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2010 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Jason T. Kirby; Talat F. Salama

next several years. Fall 2010 Mid-Atlantic ASEE Conference, October 15-16, 2010, Villanova UniversityBackgroundIn 2005, the University of Alabama at Birmingham’s (UAB) Department of Civil, Constructionand Environmental Engineering began the implementation of newly developed strategic plans inorder to enhance both research and academic programs. Among the changes was the adoption ofa new vision to: “become a nationally and internationally recognized, research-orientedDepartment of Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering: a first choice for graduateand undergraduate education”. However, like many U.S. engineering programs, internationalcollaborations were scarce and rarely extended beyond individual research projects. To

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2011 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Svetlana Neretina

introduction of the College ofEngineering’s first course offering dedicated solely to nanotechnology. The course, NanotechnologySolutions for a Sustainable Urban Environment (ENGR 4577), will be offered as an elective to juniorand senior students from all engineering departments. The second objective is advanced throughthe introduction of five undergraduate laboratory modules and through ten week summerresearch internships in nanotechnology. In the 2011 summer semester seven undergraduates haveworked in research laboratories undertaking projects which advance nanotechnology in suchdisparate topics as water purification, fuel cell technologies for the transportation sector,renewable energy, self-assembly and bioengineering. The presentation will

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2008 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Teaching for Success; Molding Course Syllabi to Support Student Capstone Design Work.Abstract This paper details the curriculum changes made within both the aeronautical and automotive sub-disciplines of the United States Military Academy’s (USMA) Mechanical Engineering (ME) program tosupport student senior design projects. Based on instructor/advisor observations, both sub-disciplinesrealized a need to better support student design by front-loading crucial design concepts andmethodologies in their respective courses. A review of the USMA mechanical engineering curriculum isaddressed illustrating the need for these syllabi changes. The aeronautical and automotive syllabi changesimplemented and their

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2006 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Andy S.J. Zhang

user can add more features tothe gears.Integration of the Design Accelerator - Machine Design ProjectWith the help of the Designer Accelerator, it was possible for the students to finish an in-depthdesign project in one semester. This provides an opportunity for the students to practiceconcurrent design and engineering. A typical gearbox design project, such as the one shown inFigure B-1, was assigned to each student. Students were required to perform all necessaryengineering calculations as well as to create each part of the gearbox. Students were thenrequired to create an assembly of the gearbox and to check for interference between parts and tocreate an animation of the gearbox.Since a gearbox consists of many parts, it gave the students an

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2008 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Bahram Nassersharif

expand depths of understanding. Thecenter would provide no constraints to a person’s visual system. It would provide an environment similarto natural vision.i iiFor example, our engineering students currently build a mini-Baja vehicle for national competitions, aprocess that normally takes nine months to complete because many of the problems in the design arediscovered during vehicle manufacturing. With the availability of the Discovery Center, students wouldview large “wrap-around” imagery from inside physical mock-ups of the vehicle or cab, whilemanipulating actual vehicle controls. The student’s design project would be test driven before a prototypeis ever built. Students could fly through a jet engine or follow a Borrelia burgdorferi (the

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2008 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Mir M. Atiqullah

demand for composites engineers the engineering andtechnology graduates need to be knowledgeable in the field, if not develop some level of expertise, beforethey graduate from college. Traditional materials science/engineering course can accommodate only anoverview of composites. In the absence of a dedicated composites course a special project course or aresearch project on composites could be a supplement to the standard materials course. During thesummer of 2007, two minority students were awarded scholarships from Peach State Louis StokesAlliance for Minority Participation (PSLSAMP) to do undergraduate research. These students alreadycompleted their regular engineering materials course and were assigned to the project of performing

Conference Session

Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Case Studies in Construction Education

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Daniel Eduardo Abril; Miguel Andres Guerra, Universidad San Francisco de Quito USFQ; Sixto Duran Ballen

Tagged Divisions

Construction Engineering Division (CONST)

Paper ID #44105ChatGPT to Support Critical Thinking in Construction-Management StudentsDaniel Abril CaminoDr. Miguel Andres Guerra, Universidad San Francisco de Quito USFQ MiguelAndres is an Assistant Professor in the Polytechnic College of Science and Engineering at Universidad San Francisco de Quito USFQ. He holds a BS in Civil Engineering from USFQ, a M.Sc. in Civil Engineering in Construction Engineering and Project Management from Iowa State University, a Ph.D. in Civil Engineering with emphasis in Sustainable Construction from Virginia Tech, and two Graduate Certificates from Virginia Tech in Engineering Education and

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2024 ASEE St. Lawrence Section Annual Conference

Authors

Kai Zhuang; Dimpho Radebe; Mojgan Jadidi

challenges and projects involving music and relatedcreative arts. Music is selected as the art form to engage students because our experience tellsus that many, if not most, of our students are interested in music in some way. Music is closelyrelated to human emotions and provides a method for us to connect with our shared humanity(Peng, 2018; Wang, 2018). The first project under development is a procedural programmingchallenge that asks students to create a simple musical instrument using a microcontroller and akeypad. A second follow-up project we will develop is an objective-oriented programming projectinvolving making a simple robot dance to music. The project has received funding anddevelopment will take place this summer.The Potential for Art

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2012 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Jianming Liu; Steven L. Grant

: http://www.apple.com/iphone/features/siri.html3. MMDAgent project team, “MMDAgent – Toolkit for building voice interaction systems,” (2012). Available WWW: http://www.mmdagent.jp/4. The University of Edinburgh, “The Festival Speech Synthesis System,” (2012). Available WWW: http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/festival/5. Elizabeth Perreau, “Program O AIML Chatbot,” (2012). Available WWW: http://blog.program-o.com/6. MMD.js, “MMD on WebGL,” (2012). Available WWW: http://edv.sakura.ne.jp/mmd/7. Jianming Liu and Steven L. Grant, “MMDAvatar,” (2012). Available WWW: http://www.mmdavatar.com/ Proceedings of the 2012 Midwest Section Conference of the American Society for Engineering EducationBiographical InformationJianming Liu is a

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2015 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Peter Mark Jansson; Neil M. Boyd

photovoltaicsystem designs and proposals. Each of the 12 student participants created business plans thatincluded business mission, market situational analysis, and pro-forma balance sheets, cash-flowstatements, and income statements.The summer institute model can be an effective co-curricular tool to develop many professionalskills and leadership attributes that are more difficult to cultivate in the classroom settings inengineering and management. The self-directed, non-graded nature of the assignments andexpectations can challenge students’ intrinsic motivation. Initially the student expectation, oftenone of waiting to be ‘taught’ can be more quickly overcome in a project-based, summer, co-curricular type of learning environment. The sense of obligation

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2015 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Raghav Khanna

GaN) and prepare an oral presentation supplemented with awrite-up which explains why their selected technology is the best for future versions of powerelectronic circuits. This project enabled students to perform literature searches in highlyreputable IEEE Transactions journals. Not only did this experience give students a taste of thegraduate school experience, but it also highlighted to them the most important and pertinentareas of research in the power electronic arena. The course concluded as conventional powerelectronic courses do, with analysis of AC-DC converters (inverters) and isolated DC-DCconverters. Course evaluations demonstrated that students responded very positively to both thetheoretical and applied nature of the

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2009 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Josh DeRosa

will be discussed in this paper. Instrument strings made of carbon fiber are commercially available, but limited. Thesound produced by a music string is a function of their elastic constants, densities, and compositestructures [1]. Modification of these properties, using epoxy additives, can produce strings with awider range of sounds and applications. The work discussed in this paper was a continuation of coursework in composites lab atthe Rochester Institute of Technology. The course was project based; the project chosen was theconstruction of a carbon fiber 5-string banjo. The project was large, even for the two person teamwhich was formed. It was completed after the course had ended, which was well into the nextterm

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2009 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Ricardo A. Camilo; S. Keith Hargrove

customer orders, meaning that those customers canbe lost or can decrease their businesses with the company substantially. The mentioned factshighlight the importance of Paper Products Inc achieving a high level of inventory accuracy andproduct tracking, which are some of the benefits that RFID technology can offer to this type ofbusiness.Some goals of this project are to reduce manipulation in employee information, costs and processinaccuracies. Similar achievements are presented by Fosso Wamba et al6 in their work. Theyfocus on a three-layer supply chain on warehousing activities and emphasize many SCMopportunities especially in terms of business process optimization. Fleisch and Tellkamp2 presentresults of their simulation studies that show that

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2009 Northeast Section Meeting

Authors

Ricardo A. Camilo; S. Keith Hargrove

customer orders, meaning that those customers canbe lost or can decrease their businesses with the company substantially. The mentioned factshighlight the importance of Paper Products Inc achieving a high level of inventory accuracy andproduct tracking, which are some of the benefits that RFID technology can offer to this type ofbusiness.Some goals of this project are to reduce manipulation in employee information, costs and processinaccuracies. Similar achievements are presented by Fosso Wamba et al6 in their work. Theyfocus on a three-layer supply chain on warehousing activities and emphasize many SCMopportunities especially in terms of business process optimization. Fleisch and Tellkamp2 presentresults of their simulation studies that show that

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2010 Northeast Section Meeting

Authors

Andrzej Zarzycki

digitally native, with ways of accessing, interacting, and processing knowledge thatincreasingly conform to a digital media mindset. A successful curriculum should acknowledgethis asset and use it for further strengthening students’ knowledge. At the same time, it shouldcontinue to reference everyday experiences and provide students alternative ways to codify theirexperiences. In their first ever project done during architectural education, students are asked todevelop a cantilevered structure made of toothpick and glue that would be able to support abrick. [fig.1] Interestingly, there are hardly any questions asked regarding the project in theinitial stages of assignment. Students feel it is self-explanatory and expect it to be an

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2010 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

John Adams

” course fornon science majors. This cross disciplinary course is based in the EE department withsignificant input from the Biology department. A Kill-O-Watt meter serves as the“textbook” purchase, with required student real-world projects in energy usageassessment, and in evaluating effectiveness of remedial actions. This collaborationbetween EE and Biology is an initial effort towards greater collaboration between the twodepartments.The Civil Engineering department piloted the senior elective “Environmental Design” inFall 2009, with student teams running feasibility studies for renewable energyinstallations including Photovoltaic, SHW and Wind. The next iteration of this coursewill incorporate participation of EE and business students.Background

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2010 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

John W. Duggan P.E.

both on and off-site. Such opportunities include use of soil as gradingmaterial, re-use of stone aggregate as a raw material for concrete and re-use of crushed concretematerial as sub-base material for roadways and parking lots. Recycling and re-use rather thanoff-site disposal of these materials saves on transportation expenses and tipping charges.Reducing the need to bring virgin soil and stone on-site protects natural resources, lowerstransportation costs and reduces air emissions. These practices may also provide creditopportunities for projects seeking LEED certification. Despite the growth in recycling and re-use of on-site soil materials, the topic is rarely addressed in any detail in standard sustainableconstruction texts. This paper

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2010 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

Andrzej Zarzycki

ways to codify theirexperiences. In their first ever project done during architectural education, students are asked todevelop a cantilevered structure made of toothpicks and glue that would be able to support abrick. Interestingly, there are hardly any questions asked regarding the project in the initial stagesof assignment. Students feel it is self-explanatory and expect it to be an easy assignment untilthey start working on it. This seemingly simple project exposes students to a wide range of issuesranging from basic modeling techniques to understanding of structural behavior and materialcharacteristics. Some students start the project by immediately building study models and follow thedesigning-while-doing approach. Others

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2008 Northeast Section Meeting

Authors

Bahram Nassersharif

expand depths of understanding. Thecenter would provide no constraints to a person’s visual system. It would provide an environment similarto natural vision.i iiFor example, our engineering students currently build a mini-Baja vehicle for national competitions, aprocess that normally takes nine months to complete because many of the problems in the design arediscovered during vehicle manufacturing. With the availability of the Discovery Center, students wouldview large “wrap-around” imagery from inside physical mock-ups of the vehicle or cab, whilemanipulating actual vehicle controls. The student’s design project would be test driven before a prototypeis ever built. Students could fly through a jet engine or follow a Borrelia burgdorferi (the

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2008 Northeast Section Meeting

Authors

Mir M. Atiqullah

demand for composites engineers the engineering andtechnology graduates need to be knowledgeable in the field, if not develop some level of expertise, beforethey graduate from college. Traditional materials science/engineering course can accommodate only anoverview of composites. In the absence of a dedicated composites course a special project course or aresearch project on composites could be a supplement to the standard materials course. During thesummer of 2007, two minority students were awarded scholarships from Peach State Louis StokesAlliance for Minority Participation (PSLSAMP) to do undergraduate research. These students alreadycompleted their regular engineering materials course and were assigned to the project of performing

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2012 Northeast Section Meeting

Authors

Gonca Altuger-Genc

Social Network-based Self-Regulated Learning for Engineers: Is it possible? Gonca Altuger-Genc1Lifelong learning gained more importance as the Accreditation Board for Engineering Education and Technology(ABET) criteria require that engineering programs demonstrate that their students attain “a recognition of the needfor, and an ability to engage in lifelong learning”. Universities across the nation are implementing modules,projects, case studies, and online set-ups to meet the lifelong learning criterion. The concept of lifelong learningdiffers than the traditional in-class learning in being self-regulated and voluntary. These two characteristics oflifelong learning make it

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2015 Northeast Section Meeting

Authors

Michael Geselowitz; John Vardalas

met once per week for two-and-half hours over 14 weeks. One of these sessions wasthe midterm (the final was given outside class during finals period) and the last class was thestudent presentations of the term project (more on that below). Two of the sessions weredevoted to small stand-alone labs, and third to introducing both the historical and engineeringaspects of the term project. The labs were conducted in groups but individual lab reports weredue. In addition, hands-on demonstrations were distributed throughout the lectures.There was no textbook, but book chapters and articles were made available on-line. For everyclass except the first, last and midterm, there were a number of required readings and two one-page reading reports were due

Conference Session

Professional Papers

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2025 ASEE Southeast Conference

Authors

Adam Barnes, University of Virginia

Tagged Topics

Professional Papers

determine how reliable each method is, as well as their relative merits and limitations.MethodologyThe data for this paper is taken from the Fall semester 2024 Capstone Senior design course. Partof the project process is for each team to meet with the instructor on a weekly basis. Thisafforded the opportunity to regularly interact with each team and directly assess teamperformance. In parallel, the students filled out teamwork surveys, providing a basis forcomparison. This provides two assessment tools that can be compared, one based on theinstructor's evaluation, and one based on the students’ evaluation.The class consisted of 87 students broken up into 19 teams of 4 to 5 students each. Students inour program are encouraged in their third year to

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2008 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

Mir M. Atiqullah

demand for composites engineers the engineering andtechnology graduates need to be knowledgeable in the field, if not develop some level of expertise, beforethey graduate from college. Traditional materials science/engineering course can accommodate only anoverview of composites. In the absence of a dedicated composites course a special project course or aresearch project on composites could be a supplement to the standard materials course. During thesummer of 2007, two minority students were awarded scholarships from Peach State Louis StokesAlliance for Minority Participation (PSLSAMP) to do undergraduate research. These students alreadycompleted their regular engineering materials course and were assigned to the project of performing

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2008 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

Teaching for Success; Molding Course Syllabi to Support Student Capstone Design Work.Abstract This paper details the curriculum changes made within both the aeronautical and automotive sub-disciplines of the United States Military Academy’s (USMA) Mechanical Engineering (ME) program tosupport student senior design projects. Based on instructor/advisor observations, both sub-disciplinesrealized a need to better support student design by front-loading crucial design concepts andmethodologies in their respective courses. A review of the USMA mechanical engineering curriculum isaddressed illustrating the need for these syllabi changes. The aeronautical and automotive syllabi changesimplemented and their

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2008 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

Bahram Nassersharif

expand depths of understanding. Thecenter would provide no constraints to a person’s visual system. It would provide an environment similarto natural vision.i iiFor example, our engineering students currently build a mini-Baja vehicle for national competitions, aprocess that normally takes nine months to complete because many of the problems in the design arediscovered during vehicle manufacturing. With the availability of the Discovery Center, students wouldview large “wrap-around” imagery from inside physical mock-ups of the vehicle or cab, whilemanipulating actual vehicle controls. The student’s design project would be test driven before a prototypeis ever built. Students could fly through a jet engine or follow a Borrelia burgdorferi (the

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2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

Fernanda Gobbi de Boer; Carla ten Caten; Istefani Carisio de Paula

real problems. For the creation of thiscolaborative learning environment, the use of the Problem Based relation and the development of the expected abilities in anLearning method provides a motivational situation favorable tolearning, besides engaging students more intensely. Therefore, engineer, methods such as collaborative education, activethe students were requested to obtain the adequate solution for a learning and team work have become more and moreproposed problem, which was related to a fictitious production important for students, for they allow interpersonal skills, suchline, using an experiment project. At the end of the activity it was

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2025 Northeast Section Conference

Authors

Lorenzo Govoni; Coleman Hayes; Colin Jennings; Mia Lattin; Saara Sheth; Meghna Sridhar; Bala Maheswaran

-corporate settings like schools, cannot actual user. We acknowledge that our system may not includeafford braille printers to accommodate the blind accessible input options for a blind user such as voice commandcommunity. Our team focused on this development gap to or a braille keyboard, as our proof of concept focuses entirelycreate a braille printer that would be affordable, compact, on the embossing element.and easy for personal use. Throughout this project, our team gained invaluable hands-on experience with various software and tools that

Conference Session

Track 2: Technical Session 3: Piloting A Personalized Learning Model for Chemical Engineering Graduate Education: Lessons Learned from Creating a Chemical Engineering Body of Knowledge

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2025 Collaborative Network for Engineering & Computing Diversity (CoNECD)

Authors

April Dukes, University of Pittsburgh; Mary E. Besterfield-Sacre, University of Pittsburgh; Susan K Fullerton Shirey, University of Pittsburgh

Tagged Topics

2025 CoNECD Paper Submissions, Diversity

. • Primarily designed to produce research results and publications • Essential skills like communication, teamwork in diverse settings, mentoring, networking, and leadership are needed in the workforce• To remain relevant in the evolving landscape of science, engineering, and society, graduate STEM education requires significant cultural transformation. National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2018. Graduate STEM Education for the 21st Century. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. https://doi.org/10.17226/25038.Need for Innovation in GraduateEducation and STEM Training• Our research project explores the impact of Personalized Learning Models (PLM) on the

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2025 ASEE -GSW Annual Conference

Authors

Chinedu Okonkwo, The University of Texas at San Antonio; Roy Uzoma Lan; Ibukun Gabriel Awolusi, The University of Texas at San Antonio; Jiannan Cai

Tagged Topics

Diversity

material testing data using programming skills and AI techniques to rapidlyestimate and better learn how different properties of materials influence their strengths. IntroductionThe construction industry is undergoing a progressive shift toward data-driven decision-making,propelled by advances in technology and the increasing volume of information that can be collectedon jobsites (Hashim et al., 2024). From project scheduling to material selection and quality control,construction professionals are expected to leverage large datasets to optimize processes, reducecosts, and ensure safety (Rane, 2023). One crucial technological driver of this shift is artificialintelligence (AI), a field that enables