Conference Session

Electrical and Computer Engineering Division (ECE) Poster Session

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jennifer L Bonniwell, Milwaukee School of Engineering; Richard W. Kelnhofer, Milwaukee School of Engineering

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Electrical and Computer Engineering Division (ECE)

series versus parallel connections of componentsfor circuits with medium complexity, such as the one seen in Figure 1. Utilizing the research onspaced repetition, the faculty member began drawing small circuits with commonly confusedelectrical connections and creating a poll within Microsoft Teams asking the students todetermine what was connected in series and what was connected in parallel. While this had beenthe first time the faculty taught this course virtually, it was the third term they taught the courseoverall. Reflecting on performance of past cohorts, the faculty member noticed a reduction inmistakes on reducing networks of electrical components throughout the term. Figure 1: Resistor network with medium

Conference Session

Wellness, Readiness, and Thriving

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Harly Ramsey, University of Southern California; Stephanie Nicole Bartholomew, University of Southern California

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Diversity

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division (LEES)

Grant No.2306178. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendation expressed in this materialare those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National ScienceFoundation.References[1] J. Trevelyan, “Transitioning to engineering practice,” Eur. J. Eng. Educ., vol. 44, no. 6, pp. 821–837, Nov. 2019, doi: 10.1080/03043797.2019.1681631.[2] Z. S. Byrne, J. W. Weston, and K. Cave, “Development of a Scale for Measuring Students’ Attitudes Towards Learning Professional (i.e., Soft) Skills,” Res. Sci. Educ., vol. 50, no. 4, pp. 1417–1433, Aug. 2020, doi: 10.1007/s11165-018-9738-3.[3] R. P. Aleman and et al, “Mind the Gap: Exploring the Exploring the Perceived Gap Between Social and Technical Aspects

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2012 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

E. Carl Greco; Jim D. Reasoner

with traditional laboratory equipment, the higher attrition ratefor the study group did not appear to be equipment related and therefore did not circumvent thestudy protocol nor invalidate the results for this pilot study.It has been shown that students exhibit differential learning styles which contribute to theircomprehension and assimilation of instructional information especially in a classroomenvironment with a single dimensional presentation format [9] [10]. In order to mitigate alearning style bias on the dissemination of the laboratory procedures, the laboratory assignmentswere provided prior to the laboratory exercise and contained both explanatory figures anddiagrams. Students had time to study and reflect on the assignment and to

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2015 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Nisha Kondrath; Mark A. Jupina

-11,2015 Villanova University   their work more reliably and with fewer distractions. In the responses to question 12, a few students commented that they were able to learn much more about the course topics by building and investigating the circuits by themselves. They also enjoyed learning the course material through a multi-faceted approach, where in-class lectures and the textbook readings supplemented the hands-on learning approach. However, students’ comments for question 13 reflected the time commitment issue that was noted previously in the response of question 2. One student’s comments summarized the general concensus of many students in the following way, “I think the course format has a lot of potential

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2015 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Linda Laird; Ye Yang

. US News and World Report. (2013). The 100 Best Jobs. Retrieved August 8, 2014: http://money.usnews.com/careers/best-jobs/rankings/the-100-best-jobs 9. Bull, C., & Whittle, J. (2014). Observations of a Software Engineering Studio: Reflecting with the Studio Framework. CSEE&T (pp. 74-83). Klagenfurt: IEEE. 10. Miller, C. (2014). Technology’s Man Problem. New York Times. 11. Fox, M.F., Sonnert, g., & Nikiforova, I. (2009). Successful Programs for Undergraduate Woman in Science and Engineering: Adapting vs. Adopting the Institutional Environment. Research in Higher Education. 50(4), 333-353. 12. Chung Min-uck. (2014). Daosim: the philosophy for future. National: http

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2015 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Gary A. Gabriele; Edmond Dougherty

concise narrative. Judges were recruited to serve as the ‘Sharks’. Eachteam prepared either a physical model or an illustration that effectively conveyed theirconcepts. The opportunities presented were SCUBA goggles with built-in LED displaysto indicate depth; a scuba facility for malls, and a scuba training area for water parks. Theremainder of the morning was spent in review and reflection of their work.The final major project was started on Wednesday afternoon and continued through toFriday morning. This project was to provide the faculty an opportunity to develop ideasrelated to their own areas of research. This project allowed them a greater amount of timeto exercise the elements of opportunity finding, market investigation, and

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2015 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Thomas Ask

concept of ‘bounded rationality.’ This conceptasserts that decisions need to be made with partial, sometimes fragmentary, information, wherefeedback is achieved only in the future. Therefore, value has to be attributed to decisionsimmediately. This concept further recognizes that not all alternatives are considered before adecision is proffered. In practical design one must sacrifice the optimum for the sufficient,perhaps stimulating reflection on Heidegger’s form of the dialectic in which one continually re-asks the same question in a never ending encirclement of the answer.Bounded rationality relates to the design process because it requires rapid distillation ofnumerous ideas and this process can discard or fail to consider good design

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2015 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Somer Chipperfield; Kelly Yoder; Sadan Kulturel-Konak; Abdullah Konak

awareness for their career. We also observed, thatstudents’ interest in global awareness increased with class standing as the MDL predicts.VI. AcknowledgmentThis work is partially supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under Award NumbersDUE-1141001 and DUE-1044800. Any opinions, findings, conclusions, and/or recommendationsexpressed in this paper are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the NSF.VII. References1. National Science Foundation (2006). Investing in America’s Future: Strategic Plan, FY 2006-2011. Arlington, VA.2. Reimers, F. (2009). Leading for Global Competency, ASCD 67(1). .3. Doscher, S., (2012) “The Development of Rubrics to Measure Undergraduate Students' Global Awareness and Global

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2015 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Steven Magluilo; Abdullah Konak; Sadan Kulturel-Konak; Ivan Esparragoza; Gul E. Okudan Kremer

collected to evaluate the reliability of PEARinstruments.AcknowledgmentThis work is partially supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under Award NumbersDUE-1141001. Any opinions, findings, conclusions, and/or recommendations expressed in thispaper are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the NSF.References: 1. Alexander, P. A. (2003). The development of expertise: The journey from acclimation to proficiency. Educational Researcher, 32(8), 10-14. 2. Boud, D. and Falchikov, N. (2007). Rethinking assessment in higher education: Learning for the longer term, Routledge 3. Boyd, H. and Cowan, J., 1985, "A case for self‐assessment based on recent studies of student learning," Assessment and

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2015 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Ellyn A. Lester; Linda M. Thomas

Assignment, which:  Allowed students to assess their own progress over the semester,   Challenged students to analyze their own strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats on a broad scale,   Motivated students to conduct a thorough, detailed reflection on what they had learned throughout the semester, and how they might apply that knowledge in the future, and   Asked students for feedback on the course and suggestions for further improvementVII. AssessmentGiven class size, the n > 30 sample size needed for statistically-significant analysis was notpossible. Formal assessment will be pursued in the long-term. Two outcomes will be analyzed:  Practicing

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2014 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Ruth Ochia P.E.

this paper is to provide details of theunified bioengineering “overview” curriculum. The curriculum development of Temple University’s (TU)department has been hiring faculty from a wide variety of Bioengineering program as an example to other programs thatbioengineering specialties and the difficulty came with the may wish to include a broader spectrum of areas within theirdevelopment of the curriculum that reflected this diversity. undergraduate bioengineering curricula.The bioengineering curriculum was modified using thebackward course design concept [1] by looking at the contents II. CURRICULUM NEEDSof the proposed senior capstone classes and redesigning theseven

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2014 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Holly T. Frederick

foundationalstep increases the depth of student understanding in an area tools provide students with the information that is necessarywhere they expressed an initial interest. Students have to move forward to the second level of the taxonomy whichresponded very positively about the experience and reflected that focuses on Comprehension by Bloom or Understanding asit provides a unique learning opportunity. The framework can defined in the revised taxonomy. If students can explainbe adapted to a variety of disciplines. concepts, the ideas are clearer to

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2012 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Jumoke Ladeji-Osias; Gbekeloluwa Oguntimein; John Wheatland; Craig Scott; Yacob Astatke

. Goal Setting: At the beginning of each semester, students set academic and personal goals which they are encouraged to post in a visible place. More than half of the students (56%) reported posting these goals. At the end of the semester, they reflect on the goals and what factors impacted their ability to achieve these goals. b. Internships: The coordinator for student work experience provided a workshop for students on applying for internships and research experiences. Additionally, information on security clearances was provided. Internship strategies were also discussed during monthly meetings. Over 85% of the students obtained

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2016 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Jeffrey Birou; Alistar Erickson-Ludwig; Mira Olson; Kevin Scoles

@Beeber have given the Peck Scholars students significant latitude in completing this project. While one constraint was for the project to be cost­effective, OEMS’s definition of “cost­effective” is dependent on each individual school’s resources; when presented with the combined $2000 that the Peck Scholars Program and SLA@Beeber set aside for the project, OEMS did not find that unreasonable. This trend is reflected in other areas of the project: as long as the Peck Scholars are addressing the five focus areas of OEMS’s sustainability plan (above), OEMS has let the students work fairly autonomously. Given the other commitments of the partner teachers at SLA@Beeber, opportunities for collaboration, input and constraints from SLA were minimal

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2016 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Sunil Dehipawala; Vazgen Shekoyan; George Tremberger; M. Chantale Damas; Alexei Kisselev; David Lieberman; Tak Cheung

atoms. A typical Synchrotron-based X-ray Absorption data plot would show absorption at energy beyond the regular K-edge(or L-edge). When the incoming X-ray energy exceeds the K-edge energy, the remainingenergy would be given to the released photoelectrons. Furthermore, a photoelectron would showresonance when partially confined by the potential imposed by the neighboring atoms. Althoughthe quantum resonance for the superposition of the reflected electron wave and the out-goingelectron wave has no analogy in the first year physics courses, the vibrating string experimentprobing the wave velocity as proportional to string tension divided by mass per unit length andalso the product of frequency and wavelength would offer a working analogy where

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2016 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Eileen Haase PhD; Harry Goldberg

study groups which met outside ofclass which could be viewed as a reflection of the student’s perceived value of this activity.Another popular class activity was celebrating Noble Prize week in October, which involvedannouncing each day’s winner, their research, and relevance to the course. Even though lectureswere recorded, last fall over 90% of the students (n=126) still came to lecture each day. Webelieve that the quality and value of the classroom experience prevented a drop in attendance, aproblem that seems to be of national concern.Weekly Team Based Learning (TBL)There has been substantial research documenting the value of team based learning on studentunderstanding and comprehension4,11. However, team based learning is only effective if

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2011 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Scott Bronikowski; Christopher Lowrance; Kenneth Viall

todetermine their own level of success in our courses. Certainly, we strongly encourage andmotivate our students to devote time to studying outside the classroom and offer our personalassistance if they encounter any problems. However, if they fail to take advantage of theseopportunities, then their grade will accurately reflect their level of commitment to the course.For future study, we plan to continue the longitudinal study with the selected courses and assessthe trends on final exam grades and instructor time. Our institutional survey results of allstudents will be analyzed with targeted questions related to the use of cadet time, theeffectiveness of the quiz method, and student preference for the method versus traditionalhomework assignments

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2011 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Sean K. Turner

properly in the field. Designing new systems as well asunderstanding the financial attributes of the systems are both equally important in the success ofa Sustainability Engineering. In most cases undergraduate students have backgrounds that lackcertain fundamentals such as energy management, architecture design, sales, equipmentmanagement and alternative energy training.Solar AssessmentStudents at Rowan University are given a choice of clinic projects. This gives students anopportunity to pick projects that reflect their interests. We have been able to offer a number ofphotovoltaic (PV) system projects, which in aggregate offers a suite of sustainable energyprojects. Students are split into multidisciplinary teams in terms of some ME, ChE EE and

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2009 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

RAMAN LALL; TIMOTHY J. DONOHUE; JULIE C. MITCHELL

systems of differentialequations, fitting parameters to the models is complex and presents convergence issues as thesystems grow in size. In spite of such issues, the analysis of in vivo time series data is veryuseful in gauging the response of in vivo systems that have not undergone artificial isolation andpurification. In particular, such data accurately reflect the activity of cells and organisms andhow they respond to signals and stimuli. Living organisms must coordinate biological machineryacross several levels of organization, from gene expression to dynamic changes in proteinabundance to adaptive changes in metabolic profiles and physiological response. These changescannot always be deduced from in vitro measurements of rate constants and

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2009 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Elimchili Lyaro; Jennifer Biddle; Jaclyn Stanfield

front of the SC. − Laser and ultrasonic receiver transducers shall be able to transform reflected energy or waves that come from hazard detection into appropriate voltages to be used by the main vehicle control system and the processing to calculate the hazard size. − Navigation system shall be able to send appropriate data to the processing system for the display to show the driver the exact location and distance to the selected exit. − System shall utilize a 64-bit ARM Cortex-R4F CPU with 64k cache. − System shall utilize FreeBSD UNIX operating system. − System shall have a minimum of 256mb of RAM. − Smart vehicle operational data transfer will be encrypted at 128 bit to protect unauthorized access. − The vehicle

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2009 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Ricardo A. Camilo; S. Keith Hargrove

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

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2009 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

D. Weber; G. Reluzco; D. Kaminski; B.W. Bequette

a multi-billion dollar energy company that is headquartered in Spain. It has been on a team of companies that are designing new forms of solar and other renewable energies. One development that they made was Concentrated Solar power. In solar energy, panels are typically placed at certain angles to obtain the best sunlight. However, in concentrated solar, solar panels are strategically placed to obtain the most amount of sunlight while still reflecting the light to a single tower that gathers all the light in. This single tower then transmits the energy to a water depot and the heat vaporizes the water, creating high-pressure steam. This high-pressure steam then enters a turbine, which

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2004 ASEE North Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Deepti Suri; Eric Durant

aspects of good requirements, which are exercised throughout the class.Completeness of requirements presents special challenge to experienced professionals, so it is notnecessarily a poor outcome that students are more tentative in their self-evaluation of this area. Itis interesting that the smallest bias of self-success over course aid occurred for objective 6 (0.16),while the largest occurred for objective 8 (0.63). This may reflect the students’ confidence inpresenting technical material from several previous courses.7. Summary and Future DirectionsIn summary, requirements in general, and the authors’ project approach in particular, emphasizedifferent skills than those with which most engineers have the greatest comfort. The emphasis

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2004 ASEE North Midwest Section Conference

Authors

William E. Howard; Joseph C. Musto; William C. Farrow

specified as driving dimensions, so thatthey do not define the position of the linkage, but simply reflect the values of these dimensionsas link 2 is dragged to a new position. In addition to determining the values of the limitingpositions, the students can see that these positions exist when links 2 and 3 are collinear. Figure 4 Finding Limiting Position of Link 4 Figure 5 Linkage with θ2 DefinedThe last part of the problem is solved by changing the dimension defining θ2 to a drivingdimension, as shown in Figure 5. Although the linkage is now fully defined, any of the drivingdimensions (any of the lengths or the angle θ2) may be changed by double-clicking its value andentering a new value. For example

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2011 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

Bradley A. Hyatt

of ASC Member Programs.” International Proceedings of the 44th AnnualConference of Associated Construction Schools.Jones S. A., et al. (2009) The Business Value of BIM: Getting Building Information Modeling tothe Bottom Line.Montoya, M. A., Kelting, S. D., Hauck, A. J. (2008). “Pilot Study of an Integrated ConstructionManagement Curriculum.” International Proceedings of the 44th Annual Conferenc ofAssociated Construction Schools.O’Brien, W., Soibelman, L., and Elvin, G. (2003). “Collaborative Design Processes: An Active-and Reflective-Learning Course in Multidisciplinary Collaboration.” Journal of ConstructionEducation, 8(2), 78-93.Padmanabhan, G., and Katti, D. (2002). “Using Community-Based Projects in Civil EngineeringCapstone Courses

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2009 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

Xiaomin Jin; Dennis Derickson; Simeon Trieu; Samuel O. Agbo

letters (Focus Issue Nano Photics), vol.6, no. 10, pp. 788-790, 2008. [5] X. Jin, B. Zhang, T. Dai, and G. Zhang, “Effects of Transverse Mode Coupling and Optical Confinement Factor on Gallium Nitride-Based Laser Diode” The Institute of Physics: Chinese Physics vol 17, no.4, pp-1274-1278, April 2008.[6] X. Jin, B. Zhang, L. Chen, and G. Zhang, "The Optimization of Gallium Nitride-Based Laser Diode through Transverse Modes Analysis", OSA Journal: Chinese Optics letters vol.5, no. 10, pp. 588-590, 2007.[7] S. Trieu, X. Jin, B. Zhang, T. Dai, K. Bao, X. N. Kang and G. Y. Zhang, “Light Extraction Improvement of GaN-based Light-emitting Diodes using Patterned Undoped GaN Bottom Reflection Gratings”, the SPIE International

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2009 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

Estelle M. Eke

attached to mini servo High and low power IR LEDs  IR Detector tubing used to block IR reflection from table  Figure 4. Boe-Bot #2 that detects and retrieves balls and Figure 5. Schematic Diagram for Boe-Bot #2 drops the balls in designated hole.on the right-hand side are used to navigate to the hole after ball capture. The schematic diagramfor Boe- Bot #2 is shown in Figure 5.Project#2 Spring 2008: Test-tube RetrieverThis project was inspired by a robot workcell that consists of two robots Puma 560 and IBM7575, and a conveyer system found at Professor Harry Cheng’s(6) Integration EngineeringLaboratory at the University of

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2009 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

Kate Disney; John Krupczak

a number of campuses have begun to offer technological literacycourses for non-science majoring students 4. There are four standard models of technologicalliteracy courses as explained by John Krupczak and Dave Ollis: 5 1. The Technology Survey course. 2. The Technology Focus Course that focuses on a particular technology area. 3. The Technology Creation Course (a course with design emphasis). 4. The Technology Course that Critiques, Assesses, Reflects, and/or ConnectsHope College and Mission College both offer Type-1, the Technology Survey Course designedfor non-science majors. Proceedings of the 2009 American Society for Engineering Education Pacific Southwest Regional Conference

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2009 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

Said Shakerin

C D Figure 4 – Snap shots of colors in motion toy # 2. Figure 5 – Dynamics of froth life displaying stretching, break off, and bumping. Proceedings of the 2009 American Society for Engineering Education Pacific Southwest Regional Conference 318Sand Painting Toy – This novelty toy is also a modified HS cell, two glass plates with avery small gap (less than a millimeter) containing colored fine sand (black and green) andsand dust. The sand roughly fills one third of the space in the toy with the rest filled byair. Small amount of tiny reflective confetti added to the sand enhances

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2009 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

Yusuf Ozturk; Emrah Orhun; Chris Bowerman

. Social networking tools including myspace type facilities, wikis,blogs, user groups and forums will be used for collaboration and reflection as part of thelearning landscape as well as for preparing students for study abroad. A particularattention will be paid to utilizing existing digital libraries such as National Science DigitalLibrary and MERLOT that have collections relevant to CS for shared repositories oflearning materials.3.2 Development of Institutional Frameworks for MobilityThe commitment and the formal administrative arrangements for the project were stated inthe Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) which was signed by all partners in advance.According to MoU, exchange students will be expected to pay the appropriate tuitionrelevant to