Collection

2008 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Diana Schwerha; Chang Liu; Sertac Ozercan; Tripura Vadlamani; Lev Neiman

familiarized to Second Life and were asked to get an avatar. Thenight of the session was the first night that most students had spent any time in Second Life. The sessionwas conducted in the ISE computer lab at Ohio University. Three teams of students (ranging from 2-4students for a total of 10 students) participated in the project. The teams were arranged in rows and weregiven a color designation (Team Red, Team Blue and Team Green). Each student had the opportunity toaccess a written set of instructions and a glossary of statistical terms that were presented electronically.As soon as everyone appeared in the virtual Human Factors and Ergonomics Laboratory at OhioUniversity, the game began. Students went to their respective carrel to start the game

Conference Session

Learning through Instrumentation: Experiences and Applications

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bradley Lane Kicklighter P.E., University of Southern Indiana

Tagged Divisions

Instrumentation Division (INST)

simulation is fulfilling the needs for these two processcontrol labs.References[1] J. Belanger, “Learning in the Laboratory: Does Group Work Work?” Master’s thesis, United States Military Academy, West Point, NY, 2015. [Online]. Avail- able: https://www.westpoint.edu/sites/default/files/inline-images/centers research/ center for teching excellence/PDFs/mtp project papers/Belanger 15.pdf[2] “Modbus Application Protocol Specification,” Andover, MA, Apr. 2012. [Online]. Available: https://modbus.org/docs/Modbus Application Protocol V1 1b3.pdf[3] “Modbus Over Serial Line Specification and Implementation Guide,” Andover, MA, Dec. 2006. [Online]. Available: https://modbus.org/docs/Modbus over serial line V1 02.pdf[4] “What is hardware

Conference Session

Strategies and/or Approaches to Engage Students in Agricultural, Biological, or Similarly Named Programs

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Maryam Bigonah, Auburn University; Fatemeh Jamshidi, Auburn University; Aparana Pant, Auburn University; Daniela Marghitu, Auburn University

Tagged Divisions

Biological and Agricultural Engineering Division (BAE)

Disabilities Committee chair; Founderand Director Auburn University Laboratory for Education and Assistive Technology; faculty representativeAuburn University Core Curriculum Oversight committee and Multicultural Diversity Commission.Dr. Marghitu also served as World Usability Day Web Site Committee Chair; Alabama STEM Educationboard chair, Panel member for the National Science Foundation; member of the congressionally mandatedCommittee on Equal Opportunities in Science and Engineering; member of the Committee on the Futureof NSF EPSCoR; and member of the Computer Science for All (CSforAll) Accessibility Board.Dr. Marghitu published seven Information Technology books at Pearson Publishing Co., articles atInternational Journal On Advances in Software

Conference Session

Robotics and Circuits

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nicholas Hawkins, University of Louisville; James E. Lewis, University of Louisville; Brian Scott Robinson, University of Louisville; Angela Thompson P.E., University of Louisville

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education Division (COED)

Technology," Technology Interface, vol. 10, no. 1, pp. 1523-9926, 2009.[3] R. K. a. J. Krivickas, "Laboratory instruc on in engineering educa on," Global Journal of Engineering Educa on (GJEE), vol. 11, no. 2, pp. 191-196, 2007.[4] B. Robinson, T. Tre er, J. Lewis and N. Hawkins, "Capturing First-Year Engineering Students’ Situa onal and Individual Interest via a Formal Makerspace Course," in 130th Annual American Society for Engineering Educa on (ASEE), Bal more, MD, USA, 2023.[5] B. Robinson, T. T., J. Lewis and N. Hawkins, "Measuring First-Year Engineering Majors' Interest in Engineering," in 128th Annual American Society for Engineering Educa on (ASEE), Virtual, 2021.

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2024 ASEE St. Lawrence Section Annual Conference

Authors

Daniela Galatro; Ya-Huei Chin; Bradley Saville

Transfer,where heat exchangers from these plants are sized) to laboratories (e.g., Unit Operations, whereseveral experiments around the synthesis, transport, and distillation of biodiesel are conducted).Students, therefore, are already familiar with these production processes.Process engineering pillars. These pillars shall cluster process engineering deliverables in theindustry, namely, process description, process flow diagrams, piping and instrumentationdiagrams, equipment sizing, safety studies, and economic analysis, in alignment with the learningobjectives of the course.Sustainability topics. Once we have identified the process engineering pillars, we shall prioritizerelevant sustainability topics to be included in each cluster and define

Conference Session

Works in Progress II

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cristián Eduardo Vargas Ordóñez, Universidad de los Andes; Mariana Tafur-Arciniegas P.E., Universidad de los Andes

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

Paper ID #22535WIP: Exploration of Conceptions and Attitudes of Colombian and AmericanChemical Engineers about Chemical Engineering o˜Ing. Cristi´ n Eduardo Vargas Ord´ nez, Universidad de los Andes a Colombian chemical engineer with experience in industry, laboratories and educational programs. Cur- rently, I’m candidate of master in Sciencie, Technology and Society and studying a master in Education (STEM). My academical preferences are related with engineering education and education of socially responsible engineers.Dr. Mariana Tafur-Arciniegas, Universidad de los Andes Mariana

Collection

2015 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Wenli Guo; Weier Ye

to learning4.Description of the ActivitiesPH 101 Principles of Physics is a general education introductory physics course focusing onconcepts with minimum math requirements for non-science majors. This course has three 50-minute lectures and one 1 hr 50 minute long laboratory per week. This is a co-teaching researchproject involving inter-disciplinary collaborations. Co-teachers, Dr. Guo from the Department ofPhysics and Dr. Ye from the Department of Academic Literacy, are peers having equivalentteaching qualifications and thus can truly be partners in the instructional effort. To ensure thatinstructional strategies engage all students in ways that are not possible when only one teacher ispresent, throughout the semester, Dr. Guo and Ye

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2015 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Stephen N. Kuchnicki

course is taken by second-semester sophomorestudents, along with a corequisite laboratory course and an additional 11 engineering credits. Thegeneral purpose of both of the latter course designs attempted was to give students an impetus toremain current with the course material. The method with daily quizzes asked about current andvery recent material for this reason. The course setup using biweekly exams allows for studentsto refresh their memories on a smaller portion of the course material (about 14%, rather than 30%),and to refresh material that was introduced more recently.Spring 2015 Mid-Atlantic ASEE Conference, April 10-11, 2015 Villanova UniversityMethodology and AssessmentThere are several metrics by which the relative effectiveness of

Collection

2015 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Edward M. Land; Michael Marcus; Harley Hartman; Anthony Derosa; Seth Klepper; Eduardo Rayner; Justin Stahl; Hansong Li

patient, to regain the use of their affectedhand. In 2010, a similar effort between these two universities described the development of apassive, spring-assisted appliance was used for rehabilitation and exercise. It also serves as anassistive device for daily use, permitting people with hand-extension disabilities [1,2] to regainpartial use of their affected limb. Qualified patients must have retained free arm movement,retain their grip but typically have no ability to re-open their affected hand. This paper describeshow each university was able to perform the needed laboratory work to harness a microprocessorto control the active HOAD appliance. This particular patented assistive appliance incorporatesshape-memory alloys (SMA) to open the hand

Collection

2015 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Russell Trafford; Linda Head

downsides to implicitlydeclaring variable in MATLAB?” and “What are two ways in MATLAB that you can checkwhat variables have been declared and the information about them?”, receiving scores of39.1% and 21.7% respectively. Some of the confusion was alleviated right after the quiz inlecture, however some students did require further small group explanations of the correctinterpretation of the questions.After the quiz, the first laboratory assignment was given and students had a majority of thein-class lab period to complete the work. In this lab, students were guided through the coding oftheir first MATLAB function, a piece of modular code which would be used in future labexercises which would pass in the user’s entered string and encode the message

Collection

2012 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Robert T. Bailey

students take notes. Perhaps because the subject is taken by so many engineeringstudents across multiple disciplines, a number of investigators have developed and examinedinnovative teaching strategies for improving student learning in Statics. (See, for example, [2-4].)There are several well-established textbooks for Statics, one of which is Engineering Mechanics:Statics by R.C. Hibbeler [1]. To assist the instructor, a set of PowerPoint® slides that are linkedto the textbook can be downloaded from the publisher’s website. These slides were originallycreated by Danielson and Mehta as part of a National Science Foundation (NSF) CourseCurriculum and Laboratory Improvement (CCLI) Program grant to develop resource materialsthat leveraged relatively

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2012 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

modern microprocessors 3. Build and program a simple microcomputer system 4. Interface basic I/O components to a microcomputer 5. Understand advanced microprocessor concepts such as pipelining, superscalar processing, and the Core 2 architectureThese objectives are achieved through a combination of lectures, outside (primarily web-based)reading assignments, hands-on laboratory exercises, and the construction of the Z80-basedmicrocomputer.The course is offered in an 11-week quarter term format. The course begins with a conventionalintroduction to microprocessors, including such topics as history of microprocessors, internalorganization, and common microprocessor families. Next, programming in assembly is discussedand the students

Collection

2016 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Orla Smyth LoPiccolo

methodologicalapproach to the assembly of the building’s envelope, materials and systems. The integration ofbuilding code requirements, life safety, accessibility, building energy systems, structure,construction, and materials are central to effectively achieving design intent. Knowledge fromMaterials and Method of Construction I and II, Energy in Buildings and Graphics are applied tospecific drawing assignments. A residential Type V construction, and a commercial Type II orType III construction, building project will be advanced, resulting in a set of constructiondocuments. Note: This course includes a required laboratory designed to provide extra time forthe studio experience.”3Prior to joining Farmingdale State College, the author was an architect and

Conference Session

Online and Remote Teaching

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ananth Jillepalli, Washington State University; Austin Ryan Gress, University of Idaho; Romulo G. Bainy; Yacine Chakhchoukh; Daniel Conte de Leon; Herbert L. Hess, University of Idaho; Brian K. Johnson P.E., University of Idaho; Hari Challa

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer Engineering Division (ECE)

same.Romulo BainyYacine ChakhchoukhDaniel Conte de LeonDr. Herbert L. Hess, University of Idaho Herb Hess is Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of Idaho. He received the PhD Degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1993. His research and teaching interests are in power electronics, electric machines and drives, electricDr. Brian K. Johnson P.E., University of Idaho Brian K. Johnson received his Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1992. Currently, he is a Distinguished Professor and Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories Endowed Chair in Power Engineering in the Department of ElecHari Challa ©American Society for Engineering Education

Conference Session

Engineering Technology Division (ETD) Technical Session 10

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

K. D. Pomeroy, Texas State University; Shaoping Qiu, The Institute of Technology-Infused Learning (TITIL), Texas A&M University; Lei Xie, Texas State University; Malini Natarajarathinam, Texas A&M University; Michael D. Johnson, Texas A&M University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology Division (ETD)

Industrial Distribution at Texas A&M University. He currently serves as Associate Dean for Inclusion and Faculty Success in the College of Engineering. He is a member of the Engineering Education Faculty at Texas A&M. Prior to joining the faculty at Texas A&M, he was a senior product development engineer at the 3M Corporate Research Laboratory in St. Paul, Minnesota. He received his B.S. in mechanical engineering from Michigan State University and his S.M. and Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dr. Johnson’s research focuses on engineering education; design tools; specifically, the cost modeling and analysis of product development and manufacturing systems; and computer-aided design

Collection

2016 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Ralph C. Tillinghast; Edward A. Petersen

andmentor them. For students with less demanding aspirations Picatinny has experienced significantsuccess with its STEM Video Competitions. Students create short STEM related videos fordistribution on social media sites. Winning students receive prizes like cameras or GoPro’s.Virtual Science Challenges9 & Internet Based Outreach, while lacking the impact of personalinteractions, can demonstrate effectiveness when other options are not available, as when livingin remote locations with no STEM professionals available for hundreds of kilometers. iii. ToursSchool Field Trips to meet scientists and engineers in their actual laboratories have caused ahigher percentage of participating students to desire STEM careers than other individual types

Collection

2016 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Benito Mendoza

On Using Simulators and a Hybrid Approach for an Internetworking Technology Course Benito Mendoza | bmendoza@citytech.cuny.edu Department of Computer Engineering Technology New York City College of TechnologyThis paper presents an implementation of a hybrid course in advanced computer networksfocused on internetworking technologies. Professional networking equipment is expensive andsetting up a big enough networking laboratory can be costly. To overcome this problem, thecourse makes use of online and offline computer networks simulators that help the students topractice the concepts and skills required to obtain a

Collection

2011 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Nicholas Monsu; Kevin Timko; William Caracciolo

relief wells, costing approximately $100 million each, BP was finallyable to cap the well by drilling down and intersecting the well many feet below thesurface, and then filling the well with cement. Until that point, the well had been leaking5,000 to 100,000 barrels of crude oil into the Gulf every day [2]. Following the successfulcapping, many tests were performed to determine the cement could withstand thepressures of the well.Oil Cleanup Solutions Being TestedSeveral alternative solutions are being tested in the laboratory to find resourceful, andenvironmentally friendly ways to clean, reuse and dispose of oil that is recovered from oilspills.Hair BoomBackgroundHair does not use absorption to remove oil from water, but rather uses adsorption

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2011 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Scott Bronikowski; Christopher Lowrance; Kenneth Viall

students to submit, retrieve, and resubmit homework to correcterrors until perfect. They found that adaptive grading did not improve test scores.Flory and Hearn3 compared frequent homework with frequent quizzes and compared studentattendance in lectures in electrical circuit analysis courses. They show little significantdifferences between the two methods and final exam performance. Our method differs fromtheirs since we have required attendance and have replaced homework with frequent quizzes.Fisher and Shoales conducted a similar experiment in the United States Air Force Academy4,where course directors experimented with different methods of homework, quiz, and practicalexercise or laboratory assessments. They found that student performance on

Collection

2009 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

David Hergert

phone is processed using software on the cell phone. As another example, a recent NewYork Times article states “House hunters, driving past a for-sale sign, stop and point theircellphone at the sign. With a click, their cellphone screen displays the asking price, the numberof bedrooms and baths and lots of other details about the house.” [1]The interest the author has in this technology has more to do with reading laboratory datacollection and verification in a distance education program. The B.S. ElectromechanicalEngineering Technology degree program is offered by distance to eleven community collegesthroughout the State of Ohio. A new Industrial Automation course in the program requiresstudents to use lab equipment located at the community

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2009 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Qinghai Gao; Xiaowen Zhang; Michael Anshel

, J., and Gershenfeld, N. (2002). Physical One-Way Functions. Science,297:2026-2030.[3] Williamson, M. (2002). Biologically Inspired Approaches to Computer Security. HP TechnicalReport: HPL-2002-131.[4] Cray, S. (1996). An Imaginary Tour of a Biological Computer (Why Computer Professionals andMolecular Biologists Should Start Collaborating). Remarks of Seymour Cray to the Shannon Center forAdvanced Studies, University of Virginia.[5] Ibrahim, S., and Maarof, M. (2005). A Review on Biological Inspired Computation in Cryptology.Jurnal Teknologi Maklumat, 17 (1): 90-98.[6] Ramzan, Z. (1998). On using neural networks to break cryptosystems. Technical report, Laboratory ofComputer Science, MIT.[7] Socek, D., and Culibrk, D. (2005). On the security

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2009 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Neil J. Hutzler; Joanne S. Chadde; David Heil; William E. Kelly

Laboratory.6 Pearson, G., & Young, T. (Eds)., 2002. Technically speaking: Why all Americans need to know moreabout technology. Washington, D.C.: National Academy Press.7 Richards, L., 2007. Getting the word out. Prism , 16 (no.5). American Society for Engineering Education.8 DeVore, P. W. (1992). Technological literacy and social purpose. Theory into Practice 31(1), 59-63.9 Fogarty, R. (1991). The mindful school: How to integrate the curricula. Palatine, IL: IR I Skylight. ISBN0- 932935-31-1.10 Zuga, K., 1992. Social reconstruction curriculum and technology education. Journal of TechnologyEducation 3(2), 53-63.11 Wiggins, G., and McTighe, J., 1998. Understanding by Design. Alexandria, VA: Association forSupervision and Curriculum

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2009 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Harvey I. Lyons

andinterest in further pursuing the formal course structure in engineering technology. The functionaloutline developed in this program provided a direct method for continuing that effort throughoutthe remaining undergraduate years. The continuing design activities are described below.Continuing Design ProgramThe engineering technology program, by virtue of its hands-on approach to technical applicationand reasoning, helps to develop a realistic foundation for extending the design effort throughoutthe curriculum. The project design skills and learning aids developed earlier have been found bythe writer to be readily applicable in the Junior year as part of the laboratory component in theMachine Design course. Here, open-ended design projects, based

Collection

2009 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Deborah Ihezie; S. Keith Hargrove

line of CNC-machined parts [4]. Some of itscustomers include GE, Boeing, Pratt & Whitney, and Lockheed Martin. 
Over the last four years, MRAS has seen considerable growth in revenues, with businessincreasing 74%. The organization continues to expand its workforce to meet increasingcustomer demand, hiring over 300 new employees since 2004. The one million square footfacility contains manufacturing, laboratory, and engineering facilities designed specifically forthe development and production of aerospace systems [4].According to MRAS, the organization is constantly finding ways to improve its programs andprocesses. The company remains committed to designing and building aerostructures for today'sneeds and tomorrow's vision, while

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2009 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Ricardo A. Camilo; S. Keith Hargrove

transponder was inventedby the British in 1939 and the first application goes back to World War II, when Britainpioneered the use of radio-wave navigation and identification of friend or foe aircraft for nightoperations5.A very early demonstration of reflected power (modulated backscatter) RFID tags, both passiveand active, was done by Steven Depp, Alfred Koelle and Robert Freyman at the Los AlamosScientific Laboratory in 1973. The portable system operated at 915 MHz and used 12 bit tags.This technique is used by the majority of today's UHF and microwave RFID tags. The firstpatent to be associated with the abbreviation RFID was granted to Charles Walton in 1983 (U.S.Patent 4,384,288)8.RFID technology operation starts when tags awakened by low cost

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2009 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Kauser Jahan; Jess W. Everett; Gina Tang; Stephanie Farrell; Hong Zhang; Angela Wenger; Majid Noori

has disseminated in a variety of ways. A dynamic website has beenestablished to disseminate our Aquarium Project [19]. All laboratory activities, handouts,experimental methods, quizzes and exams are posted on this website.We are working with NJAAS personnel to instrument an existing 100 gallon marine aquarium asseen in Figure 2 in their distance learning classroom to provide real time images and waterquality data that will be posted on their website and titled the NJ~QUARIUM. This is a uniqueopportunity for NJAAS as currently none of the NJ State Aquarium exhibits have real time dataand images online. The NJ~QUARIUM site will also generate excitement among students of allages. Students will not only visualize activities of different living

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2009 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Orla LoPiccolo; Amit Bandyopadhyay

design “Community Design Laboratory” offers architecture studentsexposure to “multiple issues and techniques” in a multidisciplinary setting with landscapearchitecture and city & regional planning students. The course description includes “analysis ofnatural features, climate, existing land uses, quality of the built environment” and “developingLEED-ND compliance analyses.”Other notable architecture programs that offer courses in sustainable site planning and designtopics are:Pratt Institute, New York - the graduate program includes a seminar titled “SustainableDevelopment Seminar” with the following course description: “The purpose of the Seminar is toexpose Pratt Graduate Students and other interested parties to the issues of

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2009 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

year frequency storm whichestimated to result in runoff from that particular surface. Equation 3 shows the overall runoffcoefficient: Σ (Equation 3) ΣFrom Equation 3 the overall runoff coefficient C is calculated as the land-area-weighted averageof the individual area coefficient Ci for each individual land area Ai. There are differentreferences to obtain the C value. The values of typical runoff coefficient for two years storms areshown in table 1 in Appendix A. Table 1 is from LEED-NC 2.1 with the pervious pavementgrids. In addition the pervious concrete values determine din the laboratory study at

Collection

2009 Northeast Section Meeting

Authors

Kauser Jahan; Jess W. Everett; Gina Tang; Stephanie Farrell; Hong Zhang; Angela Wenger; Majid Noori

has disseminated in a variety of ways. A dynamic website has beenestablished to disseminate our Aquarium Project [19]. All laboratory activities, handouts,experimental methods, quizzes and exams are posted on this website.We are working with NJAAS personnel to instrument an existing 100 gallon marine aquarium asseen in Figure 2 in their distance learning classroom to provide real time images and waterquality data that will be posted on their website and titled the NJ~QUARIUM. This is a uniqueopportunity for NJAAS as currently none of the NJ State Aquarium exhibits have real time dataand images online. The NJ~QUARIUM site will also generate excitement among students of allages. Students will not only visualize activities of different living

Collection

2009 Northeast Section Meeting

Authors

Ricardo A. Camilo; S. Keith Hargrove

transponder was inventedby the British in 1939 and the first application goes back to World War II, when Britainpioneered the use of radio-wave navigation and identification of friend or foe aircraft for nightoperations5.A very early demonstration of reflected power (modulated backscatter) RFID tags, both passiveand active, was done by Steven Depp, Alfred Koelle and Robert Freyman at the Los AlamosScientific Laboratory in 1973. The portable system operated at 915 MHz and used 12 bit tags.This technique is used by the majority of today's UHF and microwave RFID tags. The firstpatent to be associated with the abbreviation RFID was granted to Charles Walton in 1983 (U.S.Patent 4,384,288)8.RFID technology operation starts when tags awakened by low cost