawaiian Tradition Leslie Wilkins, Jenilynne Gaskin, Sheryl Hom, Christine L. Andrews Maui Economic Development Board/Women in Technology ProjectBackgroundLaunched in 1999, the Maui-based Women in Technology Project (WIT) is funded by the U.S.Department of Labor as a workforce development project. Its mission is to encourage womenand girls to pursue education and careers in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM)in the state of Hawaii. WIT has been successful at creating systemic change by working directlywith educators and employers to make them aware of the return on investment of recruiting andretaining a

Conference Session

Course and Curriculum Innovations in ECE

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Brown; Michael Flynn; Gordon Carichner; Dennis Sylvester; David Blaauw; Catharine June

Session 2632 VLSI Design Curriculum Richard B. Brown, Dennis Sylvester, David Blaauw, Michael Flynn, Gordon Carichner and Catharine June Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-2122Abstract—The Intel Foundation has funded a project at the University of Michigan to develop,document, and disseminate a world-class VLSI curriculum. This paper, which is the first presen-tation of the project, describes the overall curriculum at a high level