Conference Session

Materials in Design and Manufacturing

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Zhiqiang Hu, University of Missouri - Columbia

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

develop an understanding of the impactof engineering solutions in a sustainable global context. The proposed activities will help achieveour long-term goals to for training new generation of engineers.In modern society, sustainable development is a universal theme of humanity's future.Sustainable development encompasses three general areas: economic, environmental and social.In essence, we need to find the right balance between economic development, the benefit ofsociety and concern for the environment, together with a notion of intergenerational equity. Page 13.1128.2The United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development promotes technical

Conference Session

Institutional and Curricular Reform

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Pierre Lafleur, Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal; Yves Boudreault, Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal; Richard Prégent, École Polytechnique de Montréal

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

context, increase the non-technical aspect,develop soft and management skills, consider the international challenge, and use new learningstrategies to help engineers update their knowledge during their entire career (2). It was evidentthat a cultural change was necessary to switch from “sink or swim” culture to a less competitiveand collaboration-based environment. In fact, we need a change of paradigm from a teacher-centered to a student-centered pedagogy (4).StructureThe road to success for this project requires everyone’s contribution and involvement. Eachperson’s opinion and contribution must be requested and valued. What is especially important isto avoid giving people the impression that changes are imposed upon them. In the same way

Conference Session

Micro-/Nano-Technology Education

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Santosh Kurinec, Rochester Institute of Technology; Michael Jackson, Rochester Institute of Technology; Thomas Schulte, Rochester Institute of Technology; Nathaniel Kane, Rochester Institute of Technology; Elaine Lewis, Rochester Institute of Technology; Surendra Gupta, Rochester Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Materials

implementation of a cardboard boat race that included AP students from WestIrondequoit High School and Batavia High School. This was the culminating project forstudents who had challenged the AP-B Physics course. Student teams were tasked withdesigning a boat made solely from cardboard and duct tape that would carry two students acrossa school swimming pool. Understanding concepts in structural design and buoyancy werecritical to this project. It provided faster response to student questions and certainly made for astronger learning environment in teacher’s classroom. The response to this program during thefirst quarter was positive from both a student perspective as well as a teacher perspective. Theability to have someone with the necessary technical

Conference Session

Engineering Professional Development for K-12 Teachers – I

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kimberly Ogden, University of Arizona; Gregory Ogden, University of Arizona

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

12.551.5After the team designed the system on paper, they learned how to use Solidworks to construct a3D model of the system. The Solidworks drawings were then converted to a model using a rapidprototyping machine. An example of one of the pieces of equipment drawn in Solidworks isshown in Figure 2. Finally, the team installed the water recycle system and tested the system forbacteria (Figure 3).Figure 3a) Installation of the water recycle system in the hydroponics green house; b)Testing forbacteria within the system during operation.As stated earlier, one of the goals is to transfer the knowledge the teachers gained to the K-12classroom. Thus, approximately 1/.3 of the time the teachers participate in workshops, industrialtours, and curricular work

Conference Session

Project-Based Education in Energy Conversion

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Richard Smith, California State Polytechnic University-Pomona; Richard Cockrum, California State Polytechnic University Pomona; Phyllis Nelson, California State Polytechnic University-Pomona; Marvin Abrams, California State Polytechnic University Pomona

Tagged Divisions

Energy Conversion and Conservation

Institute of Technology in 1980 and her PhD from the University of California Los Angeles in 1990.Marvin Abrams, California State Polytechnic University Pomona Marvin Abrams received his B.S. and M.S. in Chemistry from the University of Nevada and PhD. in Physical Chemictry from Washington State University. He spent 33 years in Aerospace industry. Page 12.1511.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007Undergraduate Senior Research Project to Develop a ComputerControlled Power Supply for LEDsAbstractThis paper describes an active senior research project which is sponsored by theCalifornia Energy Commission

Conference Session

Introductory Materials Science Course

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Elliot Douglas, University of Florida

Tagged Divisions

Materials

invention phasecomes later in the sequence.4,8,9 This approach is most powerful when the learners themselvesinvent the concepts (rather than having it told to them). This approach is the basis forconstructivist teaching. In a constructivist approach the roles of the instructor and students arequite different from a traditional class. Table 1, taken from Spencer,10 compares those roles forthe two approaches.The use of a constructivist model of learning has been recognized as providing significantbenefits for learning, and a number of different ways of creating a constructivist, or learner-centered, classroom have been described.11 In this paper one particular approach, called process-oriented guided inquiry learning, is described.Process Oriented

Conference Session

Laboratory Development in ECE Education

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joseph Hoffbeck, University of Portland

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

AC 2008-120: USING REAL RF SIGNALS SUCH AS FM RADIO TO TEACHCONCEPTS IN COMMUNICATION SYSTEMSJoseph Hoffbeck, University of Portland Joseph P. Hoffbeck is an Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of Portland. He has B.S.E.E, M.S.E.E., and Ph.D. degrees from Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana. He worked with digital cellular telephone systems at Lucent Technologies (formerly AT&T Bell Labs) in Whippany, New Jersey. He is a member of the IEEE and the ASEE, and his technical interests include communication systems, digital signal processing, and remote sensing. His email address is hoffbeck@up.edu

Conference Session

Two Year College Tech Session III

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Dan Dimitriu, San Antonio College; Jerry O'Connor, San Antonio College

Tagged Divisions

Two Year College Division

Campus Coordinator for the Texas Alliance for Minority Participation program from 1993 to 2002, and is currently the Department Chairperson for Physics, Engineering, & Architecture. He has been involved in numerous initiatives to integrate the findings of physics and engineering education research with education practice. Page 13.1227.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2008 The Fifth Year of the EDGE Program – A New BeginningAbstractThis paper presents a brief description and history of the EDGE (Early Development of GeneralEngineering) Summer Bridge Program that was initiated in 2003 1 and

Conference Session

Distance, Remote, and Virtual Experiments

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Trishna Das, University of Minnesota-ECE; Paul Imbertson, University of Minnesota-ECE; Ned Mohan, University of Minnesota

Tagged Divisions

Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

electronics for military avionics and is currently an Associate Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the University of Minnesota, where he has been voted Best Professor five times. His current interests include the wide ranging topics of energy and deciphering the minds of electrical engineering students.Ned Mohan, University of Minnesota Ned Mohan is an Oscar A. Schott Professor of Power Electronics Systems at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis. His research areas are Power Electronics, Electric Drives and Power Systems. He has authored or co-authored five books on these subjects and written several technical articles. He received the Distinguished Teaching

Conference Session

BME Curriculum Development

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David Schneeweis, University of Illinois-Chicago; J Hetling, University of Illinois-Chicago; Patrick Rousche, University of Illinois-Chicago

Tagged Divisions

Biomedical

severalreasons. First, the intellectual domain of neural engineering spans several traditionalcurricula (i.e. engineering, neurobiology, materials science), making the scope of the labsvery broad. Second, the methods of the neural engineer are often technically challenging andcomplex, making it difficult for students to gain sufficient competence in the timeframe oftypical labs. Finally, the equipment needed for neural engineering labs can be costly and notgenerally available in an undergraduate learning environment. A search of the WhitakerFoundation’s Biomedical Engineering Curricular Database, with the term “neural laboratory”returns 27 courses from 16 distinct institutions [2]. But a closer examination of the coursedescriptions reveals that only

Conference Session

DB & Information Integration

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ed Crowley, University of Houston; Cheryl Willis, University of Houston

Tagged Divisions

Information Systems

isproblematic.This paper describes elements of a methodology for creating hands-on lab activities thatminimize budget and support requirements. We have used this methodology to create hands-onactivities in Operating System, Networking, and Security contexts. These activities providestudents with concrete experience that the student can, in most cases, duplicate and extendoutside of the laboratory environment. These structured activities are accompanied by questionsand assignments that provoke reflection and stimulate critical thinking.Our experience has been that Open Source Tools and Live CDs are critical elements in thedesign of our hands-on learning activities. These two elements produce a synergy that facilitatesthe creation of learning experiences that

Conference Session

Using Cooperative Education to Validate ABET Criteria

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Richard Griffin, Texas A&M University; David McMahon, Texas A&M University; Martha Marberry, Texas A&M University

Tagged Divisions

Cooperative & Experiential Education

Education program that is part of the University’siesCareer Center. Within the Coop program, the Dwight Look College of Engineering (COE) has along history of sending students to work in industry on an alternating semester basis. Inparticular, mechanical engineering has had many students do Co-op as part of their degreeprogram. During fall 2004, the Dwight Look COE had their ABET visit.The ABET visitors stressed outside evaluation of students’ performance. They wereuncomfortable with using faculty evaluation of individual students. As we were preparing for thevisit, mechanical engineering realized that through the Co-op program there was a directindependent evaluation of our students’ performance.This paper will describe and discuss the evaluation

Conference Session

Internet and Distributed Computing

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Fani Zlatarova, Elizabethtown College

Tagged Divisions

Information Systems

in the most popular commercial database management systems(DBMSs). Such books have their value, advantages, and readers in other cases but are notappropriate for an academic auditorium. Science is not equivalent to technology.The main purpose of the paper is to present a vision about the right approach to teaching query Page 11.890.2definition by considering different levels of abstraction related to this problem. These levels arerelated to:▪ Natural language descriptions;▪ RA expressions;▪ QBE relational language;▪ SQL language; and▪ Query optimization tools.These topics have been taught in the Introduction to Database Systems

Conference Session

Collaborative & New Efforts in Engineering Education

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joao Vinhas, Politecnico de Viseu; Joao Paiva, Politecnico de Viseu

Tagged Divisions

International

engineering schools continue to have their work cut out in order to Page 11.667.2meet our urgent demand for engineers. We face particular social challenges, like thosearising from the integration of some students who are the first generation in their families togo to college. We can reason that all students can use some encouragement now and then,especially when they are freshmen. However, these personal backgrounds in conjunctionwith a region which has no tradition in technical areas whatsoever, marked very strongly byrural environments, is a major drawback to efforts to win this battle. If we add to this analmost total lack of comprehension or

Conference Session

ERM Potpourri II

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David Jonassen, University of Missouri; Sanjay Rebello, Kansas State University; Carlos Wexler, University of Missouri; Zdeslav Hrepic, Fort Hays State University; Gregory Triplett, University of Missouri

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

AC 2007-88: LEARNING TO SOLVE PROBLEMS BY SCAFFOLDINGANALOGICAL ENCODINGDavid Jonassen, University of Missouri Dr. David Jonassen is Distinguished Professor of Education at the University of Missouri where he teaches in the areas of Learning Technologies and Educational Psychology. Since earning his doctorate in educational media and experimental educational psychology from Temple University, Dr. Jonassen has taught at the Pennsylvania State University, University of Colorado, the University of Twente in the Netherlands, the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, and Syracuse University. He has published 29 books and hundreds of articles, papers, and reports on text design, task

Conference Session

Capstone Courses II

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Andrew Borchers, Kettering University; David Rinard, Steelcase, Inc.; Trevor Harding, Kettering University; Terri Lynch-Caris, Kettering University

Tagged Divisions

Environmental Engineering

developthe environmental wisdom we need to help us know the "right answers" we must bring togetherthe knowledge we get from our academic pursuits with the experience we obtain through trialand error. Bringing together the academic world and the business world not only helps us solvethe immediate engineering need, it more importantly builds a partnership that will producegreater lasting value through students (future employees) who are attuned to the market demandsfor improved environmental performance in both business practices and products.This paper describes a new collaborative effort between Steelcase, Inc. and Kettering Universitythat will prepare future engineers, managers, scientists, and policy makers for a workplace thatplaces greater

Conference Session

On Pedagogy of Lab Courses and Their Design

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alan Cheville, Oklahoma State University

Tagged Divisions

Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

simpleproblems designed to highlight important concepts in the reading assignment and written tofocus on the two lowest levels of Bloom’s Taxonomy: remember and understand. Typicalquestions involve defining what technical terms mean, using “plug and chug” formulas, oridentifying MKS units for various quantities. Each quiz can be taken multiple times, and Page 11.1308.3students are provided immediate feedback on their performance. These quizzes are worth 15%of the course grade.When student teams arrive in the classroom, they are given a set of more difficult problems thatapply concepts from the reading to the project. These problems are written in the

Conference Session

EM Program Trend and Development

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ron Foster, University of Arkansas; Ken Vickers, University of Arkansas

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Management

departments – and still be granted a degree at the end of theireducational path as a graduate student.In 1998 a position was created using a combination of National Science Foundation (NSF) andUniversity funds to hire a technical manager from industry to establish and promote aninterdisciplinary graduate program in support of the research faculty in this area. Ken Vickerswas hired into this position after twenty years at Texas Instruments in integrated circuit processand equipment engineering. The charge was to incorporate industrial management methods intoboth the program’s internal management, and into the student curriculum using both formal andinformal methods.The stated goal of this experimental approach to graduate education was to create a MS

Conference Session

Incorporating Projects into the Curriculum

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joshua Vaughan, Georgia Institute of Technology; William Singhose, Georgia Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

official coursework can greatly im-prove their educational experience. This paper will discuss three years of such extracurricularprojects at the Georgia Institute of Technology for competition in ARLISS - A Rocket Launchfor International Student Satellites. Students build small “satellites” that are launched toapproximately 10,000 feet. The most popular competition at ARLISS is the “Comeback”competition, where the student satellites must autonomously navigate to a target location.The project requires knowledge of numerous engineering disciplines and is a leap in complex-ity over the projects in which the typical student gets involved. The majority of studentshave come from the mechanical engineering department, but several have also been from

Conference Session

Engineering and Public Policy Pioneering Courses

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jacqueline Isaacs, Northeastern University; Christopher Bosso, Northeastern University; Carol Barry, University of Massachusetts-Lowell

Tagged Divisions

Engineering and Public Policy

University (NEU), University of Massachusetts at Lowell(UML), and the University of New Hampshire (UNH), have made contributions to the lectures,which were transmitted live each week to partner institutions with a two-hour duration to astudent population with diverse scientific and engineering backgrounds on each campus duringthe Fall 2005 semester. The course was highly interdisciplinary in its technical content, andfurther, included topics delivered by faculty in social science and humanities. Twenty-threestudents were enrolled from NU, three students from UML and five students from UNH.In 2002 the National Research Council made ten recommendations to strengthen the still-youngNational Nanotechnology Initiative, eventually incorporated into the

Conference Session

Faculty Involvement in International Engineering Education

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Donal McHale, Dublin Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

International

,pioneered the implementation of the first faculty exchange between the two institutions.The main purpose of the paper is to document key issues in developing successful facultyexchanges and to document perspectives and key learnings emanating from the development andimplementation of such an exchange process.Reasons for collaboration• Gain perspective of other country’s approaches In an increasingly globalized environment, formal engagement between US and European educational institutions is of particular benefit to both of us. As educators, we can benchmark many elements of our ‘home’ processes and approaches to our discipline and share ‘best in class’ approaches. Faculty exchange provided an enriched context for us as educators intent on

Conference Session

Curriculum and Program Developments, Exchanges, Collaborations, and Partnerships

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Hong Zhang, Rowan University; Jess W. Everett, Rowan University; Jennifer Kadlowec, Rowan University; Sean COffey COffey; Andrea Rose McFarland, Rowan University

Tagged Divisions

International

Paper ID #7031From Glassboro to The Gambia– A Collaborative Work with the Universityof the Gambia and a Winter Trip to the Gambia VillagesDr. Hong Zhang, Rowan UniversityDr. Jess W. Everett, Rowan University Jess Everett, Ph.D., P.E. is a professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering. He has over 26 years experience as an environmental engineer and professor and has published over 63 refereed journal articles, chapters, and books. He has worked on more than 60 funded projects (totaling over $6 million) and has worked with more than 100 Junior and Senior Clinic teams (over 220 different undergraduate students). He has

Conference Session

The D/M/A of CE

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Daniel M. Dulaski, Northeastern University

Tagged Divisions

Community Engagement Division

Paper ID #6162Improving Students’ Capstone Experience with Community ParticipationDr. Daniel M. Dulaski, Northeastern University Dr. Daniel M. Dulaski, PE, joined the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering Department at Northeastern University in 2009. His research is primarily in transportation engineering which includes safety, roadway design, human factors, and sustainable transportation systems. He holds a Ph.D. in Civil Engineering and is a registered professional engineer in Massachusetts. He is the academic advisor for the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) student chapter, and the Institute of

Conference Session

NSF Grantees' Poster Session

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James L. Hanson, California Polytechnic State University

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Paper ID #8115Integrating Research to the Undergraduate Geotechnical Engineering Class-roomDr. James L. Hanson, California Polytechnic State University Dr. James L. Hanson is a professor in the Civil and Environmental Engineering department. Page 23.780.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013 Integrating Research to the Undergraduate Geotechnical Engineering ClassroomAbstractAn investigation was conducted to actively incorporate research

Conference Session

Design in Engineering Education Division Poster Session

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jianghong (Esther) Tian, Eastern Mennonite University

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

Paper ID #10229A design approach in an Introduction to Engineering courseDr. Jianghong (Esther) Tian, Eastern Mennonite University Esther Tian is an assistant professor of Engineering in the Department of Mathematical Sciences at Eastern Mennonite University. She received her PhD in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Virginia, where she did an interdisciplinary research on Modeling and Analysis of Neuronal Circuits for Loco- motion with Sensory Feedback. Her research interests include neuronal control mechanism of animal locomotion and robotics, as well as engineering design education

Conference Session

Pedagogical Approaches in Construction Education

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kristen Caroline Hurtado, Arizona State University; Kenneth Timothy Sullivan, Arizona State University

Tagged Divisions

Construction

Paper ID #10640A Proposed Dynamic Model for Education in Construction Project PlanningMrs. Kristen Caroline Hurtado, Arizona State University Kristen is a current PhD candidate in Construction Management at Arizona State University in the School of Sustainable Engineering in the Built Environment. She is also pursuing a Graduate Certificate in In- structional Design and Performance Improvement in the Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College. Kristen has experience teaching applied statics and estimating at the undergraduate level. She also instructs profes- sionals in her work and research in value-based project delivery. The main

Conference Session

NSF Grantees' Poster Session

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Andrew Sarangan, University of Dayton; Joseph W Haus, University of Dayton; Surinder M. Jain, Sinclair Community College; Jamshid Moradmand, Sinclair Community College; Nick Reeder, Sinclair Community College

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Paper ID #7689Collaborative Classroom Tools for Nanotechnology Process EducationDr. Andrew Sarangan, University of Dayton Dr. Andrew Sarangan is a professor in the Electro-Optics Graduate Program at the University of Dayton. His current research is in the areas of photodetector technologies, polarimetric imaging, nanofabrication, nano-structured thin films and computational electromagnetics. His research laboratory includes thin films, nano-lithography, plasma processes and imprinting technologies. He has developed optical compu- tational tools such as Beam Propagation Method, Finite-Difference-Time-Domain and optical

Conference Session

NSF Grantees' Poster Session

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Micah Lande, Arizona State University; Shawn S. Jordan, Arizona State University, Polytechnic campus; James Nelson, Arizona State University

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Paper ID #6852Defining Makers Making: Emergent Practice and Emergent MeaningsDr. Micah Lande, Arizona State University Dr. Micah Lande is an assistant professor in the Department of Engineering in the College of Technology and Innovation at Arizona State University. He teaches human-centered design innovation and researches how engineers learn and apply a design process to their work.Dr. Shawn S Jordan, Arizona State University, Polytechnic campus Dr. Shawn Jordan is an assistant professor in the Department of Engineering in the College of Technology and Innovation at Arizona State University. He teaches junior and senior

Conference Session

Engineering and Public Policy I

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Alexander Mendoza-Garcia, Purdue University / Pontificia Universidad Javeriana

Tagged Divisions

Engineering and Public Policy

Paper ID #6822Developing an instrument to assess student’s prior knowledge and possibleinterest in public policy coursesJohn Alexander Mendoza-Garcia, Purdue University / Pontificia Universidad Javeriana John Mendoza-Garcia is a Ph.D. student and a research assistant in the School of Engineering Education at Purdue University. He worked for industry seven years and then became an academic. He has been a professor of the Department of Systems Engineering at Pontificia Universidad Javeriana in Bogota, Colombia since 2005. He is interested in understanding the development of systems thinking, and the development of student’s

Conference Session

New Trends in ECE Education II

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Margret Hjalmarson, George Mason University; Jill K Nelson, George Mason University; Lisa G. Huettel, Duke University; Wayne T. Padgett, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Kathleen E. Wage, George Mason University; John R. Buck, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

Paper ID #7292Developing Interactive Teaching Strategies for Electrical Engineering FacultyDr. Margret Hjalmarson, George Mason UniversityProf. Jill K Nelson, George Mason University Jill Nelson is an associate professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at George Mason University. She earned a BS in Electrical Engineering and a BA in Economics from Rice Uni- versity in 1998. She attended the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign for graduate study, earning an MS and PhD in Electrical Engineering in 2001 and 2005, respectively. Dr. Nelson’s research focus is in statistical signal processing