Conference Session

Civil Engineering Teaching Part Two

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Claude Villiers, Florida Gulf Coast University; Yusuf Mehta, Rowan University; Robert O'Neill, Florida Gulf Coast University

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

engineering (CE) materials course along with the other courses in the U.A. WhitakerSchool of Engineering (WSOE) at Florida Gulf Coast University (FGCU) is taught in anintegrated lecture lab style. In this non-traditional setting, instructors use an integrated, active,and collaborative instructional technique. Also, unlike many other universities, there is not aseparate time slot allocated in the schedule to conduct the laboratory experiments for this CEmaterials course. Instead, the lab is embedded into the course structure. Although it has beendocumented in the literature that this technique represents effective teaching pedagogy only afew engineering programs have adopted this method. In addition, the WSOE is only in its thirdyear since students

Conference Session

Development as Faculty and Researcher: ERM Roundtable

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stephanie Pulford, University of Washington Center for Engineering Learning & Teaching (CELT); Nancy Ruzycki, University of Florida; Cynthia J. Finelli, University of Michigan; Laura D Hahn, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Denise Thorsen, University of Alaska, Fairbanks

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

aircraft engineer. Her research and professional interests include faculty development, innovations in engineering communication education, engineering student learning motivation, and nar- rative structure in technical communication.Dr. Nancy Ruzycki, University of Florida Director of Undergraduate Laboratories, Faculty Lecturer, Department of Materials Science and Engi- neeringDr. Cynthia J. Finelli, University of Michigan Dr. Cynthia Finelli, Director of the Center for Research on Learning and Teaching in Engineering and research associate professor of engineering education at University of Michigan (U-M), earned B.S.E.E., M.S.E.E., and Ph.D. degrees from U-M in 1988, 1989, and 1993, respectively. Prior to joining U

Conference Session

Effective Teaching to Motivate & Retain

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Julio Davalos

learning," which consists of integrating innovative laboratory techniques with computermodeling and visualization tools to create an interactive and a collaborative team-orientedenvironment for students to dynamically participate in their own learning. An active learningapproach is used to develop the instructional materials for ACM. The goal of the "active learning"curriculum is to create an effective learning environment where students enjoy “hands-on”experiences through laboratory experiments and computer simulations and illustrations. Thegeneral objectives of this study are: (a) to develop a framework on active learning approach, (b) toapply this framework to design teaching modules on fundamentals and applications of ACM; and(c) to translate

Conference Session

Aerospace Teaching and Learning I

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lance W. Traub, Embry Riddle Aeronautical University

Tagged Divisions

Aerospace

skills to conduct their projects, core topics werecovered in formalized lectures and assignments conducted towards the beginning of thesemester. Topics covered included: • Familiarity with NI LabView (implemented during the laboratory period) o Taught in four lectures with an application orientation. o Students learned LabView by writing an acquisition code for an ATI 6- component platform type balance. o Teaching approach was minimalistic such that students would need to explore the numerous menu options to find suitable VIs to perform a desired task. Note that a suggested approach to implementing the VI(s) was presented

Conference Session

Practical Teaching in Manufacturing – 2

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ana M. Djuric, Wayne State University; Vukica M. Jovanovic, Old Dominion University; Tatiana V. Goris, Purdue University, West Lafayette

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Manufacturing

, G. A., & Kazlauskas, E. J. (1998), A Virtual Factory Teaching System in Support of Manufacturing Education. Journal of Engineering Education, 87(4), 459-467.[6] Radharamanan, R, & Jenkins, H. E. (2008), Laboratory learning modules on CAD/CAM and robotics in engineering education. International Journal of Innovative Computing, Information and Control, 4(2), 433- 443.[7] Bischoff, R., Kurth, J., Schreiber, G.R, Koeppe, R. Albu-Schäffer, A., Beyer, A., Grunwald, G. (2010), The KUKA-DLR Lightweight Robot arm-a new reference platform for robotics research and manufacturing. Paper presented at the Robotics (ISR), 2010 41st international symposium on and 2010 6th German conference on robotics

Conference Session

Joint Session: Experimentation and Laboratory-Oriented Studies Division and Civil Engineering Division

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Dave Kim, Washington State University, Vancouver; Charles Riley P.E., Oregon Institute of Technology; John D Lynch, Washington State University; Ken Lulay P.E., University of Portland; Sean St. Clair, Oregon Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering Division (CIVIL), Experimentation and Laboratory-Oriented Studies Division (DELOS)

Paper ID #42124Impact of Learning Transfer-focused Lab Writing Modules to the WritingInstructional Materials by Engineering Lab InstructorsDr. Dave Kim, Washington State University, Vancouver Dr. Dave Kim is Professor and Mechanical Engineering Program Coordinator in the School of Engineering and Computer Science at Washington State University Vancouver. His teaching and research have been in the areas of engineering materials, fracture mechanics, and manufacturing processes. In particular, he has been very active in pedagogical research in the area of writing pedagogy in engineering laboratory courses. Dr. Kim and his

Conference Session

Teaching Outside the Box

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Matthews; James Ritter; James Mc Intyre; James Becnel; Chuck Holland

Session 1613 Fundamentals of Fixed Bed Adsorption Processes: Analysis of Adsorption Breakthrough and Desorption Elution Curves. James M. Becnel, Charles E. Holland, James McIntyre, Michael A. Matthews, and James A. Ritter Department of Chemical Engineering University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, 29205IntroductionFixed bed adsorption processes are ubiquitous throughout the chemical process and otherindustries. This laboratory is an extension of a lab proposed by Cruz et. al. (2000), which isdesigned to allow students to

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session I

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jennifer Marie Duis, Northern Arizona University; Nena E. Bloom, Center for Science Teaching and Learning, Northern Arizona University; Alexander R Ollerton, Northern Arizona University; Derek L Sonderegger, Northern Arizona University; Vanessa Fitz-Kesler, Northern Arizona University; Pauline L Entin, Northern Arizona University

Tagged Topics

Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

Paper ID #17321Supporting STEM Transfer StudentsDr. Jennifer Marie Duis, Northern Arizona University Augsburg College, Chemistry, B.S., 1999 University of Colorado—Boulder, Organic Chemistry, M.S., 2002 University of Northern Colorado, Chemical Education, Ph.D., 2008 University of British Columbia, Chemistry Teaching Laboratory Optimization with CWSEI, Postdoctoral Fellow, 2008—2011 Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, University of Northern Arizona, Flagstaff, AZ, August 2011—PresentDr. Nena E. Bloom, Center for Science Teaching and Learning, Northern Arizona University University of Michigan

Conference Session

Teaching Experiences in OME

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jennifer Waters

undesirable waybefore the systems responds—but now a vision-based system may allow preemptive actions tobe taken before the vessel reaches the wave. Recent laboratory model tests investigating areactive ride control system show the impressive heave, pitch and acceleration reductions; theseimprovements may be further enhanced incorporating a proactive wave-sensing system.After an extensive literature review on vision-based wave sensing was conducted, it was revealedthat many unsuccessful attempts to sense waves in a laboratory setting using stereo vision havebeen documented. However, several concepts contained in the literature such as threedimensional imaging prove to be useful background information. A novel laboratory tank-testing methodology was

Conference Session

Innovations in Teaching: Mechanics

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jeffery S. Thomas, Missouri University of Science & Technology; Richard H. Hall, Missouri University of Science & Technology; Timothy A. Philpot, Missouri University of Science & Technology; Douglas R. Carroll, Missouri University of Science & Technology

Tagged Divisions

Mechanics

Missouri Universityof Science and Technology experienced a dramatic increase in teaching load starting inapproximately 2006 due to increasing enrollments and decreasing funding. Figure 1 shows thenumber of lecture students taught and laboratory students supervised by a single instructor overthe past ten years. Included are enrollments for all of the instructor’s courses and not just theintroductory mechanics courses. To cope with this increasing workload, mechanics of materialsinstructors began experimenting with that course’s exam format in 2006 and its presentationformat in 2008. Page 22.1446.2 Figure 1. Changes in teaching load

Conference Session

Innovative Teaching Techniques in Mechanics

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rick Williams, East Carolina University; William Howard, East Carolina University

Tagged Divisions

Mechanics

-onexperiments and demonstrations. For many students, the concepts of vectors, particleequilibrium, and rigid body equilibrium can be difficult to comprehend. In order to improvecomprehension in these areas, we developed a single apparatus that provides for the operation ofat least five experiments relevant to the study of statics. These experiments are well-suited foreither laboratory studies or, due to the device’s portability, for in-class demonstrations.In this paper we present the complete design, including the bill of materials, assembly drawings,and assembly instructions for the apparatus. The apparatus is easily assembled from readilyavailable parts and materials, especially sturdy, easily expandable, and very affordable(approximate cost of

Conference Session

Teaching Strategies in BME

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Monica Schmidt

, statistical inference and hypothesis tests forone or two samples, and design of single-factor experiments (i.e. analysis of variance, ANOVA).When time allows, linear regression is also covered. These topics provide students with afoundation in statistics and data analysis that prepares them for the experimental design projectand for future experimental work in the BME laboratory course and in their future careers.The purpose of the experimental design project is to teach practical application of the statisticalskills (taught through lectures, homework, and exams) to design of experiments and tointerpretation of data for reaching valid conclusions. The experimental design project forcesstudents to address an open-ended problem, learn related

Conference Session

Innovative Teaching/Learning Strategies

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

James Houdeshell

intervention is proposed. One proposedsolution to increase the viability of manufacturing related technology programs is to service alarger geographical area through the use of distance education. While pure distance educationaddresses the accessibility issue, it has inherent problems of higher attrition for lower divisionundergraduates, greater difficulties in applying teamwork skills, and lack of student access toequipment for appropriate laboratory experiences. While computer simulations can providerealistic instruction for many laboratory experiences, many of the current solutions require eithermoving the laboratories to the students or moving the students for extended time to thelaboratories. These choices are costly logistic nightmares or

Conference Session

Joint Session: Experimentation and Laboratory-Oriented Studies Division and Civil Engineering Division

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Yingxiao Song, Muskingum University

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering Division (CIVIL), Experimentation and Laboratory-Oriented Studies Division (DELOS)

great importancefor students across a wide array of disciplines, including civil, mechanical, and aerospaceengineering, among others [5]. This field is dedicated to analyzing bodies that are either at rest orin a state of equilibrium, where the net forces and moments are balanced. The pedagogicalapproach to teaching statics commonly encompasses both lectures and laboratory sessions,providing a comprehensive learning experience. Typically introduced at the sophomore level orfirst year engineering projects, this course builds upon the foundational knowledge acquired inintroductory engineering courses i.e. CAD. At this stage, most students may not have delved intomechanical design. However, towards the conclusion of the statics course, an

Conference Session

Combining Research and Teaching

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Raul Ordonez; Marianne Cinaglia; Kathryn Hollar; Jess Everett; Joseph Orlins; Kauser Jahan; Mariano Savelski; Linda Head; Stephanie Farrell; Robert Hesketh

. space with multifunctional state -of-the-art teaching and research laboratories. The chemical, electrical and environmentalengineering programs have purchased over $3.4 M worth of equipment in the last fouryears and have all major analytical equipment for research.Nine engineering professors are involved in the REU projects, one as PrincipalInvestigator, one as co-principal investigator and the rest as senior personnel. The themeof this REU is such that faculty from various engineering backgrounds can participate.Faculty are actively involved in mentoring activities for students during and after theduration of the REU project. Experienced Rowan Undergraduate Research Assistants,and Rowan Graduate Students work closely with the REU

Conference Session

Teaching and Assessment Methodologies

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bimal P. Nepal, Texas A&M University; Barry Lawrence, Texas A&M University; Esther Rodriguez-Silva PhD, Texas A&M University

Tagged Divisions

Manufacturing

the Global Supply Chain Laboratory at Texas A&M University, where she conducts applied research and industry projects in the area of global distribution, best practices in distribution profitability, distributor value added services, and within industry Consortia. Dr. Rodriguez Silva is the Director of the Talent Incubator Program where she educates and train students for project development and execution. Also, she coordinates the Global Distribution Study Abroad Program designated to teach students on how to conduct business in the international arena. Dr. Rodriguez Silva has contributed with recognized international institutions on supply chain man- agement and participated on the implementation of

Conference Session

Teaching Circuit Theory and Electronics

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Patrick Kane, University of New Hampshire and Cypress Semiconductor; Thadeus Paul Kochanski, Vital Electronics Institute; Andrzej Rucinski, University of New Hampshire

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

-accreditation: 6. Begins with developing elements of the prototype curriculum using off-the-shelf tutorials, laboratory exercise, development tools and hardware where-ever possible 7. Testing these at the “alpha-state” by experienced educators and where -ever possible with experienced students 8. Begin to globally disseminate the curriculum via staged, hierarchical – IIDEA-style capacity building “Teaching the Teachers of the Teachers” seminars and workshops for faculty 9. Offer IEEE completion certificates to the faculty participants 10. Offer IEEE completion certificates to the graduates of formal university courses taught by “Certified Faculty” and also to students in continuing education courses for practicing

Conference Session

Teaching Design Through Projects

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Theodore Pavlic; Prabal Dutta; Michael Hoffmann; Jeffrey Radigan; James Beams; Erik Justen; John Demel; Richard Freuler

courses for first-year engineering fundamentals to a framework that involves two coursesequences with tightly coupled courses. Engineering orientation, engineering graphics, andengineering problem solving with computer programming are now offered in each of two coursesequences,1 one called the Fundamentals of Engineering and the other the Fundamentals ofEngineering for Honors. These course sequences retain part of the traditional material but nowinclude hands-on laboratory experiences that lead to design/build projects.2 Teamwork, projectmanagement, report writing, and oral presentations have assumed important roles in bothsequences. This paper describes the administrative and teaching experiences with a design/buildproject course in the

Conference Session

Civil Engineering Teaching Part One

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jakob Bruhl; Eric Crispino

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

Training Civil Engineers to Communicate Effectively: Teaching Technical Communication in a Student’s First Engineering CourseAbstractABET requires that graduates of accredited institutions have “an ability to communicateeffectively.” The importance of effective communication of technical information is alsoaddressed in the ASCE Body of Knowledge. How schools meet this outcome varies byinstitution but about half of the schools surveyed for this paper require a specific course on thesubject. Constraints at the United States Military Academy (programs can not extend beyondfour years and a very large core curriculum) make it impractical to require a technicalcommunications course

Conference Session

Teaching Strategies in Graphics

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Douglas Baxter

SESSION 3438 Comparing Different Teaching Models in a First Year Computer Aided Design Course Douglas H. Baxter Director CAD/CAM/CAE Andrew Mandigo Lead Teaching Assistant Engineering Graphics and Computer Aided Design Course School of Engineering Rensselaer Polytechnic InstituteIntroductionAll engineering students at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute are required to take a one-credit course in solid modeling. This course

Conference Session

Teaching about New Materials

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Rita Caso; Ibrahim Karaman; Jeff Froyd; Terry Creasy; Winfried Teizer

Creasy (Mechanical Engineering), are team teaching the course. Eachfaculty member will develop lecture materials and laboratory experiments for about one-third ofthe course.Theme 1: Methods and Techniques for Nanostructure FabricationThis theme will cover various methods for direct fabrication of nanostructures. Planned topicsinclude: electron beam lithography, self-assembly, functional nanomolecules, patterned thin-filmdevices and neurons. Initially this class will focus on techniques for fabricating metallicnanostructures, and later will discuss molecular self-assembly techniques. This module willemphasize hands-on experience in a series of laboratory experiments.While bottom-up nanomanufacturing techniques will be discussed, Theme 1 focuses

Conference Session

Combining Research and Teaching

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

John Duggan

ASEE Meeting Montreal,Quebec June, 2002 Session #: 1351 Studying Land-Applied Biosolids: An Integration of Research and Teaching in an Environmental Engineering Curriculum Jack Duggan, Ph.D., P.E. Wentworth Institute of TechnologyAbstractThe selection of appropriate reuse, recycling and disposal options for biosolids

Conference Session

Teaching Topics in Aircraft Manufacturing

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sergey Dubikovsky, Purdue University; Ronald Sterkenburg, Purdue University

Tagged Divisions

Aerospace

AC 2007-364: PRACTICAL SKILL DEVELOPMENT, ANALYSIS AND TESTINGARE USED TO TEACH THE TOPIC OF HEAT TREATMENT OF AEROSPACEALUMINUM ALLOYSSergey Dubikovsky, Purdue UniversityRonald Sterkenburg, Purdue University Page 12.1166.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007 Practical skill development, analysis and testing are used to teach the topic of heat treatment of aerospace aluminum alloysAbstractStudents learn best when they can see the results of their efforts. Students of the AviationTechnology Department at Purdue University enroll in AT308 Manufacturing Processes in theirjunior year. AT308 is the fourth materials course in a series of five courses

Conference Session

Combining Research and Teaching

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Bruce Berdanier

was designed and implemented in Spring 2001 as an environmental engineering analysiscourse at the undergraduate level. Environmental engineering courses in Civil engineeringprograms at the undergraduate level are typically focused around engineering design conceptsand focused closed-end design and laboratory experiences. The objectives of this new coursewere: · To provide the students with an open-ended field laboratory experience that they would have to design and implement themselves, · To have the students focus the independent lecture and laboratory experiences that they had accumulated throughout their program of study to determine the information that they would need to characterize a watershed and conduct a TMDL

Conference Session

Teaching Emerging Energy Technologies

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Radian Belu, Wayne State University; Alexandru Catalin Belu, Wayne State University; Lucian Cioca, University Lucian Blaga, Sibiu Romania

Tagged Divisions

Energy Conversion and Conservation

AC 2007-2669: A DECISION SUPPORT SOFTWARE APPLICATION FOR THEDESIGN OF HYBRID SOLAR-WIND POWER SYSTEMS ? AS A TEACHING AIDRadian Belu, Wayne State UniversityAlexandru Catalin Belu, Wayne State University Alexandru Belu hold a MSc in Software Engineering and the other in Applied Mathematics. He is now a PhD graduate student in Statistics.Lucian Cioca, University Lucian Blaga, Sibiu Romania Page 12.31.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007 A Decision Support Software Application for the Design of Hybrid Solar-Wind Power System – As a Teaching-AidAbstractThe limited reserves of fossil fuels and the

Conference Session

Innovative Teaching in Environmental Engineering

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Kelley; Mark Talbot; Jeffrey Starke; Michael Butkus

• Laboratory testing 2004 • Finalize Design • Final plans and • Analyze prototype with • Use prototype reactor specifications challenge water in class laboratory • TBD Spring 2004 • New Design Project Figure 3 The Project Organization and MilestonesEV490This is the capstone engineering course in the curriculum for the students. Students havecompleted pre-requisite courses, as shown in Figure 1, that serve to increase

Conference Session

Innovation in ChE Teaching

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Bruce Finlayson

course their freshman year, so the new course concentrated onchemical engineering applications. This paper describes the course and gives a quantitativeassessment of its impact in the Chemical Reactor Design class.Course Description The Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Washington uses Excel,Matlab, Simulink, AspenPlus, and FEMLAB. This paper describes a course introducing studentsto these programs, except for Simulink that is introduced in Process Control. For each topic (seeTable I), a lecture hour outlined the method used to solve a class of problems and demonstratedspecific techniques to do so. A handout gave the details each week. Then in the laboratory hourfollowing, students worked in pairs to solve problems

Conference Session

FPD9 -- Teaching Methods & Technology

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Margot Vigeant, Bucknell University; Karen Marosi, Bucknell University; Ronald Ziemian, Bucknell University

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

project laboratories, inside and outside of the facultymember’s discipline. For example, the electrical engineering faculty member wouldsupervise a lab on structural engineering. While these labs were at a basic level, somefaculty were uncomfortable teaching outside of their field. Faculty further observe thatstudents and faculty are pleased with the more intense experience in engineering designwithin a major field during the first semester. Contact-hours between individual facultyand students are greater in the seminar-version, allowing faculty the chance to closelyinteract with and get to know 60-90 members of the first-year class. The main downsidefor faculty in the seminar-course is the increased grading burden relative to the singlecourse

Conference Session

Innovative Teaching in Environmental Engineering

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Daniel Oerther

environmental microbiologywithin our graduate and undergraduate environmental engineering curricula. For the past threeyears, we taught a novel course entitled, “Molecular Biology in Environmental Engineering.”Course evaluations over the past three years suggested that the course was successful forprimarily two reasons, namely: (1) the course employed a problem-based learning approach tounderlie all learning activities; and (2) experiments were conducted by student teams facilitatinginterpersonal communication as a primary means of learning from peers. This paper outlines thespecific experimental procedures employed in the laboratory, as well as evaluates the results ofstudent input from assessment tools including: one-on-one interviews with the

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Learning and Teaching Experiences

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Emine Celik Foust, York College of Pennsylvania; Inci Ruzybayev, York College of Pennsylvania

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 Investigation on Students' Educational Experience with HyFlex Instruction Model in Two Engineering CoursesAbstract Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, educators all around the world searched for effectiveways to continue teaching. Although switching to online learning seemed to be the safest andmost appropriate method at the time, the virtual setting is inadequate for providing activelearning. Hands-on learning is indispensable especially for engineering programs. In Fall 2020,synchronous online mode was augmented with HyFlex instruction for the first time. HyFlex isshort for Hybrid learning and Flexible course structure. The HyFlex