Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

David Ferruzza

. Page 10.1120.1 “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright @ 2005, American Society for Engineering Education”Educational goalsThe main goal of this exercise/simulation lab is to instruct students in an integrated set of tasksthat require an overall understanding of Newton’s laws and of kinematics together with basiccommon sense and the ability to put things together. Additional important goals come from thegeneral teaching philosophy in the Department of Physics and Engineering at ElizabethtownCollege, where one emphasis is to provide students with strong problem-solving skills, togetherwith experience, growth, and competence in the areas of

Conference Session

TIME 6: Web-based Instruction

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Anwar Hossain; James Fragomeni

designed to improve the interactive learning environment that students have inlearning material science in their undergraduate studies. Various courses such as metalprocessing, strength of materials, machine design, fluid mechanics, thermodynamics,manufacturing processes, mechanical behavior of materials, principles of engineering materials,materials laboratory, senior lab, senior design, and metallic corrosion require a goodunderstanding of engineering science and materials for the success of the undergraduate students.The goal would be to enhance and improve the student's materials & engineering sciencebackground and knowledge and also their computer skills using the web in an interactive user-friendly environment. Rather than simply reading

Conference Session

Recruiting/Retention Lower Division

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Chih-Ping Yeh

continue their education. The learning community allows students to pair up to do team project and learn from each other while at the community college and continue after transferring to WSU. This new method teaches teamwork skills in early semesters, but mostly fosters a sense of belonging, and helps students develop their education plan, provides peer mentoring and a focus on academic achievement. • Develop Individual Educational Plans: The WSU Division of Engineering Technology has set up plans of study for all six majors transferring from community colleges. WSU staff will meet with SC staff and students to assist students in setting up their electronic plans of study specifically based on Schoolcraft College transfer

Conference Session

Innovative Curriculum in ET

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Gregory Watkins

that an engineering technologist may see on the job. Preparingthe student to use these computer based tools should be an important part of ET curricula. Anumerical methods course, with the correct focus, can meet this need for today’s student.UNC Charlotte’s course “Applied Numerical Methods” has recently been updated to includeextensive work in Microsoft Excel and Matlab, two software packages commonly used bytoday’s practicing engineers. The course teaches the basic concepts of formulating engineeringproblems for computer solution. Each topic includes computer based assignments thatdemonstrate each program’s strengths and weaknesses in that area. Emphasis is placed onengineering applications from mechanical, civil, and electrical

Conference Session

Molecular and Multiscale Phenomena

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jason Keith

problem”, sulfur / CO poisoning of electrodes 8. Research and development efforts in fuel cells 9. Fuel cell system economics and marketA good introductory book on fuel cells (that will be recommended, but not required) hasbeen written by Larminie and Dicks19. Supporting laboratory experiments will also bedeveloped in future years. These experiments can easily be integrated into the chemicalengineering curriculum.What Went Right / What Went WrongWorking with a large number of undergraduate students on a research project is achallenging task. This section will highlight some of the things that were a success andsome of the things that could be improved upon.Student evaluations of the instructor were excellent. This may be because the

Conference Session

Design and the Community

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Carol Haden; John Tester; Jerry Hatfield

engineering students: 1) increase the numbers of entering freshmen andtransfer students, and 2) increase retention of currently-enrolled students. The topic of this paper is Page 10.563.1primarily associated with retention of sophomore engineering students. “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education”The “Design4Practice,” or “D4P,” curriculum is a series of innovative undergraduate classes whichinvolve active learning laboratories for the students in each of their freshman, sophomore, junior andsenior

Conference Session

Integrating Mathematics and Engineering

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Ranjith Munasinghe

isdifficult to emphasize the importance of learning fundamental principles of Mathematics. It isnot possible to include many real applications in mathematics syllabi for a simple reason. Thesyllabi are too long and the students are not exposed to enough science and engineering conceptsat the time they are taking lower level classes. In order to discuss real applications the instructorneeds extra time to teach the engineering concept that is related to the problem. Perhaps, acomplete reform of the way we teach mathematics to engineering students is necessary. We donot wish to discuss better ways to teach mathematics at this time. The goal of this paper is toprovide resources and some ideas for undergraduate research projects and class projects

Conference Session

New Approaches & Techniques in Engineering I

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Mark Tekippe; Krishna Atherya; Mani Mina; Ryan Legg

. He is Founder and President of the Iowa State University chapter of Engineers for a Sustainable World he worked to integrate sustainability into the curriculum. He is currently working for Opus West Construction Corporation as an Associate Project Manager in Pleasanton, California. MANI MINA is an adjunct assistant professor in electrical and computer engineering and the director of Spacecraft Systems and Operation Laboratory (SSOL) at Iowa State University. He has been a recipient of several teaching and research awards. His research interests include physical layer measurements and testing, optical networking, nondestructive testing and evaluation, and innovative methods of teaching technology

Conference Session

ET Design Projects

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Eric Leonhardt

developed the Ekranoplanvehicle project during a Technology Education course. An Ekranoplan or Wing-In-GroundEffect vehicle flies very close to a water surface. The vehicle uses design elements of bothairplanes and marine craft. Ground-effect flight enables a vehicle to carry either a larger payloador operate with greater fuel efficiency than a conventional airplane. The candidates testedseveral vehicle configurations, power sources and construction techniques. Vehicle constructionguidelines and curriculum outlines were developed to disseminate to other technology educators.The project has been used to teach the engineering design process to freshman students inWestern Washington University’s Engineering Technology Design Graphics

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Scott Daugherty; Sunday Faseyitan; Robert Myers; Pearley Cunningham; Winston Erevelles

be projected Page 9.1347.6onto the computer screens of all conference participants. This would allow for various users to Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2004, American Society for Engineering Educationremotely access and participate in laboratory demonstration or sessions at a remote site. Humannature dictates that the audience in a room tends to look at whoever is talking - so this is a logicalfeature. However, this feature does not allow for multiple people talking at the same time, aswould be the case in an animated discussion

Conference Session

ECE Education and Engineering Mathematics

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Donald Heer

a very high level ofsophistication. A crude prototype of the hardware and a few examples of laboratorieswere developed to demonstrate to the faculty the potential of this approach. While thefirst couple of minutes they were very skeptical, they quickly got excited about how thiscould change what they could teach and the experience for the students. Once thefaculty had accepted the idea, work began on developing a meaningful pilot experience. The design of the TekBot experiences in class made the experiences progressivelymore complex. An early laboratory involved the students developing C and assemblycode that is downloaded to the TekBot that replicates the analog controller and PLDcontroller previously designed in other TekBots courses

Conference Session

Global Engineering in an Interconected World

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

A.K.M. Abdul Quader; Shamsuddin Ilias; Franklin King; Keith Schimmel

Engineering is a discipline that teaches andtrains young minds in purification, separation and isolation in a broader sense for processindustries. From an environmental point of view, pollution prevention is the study ofcontaminant purification (P), separation (S) and isolation (I), which we call PSI. These are theunderlying activities that will be used to tackle the contamination problem in its totality. This is aformidable task for a single chemical engineering department in a nation of 130 million people,where meeting the basic necessities of life is by itself a war for existence.However, a solution to these problems is certainly not possible without strong leadership fromthe country’s technical leaders. Toward this end, the expected outcomes of

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Angela Miller; Monica Schmidt

program for multiple age levels, rather than different patches for each age level. The purpose of this patch program was to show girls how fascinating it is to look at familiar objects with microscopes and hand lenses, and to teach girls the difference between the worlds of Biological Science and Physical Science. Older girls are taught about career options in those scientific fields

Conference Session

Computed Simulation and Animation

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Murat Tanyel

ASEE North Midwest Section Meeting, Madison, WI, Oct. 2002.8. Couch II, L. W., Digital and Analog Communication Systems, Sixth Edition, Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall (2001).9. Gorter, H., Matherly, B., MPSK Demo Project Report, EGR 363 Project Report, Dordt College, Sioux Center, IA, May 2002.MURAT TANYELMurat Tanyel is a professor of engineering at Dordt College. He teaches upper level electrical engineering courses.Prior to teaching at Dordt College, Dr. Tanyel taught at Drexel University where he worked for the EnhancedEducational Experience for Engineering Students (E4) project, setting up and teaching laboratory and hands-oncomputer experiments for engineering freshmen and sophomores. For one semester, he was also a

Conference Session

Multimedia Engineering Education,Distance, Service, & Internet-Based Approaches

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2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Shan Barkataki; Bolton Tom

adverselyaffecting the whole project schedule. This required the students to have frequent interactionswith the industry partners to resolve technical issues, report status, and participate in peerreviews. For all practical purposes, the students worked as members of the project developmentteam, except that they worked in a laboratory at the university. However, we wanted thestudents to act like students, i.e., work part-time (they had other courses) and keep irregularhours (typically by starting in the afternoon and working late into the night and, of course, theweekends). Finally, we wanted to investigate the feasibility of conducting all collaborationactivities through the Internet. Accordingly, all interactions with the industrial partner weredone

Conference Session

Integrating Math, Science, and Engineering

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

FE TABAMO; CRISTINO CARBONELL; Conchita Javier; Clarita Guevara

by the student; from being the initiator-developer tobeing a contributor-reactor; and from being a programmer-director toward being a co-designer-assister3. There is a need to introduce learner-centered activities to harness his potentials to thefullest. The use of ICT in the development of inter-active self-learning materials has made learningmore fun and exciting.3. Self-Learning Mathematics Modules at the UST Faculty of EngineeringThe UST Faculty of Engineering recognizes the breakthroughs in ICT. The teaching staff isencouraged to design and create a learning environment that will maximize the use of thetechnology and effect maximum learning of the students. Integration of ICT will allow for self-paced learning and self-directed

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Eric Wiebe; Theodore Branoff; Nathan Hartman

survey of 16 EDG members regarding the types of activities that need to beresearched relative to the engineering design graphics curriculum. He reported that the mostimportant topics were considered to be developing 3D visualization skills, parametric modeling,3D solid modeling, manual sketching, and a new generation of teaching materials. Itemsconsidered of least importance were lettering, manual construction using instruments, virtualreality, descriptive geometry, and computational geometry. In a review of 3D modeling programs,Ault 5 concluded that there must be an increased emphasis on solid modeling, parametrics andmodern graphical analysis within the engineering graphics curriculum. She also recommended thatnew teaching methods be

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Abraham Michelen

Session 1520 Designing Interactive GUI with MATLAB® Abraham Michelen Hudson Valley Community College Troy, New York 12180 micheabr@hvcc.eduAbstractIn this paper we introduce a tutorial on the use of the Guide facility of MATLAB.Guide is a development platform composed of several interrelated tools withinMATLAB that allows the user to build complex graphical user interfaces that can beused as teaching tools or as automated programs. Several examples related toengineering disciplines are presented.I. IntroductionMATLAB is a

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

William H. Sprinsky

theoretical discussions arereinforced by assignments on both our analog Kelsh and analytical Zeiss P-3 plotters. Theassignments require teams of two students to perform relative and absolute orientation/scaling onthe Kelsh plotter to produce a manuscript with contours from which a fair drawn map is made.The same teams perform interior, relative and absolute orientation/scaling on the Zeiss P-3analytical plotter. Their product, a DTM, is then handled through ASCII and .DXF file protocolsin much the same way as ground surveying data to produce a fair drawn map with contours andscale in the appropriate State Plane Coordinate System (NAD83).This paper discusses instruction and performance of laboratories in this course.IntroductionAt the Pennsylvania

Conference Session

Introduction to Engineering Courses

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Brenda Henry Groff; Carlos Pomalaza-Raez

Computer Science (ETCS). The mainobjective of this course is to help students find a successful career path early in their studies, i.e.increase retention. The course aims to provide students with sufficient computer and personaldevelopment skills and to help them develop the right mental attitude conducive for academicsuccess. Features of the course include projects of software and hardware nature, extensive use ofthe Internet and Web software tools, and a team-teaching format. As the main project of this course,small teams of students design, build, program, and test an autonomous mobile robot using LEGO®parts, sensors, and the Robotic Command eXplorer (RCX) controller. This is a multidisciplinary,project-driven learning process that encourages

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Haruo Sakamoto

) Extracurricular activities, herein, mean the student activities outprovide such an active learning opportunity, a learning environment is of class, and the credit is not given for the activities. Therefore, thisneeded rather than just teaching in classes. Education on does not relate to so-called first year design or capstone designmanufacturing is considered to be of great importance as well as the conducted in class in the USA.basic sciences such as mathematics and physics

Conference Session

Expanding the Borders of Engineering Education

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Farris, Grand Valley State University; Paul Merritt Lane, Grand Valley State University

Tagged Divisions

Cooperative & Experiential Education

AC 2011-418: INTERNATIONAL CO-OP EXPERIENCE AT THE BASEOF THE ECONOMIC PYRAMID FOR ENGINEERING STUDENTSJohn Farris, Grand Valley State University John Farris is currently an associate Professor in the Padnos College of Engineering and Computing at Grand Valley State University (GVSU). He earned his Bachelors and Masters degrees at Lehigh University and his Doctorate at the University of Rhode Island. He has 12 years of college engineering teaching experience as well as 3 years of industrial design experience. His teaching interests lie in the product design, first year design, design for manufacture and assembly and manufacturing processes. Dr. Farris is also involved in the development and delivery of a new

Conference Session

SPECIAL SESSION: Educational Methods and Tools to Encourage Conceptual Learning I

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Dan Cernusca, Missouri University of Science & Technology; Daniel Forciniti, Missouri University of Science & Technology

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering, Educational Research and Methods

refrigeration cycles might be included. In the second semester(mainly first semester juniors enrolled in the course) the instructor extends the principles tomixtures and focuses our discussion on phase equilibrium. In addition, this second course coverschemical reaction equilibrium and mixing processes. The combination of a very abstract topicand very young students makes therefore the teaching of thermodynamics a challengingexperience. Page 22.891.2To be effective learners in this course, students need some thermodynamics background beyondtheir high school experience and that, unfortunately, very often is not the case. Along with thesubjective

Conference Session

Outreach Projects: Promoting Energy Efficiency and Education in General

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ahmed Cherif Megri, University of Wyoming

Tagged Divisions

Energy Conversion and Conservation

AC 2011-2741: INTEGRATION OF ARCHITECTURE AND SUSTAINABLEENGINEERING PRINCIPLES TO ACHIEVE AN ENERGY-EFFICIENTDESIGNAhmed Cherif Megri, University of Wyoming Dr. Ahmed Cherif Megri, associate professor of architectural engineering at the University of Wyoming (UW), teaches several HVAC and energy courses. Dr. Megri is also teaching a course titled ”Compre- hensive Performance of Building Envelope and HVAC Systems” for Summer School at UW, and ”Smoke and Fire Dynamics” during summer session at Concordia University, Canada. His research areas include airflow modeling, zonal modeling, energy modeling, and artificial intelligence modeling using the support vector machine learning approach. Prior to his actual position

Conference Session

Sustainable Product Development and Manufacturing

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rex C. Kanu, Ball State University; Pamela Elizabeth Betz, Ball State University; Samuel Cotton, Ball State University

Tagged Divisions

Manufacturing

occurring materials thatare environmentally and ecologically safe. A goal of this project was to introduce the students tothe concept of sustainability by researching and working with renewable materials such as PLAand clay nanoparticles in a hands-on laboratory setting. The mechanical and flame retardantproperties of the polymer-clay composite were compared with the control, virgin PLAspecimens. The results of the project were shared with the entire class via a presentation.The students’ understanding of sustainability was assessed in the course’s examination, and theresults of the assessment will be shared in a paper presentation at the 2012 conference. It isanticipated that the findings of this paper will be useful to those seeking to introduce

Conference Session

The Transition from Secondary to College Mathematics

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sabina Jeschke, RWTH Aachen University; Olivier Frédéric Pfeiffer, Technische Universität Berlin; Omar Musa Hasan, American University of Mdaba; Erhard Zorn, Technische Universität Berlin

Tagged Divisions

Mathematics

AC 2012-5187: AN INTRODUCTORY MATHEMATICS COMPUTER COURSEAS A SUPPLEMENT TO A MATHEMATICAL BRIDGE COURSEProf. Sabina Jeschke, RWTH Aachen UniversityMr. Olivier Frdric Pfeiffer, Technische Universitt Berlin Olivier Pfeiffer received his M.Sc. in mathematics at Technische Universitt Berlin in 2002. His thesis in numerical mathematics investigated ”Error Control using Adaptive Methods for Elliptic Control Problems in Matlab”. He has been working in several eLearning projects at TUB to support teaching of mathemat- ics for mathematicians, engineers, and natural scientists in 2011, as a Research Assistant at SFB609 in Dresden from 2002-2004, and is now again with the School II Mathematics and Natural Sciences at TUB

Conference Session

Energy Education Courses, Labs, and Projects II

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Reg Recayi Pecen, University of Northern Iowa; Corey Evan Eichelberger; Faruk Yildiz, Sam Houston State University

Tagged Divisions

Energy Conversion and Conservation

was also nominated for 2004 UNI Book and Supply Outstanding Teaching Award, March 2004, and nominated for 2006, and 2007 Russ Nielson Service Awards, UNI. Pecen is an Engineering Technol- ogy Editor of American Journal of Undergraduate Research (AJUR). He has been serving as a reviewer on the IEEE Transactions on Electronics Packaging Manufacturing since 2001. Pecen has served on ASEE Engineering Technology Division (ETD) in Annual ASEE Conferences as a paper reviewer, session moderator, and co-moderator since 2002. He is currently serving as a Chair-elect on American Society of Engineering Education (ASEE) Energy Conversion and Conservation Division. He served as a Pro- gram Chair on ASEE ECCD in 2010. He is also

Conference Session

Computers in Education Division Poster Session

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John M. Jones, East Carolina University; Te-shun Chou, East Carolina University

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education

the ASCENT Security Teaching Lab,” Proceedings of the 13th Colloquium for Information Systems Security Education, pp.124-132, Seattle, WA, June, 2009.2. W. Du, K. Jayaraman1, and N.B. Gaubatz, “Enhancing Security Education with Hands-On Laboratory Exercises,” 5th Annual Symposium on Information Assurance (ASIA ’10), pp.56-61, Albany, NY, June 2010.3. L. Tao, L.C. Chen, and C. Lin, “Virtual Open-Source Labs for Web Security Education,” Proceedings of the World Congress on Engineering and Computer Science (WCECS 2010), Vol. I, San Francisco, CA, October, 2010.4. R. M. Cassado, The Virtual Network System. Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education, New York, 2005.5. VMware, “How Does Fencing Work, VMware

Conference Session

"Modular" Learning

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Matthew Cooper, North Carolina State University - Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

Ph.D. work under the guidance of Dr. David Bayless at Ohio University, developing novel catalysts for the efficient production of electricity by solid oxide fuel cells. After receiving his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering in 2008, Dr. Cooper moved to the Raleigh area to serve as a research chemical engineer for RTI International, focusing on energy research. In January 2011, Dr. Cooper joined the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at North Carolina State University, where he currently teaches Transport Phenomena and the Unit Operations I and II laboratory sequence. Page 23.878.1

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Jeff Fant

, local ham radio clubs, and local radio-controlled aircraft organizations. TheTAP Program includes workshops for training teachers in wireless telecommunicationsand summer camps for middle school (grades 7-9) students with game-based activitiesthat teach the fundamental technologies that will prepare them to enter further studies inResidential Broadband Wireless, Voice over IP · TCP/IP Wireless Networks, and Voice,Video and Data Integration. Plans also include transmissions to and from theInternational Space Station and other projects coordinated with the help of NASA.Background:The U.S. Census Bureau reveals that less than twenty percent of all new jobs created inthe twenty-first century will require a four-year degree or higher. Greater than