Conference Session

Computational Tools and Simulation III

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Hassan Rajaei, Bowling Green State University; Arsen Gasparyan, Bowling Green State University

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education

Center Figure 1: The Virtual Training Environment (VTE) system overview.2.2 – Simulation and Animation for Interactive EducationThe VTE system supports multiple sessions and classrooms. Each course needs to have its ownpackage of model components to be integrated into the syllabus. To facilitate describing thissection we us a pilot course like Data Communications and Networking as an example. When amessage is sent from point A to B, the simulated model can project animation of the flowbetween the two points. Depending which portion of the course is under focus, the details of thecommunication pattern are projected. For example, the routing mechanism in the network andthe congestion handling process when part of the network becomes

Conference Session

Methods, Techniques and New Programs in Graduate Education

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Buket Barkana, University of Bridgeport

Tagged Divisions

Graduate Studies

in conducting this lab course. Section 2 outlines the course content that includes the possibleaudio and voice/speech projects using real-time DSK. Section 3 discusses the evaluation criteria ofthis course using the assessments and feedback of the students and the instructor.2. ELEG 459: Audio Processing LaboratoryLab FacilitiesHardware: Eleven PC stations. Each station is equipped with multimedia hardware capabilitiesincluding a real-time DSP board DSK5510. In addition, headphones, microphones, functiongenerators, and oscilloscopes are available for every workstation in the laboratory.Software: Each computer is equipped with general software tools for developing labs and projectsincluding MATLAB R2007a, Code Composer Studio (CCS), Microsoft

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Goff

was back to attempting to find a fit for myself at H-D®. After relaying thisinformation to my initial contact at Harley®, he told me that he might have a project for me thatwould fit very well and gave me the names of a couple of managers to contact when I got toMilwaukee.The Successful InterviewI left Blacksburg, Virginia on July 27th, 2003 to ride my 1999 Harley-Davidson Electra GlideClassic® on a 4,000-mile journey. Initially, I rode to Milwaukee to meet with the folks atHarley-Davidson®, then out to Sturgis, South Dakota for the biggest bike rally in the U.S., thento Boulder, Colorado to see the hands-on learning facilities at the University of Colorado. Thendown to Taos, New Mexico to house sit for a couple of weeks. Finally I started

Conference Session

Technological Literacy II

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Charles Nippert

the classparticipated in the design process, experiencing the iterative nature of the process andlearning basics of software evaluation and web programming.The course was first offered in the spring of 2003 with an enrollment of five and again inthe spring of 2004 with six participants. Both the in service teachers who participated inthe design process and the high school students who tested the resulting simulationsreported positive experiences.Why is it so hard to explain engineering to people who are not engineers?This project is based on the idea that high school students could be best informed aboutengineering indirectly; using the high school teachers with whom they were already incontact. We sought to make the participating teachers

Conference Session

Computers in Education Poster Session

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Whalen; Chris Fernandes

describe a datawarehouse, developed from the registration web pages at Union College, which allows facultyand students to get on-line access to course enrollment trends, classroom availability, studentclass schedules, and other pertinent information. The results of this project were so successful inthe type of information that could be obtained that the administration became concerned aboutstudent privacy issues.IntroductionTraditional database systems, such as those used by bank tellers, librarians, and airlinereservation assistants, are often characterized as online transaction processing (OLTP) systems.They are required to process frequent queries, usually in real-time, that request information aboutthe current status of specific objects and

Conference Session

WIED: Curricular Undergraduate Student Programs

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jaby Mohammed, Petroleum Institute; Nausheen PashaZaidi, The Petroleum Institute

Tagged Divisions

Women in Engineering

undergraduate engineering design course atthe Petroleum Institute (PI). Random assignment was used to create groups in bothclasses at the beginning of the semester. As the course emphasizes teamwork, at least50% of the projects are given team grades. After the first team presentation, theexperimental group was given the choice to change team members. The control groupwas not given this option. The study followed the student teams in both classes to explorethe kinds of team building and conflict resolution strategies that were utilized by theteams. The two groups were compared at the end of the semester to determine ifproviding choice in the team selection process affected students’ satisfaction with theirteam as well as their perceptions of team

Conference Session

Improving Introductory Experiences in Chemical Engineering

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gladis Chávez-Torrejón, Universidad de las Americas Puebla; Silvia Husted, Universidad de las Americas Puebla; Nelly Ramirez-Corona, Universidad de las Americas Puebla; Aurelio Lopez-Malo, Universidad de las Americas Puebla; Enrique Palou, Universidad de las Americas Puebla

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

paper describes how a second semester cornerstone course is fostering the development ofcritical thinking in Chemical, Food, and Environmental Engineering students at Universidad delas Américas Puebla (Mexico) by developing students’ self-directed, self-disciplined, self-monitored, and self-corrective thinking. Course two major projects were presented to experts inthe field that assessed students’ critical thinking by means of a specialized rubric3. Instructor,peer-, and self-assessments were also performed throughout the course on several assignments(formative) as well as on two major projects (summative). Possible performance levels werefrom exemplary (value 4, skilled, marked by excellence in clarity, accuracy, precision, relevance,depth

Conference Session

Design in Engineering Education Division Poster Session

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nausheen Pasha-Zaidi, The Petroleum Institute; Jaby Mohammed, The Petroleum Institute

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

practice and project management. The General Studies department at thePI offers a sequence of two design courses known as STEPS (Strategies for Team-basedEngineering Problem Solving) which stress team learning and skills development. InSTEPS courses students integrate their knowledge of science, mathematics andcommunications within a framework that emphasizes teamwork and project managementtools to build a working prototype of a useful machine.Communication and Teamwork in the UAEStudent demographics at the PI reflect an Arab majority with Emirati students playing akey role. Arab communities display some common features which may differentiate themfrom their Western counterparts. This includes an emphasis on collectivism, honor, andsocial status

Conference Session

Ocean and Marine Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jonathan Edward Paquette, US Coast Guard; Thomas Robert Cogley; Tooran Emami Ph. D., U.S. Coast Guard Academy; Aaron Peder Dahlen, USCG; Richard J. Hartnett P.E., U.S. Coast Guard Academy

Tagged Divisions

Ocean and Marine

capstone project in ElectricalEngineering at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy. In this project three students are asked to applylessons learned through three previous years’ academic experience to an autonomous floatingvessel, for the purposes of modeling and real-time heading control. Consistent with the maritimefocus of the U. S. Coast Guard, students construct a four by eight foot barge propelled by sixcommercial Minn Kota trolling motors, in order to study real time heading control algorithmssuch as those which might be encountered on typical Mobile Offshore Drilling Units (MODU’s).Controlling a smaller scale model platform provides students an opportunity to perform systemidentification and control, and allow students opportunities to expand

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Education Session 3

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nathalie Duval-Couetil, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Elizabeth C. Kisenwether, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Joe Tranquillo, Bucknell University; Jacob Dean Wheadon, Purdue University

Tagged Divisions

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

.). Assessments as part of the project were being piloted when the paper waspublished.An Invention and Innovation Course for Engineering Students – University of Colorado atBoulder Page 24.265.10Sullivan, Carlson & Carlson (2001) discussed an engineering course at the University ofColorado at Boulder which was described as being a team-based product design anddevelopment course designed to teach students the processes of invention and productinnovation. It is an elective course targeted at more “mature” students, many of whom eithertransferred into engineering later in their academic careers or who delayed taking a first yearinterdisciplinary

Conference Session

Innovative Graphics Instruction

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Diarmaid Lane, University of Limerick; Theodore J. Branoff, North Carolina State University; Raymond Lynch, University of Limerick

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Design Graphics

.  Explore, interpret and develop a broad range of graphical data.  Develop perception based fundamental freehand drawing skills with specific focus on scale, proportion and relationships.  Develop graphical libraries of geometric information in long term memory. Year 1 /  Explore and communicate geometries through a variety of projection systems including orthogonal projection and perspective with concurrent analysis of advantages and limitations of each Autumn method. Semester  Introduction to contemporary research providing an insight into the theoretical underpinnings associated with spatial visualization, cognitive architecture and freehand sketching

Conference Session

NSF Grantees’ Poster Session

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Monica E. Cardella, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Marisa Wolsky, WGBH Educational Foundation; Christine Andrews Paulsen, Concord Evaluation Group; Tamecia R. Jones, Purdue University, West Lafayette

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Tagged Divisions

Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

. Paulsen routinely directs evaluations of STEM-related projects in formal and informal educational settings, focusing on learners as well as practi- tioners. Her main research interest lies in evaluating the use of learning technologies that hold the promise of enhancing the lives of traditionally underserved populations (children, parents, and communities).Tamecia R Jones, Purdue University, West Lafayette Tamecia R. Jones is a doctoral student at Purdue University School of Engineering Education. She is studying assessment in K-12 formal and informal settings. Page 24.746.1 c

Conference Session

New Course Development Concepts in ET II

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

J. William White AIA, Indiana University Purdue University, Indianapolis; Veto Matthew Ray, Indiana University Purdue University, Indianapolis; Dan D. Koo, Indiana University Purdue University, Indianapolis

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

of the American Institute of Architects and the Construction Specifi- cations Institute. His professional interests include great architecture and all things related to construction innovation.Mr. Veto Matthew Ray, Indiana University Purdue University, Indianapolis Mr. Matt Ray is a lecturer for the Construction Engineering Management Technology Program offered through the Purdue School of Engineering and Technology at Indiana University Purdue University In- dianapolis. He currently provides instruction for Soils and Foundations, Construction Cost and Bidding, Construction Project Cost and Production Control as well as managing the Certificate of Training in As- set Management. He is a graduate of Purdue School

Conference Session

Instructional Design

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

K.J. Rogers, University of Texas, Arlington; Melanie L. Sattler, University of Texas, Arlington; Andrea M. Graham, University of Texas, Arlington; Stephen P. Mattingly, University of Texas, Arlington

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Economy, Engineering Management, Industrial Engineering, Systems Engineering

AC 2012-4103: ”LIFE CYCLE SUSTAINABILITY ECONOMICS” MOD-ULEDr. K.J. Rogers, University of Texas, ArlingtonDr. Melanie L. Sattler, University of Texas, Arlington Melanie Sattler serves as an Associate Professor at the University of Texas, Arlington, where she teaches courses and conducts research related to air quality and sustainable energy. Her research has been spon- sored by the National Science Foundation, Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, Luminant Power, and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. She has published more than 60 peer- reviewed papers and conference proceedings. In 2010, she received UT Arlington’s Lockheed Martin Excellence in Engineering Education Award. She is a registered

Conference Session

ETAC/ABET RELATED OUTCOME BASED ISSUES

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Daniel K. Jones P.E., SUNYIT; Mohammed Abdallah, SUNYIT

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

Page 23.225.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013 Assessment of Communication and Teamwork Skills in Engineering Technology ProgramsIntroductionInstitutions of higher education have acknowledged that an effective teaching/learning processmust involve assessing and evaluating what and how much students are learning. Assessmentand evaluation leads to improvements in the educational experiences.ETAC/ABET Criteria 3.B.e. and 3B.g. require that graduates demonstrate effective skills inteamwork and communication.1 Therefore, the goal of this project was to develop consistent andefficient methods for assessment of students’ skills in these areas for different programs

Conference Session

Philosophical Foundations, Frameworks, and Testing in K-12 Engineering

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Laura Nelson; Keith Williamson; Hassan Ndahi; Sharon Waters

school district and university project team set the followingperformance criteria: (1) graduate students should understand and be able to manage thesocial environment in 4th and 5th grade classrooms; (2) teachers should know how tointegrate graduate fellows as effective content resources “experts”; (3) university facultyshould understand teachers’ professional development needs and provide related supportfor teachers. To meet these criteria, five professional development seminars wereestablished throughout the school year to prepare graduate fellows for the classroomenvironment and engage disciplinary faculty in teacher professional development. The

Conference Session

New Approaches & Techniques in Engineering I

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Eric Wasatonic; Aldo Morales; Sedig Agili

computer vision. They also have opportunity todemonstrate their knowledge through hands-on course projects and laboratory experiences, in theabove fields. In this paper, an example of an image processing application project is developed,in the context of an image-processing course. This paper presents an algorithm that uses stereoimages, obtained from two cameras mounted on the Mars Exploration Rovers, to determine therange of distant objects in the images by using correlation and triangulation. The initial valueobtained by the algorithm was not accurate because it did not take into account the fact that therange of an object beyond the camera’s focal point is non-linear in appearance, and to the non-linearity of the camera lens, thus the range

Conference Session

Collaborations: International Case Studies & Exchanges

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Ana Kennedy; David Ollis

, Technology”, not onlytaught the structure inherent in an intermediate language class by integrating vocabulary,issues, and projects that are of special interest to technical students, but also integratedcultural and technical issues of our global society. The object was to enlist students’technical enthusiasm for the process of learning a foreign language and studyinginternational cultural and technological issues. Our lab activity sequence of read, use, assemble, and discuss (in Spanish) is usedto promote the use of the Spanish language in a real-world technological context. The labmodules are adapted to teach technology students vocabulary and modes of thought intheir professions. We report how this modification allows students to enhance

Conference Session

DEED Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Yin Chen; John Sharon; Constantin Chassapis; Sven Esche

Annual Conference & ExpositionCopyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Educationconditions, design and decision making under uncertainty must be included in the coreengineering curriculum.3,4In the past, curricula have been changed by the addition of requirements for classes onprobability theory and project planning. However, these types of classes often do not actuallyapply these concepts in a practice-relevant fashion. So far, the focus of these classes has mostlybeen in probability theory, without emphasizing engineering applications or decision making ondesign options.1 Instead, we will focus on engineering design projects with inclusion of methodsthat deal with decision making, probability and uncertainty.Although working with

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

David Ferruzza

used in lower level courses, and thetime allowed for completion has been reduced to two weeks. This time frame allows for teamdeliberations and the formulation of well-structured team presentations. In addition, among anumber of “extra-credit” options, students are invited to solve the problem by alternate methodsand/or by using additional software packages.Instructor’s supportThe Sledder can be integrated as a mini-project in a basic Physics course or even as a simulation-lab in a Physics Laboratory session. In addition to problem-solving skills, computer proficiency,and teamwork, the students are challenged by the fact that they have to carefully plan for thevarious parts of the exercise and to allot a reasonable amount of time to different

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Gilbert; Andrew Hoff, University of South Florida; Eric Roe, Hillsborough Community College; Marilyn Barger, Hillsborough Community College

, or interest in the development and/ormanufacturing background of these technologies is small. This lack of knowledge and interesthas contributed to U.S. firms in the U.S. high-technology sector looking outside the country inorder to find workers with the right skills. With these factors in mind, the High SchoolTechnology Initiative (HSTI) project was launched and funded by NSF-ATE.HSTI offers materials that provide science and math content designed to connect students andteachers to today’s technologies. HSTI materials are Modules and Module Usage Guides(MUG) developed for science, mathematics and technology teachers. The Modules are topicbased, supplementary teaching tools, designed to connect science and technology. ModuleUsage Guide (MUG

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship Poster Session

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Wilburn Clouse

; ExpositionCopyright ©2004, American Society for Engineering”that others do not see and to stress self-fulfillment. The general theme is to create a joband not take a job. Much of our academic learning is based on a system of complianceand heavy structure. Thus, there is very little room for creative thinking andentrepreneurial development in this kind of structured learning environment. It is ourassumption that students can be encouraged to think creatively and entrepreneurially in across-discipline, problem-based learning environment. Tennessee TechnologicalUniversity (TTU) and Vanderbilt University (VU) are involved in a research project todevelop an on-line course that will use principles of the Entrepreneurs in Action!research project as its theoretical

Conference Session

Embedded Computing

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Eduardo Montanez; Andrew Mastronardi

necessary to begin development onan HC08 family MCU using Freescale’s Microcontroller Student Learning Kit (MCUSLK). TheMCUSLK is an all inclusive kit designed to provide students with all the components necessaryto learn MCUs. The kit is intended to be used in introductory level courses, MCU interfacing andapplications courses, and in senior level design courses. In addition to an MCU designenvironment, the project board included in the kit can be used stand-alone for prototyping andtesting non-microcontroller electronic circuits. Figure 1 shows the MCUSLK and thecomponents that it includes: Figure 1: MCUSLKThe MCU project board is similar to a typical student prototyping board with the addition ofseveral

Conference Session

IP, Incubation, and Business Plans

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Matthews; Morteza Sadat-Hossieny; Mark Rajai

expertise of partners will be used in their Proceeding s of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright 2003, American Society for Engineering Educationindividual modules. Furthermore, members of CPIC community will be used as experts toprovide advice and assistance to clients using the center.When the client enters the center they will start with the assessment module. After assessment,staff members will recommend appropriate modules according to their needs. Each module isdirected by a panel of experts. The panel include faculty from partner institutions who will useappropriate resources including course they teach to complete that section of the project. Forexample

Conference Session

Capstone & Educational Resource Developments

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Zekeriya Aliyazicioglu

the undergraduate curriculum of the Electrical and ComputerDepartment, the Engineering Technology Department and the Computer Science Department.Our proposal, “Deep Space Exploration using Smart Robotic Rovers”, was selected for fundingand we established our first interdisciplinary team of students and faculty to develop a smartrobotic rover.During the last two years, students and faculty participating in this program have developed arobotic rover that has successfully accomplished the initial goals of the project. The rover iscapable of climbing 30o inclines, rotating about its center axis, strafing, and maneuveringdiagonally while maintaining stability. It was also designed to protect the vital internalcomponents from outside contaminants

Conference Session

Lab Experiments in Materials Science

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Griffin, Texas A&M University at Qatar

materials, manufacturing processes, and shapes for approximately 3000 engineeringmaterials. The program is very powerful, and is potentially useful for students in mechanicalengineering. Page 9.1350.2 1 The objective of this paper will be to describe the use of the CES-4 software in a juniorlevel materials and manufacturing course. During the course, students’ practice using thesoftware through several homework assignments and team projects. These will be discussed.Pr ocedur e: The Company, Granta Design, Ltd., has an educational arrangement

Conference Session

Computers in Education Poster Session

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Randy Broussard; Jenelle Piepmeier

. Data-setdevelopment for these exercises is also discussed. MATLAB and the Image ProcessingToolbox are utilized to allow students to focus on higher-level understanding ofcommonly available image processing tools. The use of advanced tools allows students toattempt and finish meaningful examples. This paper focuses on exercises that serve as auseful complement to robotics curriculum and student robotics projects.1. IntroductionThis paper describes a single semester computer vision course tailored to fourth yearundergraduate students with strong engineering backgrounds and moderate computerprogramming skills. The students referred to in this paper are in the Weapons andSystems Engineering department at the United States Naval Academy. They have

Conference Session

Innovations in Nuclear Education I

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Gary Sandquist; Brian Moretti; Edward Naessens

) Instruments Design & Project Nuclear System Design Measurements Shielding Nuclear Weapons Military Experience Fig. 1. Learning Model for the NE Major at USMAprincipal topics of study. Courses in general engineering, science, and atomic and

Conference Session

Web Education II: Hardware/Examples

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Xueshu Song; Phil Pilcher; Radha Balamuralikrishna

Session 3120 Virtual Laboratory for Machine Tool Technicians – Concept, Development and Examples Xueshu Song1, Radha Balamuralikrishna1 & Philip Pilcher2 Northern Illinois University/Rockford Abilities CenterOverviewThis paper is an outcome of an NSF sponsored project designed to pave the way for an Internetbased learning tool for training machine tool operators and technicians (Song et. al., 2000). Theobjective in using this novel approach is to accelerate and improve the process of learning anddevelopment of skills in machine tool technology. We present concepts using

Conference Session

DEED Poster Session

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

John Tester; Jerry Hatfield

from multiple engineering disciplines.Many universities utilize a design project approach when introducing undergraduate students tothe use of engineering science in a creative manner. [1,2,3,4] These design project courses aretypically “team-oriented;” that is, two or more students are required to work together to form asingle design solution to a problem. In such team-oriented design courses, there is a need for anorganizational mechanism whereby the students can report the level of participation of theindividual team members. The NAU Design4Practice [5,6] curriculum uses peer evaluations as ameans by which the students can self-report team participation, one of several methods used insimilar engineering courses. [7]The Design4Practice