Conference Session

Engineering Libraries (ELD) Poster Session

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David A Zwicky, North Carolina State University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Libraries

Biomedical Engineering). Initially, two librariansattended each session, and each session was only held on Tuesday afternoons from noon to2:00PM. Starting with the third semester of the project, the schedule was expanded to two dayseach week with one librarian per session (rotating through a staff of three librarians). EB I wasvisited on Tuesdays and EB III was visited on Thursdays. At the same time, the time was shifted Page 23.1390.3to 11:00AM to 1:00PM, in order to align more closely with openings in the typical classschedule in those buildings.To promote “Ask Us Here,” beyond the immediate signage, we posted notices on the electronicbulletin board

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2024 ASEE PSW Conference

Authors

Leonard Hernandez, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Jacqueline G Radding, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Taufik Taufik, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Darrick Baker; Jason Poon, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Ali Dehghan-Banadaki, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

offering of the course in Spring 2023 will be discussed, along with lessonslearned, challenges, and plans for future improvements of the course.KeywordsStudent projects, industrial automation lab, laboratory development.IntroductionAutomation is a vital part of modern society, allowing supply to meet demand in variousindustries. It is the method or system of controlling a process using electronic devices to keephuman intervention to a minimum1. Automation was first introduced in the early ages with theinventions of the watermill and windmill to lessen human labor involvement2. Later, the conceptwas introduced along with electricity into the manufacturing industry in the early-to-mid 20thcentury3. Over time, automation extended into the

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2023 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Rong Li; Huabo Lu

, partially thanks to their familiarity with Visual Studio and .Netenvironment, which is the same tool/environment as their fundamental programming classes.Challenges exist, including the F# language’s syntax, FP paradigm thinking, number ofexercises, etc.We found comparisons between different paradigms, OOP vs. FP in our case, to be effective inhelping students learn new paradigms. Comparison can happen at all levels, such as at thestatement level, module level, and project level.Our class concluded the discussion of FP by completing a project using F# (learn by doing), andstudents presented an improved understanding of FP afterward.SummaryWe present our experience of teaching F# as a functional programming language toundergraduate students. The

Conference Session

Technical Sessions 1

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2024 Fall ASEE Mid-Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Heather Louise Lai, State University of New York at New Paltz

Tagged Topics

Diversity, Professional Papers

course is not a prerequisite for thecourse, there were several students who did not have familiarity with even basic programmingskills.Instructor’s lack of specific knowledge related to AI implementation. I have some basicexperience using ML/AI to perform clustering and characterization tasks on extracted features inlarge data sets and from image data. However, my fundamental knowledge of the topic is alsolimited, which hampers my ability to develop projects that are properly scoped and provide thestructure and explanation required for students’ intuitive development of code for performing AItasks.Limited computing power. Implementing AI based computer programs requires a large amountof computing power. Some campuses may already have a mechanism

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2024 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Kasey L. Moomau; Jessica Deters; Emily Fitzpatrick

2024 ASEE Midwest Section Conference Work in Progress: Improving economic equity in K-12 robotics exploratory activities Kasey Moomau, Emily Fitzpatrick, and Jessica Deters College of Engineering, University of Nebraska-LincolnAbstractThis work-in-progress paper presents an initiative to improve economic equity in K-12 roboticsexploratory activities through the development of a more affordable educational robotics systemand a pilot intervention program. The project aims to enhance STEM identity development forunderrepresented middle school students, particularly those from less affluent communities,while also fostering positive

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2024 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Sivaganeshwar Subramaniam; Siddharth Alagiri; Pedro C. P. Cupertino; Daniel I. Chikwendu; Adam C. Lynch

Modeling of an Integrated Systems Engineering Management Plan Within MCSE Sivaganeshwar Subramaniam (Student), Siddharth Alagiri (Student), Pedro Cordeiro Povoa Cupertino (Student), Daniel Ikechukwu Chikwendu (Student) Adam Carlton Lynch (Faculty) Wichita State UniversityAbstractBackground: This project investigates the integration of a systems engineering management plan and adigital transformation model into a life cycle model, which is modeled in MCSE as part of amodel-based systems engineering strategy.Objective: To construct a model-based systems engineering management plan using MCSE and theintegrated

Conference Session

Biomedical Engineering Division (BED) Poster Session

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alexander James Carroll, Vanderbilt University; Joshua Daniel Borycz, Vanderbilt University; Sheldon Salo, Vanderbilt University Library; Amanda R. Lowery, Vanderbilt University; Eric Spivey, Vanderbilt University

Tagged Divisions

Biomedical Engineering Division (BED)

Board and was approved as a Quality Improvement project (IRB#232075).The survey responses to the multiple-choice questions from each class were recorded in aspreadsheet with response identifiers, course information, and answers. The Analysis of Variance(ANOVA) method was used to compare the proportion of correct answers from each BME class(2900W, 3900W, 4901W) to the objective questions in these tests. The Tukey Honest SignificantDifference (TukeyHSD) test was performed to make pairwise comparisons between individualvariables. These were computed using the stats package in R-4.3.1.Preliminary Results: Table 1 reports results from student performance on nine objectivequestions. Q3-Q7 asked students to identify sources of information to consult

Conference Session

Energy Conversion, Conservation and Nuclear Engineering Division (ECCNE) Technical Session 1

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Aditi Verma, University of Michigan; Katie Snyder, University of Michigan

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Conservation and Nuclear Engineering Division (ECCNE), Energy Conversion

. Oursection is called “Socially Engaged Design of Nuclear Energy Technologies.” In its first offeringin Fall 2023, the course had 38 students. Students from any engineering major can take thiscourse, meaning that some were nuclear-interested but many were planning to major in otherdisciplines. As is typical of many schools right now, we had a significant number of studentsinterested in computer science and engineering. But a wide range of engineering fields wererepresented in our course.All Introduction to Engineering courses in the College of Engineering are design-build-testcourses, as is ours. The project with which students in our course are tasked is the design of ahypothetical fusion energy facility in collaboration with community members from

Conference Session

Faculty Development Division (FDD) Technical Session 7

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Shawna Dory, Penn State University; Sarah E Zappe, Penn State University; Stephanie Cutler, Penn State University

Tagged Divisions

Faculty Development Division (FDD)

approach can be adopted by institutions,including optimizing faculty and staff support, establishing a faculty development andmentoring program, permitting flexibility in work schedules, improving productivity ofmeetings, and managing communication tools [6]. To help give faculty members skills tosupport students with mental health challenges and to help them increase their own mentalwell-being and fight burnout, the TLC took on several new programs related to holistic facultydevelopment, focusing on mental health. The projects included a summer book club related to teaching and student mentalhealth; mental health first aid training for faculty; and free licenses for the Calm app, an appused for increasing mental well-being. The programs

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15th Annual First-Year Engineering Experience Conference (FYEE)

Authors

Andrew Charles Bartolini, University of Notre Dame

concepts in both MATLAB and Python. A totalof 14 lectures focused on MATLAB (covering variable assignment statements, inputs, displays,conditionals, loops, arrays, plotting, character arrays, strings, user-defined functions, datastructures, cell arrays, app designer, and matrix-based implementation) while six lectures focusedon Python (covering variable assignment statements, inputs, displays, conditionals, loops, lists,plotting, dictionaries, data types, and user-defined functions). The remaining lectures were usedfor project work, project presentations, and exam reviews.All first-year engineering students took the course (regardless of their major and priorprogramming experience). The exception was students intending to major in Computer

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15th Annual First-Year Engineering Experience Conference (FYEE)

Authors

Paul McMonigle, Pennsylvania State University; Denise Amanda Wetzel, Pennsylvania State University; Sara Kern, Pennsylvania State University

projects. Currently, there are over8,200 undergraduate students in the College of Engineering, and with the current approach toteaching, most students never receive formal library instruction.Academic libraries have long been promoters of using digital badges to supplement courseworkand introduce students to information literacy skills. Badges are often used in coordination withclassroom learning and usually require collaboration between librarians and teaching faculty.The library badge itself is never the point of the course but assists the student with learning skillsthat they would not normally have time to learn during the regular course period [1]. It is evenpossible for libraries to meet accreditation requirements via the creation of badges

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2023 CIEC

Authors

Benjamin Gaston; Ramy Harik; Kuis Alva; Jesse Warren

smart manufacturing principles was designed and is beingimplemented in the Northeast campus of Midlands Technical College. Connectivity and datautilization are explained with the use of the equipment and software installed in the classroom.Students started using the data acquisition station on Summer 2022. The remote temperaturemonitoring system was installed at the beginning of the Fall 2022 semester.AcknowledgmentWe want to thank to the South Carolina Research Association (SCRA) and the University ofSouth Carolina (USC) for the grant that makes possible the purchase of the equipment. The grantis part of the collaborative project: “Enabling Factory to Factory (F2F) Networking for FutureManufacturing across South Carolina” currently in progress

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2023 CIEC

Authors

Kim Gaines; Caleb Allen; Johnica Mitchell; Shirley Walker-Herrington

engineering technology instruction. The grant project has anoverarching goal of improving student engagement and learning outcomes of first-time in college AfricanAmerican engineering technology (Electrical and Computer, Mechanical, and Nuclear) students, and allengineering technology students in general. Grant activities commenced October 1, 2021, and the grant team ispresently taking steps to procure a contractor for the construction of a VAR lab. Additionally, the grant team isdeveloping a program of study specific to dual enrolled students within the college’s service area that will leadto a college credential at the Technical Certificate of Credit award level.PurposeThe VARiETy grant initiative seeks to demonstrate improvement in academic

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2023 CIEC

Authors

Vatsal Maru; Adam Lynch

objectives and conducting assessments. Outcomebased education (OBE) is a critical educational development [1], employing both traditionalassessment methods of homework, quizzes, exams, and papers throughout each term as well asnewer paradigm techniques of flipped classrooms and PBL projects which are transformingcurriculum and students alike [2].Furthermore, the competency of the institution, particularly at the tertiary university level, maybe directly or indirectly measured by national and international rankings of the entire institutionor of academic units therein, such as a college. ABET assists with ensuring competency ofinstitutions on a global scale by ensuring minimum levels of preparation of qualifications forindustry [3].Likewise, one may

Conference Session

Educational Research and Methods Division (ERM) Technical Session 3

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Brittany Boyd, American Institutes for Research; Jing Yan, Tennessee State University; Taylor Lightner, QEM Network; Mercy Mugo; Ivory A. Toldson, Howard University; Lin Li P.E., Tennessee State University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods Division (ERM)

(S-STEM) grant to increase engineering degree completion of low-income, high achievingundergraduate students. The project aims to increase engineering degree completion byimproving student engagement, boosting retention and academic performance, and enhancingstudent self-efficacy by providing useful programming, resources, and financial support (i.e.,scholarships). This work is part of a larger grant aimed at uncovering effective strategies tosupport low-income STEM students’ success at HBCUs. The next section will discuss thebackground of this work.Keywords: Historically black colleges/universities (HBCUs), learning environment,undergraduate, underrepresentationBackgroundA public historically black land-grant university in the southeastern

Conference Session

Biomedical Engineering Division (BED) Poster Session

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Shannon Barker, University of Virginia; Brian P. Helmke, University of Virginia; Lynn Mandeltort, University of Virginia; Jessica Taggart, University of Virginia; Timothy E. Allen, University of Virginia

Tagged Divisions

Biomedical Engineering Division (BED)

Education Research Conference, Minneapolis MN, 2014. 7. Matz RL, Fata-Hartley CL, Posey LA, Laverty JT, Underwood SM, Carmel JH, Herrington DG, Stowe RL, Caballero MD, Cooper MM. “evaluating the extent of a large- scale transformation in gateway science courses.” Science Advances 4(10), 2018. 8. DiPietro C, Dyjur P, Fitzpatrick K, Grant K, Hoessler C, Kalu F, Richards J, Skene A, Wolf P. “Educational Development Guide Series: No. 4. A Comprehensive Guide to Working with Higher Education Curriculum Development, Review & Renewal Projects, P Dyjur & A Skene, Eds., Educational Developers Caucus, 2022. 9. Florez GAC, Huerfano MJC. Curriculum Design Process for a Systems Engineering Program. In: 2019

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2007 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

Ann-Marie Vollstedt; Michael Robinson; Eric Wang

valuable tool to teach STEM at the middle school level since they provide hands onexperience that is fun for most students. The specific objectives of this project were to: • Obtain funds to purchase robotics equipment • Provide teacher training • Provide a semester long class to train teachers in using robotics to teach physics • Initiate an after-school program • Have teachers implement the robotics program in their classrooms • Compare in-class to Internet-based robotics experiences • Evaluate teacher and student progressEquipmentEquipment such as Robolab software, the Robotic Command eXplorer (RCX), and Mindstormsfor Schools were used in the research. The RCX is a programmable microcomputer embedded ina LEGO brick that

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2013 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

Anne Beug; Phillip L. Nico

. Scratch, on the other hand, grew out of academic work in MIT's Lifelong Kindergarten Lab, officially launching in 2007 as a new educational programming and computing platform. From its website, "Scratch is designed to help young people (ages 8 and up) develop 21st century learning skills. As they create Scratch projects, young people learn important mathematical and computational ideas

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2004 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Theodore W. Manikas; Gerald R. Kane

improvements in the quality of research papers. The literature reviews are morefocused, and the papers are more cohesive with respect to their main topics. These courses aretypically taken by first-year masters students, so we will need to determine if the skills developedby writing the research paper help students with their thesis research.References[1] L. A. Krishnan and S. S. Kathpalia, "Literature reviews in student project reports," Professional Communication, IEEE Transactions on, vol. 45, pp. 187-197, 2002.[2] M. Davis, Scientific papers and presentations: Academic Press, 1997.[3] R. A. Day, How to write & publish a scientific paper, 3rd Ed: Phoenix Oryx Press, 1988.[4] J. M. Levis and G. M. Levis, "A project-based

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2011 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Robert I. Egbert

topics as the least favorite part of the class. Assuch we are in the process of reducing the amount of time spent on such topics. In response, wehave reduced the amount of time spent of such topics and replace it with more outside speakers.Similarly, tours of campus facilities, such as the library, have not been popular. Many studentsin the class do not show up for these tours.Students have expressed interests in off-campus tours of engineering related facilities but thelogistics of organizing such tours has proven to be difficult. Still we hope to try this at somepoint in the future.Students have also expressed interest in doing some kind of laboratory project in the course. Atthis point we have not found a suitable lab exercise that could be

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2013 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Michael C. Reynolds

Engineering Analysis. The University of Arkansas - Fort Smith willcontinue to refine the freshman curriculum to optimize retention and success of its engineeringstudents.Bibliography1 Knight, D.W., Carlson, L.E., Sullivan, J.F., “Improving Engineering Student Retention through Hands-On,Team Based, First-Year Design Projects,” 31st International Conference on Research in Engineering Education,Honolulu, HI, June 22 – 24, 2007.2 Bodnar, L.J., et al, “Engaging Freshman in Team Based Engineering Projects,” Proceedings AmericanSociety for Engineering Education 2012 Annual Conference, San Antonio, TX, June 10-13, 2012.3 Budny, D., Newborg, B., and Ford, M., “Combining the Freshman Introduction to Engineering and theFreshman Writing Course

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2010 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Christopher C. Ibeh

Literature: Current State of the Nanotechnology IndustryIn 2007, there were more than 370 nanotechnology companies23. Of these, 78 werenanoparticles’ companies; the complete demographics include: fabrication equipment (50),inspection/analysis (49), carbon nanotubes (46), semiconductors (21), sensors (21), coatings(17), batteries (12), solar cells (12), displays (12), and others (85). Figure 4 shows the marketshare of the projected $1085 Billion nanotechnology industry by segments; materials,electronics and pharmaceuticals are ranked numbers 1, 2 and 3 at 31%, 28% and 17%respectively. It is important to note that nanotechnology is also slated to play a role insustainability. Figure 5 indicates that the projected growth of nanotechnology depicted

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2008 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

James A. Ejiwale

performance and virtual performance is still somewhat limited. It is easy to send data by e-mail and other electrical means, but it is harder to send “parts of your heart” and to motivate team members. • Regardless of the specific means of communication used in virtual teams, the use of good, sound, basic project management techniques can provide a means to clarify the objectives, milestones, plans, and progress toward the objective. Virtual teams by their nature involve very little face-to-face time; therefore, fundamental project management techniques can minimize stress and clarify the process in what is already an extremely challenging environment

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2008 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

R. Asmatulu; W. Khan; M.B. Yildirim

, nanoparticles, nanofibers, nanofilms, nanotubes, nanocompositesfabrication techniques, and their applications were taught in detail. There were 35 students in thespring 2007 class, most of whom were engineering students. Homework sets involved theevaluation of recently published nanotechnology papers. In the term project, the studentsprepared reports on applications of nanomaterials and devices, such as nanocompositemanufacturing for aircraft industry, nanoelectromechanical systems, microelectromechanicalsystems, and nanotechnology applications for fuel and solar cells.In the second nanotechnology course, which is offered in Fall 2007, the similar topics werecovered at introductory level. There were homeworks, term projects, exams and

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2007 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Day W. Radebaugh

1 Complexity in Engineering: The Silent Killer Day W. Radebaugh Assistant Professor of Philosophy Department of Philosophy Wichita State University Wichita, Kansas 67260AbstractA review of the list of recent technological disasters suggests that the risk to society oflarge-scale engineering projects has grown in proportion to the complexity of thedesigned system. Illustrative cases include the Challenger explosion, the power gridblackouts of

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2007 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Stephan A. Durham; W. Micah Hale; Seamus Freyne

• Class Project • Extra CreditEach of these folders contains information that would traditionally be distributed during classtime in hard copy. With the course information and handouts online, the students can access thisinformation at anytime and anyplace. This also reduces the amount of printing and copying bythe instructor prior to class time and enables the instructor to better prepare for class.Course InformationPertinent course information is uploaded into the course information folder. The courseinformation folder contains the following files: • Course Syllabus • Lecture/Laboratory Schedule • Other Handouts “Proceedings of the 2007 Midwest Section Conference of the American Society for

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2007 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Leroy R. Cox; Katie Grantham Lough

– in1997, the Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME), expressed concerns that newly-hiredengineers could not communicate well, specifically in the areas of “Specification and ReportWriting”3, 9. Consider the following excerpt, taken from a student’s project report about aprocess improvement: I have viewed results that look promising and conclusive to a clean and safer power supply to the sensitive equipment used in the lab. If I can recover the wasted energy from the discharges of these power cells and inject them back into the main grid saving this company enormous revenue yearly. I project a payback interval as short as 4 years to recoup the cost of installation. If this would be implemented plant wide

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2007 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Kamesh Namuduri

of this core body of knowledge,developing a set of core courses, enhancing the existing courses taught at community colleges by addingrelevant IA modules, and building a laboratory facility for student training. Depending on the uniquestrengths of the community colleges, community colleges will be encouraged to consider developing newcourses, and to enhance their existing courses. For each course in the core body of knowledge, we plan todevelop necessary classroom instruction materials, laboratory exercises and projects that provide hands-on training. In the following sections, the proposed courses with their overall objectives, the major topicsthat will be covered and development plans will be described.Information Assurance and Security

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2006 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Martin S. High P.E.; Paul Rossler

typically licensed and commonly in the public eye via public worksprojects. As an example, consider the case of DOT v. Dupree. 256 Ga. App. 668 (2002).In this case, a pedestrian attempted to cross a busy highway at an intersection and waskilled by a motorist. The design of the intersection failed to meet certain designstandards involving motorist line of sight at the intersection. The accident occurred earlyon an overcast November evening, and the pedestrian was wearing dark clothing. Thedriver of the car never saw the pedestrian until striking her. The plaintiff’s demonstrated through evidence that the DOT committed designand engineering malpractice in a widening project by not installing traffic control devicesat the intersection, by

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2006 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Jung Oh, Kansas State University at Salina; Alysia Starkey, Kansas State University at Salina

unit’s (course instructor, librarian, writing center staff) individual instructionalgoals during the student project process. The project process/assignment/guideline/grading rubrics are refined by the course instructor based on reflective dialogues withcollaborating librarians and the writing center staff. A positive attitude and solidrelationship is an important component of the collaboration work process. Usuallycollaborating parties realize a “can do” attitude is necessary in the relationship, but the“how to do” is the most complex, and maybe even the scariest part of the relationship.On the librarian’s side, knowing the faculty member and the subject matter they teach is anecessity. A relationship must be established between or among the