Conference Session

Equity in Engineering: Uncovering Challenges and Championing Change in STEM Education

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Katherine Robert, Colorado School of Mines; Jessica Deters, University of Nebraska - Lincoln; Jon A. Leydens, Colorado School of Mines

Tagged Divisions

Culture & Social Justice in Education Division (EQUITY), Equity

authority figures visiting campuses and creatingnarratives based on conversations. By the mid-20th century, as business practices that focused onquality and efficiency gained social and economic dominance in the U.S. and statistical analysisbecame the preferred methods of evaluation, these new, competition- and ranking-orientedapproaches fit with the increased enrollment in U.S. colleges and universities (Wilbers &Brankovic, 2023). Additionally, particularly in STEM education and research, a realization thatadvances in technology, science, and engineering were crucial to national Cold War effortsrequired schools to constantly be evaluated to receive federal funding for more sophisticated andexpensive laboratories (Apple, 2019; Seeley, 1999

Conference Session

Enhancing Instructional Effectiveness in Civil Engineering: Case Studies

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Morgan Reese, U.S. Military Academy; Joseph P. Hanus, U.S. Military Academy; Ledlie Klosky, U.S. Military Academy, West Point

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

objectives to guide my learning. 15 My instructor communicated effectively. 16 In this course, laboratory exercises contributed to my learning. 17 My instructor demonstrated positive expectations of the cadets in the class. 18 My instructor used visual images (pictures, demonstrations, models, diagrams, simulations, etc.) to enhance my learning. 19 My instructor gave me timely and accurate feedback on my learning progress. 20 In this course, the WPR's were fair and relevant. (WPR = Written Partial Review, also known as a mid-term examination) Page 22.1685.7 21

Conference Session

Innovative College-Industry Partnerships for the Future

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

William C. Oakes, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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College Industry Partnerships

Profs. Edward Coyle and Leah Jamieson7-9. The program has grown steadily in bothsize and breadth to where it is recognized as its own academic program under the College ofEngineering. It has dedicated laboratories in the Armstrong Hall of Engineering. In the 2010-2011 academic year, almost 700 students participated on 90 projects , addressing needs rangingfrom data management for human services to creating energy efficient, sustainable home designsfor low income families and from designing learning centers for local museums to developingcustom play environments for children with disabilities. EPICS spans all engineering disciplinesat Purdue and includes students from over 60 majors across the university.Each project involves a team of eight to

Conference Session

Computers in Education Poster Session

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Chi N. Thai, University of Georgia

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education

Course for Engineering StudentsAbstractFor Spring 2011, a senior-level robotics course (first taught in Spring 2010) had been revisedaccording to principles for “Smart Teaching” described in the book “How Learning Works”.Homework, laboratory sessions and anchor projects had been redesigned to provide betterscaffolding for students with 2 different but complementary engineering backgrounds, and alsofor a better flow towards the theme of humanoid robotics. The e-portfolio tool EMMA wasintegrated into this course as a collaboration and feedback tool between instructor and students tohelp improve student algorithm development work, but EMMA was not found to be responsiveenough nor useful for this kind of use.IntroductionIn the Summer 2010, the

Conference Session

Computers in Education General Technical Session II

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Daniel J. Waldorf, California Polytechnic State University; Lizabeth T. Schlemer, California Polytechnic State University

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education

contentaccompanied the lecture links and were provided to students by way of BlackBoard® learningmanagement software. Weekly at-home assignments and quizzes also accompanied the onlinelectures. Working sessions, with associated assignments, were held weekly as well, with thesecond class session each week dedicated to reviewing solutions, solving other exampleproblems, and providing high-level perspective for the short online lectures. In the workingsessions, students were encouraged to work together using open notes, open books, opencomputer/internet, and open access to the instructor, but individual submission of results wasrequired prior to leaving the class. The three-hour, hands-on laboratory also took place eachweek but was unchanged from previous

Conference Session

Technology in the ECE Classroom

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David Jakob Fritz, Oklahoma State University; Wira Mulia, Oklahoma State University; Sohum Sohoni, Oklahoma State University; Kerri S. Kearney, Oklahoma State University; Mwarumba Mwavita, Oklahoma State University

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

ability to identify, formulate, and solve engineering problems 6. An understanding of professional and ethical responsibility 7. An ability to communicate effectively 8. A recognition of the need for, and an ability to engage in life-long learning 9. A knowledge of contemporary issues 10. An ability to use the techniques, skills, and modern engineering tools necessary for engineering practice.Choosing and effectively implementing a Computer Engineering design course laboratorycomponent is a challenging task. In many Computer Engineering design courses, the complexityof designs and the ease of use of simulation tools have resulted in laboratory courses tendingtoward the exclusive use of small example problems, simulation and

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics Issues Part One

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Craig Titus, Purdue University; Carla B. Zoltowski, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Margaret Huyck, Illinois Institute of Technology; William C. Oakes, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Jill L. May, Illinois Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Ethics

areconsidered right and wrong—behaviors often articulated in codes of ethics. The studiesmentioned above, and others like them, use the DIT to measure groups of people organized bytheir professions (i.e. IT professionals15,16, medical laboratory professionals17, and universityhousing professionals18) or they use it to establish a baseline description of individual’s ethicalreasoning abilities in order to look for correlations with other behaviors or to help validate resultsfrom other instruments19. They do not use the DIT as a measure of moral reasoning in anengineering context.Our own preliminary research showed that generalized, non-engineering-specific ethicaldilemmas, such as those encountered in the DIT are not seen as the same types of issues

Conference Session

Project-Based Learning

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Oscar G. Nespoli, University of Waterloo; Harry Tempelman, Hitachi Construction Truck Mfg Ltd.; Ryan Spencer; Steve Lambert, University of Waterloo

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

ofimportant behaviors. Recommendations include incorporating a professional spine in thecurriculum, whereby students may have an opportunity to integrate their knowledge in acontextual environment. A second recommendation outlines the need for students to makeconnections between theory and practice and to develop the thinking skills required forengineering practice. This requires an inductive, as opposed to a deductive, approach to teachingand learning.The integration of professional identity, knowledge and skills requires that students have anopportunity to experience engineering practice, through so-called approximations to practice.Often this means exposing students to laboratory or design project teaching methods (they aredifferent). A recent

Conference Session

Managing Dual-Career Issues

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Adrienne R. Minerick, Michigan Technological University; Beena Sukumaran, Rowan University; Jacqueline A. El-Sayed, Kettering University; Donna Reese, Mississippi State University; Brian P. Kirkmeyer, Miami University

Tagged Divisions

Women in Engineering

researchers and served as co-PI on an NSF REU site. Research within her Medical micro-Device Engineering Research Laboratory (M.D. ERL) also inspires the development of Desktop Experiment Modules (DEMos) for use in chemical engineering classrooms or as outreach activities in area schools. Adrienne has been an active member of ASEE’s WIED, ChED, and NEE leadership teams since 2003.Beena Sukumaran, Rowan University Beena Sukumaran is Professor and Chair of the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department at Rowan University. She has been at Rowan University since 1998. She is also Director at Large for the Women in Engineering Division of ASEE.Jacqueline A. El-Sayed, Kettering University Dr. Jacqueline El-Sayed is a

Conference Session

Two Year-to-Four Year Transfer Topics Part I

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Frankie Santos Laanan, Iowa State University; Dimitra Lynette Jackson, Iowa State University; Diane T. Rover, Iowa State University

Tagged Divisions

Two Year College Division

director of the undergraduate program in computer engineering at MSU. She also served as interim department chair in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering from 2000 to 2001. She was a research staff member in the Scalable Computing Laboratory at the Ames Laboratory under a U.S-D.O.E. Postdoctoral Fellowship from 1989 to 1991. Her teaching and research has focused on the areas of embedded computer systems, reconfigurable hardware, integrated program development and performance environments for parallel and distributed systems, visualization, performance monitoring and evaluation, and engineering education. She currently serves as principal investigator for NSF STEP and S-STEM grants in the college. Dr

Conference Session

K-12 and Pre-College Engineering Poster Session

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Irina Igel, Polytechnic Insititute of New York University; Ronald Leonel Poveda, Polytechnic Institute of New York University; Vikram Kapila, Polytechnic Institute of New York University; Magued G. Iskander, Polytechnic Institute of New York University

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

scanners and other mobile devices in Holtsville, N.Y. His largely experimental research is focused on parametric studies of novel lightweight composites and simulations of functionally-graded materials under load.Vikram Kapila, Polytechnic Institute of New York University VIKRAM KAPILA is an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Polytechnic Institute of NYU, Brooklyn, NY, where he directs an NSF funded Web-Enabled Mechatronics and Process Control Re- mote Laboratory, an NSF funded Research Experience for Teachers Site in Mechatronics, and an NSF funded GK-12 Fellows project. He has held visiting positions with the Air Force Research Laboratories in Dayton, OH. His research interests are in cooperative control

Conference Session

Innovations in Teaching Physics or Engineering Physics I

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kristi J. Shryock, Texas A&M University; Arun R. Srinivasa, Texas A&M University, Department of Mechanical Engineering; Jefferey E. Froyd, Texas A&M University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Physics & Physics

Accreditation Cycle. 2010, Baltimore, MD: ABET Engineering Accreditation Commission.2. Gentner, D, & Stevens, A. L. (1983) Mental Models, Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc.3. references forthcoming4. Duit, R. (2009). Bibliography – Students' and Teachers' Conceptions and Science Education (STCSE), Retrieved January 17, 2011, from http://www.ipn.uni-kiel.de/aktuell/stcse/stcse5. Hestenes, D., Wells, M., & Swackhamer, G. (1992). Force concept inventory. The Physics Teacher, 30(3): 141-151.6. Thornton, R., & Sokoloff, D. (1990). Learning motion concepts using real-time, microcomputer-based laboratory tools. American Journal of Physics. 58, 858-867.7. Thornton, 19968. Thornton, R., & Sokoloff, D. (1998). Assessing

Conference Session

Emerging Areas: Biotechnology, Microtechnology, and Energy

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Claire Komives, San Jose State University; Michael J. Prince, Bucknell University; Theresa A. Good, University of Maryland, Baltimore County; Laurent Simon, New Jersey Institute of Technology; John P. O'Connell, University of Virginia; Jeffrey John Chalmers, Ohio State University, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering; Erik Fernandez, University of Virginia

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

AC 2011-2605: BIOLOGY ACROSS THE CURRICULUM: PREPARINGSTUDENTS FOR A CAREER IN THE LIFE SCIENCESClaire Komives, San Jose State University Dr. Claire Komives is presently an Associate Professor in the Chemical and Materials Engineering De- partment at San Jose State University (SJSU). She has taught ten different courses, including core chem- ical engineering courses at the graduate and undergraduate levels, Biochemical Engineering lecture and laboratory courses and a bioethics general education course. She has research experience in the areas of biosensors, enzyme kinetics, cell culture, fermentation and bioprocess engineering. Among her profes- sional positions, she has spent one year as a Visiting Scientist at

Conference Session

ABET and Curriculum-Level Assessments

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kevin D. Dahm, Rowan University

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

effectively on multidisciplinary teams. While students work in teams of 4-5 in Chemical Plant Design, neither the teams nor the design problems can be well described as “multidisciplinary.”  Some program objectives are related to ability to perform hands-on experimental and laboratory work. Chemical Plant Design at Rowan University makes extensive use of process simulation but has never been taught with a wet-lab component.Junior/Senior Engineering ClinicRowan University has an eight-semester Engineering Clinic program intended to provideEngineering students with experience solving practical, open-ended engineeringproblems. The sequence culminates in the Junior/Senior Engineering Clinic, in whichstudents work on

Conference Session

Engineering Mechanics Education

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jefferey E. Froyd, Texas A&M University; Christian J. Schwartz P.E., Texas A&M University; Kumbakonam Ramamani Rajagopal, Texas A&M University

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

larger range of materials than traditional mechanics of materials courses.Evaluation of the redesign is preliminary at this stage. More data on student performance indownstream courses needs to be collected and analyzed.Bibliographic Information1. Wiggins, G.P. and J. McTighe, Understanding by Design. 2nd ed. 2005: Prentice Hall. Page 22.357.132. Rais-Rohani, M. and D.T. Brown. Development of a virtual laboratory for the study of mechanics. in ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition. 2000. St. Louis, MO.3. Borchert, R., D.D. Jensen, and D. Yates. Development and assessment of hands-on and visualization modules

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship Courses and Outcomes II

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Anthony Marchese, Colorado State University

Tagged Divisions

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

AC 2011-1606: DEVELOPMENT OF A NEW GRADUATE COURSE INSUSTAINABLE TECHNOLOGY ENTREPRENEURSHIP FOR SCIENTISTSAND ENGINEERSAnthony Marchese, Colorado State University Anthony Marchese is an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Colorado State University and a PI at the Engines and Energy Conversion Laboratory. He holds a Ph.D. and M.A. in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering from Princeton University and B.S. and M.S. degrees from Rensselaer Polytech- nic Institute. He is currently funded by NSF to study pollutant formation and combustion chemistry of algae-derived biofuels and is the fuel conversion/characterization team leader for the National Alliance for Advanced Biofuels and Bioproducts, a $48 Million

Collection

1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Tom Christensen; R. M. Seymour; Kim McKeage; Deborah Skinner; Darrell Donahue

technicalknowledge and skills needed. An interdisciplinary semiconductor processing course at San JoseState University (SJSU) allowed students to experience a more cooperative learning environmentthat encouraged interdependence and lateral thinking and promoted oral communication. SJSUalumni rated the multidisciplinary design team experience as key in getting a suitable job. Theylisted 1) hands-on laboratory setting; 2) teamwork experiences and 3) technical content as thevaluable aspects of the semiconductor processing course.15 Interview surveys of recent electricalengineering hires corroborated the importance of an ability to communicate through a variety ofmediums as a necessary component of undergraduate engineering training.16 In line with themany

Collection

1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Ronald James; Janet L. Gooder; Charles Wisniewski; Brenda Haven; A. George Havener

ICEs Laboratory and the Otto Cycle5 Gas Turbine Engine Design Understand the Thermodynamics of Gas Turbine Generators and the Brayton Cycle6 Jet Engine Laboratory Understand the Thermodynamics of the Jet Propulsion Cycle7 Jet Engine Selection Understand Engine Selection Process Meeting Mission Specifications8 Air Conditioner Design Understand the Vapor Compression

Collection

1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Russell D. Meier

Computer Engineering (CprE 310).” CprE 310 had Page 4.57.1always been extremely unpopular because it was perceived by students to be a mathematicsclass. The real goal of the course was to introduce discrete mathematics within the context ofcomputer engineering problems such as VLSI partitioning, information security, and jobscheduling. Its unpopularity made it a difficult course to teach. Students attended lecture twiceper week for 75 minutes. There was no laboratory component. This course also averaged nearly100 students.Thus, during academic year 1997-1998, I faced two large lectures each semester that had mostlyhomogenous populations of nearly

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Narayanan Komerath

extensively among the studentteam and the advisor, and it was determined that our Business Plan would be one centered on thedevelopment and exploitation of this technology. The perceived advantage was the strongexperience that we had acquired in this technology, including 2 years of flight experiments[2-5] onNASA's KC-135 Microgravity Flight Laboratory (a.k.a. "The Vomit Comet"). Sam Wanis, theAcoustic Shaping Team Leader, submitted a Letter of Intent (LOI). In mid-November, a NASAcommunication acknowledged the LOI, and gave us the list of those who had submitted an LOI.b. Analyzing the OpportunityThe solicitation itself was "wide open", as NASA contact personnel described it. The e-mail listof those who had submitted LOIs was seen to include names

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

James A. Ozment; Alison N. Smith; Wendy Newstetter

whereapproximately thirty students complete specific programs or projects under the instruction oftwo laboratory TAs (these TAs are unrelated to the recitation TAs). The majority of the TAs areundergraduates.IV. MethodA ten scenario survey was administered to the instructors, TAs, and students. The survey wasdeveloped from scenarios used in a MIT study5 and from data given to us by the Dean ofStudents office. The scenarios developed from the latter source were designed to be specific toCS1501. Each scenario had a possibility of three rankings: “not cheating”, “trivial cheating”, or“serious cheating”. The ranking scheme for the scenario surveys was taken from the MIT study5.We surveyed instructors, TAs, and students about their conceptions of which actions

Collection

1997 Annual Conference

Authors

Roman Z. Morawski; Jerzy Woznicki; Andrzej Krasniewski

student's skills through laboratory and design experience,use of computers, oral and written communication, qualifications and teaching load of academicstaff, facilities and their availability, administration procedures, information system andcounseling, admission procedures, internationalization of the curriculum, student performance,competence of graduates, and internal quality assurance procedures.There are, however, some features of the system of study, namely, diversity and flexibility,which - in our opinion - have an essential impact on the quality of education, but are rather rarelybrought into discussions on quality assessment. In this paper, we define diversity and flexibilityof the system of study and show a strong relationship between

Conference Session

High School Engineering Education

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mohamed Abdelrahman, Tennessee Technological University; Cynthia Rice-York, Tennessee Tech University; Dalton York, Tennessee Tech University; Cynthia Stowers, Clark Range High School; Robert Sircy, Tennessee Tech University

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

) program at Tennessee TechUniversity during the summer of 2009. The program provided the teachers with the opportunityto experience the full cycle of research from formulating a research question and a research plan,to carrying out the research plan along side mentors who acted as consultants to the teachers.The two of the participants were a high school math teacher and a pre-service high schoolchemistry teacher. Although the two participants worked in the same fuel cell laboratory andshared to some extent the same mentor, the focus of their research and how they would take backtheir experience to class was completely different. The math teacher focused on research aimedat trying to identify patterns in the response of a PEM fuel cell under

Conference Session

Developing Young MINDS in Engineering - Part I

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lisa Massi, University of Central Florida; Michael Georgiopoulos, University of Central Florida; Cynthia Young, University of Central Florida; Alfred Ducharme, University of Central Florida; Cameron Ford, University of Central Florida; Kim Small, University of Central Florida; Patrice Lancey, University of Central Florida; Divya Bhati, University of Central Florida

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Minorities in Engineering

Florida Michael Georgiopoulos is a Professor in the UCF School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and the PI of the NSF-funded S-STEM program at UCF entitled the "Young Entrepreneur and Scholar(YES) Scholarship Program" as well as the NSF-funded STEP program entitled "EXCEL:UCF-STEP Pathways to STEM: From Promise to Prominence." Dr. Georgiopoulos' research interests lie in the areas of machine learning, neural networks, pattern recognition and applications in signal/image processing, communications, medical field, manufacturing, transportation engineering, amongst others. Dr. Georgiopoulos is a Director of the Machine Learning Laboratory at UCF .Cynthia Young, University

Conference Session

Administering First-Year Programs

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gretchen Hein, Michigan Technological University; Amber Kemppainen, Michigan Technological University; Susan Amato-Henderson, Michigan Technological University; Jason Keith, Michigan Technological University; Melissa Roberts, Michigan Technological University

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

credits.14 The third module once again begins with the currentfirst-year engineering program design materials. It involves designing a small fish farmingfacility and building and testing an aeration system. Portions of this module are being piloted inthe three Spring 2010 sections of ENG1100. The remainder of the module will be piloted in onesection of ENG1001 in Fall 2010.With the learning objectives in mind, the three groups approached the design activities indifferent manners based on their different backgrounds and objectives. The undergraduatestudents were motivated to make the design process “better” than what they had experienced.They wanted a wind turbine that they could construct and test in a laboratory setting.Consequently, they

Conference Session

New Learning Paradigms I

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Waddah Akili, Iowa State University

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

assignment, laboratories, and, often, group projects. Adding to the confusion,engineering faculty do not always understand how the common forms of “active learning” differfrom each other and most are not inclined to search for answers Of the most known and utilizedclassroom-based pedagogies in engineering education today, and appear to be moving in thesame broad direction, are: problem-based learning, cooperative learning, and collaborativelearning 2. Page 15.919.2Problem-based learning (PBL) starts when students are confronted with an open-ended, ill-structured, real-world problem and work in teams to identify learning needs and develop a

Conference Session

Historical Perspectives for Engineering Education

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Amy Slaton, Drexel University; Mary Ebeling, Drexel University

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education

university laboratory settings and in clean rooms; in the lab spaces of high-techstart-ups; or in R & D departments of large chemical and biomedical companies that have closeuniversity ties and which often employ PhD students. Jobs for two-year college graduates inthese settings are scarce. In 2008, for instance, Pennsylvania’s Workforce Development officelisted “Industrial Engineer Technician” at the associate degree level, the employment categorythat we are concerned with, as a high-priority occupation for the state but estimated that therewere at that time 43 openings for this position annually in Pennsylvania.9 The PaNMT hasgraduated slightly more than 500 students from its certification programs since 1998, or about 45students a year so far

Conference Session

CE Capstone: Innovations in Learning & Assessment

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gregg Fiegel, California Polytechnic State University; Jay DeNatale, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

of deep foundations, consolidation settlement, reinforced concretespread footing design, reinforced concrete stem wall design, masonry design, timber design,seismic analysis and design, geometric highway design, pavement design, stormwater collectionand management, culvert design, closed channel flow, and pumps. We worked closely with ourIndustrial Advisory Board and local practitioners to develop this list of topics. Faculty membersand local practitioners give the modules. The students attend these modules in their design teamsin a laboratory environment, and concepts are reinforced through in-class problem solving.Course Format and LogisticsCourse DeliveryDelivery occurs via a two meeting per week in a lecture-lab format that is valued at

Conference Session

Innovative Courses/Pedagogies in Liberal Education I

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ari Epstein, MIT; Joellen Easton, American Public Media; Rekha Murthy, Public Radio Exchange; Emily Davidson, MIT; Jennifer de Bruijn, MIT; Tracey Hayse, MIT; Elise Hens, MIT; Margaret Lloyd

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education

radio-specific techniques—such as the useof sound to evoke a physical setting and the effective interweaving of interviews and ambientsound—as well as techniques common to a variety of media, such as the use and development ofstory arcs and pacing. At the same time, in laboratory and field sessions they develop proficiencyin the technical aspects of radio production, such as gathering high-quality sound, audio editingand digital audio effects. The class culminates in a major team project, in which students developand produce a radio documentary on the social, economic, political and technical aspects of acomplex environmental issue. The documentary is aired on the MIT radio station and thendistributed and licensed for broadcast on other

Conference Session

Innovative Teaching Methods and Learning Models

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ross B Kaplan, Wentworth Institute of Technology; Timothy M Johnson P.E., Wentworth Institute of Technology; Ralf Oliver Schneider, Wentworth Institute of Technology ; Shankar Muthu Krishnan, Wentworth Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

situations, such as, classrooms orlaboratories during a wide-spread flu pandemic. The project is also aimed at ensuring that thestudent learning leads to many of the standard outcomes. The proposed design is divided intofour sections: Measurement, Control, Communication, and Monitoring. The sensor selected forthe Measurement implementation is a medical grade version of the Melexis MLX90614 series ofsmart infrared temperature sensors. Two Texas Instruments MSP430 microprocessors areselected to implement Control and Monitoring. Communication is implemented using an 868MHz wireless network. For laboratory testing of the proposed fever screening system, thetemperature sensor is mounted on a gantry at the entrance to a lab or lecture hall and the