Conference Session

Innovations in Teaching: Mechanics

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jim M. Papadopoulos, University of Wisconsin - Stout; Christopher Papadopoulos, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus; Vincent C. Prantil, Milwaukee School of Engineering

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Mechanics

received his BS, MS, and PhD in Mechanical Engineering from Cornell University. His research interests lie in micro-structural material modeling, finite element and numerical analysis. He was a senior staff member at Sandia National Laboratories California in the Applied Mechanics and Materials Modeling departments for eleven years. He joined the mechanical engineering faculty at MSOE in September 2000. Page 22.83.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011 A Philosophy of Integrating FEA Practice throughout the Undergraduate CE/ME

Conference Session

Project-Based Education in Energy Curriculum

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Youakim Kalaani, Georgia Southern University; William Trotter Nichols

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Energy Conversion and Conservation

energy that reachesthe Earth’s surface over the course of a day. It is usually expressed in kWh/m2/day. The solarenergy and temperature information used for this study was obtained from the NationalRenewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) software6 called “PV Watts v.2” based on analysis of theNational Solar Radiation Data Base (NSRDB). This data is from the Typical MeteorologicalYear Two (TMY2) which was collected during the 1961-1990 time period7. While thecalculations are based on historical data, the actual performance of any PV system may vary.However, the values would be accurate within 10 to 12% 8. The solar insolation received forfixed arrays facing due south at various tilt angles is shown in Table 1. TABLE 1: Solar

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering I

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Laila Guessous, Oakland University; Qian Zou, Oakland University; Brian P. Sangeorzan, Oakland University; Xia Wang, Oakland University; Gary Barber, Oakland University; Lorenzo M. Smith, Oakland University; LianXiang Yang, Oakland University; David Schall, Oakland University, Department of Mechanical Engineering; Michael A. Latcha, Oakland University

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Mechanical Engineering

experience is then capped by oraland/or poster presentations by the students of their research projects. Throughout this program,students worked closely with faculty, industrial mentors and graduate students. More than 40professionals from industry, varying in rank from senior vice presidents to researchers, toprogram directors, to young engineers, assisted the program at different levels. These industrymentors volunteered to assist the REU students in a number of different ways; Some providedguidance or materials for the research projects; others organized laboratory/industrial tours, gaveseminars, found speakers, or simply had informal discussions with the students on a variety oftopics including the automotive or energy industry, technology and

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Poster Session

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

C.S. Chen, Miami University; Steven Elliott, Miami University, Department of Economics; Mark Boardman, Miami University

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

AC 2011-23: AN MULTIDISCIPLINARY ENERGY BASED CURRICULUMC.S. Chen, Miami University Dr. C.S.Chen is a professor and founding chair of electrical and computer engineering (ECE) depart- ment at Miami University (Ohio). He was the electrical engineering department head and the interim engineering dean at the University of AkronSteven Elliott, Miami University Dept. of Economics Dr. Steven Elliott is an Associate Professor in the Department of Economics at Miami University. He has been a research associate at Oak Ridge National Laboratory before entering academics. His professional interests include energy and environmental economics and behavioral economics.Mark Boardman, Miami University

Conference Session

Capstone Design Pedagogy I

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alan Cheville, Oklahoma State University

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Design in Engineering Education

. Page 15.371.8While the technology readiness level is not linearly related to the rubric scores of capstoneproject demonstrations, when plotted against the TRL the demonstration score, S, has a quadraticdependence given by S = (TRL - 6)-.13 + 3.3. Thus demonstration scores are highest (mean of3.3) for a TRL of 6. This technology readiness level is defined as "Representative model orprototype system, which is well beyond the breadboard tested for TRL 5, tested in a relevantenvironment. Examples include testing a prototype in a high fidelity laboratory environment orin simulated operational environment."11. Thus capstone project which have students createprototype systems generally scored better than those which are more speculative or research

Conference Session

The Best of Design in Engineering Education

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Christopher Williams, Virginia Tech; Erin Crede, Virginia Tech; Janis Terpenny, Virginia Tech; Richard Goff, Virginia Tech

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Design in Engineering Education

AC 2010-2201: EFFECTS OF STUDENT-CUSTOMER INTERACTION IN ACORNERSTONE DESIGN PROJECTChristopher Williams, Virginia Tech Christopher B. Williams is an Assistant Professor at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University, where he directs the Design, Research, and Education for Additive Manufacturing Systems (DREAMS) Laboratory. His joint appointment in the Mechanical Engineering and Engineering Education departments reflects his diverse research interests which include layered manufacturing, design methodology, and design education. As a member of an instructional team that orchestrated a service-learning design project for the first-year engineering program, Professor

Conference Session

Track 3 - Session 2

Collection

2014 ASEE International Forum

Authors

Maya A Trotz, University of South Florida; Joniqua Howard, University of Texas Arlington; Ken Darrie Thomas, Auburn University, Biosystems Engineering & The Honors College; Helen Muga, University of Mount Union; Jeanese Christine Badenock, University of the West Indies, Cave Hill; Sheena A Francis, University of Technology, Jamaica 235 Old Hope Rd Kgn 6. Jamaica

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Student Development

.     While   being  mentored  by  a  local  Belizean  engineer  on  a  stormwater  management  project  for  their  school  in  Belize  City,   connections   were   made   to   a   Professor   of   Civil   Engineering   at   another   US   university   who   focused  her   International   Engineering   Field   Experience   course   on   their   project.   In   May   2013,  thirteen  students  from   her   class   visited   Belize   to   survey   the   site,   teaching   survey   methods   to   the   secondary   school  students   as   well.   In   May   2014,   another   group   will   visit   to   continue   working   on   the   project,   which  involves  the  creation  of  a  detention  pond  and  an  ecological  park  for  outdoor  laboratory

Conference Session

Reception & Poster Session

Collection

2013 ASEE International Forum

Authors

Chi N. Thai, University of Georgia; Yan-Fu Kuo; Ping-Lang Yen, National Taiwan University

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ASEE International Forum

National Taiwan University (NTU). It was implementedduring the Spring and Fall 2012 semesters with a total of 27 students from both universities. Itwas designed around 4-5 projects with lectures and laboratory demonstrations performed by theinstructors (from both sides) to provide necessary background materials for students to carry onsuccessfully with their chosen projects. The major difficulties were the differences in the startdate and duration of the respective courses at each university and prevented our attempt tosynchronize student progress and interaction. The "technical" issues turned out to be easilysolved by each side using similar hardware and software. The instructional materials were sharedvia classroom capture and webcasting

Conference Session

Reception & Poster Session

Collection

2013 ASEE International Forum

Authors

Brian Bielenberg, Petroleum Institute

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ASEE International Forum

thesepedagogies are being employed in long-standing environments, namely laboratories, research, orinternships…”19, p.33. To promote a more widespread implementation across the departments inour program we sought to bring about changes at a broader curricular level and to introduce thesepedagogies into regular classroom practice. Research has shown that for young adults, such thedesired skills and dispositions are best learned through experiential approaches (Cohen, 1996;Kolb, 1984). 20, 21 We therefore have begun to implement them in a variety of ways as part of anoverarching comprehensive approach to developing in students the needed academic andprofessional skills, and technical know-how, through exposure to what it means to be anengineer.Implementing

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Vladimir De Delva, Rowan University; Muhammed Iftikhar, Rowan University; Keith McIver, Rowan University; Stephanie Farrell, Rowan University; Katherine Whitaker, Rowan University; Mariano J. Savelski, Rowan University; C. Stewart Slater, Rowan University

, understand the use of critical properties, cascadingcalculations, solution of non-obvious quadratic equations, determination of the root of physicalsignificance, calculation of error, and drawing the requested conclusions from the data.Diethylene glycol poisoningA common concern of all engineering and therefore engineering education is safety. Engineeringcurricula include safety training in laboratories and explanation of safety concepts in lectures andreading. In common with other branches of engineering, pharmaceutical engineering safetyviolations risk personal injury, equipment wreckage and public health or environmental damage.Because of the end use of the final product, pharmaceutical safety violations that alter the finalproduct affect all

Conference Session

New! Improved! CE Accreditation Criteria

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephen Ressler

additional area of science, consistent with the program educational objectives; C proficiency in a minimum of four (4) an understanding of the fundamentals of recognized major civil engineering four technical areas appropriate to civil areas; engineering; D the ability to conduct laboratory an ability to conduct civil engineering experiments and to critically analyze experiments and analyze and interpret the and interpret data in more than one of resulting data; the

Conference Session

Collaborations Between Engineering/Education

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

William Jordan; Laura Wesson; Bill Elmore; Norm Pumphrey; Kelly Crittenden

education faculty. At Louisiana Tech University we created a team thatwould teach engineering concepts to future teachers. Our course, Engineering Problem Solvingfor Future Teachers is a three semester hour course that is taught every year in the spring. It isconsidered a physical science course by the students. Most of the students who take the courseare sophomore elementary education majors. We have previously reported on different aspectsof this course 1,2,3,4,5 . The most complete description of the course is in reference [1].We teach this course in two class meetings per week that each last 110 minutes. This allows usto utilize active learning concepts in each class. There was a significant laboratory component toeach of the topics.This past

Conference Session

Mechanics, Machine Design & Mechanisms

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Matthew Campbell, University of Texas at Austin; Kathy Schmidt, The University of Texas at Austin

engineering topics and inmastering less tangible skills such as “mechanical intuition.” Page 10.745.2 Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education2 Course DescriptionOne prevalent challenge in teaching machine elements within the modern mechanicalengineering curriculum is that it essentially encapsulates a large amount of mechanicalengineering knowledge – most of which is compiled empirically through laboratory tests overthe span of a hundred years or more. In order to combat the tendency to fall into the

Conference Session

Special Topics in Entrepreneurship

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Podlasek

laws of nature. This kind of knowledge underlies technological development and product and process advances in most industries. The production and reproduction of know-why is often organized in specialized organizations, such as research laboratories and universities. To get access to this kind of knowledge, firms have to interact with these organizations either through recruiting scientifically-trained labour or directly through contacts and joint activities. ◊ Know-how refers to skills or the capability to do something. Businessmen judging market prospects for a new product or a personnel manager selecting and training staff have to use

Conference Session

Design and the Community

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Leah Jamieson; Carla Zoltowski; William Oakes

credits each semester. The credit structureis designed to encourage long-term participation, and allows multi-year projects of significantscope and impact to be undertaken by the teams.Each student in the EPICS Program attends a weekly two-hour meeting of his/her team in theEPICS laboratory. During this laboratory time the team members will take care ofadministrative matters, do project planning and tracking, and work on their project. All studentsalso attend a common one-hour lecture each week. A majority of the lectures are by guestexperts, and have covered a wide range of topics related to engineering design, communication,and community service. The long-term nature of the program has required some innovation inthe lecture series since

Conference Session

College Engineering K-12 Outreach III

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Sarah Nation; Leah Jamieson; Jill Heinzen; Carla Zoltowski; William Oakes; Joy Krueger

(s) is completed and delivered, new projects are identified by the team andcommunity partner allowing the team to continue to work with the same community partner formany years. Each undergraduate student may earn academic credit for several semesters,registering for the course for 1 or 2 credits each semester. The credit structure is designed toencourage long-term participation, and grants multi-year projects of significant scope and impactto be undertaken by the teams.Each student in the EPICS Program attends a weekly two-hour meeting of his/her team in theEPICS laboratory. During this laboratory time the team members will take care ofadministrative matters, do project planning and tracking, and work on their project. All studentsalso

Conference Session

Accreditation and Related Issues in ECE

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Satinderpaul Devgan

Conference Session

Teaching Strategies in Graphics

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

David Forsman

industry as well.This paper will describe the scope and layout of this class, student projects, and the equipmentused, associated costs of running a laboratory and lessons learned as well as the impact on otherfaculty, departments and local industry.Course OverviewMETBD 410 (Rapid Prototyping, a technical elective) has the following Goals/Objectives:1. Understand the advantages and disadvantages of different additive processes currently on the market.2. Reverse engineer a product by digitizing geometry, importing the data into Pro/ENGINEER and creating a solid model from surfaces.3. Build the model (Objective 2) on the Z-402 3-D printer and re-digitize the prototype using a non-contact scanner to verify the geometry

Conference Session

Innovative Topics in ChE Curriculum

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Daniel Fichana; Ann Marie Flynn; Robert P. Hesketh; C. Stewart Slater; Jim Henry

Laboratory Green Engineering Experiments Heat and Mass IntegrationDesign for Pollution Prevention Process AnalysisSenior Engineering Clinic/Senior Project Real Industrial Projects in Green Engineering Page 10.605.5 Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright 2005, American Society for Engineering EducationGreen Engineering ModulesThe following sections give examples from courses that have been developed for various coursesby the

Conference Session

Practice/Industry Partnership

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

William Badger; Geraldine Peten; Anil Sawhney

computer laboratory. TheSchool of Construction is one of the few programs at ASU that has its own computer laboratoryconveniently located in the same building where the core courses are taught. The laboratoryconsists of 31 Pentium III personal computers. The laboratory also has a ceiling mounted dataprojector that can be used for demonstrations. The school has two portable presentation stationsthat consist of a Pentium notebook and a data projector. The computer hardware in the laboratorysupports numerous general purpose and construction industry specific software. These computerhardware and software resources are in addition to the college and university wide infrastructure

Conference Session

A Potpourri of Innovations in Physics

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Patrick Joyner; Teresa Larkin

of 120 students) ofPhysics for the Modern World were offered. The 2 lecture sections were broken into 8 laboratorysections, with an average of 16 students in each lab. One of the 8 laboratory sections (a sectionconsisting of 7 students) was linked with one section of college writing (Composing the PhysicalWorld). Although Physics for the Modern World typically consists of freshman through seniors,all students enrolled in the linked courses were freshman - the College Writing class is amandatory requirement for all American University students, and the logical plan is for students tocomplete College Writing during their freshman year. A description of the curricular toolsdeveloped to link Physics for the Modern World and Composing the

Conference Session

Improving Statics and Dynamics Classes

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Mark Orwat; Mark Evans; Joseph Hanus

Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright Ó 2002, American Society for Engineering EducationBibliography1. Cotton, Kathleen and Wikelund, Karen Reed, “Educational Time Factors”, Close-Up #8, Research You Can Use, School Improvement Research Series (SIRS), Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory, 2001, http://www.nwrel.org/scpd/sirs/4/cu8.html.2. Anderson, L. "Student Involvement in Learning and School Achievement." CALIFORNIA JOURNAL OF EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH 26 (1975): 53-62.3. Anderson, L. "Policy Implications of Research on School Time." THE SCHOOL ADMINISTRATOR 40 (1983): 25-28.4. Borg, W.R. "Time and School Learning." In TIME TO LEARN, edited by C. Denham and A. Lieberman

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Learning Styles

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Philip Parker

Overview and Problem IdentificationWe assessed the cognitive style and learning preferences of students enrolled in Introduction toEnvironmental Engineering (CE334) at UW-Platteville. This course is required of all Civil andEnvironmental Engineering students, and contains three 1-hour lectures and one 2-hourlaboratory period per week. Dr. Parker taught the two laboratory sections during the period ofthis study. The course contained 44 juniors and seniors, and included students who enrolled attheir first opportunity and students who put it off until their final semester.Engineering students at UW-P who have made it through the challenging calculus, physics, andchemistry requirements (such as those enrolled in CE334) appear in general to be more

Conference Session

Techniques for Improving Teaching

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Nicholas Steneck; Donald Carpenter; Trevor Harding; Susan Montgomery

EducationThere is an interesting trend with respect to copying. 96.8 % of students believe that copyingfrom another student during an exam is cheating. This number drops to 72.0 % for copyinghomework from another student, 59.1 % for copying laboratory reports from previous terms,49.3 % for copying homework from previous terms, and 17.9 % for copying passages out of thetextbook. There is a corresponding increase in students who thought these acts were unethicalbut not cheating. Exams, laboratory reports, and homework are all methods of assessing studentperformance in a class and all play a role in the final grade, yet students are obviously making adistinction between them. In most classes, exams weigh more heavily towards the final grade thanlaboratory

Conference Session

Mentoring Graduate Students for Success

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Patricia Stubblefield; Elisabeth Alford

education in avariety of ways. Many of the graduate students are teaching assistants assigned toundergraduate laboratories where they instruct students on conducting experiments,oversee the lab work, answer students’ questions, check engineering notebooks, andreview or grade lab reports. In some departments or courses, the TAs have lessresponsibility; in some cases, an experienced graduate student may teach a lab courseunder minimal supervision by engineering faculty. Regardless of their particularassignments, teaching assistants have a significant role in the educational mission of theinstitution.Because teaching assistants have an impact on the quality of undergraduate research andinstruction, engineering educators, like their counterparts in

Conference Session

Managing and Funding Design Projects

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Loc Vu-quoc; David Mikolaitis; Norman Fitz-Coy; R. Keith Stanfill

questions developed by the IPPDteams in previous years.DOD projectsThe US Air Force, via Wright Laboratory at Eglin Air Force Base, has funded a series ofprojects. They are motivated to participate for a wide variety of reasons including a desire tobuild a stronger tie to the University, getting a fresh perspective on problems, recruit students to Page 7.826.8work at the laboratory, and be a “good citizen” by supporting higher education within the State.“Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2002, American Society for Engineering Education

Collection

2024 South East Section Meeting

Authors

Luke LeFebvre, University of Kentucky; Jerzy W JaRomczyk; Mike Allen, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee; Leah Elina LeFebvre; George Tan, Texas Tech University; Mai Dao, Wichita State University; Andrew Tapia, University of Kentucky

Society for Engineering Education, 2024The Qualtrics survey contained the IRB consent form, descriptive demographics, comfortabilitywith public speaking and VR, and other measurements for associated research projects (seeauthors). Students were contacted with a follow-up email within a 72-hour timeframe askingthem to identify a VR presentation practice date and time (prior to their class presentation). Aftersigning up, students provided researchers with any speaker notes and/or PowerPoint slides toupload for the VR simulation. Instructors offered varying compensation for participation whichmay have influenced attrition.After arriving at the laboratory, participants reaffirmed IRB consent. Prior to entering the VRsimulation, participants completed

Conference Session

Reviewing Emergent Topics and Theory in Engineering Education

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rubaina Khan, University of Toronto; Adetoun Yeaman, Wake Forest University; Diana Bairaktarova, Virginia Tech

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Diversity

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Educational Research and Methods Division (ERM)

. 6. Nolte, H., Huff, J., & McComb, C. (2022). No time for that? An investigation of mindfulness and stress in first-year engineering design. 7. Tellez-Bohorquez, F., & Gonzalez-Tobon, J. (2019). Empathic Design as a Framework for Creating Meaningful Experiences.Cognition, Psychology 1. Alzayed, M. A., Miller, S. R., & McComb, C. (2021). Empathic creativity: Can trait empathy predict creative concept generation and selection? 2. Bellinger, D. B., DeCaro, M. S., & Ralston, P. A. S. (2015). Mindfulness, anxiety, and high-stakes mathematics performance in the laboratory and classroom. 3. Berenguer, J. (2007). The Effect of Empathy in Proenvironmental Attitudes and Behaviors 4

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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

Margaret Baguio, University of Texas at Austin; Wallace T. Fowler P.E., University of Texas, Austin; Susana Ramirez, PSJA ISD

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

PhD in 2000, Page 24.868.4Dr. Seybold took a position with Cal Tech / NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) inCalifornia. During the period from 1993 to 1999, TSGC handled the agenda, application processand logistics while LPI handled the production of learning materials, speakers, and tours. Whena full-time Education and Outreach Coordinator (the first author) was hired at TSGC, a LiftOffplanning committee was formed and the program became much more tightly structured.Members of the committee include NASA engineers, NASA education staff, former participants,space industry staff, and TSGC staff.Initially, our focus was on providing teachers with

Conference Session

Pedagogy and Learning 1

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Waddah Akili, Iowa State University

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Educational Research and Methods

material with the students.(2)There are several strands of pedagogies of engagement under the umbrella of active learningmethods that have received attention by engineering educators world-wide. (2, 3) For many Page 24.949.2faculty, there remain questions about what “active learning” is and how it differs from traditionalengineering education, since the latter involves activities through homework assignment,laboratories, and, often, group projects. Adding to the confusion, engineering faculty do notalways understand how the common forms of “active learning” differ from each other and mostare not inclined to search for answers. Of the most known and