Collection

2016 Rocky Mountain Section Conference

Authors

Susan M. Reynolds

traditional lecture slidesand commentary, as well as other interactive in-class exercises, such as group work and pin-upswith discussion.The homework weighting was significantly increased from 15% to 50%, written reflections wereincorporated, the check / check-plus / check-minus grading model was discarded, and theinstructor sought student buy-in by emphasizing the learning outcomes in class and in thesyllabus, excerpted as: Engineering education research maintains that students internalize and retain concepts better if they are given time to reflect on what they have learned, thereby contextualizing the technical material. The technical work in this course will be initialized during class in pairs, and guided

Collection

2016 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Oludare Owolabi

subject matterin the classroom, in-order to enliven the class. He finally implemented new technological tools;mini-videos and screencasting. The new tools did not only add instructor visibility but also offeredother pedagogical benefits.Integration of communication tools not only fosters social interaction and a sense of communityand belonging, but also enhances the learning process [7]. Research shows that “students agreedthat seven of the nine functions provided by the web-based online course management systemenhanced their learning: private email (92.3%), calendaring (88.5%), course notes (88.5%),discussion forums (84.5%), online grades (84.5%), assignment descriptions (80.8%), and onlinequizzes (80.8%)” [7]. Schmieder 2008[1] also noted that

Conference Session

Student Paper Presentation

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Melanie Watson, Louisiana Tech University; Krystal Corbett, Louisiana Tech University; Kyle Prather, Louisiana Tech University; Jenna Carpenter, Louisiana Tech University; Stanley Cronk, Louisiana Tech University

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Students Constituent Committee

course of the freshman engineering series. This course has well-developed curriculum and dedicated instructors, therefore allowing a positive atmosphere for theinexperienced graduate student instructors to gain their initial lecturing experience. The project-based course was created through an NSF grant the courses were developed with themes from“___ ________ __ _____ _______ __ ___________ __ ___ ___ _______” and ideals from theNational Science Foundation Educational Coalitions4, 5. The curriculum lasts three quartersspanning the undergraduate students’ freshman year. Each quarter has a length of ten weeks, andclasses meet twice a week for 110 minutes6. Using a microcontroller as a learning platform,general engineering fundamentals are taught

Conference Session

Innovative & Computer-Assisted Lab Study

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Yi Li; Kai Li; Jing Zhao; Xin Tang

variety of research attempts to impart practical skills to students via the state of the artcomputer technologies. In Vernon College, Computer networking courses are taught via virtualmachine technology [3]. However, they do not put too much effort on remote technologies. Page 10.402.2Students are still taught through traditional face-to-face instruction. Other previous work for Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Conference & Exposition Copyright  2005, American Society for Engineering Educationnetwork education based on virtual networking lab components can be found in [4][5]. In

Conference Session

Trends in Energy Conversion/Conservation

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Wilk Richard; Wicks Frank; Gregory Scott; Christopher Lewis; Frank Wicks

between thegenerator and outgoing transmission wires. The voltage is decreased by step down transformers to safer levels such as 230 voltsor 115 volts for residential service. End use equipment such as lighting, motors andelectronics have been designed and standardized to operate at these conditions.3. Legislative Initiatives for More Renewable Energy Another objective of the engineering education process is to experience thelegislative and regulatory processes. The authors took part in a related public hearingwhile performing this research. The governor of New York has set a goal of producing 25 % of the energy fromrenewable sources. The lead agency is the State of New York Department of PublicService, which has held several public

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Courses and Issues

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

John Mingle; Tom Roberts

initially follow the behavior of their next oldest genera-tion but by midlife develop their own identity — the Adaptive is secular like the Civic while theReactive is spiritual like the Idealist.For the author’s purpose, the sterling learning academic characteristics (socially behaved, con-crete/linear learners, and willing to take orders from parents and teachers) of the Millennial Gen-eration (Civic) are significant. These characteristics are important in comparison to the increas-ingly pragmatic with age actions (strong individualism, abstract/random thinking, entrepreneu-rial, and “liberal – don’t follow the rules” social behavior) of the teachers that are of the X Gen-eration (Reactive). Further, both sets of characteristics are important to

Conference Session

Social Responsibility & Professionalism

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Louise Yates; Maura Borrego

freshmanclass placement). Since the freshman writing course schedules large group eveningsessions for Wednesdays at 7pm, two large group engineering speakers were scheduledfor evenings not used by the Writing program. To allow students to concentrate on examsand final projects for their other courses, the seminar course meets only during the first12 weeks of each semester. Through a group effort in which each faculty membercoordinated tours in his or her respective department, all sections visited at least threeengineering research labs during the semester. Page 10.444.5 Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference

Conference Session

Curriculum Innovation & Assessment

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Whalen; Susan Freeman; Beverly Jaeger

engineering educators for their own adoption.IntroductionAt Northeastern University the first-year engineering curriculum is common for all majors, andthere are typically 14-16 separate sections of approximately 30 students each. For the pastdecade, our introductory computer programming courses in engineering, like those of many otheruniversities, had administered a hand-written final exam to comprise a substantive portion of thestudents’ overall grade. This evaluation method was supplemented by quizzes and computer-based assignments throughout the term. When initially electing to use the exam option, severalprimary factors and concerns were considered. The first was resources; at any given time, therehad been only 64 computers available within the

Conference Session

Using IT to Enhance Design Education

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Harold Evensen; Paula Zenner; Edward Lumsdaine

report that could include operating instructions and manuals if required by the sponsor.3. Use of the Herrmann Brain Dominance Instrument (HBDI): At the beginning of the capstone design course, the on-campus students completed an on-line HBDI survey form to assess their thinking preferences.5 The results were used to form mentally diverse teams which had at least one member with a strong preference for right-brain, conceptual thinking, together with members with dominant interpersonal, organizational, or analytical thinking modes as outlined in Table 2. 3,5,6 Although initial communication can be difficult in such “whole-brain” teams, the members learn to appreciate the contributions and perspectives their differences bring

Conference Session

Improving Multidisciplinary Engineering Education

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Sherra Kerns; Edwin Jones; John Weese

curriculadesigned to prepare graduates for emerging areas. These pose challenging evaluations forvisitors steeped in discipline-specific participating society training programs.ASEE is unique in being composed of all engineering and engineering technology disciplinesplus many of the support areas. Faculty who teach in such programs are active in ASEE. Whilemost ASEE members are faculty, they run the gamut from research I doctoral institutions to two-year community colleges. There is also a significant number of ASEE members in industry, andASEE has a very strong, active Corporate Member Council, which has the leverage to reachlarge numbers of engineers in industry.The interdisciplinary character of engineering and engineering technology has long been

Conference Session

The Computer, the Web, and the ChE

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

David Clough

1300 based on theirinterest in and leanings toward an engineering major. Also, there has occasionally been anadditional section of the course for "open option" students and students not yet in the College ofEngineering.Two years ago, ChE at Colorado initiated a change in this course, taking it away from itstraditional Fortran/Excel base. In this transition, two central themes were preserved:scientific/engineering problem solving and structured programming. The new course is dividedinto four roughly-equal parts. First comes a segment on engineering problem solving using the Page 7.290.1 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for

Conference Session

Manufacturing Education and Outreach

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Beverly Davis

study essential to their future employability and economic well-being (1).Even the positive statistics seem to reveal questionable workplace segregation. Research shows thatbetween 1975 and 1995, the percentage of women in managerial and professional specialty occupations inthe American workforce increased significantly (15). In 1995, women accounted for 43% of managerialand related employment, nearly double their share in 1975. There were noticeable differences, however, inthe functional areas women chose (or were channeled into). Women were much more heavily representedin service occupations, as were men in precision production, craft, and repair occupations. Even womenwho make it to the board of directors or to the position CEO were more

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Graphics

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Alain Desrochers

achieve it. It is therefore most useful at the last two levels; thetask and function levels. The general principle of nested algorithms of increasing depth is alsopractical and efficient by allowing a user to focus on those specific tasks that appear to be moredifficult to her or him.Finally, custom algorithms could be developed in an industrial context to guide designers byproviding them with graphical representations of standard part creation methodologies. Such anapproach was viewed favorably by the CAD specialists at Bombardier Aerospace, to whom theguide has been presented and who are also responsible for providing the designers with aircraftstandard part creation procedures.3 – Quick visual aidEven though it has not initially been

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Freeman; Rebecca Kellogg

styles. Felder’s research in the various learning styles of engineering students suggestsseveral techniques for addressing the needs of those learning styles.[4] For example, the use ofSmart Board technology combined with the video production capabilities of EDE during labsenabled the instructor to discuss the particular objective of a lab step, review the theory, all whilethe students saw that theory put into use in the laboratory exercise. During particularly difficultlab exercises, the instructor could prepare in-depth discussions on how the lab related to coursetheory, and vice versa. Students could follow the streaming video step-by-step, or as theirconfidence in using the equipment and software grew, skip the tutorials. The use of

Collection

2022 CIEC

Authors

Aleksandr Sergeyev; Chinmay Kondekar

any future projects.In this paper, authors provide the details on system configuration, integration approach and thedeveloped advanced communication scheme.IntroductionModern industrial processes rely on sensor technology to carry out precise functions and involvetechnologies from touchscreen tablets and phones to robotic assembly machines. Advancedmanufacturing incorporates complicated electromechanical systems with cutting-edge controlsystems to increase production quality and throughputs. Today's manufacturing is highlydependent on automation to optimize the workforce by relieving repetitive and dull tasks whileenabling creative work, research, and development. While the automation systems cansignificantly vary in complexity of controls

Collection

2024 South East Section Meeting

Authors

Bryn Elizabeth Seabrook, University of Virginia

potential lesson plan about generative AI, and discussion of syllabi policies to best supportstudents and faculty alike.Concerns about Generative AIOnly days after the initial release of ChatGPT, an article from The Atlantic went viral with theheadline “The College Essay is Dead” [4]. This article discusses how a professor would grade anassignment excerpt and asks the reader to consider how they would grade the assignment if theyknew a student did not write it at all. In short, this article and others like it pose valid questionsamongst the academic community. If faced with material believed to be written by generative AI,how do you provide constructive feedback to your student? This scenario is especially importantto consider for engineering

Conference Session

Poster Sessions for Unit Operations Lab Bazaar and Tenure-Track Faculty

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael Jefferson Baird, University of Pittsburgh; Schohn L. Shannon, University of Pittsburgh

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Chemical Engineering

conversion of coal liquids to gasoline and environmental mon- itoring of SO2, NOx from coal-fired power plants. From 1978 until 1988, Dr. Baird was employed at Ashland Oil (two years) and at Amoco Oil (eight years), working on hydrocracking and resid processes for producing gasoline. From 1973 until 1978, Baird was a research chemical engineer at the Pittsburgh Energy Research Center (PETC), now NETL, where he worked on Fischer-Tropsch catalysis and process development.Schohn L. Shannon, University of Pittsburgh Dr. Shannon joined the University of Pittsburgh in 1995 as Assistant Dean of Engineering and Chemical Engineering Lecturer following the completion of his Ph.D. at Pitt in 1995. He is also currently Executive

Conference Session

Public Policy in Engineering Education

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Martin S. High, Oklahoma State University; Joseph M. Nowakowski, Muskingum University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering and Public Policy

AC 2011-2441: WHAT DO MARKETS TELL US ABOUT DEMAND FORENGINEERS IN THE WORKPLACE?Martin S. High, Oklahoma State University Marty High is an Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering at Oklahoma State University. His aca- demic interests include teaching in all areas and at all levels of chemical engineering with a focus on instruction in thermodynamics and mass transfer. His research interests are in the areas of mass transfer in polymeric systems, corrosion modeling, equation of state development and refinery catalysis. Marty also writes in the area of sustainability and on the intersection of law, science and society. He received his engineering education at Penn State (B.S., M.S., and Ph.D.) and earned his law

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship Courses and Outcomes I

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Donald M Reimer, Lawrence Technological University; Ahad Ali, Lawrence Technological University; Sabah Razouk Abro, Lawrence Technological University

Tagged Divisions

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

research projects with Chrysler, Ford, DTE Energy, Delphi Automotive System, GE Medical Systems, Harley-Davidson Motor Company, Interna- tional Truck and Engine Corporation (ITEC), National/Panasonic Electronics, and Rockwell Automation. His research interests include manufacturing systems modeling, simulation and optimization, reliability, intelligent scheduling and planning, artificial intelligence, predictive maintenance, e-manufacturing, and lean manufacturing. He is member of IIE, INFORMS, SME and IEEE.Sabah Razouk Abro, Lawrence Technological University Dr. Sabah Abro is an internationally educated math professor and program Director at Lawrence Tech- nological University. He graduated with a Bachelor degree from

Conference Session

Extending a Hand Back: Older Students Inspiring Younger Students

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

AJ Almaguer, University of California, Berkeley; Roy Tangsombatvisit, University of California, Berkeley; Matthew Ford, University of California, Berkeley; Susan Yushan Chen, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley Engineers and Mentors; Lisa A. Pruitt, University of California, Berkeley; Neil Ray, University of California, Berkeley

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

school and pursue a PhD in Bioengineering.Lisa A Pruitt, University of California, Berkeley Professor Lisa Pruitt has been on the faculty of Mechanical Engineering at UC Berkeley since 1998. Her research is focused on structureproperty relationships in orthopedic tissues, biomaterials and medical polymers. Her current projects include the assessment of fatigue fracture mechanisms and tribological performance of orthopedic biomaterials, as well as characterization of tissues and associated devices. At- tention is focused on wear, fatigue, fracture and multiaxial loading. Retrievals of orthopedic implants are characterized to model in vivo degradation and physiological loading. She uses medical implant analysis for

Collection

1999 Annual Conference

Authors

James Devault

, decoybeacons, and air cannons. Late night sessions in the laboratory, unique contest strategies,exotic robot features, and satisfying student outcomes provide an ample source of stories to beshared.BeginningsThe first Kansas State University mobile robot contest (1993) was an offshoot of an informalexperiment in undergraduate research, the MARS Lab (Mobile Autonomous Robotic SystemsLaboratory) [1]. The following year, a mobile robotics course was developed to support andenhance these activities. The contest is now in its seventh year and continues to serve as ashowcase of our students’ work and as a vehicle for interdisciplinary engineering education.This paper briefly describes the mobile robotics course and the mobile robot contest [2] andthen

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1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Frank J. Fronczak; John G. Webster

their work.While the different backgrounds of the instructors enabled the students to have immediate accessto a fairly wide body of technical knowledge, it was important for them to also become more Page 4.40.4skilled in acquiring new knowledge from a variety of sources. In all cases the students had aclient that had initially proposed the project. In most case, these clients maintained a continuinginterest in the progress of the projects and were able to provide advice as well as specificinformation in a timely manner. The students also made wide use of the Internet in obtaininginformation as well as more traditional sources such as

Collection

1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Mary Anderson-Rowland

Session 2570 The Effect of the Scheduling of the First Engineering Course on the Retention of Underrepresented Minority Engineering Students Mary R. Anderson-Rowland Arizona State UniversityAbstractThe retention of freshmen engineering students has received much attention and research focusin the last few years. Direct exposure to engineering during the first two semesters of thefreshman engineering student is an area being studied as a retention factor. When theintroductory engineering course at Arizona State (ASU) was in a

Collection

1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Mary Anderson-Rowland

Session 2570 The Effect of the Scheduling of the First Engineering Course on the Retention of Underrepresented Minority Engineering Students Mary R. Anderson-Rowland Arizona State UniversityAbstractThe retention of freshmen engineering students has received much attention and research focusin the last few years. Direct exposure to engineering during the first two semesters of thefreshman engineering student is an area being studied as a retention factor. When theintroductory engineering course at Arizona State (ASU) was in a

Collection

1997 Annual Conference

Authors

C. Dianne Martin; Edmund Tsang; Rand Decker

students in institutions of higher learning has a long history in the United States1.service learning is defined as a method by which students learn and develop through activeparticipation in thoughtfully organized service activities that meet the needs of a community; isintegrated into and enhances the academic curriculum of the students; and is coordinated withcommunity organizations including K-12 schools and institutions of higher learning2. In servicelearning, community needs are defined by the community partners. Federal support for servicelearning originated from President George Bush's "A Thousand Points of Light" initiative, withthe culmination of the U.S. Congress passing the National and Community Service Trust Act of1990 and the

Conference Session

Global Engineering Models: Developments and Implementations

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Maria Jose Yanez, Universidad de Santiago de Chile; Ernesto Gramsch, Universidad de Santiago de Chile; Roberto Santander, Universidad de Santiago de Chile; Cecilia Richards, Washington State University; Robert Richards, Washington State University

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International

Americanstudents have the opportunity to learn microfabrication methods first hand, or to gainhands-on experience actually fabricating microdevices. Thus while products such as cellphones, personal computers, and video games are ubiquitous in Latin America,experience with the micromanufacturing techniques used to produce these consumeritems is extremely rare. To our knowledge, only one university in Spanish-speakingSouth America has a cleanroom dedicated to education and research, the Universidad deLos Andes in Colombia [6, 7]. Certainly, when we began our project there was nouniversity-based microfabrication facility in Chile.For this reason, we decided to develop facilities in Chile to enable students there to learnbasic surface micromachining

Conference Session

Aerospace Technical Session

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Scott Post, Bradley University; Shankar Seetharaman, Bradley University; Sree Abimannan, Bradley University

Tagged Divisions

Aerospace

AC 2010-233: A DESIGN-BUILD-TEST-FLY PROJECT INVOLVING MODELING,MANUFACTURING, AND TESTINGScott Post, Bradley University Scott Post is an assistant professor of Mechanical Engineering at Bradley University in Peoria, IL. He previously taught at Michigan Technological University, and worked as a summer faculty fellow at NASA Dryden Flight Research Center. His research interests include aerodynamics, fuel injectors and sprays, and diesel engines.Shankar Seetharaman, Bradley University M.S. student in Mechanical Engineering at Bradley University.Sree Abimannan, Bradley University M.S. student in Mechanical Engineering at Bradley University

Conference Session

Sustainability in Engineering Curricula

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Angela Bielefeldt, University of Colorado, Boulder

Tagged Divisions

Environmental Engineering

smaller numberof papers that conducted more comprehensive LCAs would be better.25,26,27,28 In addition, manyof the students had not completed their individual tasks prior to the in-class meeting, so thegroup time was not very productive. This created challenges for the sub- groups and then super-groups to find time outside of class that they could meet together. One solution to this problemwould be to have an initial assignment that was submitted individually for grading, followed bythe group portions of the assignment. Overall, the project proved fairly challenging for thestudents. The average score was 81%, with a range of 36-100%. Many of the students diddiscuss various aspects of sustainability. Using a simple word search of the electronic

Conference Session

Virtual and Online Learning Tools in Chemical Engineering Education

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mary M. Staehle, Rowan University; Babatunde A Ogunnaike, University of Delaware

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Chemical Engineering

Paper ID #9546Simulation-Based Guided Explorations in Process Dynamics and ControlDr. Mary M. Staehle, Rowan University Dr. Mary Staehle is an Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering at Rowan University. Before joining the faculty at Rowan in 2010, Dr. Staehle worked at the Daniel Baugh Institute for Functional Genomics and Computational Biology at Thomas Jefferson University and received her Ph.D. in chemical engineer- ing from the University of Delaware. Her research is in the area of biological control systems, specifically neural regeneration. Dr. Staehle is also particularly interested in chemical, bio-, and

Conference Session

Architectural Design Topics in Architectural Engineering

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ahmed Cherif Megri, North Carolina A&T State University

Tagged Divisions

Architectural

Paper ID #10538The Integration of Building Codes into the Architecture Design ProcessDr. Ahmed Cherif Megri, North Carolina A&T State University Dr. Ahmed Cherif Megri, Associate Professor of Architectural Engineering (AE). He teaches capstone, lighting, electrical, HVAC and energy design courses. He is the ABET Coordinator for the AE Program. His research areas include airflow modeling, zonal modeling, energy modeling, and artificial intelligence modeling using the support vector machine learning approach. Dr. Megri holds a PhD degree from INSA at Lyon (France) in the area of Thermal Engineering and ”Habilitation