Conference Session

IE Program Design II

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bin Wu, University of Missouri, Columbia; Cerry Klein, University of Missouri; Michael Hosokawa, University of Missouri; Karen Cox, University of Missouri; Beilei Zhang, University of Missouri

Tagged Divisions

Industrial Engineering

multi-skilled professionals withqualifications in healthcare systems engineering.For example, in the U.S. healthcare costs reached $1.678 trillion in 2003, which represents15.3% of the nation’s total GDP1. In addition, the nation’s projected annual growth rate ofhealthcare spending is at an estimated 7.2%. Consequently, hospital payments have been, forthirty years, the single largest components of health costs in the U.S., and these high costs aredirectly affecting the nation’s industrial competitiveness. The need to improve system efficiencyin the healthcare sector in terms of service safety, quality and cost (SQC), has become moreimportant over the last twenty years, and from all quarters there have been calls forimprovement2.What is the

Conference Session

Four Pillars of Manufacturing

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David L. Wells, North Dakota State University

Tagged Divisions

Manufacturing

Paper ID #7541Extending the Dimensions of Manufacturing EngineeringDr. David L. Wells, North Dakota State University Dr. David L. Wells has been Professor of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering at North Dakota State University since January 2000. He teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in process engineer- ing and production engineering systems design for conventional manufacturing, electronics assembly, biomedical products and micro-manufacturing. His instruction is characterized by heavy reliance upon project-based, design-centric learning. Course projects are drawn from real industrial applications with

Conference Session

Undergraduate Student Issues: Persistence

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mary Moriarty, National Science Foundation; Susannah Howe, Smith College; Elena Rose Yasinski, Carnegie Mellon University

Tagged Divisions

Women in Engineering

Paper ID #5796Job Shadowing: Improving Interest and Persistence for Women in Engineer-ingDr. Mary Moriarty, National Science Foundation Dr. Mary Moriarty is a Program Director in the Directorate for Education and Human Resources at the National Science Foundation (NSF). She is on rotation at NSF from the Picker Engineering Program at Smith College and has over 15 years of research, evaluation, and project management experience. Dr. Moriarty specializes in the evaluation of programs that serve underrepresented populations, particularly in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). Her experience includes

Conference Session

NSF Grantees' Poster Session

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nicholas David, Iowa State University; Suman Debnath, Purdue University; Munadir Aziz Ahmed; Dionysios C. Aliprantis, Iowa State University; Maryam Saeedifard, Purdue University

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees Poster Session

the “Power-pole board” to implement various power electronic circuits.Our pedagogical approach seeks to combine industrial-grade technology with collaborative andinteractive learning strategies. A problem-solving flavor is added in our teaching approach, asopposed to more traditionally structured lectures. We include research-based sequential assign-ments and collaborative design projects to encourage student engagement inside and outside ofthe classrooms, and to promote student self-discovery. This educational approach provided addi-tional hands-on experiences to motivate students and help contextualize the course materials, andopportunities to explore a selected set of topics in greater depth.Here, we describe our experiences in: (i

Conference Session

Program Delivery Methods & Technology

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Kenneth Ragsdell; Halvard Nystrom

on the course webpage.All students in the quality engineering courses must complete a semester project. In spring 2002,students selected one of four project assignments, except for one distance student group thatdecided to work on a work related project. The students choose one of the following projects:catapult, Wheatstone bridge, automotive disk brake system, or design of a cool drink. Studentsthat chose the catapult or disk brake system projects were provided with simulations thatfacilitated experimentation. We briefly describe one of the simulations here.The Catapult: The Catapult is a device designed to throw a projectile to reliably hit a distanttarget. The key word here is “reliably hit.” A good discussion of the mechanics of the

Conference Session

Trends in Nuclear Engineering Education II

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

William Prestwich; Fiona McNeill; David Chettle

Radiation Physics is basedupon the equivalent of six half graduate courses plus a project and a comprehensiveexamination. The courses involve various aspects of both ionizing and non-ionizingradiation while the project is much broader in scope, but much less rigorous in depth thana thesis. Ideally the student can complete the requirements in one calendar year, althoughin many cases the project has lasted longer, so typically the time spent is roughly 18months. The program is flexible and many students have performed “off campus” researchprojects working with supervisors in industry and government organisations.EnrolmentIn the last few years enrolment has dropped within the undergraduate and graduateprogrammes. In the undergraduate programme, this

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

William Hankley

from otherengineering disciplines. The course is prerequisite to our capstone project course on softwareengineering. The architecture course does not cover general software engineering topics (such astesting, estimation, and management), but it does provide students in the capstone course withfoundation skills for software design and development. This type of architecture and designcourse should be an appropriate second level course for engineers with a minor emphasis ofsoftware.IntroductionThis paper addresses the underlying issue of where and how and why architecture and design fitinto the curriculum of courses for majors in computing and for service computing courses, whichare often taken by engineering and science majors. Historically, the

Conference Session

ABET Accreditation, Assessment, and Program Improvement in ECE

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Larry L Wear, University of Washington, Tacoma; Orlando R. Baiocchi, University of Washington, Tacoma; Matthew Alden, University of Washington, Tacoma; Robert Gutmann, University of Washington, Tacoma; Jie Sheng, University of Washington, Tacoma

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

University. He has more than 25 years of experience in teaching, in addition to 10 years of industry experience, and is an ABET Program Evaluator for electrical and computer engineering.Dr. Orlando R. Baiocchi, University of Washington, Tacoma Orlando Baiocchi has more than 40 years of experience in teaching, research, and administration, both in Brazil and in the United States. He has been an ABET Evaluator representing the IEEE. He recently stepped down as Director of the Institute of Technology at the University of Washington, Tacoma, to return to teaching and research. He is currently involved in cooperative projects with several universities in Brazil. His areas of expertise are electromagnetics and pulse propagation

Conference Session

International Engineering Education: Developments, Innovations, Implementations, and Pedagogical Challenges in Engineering Education

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert De La Coromoto Koeneke-Ramirez, Daytona State College; Alireza Rahrooh, Daytona State College; Karla Patricia Moore, Daytona State College

Tagged Divisions

International

incorporation ofthe new technology, which is the base of our study.IntroductionField Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) are devices that can be electrically configured toperform any digital circuit. FPGAs consist of two-dimensional arrays of programmable logicblocks that implement logic functions, a programmable routing structure to interconnect theselogic blocks and I/O blocks that allow interconnections with the external world.Compared to other technologies such as Application Specific Integrated Circuits (ASIC), FPGAshave significant advantages. FPGAs can be programmed or reprogrammed in a matter ofseconds, which gives considerable flexibility to the designer. FPGAs have been the choice for allsizes of projects from the simplest circuits to very

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Shane Cotter, Union College

targeted towards undergraduate students. An important component of the project was theproposed development of a set of laboratories which would give undergraduate students inElectrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) the opportunity to explore these importanttechnologies. In this paper, we detail these newly developed laboratories (based on a 10 weekterm) that allow students to gain hands-on experience with real-world biometric technologies.Each set of laboratories is based on a different clue and the ultimate goal of each laboratoryexperiment is to identify the persons responsible for an imaginary crime. The first threelaboratories are based on a speech signal clue and this gives students an opportunity to reviewmaterial from their introductory

Conference Session

Capstone Design Pedagogy II

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

M. Reza Emami, University of Toronto; Michael G. Helander, University of Toronto

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

AC 2010-1374: AN OUTLINE OF EDESIGNM. Reza Emami, University of Toronto M. Reza Emami, Ph.D. in robotics and mechatronics from the University of Toronto, worked in the industry as a project manager in 1997-2001. He is a professional engineer and has been a faculty member at U. Toronto Institute for Aerospace Studies since 2001. He is currently the Director of Space Mechatronics group and Coordinator of the Aerospace and Design Laboratories at the University of Toronto.Michael G. Helander, University of Toronto Michael G. Helander received the B.A.Sc. in engineering science from the University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada, in 2007. He is currently working towards the M.A.Sc. in

Conference Session

Understanding and Measuring the Impact of Multidisciplinarity

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Eli Patten, University of California at Berkeley; Sara Atwood, University of California, Berkeley; Lisa Pruitt, University of California, Berkeley

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

Biomaterials is an upper-level undergraduate course cross-listed withmechanical and bio- engineering. Enrollment is about 50 students with a near even gender split.In addition to weekly, case-based lectures, there is a required professional development lab. Inthe lab, students identified their learning styles with Felder’s online assessment tool.2 Learningstyles are discussed explicitly and incorporated into lectures, exams, assignments, and a team-based project. For the final course project, teams of about four students were assigned so that allmajors, learning styles, and genders were represented in each team. The final project included anoral presentation, a written report, and an outreach teaching activity at a local children’s sciencemuseum. The

Conference Session

Laboratory Development in ECE

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

R.F. William Hollender, Montana State University; James Becker, Montana State University

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

Design. Dueto the relatively small size of the department (undergraduate and graduate population ofapproximately 300 students), EE 433 is the only course available to the students in the field ofmicrowave circuits. For this reason, the course has tried to sample a significant number of topicsfrom the field of microwave circuits, though in the past the course was almost entirely devoted tocomponent-level design.Over the last several years, a popular microwave engineering text1 has been used for the course,and prior to the fall of 2009, the content of the course could be summarized by the lecture topicsand lab exercises listed in Table I. The fact that system-level knowledge is of value to studentsand implementation of system-level projects can be

Conference Session

The New ABET CE Criteria - Program Development

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Brian Swenty, University of Evansville; Mark Valenzuela, University of Evansville; James Allen, University of Evansville; Immanuel Selvaraj, University of Evansville

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

(PEO) “Graduates” are defined as civil engineering alumni within 3-5 years of graduation Objective 1: Graduates will be actively engaged in a professional career as a civil engineer or pursuing advanced study. Objective 2: Graduates will understand professional practice issues and demonstrate a commitment to professional licensure and continuing education. Objective 3: Graduates, guided by the principles of sustainable development and global interconnectedness, will understand how civil engineering projects affect society and the environment.Web-based Alumni SurveysPaper-based alumni

Conference Session

NSF Grantees’ Poster Session

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tzu-Liang Bill Tseng, University of Texas, El Paso; Richard Chiou, Drexel University (Eng. & Eng. Tech.); Radian G. Belu, Drexel University (Tech.)

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Tagged Divisions

Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

journals such as IEEE Transactions, IIE Transaction, Journal of Manufacturing Systems and others. He has been serving as a principle investigator of many research projects, funded by NSF, NASA, DoEd, and KSEF. He is currently serving as an editor of Journal of Computer Standards & Interfaces.Dr. Richard Chiou, Drexel University (Eng.)Dr. Radian G Belu, Drexel University (Tech.) Dr. Radian Belu is Assistant Professor within the Engineering Technology (ET) program - Drexel Uni- versity, Philadelphia, USA. He is holding a PHD in power engineering and the other in physics. Before joining to the Drexel University Dr. Belu hold faculty and research positions at universities and re- search institutes in Romania, Canada and

Conference Session

Issues in ET Education I

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Enrique Barbieri, University of North Texas

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

the past decade recruiting andretention pressures have led engineering departments to increase the use of applications, project-based and hands-on terminologies in their program descriptions to the point that many arestarting to sound a lot like ET plans. Moreover, engineering and ET faculty will acknowledgethat their programs are applied. Although some may wish to argue that ET is the more applieddegree, this line of thought has yet to attract a strong following or produce a concrete action planfor an Applied Engineering brand for ET. Nevertheless, a quick internet search for AppliedEngineering Departments (February 2014) yielded the list of institutions in Table 1 that haveprograms or departments with an Applied Engineering or Applied ET

Conference Session

NSF Grantees’ Poster Session

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Margot A. Vigeant, Bucknell University; Michael J. Prince, Bucknell University; Katharyn E. K. Nottis, Bucknell University; Milo Koretsky, Oregon State University

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Tagged Divisions

Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

science and engineering educa- tion. She has been involved in collaborative research projects focused on conceptual learning in chemistry, chemical engineering, seismology, and astronomy.Dr. Milo Koretsky, Oregon State University Milo Koretsky is a Professor of Chemical Engineering at Oregon State University. He received his B.S. and M.S. degrees from UC San Diego and his Ph.D. from UC Berkeley, all in Chemical Engineering. He currently has research activity in areas related engineering education and is interested in integrating technology into effective educational practices and in promoting the use of higher-level cognitive skills in engineering problem solving. His research interests particularly focus on what

Conference Session

K-12 and Pre-College Engineering Division Curriculum Exchange

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Andrew Tubesing, University of St. Thomas

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

and a MS in Electrical Engineering from New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology. Page 24.857.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2014 LEDs & Lamps – A Friendly & Affordable Gateway to Electrical Exploration ASEE 2014 Conference - K-12 Division - Curriculum Exchange Andrew Tubesing, University of St ThomasAbstractLight emitting diodes (LEDs) and incandescent lamps can be used to explore electrical topics, substitutefor otherwise expensive equipment, facilitate creative engineering design projects, and

Conference Session

NSF Grantees' Poster Session

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kirsten A Davis, Boise State University; Ross A. Perkins, Boise State University; R. Casey Cline, Boise State University; Sondra M Miller, Boise State University

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Science from the University of Oklahoma, and a Ph.D. in Education (Adult Development Organizational Learning) from The University of Idaho. His educational research interests are focused on improving construction management processes to facilitate the efficient management of construction projects. His over 25 years of construction industry experience includes work in commercial, industrial, petrochemical, light commercial, and residential construction. He has held positions as project manager, project engineer, superintendent, field engineer, carpenter, and laborer.Dr. Sondra M Miller, Boise State University Dr. Sondra M. Miller is an assistant professor in the Department of Civil Engineering within the College of

Conference Session

Mathematics Curriculum in Transition

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Om Agrawal; Fred Fontaine

, while ensuring that mathematics coursesaccommodate the needs of other engineering majors simultaneously.With the technological explosion characteristic of the Information Age, electrical engineeringis becoming increasingly dependent on advanced mathematical concepts. Mathematicsfaculties play a vital role in the education of undergraduate electrical engineering students. Therole can extend beyond course work by exploiting opportunities to collaborate with electricalengineering faculty on practical projects and applied research.This coordination impacts the sequencing of undergraduate mathematics courses taken byelectrical engineering students, the selection of examples and applications in these courses, thecoverage of particular topics, and the

Conference Session

Technology and Learning

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephen Silliman; Leo McWilliams; Kevin Abbott; G. Christopher Clark

ARS was a positiveinfluence, two limitations were identified: (i) it did not provide for one-on-one interaction withstudents, and (ii) overuse led to student discontent. Experiments are underway to combine theARS with use of a Tablet PC, allowing the lecturer to wirelessly project the Tablet PC screenwhile moving around the lecture hall. The lecturer can run software from any point in the hall,annotate / save slides in real time, or project student annotations and problem solutions to theclass. This has allowed the lecturer to: (i) interact directly with individual students, (ii)encourage a participatory learning environment, and (iii) maintain higher levels of attendance atlectures. While a number of positive impacts on the learning

Conference Session

Assessment & Evaluation of Graphics Programs

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Aanstoos Theodore; Thomas Krueger; Ronald Barr

Copyright  2004, American Society for Engineering EducationThe Classr oom Par ticipation System (CPS) The Classroom Participation System (CPS) is an interactive, computer-basedinstructional tool that allows the presenter to poll the audience on important topics during a livepresentation or lecture. Each attendee is issued a handheld responder that looks like a televisionremote-control device. The presenter can pose a multiple-choice question to the group duringthe talk, and each audience member in return presses a button corresponding to their answer tothe question. Using a classroom computer or laptop hooked up to a projector, the CPS registersall the responses to the question, calculates class data, and then projects it onto the

Conference Session

Global Engineering in an Interconnected World

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

E. Hirleman

Global Engineering Alliance for Research and Education (GEARE) increases theeffectiveness of undergraduate engineering education in preparing engineers for careers in theglobal technical economy. The unique 18 month program developed at Purdue in partnershipwith Karlsruhe and Shanghai Jiao Tong Universities integrates: language education; culturalorientation; three month domestic and three month international internships at the same partnerfirm; study abroad; and a two semester face-to-face-, multinational design team project, with onesemester abroad and one at home. The program is bilateral, with nominally equal numbers ofstudents from each university participating in the paired exchanges. Curriculum articulation is

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Shivram Sankar; Chetan Sankar; P.K. Raju

tohelp motivate children to develop interest in STEM courses. Too many graduates go out into theworkforce ill prepared to solve real-world problems in a cooperative way, lacking the skills andthe motivation to continue learning (NSF, 1996). Therefore, the first goal of this project is todevelop course material to show the relevance of STEM education in solving real-worldengineering and technological problems. The teaching of domain-specific knowledge has long been recognized to be the primaryobjective of school and college education, but many students lack the breadth of knowledge andskills that are fundamental to the practice of their profession (Aldridge, 1994; Leidner andJarvenpaa, 1993; Fergusson, 1992). There is now a growing

Conference Session

Writing and Communication I

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Roberta Harvey

LCI. The LCI, developed byChristine Johnston and Gary Dainton of Let Me Learn™ and the Rowan University Center forthe Advancement of Learning, is a survey that asks students to respond to statements aboutpreferred ways of learning and expressing their learning (for example, they are asked whetherthey would rather write a paper or build a project, or whether they want explicit instructionsbefore doing an assignment or would like to figure it on their own). Respondents also givewritten answers to three open-ended questions about what promotes or obstructs their learning.Responses to the LCI statements, using a Likert scale ranging from Always to Never Ever, yieldscores for each pattern in the ranges of Avoid, Use as Needed, and Use First.8,9

Conference Session

Electrical and Computer Engineering Poster

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Max Rabiee

, which is transmitted outside the computer, must be set to an industry standard voltage/currentlevel. These standards are designed to insure that the transmitted data is immune to outsideelectromechanical and electromagnetic noise interference.In this paper, we will describe the terms used in serial communication systems. Then, we will describea project in which a digital circuit is designed to convert the parallel data to serial format. Applicationspecific chips are available to perform the task of parallel-to-serial and serial-to- parallel conversion.One example of such an application specific chip, is the INTEL 8251A [1], which is a UniversalSynchronous/Asynchronous Receiver/Transmitter (USART) chip. This chip can be programmed toconvert

Conference Session

Technical Issues in Arch Engineering

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Carol Diggelman; Michael McGeen

communicate those findings both inwriting and orally, skills essential for academic success, as well as for life long learning.The new course includes a traditional lecture component (lectures, exams, portfolio), alaboratory component (based on current ASTM standards) and a research project (on atopic of the student’s interest). Determining course content involved systematicallycombining the content of the existing courses for each of the building materials,emphasizing materials science content; identifying relevant ASTM standards, tradeassociation web sites and information sources; and addressing ABET requirements andFE exam requirements. From a day-by-day topic outline, faculty stakeholders, who teachadvanced courses, and seniors, who have taken

Conference Session

Engineering Education; An International Perspective

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

James Kenney; Thomas Jewell

engineering students can satisfy the international experiencerequirement is by participating in interdisciplinary “Mini-Terms Abroad,” a program funded, inpart, by the Christian A. Johnson Endeavor and Keck Foundations. The mini-term curriculumtypically consists of a series of seminars during the term preceding the travel abroad, a three-weekfield experience in a foreign country during the winter inter-term or summer break, and thecompletion and presentation of a research project by multi-disciplinary teams of students duringthe term immediately following the foreign experience. The authors have developed a mini-termcourse program that explores the technical, economic, environmental, sociopolitical, and culturalaspects of electric power generation in

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

William Davis; Wayne Sarasua

datacollection techniques and methods to process, analyze, and present data within the larger contextof addressing engineering and project design issues. Topics include traditional surveying, globalpositioning systems (GPS), digital photogrammetry, remote sensing, geographic informationsystems (GIS,) and digital terrain modeling (DTM). The paper includes a discussion of lecturematerial, organization of laboratories, software programs and equipment. Page 8.679.1 Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for

Conference Session

Teaching Design

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Chris Randell; Marty Bowe; John Feland; Daniel Jensen

to use wire for the frame and RP for the other parts. Figure 5 – Prototype of Baja Car4.1 The USAFA classesThe two courses where we have primarily used the RPT are our sophomore-levelIntroduction to Design course and our Senior-level Intercollegiate Competition Designcourse. The Introduction to Design class exposes students to a suite of design toolsincluding: customer needs analysis, brainstorming techniques, functional modeling, QFD,decision making tools for embodiment options, design for manufacturing, design forassembly, design of experiments and, of course, prototyping). The course includes threedesign projects. The first project is merely a check of cadets’ abilities at prototyping andis assigned at the