Conference Session

Accreditation and Related Issues in ECE

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Hue Van Tran; Steven Reyer; James Friauf; Owe Petersen; Katherine Wikoff

Session 2004-2532 Evaluating the Communication Component of an Engineering Curriculum: A Case Study Katherine Wikoff, James Friauf, Hue Tran, Steven Reyer, Owe Petersen Milwaukee School of EngineeringAbstractThis paper describes the evaluation process and findings for teaching and learning ofcommunication skills in the Electrical Engineering Program of the Milwaukee School ofEngineering (MSOE). While the teaching of both written and oral communication skills arefostered in a wide variety of courses, only writing can be claimed to be substantially integratedinto the curriculum. A

Conference Session

Energy Program and Software Tools

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Kendrick Aung

in teaching an IC Engineclass to undergraduate students is the lack of computational tools that enhance and improve thelearning process of students. With the widespread availability of multi-media software andhardware tools, development and integration of web-based tools to the undergraduate curriculumbecomes essential. This paper discusses the development of a web-based IC Engine Simulator(WICES) to be used in an undergraduate IC Engine class. The simulator is written in Javalanguage for easy use and portability. The simulator can be used to predict performance of ICengines using gasoline, diesel, methane, and hydrogen as fuels. Physical models for heat release,friction, heat transfer, and pollutant emissions were included in the simulator

Conference Session

Innovative Practices in NRE Education

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

William Miller; Gayla Neumeyer; Matthew Schmidt; David Jonassen

learning in a chemical engineering undergraduate laboratory. IEEE Frontiers in Education, 350-354,3. Armarego, J. (2002). Advanced software design: A case in problem-based learning. IEEE Computer Society: Proceedings of the 15th Annual Conference on Software Engineering Education and Training.4. Mitchell GG, Delaney JD. (2004). An assessment strategy to determine learning outcomes in a software engineering Problem-based learning course. International Journal of Engineering Education, 20 (3): 494-5025. Van Kampen, P., Nanahan, C., Kelly, M., McLoughlin, E., & O’Leary, E. (2004). Teaching a single physics module through problem based learning in a lecture-based curriculum. American Journal of Physics

Conference Session

Managing and Funding Design Projects

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Timothy Lawrence; Michael Warner; Douglas Bayley

evaluated to provide some insight into cadetperformance. Data will be analyzed to determine whether cadet performance is tied tothe technical complexity of a given project. Some insight into teaching this course isdiscussed, and finally, the paper will discuss the benefits and the challenges involved in acourse like Engineering Systems Design. The paper will conclude with some feed backfrom recent graduates of the United Stated Air Force Academy and a look toward thefuture of the course.BackgroundEvery cadet graduates with a Bachelor of Science degree from the USAF Academy,whether majoring in science and engineering (technical majors) or the humanities andsocial science (non-technical majors.) As part of the curriculum, each cadet takes

Conference Session

Course and Curriculum Innovations in ECE

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Andrew Rusek; Barbara Oakley

how general communication functions can be practicallyimplemented in circuitry. This paper discusses PSpice models illustrating how digital modulation and demodulationcan be achieved and applied in support of conventional and spread spectrum communicationsystems. The PSpice models of PSK and FSK systems described in the article can be directlyreferred to existing hardware. The most popular spread spectrum methods, CDMA and frequencyhopping, have been considered and introduced to demonstrate encoding and decoding processes.The PSpice circuits and simulations discussed here would make excellent additions to theclassroom or laboratory of any undergraduate communications system course.I. Introduction PSpice is the most venerable of

Conference Session

ECE Online Courses, Labs, and Programs

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Anthony Trippe

in which a course is presented is only loosely relatedto student learning (2). There is a process for teaching and there is a process for learning. Page 7.62.1 “Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright Ó 2002, American Society for Engineering Education”The teaching process is managed by the faculty member and the learning process ismanaged by the student (3). Experienced classroom faculty know that they must presentmaterial and assignments which lead to and promote student learning. Likewise, thefaculty member who prepares and presents a distance

Conference Session

Web Education: Delivery and Evaluation

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Sérgio Franco; Marco Silveira; Luciano Costa; Guillermo Creus

2420 GPAREDE – A automated evaluation system for web L. A. C. da Costa, M. A. L. Silveira, G. J. Creus, S. R. K. Franco CEMACOM (Center of Applied and Computational Mechanics) / Department of Education / UFRGS (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul)I – INTRODUCTION Learning assessment is one of the most polemic aspects of the teaching/learning process.This work is the result of the collaboration of a professor and students of Civil and ElectricalEngineering with a professor of Education. The objective is to reduce the traumaticcharacteristics of evaluation exams, and to increase their

Collection

2024 South East Section Meeting

Authors

April Anne Kay, Dalton State College; Bradley Harris, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga; Stephanie Philipp, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga

Paper ID #40848A Model Research Experience for Undergraduate Biology Labs UsingMicroalgaeDr. April Anne Kay, Dalton State College Dr. April Anne Kay is a Professor of Biology at Dalton State College in Dalton, GA. Her degrees include a Ph. D. in Bio-medical Sciences from Auburn University in 2005, a B.S. in Bio-Molecular Science from Clarkson University 2001, and an A.S. in Math and Science, 2000 from Jefferson Community College. She continues to thrive in biological sciences by teaching courses in Principles in Biology I and II, Mi- crobiology, and Biotechnology. She is enthusiastic about teaching undergraduate student

Collection

2024 South East Section Meeting

Authors

Raghu Pucha, Georgia Institute of Technology; Shivani Kundalia, Georgia Institute of Technology

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Paper ID #40957Students’ appreciation for diversity through culture-inspired projectactivitiesDr. Raghu Pucha, Georgia Institute of Technology Dr. Raghu Pucha is a Principal Lecturer at the Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, in the area of CAD/CAE and Manufacturing. He teaches computer graphics, design, mechanics and manufacturing courses at Georgia Tech., and conducts research in the area of de- veloping upfront computational tools for the design, analysis and manufacturing of advanced materials and systems. His current research includes analysis of nano-filler composites for

Conference Session

NSF Grantees’ Poster Session

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ying Tang, Rowan University; Kauser Jahan, Rowan University; Sachin Shetty, Tennessee State University; Christopher Joseph Franzwa

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Tagged Divisions

Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

has secured funding over $3 million from NSF, AFOSR, DOE, DHS, TBR and local industry for research and educational innovations. He has authored and coauthored over 30 technical refereed and non-refereed papers in various conferences, international journal articles, book chapters in research and pedagogical techniques. He is the director of the Cyber Defense and Security Visualization Laboratory (http://cyberviz.tnstate.edu/)Mr. Christopher Joseph Franzwa Page 24.1092.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2014 Solaris One – A Serious Game for

Conference Session

Structural Education Topics in Architectural Engineering

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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

Tagged Divisions

Architectural

ormarketing students3,4 and some interdisciplinary courses are focused on the design andconstruction disciplines and include architecture and construction management students as wellas engineering students5,6,7. However the literature on these courses is of limited relevance andprovides limited guidance. Although the courses described in this paper have aninterdisciplinary component, they are not really interdisciplinary. They teach structuralengineering skills and principals to non-engineering (ARCH and CM) students but do notcontain the content of multiple disciplines and do not function as interdisciplinary courses.Saliklis, et al describe the different curriculum approaches typically employed for architecturaland engineering programs8. They

Conference Session

Topics Enhancing ET Education

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael Johnson, Texas A&M University; Jorge L Alvarado, Texas A&M University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

Paper ID #8997The Use of an Iterative Industry Project in a One Semester Capstone CourseDr. Michael Johnson, Texas A&M University Dr. Michael D. Johnson is an associate professor in the Department of Engineering Technology and In- dustrial Distribution at Texas A&M University. Prior to joining the faculty at Texas A&M, he was a senior product development engineer at the 3M Corporate Research Laboratory in St. Paul, Minnesota. He received his B.S. in mechanical engineering from Michigan State University and his S.M. and Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dr. Johnson’s research focuses on

Conference Session

Mechanical Division Poster Session

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Heather E Dillon, University of Portland

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

Paper ID #10089Thermodynamics in the ArtsDr. Heather E Dillon, University of Portland Dr. Heather Dillon is an Assistant Professor in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Portland. Her teaching focuses on thermodynamics, heat transfer, renewable energy, and optimization of energy systems. She currently leads a research team working on energy efficiency, renewable energy, and fundamental heat transfer. Before joining the university, Heather Dillon worked for the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) as a senior research engineer. Dr. Dillon’s research at PNNL supported the US Department of Energy and

Conference Session

Research Initiatives

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lynn Albers, North Carolina State University; Elizabeth A Parry, North Carolina State University; Laura Bottomley, North Carolina State University

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

for students in grades 3-5. Lynn is passionate about experiential learning and strongly encourages the inclusion of hands-on activities into a curriculum. Her dissertation spans the Colleges of Engineering and Education and quantifies the effects of hands-on activities in an engineering lecture.Elizabeth A Parry, North Carolina State UniversityDr. Laura Bottomley, North Carolina State University Dr. Laura Bottomley received a B.S. in Electrical Engineering in 1984 and an M.S. in Electrical Engi- neering in 1985 from Virginia Tech. She received her Ph D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from North Carolina State University in 1992. Dr. Bottomley worked at AT&T Bell Laboratories as a member of technical

Conference Session

Project-Based and Experiential Learning in Manufacturing

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Javaid S Siddiqi; Alan S Gandy; Sheng-Jen Hsieh, Texas A&M University

Tagged Divisions

Manufacturing Division (MFG)

Paper ID #42914Technical Training for Industry 4.0 Technologies: Low-Cost Gantry CandySorting System for Education and OutreachProf. Javaid S Siddiqi, PROFESSOR AT LONE STAR COLLEGE. TEACHING AND Research AT ENERGY AND MANUFACTURING INSTITUTE OF LONE STAR COLLEGE SYSTEMS. RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT IN THE FIELD OF APPLIED TECHNOLOGY.DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTED COURSES FOR THE STUDENTS..Alan S GandyDr. Sheng-Jen Hsieh, Texas A&M University Dr. Sheng-Jen (”Tony”) Hsieh is a Professor in the Department of Engineering Technology and Industrial Distribution and a member of the Graduate Faculty at Texas A&M University

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

Authors

Kathleen A Harper, Case Western Reserve University; Kurt R Rhoads, Case Western Reserve University

assisting during active learning exercises.The remaining 20 minutes consist of a guest presentation by a faculty member from one ofCWRU’s engineering majors. The guest lectures typically combine an overview of the disciplineincluding typical problems solved, some stories of current work going on at the university, adescription of the major requirements and student activities, and sometimes a bit about thepresenter’s own career path. While the students explore about half of CWRU’s availableengineering programs in more depth during the laboratory activities, their initial exposure to theother half is strictly through these presentations.The course was piloted in 2019 with around a dozen students and one instructor and steadilyexpanded. In the 2022-23

Collection

2013 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

Jim Helbling; Angela Beck

required to perform testing toevaluate analytical predictions under tight schedules, thus learning to ethically report test results.The goal is for students to assimilate these lessons regarding their professional responsibilities asthey transition from student to practicing engineer.Ethics and ABET CriteriaABET criterion 3f and 3h state that students must have “an understanding of professional andethical responsibility” and “the broad education necessary to understand the impact ofengineering solutions in a global, economic, environmental, and societal context”, respectively1.In order to assist students in achieving these outcomes, the faculty teaching Aircraft DetailDesign at ERAU, Prescott campus, have adopted educational practices designed to

Collection

2005 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

A. Lambert; D. J. Russomanno; P. Palazolo; S. Ivey

as engineers will require a type of flexibility to adaptto continual changes on multiple fronts: technological, biological, and global.. Just asthe profession changes based on global demands, so will engineering educators change inorder to teach and model the types of skills engineers of the future will require.1Statistical data relating to attrition and retention of students majoring in science,technology, engineering, or math (STEM) fields continues to be alarming, with high-ranking administrators and researchers describing these trends as a “leak in theengineering pipeline.”2,3,4 Put simply, far too few students are choosing to major inSTEM fields, and of those who do, far too few are retained. These issues have serious implications on

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2011 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Robert M. O'Connell

, etc.In our electrical engineering and computer engineering undergraduate programs, studentscomplete a two-course senior design sequence using project-based learning, where, in addition tosolving challenging design problems, they develop several of the generic skills. They also workin teams in the laboratory components of several earlier courses, but there is little formalinstruction therein on how to behave in a group or how to conduct good team work. If some ofthose ideas were learned early in the program, they could be used all throughout the program,and thus the students would enter the senior design sequence with strong team skills and be ableto focus on the technical aspects of the design projects. Also, they would graduate with theability

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2013 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Thomas O. Spicer; Edgar C. Clausen

Romanowski5 cite overwhelming evidence fromindustry and academic surveys, as well as comments from managers and professors, that ourstudents have poor writing and presentation skills. Sadly, these authors also note that 64 percentof the overall work time of an engineer is spent on some form of communication.The obvious answer to this problem is to better incorporate professional skills and their use intothe everyday engineering classroom. Spinelli,6 of Union College, developed a course on thehistory of electrical engineering, which couples the study of technological developments inAmerican and European civilizations to writing, oral communication and ethics. At theUniversity of Virginia, Richards and Gorman7 used case studies to simultaneously teach

Collection

2008 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Timothy J. Annesley; David P. Miller

diverse set of projects than is typically found inrobotics classes; many of which may concentrate on building towards a single task.11.1 Class StructureIn order to best understand the function of the course it’s first necessary to outline the structureof the course. Enrollment for the course was capped at 30 due to lab size and Teaching Assistantlimitations. Each week, the entire class met once for a 50-minute lecture then, again, in groupsof 15 for a 110-minute laboratory session. Each group of 15 was then divided into teams of 3.The teams worked together for the duration of the semester. The idea behind teamwork is to An earlier version of this paper appeared in the proceedings for the Global Conference on Educational RoboticsJuly 2008

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2008 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Eileen M. Kowalski; Joe D. Manous

investigation of cognitive learning within the engineering profession is rather new, it hasbeen accepted by other fields of education with the most notable being the study of medicine. Untilrecently, the four-year medical school experience centered around lecture and laboratory work, somewhatsimilar to engineering education, with clinical work occurring primarily during the fourth year. Todaymany medical schools include clinical experience early in the medical school experience because studentshave demonstrated a better grasp of material when they are concurrently studying in “traditional” coursesand experience greater cognitive learning through the combination of clinical (problem-based learning)and lecture activities.1 A similar inclusion of

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2009 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Harvey I. Lyons

academic environment that satisfies not only a disciplines’ technological requirements butalso the demands of the marketplace. Consequently, engineering technology programs should beconceived, structured and implemented accordingly.The writer entered the teaching profession after a significant experience in industry and has beeninvolved since with the development of engineering and engineering technology programs thatwill directly address the needs of industrial practice. At the onset of his academic career, thewriter conducted a comprehensive industrial survey to determine if a particular company’stechnical expectations and requirements were being met with recent mechanical engineeringundergraduates. Following are a sampling of industry’s

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2008 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

Eileen M. Kowalski; Joe D. Manous

investigation of cognitive learning within the engineering profession is rather new, it hasbeen accepted by other fields of education with the most notable being the study of medicine. Untilrecently, the four-year medical school experience centered around lecture and laboratory work, somewhatsimilar to engineering education, with clinical work occurring primarily during the fourth year. Todaymany medical schools include clinical experience early in the medical school experience because studentshave demonstrated a better grasp of material when they are concurrently studying in “traditional” coursesand experience greater cognitive learning through the combination of clinical (problem-based learning)and lecture activities.1 A similar inclusion of

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2008 Northeast Section Meeting

Authors

Eileen M. Kowalski; Joe D. Manous

investigation of cognitive learning within the engineering profession is rather new, it hasbeen accepted by other fields of education with the most notable being the study of medicine. Untilrecently, the four-year medical school experience centered around lecture and laboratory work, somewhatsimilar to engineering education, with clinical work occurring primarily during the fourth year. Todaymany medical schools include clinical experience early in the medical school experience because studentshave demonstrated a better grasp of material when they are concurrently studying in “traditional” coursesand experience greater cognitive learning through the combination of clinical (problem-based learning)and lecture activities.1 A similar inclusion of

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2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

Wilson Tsz-Hon Kowk; Zhineng Li; Rahel Steffen; Brendan O'Brien; M.C. Damas; Vazgen Shekoyan; Paul Marchese; Tak Cheung

algorithm would help to establish a publicly smartphone Community college pre-engineering students sometime accessible, computing network that could assist in exploratoryneed extra counseling on which career path such as studies of all FITS data. ImageJ is considered as simple mass-professional engineers, research engineers, information market software since our experience in teaching ImageJ totechnology engineer, etc. Hands-on experience gained in community college students majoring in liberal arts has beendoing a research project in a laboratory and presenting the very successfully over the years. Other authors have foundresults in conferences would enhance motivation and

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2015 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

Baheej Nabeel James Saoud; Brian P. Self; Jim Widmann; Alexa Coburn; Jeffrey Phillip Georgette

for students engaged in inquiry-based active learningin a physics class.Both traditional and active teaching methods can also be described as deductive or inductive. Ininductive teaching, the direction of learning goes from a specific context to a general concept.The opposite is true for deductive teaching where the learning goes from theory to specific Proceedings of the 2015 American Society for Engineering Education Pacific Southwest Conference Copyright © 2015, American Society for Engineering Education 462context. Traditional teaching methods take the deductive approach where the concept isintroduced

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2025 ASEE -GSW Annual Conference

Authors

Kenneth R. Leitch P.E., West Texas A&M University; Colton Atkins, West Texas A&M University; Benton Allen, West Texas A&M University

secure external funding to support student research,industry-driven projects, and state-of-the-art laboratory facilities. Partnerships with state andfederal agencies will further enhance opportunities for students to engage in research thatdirectly impacts agricultural innovation. Summary and ConclusionsThe ET-AG program at WTAMU represents a forward-thinking approach to agriculturaleducation, integrating engineering and technology to meet the challenges of modern foodproduction. Program development requires hands-on efforts supported by faculty and industrycollaborations. The ET-AG program is a new interdisciplinary initiative that will be expanded asboth undergraduate and graduate student populations continue to

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2025 ASEE -GSW Annual Conference

Authors

Byul Hur, Texas A&M University

courses are typically included in the EngineeringTechnology Curriculum for an electronics system program. At Texas A&M University, the ElectronicSystems Engineering Technology (ESET) program is offered. For the embedded systems courses thatthe author has been teaching, students learn about microcontroller architecture and microcontrollerapplications. For the class projects, students can be given comprehensive programming and projectdemo assignments as a class project toward the end of the course. And, some of the students wouldtake the Capstone project courses in the following semesters. In this paper, the author presented theskills and knowledge that can be used from underwater robots and boat platforms to benefit embeddedsystems courses and

Conference Session

Design Across the Curriculum 2

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Caroline Grace Sawatzki, Saginaw Valley State University; Rajani Muraleedharan, Saginaw Valley State University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

monitoring and green energy applications. Currently Dr. Muraleedharan is mentoring research on ’Multirotor Swarm for Autonomous Exploration of Indoor Spaces’ project funded by Michigan Space Grant Consortium. She is the author/co-author of 2 book chapters, 4 journal papers, 31 conference and symposium IEEE/ACM papers, and 3 of which has won the best paper award. In 2009, Dr. Muraleedharan was awarded the Outstanding Teaching Assistant award and also received her Certificate in University Teaching from the Future Professoriate program at Syracuse University. She is the reviewer of IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, Neurocom- puting, and Systems and Cybernatics, Wiley Security and Communications networks. Dr