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New Trends in ECE Education I

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert O'Connell, University of Missouri, Columbia; Pil-Won On, University of Missouri, Columbia

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Electrical and Computer

include motivating students to study and learn new materialoutside of class and before encountering it in the classroom; motivating them to engageappropriately in the specified group work process; and motivating them to engage in theformative/summative assessment examination processes used. The paper describes progressmade over three semesters in overcoming these challenges.IntroductionEducational research has shown that student-centered active learning can produce much deeperconceptual learning than can traditional lecturing1, and that when active learning is conducted inan extensively group-based learning environment, such as problem-based learning, project-basedlearning2, or team-based learning3, students also develop various professional

Conference Session

The Transition from Secondary to College Mathematics

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bert Pariser, Technical Career Institutes

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Mathematics

addition, Pariser co-founded five venture companies and as a management consultant successfully catalyzed more than $100 million of new shareholder value in client businesses. He has led cross-functional client teams in projects to find and capture value-creating profit and growth opportunities. Pariser is a Trustee of Mutual Fund Series Trust and serves as a member or the audit committee. Pariser received a Ph.D. and M.S. from Columbia University and a B.S. from MIT in electrical engineering. Email: bert.pariser@gmail.com. Page 25.1256.1 c American Society for Engineering Education

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering Potpourri

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lawrence E. Whitman, Wichita State University; Don E. Malzahn, Wichita State University

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

development of an individual's own self-perception is the developmentof a vocabulary15 that allows them to tie their experienced self to the image of an effectiveleader. Students come to the course with a very limited vocabulary for describing themselves.They identify with a gender, race, religion, academic major, hometown, etc. These are theconcepts that they have available for describing themselves and for describing the similarity anddifferences between themselves and others. This leaves very little flexibility for meaningfuldifferentiation involving the responsibilities and coordinated efforts required in manyengineering projects. In an attempt to resolve the deficit of vocabulary with respect to leadership,an objective of this course is to

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Rose Marra; Andrew Lau; John Wise; Robert Pangborn

networking and interaction with faculty, other engineering students, alumni and other industry practitioners; • in-class discussions or debate Page 6.900.2 • guest visits and presentations Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition Copyright  2001, American Society for Engineering Education • collaborative projects and other group activitiesFor a more complete description of the history and development of the Engineering First-YearSeminar program at Penn State, please see the companion paper in these proceedings, EngagingEngineering Students in Learning

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Barbara L. Christe

daily or almost every day will alleviate the frustration that can occur when a physicaldistance separates participants. Availability is key to successful course offerings for bothstudents and faculty.IV AssessmentCreativity is necessary when teaching a web-based course. Allow students to respond to thebulletin board postings of other students. Track minutes spent on class content pages for ameasure of course participation. Of course, traditional exams, taken on-line, are also a usefultool. A good distance educator will also mix in group projects, web-searches and otherassessment ideas that might be impossible in the traditional classroom. Think of the Internet asan additional resource for student evaluation.V Resources“Study Guide for Distance

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Harold Peddle; Daniel Wong

, temperaturesensors are installed for monitoring and control.III. Vendor Product SupportOn site assistance with 24 hour continuous, full-time telephone support is supplied by thevendor.This is required to minimize downtime and maximize usage and enables the students to contactsupport should questions arise.IV. ImplementationThe physical and financial constraints of the project limited the installation to twelveworkstations. Each station consists of a CPU with power supply, interface module for Page 6.922.2 Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2001

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Vic Cundy; Don Rabern; David Gibson

specific assignment of equivalent credit hours to an activity is referred to as aloading factor. An example would be that a certain number of equivalent credit hours are used asa loading factor for chairing a major committee or being the advisor of a student professionalsociety.The sole cost factor that is input for each faculty member is academic year salary. Another basicinput is faculty FTE (full-time equivalent) that is charged to the instructional budget. For example,if an individual faculty member’s academic year salary is paid 75 percent from the instructionalbudget and 25 percent from an externally sponsored project, the faculty FTE would be entered as0.75 FTE. These two factors, salary and FTE, are important when the model calculates the

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Vincent R. Capece; William E. Murphy; G. T. Lineberry; Bonita L. Lykins

students will be transfers from PCC, or will enrollat PCC and UK (through distance learning programs) concurrently.B. Faculty and Professional StaffAs mentioned previously, the extended campus mechanical engineering program in Paducah uses afaculty consisting of UK faculty and three jointly appointed MuSU faculty for the upper divisioncourse offerings. The projected UK faculty necessary to staff the mechanical engineering program hasbeen estimated to be four, with one position filled by the program director. This number,supplemented by instruction through use of distance learning technology (especially compressedvideo) will be sufficient to offer all four years of the degree program on-site in Paducah.All of the UK faculty positions, with the

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Noellette Conway-Schempf; H. Scott Matthews; Francis C. McMichael; Chris Hendrickson

providing goods and services. The software has been used in undergraduate and graduate level civil and environmental courses and in the MBA program at Carnegie Mellon University, in environmental engineering courses at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, MIT in Massachusetts, and the University of California at Berkeley, in California. The software was accessed over 6000 times between April and October of 1999. Module and Project – Life Cycle Analysis: A Learning Guide For Professors and Students of Design, Environment and Ethics. This module has been used extensively at Carnegie Mellon in a capstone course for environmental engineering minors. The module discusses LCA and the idea of “Concept

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Vincent Wilczynski

experiment to investigate that property, conduct the experiment, and analyze theresults (including error analysis, are also conducted in the course. This capstone projectrequires all aspects of the course to be applied to the problem at hand. As an open-endeddesign exercise, the independent projects help integrate design across the engineeringcurriculum2.Standardization of hardware and software executed as virtual instruments is essential toefficiently run these labs which rely on a variety of transducers to illustrate numerousengineering experimentation techniques. Augmented with minimal in-class instruction on dataacquisition, the labs themselves become the tool that teaches computer based data acquisition,reduction, and analysis. This paper

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Jin Tso; Daniel Biezad

. Page 6.134.2 Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright© 2001, American Society for Engineering EducationII.2 Learning objectives and expectationsThe M.S. program at VAFB has the same learning objectives and expectations as the maincampus. It is a two-year, 45 quarter-unit program, of which 29 units are for required coursesand 9 units for thesis or design project. The first year of the program is for students to takeadvanced courses in basic fields related to astronautical engineering. The thesis project istypically done in the second year. Since the students at VAFB are mostly working engineers andAir Force officers, they are encouraged to take two

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Sandra Courter; Narayanan Murugesan; Jacob Eapen; Donna Lewis; Dan Sebald; Jodi Reeves

courses,Advanced Laboratory (undergraduate level) and Computer Aided Design for VLSI (graduatelevel). Nana knew that he would need to deal with several teaching issues in the undergraduatelevel lab course since it involved more responsibilities such as lecturing, proctoring, and gradingquizzes and projects. The graduate level course involved creating a course website, holdingdiscussion sections, and grading. The Advanced Laboratory course was new to Nana since hehad not done a similar course in his undergraduate studies. He chose to use peer mentoring,which was encouraged by the College and emphasized in the NEO training program. Nanaworked with Jacob (an experienced TA for that particular course) to get acquainted with therequirements and

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Ash Miller; Jeffrey Honchell

, and analysis forEngineering Technology students. One of the possible approaches is a strictly theoreticalapproach to antenna design. This approach would be based almost entirely of previousfindings and mathematical equations to calculate the various parameters needed fordesign. This approach would be educational and low-cost, but since the whole probleminvolves teaching antenna design, fabrication, and analysis to technology students, it doesnot require any hands-on aspects. Because of its downfalls, this project approach wasrejected.A second approach could involve an analysis of pre-fabricated antennas. Sinceengineering technology students would be working directly with the physical antennadesigns, this approach seemed to fit the criteria

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Sanjay Joshi; SangHa Lee; Timothy Simpson; John Wise; Thomas Litzinger

learning. The workpresented in this paper focuses on assessment related to students’ ability to engage in self-directed learning and two pilot projects to enhance courses in ways that allow students todevelop their abilities to engage in self-directed learning.Selection of InstrumentIn his paper, “Undergraduate Foundations for Lifelong Learning,” Flammer 6 proposes a modelfor successful lifelong learning that has two aspects: motivation and ability. He divided each Page 6.211.2parameter into two areas. For motivation, these are “won’t do” and “will do,” and for ability, Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Dick Desautel

assessment) thatin turn supports the highest level (program assessment/enhancement). Content of the educationflows from course up to program level, and requirements for revision and improvement flowdown from program level to course level.The second basic feature is the integration of a longitudinal series of assessment data collections.The collection tools fall naturally into two categories that are distributed from (potentially)freshman through senior years and beyond into professional practice: • Traditional methods for faculty evaluation of student knowledge and skills within each course including the capstone course and senior project, e.g., course deliverables and grades. • Self-perception and external perception methods

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Susan Sharfstein; Patricia Relue

traditional lab reports. They wereinstructed to structure the memoranda to a supervisor and to keep them in the context of theoverall course objectives. A sample memo given to the students as a model is shown below. Thefinal report was a more formal document, detailing the entire project and its results to helpmaintain the overall context of the laboratory. In addition, the students prepared an oral reportsimilar to the type of presentation that would be given in an industrial setting. As part of ourABET accreditation process, we videotaped the student presentations. Page 6.240.5 Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Sr., Edward Rogers; Hans Kunov

Session: Multi-Media Session 2793 Can auditory signal processing be used effectively in learning engineering concepts? H. Kunov, Institute of Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering and The Edward S. Rogers Sr. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of TorontoIntroductionEngineering is usually taught using visual material and classical lectures, projects, andlaboratories. The main auditory component is verbal explanations by the teaching staff. Ibelieve the auditory system represents a rich, underused resource for learning engineeringconcepts. This became evident after I had introduced

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Raymond Laoulache; Nixon Pendergrass; Emily Fowler

-day basis, what research engineers do, how engineers deal with patentsand invention, women in engineering, and ethics in engineering. The students showed aprofound interest in these topics. During the first pilot semester, eight engineers wereinvited.During the semester there were impromptu engineering design projects. That is, studentswere not notified in advance about the nature of a design problem but were challenged tocome up with a design spontaneously in a limited time period. For example, in one earlyproject in a special extended class period, students were told to bring swimsuits but werenot told why. In class they were given a limited amount of materials and were asked todesign a cardboard canoe. They had two hours to design and

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1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Mahmood Nahvi

examples of exploratory electric circuit computer modules, in which basic elementsof interaction loops are structured for maximum learning effectiveness, are presented.2. IntroductionIn asynchronous learning and web-based environments computer modules play an important rolein helping students to develop concepts, practice, simulate and design. Efficient interaction withthe computer plays a critical role in learning effectiveness. In this paper we discuss a user'sinteraction with the computer in a simulation environment. The conclusions apply to other casessuch as presentations, tutorials, design projects and laboratory supplements.Digital simulators are familiar tools in the undergraduate teaching and learning environments. Inboth inanimate and

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1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Ingrid H. Soudek

founder and the first Chair of the Division, and hired more faculty from diverse backgroundssuch as Philosophy, English, Engineering and Education, also History. This is faculty groupdesigned courses that focused on technical written and oral communications skills as related tothe intellectual interests inherent in engineering, including an emphasis history and philosophy ofscience and engineering. They also were put in charge of all senior theses, which meant that eachstudent had a technical, as well as a humanities advisor for his independent senior thesis project.(Vaughan, p.3) The tradition of a required senior thesis for each UVa engineering student hascontinued to this day; in fact, in a 1987 Dean’s office survey of the class of 1977, the

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1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Sima Bagheri; Qun Xiao; Jelena Balorda

thelate Triassic Period. These formations weather rapidly and typically are not exposed in the cityexcept at foundation excavations. The rocks strike northeast-southwest and typically dip about15° northwest. The influence of bedding is manifested by subtle topographic differencesthroughout the city, (i.e., M.L. King Blvd). As Pleistocene glaciers receded from Newark about12-15,000 years ago, they deposited a thin veil of glacial drift over the bedrock(Manspeizer,1980)4. The drainage is generally good, the depth to water table is estimated to be 6-10 feet(Engineering Soil Survey, 1951)5. Figure 1. Portion of the Elizabeth Orthophoto Quadrangle Showing the Study Sites.The objective of the project was twofold: 1) to identify and delineate

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1997 Annual Conference

Authors

Deran Hanesian; Angelo J. Perna

Session 1613 Estimation of Optimum Pipe Diameter and Economics for A Pump and Pipeline System Deran Hanesian, Angelo Perna New Jersey Institute of TechnologyAbstractThe concepts of engineering design optimization, and economics were introduced and integratedinto the junior Chemical Engineering Fluid Flow course by assigning a computer project to thestudents. The course is a structured three credit hour course which meets twice per week foreighty minute periods. Students are given the computer problem and asked to analyze andoptimize the design of the piping

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1998 Annual Conference

Authors

John T. Bell; H. Scott Fogler

-dimensional kinetics overlay is related to the physical equipment through colorcoding and through interconnected tracers that move over the surface and the equipment. Thethird reaction area in Vicher 2 is the multiple steady states room, which illustrates a classiccontrol problem for exothermic reactions occurring in jacketed continuous stirred reactors( CSTRs ). Color coding is also used in this room to indicate temperature changes. All threeVicher 2 areas contain transparent reactors, and two of the three allow students to exploredifferent operating conditions through the use of virtual control panels.SafetyThe first safety related application developed for this project is a hazard and operability analysisof a polyether-polyol pilot plant, as shown

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1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Ronald E. Terry; Kurt Sandholtz

the essence of Stage I. InStage I, a person is expected to accept supervision and direction willingly and to exerciseinitiative and creativity within a well-defined area. Ideally, a mentor is provided to help teachthe approaches, the organizational savvy, and the judgment not found in textbooks. While it isimportant to stay in Stage I long enough to build a solid foundation and to earn the trust ofothers, people who stay in this stage indefinitely will, over time, become less and less valued inthe organization. People can’t spend an entire career in Stage I unless they want to be aperpetual ‘intern’.Most individuals look forward to having their own projects or areas of responsibility. Earningthis opportunity and taking advantage of it moves a

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1999 Annual Conference

Authors

John D. Cremin

Session 2548Generating Low Cost Serial Waveforms For Global Positioning System (GPS) Applications John D. Cremin Parks College of Engineering and Aviation Saint Louis UniversityAbstractThe purpose of this paper is to present a number of techniques for generating serial waveformsassociated with the Global positioning System (GPS) in a laboratory environment. The incentivefor this project was the need for simulating GPS data in a lab environment. The waveforms ofinterest are the output data signals provided by GPS receivers and used

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1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Tran Thi Hong; Trevor B. Davey; Ngo Dinh Thinh

studies. Page 3.383.1 -2- Courses are offered on a semester basis and graduation requirements includepractical training, as well as a senior design project. Students may attend the programs ona part-time basis while working, and are allowed to change majors with permission of theRector. The twinning program with the University of Tasmania, Australia, is a special,separate program. The semesters are timed to coincide with the academic terms inAustralia and the instruction is in English. Students take their first two years ofinstruction in Vietnam and then transfer to the University of Tasmania for

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1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Lyn Mowafy

colleges lack faculty for their SMT programs, industry issupplying content experts as adjunct faculty. While knowledgeable of the industry, these expertsoften lack teaching experience. The Teaching Associate offers advice on how to best teach themodule in a college setting from fellow faculty at other colleges. Together the Associate and theAdvisor support faculty performance in the classroom.Evaluation of the MATEC modular curriculum project will be multifaceted. Initially, industrysubject matter experts and experienced faculty will review the module content for completenessand accuracy. Teaching faculty will evaluate the module’s success in the classroom. Finally, acomprehensive usability study will provide the foundation for future developments

Conference Session

Mathematics Division (MATH) Technical Session 2

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Caleb Wilson Hendrick, University of Maine; Karissa B Tilbury

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Mathematics Division (MATH)

MaineAbstract:This work-in-progress project is grounded in a biomedical engineering junior-level coursededicated to modeling biomedical systems. The course and project’s primary goal is to integratefundamental concepts from physics, chemistry, engineering, and mathematics to provide studentswith a comprehensive foundation for addressing real-world biomedical engineering challenges.Establishing connections and parallels between mathematical methodologies, specificallydifferential equations, and the constitutive relationships in physics and chemistry are critical inthe development of biomedical engineers.A key objective is developing critical thinking skills in students to tackle real-world biomedicalproblems. BME problems in this course span multiple domains

Conference Session

First-Year Programs Division Technical Session 3: Teamwork

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jeong Hin Chin, University of Michigan; Robin Fowler, University of Michigan; Christopher Brooks, University of Michigan

Tagged Topics

Diversity

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First-Year Programs Division (FYP)

The introduction of Team-based learning (TBL) in the 1980s marked a significant shift inaddressing the challenges of large class settings in educational environments [1], [2]. Originally abusiness school innovation, TBL has now permeated various disciplines including engineering,medicine, and social sciences globally. Some courses, such as first-year engineering, maycombine TBL with project-based learning (PBL) to introduce students to common engineeringthemes such as design, sustainability, and ethics. Despite its wide-ranging benefits, TBL'seffectiveness can be inequitable for a variety of reasons, including free riders, imbalances in taskallocation, and more broad communication issues [3], [4]. Thus, the application of teamworkassessment

Conference Session

Engineering Leadership Development Division (LEAD) Technical Session: Innovative Approaches to Teaching & Developing Engineering Leadership

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Brainerd Prince, Plaksha University; Sumita Ambasta; Vinayak Krishan Joshi, Plaksha University

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Engineering Leadership Development Division (LEAD)

– Middlesex University, London. He was formerly a Research Tutor at OCMS, Oxford, and formerly a Research Fellow at the Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies, a Recognized Independent Centre of Oxford University. He is also the Founding Director of Samvada International Research Institute which offers consultancy services to institutions of research and higher education around the world on designing research tracks, research teaching and research projects. His first book The Integral Philosophy of Aurobindo: Hermeneutics and the Study of Religion was published by Routledge, Oxon in 2017. For more information, please visit: https://plaksha.edu.in/faculty-details/dr-brainerd-princeDr. Sumita AmbastaMr. Vinayak Krishan Joshi, Plaksha