Conference Session

Global Studies, Initiatives, and Study Abroad Programs

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Steven J. Burian, University of Utah; Pedro Romero, University of Utah

Tagged Divisions

International

technical skills to enable them tocreate more sustainable solutions. One key aspect of this engineering study abroad program isthe integration of the learning activities with the location of the study abroad experience. Toaccomplish this integration and the goal of the course the instructors developed a set of learningactivities including a team project, case study analysis, research paper, and individual and teamassignments that will require the students to work in multi-disciplinary teams, learn fromexamples and professionals in Costa Rica, and make connections from their experiences in CostaRica to practice in the United States. The paper will provide a description of the courseobjectives, content, and in-country activities. The focus will be

Conference Session

Stops and Starts in the Development of Cooperative Education Programs

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bryan E. Dansberry, NASA Johnson Space Center

Tagged Divisions

Cooperative & Experiential Education

AC 2012-4594: EXAMINING OUTCOMES DATA FROM AN UNDERGRAD-UATE INTERNSHIP PROGRAMMr. Bryan E. Dansberry, NASA Johnson Space Center Bryan Dansberry has been involved in experiential education for nearly 30 years as a co-op student, mentor, professor, and now internship Project Manager. As a member of ASEE, he has served actively in the leadership of the Cooperative and Experiential Education Division. Page 25.596.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2012 Examining Outcomes Data from an Undergraduate Internship ProgramAbstractIn 2008 NASA’s Undergraduate Student Research Program

Conference Session

NSF Grantees' Poster Session

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nasser Alaraje, Michigan Technological University; Aleksandr Sergeyev, Michigan Technological University; Fred Scheu, College of Lake County

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees Poster Session

engineering technologyprograms are far behind in teaching the skills that represent current and future industry needs. Asa result, the School of Technology at Michigan Tech University in partnership with theCommunity College are stepping up to this challenge by developing and introducing curriculumin hardware description languages and programmable logic design. This paper will discuss thecurriculum development at Michigan Tech Electrical Engineering Technology Program byincorporating the two courses in logic design and hardware modeling using VHDL and FieldProgrammable Gate Array (FPGA) Logic Design. The paper will also present the latest NationalScience Foundation- Advanced Technological Education grant project activities including theEmployer

Conference Session

FPD II: Hands-on Curriculum in the First Year

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Scott Michael Abernathy, Ohio State University; Barbara Elizabeth Carruthers, Ohio State University ; Kayla Fay Presley, Ohio State University; Paul Alan Clingan, Ohio State University

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

-level engineering classes. As a result, manyuniversities have cornerstone design projects for their first-year students, allowing them to gethands-on experience throughout the design process [2].CNC milling is a widespread technology with many useful applications in both industry andresearch. Typically, however, this equipment is not introduced to all engineering students, andeven then, only introduced in higher-level classes. The Ohio State University has created a first-year engineering course that is focused towards students interested in nanotechnology andmicrofluidics, utilizing CNC milling for manufacturing [3].At the aggregate level, students had a positive reaction to their CNC milling experience,regardless of declared major

Conference Session

e-Learning Course Development and Instruction

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Robertson, Arizona State University

Tagged Divisions

Continuing Professional Development

manager in any high-techcompany has three major features to reconcile: The deliverables are managed within projects that are tightly constrained to meet very specific goals on-time and within budget. The reward process therefore drives most projects to an optimized point solution. Systems are continuously evolving so there is also a higher need for a platform design that can deliver many point solution variants over time. However, no customers for the point solutions wish to pay the infrastructure costs for platform development and support. The system provider can take on that strategic role but it implies higher overhead and a perpetual accounting problem. New technology, especially for data

Conference Session

Issues and Directions in Engineering Technology Education & Administration: Part I

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David Spang, Burlington County College; Vladimir Genis, Drexel University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

served as principle investigator on both NSF and NASA grants, as Adjunct Professor of Project Management (cost, risk, contract & procurement) at the Keller Graduate School of Management and as Adjunct Professor of Material Science at SUNY Maritime College. Dr. Spang has also served on the Editorial Board of the International Materials Reviews, a publication of ASM International and has served as a reviewer of ASEE proceeding submissions.Vladimir Genis, Drexel University Dr. Vladimir Genis—Associate Professor and Applied Engineering Technology Program Director in the School of Technology and Professional Studies, Drexel University, has developed and taught graduate and undergraduate courses

Conference Session

Construction Classroom Development

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tamara Chowdhury

Tagged Divisions

Construction

engineeringtechniques to the planning, design and construction of a project in order to controlthe time and cost to complete the project and the quality of the construction.The Bachelor's Degree program in Construction Management offered by AlabamaA&M University, Normal, Alabama is designed to provide a foundation inconstruction management, construction engineering and legal issues relating tothe construction management field. The program’s multidisciplinary approachcombines essential components of construction techniques with concepts ofbusiness management and behavioral science to develop technically qualifiedindividuals for responsible management roles in the design, construction, andoperation of major construction projects. In addition, Alabama A&M

Conference Session

Design Experiences in Energy Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Wanke; Stephen Williams; Michael Scheuerell; Glenn Wrate

Session 2433 Energy Savings in Injection-Molded Plastic Manufacturing Stephen Williams, Glenn Wrate, Thomas Wanke, Michael Scheuerell Milwaukee School of Engineering Milwaukee, WI 53202AbstractThe results of a joint project between the Wisconsin Focus on Energy program, the MilwaukeeSchool of Engineering (MSOE), and Plastic Molded Concepts, Incorporated to improve theinjection-molded plastic manufacturing process are described.Medium range (10 - 100 HP) motors are used to pump hydraulic fluid in injection-molded plasticprocesses. Hydraulic power required during one cycle of

Conference Session

Laboratory Experiences with Signal Processing and Controls

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Eric Constans, Rowan University; Mariaeugenia Salas Acosta; Krishan Kumar Bhatia, Rowan University; Hong Zhang, Rowan University; Jennifer Kadlowec, Rowan University

Tagged Divisions

Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

for Engineering Education, 2014 Development and Implementation of a Control Strategy for a Hybrid Power Train System in a Classroom SettingAbstractThe project, a bench-scale hybrid electric powertrain system, is designed, analyzed andfabricated by students in six modules, starting in their sophomore year and culminating in theirfinal semester as seniors. This complex project has been selected in order to integrate the coremechanical engineering courses: Mechanical Design, Thermodynamics, System Dynamics andControl, and Fluid Mechanics. A bench-scale hybrid-electric vehicle powertrain has sufficientcomplexity to involve all Mechanical Engineering disciplines and the simplicity to be built bystudents over the course of five

Conference Session

WIED: Pre-College Student Experiences

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jerry Volcy, Spelman College

Tagged Divisions

Women in Engineering

  address   this,   rising   STEM   freshmen   admitted   to   the   college,   both   engineering   and  non-­‐engineering,   are   invited   to   participate   in   a   credit-­‐optional   introduction   to  engineering  course  administered  as  a  summer-­‐bridge  program.    The  central  component  of   the   program   is   a   six-­‐week,   hands-­‐on   engineering   module   where   students   are  challenged  to  complete  an  engineering  project.    For  the  past  two  summers,  the  authors  (who  are  also  the  designers  of  the  engineering  modules),  have  adopted  the  objective  of  creating   an   “Experientially   Correct   Introduction   to   Engineering”   (ECIE)   module.     ECIE   is  a   loosely   defined   designation

Conference Session

Integrating Engineering & Liberal Education

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Dara R. Fisher, Harvard University; Aikaterini Bagiati, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Sanjay E. Sarma, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

-curricularmultidisciplinary design program established in 19954. Through this program, student follow afive-stage approach to an engineering design project to respond to the needs of a communitypartner such as a museum, school, community center, or another service organization4. As aresult of participation in this program, students report that they develop skills in leadership,communication, and project planning, as well as an increased resolve to pursue a degree inengineering4. Other studies of engineering co-curricular service and development projects –such as Borg and Zitomer’s research on student solar water pump projects5 or Amadei,Sandekian, and Thomas’ model for undergraduate experience in sustainable humanitarianengineering design6 – have shown positive

Conference Session

Design in the Curriculum

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John P. Puccinelli, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Amit Janardhan Nimunkar, University of Wisconsin, Madison

Tagged Divisions

Biomedical

to incorporatethe vastly growing types of various digital media being employed in engineering design.Additionally, only one copy of a paper notebook exists as compared to the ability to share anELN (or part of one) with the involved parties. Here we outline the processes used to implementthe ELN and initial student and faculty survey results comparing paper notebooks to an ELN.IntroductionOur Biomedical Engineering (BME) undergraduate students participate in real-world, client-based design projects throughout the curriculum in teams of four or five students.1 The designcurriculum is advised by up to 13 faculty members per semester, each overseeing up to fourteams. In these courses, from sophomore through senior year, the students not only

Conference Session

Capstone and Online Courses in Construction Education

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James W. Jones, Ball State University; Mike Mezo, Ball State University

Tagged Divisions

Construction

Paper ID #9499Capstone = Team Teaching + Team Learning + IndustryDr. James W. Jones, Ball State University Dr. James W. Jones is the Construction Management Program Director and an Associate Professor in Ball State University’s Department of Technology. He has taught in the areas of leadership and construction management for more than 10 years and has more than a decade of experience managing construction projects in both field and office environments.Mr. Mike Mezo, Ball State University Mr. Mike Mezo, AIA, is an Assistant Professor in Ball State University’s Department of Technology. He has taught courses from the

Conference Session

K-12 and Pre-College Engineering Division Poster Session

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Patrick Rowsome, University of Limerick; Diarmaid Lane, University of Limerick; Seamus Gordon, University of Limerick

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

project in this study to see if student were aware and could handle their thinking.Wilson10 regards metacognition as knowledge and awareness of thinking processes andstrategies (together with the ability to evaluate and organize these processes). Brown7conducted many studies after Flavell on the comprehension of information or the problemsrelated to the understanding of information or the use of information when a clear definitionhas been given. Metacognition can be explained as individuals’ use of information whilethey are learning or fulfilling a task and a deliberate organization in cognitive processes.There are a few variations on the definition of metacognition, it is the belief of the author thatit can be to some extent left open to the

Conference Session

Models of community engagement practices

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bill B. Elmore, Mississippi State University

Tagged Divisions

Community Engagement Division

Paper ID #9871Integrating Community Engagement, Freshman Chemical Engineering, andan AIChE Student ChapterDr. Bill B Elmore, Mississippi State University Bill B. Elmore currently holds the Hunter Henry Chair and Associate Directorship in the Swalm School of Chemical Engineering at Mississippi State University. In his twenty-fourth year of engineering education, Bill focuses on project-based learning at all levels of the undergraduate chemical engineering curriculum and undergraduate research in energy and micro-scale reactor studies

Conference Session

Undergraduate Student Issues II

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robin Fowler, University of Michigan; Lorelle A Meadows, University of Michigan

Tagged Divisions

Women in Engineering

of design projects in first-year engineering courses, little research to dateexamines the effect of such courses on student motivation. Broad studies of retention inengineering education show promising results for women and other under-represented studentsin project-based courses2; however, engineering educators need a richer understanding of howspecific project-oriented pedagogies affect students’, and in particular women’s, motivations forengineering and their intended career plans. This study focuses on women because of theircontinued underrepresentation in engineering3, 4 and the need to ensure effective retention effortsin the midst of a movement to enact large-scale curricular transformation in engineering.To address this need, this

Conference Session

Women in Engineering Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Rose Marra; Charu Sharma; Mieke Schuurman; Barbara Bogue

data are more difficult to create and/orcollect on limited budgets, with limited person power and a lack of easily accessible assessmentexpertise. As important, the collection of pre-college outreach activity participant data todetermine whether participants go on to matriculate in engineering or of cohort data on who isretained in the engineering curriculum and who is not are often not done systematically orcollected and not analyzed. (5)Finally, a major barrier to undertaking effective assessment is a lack of recognition of the valuegood assessment adds. In fact, assessment well done becomes the basis for a systemic approachto program development.Assessing Women in Engineering ProjectThe AWE Project (HRD 01 20642) (6,10,11) addresses the

Conference Session

Inservice Teacher Engineering Education

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Kathleen Crowe; Kris Wood; Richard Crawford; Daniel Jensen

enhancedlearning environment 1-9.Over the course of the two week institute, a series of building/programming projects werecompleted using the Legos® and ROBOLAB. These projects were arranged in order ofincreasing complexity and were normally done in teams of two. Typically, the projects werebroken into three parts: 1) “lecture” time was devoted to introducing the hardware and softwaretools needed for that project, 2) the K-12 teachers worked on the “implementation” and 3) eachteam was given time to “demonstrate” their project and to share specific difficulties andsuccesses. The content lectures (item 1 above) were given by UTA professors who haveextensive knowledge in the area of design as well as with the Lego® products and theROBOLAB software. The

Conference Session

Improving Statics Instruction

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jon-Michael Hardin

equal in magnitude and opposite in direction with minimal discussion) (student/group) Hands-on demo of equilibrium of forces in 2-D space (student/group) Beyond Activities: These activities should be designed to encourage students to use their new knowledge of the nature of forces within the broader context concepts of the balancing requirements of force equilibrium and of engineering design: Paper solution for a simple force equilibrium design problem in 2-D space (group project) Class discussion of each group’s paper design Physical fabrication of paper design (group project/group discussion) Class discussion of each group’s

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Garcia Julio; Patricia Backer

Session 1526 Integration of Computer-Based Electronics Laboratory into a Control Systems Course Julio Garcia and Patricia Ryaby Backer San José State UniversityAbstractThe goal of this project is to adapt the work of other researchers to improve the delivery ofelectronics lecture and laboratory content in the Electronics & Computer Technology (ECT) areaof the BS in Industrial Technology at San Jose State University. There are several otherdemographic factors that serve to make the delivery of instruction challenging for thedepartment. Approximately 70% of

Conference Session

DEED Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Ressler Stephen; Estes Allen; Karl Meyer; Matthew Morris

courseengineering design project (EDP) and simultaneously assess Engineering and Technology Goalaccomplishment, grading was performed through the use of a computer spreadsheet into which astandardized cut sheet was incorporated. The spreadsheet shown in Figure 1 directly mappedeach requirement of the (EDP) (e.g., base camp layout, road design, schedule) to one or more ofthe 12 assessment indicators. This mapping included weighting factors that accounted for theextent to which a given indicator represented the various requirements of the EDP. For example,a score of 5 was attributed to the relationship between design requirement 2b (Design and Layoutusing GeoBEST) and indicator 3 (Determine information). This maximum weight shows there isa high correlation

Conference Session

Programming Issues for Engineering

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

John Fernandez

include a definition of HCI design: designinginteractive products to support people in their everyday and working lives.Software engineering textbooks are readily available at any level of depth and complexity. Themost popular books appear to be the ones by Pressman8, Sommerville11, and Humphrey3. Someprojects are well suited for the traditional software engineering approach, but most are not.McBreen5 states that software engineering was invented to tackle the problems of really largeNATO systems projects. These projects pushed the state of the art in both computer hardware and software development for new hardware in the late 1960s and early 1970s. In 1968, a NATO conference identified a software crisis and suggested that

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Edgar; Joel Farber

the end of the semester, they learn that everyone can bring valueto a team. A far worse problem is the nonproductive team members that commonly createproblems in teams. At the end of the semester, everyone is given a team review sheet in whichthey estimate the percentage of time each person contributed to the project and can makecomments about how the team worked together. Projects are normally selected at one of several local sites that have the potential for adam to be built on them. Alternatively, sometimes a knowledgeable owner will have the classinspect an existing dam and provide recommendations for modifications to improve stability,storage capacity and/or safety. A knowledgeable owner is one who understands the complexity

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Samuel Daniels; Mike Collura; Dave Harding

, “Project Planningand Development” (2 semester credits). This course focuses on the development of projectmanagement skills using project-based activities to excite and motivate freshman. This paperwill present the feedback control projects tied to the development of good project developmentskills, and provide a review of the concepts introduced including proportional, integral & Page 10.828.1differential control. The course is broken down into two major projects during the semester. A “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Rufus Carter; Claudia Milz

Laboratory classes. Through our use of new materials and assessment instrumentssupport our thesis that will lead to student improvement in the defined areas of weakness. Theintegration of peer review strengthens teamwork and professional attitude both in the classroomand later in the students’ professional lives. We have used interdisciplinary collaboration asanother component to help develop analysis and reasoning skills by utilizing field trips tomanufacturers who have quality control and project management programs. Our feedback system in scoring student reports will likely strengthen their technicalwriting skills. This works as follows: The group consists of one author and two to threereviewers every week. The roles alternate. The author

Conference Session

Mentoring Graduate Students

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Timothy Murphy; Jamie Phillips

Mentoring Graduate Students In Engineering Education Through Team Teaching Jamie Phillips and Timothy Murphy The University Of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109AbstractThe preparation of science and engineering graduate students for careers in academia is ofconcern due to the lack of formal professional training in teaching required for new science andengineering faculty members. In this paper, a team teaching project resembling a teachinginternship is described. An undergraduate electrical engineering course was team taught by afaculty member and graduate student in the goal of preparing the graduate student for a futurecareer in academia. The

Conference Session

Attracting Young MINDs

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Andrea Ogilvie

MITEy Rocket Design Project & Assign Teams (1 hour) Monday • Work on MITEy Rocket Design Project (5 hours) • Electrical Engineering Workshop (1 hour) • Biomedical Engineering Workshop (1 hour) • Introduction to SHPE & NSBE Student Organizations (1 hour) Tuesday • Work on MITEy Rocket Design Project (4 hours) • SAT Workshop (1 hour) • UT Freshman Admission Presentation (1 hour) • Aerospace Engineering Workshop (2 hours) • Civil Engineering Workshop (1 hour)Wednesday • Work on MITEy Rocket Design Project (3 hours) • Admission Application (Essays & Resume) Workshop (2 hours) • UT Financial Aid

Conference Session

Assessment & Quality Accredition in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Rafiqul Islam

internationalization. This is vital to maintain “Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright© 2004, American Society for Engineering Education”leadership of the United States in this interdependent global economy. The goal is to develop andpromote peaceful and fruitful cooperation and collaboration within and across boarders1. Today’sengineers and technologists are expected to be an integral part of a much boarder society. Alsounderstanding of teamwork in terms of inter-human relations when executing projects isnecessary. Only 4% of all engineering and technology students participated in a study abroadexperience during 2000-2001 as a part of internationalization of

Conference Session

Forum for Nontraditional Engineering Programs

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Deepti Suri

develop test cases from it.Concepts of manual vs. automated testing and status reporting are also covered briefly.The concepts introduced in the lecture are reinforced using lab projects. In the first offering of hecourse, the students worked on three lab projects throughout the quarter. The first project focusedon using CPPUnit to test various classes that students had written. This provided the students anopportunity to apply some of the unit testing strategies that were discussed in class. The secondproject focused on using client requirements to develop a test outline and test cases and thenusing those test cases to determine the quality of a project. Initially, the students were onlyprovided the requirements and had to come up with a testing

Conference Session

ChE Outreach and Recruitment

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Zollars

commitments from as many teachers as we couldadequately handle (20 teachers and 10 mentors). During April information on available research projects was obtained from the mentorsand distributed to the teachers. In early May a meeting was held on the WSU campus where theteachers met all of the WSU faculty who were involved with the project, as well as being able totour the campus and laboratories. All of the teachers, whether they were able to visit the campusor not, then were asked to return a listing of the top three projects on which they would like towork. By the end of May all teachers had been assigned projects, with two teachers assigned toeach project. This allowed time for the teachers to communicate with their mentor, and with