Conference Session

Communication in Design

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Peter Schmidt, University of North Carolina, Charlotte; Deborah Sharer, University of North Carolina, Charlotte; Nabila (Nan) BouSaba, University of North Carolina, Charlotte; Daniel Hoch, University of North Carolina, Charlotte; James Conrad, University of North Carolina, Charlotte; Bruce Gehrig, University of North Carolina, Charlotte; Steve Patterson, University of North Carolina, Charlotte

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Design in Engineering Education

information control processes and procedures that are expected ofpracticing engineers. Work in an organization with global reach increases theimportance of real time document and information control and sensitivity to therequirements of a modern Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system shouldposition the students exiting the program to be more competitive in theworkplace. This work describes a simple but effective system of requireddocumentation, naming conventions, release structure and revision controls thatenable student teams to track documentation changes during the life of theircapstone project, along with the rationale for any implemented changes.Additionally, the students learn to keep secure, controlled document archives andto standardize

Conference Session

Energy Program and Software Tools

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Mohammed Fahmy; Recayi Pecen; Faruk Taban; Ayhan Zora

, Easy5 creates an executablefor the model. In most of the standard programming languages, an executable of the program canbe operated independent of the programming environment. Whereas, the executable of an Easy5model can only be run together with the simulation package, however, the same executable canbe run for variety of different inputs.III. Methodology and DesignA tractor model from a Midwest off-road machinery manufacturing company has been selectedas a basis of this study, because of the availability of abundance of test data. Model developmenthas been planned in such a way that it can be applied to other tractor models and otheragricultural vehicles that consist of similar components.Easy5 computer simulation package has been

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Graduate Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Kavetsky

University of Maryland was initially designed to be a specialprogram in energetics. A unique element of the cooperative agreement was the offering of freegraduate classes to IH personnel. To date almost 100 Indian Head employees have taken roughly160 graduate courses at College Park. Although these courses are all at College Park campus,they will within the year be offered as a specialized distance learning program designed for theIH workforce. This will happen as a part of a larger effort to offer a more varied graduateprogram which will include distance learning, courses on campus and some specialized coursesat IH. Two full time students have been supported by IH to pursue doctoral degrees in MEMSand twin screw mixing, with one having just

Conference Session

Teaching Outside the Box in Civil Engineering

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas H. Miller; Susan Frey

course.In 2001, Dr. Miller joined CH2M HILL as a flex staff employee, starting with a sabbatical, andhe has worked in that capacity to the present time during summers, and at times during theacademic year. He has been involved with seismic rehabilitation of buildings, bridge projects,and anti-terrorist/force protection design of facilities for the U.S. Air Force.Class Economics and FundingThe economics of providing this course exemplifies a true Oregon community project. OregonState University (OSU) provides the venue, a lecture room in the Civil Engineering Building,Apperson Hall. OSU also supplies transparencies, audio equipment, computer access, projectors

Conference Session

Graduate Aerospace Systems Engineering Design

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Daniel Schrage

systems, such as rotorcraft. This paper will attempt to provide somelessons learned from twenty years experience in teaching rotorcraft design.Understanding RotorcraftRotorcraft are extremely complex machines due to the interdisciplinary interactions that takeplace throughout their flight regimes. The helicopter schematic provided in Figure 1 providessome brief descriptions of some of the physical phenomena that rotorcraft encounter. The easiestway to explain this environment is to cite that in forward flight at a single cruise flight speed ofapproximately 140 knots the airspeed from the retreating blade tip to the advancing blade tipcrosses the entire subsonic speed range from Mach number zero to almost one. This results in

Conference Session

International Engineering Education II

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Bethany Oberst; Russel Jones

a global enterprise, then we, as professionals, must make these meetings trulyinternational. This can be accomplished by enabling a wide range of colleagues fromaround the world to participate and to take an active role in disseminating usefulinformation about the processes of teaching and learning in the engineering environment.Two barriers to such democratized participation were attacked in this event: the barrier ofculture ignorance, which means that engineers from one part of the world do not alwayshave sufficient understanding of the issues affecting their colleagues elsewhere, and thebarrier of cost, which prevents many engineering educators from developing parts of theworld from attending in person even the most important

Conference Session

New ET Programs

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Newman; John Robertson; Lakshmi Munukutla

, revenues have increased at an average of 14% annually and semiconductorproducts have delivered productivity improvements at twice that rate. Success, however,brings its own new challenges and some of the most formidable are in the provision ofeducation services to this sector.The driver behind revenue growth is a technology solution that delivers a new operational“node” – with 4 times the number of transistors on a chip – every 2-3 years. This isMoore’s law 1 and we see the results in ubiquitous computing, both stand-alone andembedded. However, fast compound growth quickly transforms any environment, so the Page 7.359.1first challenge is to recognize that

Conference Session

Product and Venture Creation Curriculum

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Luiz Gargione

Page 7.518.2 “Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright Ó 2002, American Society for Engineering Education” · Project Management involving: objectives, tech analysis, goals, lifecycle,timeline, cost analysis, ROI – Return on Investment, etc. The program expects that the students learn theory, but the working time should bemuch more related to project development during the semesters and the conclusion of a FinalProject at the end of the program. The idea is that during the program the students learndifferent subjects and be trained on how to collect all the information they need to developthe projects. The team of instructors will be

Collection

2024 ASEE North East Section

Authors

Mirco Speretta, Fairfield University

Paper ID #44920Statistical Word Analysis to support the Semiautomatic Implementation ofthe NIST 800-53 Cybersecurity FrameworkDr. Mirco Speretta, Fairfield University Rohan Sahu is a senior at Westhill High School in Stamford, Connecticut. He started to learn about statistical word analysis based on TF-IDF in the fall of 2021, when he was a sophomore. He implemented this technique from scratch in Java and applied it to the NIST Risk Management framework. Dr. Mirco Speretta is the Director of the Cybersecurity Programs at Fairfield University. Before this role he spent 10 years as a director of technical engineering, acting

Collection

2024 South East Section Meeting

Authors

Robert Shegiharu Keyser, Kennesaw State University; Lin Li, Kennesaw State University; Maia A Keith, Kennesaw State University

(i.e., lawyers, accountants,dentists), S&E professionals were reported to have a high unemployment rate. The Bureau ofLabor and Statistics projects that over the 10-year period between 2016-2026, the science andengineering workforce will see a 11.7% job increase, estimating 8.2 million jobs will be availableto S&E graduates and professionals2. To interpret post-graduate employment in the engineeringfield, insights on career readiness during the transition from student to graduate can expose apossible gap between what students learn and what they are expected to know in industry. Forexample, do students acquire knowledge and skills that satisfy current industry needs as identifiedby an Industry Advisory Board? Through the transition

Conference Session

Advances in CAD with Emphasis on Dimensioning

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Leonardo A. Bueno, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Design Graphics

during the Spring2014, the conditions and milestones will be kept the same as in the fall semester.References[1] Leahy, K. (2012). Promoting best practice design intent in 3D CAD Modelling: Feedback as a constructivistparadigm of teaching and learning. Department of Design and Manufacturing Technology. University of Limerick.[2] Wright, D. (2007). The Decision Pattern: Capturing and Communicating Design Intent. Computer ScienceDepartment North Carolina State University Raleigh, NC USA.[3] Gerber D. and Forest F. (2011) Teaching Design Optioneering: A Method for Multidisciplinary DesignOptimization. CIFE Technical Report #TR203 June 2011. Stanford University.[4] Rynne A. and Gaughran W. (2007) Cognitive Modelling Strategies for Optimum Design

Conference Session

Technical Sessions 4

Collection

2024 Fall ASEE Mid-Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Heather Lai, State University of New York at New Paltz; Anne C Balant, State University of New York at New Paltz

Tagged Topics

Diversity, Professional Papers

technical knowledge required of students. • Ability to learn computer programs related to audio processing and statistics. • Students should be organized, able to travel to field sites and able to coordinate test schedules for multiple participants. • Students should possess critical thinking abilities which will enable them to conduct tests and analyze the results under the supervision of the advisors.Description of our ongoing research related to wind farm acousticsThe project that these two students participated in was a part of a larger research initiative relatedto wind farm acoustics. This initiative has three main components: • Data Collection and characterization using ML/AI: The goal of this portion of the

Conference Session

Women in Engineering Division (WIED) Technical Session 6 - Institutional Contexts

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Camila Zapata-Casabon, Universidad Andres Bello, Chile; Maria Elena Truyol, Universidad Andres Bello, Santiago, Chile

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Women in Engineering Division (WIED)

postdoctoral position at the Universidade de Sao Paulo, Brazil. Her focus is set on educational research, physics education, problem-solving, design of instructional material, teacher training and gender studies. She teaches undergraduate courses related to environmental management, energy and fundamentals of industrial processes at the School of Engineering, UNAB. She currently is coordinating the Educational and Academic Innovation Unit at the School of Engineering (UNAB) that is engaged with the continuing teacher training in active learning methodologies at the three campuses of the School of Engineering (Santiago, Vi˜na del Mar and Concepci´on, Chile). She authored several manuscripts in the science education area

Collection

2024 CIEC

Authors

Alok Verma; Vanicha McQueen; Paul Potier; Irfan Khan; Andrew Moore; Grace Komanduru

at the current rate by 2025 [13].Our MARE minor addresses the need by offering Maritime business and other engineeringmajors the opportunity to understand ship engine capabilities and operational requirements. Thisminor program, once USCG approved, will allow the student to test for their Designated DutyEngineer Coast Guard Certification, allowing them to work on smaller vessels such as tugboatsand river barges. This curriculum includes the MARE 200 course, where the student will spend60-75 days as a cadet on the training vessel, participating in class, standing watch, andperforming maintenance. This experience will allow the students to apply the theoreticalengineering lessons learned to onboard vessels' practical skills. The classes for

Collection

2002 ASEE North Midwest Section Conference

Authors

S.P.K. Sternberg; G.G. Botte

reader may want to examine the web sitehttp://www.fuelcells.org/ for more information concerning other types.There are many uses for fuel cells — right now, all of the major automakers are workingto commercialize a fuel cell car. Fuel cells are powering buses, boats, trains, planes,scooters, even bicycles. There are fuel cell-powered vending machines, vacuum cleaners,and highway road signs. Miniature fuel cells for cellular phones, laptop computers, andportable electronics are on their way to market. Hospitals, credit card centers, policestations, and banks are all using fuel cells to provide power to their facilities. Wastewatertreatment plants and landfills are using fuel cells to convert the methane gas they produceinto electricity. Fuel

Collection

2005 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Larry N. Bland

engineering world, math and basic sciences arefoundational to our courses. Herein lies our dilemma, how to make engineering fun while notsacrificing the technical truths. The University of Tulsa (UT) uses undergraduate research and competitions as their funelements. The undergraduate research program is very challenging academically, but from arecruiting perspective can be presented as very interesting, exciting and rewarding. The studentsare discovering new frontiers, helping humanity, and going somewhere no one else has gone.Some of the projects have been community service learning activities of mentoring and teachingunderprivileged youth. Some projects are sold as adventuresome, cutting edge technicalresearch. These projects are an

Collection

2009 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

E. Carl Greco; Jim D. Reasoner

and Environment for Statistical Computing. Vienna, Austria: RFoundation for Statistical Computing; 2009. Available at: http://www.R-project.org.6. Wackerly DD, Mendenhall III W, Scheaffer RL. Mathematical Statistics with Applications. 6th ed. Duxbury:Thomson Learning; 2002.Biographical InformationE. CARL GRECOReceived the BSEE from Louisiana Tech University in 1967, the MSEE and Ph.D. from RiceUniversity in 1974 and 1976 respectively. He is a Professor of Electrical Engineering atArkansas Tech University and is a member of ASEE and a senior member of the IEEE.JIM D. REASONERReceived the BSEE from US Naval Academy in 1971 and the MA in Defense Analysis andStrategic Studies from the US Naval War College in 1986. He is an Instructor of

Collection

2008 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Carol Siri Johnson

to any advanced position within the organization. By 1915 stenographer typistsbegan to work at the plant, producing carbon-copied pages of faultless prose taken directly from themouths of the men by dictations, the amount of communication exploded. For most of the rest of the 20thcentury, secretaries bridged the gap between differing levels of literacy and became midwives to technicalknowledge. However, in out times, the personal computer made literacy an individual responsibility:each engineer is responsible for their own ability to write, to use graphic imaging programs and to be ableto read and process complex data logically. Thus, in the 21st century, literacy is a personal responsibilitythat can make the difference between being in a

Collection

2015 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Kenneth E. Dudeck; Joseph A. Ranalli

. In addition, the committee drafted, revised and adopted a procedure by which exceptions are granted for students who were able to demonstrate prior knowledge by achieving adequate scores on a pass/fail pre-test of the requisite material. These pre-tests are created by the course instructors (approved by the curriculum committee for common courses) and results are saved to provide documentation should justification of the exception prove necessary. 2. The role of computer science in the curricula of the options was addressed. Based on feedback from the option Industrial Advisory Committee, the Alternative Energy and Power Generation option proposed that option students be required to learn

Collection

2009 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

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

and internal funding sources to implement our newlaboratory exercise goals. Second, students were enlisted to help design and troubleshoot the newexperiments under the guidance of professors as their senior projects for the past three years. Proceedings of the 2009 American Society for Engineering Education Pacific Southwest Regional Conference 54Finally, department allocated $60,000 of internal funding to complete the costs of doubling theteaching space allocation from 700 ft2 to 1400 ft2. This included the purchase of four new opticalbenches, equipment racks, computers and infrastructure changes. Test equipment

Collection

2008 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

Carol Siri Johnson

to any advanced position within the organization. By 1915 stenographer typistsbegan to work at the plant, producing carbon-copied pages of faultless prose taken directly from themouths of the men by dictations, the amount of communication exploded. For most of the rest of the 20thcentury, secretaries bridged the gap between differing levels of literacy and became midwives to technicalknowledge. However, in out times, the personal computer made literacy an individual responsibility:each engineer is responsible for their own ability to write, to use graphic imaging programs and to be ableto read and process complex data logically. Thus, in the 21st century, literacy is a personal responsibilitythat can make the difference between being in a

Collection

2010 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

Xingguo Xiong; Linfeng Zhang; Lawrence V. Hmurcik P.E.

Teaching MEMS Curriculum in Electrical Engineering Graduate Program Xingguo Xiong, Linfeng Zhang, Lawrence Hmurcik Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Bridgeport, Bridgeport, CT 06604Abstract: Microelectromechanical Systems (MEMS) refer to devices and systems in the sizerange of 1 micron (1 micron=10-6m) to 1000 microns. Due to their small size, MEMStechnology has the advantages of low weight, low cost, low power consumption and highresolution. MEMS have found broad applications in automobile, inertial navigation, lightdisplay, optical and RF communications, biomedicine, etc. World’s MEMS market isgrowing

Collection

2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

Remah Alshinina; Christian Bach

ASEE 2014 Zone I Conference, April 3-5, 2014, University of Bridgeport, Bridgpeort, CT, USA. Improvement in the Performance of Design-Science Research in Information Systems Christian Bach Remah Alshinina School Of Engineering Computer Science and Engineering University Of Bridgeport University Of Bridgeport Bridgeport, CT, U.S.A Bridgeport, CT, U.S.A cbach@bridgeport.edu ralshini

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2015 ASEE Zone 3 Conference

Authors

John Mirth; Andrew Findley

architecture 4. The art of kinetics – The illusion of motion as well as the study of moving objects. 5. The inspiration of the natural world. 6. Urban design – Displays that exist in public space. 7. Homes – Home design ranging from mobile homes to Frank Lloyd Wright. 8. Virtual Art – Website design, computer graphics and solid modeling. 9. Industrialization – Mass produced art and the management of art. 10. Failures, Fiascos, and Fantasies – The Pontiac Aztek, hoverboards and other topics.The above topics were supplemented by a variety of guest speakers. The course also included aday-long field trip to GE Appliances in Louisville, KY to visit the GE rapid-prototyping facilityand to interact with the GE industrial design staff.The course

Collection

2015 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

Elaine Gilbert

/Pacific South West Conference Copyright © 2015, American Society for Engineering Education 346will be accessible from any internet capable device, the RFI template will have been pre-selected by the stakeholders, and the contact information for all the pertinent professionalswill be pre-loaded and automatically grouped; therefore, when the contractor is ready tosubmit an RFI, he will simply log in to the forum, enter information being requested, andsubmit.Once an RFI is submitted, the computer program will instantly send notifications, which canbe received by any computer or any handheld mobile device, to every professional within

Collection

2025 PNW Section Annual Meeting

Authors

Yuliana Flores; Jennifer A. Turns

tension between authentic community engagement and academic research agendas isparticularly acute for researchers who belong to the communities with which they work. Whenresearchers are community members themselves, they navigate complex dual roles andresponsibilities that may not be fully addressed by conventional research ethics frameworks. This paper presents a case study of a high school engineering project I led during Winterquarter 2025, examining how I navigated the evolving relationship between communityengagement and research interests. Initially conceived as an outreach opportunity—a chance forhigh school students to learn about engineering applications in educational technology and userexperience—the project had no research

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics Division (ETHICS) Technical Session _Monday June 26, 11:00 - 12:30

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jeff R. Brown, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University - Daytona Beach; Chad Rohrbacher, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University - Daytona Beach; Taylor Joy Mitchell, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University ; Leroy Long III, Sinclair Community College - Dayton; Jenna Korentsides, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University - Daytona Beach; Joseph Roland Keebler, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University - Daytona Beach

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Engineering Ethics Division (ETHICS)

Paper ID #39165Impact of critical narrative on students’ abilities to recognize ethicaldilemmas in engineering workDr. Jeff R. Brown, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University - Daytona Beach Jeff Brown is a professor of civil engineering at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Daytona Beach, FL. His research interests include ethics and professional formation in engineering education, service learning, and structural health monitoring of reinforced concrete structures. Dr. Brown received his PhD in structural engineering from the University of Florida in 2005.Chad Rohrbacher, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University - Daytona

Conference Session

Teaching Methodology & Assessment 1

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Zachary Nolan Sunberg, University of Colorado Boulder; Kathryn Anne Wingate, University of Colorado Boulder; Lara Buri, University of Colorado, Boulder

Tagged Divisions

Aerospace

.tb00260.x (accessed Mar. 08, 2021).[3] M. L. Post, A. Barrett, M. Williams, and L. Scharff, “Impact of Team Formation Method on Student Performance, Attitudes, and Behaviors,” J. Scholarsh. Teach. Learn., vol. 20, no. 1, pp. 1–21, Apr. 2020.[4] Y. G. Sahin, “A team building model for software engineering courses term projects,” Comput. Educ., vol. 56, no. 3, pp. 916–922, Apr. 2011, doi: 10.1016/j.compedu.2010.11.006.[5] M. Galaleldin, J. Boudreau, and H. Anis, “TEAM FORMATION IN ENGINEERING DESIGN COURSES,” Proc. Can. Eng. Educ. Assoc. CEEA, Nov. 2019, doi: 10.24908/pceea.vi0.13751.[6] S. Takai and M. Esterman, “Towards a Better Design Team Formation: A Review of Team Effectiveness Models and Possible Measurements of Design

Conference Session

CoNECD Session : Day 3 Slot 6 Technical Session 1

Collection

2021 CoNECD

Authors

Katreena Thomas, Arizona State University, Polytechnic campus; Brooke Charae Coley, Arizona State University, Polytechnic campus; Michael Lorenzo Greene, Arizona State University, Polytechnic campus; Jeremi S. London, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Tagged Topics

CoNECD Paper Submissions, Diversity

the Michigan Womyn's Music Festival," American Journal of Community Psychology, pp. 473-488, 2016.[16] N. S. King and R. M. Pringle, "Black girls speak STEM: Counterstories of informal and formal learning experiences," Journal of Research in Science Teaching, vol. 56, no. 5, pp. 539-569, 2019.[17] A. K. Hodari, M. Ong, L. T. Ko and J. M. Smith, "Enacting Agency: The Strategies of Women of Color in Computing," Computing in Science and Engineering, vol. 18, no. 3, pp. 58-68, 2016.[18] M. J. Chang, J. Sharkness, S. Hurtado and C. B. Newman, "What matters in college for retaining aspiring scientists and engineers from underrepresented racial groups," Journal of Research in Science Teaching, vol. 51, no. 5, pp. 555-580, 2014.

Conference Session

Money and People; Resource Management for Recruitment and Retention

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Margaret Bailey, Rochester Institute of Technology; Elizabeth DeBartolo, Rochester Institute of Technology; Jacqueline Mozrall, Rochester Institute of Technology; Julie Olney, Rochester Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Women in Engineering

Page 13.339.2minorities who seek concrete applications of the abstract math and science concepts they have Proceedings of the 2008 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2008, American Society for Engineering Educationlearned in school [2, 3]. In response to this need, WE@RIT has developed an extensive portfolioof outreach programs that bring girls from 4th-12th grades to RIT to learn about engineering [4,5]as well as an active community building program to increase retention of current womenengineering students [6]. Since its inception in 2004, WE@RIT has received financial supportfrom the Gleason Foundation, Harris Corporation, IBM, Intel, Microsoft, Xerox