Conference Session

Enhancing CE Learning Through Use of Technology

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mohammad Alhassan, Indiana University Purdue University, Fort Wayne; James Welch, Indiana-Purdue University Fort Wayne (IPFW)

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

packages available to professionals.Allowing students to learn the software step by step (modeling, analysis, and design) in asequential approach through successive interrelated core and elective courses (StructuralAnalysis, Reinforced Concrete Design, and Steel Design), supplies the students with thefundamentals needed to tackle large projects on their own. This paper illuminates the variouslearning projects that were given to the students in the courses mentioned above. The papercontinues with a demonstration to a practical application as civil engineering students usedSAP2000 to design a pedestrian bridge for the required capstone senior design course. Theproject allowed the students to further explore the various design capabilities of SAP2000

Conference Session

Teaching Statics

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Christine Valle, Georgia Institute of Technology; Sue Rosser, Georgia Institute of Technology; Janet Murray, Georgia Institute of Technology; Wendy Newstetter, Georgia Institute of Technology; Laurence Jacobs, Georgia Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Mechanics

(Interactive Toolkit for Engineering Learning), a computer-based manipulableenvironment that supports teaching and learning in statics by mapping images from real-worldenvironments to abstract diagrams for 2D and 3D equilibrium problems. With such digitaltechnology, statics professors will be able to offer students important scaffolding for developingmodel-based reasoning by contextualizing abstract concepts and principles in lifelike models.Interacting with and manipulating these models will help students develop the kind of intuitionthat characterizes engineering reasoning and problem solving.IntroductionA substantial body of research has uncovered factors that deter women from engineering,including the following: a technical experience gap relative

Conference Session

Track 4 - Session II - Student and Curriculum Development II

Collection

2013 ASEE International Forum

Authors

Abdel F. Isakovic, Khalifa University of Science, Technology and Research; Szu Szu F Ling, Khalifa University of Science, Technology and Research; Selwa Mokhtar Boularaoui, Khalifa University of Science, Technology & Research; Sara Bashir Timraz; Mualla Kara

Tagged Topics

Student and Curriculum Development

Paper ID #8362Multi-purpose Advanced Teaching and Basic Research Analytical and Phys-ical Chemistry Laboratory at Khalifa University’s Biomedical EngineeringDepartmentProf. Abdel F. Isakovic, Khalifa University of Science, Technology and Research Abdel F. Isakovic graduated with PhD in physics with focus on spintronics (University of Minnesota, 2003), where he was also trained in cooperative teaching method. He worked as postdoctoral research associate in nanotransport, nanofab and X-rays (2003-2006) at Cornel University, where he also served as a lecturer (2006), after which he moved to Brookhaven National Laboratory, NY to

Conference Session

Education Ideas in Software Engineering

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

James Vallino; Michael Lutz

of the models stress relationships between softwarecomponents, and numerical computation is the exception rather than the norm.Recent advances in both theory and application have made it possible to model significantaspects of software behavior precisely, and to use tools to help analyze the resultingproperties2,3,4. In this paper, we focus on a course developed by James Vallino and since taughtand modified by Michael Lutz, to present formal modeling to our software engineering studentsat RIT. Our overall goals were three-fold: To acquaint our students with modern modeling tools,to connect the courses they take in discrete mathematics to real applications, and to persuadethem that mathematics has much to offer to the engineering of quality

Conference Session

Real World Applications

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Alberto Gomez-Rivas; Jorge Tito-Izquierdo; George Pincus

Session 2249 Teaching Modern Concrete Technology at the University of Houston-Downtown Jorge Tito-Izquierdo, Alberto Gomez-Rivas, and George Pincus Visiting Associate Professor/Professor and Chair/Professor and Dean Engineering Technology, University of Houston-Downtown, Houston, TXAbstractThis paper describes a course developed by the Structural Analysis and Design EngineeringTechnology program at the University of Houston-Downtown to train the students in moderndesign of concrete mixes. The approach allows students to understand the dynamic nature of theconcrete

Conference Session

Energy Projects and Laboratory Ideas

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Smith; Marvin Abrams; Ian Lewin

Lighting Energy Efficiency - Visibility Effectivity Correlation Marvin C. Abrams, R. Frank Smith, Ian Lewin, Jack Melnyk Cal Poly Pomona Univ./ Cal Poly Pomona Univ./ Lighting Sciences, Inc./Southern California Edison CorpAbstractThis paper describes an example of augmenting classroom lecture and experiments with anactual engineering job-related experience. The impetus is to fulfill a student’s need to see howtheir academic education is relevant to industry practice. Students from the ECE DepartmentCourses Introduction to Illumination and Lighting Control/Design were offered the opportunityto participate in an applied research project sponsored by the Southern California Edison

Conference Session

Thermal Systems

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Edwards

actualapplications.This paper describes the role of the faculty experts in facilitating the semester project, and how ithas already changed in the first two years. The two projects which have been used are outlined,and a summary of results is included.Introduction:Semester projects for heat transfer courses are common for mechanical engineering students. Page 10.1400.1The projects provide a means to tie together the material being taught during the semester, andhelp to give the students a feel for the relevance of the subject. These projects are typically “Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference &

Conference Session

Computer-Based Data Acquisition Systems

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Kessler

of the experiment and a description of the data analysis procedure.Student opinions of the lab experience as determined by a survey about the lab are presented andways to improve the lab based on student comments are discussed.IntroductionThree important concepts that are covered in most experimental methods courses are instrumentcalibration, computerized data acquisition, and propagation of uncertainty into a calculatedresult. While these concepts are often taught in the classroom, students benefit more by activelylearning about these concepts in the laboratory. This paper describes an experiment that hasbeen developed for the Instrumentation and Measurements course in the University of Tulsa’sDepartment of Mechanical Engineering. This

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Manufacturing ET

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Haig Vahradian; Veekit O'Charoen; Teresa Hall

interest may be observed. The wide variety of tooling and fixtures are difficult to cover withina single quarter (or semester), especially if consideration of related topics on gaging, cuttingtools, and geometric dimensioning and tolerancing are included. The need for interactiveteaching tools for discreet technical fields such as modular fixturing in tool design applications isindicated and as a result, ToolTRAIN© was introduced as a solution to this problem.1This paper illustrates the outcomes of a research project in integration of multimedia coursewarein modular fixturing concepts, in which the traditional lecture on this topic was replaced by amultimedia courseware. ToolTRAIN© software was used in the area of MET and IT courses atWestern

Conference Session

Vendor Partnerships with Engineering Libraries

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Ruth Wolfish; Rachel Berrington; Andrew Wheeler; Jay Bhatt

Session: 2541 A Successful Collaborative Partnership Among the Faculty and Librarians at Drexel University with the IEEE Jay Bhatt1, Andrew Wheeler1 & Ruth Wolfish2 Drexel University Libraries1/IEEE2Abstract This paper details a successful collaborative partnership among the faculty and librariansat Drexel University with the IEEE. The primary groups involved in the partnership were theIEEE liaisons and leaders, the Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) Department of theDrexel University College of Engineering, the Drexel University Libraries, the Drexel

Conference Session

ET Design Projects

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Dale Litwhiler

runs on eitherMac or IBM-compatible computers. For the measurement and control hardware, 1-Wire devicesprovide a flexible and low cost set of analog and digital input and output devices that cancommunicate with the computer via the serial port. Devices in the 1-Wire family includetemperature sensors, A/D converters, counters, digital I/O and digital potentiometers. The 1-Wire device bus scheme allows for many devices to be connected to the computersimultaneously, addressed individually, and powered directly from the bus. This paper presentsand discusses the software and hardware necessary to implement HIL student design projects onboth Mac and IBM-compatible computers. Examples of the LabVIEW code and sensor andactuator designs are also

Conference Session

Laboratories

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

John Ficken; Subha Kumpaty

and the effectiveutilization of the data gathered and the results obtained are presented.IntroductionMilwaukee School of Engineering is dedicated to excellence in undergraduate education. Thegoal of the undergraduate curriculum is to produce well-rounded engineers, which is achievedthrough strong emphasis in a) excellent technical preparation, b) strong laboratory orientationwith faculty teaching labs in small size sections and c) required Senior Design projects.Accordingly, MSOE graduates are highly sought by industry (over 99% placement). Themechanical engineering students are introduced to MATLAB programming in the freshman yearitself and are taught numerical modeling and analysis in the junior year. Bridging the gap is ourfour-credit

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

William Heenan; Hector Estrada

Development of a Curriculum for a New Architectural Engineering Program at Texas A&M University-Kingsville *Dr. W. Heenan, P. E. and *Dr. H. Estrada, P. E. (corresponding author) *Frank H. Dotterweich College of Engineering Texas A&M University – Kingsville MSC 194 Kingsville, Texas 78363 Hector.Estrada@tamuk.edu ABSTRACT This paper presents an overview of the development of the curriculum for a new architecturalengineering program at Texas A&M University-Kingsville. The program

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jeff Frolik

presented in the prerequisite course,Intro to Communication Systems. As such, the integrated labs (Table 2) also build upon astudent’s experience. For example, students will already be familiar with most the equipmentbut will in addition gain expertise with the use of the vector signal analyzer (VSA). In addition,students develop, conduct and present a team-based lab project of their own design. The threelab assignments constitute 10% of the student’s final grade and the projects constitute another10%. The course is a senior-level technical elective, offered in alternating years, that can alsobeing taken by graduate students. Table 2. Labs incorporated into Digital Communications No. Subject

Conference Session

Innovation in Curriculum Development

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Shreeekanth Mandayam; Beena Sukumaran; Kauser Jahan; Yusuf Mehta

offer courses in digital imaging. As such DI technology has notbeen integrated in traditional undergraduate engineering education formally. Traditionallycourses related to digital image processing reside in the Physics and Electrical Engineeringcurriculum. Undergraduate students in civil and environmental, chemical and mechanicalengineering are typically never exposed to digital imaging through their traditional coursework orlaboratories. Some students may get exposure through a research project in their senior years.The Civil and Environmental Engineering laboratories are extremely traditional with experimentsthat have to conform to ASTM or EPA standards. This paper describes certain experiments thatwere developed to bring innovative

Conference Session

Innovative Curriculum in ET

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Miller; Joyce Pittman; Virginia Elkins; Max Rabiee; Eugene Rutz

Technology-Enabled Content in Engineering Science Curriculum Eugene Rutz, Virginia Elkins, Joyce Pittman, Max Rabiee, and Richard Miller University of CincinnatiAbstractEngineering technology technical courses often have both lecture and accompanying laboratorysessions. The laboratory assignments reinforce the understanding of the topics studied during thelecture sessions. A planning grant was awarded from the National Science Foundation throughtheir Bridges for Engineering Education Program to develop technology-enabled content inengineering science courses. Content was developed to appeal to a variety of learning styles andto support student-centered learning. This paper will describe the

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Javier Kypuros; Thomas Connolly

educational materials, such asexperimental procedures, delineation of student group tasks, protocols for interactions betweenthe two campuses, and evaluation tools. (3) We will begin to investigate ways to automate pre-and post-laboratory quizzes and student surveys related the laboratory exercises. We hope to useexisting tools such as Web CT or other software available on our respective campuses. Thisautomation will enable the co-PIs to more efficiently tabulate student responses and recognizetrends that point to the effectiveness of the different laboratory formats.Conclusions This paper summarized our progress to date in the implementation of new Web-based

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

James Morgan; Beverly Davis

offlexibility both in the design of curricula as well as in the method of delivery.Currently, the oldest of the millennial generation is in college while the youngest isentering grade school. To be successful in promoting engineering to this cohort,educators must understand the millennial generation, appeal to their motivations whenpromoting engineering as a career choice, and offer a learning environment designed fortheir learning style. This paper will offer suggestions on promoting engineering as acareer by focusing on generational learning styles and preferences. In addition, the futureMillennial generation should be educated on engineering degrees, career choices, andfuture job opportunities. Promotion of career choices in engineering to this

Conference Session

Capstone/Design Projects: Electr-Mech ET

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Scott Danielson; Jerry Gintz

Manufacturing Automation Education for Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering Technology Jerry Gintz, Scott Danielson Arizona State UniversityAbstractWith global competitiveness as the motivation, industry and academia must join forces toeliminate competency gaps in the capabilities of engineering technology graduates.Manufacturing automation and its specialized machinery are often the realm of manufacturingand mechanical engineering technology graduates. This paper discusses the approach developedby the mechanical and manufacturing engineering technology programs at Arizona StateUniversity to address a critical competency gap, one

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Sohail Anwar

. These courses Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2005, American Society for Engineering Educationprovide a virtual classroom with scheduled assignments, chat/whiteboards, dialogue withother students in the course via course e-mail, discussion boards, group activities, coursecontent modules/lectures, quizzes, exams, and term projects/papers – all delivered on-line. The manuscript also provides information regarding the methods used in thesecourses to assess students’ learning. Finally, the manuscript describes Excelsior College’sfuture on-line education initiatives in the academic discipline of Electronics EngineeringTechnology.IntroductionA variety

Conference Session

Internet Programming and Applications

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Charles Miller; Carlos Morales

anylearner, under any condition through the integration of intelligent modules that dynamically determine themost appropriate mode of presentation for any particular learner.This paper details the development of a module for Purdue’s Unified Multimedia Delivery System capableof intelligently identifying and delivering asynchronous video content to users on traditional PC’s or PDA’sover a wireless environment. This provides the system with the capability to deliver traditional video-based instructional and supportive documentation such as schematics, illustration, and animation tostudents outside of the confines of their traditional classroom or laboratory.While many commercial solutions address the delivery of training materials using Internet

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephanie Adams

teams in the classroom suggesting that the more training faculty members have, themore they use teams in their classrooms. 1 With increased expectations from industry for graduates to demonstrate a mastery ofgroup effectiveness skills [teamwork, interpersonal skills and negotiation] faculty members areputting emphasis on teaching methods that use teams. 2 With an increased use of teams in theclassroom, questions remain regarding how prepared are faculty members to lead teamingefforts? The purpose of this study was to obtain information from engineering faculty regardingtheir usage of teams, their attitudes toward teams and how they are currently using teams inengineering classrooms. This paper and the presentation will present the

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Madara Ogot

engineering students have little exposure with the use of multimedia software and hardware6.3. Poor oral and written communication skills amongstst ME graduates despite their introduction into the curriculum1,2.4. A need to attract more students, especially from diverse populations, into engineering7.The Creative Design Workshop (CDW) described in this paper, addresses each of the problemsenumerated above.2.0 Creative Design WorkshopThe CDW is based on an existing learning model that currently operates on virtually alluniversity campuses – the college newspaper. What better way to train future journalists thanhave them work in a real newspaper environment, honing their interview and writing skills,while at the same time providing an invaluable

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Chiang Shih

simple exercisescan actually provide students with a better understanding of the relationship between themathematics and the description of physical phenomena. Many of these numerical skills anddifficult-to-comprehend concepts are outlined in table 1.Learning-Through-Teaching (L-T-T) concept Finally, the unique implementation of the pedagogical concept, learning through teaching,will be discussed in the paper. Originally, the concept was designed to serve two purposes: First,it was used to make sure each student will have an adequate hands-on laboratory experiencewithin the limited laboratory period because it is financially impossible to provide multipleexperimental stations at this stage. Therefore, hands-on demonstration experiments

Conference Session

Innovative Laboratory Instruction

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

James Munro

practical tour of the apparatus." · "More explicit instructions." · "Efficiency data for the pump, and more components available for assembly." · "Having better parts to build the piping system with."What we've learnedWe are generally pleased with how the experiment has been received by students and by theresults we have observed in students completing their design, building and finally testing theirdesign. We have observed that some students would prefer to design the pipeline "by hand,"instead of with the Pipe-Flo® software. That is, they would prefer to enter formulas on aspreadsheet or simply to set up the equations with paper and pencil to compute the headrequirements for the different pipe sizes. It appeared that these

Conference Session

Innovative Courses for ChE Students

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Basil Baltzis; Dana Knox

, most of theengineering departments decided to try a pilot program in which they offered a one hour perweek class to their new freshmen about their major. This paper will describe the coursedeveloped and given by the chemical engineering department at New Jersey Institute ofTechnology entitled “ChE 101 – Introduction to Chemical Engineering”.Motivating ReasonsAs mentioned above, retention was the main motivating factor in developing the course. But inorder for it to be effective, the course had to counter the reasons/perceptions that led to studentsopting to change their major. Several students from the previous few years were interviewed.Some of the more common themes are summarized below.“Chemical Engineering is not relevant to the world

Conference Session

ET Design Projects

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Kamal Bichara

Session 3147 Implementation of design principles and methodology of rapid product development in a multidisciplinary engineering technology project course. Dr. Kamal F. Bichara Kent State University, School of TechnologyAbstractThis paper describes the design, delivery and outcome of a senior level Engineering Technologyproject course. Students in the course represent a variety of engineering technology academicdisciplines including electronics, mechanical, systems/industrial and computer design andanimation. The course design

Conference Session

New ET Programs

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Newman; John Robertson; Lakshmi Munukutla

Development phase Production phase 10M Alpha Beta Production 1M tool tool tool 100k First 2 Companies 10k papers reach 10k/mo 1k -24 -12 0 +12 +24 Months Figure 2The simplest way to assimilate the challenge implied by this graph is to superimpose thetimetable for development of an academic research program or even the approval processfor curriculum change

Conference Session

Innovative Curriculum in E/M ET

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Marvin Needler; Kenneth Rennels; Patricia Fox

Staff at St. Vincent Children’s Specialty Hospital in Indianapolis and the Purdue Schoolof Engineering and Technology at Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI).The result was a life-changing event for a little boy named Ian Farrar. This paper will discussthat project in length and ways in which other schools or institutions can foster relationships intheir community that make a difference in someone’s life.BackgroundIan Farrar was born in 1993 with severe physical disabilities and was given a life expectancy ofonly a few minutes. However, blessed with a tremendous spirit and will to live, Ian did surviveand turned 8 years old in December 2001. Ian has been diagnosed with holoprosencephaly(failure of the forebrain to divide

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Subha Kumpaty

, laboratory activities and the effective utilizationof the software/courseware are presented.IntroductionMilwaukee School Of Engineering is dedicated to excellence in undergraduate education. Thegoal of the undergraduate curriculum is to produce well-rounded engineers, which is achievedthrough strong emphasis in a) excellent technical preparation, b) strong laboratory orientationwith faculty teaching labs in small size sections and c) required Senior Design projects.Accordingly, MSOE graduates are highly sought by industry (over 99% placement). Themechanical engineering students receive a rigorous treatment of Thermodynamics in a three-quarter sequence. Typically, in the fall quarter, they learn to apply the First Law for controlmasses and control