Conference Session

ECE Curriculum Improvement

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Dennis A. Silage, Temple University

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

studentoutcomes. The College of Engineering at Temple University has four academic departments,including the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE) and a newly establishDepartment of Bioengineering (BE).The Director of the General Engineering degree program has the responsibility to insure allaspects of the Program including continuous improvement of the interdisciplinary curriculum.The Director is also the single interface between the Program and industry for co-operative workstudy assignments, internships, capstone design projects and professional employment. Providingan identified Director on point assures that the General Engineering degree maintains visibilityand creditability within the College.Faculty advisors from both ECE and ME

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2013 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Andy S. Zhang; Ali Harb; Iem Heng; Farrukh Zia; Alex Wong

true for many small companies on which an engineer maybe required toperform many tasks that go beyond his/her originally field of study. To help college students tolearn the latest multidisciplinary approach to product design, in the fall 2010, the departments ofmechanical engineering technology and computer engineering technology introduced a hands-ondesign project in their respective capstone courses as well as in extracurricular undergraduateresearch projects. These hands-on design projects contained mechanical design,electrical/electronic design as well as software design components.In previous studies, various embedded systems such as Compact real-time controller (cRIO)from National Instruments, NXT brick from Lego Mindstorm, and Arduino

Conference Session

Aerospace Division Technical Session 5

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Dennis K. McLaughlin, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Sven Schmitz, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Irene B Mena, Pennsylvania State University, University Park

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Aerospace

1research projects proven to increase undergraduate students’ skills in collecting and analyzingdata1, but they have also been found to enhance students’ awareness of what it is like to be agraduate student, thus opening further options for their career paths.2 To some extent suchintegration of teaching and research is reasonably common in senior level capstone designprojects. A common aspect of such design projects is the establishment of student teams whowork together with little day to day supervision to meet a project goal, normally set by theoverall course instructor. At Penn State University, Departments of Mechanical and ElectricalEngineering have conducted such a project activity course in which students form teams to workon design projects

Conference Session

Aerospace Division Technical Session 5

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

R. Danner Friend, Norwich University; Jacques N Beneat, Norwich University

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Aerospace

year’s work. Since January 2010, a total of 21 undergraduate students have worked onthe CubeSat project under the mentorship of two faculty members (Mechanical and Electrical &Computer Engineering). Among these students, seven started as a summer research fellow, andthen five of those seven students applied the results of their research in their capstone seniordesign project.The second project involves students working on an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle. Theoriginal motivation for this project comes from NASA’s interest in Europa, a large moon ofJupiter, which has a large liquid ocean beneath its ice crust. The liquid ocean is believed to havethe necessary conditions to support life. To investigate the ocean, an underwater vehicle

Conference Session

Four Pillars of Manufacturing

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David L. Wells, North Dakota State University

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Manufacturing

real industrial constraints, often interactive with a corporate sponsor. Students are challenged to design effective and efficient part manufacturing methods and complete production systems for commercial and industrial products. The common theme for students is mastering process and system design procedures that are applicable to any product in any industry. Graduates have been successful in manufacturing en- terprises that produce virtually every type of product–literally, from spacecraft to foodstuffs. Dr. Wells also leads innovation teams in two engineering venues: product realization capstone projects and a unique multidisciplinary undergraduate discovery-learning course. Dr. Wells’ active research lies in

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2013 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Charles McIntyre

such as, Rube Goldberg Contraptions,Leonardo da Vinci: The Engineer, Lego Robots, Battle Bots, etc. Specifically, within theconstruction management discipline, few examples of first-year classroom applications areprovided in the literature. These hands-on application within construction education areprimarily focused on the senior capstone experience.10,12,13The basic purpose of this project is two-fold: first, to document current first-year constructionmanagement courses, and second, to develop and deliver a hands-on first-year “constructionmanagement experience” within the framework of CM&E 111.Overall Objectives for Course RevisionThe basic objectives for the revised CM&E 111 course are presented below.  To expand the body of

Conference Session

Laboratory Experiences in Mechanical, Materials and Thermal Systems

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Allison L. Sieving, Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering, Purdue University; Marcia Pool, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Trisha Eustaquio, Purdue University; Rajtarun Madangopal, Purdue University; Alyssa Panitch PhD; Kate Stuart, Purdue University; Ann E Rundell, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Scott Alan Jewett

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Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

- plementing undergraduate laboratory and lecture courses that address the evolving needs of biomedical engineers, and managing the ABET assessment program for the Weldon School of Biomedical Engineer- ing.Dr. Marcia Pool, Purdue University, West Lafayette Dr. Marcia A. Pool is an Instructional Laboratory Coordinator in the Weldon School of Biomedical En- gineering at Purdue University. She is responsible for overseeing and assessing junior level laboratories, bioinstrumentation and biotransport, and is involved with teaching and mentoring students in the Senior Design Capstone course. Recently, she has worked with colleagues to plan and implement a problem- based learning approach to the biotransport laboratory to improve

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2013 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

M. Cardenas

perform repairs or maintenance, to install aftermarket parts, or simply to gainmore understanding of the mechanics of the vehicle. In undergraduate engineering education,students with a car-enthusiast background are very valuable, especially in the context of hands-on, design-build-test projects. These car enthusiasts generally have experience with tools andtheir use; don’t panic if they strip the threads off a screw, or torque the head off a bolt—and evenbetter, often have the knowledge to avoid just those situations!—are familiar with fabricationtechniques, and have intuition involving mechanisms that elevated designs and analyses overthose of less-experienced students. Especially for capstone design projects, having a ‘car guy’ or‘car gal’ on

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2013 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

David A. Vaccari

require that capstone design projects actually be multidisciplinary.Although that would be desirable, it would be impracticable to make this a requirement. Thisserves the need for an interpretation that could apply to all projects.Direct assessment of this capability could be done by requiring students to include a section intheir capstone design report that lists engineering disciplines other than their own that they wouldinteract with, and what kinds of information would be exchanged. Specifically, they would haveto describe the information that they need from other disciplines, and what information wouldother disciplines need from them. A grade on that specific section of the report would then serveto provide data for assessment of this

Conference Session

Materials

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mohammad Kamal Hossain, Tuskegee University

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

Professor and Research Faculty in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV). He served as a Technical Advisor for the senior design project at UNLV. He teaches CAD, cap- stone design, and solid mechanics courses at the undergraduate and graduate level. He has been involved with the capstone design program at TU since his tenure in 2008. His course design projects are sponsored by industry and government laboratory which include GM, JOHN DEERE, AFRL, and NUCOR. He is the Lead-Faculty Contact for the Advancement of Collaborative Engineering Education (PACE) at TU. Page

Conference Session

Mechatronics

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John G. Cherng P.E., University of Michigan-Dearborn; Ben Q. Li, University of Michigan, Dearborn; Narasimhamurthi Natarajan, University of Michigan, Dearborn

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

Page 23.424.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013 Development of a Mechatronics Course for Senior Mechanical Engineering StudentsAbstractThis paper presents the development of a mechanical engineering senior elective course titled:“ME472 Principles and Applications of Mechatronics System Design”. The main objective ofthis course is to teach students the principles and applications of mechatronic systems. Tenhands-on laboratory projects and two course projects were integrated into the course to enhance astudent’s comprehension of mechatronics concepts. Students were required to complete eachcourse project independently. The outcome of the course was

Conference Session

Design Pedagogy and Curriculum 1

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

William A Kline, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Cory A. Hixson, Virginia Tech; Thomas W. Mason, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Patricia Brackin, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Robert M. Bunch, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Kay C Dee, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Glen A. Livesay, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

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Design in Engineering Education

design processhas been the subject of many studies of how best to teach the concepts, tools, andprocesses11,20,22,25,29,32,40,42,54,60. In a comprehensive review of design teaching and learning, Dymet al. note that designing “effective solutions to meet social needs”(22 p.103) is a fundamental skillfor engineering graduates and that “design thinking is complex” (22 p.103). The process of design isoften taught in a “crawl, walk, run” approach by introducing fundamental concepts that areapplied in a number of project based learning (PBL) experiences of increasing complexitythroughout the curriculum43. These experiences may range from reverse engineering exercises19,small design projects, to capstone design experiences20,43 with a corporate

Conference Session

Materials

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mohamad Dyab, University of Maryland Eastern Shore; Payam Matin, University of Maryland Eastern Shore; Yuanwei Jin, University of Maryland, Eastern Shore

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

Bar Apparatus for use with Fiber Reinforced Composite Materials, Master thesis, Utah State University, Logan, Utah, 2012.5. Alan, D. J., Magleby, S. P., Sorensen, C. D., and Todd, R. H., A Review of Literature on Teaching Engineering Design Through Project-Oriented Capstone Courses, Journal of Engineering Education, Vol. 86, No. 1, pp. 17-28, 1997.6. Lackey, L.W., Jenkins, H.E., Mines, R.O., and Schultz, S.R., Utilizing Senior Capstone Design as an Instrument for Student and Faculty Assessment of Program Outcomes, 2009 ASEE Conference, Marietta, GA, paper, 2009006MIN, pp. 1-11, April 2009.7. Todd, R.H., Sorensen, C. D., and Magleby, C. D., Designing a Capstone Course to satisfy industrial customers, Journal of Engineering

Conference Session

Simulation and Programming

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Carrie Steinlicht, South Dakota State University; Byron G. Garry, South Dakota State University

Tagged Divisions

Manufacturing

make decisions even though uncertainty exists. Not all factors are measurable or evenknown and sometimes decisions must be based upon probabilistic outcomes.Method of the projectThe Manufacturing Cost Analysis course, in the Manufacturing Engineering Technology(MNET) program at South Dakota State University, includes an inductive based project thatseeks to enhance learning and promote systems thinking of students taking the course. Thecourse is not considered a capstone course but rather a course designed to present topics ofmanufacturing cost estimating and engineering economy to senior level students. While theprimary goal of the course is cost analysis, the instructor recognizes the importance of systemsthinking and uses problem based

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2013 GSW

Authors

George Kitamura; Kristin Milam; Elvin Hii; Chris Kniffin; Alexander Graves; Amit Oza; Bernd Chudoba

engineers. Overall, the skills developed through the project will allow eachteam member to carry on techniques and knowledge to other aircraft conceptual design. IntroductionThe Supermarine Spitfire is one of the most iconic and beloved aircraft or its era, and thissemester, a group of senior students was able to participate in the active learning experience ofreverse engineering this exceptional airplane as a part of the Senior Design Capstone Course.The Senior Design Capstone Course compiles the years of undergraduate studies to test andapprove the student’s engineering abilities. Under the direction of Dr. Bernd Chudoba the senior class was tasked to reverse engineer the famous World War II fighter

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2013 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Fangyang Shen; Bing Qi; Hong Li; Arvid Friberg

often through casestudies published by both Harvard University and Yale University. More recently ElectronicsEngineering programs have espoused similar project based learning. The findings show that thebest educational methods force students to cooperate using their knowledge of interdisciplinarysubjects to solve problems within an environment using “incomplete or imprecise information”[1].For decades the instruction of Engineering and other disciplines have used “Capstone”, wherefinal projects are used to reinforce skills and foster design[2]. Since 1990 the NationalInformation Assurance Education and Training Partnership Program (NEITP) has beenresponsible for information assurance, awareness and training. They issue the IT

Conference Session

Methods, Techniques, and New Programs in Graduate Education

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Niaz Latif, Purdue University, Calumet ; Joy L Colwell, Purdue University, Calumet (Tech)

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Graduate Studies

, Simulation, and Visualization, following the process outlinedabove. This concept paper was approved in Spring of 2009. Consequently, a pre-proposal wasdeveloped in the Fall of 2009. The working group recommended the concurrent development ofseven core courses as the degree proposal was being developed and submitted. One of the corecourses, the directed project capstone course, had already been approved as a graduate course forthe campus. In the summer of 2009, three core courses were developed, and two of these courseswere approved by the Graduate Council during the 2009-2010 academic year. The remainingthree core courses were developed during summer 2010 and these courses were approved by theUniversity’s graduate council in 2010. As noted, the

Conference Session

Software Engineering Outreach: Industry, K-12

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Massood Towhidnejad, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical Univ., Daytona Beach; Thomas B Hilburn, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical Univ., Daytona Beach; Richard E Fairley, Software and Systems Engineering Associates (S2EA)

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Software Engineering Constituent Committee

mastered after the baseline preparation is achieved.GSwE2009 strongly recommends that students demonstrate their accumulated skills andknowledge in a capstone experience, which might be a project, a practicum, or a thesis. Students Page 23.1074.3completing the curriculum must be able to understand and appreciate the importance ofteamwork, negotiation, effective work habits, leadership, and good communication withstakeholders in a typical software development environment. Figure 1: Architectural Structure of a GSwE2009 Master’s Program GSwE2009 Core Body of KnowledgeThe GSwE2009 curriculum content consists primarily of the

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2013 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Shahryar Darayan; David Olowokere; Xuemin Chen

85 ASSESSMENT AND CURRICULUM MODIFICATION INELECTRONICS ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGY PROGRAM Shahryar Darayan David Olowokere Xuemin Chen Darayan_sx@tsu.edu Olowokeredo@tsu.edu Chenxm@tsu.edu Department of Engineering Technology 3100 Cleburne, Houston, Texas 77004 Abstract: The Electronics Engineering Technology at Texas Southern University has been actively involved with course embedded assessment techniques for more than nine years. The assessment project has spanned the engineering technologies programs, the

Conference Session

Building a Better Program - Construction Curriculum Enhancements

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert G. Batson P.E., University of Alabama

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Construction

already squeezed time to cover current subject matter, safety topics should take no more than one week out of a fifteen week course, and would perhaps best be exposed as case studies or special topics for students to read and report on. Chances of success: Good. C. Requiring DfS on all senior capstone design projects, whether the project involves design of a system, component, or process, is an excellent approach to familiarize the students with the concepts and practical aspects of DfS (most likely in architectural, mechanical, or electrical engineering programs) or DfCS (most likely in civil, construction, or industrial engineering programs). It would expose the students to the subject in a realistic design

Conference Session

Best of DEED

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Denny C. Davis, Washington State University; Ronald R Ulseth P. E., Iron Range Engineering

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Design in Engineering Education

Paper ID #5944Building Student Capacity for High Performance TeamworkDr. Denny C. Davis P.E., Washington State University Dr. Davis is Emeritus Professor of Chemical Engineering and Bioengineering at Washington State Uni- versity. For two decades he taught capstone design courses with multidisciplinary teams and developed instructional materials and assessments that enhance student team success. He is a Fellow of ASEE and an active consultant on engineering design education.Mr. Ronald R Ulseth P. E., Iron Range Engineering Ron Ulseth directs and instructs in the Iron Range Engineering program in Virginia, Minnesota and

Conference Session

Computers and Learning

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Khalid W Khawaja, American University in Dubai

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Computers in Education

a high focusprogram-curriculum. However, the exception that is made in the capstone project coursewhere the students are assessed on several program outcomes must be looked into.Every program outcome is assessed by more than one course (high coverage and high validityProgram-curriculum). However, some of the program outcomes are assessed by only thecourses and no other tool, which is an issue that may require attention (high coveragemedium validity program). Again, excluding the capstone, the program assessment has Highfocus.Now looking at the capstone, not all the outcomes of the capstone are assessed. This could be Page 23.60.15an

Conference Session

Assessment of Student Learning 1

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nidal Al-Masoud, Central Connecticut State University; Viatcheslav Naoumov, Cental Connecticut State University; Steven Joseph Kirstukas, Central Connecticut State University

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Educational Research and Methods

. Page 23.479.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013 Embedding Lifelong Learning in Engineering CoursesAbstractThe main thrust of this paper is presenting an assessment methodology for lifelong learningcompetency. Several assessment tools embedded in a selected set of engineering courses alongwith their assessment methodologies, data analysis and conclusions are presented in thismanuscript. The selected courses are spread over at the sophomore, junior, and senior levels. Thecourses include Engineering Dynamics, Fluid Mechanics, Propulsion Systems, and the SeniorDesign Capstone project. With the exception of the last course, students were assigned a set ofopen-ended problems that involved

Conference Session

Creating and Maintaining Effective Communication Learning in the Curriculum

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Warren N. Waggenspack Jr., Louisiana State University; Sarah Liggett, Louisiana State University; Warren R Hull Sr. P.E., Louisiana State University; Boz Bowles, Louisiana State University; Paige Davis, Louisiana State University

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Civil Engineering

-specific assignments.Recognizing that these criteria could be challenging to implement, especially in capstone andlaboratory courses, program administrators developed periodic discipline-specific workshops, anannual Faculty Summer Institute, and a professionally staffed, discipline-specific communicationstudio to aid faculty development and student instruction. These resources and how theyevolved are illustrated using sample innovative communication assignments. Facultycommitment has grown to the point that all engineering disciplines have certified C-I courses orlabs as a part of their capstone experiences. Many disciplines have at least two and some asmany as the four required courses designated C-I.Student interest was enhanced by establishing

Conference Session

FPD 7: First-Year Engineering Courses, Part II: Perceptions and Paradigms

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mohammad Esmaeili, University of Dayton; Ali Eydgahi, Eastern Michigan University

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First-Year Programs

Paper ID #7138By the Students, for the students: A New Paradigm for Better Achieving theLearning ObjectivesMr. Mohammadjafar EsmaeiliDr. Ali Eydgahi, Eastern Michigan University Dr. Eydgahi is a professor in the school of Engineering Technology at Eastern Michigan University. He has supervised a number of graduate thesis and undergraduate projects in the areas of Unmanned Vehicle Design, Sensor Fusion, Speaker Recognition Design, Virtual Reality and Visualization, Digital Signal Processing, Control Systems, Robotics and Systems Automation. He has an extensive experience in curriculum and laboratory design and development

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2013 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

Jesus Acosta-Iriqui; Eniko T. Enikov

studyabroad experiences with a capstone research project. This capstone resulted in a 90 page researchreport written by four of the exchange participants summarizing their research on an automatedfish tracking system using MATLAB.It is important to mention that two of the five students of the three-year cohort expressed that,their decision for participating in the exchange program was done once they consulted with theiradvisors and/or professors in their programs if their participation would have an impact on thetime for obtaining their current undergraduate studies. This was the case of one student on year-four. One of the two students, who decided not to participate in the exchange program on year-three, expressed that her decision was made

Conference Session

Using Communication and Writing Techniques to Improve Student Learning

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Shannon Ciston, University of California, Berkeley; Sean Poust, University of California-Berkeley

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

capstone design and laboratorycourses. The course runs as a one-semester, stand-alone course (not coupled to a complementarytechnical or laboratory course) with assignments ranging from laboratory reports, design reports,resumes, cover letters, interviews, technical presentations, and project proposals tocommunication with lay audiences. This paper takes a case study approach to examine theevolution of the laboratory report assignment over the course of three semesters. We found thatincorporating additional authenticity into laboratory report writing assignment motivated studentengagement and learning. Midterm and final course evaluations are used as data to reflect on theeffectiveness of three iterations of the assignment:· Fall 2011: Common

Conference Session

Reception & Poster Session

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2013 ASEE International Forum

Authors

Devanandham Henry, Stevens Institute of Technology / Systems Engineering Research Center (SERC); Tim L Ferris, University of South Australia; Alice F. Squires, Stevens Institute of Technology (SES); Massood Towhidnejad, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical Univ., Daytona Beach

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ASEE International Forum

. Program Attributes Delivery Mode Face to Face 94% Online 41% Hybrid 25% Multi-modal 50% Average Course/Module Session 16 weeks Average Program Length 2 years Project Thesis or Capstone Project required 94% Program Focus General Systems Focus; SE; Systems Architecture; Systems Design; 66

Conference Session

Themes in Renewable Energy and ET

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Richard Chiou, Drexel University; Radian G Belu, Drexel University (Tech.); Michael G Mauk P.E., Drexel University; M. Eric Carr, Drexel University; Tzu-Liang Bill Tseng, University of Texas, El Paso

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Engineering Technology

, Power Electronics and Controls for Photovoltaic Systems, Handbook of Research on Solar EnergySystems and Technologies (Eds: Dr. Sohail Anwar, Dr. Salahuddin Qazi, and Dr. Harry Efstathiadis), IGI, Global,pp. 68-125, 2012 (DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-1996-8.ch004).12. R. Belu, Wind Energy Conversion and Analysis, in Encyclopedia of Energy Engineering & Technology (Eds:Dr. Sohail Anwar et al.), Taylor and Francis, 2012 (in press).13. R. Belu, Renewable Energy Based Capstone Senior Design Projects for an Undergraduate EngineeringTechnology Curriculum, 2011 ASEEE Conference & Exposition, June 26 - 29, Vancouver, BC, Canada (CDProceedings).14. R. Belu and I. Husanu, An Undergraduate Course on Renewable Energy Conversion Systems for

Conference Session

Aerospace Division Technical Session 1

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Trevor J. Bennett, Texas A&M University; Kristin D. Nichols, Texas A&M University; Kristi J. Shryock, Texas A&M University

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Aerospace

should be theprimary goal of engineering educational institutions. An important and effective part ofengineering education is the design process. Many, if not all, engineering programs require asenior design project in which the students apply their undergraduate coursework to a discipline-specific design challenge. While senior-level design is the capstone of a student’s undergraduateeducation, the authors believe that design education should not be restricted to the final year.Instead it should be integrated throughout the curriculum and follow the development of thestudent. Additionally, effective implementation of design education should be unique to thecurrent technical level of the student. At the freshman level, design education should