Conference Session

Are Classical Solutions Outdated?

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Marvin Criswell

bending moments and flexural shear. Othermethods then existed (e.g., slope-deflection, direct integration) which for a “reasonable sized realstructure” quickly produce a set of simultaneous equations that was impractical to nearlyimpossible to solve by hand methods. Practical analyses before moment distribution necessarilyhad to be of an approximate nature for most structures.In the moment distribution method, all joints of the structure are initially assumed to be fixed toprevent both rotation and translation. Next, the moments at the member fixed ends resultingfrom the applied loads acting on the beam are determined. In the usual case, the moments fromall members entering a joint do not result in the joint being in equilibrium. The joint

Conference Session

Connecting BME education to the "real world"

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joe Tranquillo, Bucknell University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Biomedical Engineering

Paper ID #21603Sustainable Development Challenge For BMEProf. Joe Tranquillo, Bucknell University Dr. Joseph (Joe) Tranquillo is an Associate Professor at Bucknell University in the Department of Biomed- ical Engineering, He is also co-director of the Institute for Leadership in Technology and Management, co-director of the KEEN Winter Interdisciplinary Design Program, and chair of the Biomedical Engineer- ing Division of ASEE. Tranquillo has published three undergraduate textbooks and numerous engineering education publications, and has presented internationally on engineering and education. His work has been featured

Conference Session

Remote Sensing and Telemetry

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

William Berg; Manuel Blanco; Fabio Urbani

Figure 2: Weather Station DistributionOn the main server side, an ad-hoc designed batch procedure will process the text files containedin the incoming-file directory. This routine will take data contained in the current text file andwill analyze them in terms of integrity, consistency and coherency. Once controls are done, thesame procedure will insert data into the main database, where they will be available for furthermanipulation, and will delete the current text file. If during the verification phase an error shouldoccur, the procedure will perform another attempt instantly. If the second attempt also fails, thefile will be moved into another directory (refused-files), which will be re-processed once a dayand emptied afterward regardless of

Conference Session

Mechanical Engineering Division Technical Session 5

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Juan C. Morales P.E., Universidad del Turabo

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

(formerly Universidad del Turabo)AbstractTypical design (sizing) projects in a Machine Design course tend to rely on abstractions of themachine; that is, situations in which the student must imagine the system, perhaps with the aid ofa 2D schematic, and conduct the sizing calculations in a completely theoretical and abstractfashion. This skill is certainly a requirement of an experienced machine designer; however,novices may be outmatched when exposed to this level of expertise at an early stage in theirdevelopment. This article suggests that the sizing projects should be based on existingmachinery that is available in the university, and that is accessible for inspection and explorationby students. The sizing results are then compared to the

Collection

2022 ASEE Gulf Southwest Annual Conference

Authors

MERLYN XAVIER PULIKKATHARA, Physics Department, Prairie View A&M University; Kelvin K. Kirby, Prairie View A&M University; Richard T. Wilkins, Prairie View A&M University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Policy Initiative (NSSPI), Texas A&M University o Research interests include: Nuclear Counter-Terrorism, Nuclear Instrumentation Development, Exercise Development, Radiological Consequence Management, Environmental Health Physics • Defense sector: Roy Elmore, Deputy Division Leader, Department of Defense o Research interests include: Nuclear Nonproliferation, International Safeguards, Nuclear Forensics, Technology, and Policy Integration • NASA: Astronaut Stephen G. Bowen, o First nuclear submarine officer to be selected as an astronaut, veteran of STS- 126,132,133, and logged more than 40 days in seven spacewalksThe students were engaged with our guest

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Victor Giurgiutiu; Brian Mouzon

the simplest bread maker and robotics toys, through automobiles andmanufacturing facilities contain at least one mechatronics component, whether overt or covert.Nationwide, efforts to introduce mechatronics education in non-EE curriculum have sprung inover twenty US universities, and several worldwide (Carryer, 2000; Craig, 2000; Field et al.,2000; Furman et al., 2000; Gardner, 2000; Giurgiutiu et al.; 2001; Hargrove, 2000; Hayden,2001; Johnson, 2000; Lima et al., 2000; Luecke, 2001; Lyshevski, 2001; Sanoff, 2001; Shetty etal., 2000; Wild, 2001).THE NEED FOR MECHATRONICS EDUCATION IN SOUTH CAROLINAAt the University of South Carolina, the non-EE engineering students also have an acute need foreducation in the interdisciplinary field of

Conference Session

Engineering Professional Development for K-12 Teachers – I

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Shanna Daly, Purdue University; Lynn Bryan, Purdue University

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

models.Expressed models are representations witnessed in the form of an action, speech, writing,drawing, structure, or any other symbolic form, as opposed to mental models which lack acommunication aspect.10 Expressed models can influence mental models and mental models canbecome expressed models through a communication component. Gilbert and Boulter definedconsensus models as expressed models that have attained social acceptance.10 They furthercategorized these expressed and consensus models into the general categories of historical(models used in historical contexts), curricular (consensus models used in science curriculum),teaching (models developed to assist in understanding curricular models and the phenomena theyrepresent), and hybrid (models that

Conference Session

Defining Technological Literacy

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

W. Bernard Carlson, University of Virginia

Tagged Divisions

Technological Literacy Constituent Committee

Tesla. Page 11.1238.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 20061 Technological Literacy and Empowerment: Exemplars from the History of Technology As technological literacy takes form as a curriculum and field of study, we need toask ourselves continually what we are trying to accomplish. Is our goal simply to teachstudents how things work so that they can be passive employees or consumers in acapitalist economy? Or could the goal of technological literacy be broader and moreactive--that we want our students not only to understand the machine but to comprehendhow individuals, groups, and societies use

Collection

2021 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Meeting

Authors

Dustyn Roberts P.E., University of Pennsylvania; Robert W Carpick, University of Pennsylvania

Tagged Topics

Diversity

evolution of the climate in the department as well asthe demographics of the students, faculty, and staff. Although the numbers in Tables 1 and 2provide a baseline description of the composition of the department at this point in time, this isreally a snapshot of a dynamic and evolving population that would likely be better capturedthrough ecosystem metrics [11]. Additionally, we have submitted an NSF proposal that willsupport addressing DEI-related concepts (among other things) throughout a four-course labsequence in the core undergraduate curriculum. Through this and many complimentary efforts,we plan to put in place a framework through which students, faculty, and staff can co-create aclimate that fosters access and inclusion and leads to

Conference Session

Environmental Engineering Curricula

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kurt Paterson, Michigan Technological University

Tagged Divisions

Environmental Engineering

2006-1105: BUILDING A BETTER HYBRID: ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORINGAND MEASUREMENT ANALYSISKurt Paterson, Michigan Technological University Page 11.292.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006 Building a Better Hybrid: Environmental Monitoring and Measurement AnalysisMotivationFor most students, learning in context improves retention through improved motivationand connection to other knowledge. In an effort to elevate retention of data analysismethods, a hybrid class that integrates environmental issues, analytical methods, andstatistical analyses was designed for the sophomore year of the undergraduateenvironmental engineering program at

Conference Session

Mechanical Engineering Capstone Design

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Scott F. Kiefer, York College of Pennsylvania; Tristan M. Ericson, York College of Pennsylvania

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

Paper ID #11195Capstone Design Assessment and Student MotivationDr. Scott F. Kiefer, York College of Pennsylvania Scott Kiefer has spent the past fourteen years teaching mechanical engineering at four institutions. As an exemplary teaching specialist in mechanical engineering at Michigan State University, Scott received the Withrow Award for Teaching Excellence, given to one faculty member in the College in Engineering for outstanding instructional performance. Scott specializes in machine design, vibrations and controls, and mechatronics. He started his career at the University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez in the

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Edward Lumsdaine

-hour semester course (as a minimum) can have substantial results and initiate an invention, whereas a one credit-hour course cannot do much more than provide the foundational framework for subsequent application in a design project, thus losing the benefit of just-in-time learning. • The foundational skills (lateral thinking, teaming, communication) as well as the four- quadrant thinking and creative problem solving models are key and must not be neglected or skipped, if promising inventions or entrepreneuring ideas are sought. • Ideally in an engineering program, these foundational skills should have been learned by the junior year as part of an integrated approach that moves from

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

FYI Team Members; Adrian Cloete

B.C.The context for our FYI must be noted. The integration of Critical Thinking has been tried –successfully and unsuccessfully – in higher education for many years. Among General Education(GenEd) faculty at DeVry, we have experienced three models to promote critical thinking acrossthe curriculum.1. Persuade faculty to incorporate Critical Thinking in every course. ½This can be achieved by: ½ Getting students to answer in complete sentences on labs, quizzes, exams Avoiding regurgitative multiple-choice questions that only assess memory not thinking ½ or problem-solving ½ Giving students problems to trouble-shoot individually and in groups Encouraging substantiated

Conference Session

FPD4 -- Hands-on & Real-World Studies

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David Ye, Polytechnic University; Ilya Brutman, Polytechnic University; Gunter Georgi, Polytechnic University; Lorcan Folan, Polytechnic University

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

AC 2007-658: FRESHMAN PROJECT: AUTONOMOUS UNDERWATER VEHICLE(AUV)David Ye, Polytechnic University David Ye is a senior head teaching assistant in General Engineering. He expects to receive his BSEE from Polytechnic University in June 2007. His interests include robotics. He interned at Symbol Technologies researching wireless protocols and Power LEDs.Ilya Brutman, Polytechnic University Ilya Brutman is a teaching assistant in General Engineering. He expects to receive his BSCompE from Polytechnic University in June 2008.Gunter Georgi, Polytechnic University Gunter W. Georgi is an Industry Professor at Polytechnic University. He received his BS from Cooper Union and his MS and

Conference Session

Use of Labs to Introduce Students to Engr.

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Janet Powell; Richard Mines; Laura Lackey

levels. He worked in consulting with CH2M Hill and Black &Veatch for 6.5 years. Dr. Mines holds a BS, ME, and Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from Virginia Military Institute,University of Virginia, and Virginia Tech. He’s a registered PE in Florida, New Mexico, and Virginia.JANET CARLSON POWELL is the Associate Director at the Biological Sciences Curriculum Study, a non-profitdedicated to providing leadership in science education through curriculum and professional development, andresearch in these areas. She has a BA in environmental biology, an MS in curriculum and instruction, and a Ph.D. inscience education. She has taught and conducted research in elementary, secondary, and higher education settings.LAURA W. LACKEY has four years of

Collection

2014 ASEE Zone 4 Conference

Authors

Jody Hamabata

154 First-year Experience for Engineering Lab Course: The Mini-Rose Parade Float Project Update – Year 6 Jody Hamabata California State Polytechnic University, PomonaAbstractThis paper discusses how our university integrates the Cal State’s “learn by doing” philosophyinto the curriculum by combining both a lecture and lab to prepare students for careers inengineering through hands on activities. Each Winter Quarter, each EGR 100 Lab section is giventhe task of designing and building a miniature Rose Float. Under given specifications the

Conference Session

Engineering Education Research

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Turns Jennifer; Atman Cindy; Angela Linse; Karl Smith

).The winds of change in engineering education have been blowing for some time, and thequestion arises “Why hasn’t more change occurred faster?” Wulf’s (2002) “hypothesis is simplythat the faculty don't believe that change is needed. They are following the wise adage, 'if it ain'tbroke, don't fix it.' If one hasn't had recent experience in industry, …, and if the change is amosaic in multiple dimensions whose pattern is hard to discern, then the fact that it's 'broke' isnot easy to see." This allegation of resistance from faculty is ironic given Koen’s (2003) claimthat change is fundamental to engineering; in fact it is an integral part of his definition of theengineering method – “the use of heuristics to cause the best possible change in a

Collection

2013 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Issam Damaj; Ashley Ater Kranov

methodology.Keywords: Technical Education, Engineering, Assessment, Measurement, Sustainability.Introduction:Sustainability is a buzzword in modern times. Many areas have been attracted touse the term Sustainability to refer to keeping up, prolonging, and enduring.Sustainability have been used in areas such as development, ecology, energy,biology, to name a few. According to [1], sustainability is the noun form of theverb to sustain, and it means to keep up, prolong, endure, etc. The termSustainability is sometimes coupled with the synonym Maintainability whichmeans to keep in an appropriate condition or to sustain against opposition ordanger. The main difference between Sustainability and Maintainability is theamount of energy and the type of effort needed

Conference Session

Teaching Circuit Theory and Electronics

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James W. Bales, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

arrive with an interest in the subject, a desire to learn, afamiliarity with mathematics through integral calculus (or beyond), and some understanding with Page 22.90.2electricity and magnetism from high-school physics classes. The subject meets for one three-hour-long session each week.Therefore we have taken the approach of presenting concepts in the simplest and most directmanner possible, and then having the students build, test, debug, and appreciate as many circuitsas possible. Along the way, they become familiar with many of the fundamental concepts ofelectronics (e.g., voltage, resistance, capacitance) and gain facility with the

Conference Session

Introducing Active Learning into ME Courses

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Julie Linsey, University of Texas-Austin; Brent Cobb, U.S. Air Force Academy; Daniel Jensen, U.S. Air Force Academy; Kristin Wood, University of Texas-Austin; Saad Eways, Austin Community College

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

available professor prep., in-class for the students to spend using this product? safety expectations How safe must the product be? durability expectations How long does the user expect product to last? course purpose, future What are their future plans? (engineer, pilot, graduate plans school, lawyer, business school, something else, not sure) Is this an elective or required course? current course and How do the activities need to fit into the course curriculum curriculum? Should they be in-class, lab, or assigned to be done outside of class?3.2 Defining the Educational Goals / Objectives based on

Conference Session

Mechanical Engineering Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Maher Shehadi, Purdue Polytechnic Institute

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

Paper ID #25046Enhancing Teaching Practices for Fluid Power Class with Interactive Learn-ing Exercises and its Impacts on Students’ PerformanceDr. Maher Shehadi, Purdue Polytechnic Institute Dr. Shehadi is an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering Technology (MET) at Purdue Univer- sity. His academic experiences have focused on learning and discovery in areas related to HVAC, indoor air quality, human thermal comfort, and energy conservation. While working with industry, he oversaw maintenance and management programs for various facilities including industrial plants, high rise residen- tial and commercial buildings

Conference Session

Two-Year College Special Topics Potpourri

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Angela Minichiello, Utah State University; Tracy D Blake, Utah State University; Wade H. Goodridge, Utah State University; David Dwight Sam PhD, Utah State University

Tagged Divisions

Two Year College Division

instruction. She is a member of ASEE, ASME, and IEEE.Tracy D Blake, Utah State University Tracy Blake, a lecturer in the Engineering and Technology Dept. at Utah State University, instructs engineering courses at the Tooele regional campus. His industry experience covers a variety of fields including component and system level design. He has several years of teaching experience in electrical engineering at Arizona and Utah State Universities. His current position involves assisting in the building of an educational program that will allow students to take engineering courses at locations remote to the main campus.Wade H Goodridge, Utah State University Dr. Wade Goodridge, Principal Lecturer in the Department of

Conference Session

Community Engagement Division Technical Session 6

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Cristiano Cordeiro Cruz, Aeronautics Technological Institute

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Community Engagement Division

dialogue, an educator engineer, in addition to being empathic, critical, and capable of dialoguing, must also be open to learn throughout his/her life. S/he must be willing to learn from the endless praxis’ exercise and even to be taught by the supposedly naive grassroots group s/he is serving: learning from the group’s knowledge, strategies of political action, worldviews and values, etc.Since a grassroots engineer is supposed to be able to develop popular education alongside – or asan integrant part of – the technical support they provide to grassroots groups, they must be aneducator engineer. Defined like that, it can be said that “grassroots engineer” and “educatorengineer” are synonyms.It is

Collection

1999 Annual Conference

Authors

James Devault

modulated-IR detectors and abumper system capable of detecting contact at left front, front, and right front. All robots wererequired to maintain an IR beacon so that the guard (killer-cop) robots could locate them. Theguard robots would then attempt to ram the contestant robots. The guard robots were equippedwith software routines that supported three modes of operation; search, attack, maneuver. Themaneuver mode of operation prevented the robots from becoming stuck in a corner and allowedthem to find their way around intervening obstacles while pursuing a beacon signal. In additionto being an integral part of the contest event, these robots served as an example of simple, yetruggedly constructed robots of base-line capability. The software design

Conference Session

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James Canino, Trine University; Kendall B. Teichert, Trine University

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

Paper ID #24651A Frankenstein-inspired Engineering Design ProjectDr. James ”Jamie” Canino, Trine University Jamie Canino is currently an associate professor at Trine University where he focuses on undergraduate education research. He teaches in the thermal-fluids and aerospace engineering fields and can be reached at caninoj@trine.edu.Dr. Kendall B. Teichert, Trine University Dr. Teichert received his B.S. and M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Brigham Young University. His Masters research studied behavior of microelectromechanical sensors/actuators. He worked for a small engineering firm in Salt Lake City, Utah

Conference Session

Preparing Engineering Students for Their Professional Practice

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Jia Zhu, Florida International University; Ellen Zerbe, Pennsylvania State University; Monique S. Ross, Florida International University; Catherine G. P. Berdanier, Pennsylvania State University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

third-party application for talent recruitment. This third-party applicationhas partnered with Textio that integrates the data-driven language insights for recruiters andhiring managers when they write job posts in Workday [62]. Textio is an online service basedon Gaucher et al. encoded list that helps to minimize the gender bias in job postings [49]. Itis likely that those job postings published through Workday empowered university recruitmentsites may have been gender neutralized through the tool offered in the application. Moreover,postdoc postings from non-academic institutions reported less masculine-coded, which mayencourage more female applicants for postdoc careers outside of academia. The feminine-codedpostings also had a slightly

Conference Session

Manufacturing Laboratory Experience

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Sheng-Jen Hsieh

10.411.8Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright ©2005, American Society for Engineering Education Figure 11. Summary of ILS results for Visual/Verbal attribute.5. DiscussionThese results suggest that the Ladder Logic Tool Kit design is instructionally effective, and thatstudents’ subjective impressions of the system are positive. It appears that we may safelycontinue to develop similar types of lessons. It also appears that the Toolkit’s visual, exploratoryis a good fit for active, visual learners.6. Conclusion and Future DirectionsThis paper has described continuing steps in the process of developing an Integrated VirtualLearning System, called

Conference Session

First-Year Programs Division Poster Session

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jacques C. Richard, Texas A&M University; Noemi V. Mendoza Diaz, Texas A&M University; Tanya Dugat Wickliff, Texas A&M University; So Yoon Yoon, Texas A&M University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

, System Integration and LEAN Process Improvement (technical and business), Dr. Wickliff is passionate about Organizational Wellness and the Holistic Well- ness of individuals. She is also a professional Facilitator and Motivational Speaker. Dr. Wickliff earned a PhD in Interdisciplinary Engineering from Texas A&M University where she combined Industrial En- gineering and Organizational Development to conduct research in the area of talent management and organizational effectiveness. She also completed an executive MBA from the University of Texas-Dallas and a BS in mechanical engineering from the University of Houston. She is founder of a nationally rec- ognized pre-college initiative program, FreshStart, which has

Conference Session

Faculty Development Lightning Talk Session 2

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Stephanie Laughton, The Citadel; Daniel Gingerich, Ohio State University; Sneha Prabha Narra, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Casey I. Canfield, Missouri University of Science & Technology

Tagged Divisions

Faculty Development Division

Learned” paper is to investigate how former graduate studentleaders can employ their experiences to achieve and excel in service requirements as juniortenure-track faculty members. Research skills, and increasingly teaching ability, have been coreto the graduate student curriculum, and match the majority of faculty tenure requirements.However, preparation for the service requirement is often overlooked at both the graduatestudent and faculty level. While a small part of the overall tenure package, there is an unspokenpresumption that faculty members will be able to serve effectively and efficiently. In STEMcurricula, the development of interpersonal skills is often overlooked. While this may not be animpediment in research communications, faculty

Conference Session

Instrumentation and Measurements: Innovative Course Development

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David Beams, University of Texas-Tyler

Tagged Divisions

Instrumentation

12.1201.8Fig. 7 Displacement measurement with an LVDT.Optically-coupled isolation amplifier: Significant differences in ground potentialsbetween a sensor and its signal conditioner may occur in some instrumentationapplications. A differential amplifier may not be suitable in these cases; the ground-potential difference may exceed the common-mode voltage range of the amplifier, ormay be sufficiently large to damage or destroy the amplifier [6]. Isolation amplifiers areappropriate in such instances. There are multiple approaches to making an isolationamplifier (e.g., transformer coupling, capacitive coupling, or optical coupling). TheEENG 4302 curriculum included the construction and test of an optically-coupledisolation amplifer using an MCT9001 dual