Conference Session

Supporting the Capstone Experience

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Nathan Miner, Iowa State University of Science and Technology; Aliye Karabulut Ilgu, Iowa State University of Science and Technology; Jennifer S. Shane, Iowa State University of Science and Technology; Katherine Madson, Iowa State University of Science and Technology

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Civil Engineering

Circuits Course forEngineering and Technology Students," in IEEE Transactions on Education, vol. 58, no. 3, pp.179-186, Aug. 2015, doi: 10.1109/TE.2014.2356174.[17] Luster-Teasley, S., Hargrove-Leak, S. C., & Waters, C. (2014). Transforming undergraduateenvironmental engineering laboratories for sustainable engineering using the case studies in thesciences instructional method. In Proceedings of the 121st ASEE Annual Conference &Exposition, Indianapolis, IN.[18] Min Kyu Kim, So Mi Kim, Otto Khera, Joan Getman. The experience of three flippedclassrooms in an urban university: an exploration of design principles. The Internet and HigherEducation,Volume 22, 2014, Pages 37-50, ISSN 1096-7516,https://doi.org/10.1016/j.iheduc.2014.04.003.[19

Collection

2021 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Abner Peralta; Natacha Souto-Melgar

the classroom and mentoring students in lab courses where they design experimentsinstead of performing pre-defined laboratory experiments. © American Society for Engineering Education, 2021

Conference Session

DEED Poster Session

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Chao Chen, Indiana University-Purdue University, Fort Wayne; Carlos Pomalaza-Ráez, Indiana University-Purdue University, Fort Wayne; Scott Hendershot, Indiana University-Purdue University, Fort Wayne; Ma Oo, Indiana University-Purdue University, Fort Wayne; Adam Hilton, Indiana University-Purdue University, Fort Wayne

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Design in Engineering Education

, the students are required tosummarize their progress and results in the form of final technical reports and formalpresentations to all faculty members in the department. Through the design and evaluationprocess, students gain experience in the process of practical electrical and computer systemdesign from concept through final design.The goal of this project is to design, build, and test a prototype of a wireless wearable system thatuses sensor technology to record data with information about the motion of a person. The data iswirelessly transmitted and should carry enough information for analysis and the characterizationof movements. The sensor system should be attached to the body in a non-intrusive way and ableto operate for long periods

Conference Session

Design in Freshman and Sophomore Courses

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tiffany Veltman, University of Calgary; William (Bill) Rosehart, University of Calgary; Marjan Eggermont, University of Calgary; Denis Onen, University of Calgary

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

Page 22.649.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011 Evaluation and Analysis of Freshman Design Courses in EngineeringAbstractDesign is a crucial component to engineering. Therefore, it is important for engineering studentsto learn and practice design skills early in their education. At the Schulich School ofEngineering, University of Calgary, two implementations of design education were explored; atwo-semester design experience with a focus on learning-by-doing, and a single semesterexperience with a focus on balancing the theoretical foundations of design, communications, andproject management, with practical lab workshops.The focus of this paper is the

Conference Session

Capstone Design II

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Paris von Lockette, Rowan University; Eric Constans, Rowan University; Jennifer Courtney, Rowan University; Kevin Dahm, Rowan University; William Riddell, Rowan University; Roberta Harvey, Rowan University

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Design in Engineering Education

students progress from basic data collection and reverse engineering projects throughmore open-ended, industry-sponsored capstone design experiences. The team ofmultidisciplinary faculty from Engineering and Communications who teach the sophomore levelcourses have observed the difficulty students have tackling the fundamental open-ended natureof true design problems and have subsequently revised the sequence. For the Fall of 2005 theSophomore Clinic sequence was revised to introduce Dym et al.’s converging-divergingframework for design by incorporating a series of three projects of increasing complexity withaccompany activities designed to reinforce the converging-diverging concepts. For the thirdproject in the series, roughly sixty students

Conference Session

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Ahmet Bugra Koku; Ali Sekmen; Ismail Fidan

and manufacturing,electronics manufacturing, and manufacturing processes.Ahmet Bugra KokuAhmet Bugra Koku (B.Sc. in ME and M.Sc. in systems and control engineering, BogaziciUniversity, Istanbul, Turkey) received his a Ph.D. degree from Vanderbilt University. He is asenior member in the Intelligent Robotics Laboratory at Vanderbilt. He is a student member ofIEEE (since 1997). His current research interests are memory organization of robots,qualitative/topological navigation, low cost Mechatronics equipment design for robotic Page 8.1009.7applications and robotics education.

Conference Session

Design Tools and Methodology II

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Edward James Christie; Daniel D. Jensen, U.S. Air Force Academy; Richard T. Buckley Ph.D., U.S. Air Force Academy; Devin A. Menefee, U.S. Air Force Academy; Kyle Kenneth Ziegler; Kristin L. Wood, University of Texas, Austin; Richard H. Crawford, University of Texas, Austin

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Design in Engineering Education

Laboratories Ph.D. Scholar. Wood joined the faculty at the University of Texas in Sept. 1989 and established a computational and experimental laboratory for research in engineering design and manufacturing. He was a National Science Foundation Young Investigator, the Cullen Trust for Higher Education Endowed Professor in Engineering, and University Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Texas, Austin.Dr. Richard H. Crawford, University of Texas, Austin Richard H. Crawford is a professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Texas, Austin, and is the Temple Foundation Endowed Faculty Fellow No. 3. He received his B.S.M.E. from Louisiana State University in 1982 and his M.S.M.E. in 1985 and Ph.D. in

Conference Session

Hands-on Materials Science and Engineering

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Seung Kim, Rochester Institute of Technology; Bok Kim, Div. of Advanced Materials Engineering, Chonbuk National University

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Materials

direction (TD).In general, the properties of plastics are influenced by testing environment (e.g.temperature and humidity), so film strip samples were conditioned at 23±2 ºC for 40hours in controlled laboratory environment, prior to the testing.The speed of testing can be determined from the experimental initial strain rate asspecified ASTM standard D882. The rate of grip separation was determined for thepurpose of the experiment from the initial strain rate as follows: A = BCWhere:A = rate of grip separation, mm (or in.)/min,B = initial distance between grips, mm (or in.), andC = initial strain rate, mm/mm·min (or in. /in·min).The initial strain rates of the experiment were chosen at 2 in/in·min and 10 in

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Nebojsa Jaksic

Caine8 state thatthe brain learns optimally when appropriately challenged, but downshifts under perceived threat.The aforementioned self-efficacy enhancement activities are applied in the Computer IntegratedManufacturing (CIM) course at the University of Southern Colorado in the IndustrialEngineering Program. The CIM course is a senior-level design-based course dealing withmodern technologies such as automation, computer-numerically controlled (CNC) machines androbotics. The CIM laboratory curriculum includes hands-on experiences with programmablelogic controllers (PLC), CNC mills and robots. PLCs are industrial grade computers usedextensively in automation. In this study, we concentrate on the PLC experience. A set oflaboratory exercises based

Collection

1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Anthony J. A. Oxtoby; Gerard N. Foster

their algorithmic implementation. Strong laboratory support is used to reinforceand clarify concepts covered in the classroom through the real time implementation ofapplications coupled with the use of simulation and emulation tools to perform design,prediction of performance and de-bugging.II. DSP Laboratory Development Software and HardwareMost experiments are designed around the Analog Devices ADSP2101 16 bit fixed pointmicrocomputer which has 2k x 24 bit program memory (PM), 1k x 16 bit data memory (DM),both on chip, and operates with a 60ns instruction cycle. Each laboratory station has anADSP2101 based EZ-LAB1 hardware platform together with an EZ-ICE in circuit emulator onwhich all real time code execution and interfacing lab activities

Conference Session

Assessment in Graphics Education

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Burke, University of Limerick

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Engineering Design Graphics

beginning of thestudy to obtain information on gender, age and information on previous CADtraining/experience. Of this group there were ten males and seven females, with the groupranging in age from nineteen to twenty three years old. All students had identical previousformal training and similar experience in 3D CAD. All participating students completed amodule in the previous semester where they studied the modeling of solid geometric shapesin SolidWorks. The study consisted of two separate design tasks, both of which all seventeenstudents attempted. Each project or task had a similar brief fig3 and identical timeframeallocated for completion. Page

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Brock LaMeres, Montana State University; Carolyn Plumb, Montana State University; Fred Cady, (Retired) Montana State University

engineers who willultimately design the microprocessors, the compilation software, or the underlying physicalhardware for the computer system. For students who will pursue careers that require an intimateknowledge of the detailed operation of a microprocessor to be successful, their undergraduateeducation contains a large void due to the trend toward abstraction.A logic analyzer is an instrument that gives visibility to many real-time digital signals. This typeof measurement information gives students visibility into the detailed operation of amicroprocessor. This level of visibility is something most undergraduate electrical and computerengineering students are not exposed to in their education. Laboratory experiments based on thistype of test

Conference Session

Trends in Energy Conversion/Conservation

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Doug Ramers

included students, was asked to performmanufacturability analysis and redesign of the fuel cell and to design a manufacturing system.The rest of the team consisted of a project manager from WWP, a commercial partner in Bostonwith the PEM fuel cell technology and experience, chemists from both Gonzaga and EasternWashington University, and a small electrical contracting firm.We interviewed and hired four mechanical engineering students to work on the project: threerising seniors and one rising junior. The rising seniors had already acquired much of thefundamental knowledge necessary through their coursework. The rising junior providedcontinuity if the project continued beyond the first year. In general, the students were the topstudents in their

Conference Session

Thermodynamics, Fluids, and Heat Transfer II

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gerald Recktenwald, Portland State University; Robert Edwards, Pennsylvania State University, Erie; Douglas Howe, Portland State University; Jenna Faulkner, Portland State University; Calvin Hsieh, Portland State University

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Mechanical Engineering

confrontingmisconceptions and exposing students to qualitative reasoning. These common themes arediscussed more detail in conjunction with specific examples from the set of EET experiments.The equipment used in the project is listed here: 1. Blender 2. Hair dryer 3. Toaster 4. Bicycle pump 5. Tank filling/draining 6. Sudden Expansion 7. Power supply The EET equipment is designed to be useful in different ways. The obvious use case is aspart of an undergraduate engineering laboratory experience. For example, we have use the tankfilling exercise, the tank draining exercise, and the sudden expansion exercises in the lab sectionsfor an undergraduate fluid mechanics course. The Blender, Hair Dryer, Toaster and BicyclePump have

Conference Session

Learning styles affect on students in graphic and design courses

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jeremy V Ernst, Virginia Tech; Aaron C. Clark, North Carolina State University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Design Graphics

experiences in technology, engineering, and design education.Dr. Aaron C. Clark, North Carolina State University Dr. Aaron C. Clark is a professor of technology, design, and engineering education, director of Graduate Programs, and associate department chair at North Carolina State University. Dr. Clark has worked in both industry and education, including college administration at various levels. His teaching specialties are in visual theory, 3-D modeling, technical animation, and STEM-based pedagogy. Research areas include graphics education, game art and design, and scientific/technical visualization. Page 23.975.1

Collection

2014 ASEE Zone 4 Conference

Authors

Lisa Wang

429Combination of Shake Table Experiments and Computer Simulation to Enhance Structural Engineering Curriculum in Earthquake Engineering Lisa Wang California State Polytechnic University, PomonaAbstractThis paper describes the new components incorporated to the Structural and EarthquakeEngineering curriculum to help students learn about earthquake engineering principles andseismic resistant design of structures. For undergraduate students, structural dynamics andearthquake engineering are difficult subjects for them to fully understand, and most of studentsfind

Conference Session

Experimentation and Laboratory-Oriented Studies Division Technical Session 2: Instructional/Learning Resources and Pedagogies

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

stavros kalafatis, Texas A&M University; Kevin Nowka, Texas A&M University; John Lusher, Texas A&M University

benefiting both students and instructors. In thispaper we will describe the challenges we faced and the solutions we came up within theElectrical and Computer Engineering Department, as well as the student reaction to the COVID-19 laboratory experience. The learnings from the affected 2019 - 2021 capstones provide anopportunity to both apply methods to normal, post-pandemic instruction and to be prepared forpotential future interruption of capstone team-based laboratories.BackgroundWhile flipped classroom approaches have been studied extensively portraying a generallypositive potential impact to the student population (Bergman and Sams 2012) [1], theirapplication during a forced external event like a pandemic has been very limited. The 1918

Conference Session

Materials Division (MATS) Technical Session 1

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Enze Chen, University of California, Berkeley; Mark Asta, University of California, Berkeley; Andrew Minor, University of California, Berkeley and Larwrence Berkeley National Laboratory

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Materials Division (MATS)

develop materials science domain knowledge in conjunction with complementary skills such as data science (DS) and scientific writing (SW). With little room to pack additional courses into MSE curricula, better integration of these transferable skills into existing courses will help train our students to succeed in the modern workforce. This Work in Progress details the development of a series of programming-based modules to complement the data analysis in a materials charac- terization laboratory course. We use the Jupyter Book software to design a scaffolded series of Python-based exercises that focus primarily on data visualization, with ad- ditional exercises on tabular data analysis, curve fitting, and

Conference Session

CoNECD Session : Day 3 Slot 2 Technical Session 3

Collection

2021 CoNECD

Authors

Julia D. Thompson, University of San Francisco; Amalia Kokkinaki, University of San Francisco; Jes Parker, University of California, Berkeley; Hana M. Böttger, University of San Francisco; N. Jeremy Kasdin, University of San Francisco

Tagged Topics

CoNECD Paper Submissions, Diversity

complexities of communities.● Project-Based Learning ○ Immediate application of new skills in foundational courses, as well as the series of project courses through the curriculum, in order to provide hands-on experience, inclusive of diverse learning styles and forms of deliverables. Special features examplesIn order to promote the success and persistence of traditionally underrepresented students, ourcurriculum is heavily based on pedagogical techniques shown to increase their engagement.● Provost of Diversity and Inclusion● Professional Development Opportunities for Faculty● Class Projects ○ Co-designing games with elementary students ○ Water balance of organic farm ○ Projects

Conference Session

Chemical Engineering Division (ChED) Technical Session 8: Lab Module Development

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stacy K. Firth, University of Utah; Anthony Butterfield, University of Utah; Mason John

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Chemical Engineering Division (ChED)

liquid level controlarduino module focusing on the safety aspects of process control, demonstrating improvedlearning and increased awareness of process safety [10]. We have demonstrated that benchtopexperiments, assembled by students, have significant potential to solidify their understanding in afirst-year design laboratory [11]-[14]. We have also demonstrated the use of low-cost bench-topArduino experiments for teaching both fluid dynamics and process control [15].In this paper we describe a general-purpose low-cost approach to bench-top chemicalengineering control experiments, developed as a means to facilitate a process control laboratory,taught in conjunction with a traditional process control course. Students enrolled in thesecourses are

Conference Session

Design in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kanti Prasad, University of Massachusetts-Lowell

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Design in Engineering Education

, Raytheon Company, andMA/Com at the moment. The author has established “Distributed Semiconductor Instructional ProcessingLaboratory (DSIPL) and a VLSI Design Laboratory at UMass Lowell through an initialequipment grant of one million dollars from the Massachusetts Microelectronics Center (MMC)and matching institutional grant in 1986, and successfully celebrated its 15th year anniversarythrough awarding plaques to the sponsors.4. Conclusion. ‘Theory without Practice is utopia, and Practice without Theory is NOT Engineering’ hasbeen a beacon of the author’s life. The author presents in the class in appropriate mix oftheoretical and experimental instructions. The technique of ‘hand-on-experience’ is the mosteffective teaching, which

Conference Session

Recruitment, Retention, and First-Year Programs in ECE

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Hector A. Ochoa, University of Texas, Tyler; Mukul Shirvaikar, University of Texas, Tyler

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

, 2011 The Engagement and Retention of Electrical Engineering Students with a First Semester Freshman Experience Course    AbstractFreshman retention has been a critical issue for engineering programs over the last decade.Universities have implemented many different approaches to improve the retention of freshmen.Some of these attempts include: creating general freshman courses to give early hands-onexperience to the students, utilizing student feedback to design courses, and moving theownership and maintenance of laboratory equipment from the university to the students. In thefall semester of 2009, the Electrical Engineering

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Todd Freeborn, The University of Alabama; Debra Moehle McCallum, The University of Alabama; Sarah T Dunlap, The University of Alabama

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Society for Engineering Education, 2023 First Cohort Experiences During an International Research Experiences for Undergraduates Program Focused on Fractional-Order Circuits and SystemsIntroduction“Circuits and systems” refers to the fields encompassing all topics relating to the design,analysis, and implementation of electrical circuits. Electrical circuits are the foundation uponwhich smart devices, wireless communications, automotive systems, power systems, andhealthcare devices are built. To continue advancing each of these fields requires highly qualifiedengineers who can design circuits and systems but also creatively import concepts from newfields to overcome challenges we cannot yet even

Conference Session

Professional Skills and Teaming in Design

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mark W. Steiner, University of Central Florida; Kurt Stephen Stresau, University of Central Florida

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Design in Engineering Education

Paper ID #20290A Case Study Approach for Understanding the Impact of Team Selection onthe Effectiveness of Multidisciplinary Capstone TeamsDr. Mark W. Steiner, University of Central Florida Mark Steiner is Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (MAE) in the College of Engineering and Computer Science (CECS) at the University of Central Florida (UCF). He currently serves as Director of Engineering Design in the MAE Department. Mark previously served as Director of the O.T. Swanson Multidisciplinary Design Laboratory in the School of Engineering at Rens- selaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) and

Conference Session

Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies - Mechanical Engineering Labs

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Dustyn Roberts P.E., University of Delaware; D. R. Haidar, University of Delaware

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Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

, students should beable to design a basic PID controller to stabilize an electromechanical system.The final grade for the lecture course is evaluated as a weighted sum: 10% Class Participation,20% Homework, 20% Exam 1, 20% Exam 2, and 30% Final Exam.Overview of Laboratory Course and ExperimentsIn this 1-credit course that was redesigned last year9 (and updated since), the students weredivided into teams of 3-4 that did not change during the semester. The undergraduate laboratoryroom has six identical lab tables and three distinct 1 hour 45 minute long lab sections offeredthroughout the week. We divided the students into two groups that met on alternating weeks, andeach group completed four experiments during the semester. Following each of the

Conference Session

Virtual and Distance Experimentation

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Mazen Manasseh; Kevin Amaratunga; Eduardo Kausel

Session 2426 A Web-accessible Shaking Table Experiment for the Remote Monitoring of Seismic Effects in Structures Mazen Manasseh, Eduardo Kausel, Kevin Amaratunga Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering Massachusetts Institute of Technology Abstract A remotely accessible system for controlling shake table laboratory experiments is presented. The Shake Table WebLab at MIT s Civil Engineering Department is implemented under the iLab initiative for the development of educationally oriented remote experiments. The fully functional system allows

Collection

2019 ASEE Zone I Conference & Workshop

Authors

Leonard Anderson; Aslah K Alshaiea

assupporting data relevant to the merits of the pilot study, the off-track student was asked tocomment on her experience. The student’s comments were as follows: “As an off-track studentenrolled in CIVE4000 in an off semester, I was added into an existing design team enrolled inCIVE5500. The design team consisted of a civil/site engineering student, a structural engineeringstudent, a geotechnical engineering student, and an environmental engineering student. I wasadded to the team in the role of a traffic engineer. I completed all the requirements of CIVE4000while interacting with my team members. I then worked independently in the following semesterto complete the requirements of CIVE5500. During the laboratory/studio sessions of CIVE4000,I worked

Conference Session

Integrating Technical Research into Professional Development and K-12 Classrooms

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Chelsey Simmons, Stanford University; Beth L Pruitt, Stanford University; Kaye Storm, Stanford University; Gary Lichtenstein

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

as thecuriosity, openness to new ideas and data, and skepticism that characterize science.”1 Exposingstudents to this expansive representation of science is expected to improve their skills astechnical workers and as thoughtful citizens. Pedagogical theories suggest that the most powerfulway to become proficient at a profession is to practice it or at least approximate its practices.2Evidence from laboratory-based professional development programs suggests this is true: teacherparticipation in research experiences can augment student achievement in a variety of measures.3,4 However, one comprehensive study suggests that teachers participating in the National ScienceFoundation’s Research Experiences for Teachers (RET) Program may not

Conference Session

Laboratory Development and Technology in the Civil Engineering Classroom

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David Torick, University of Pittsburgh; Dan Budny, University of Pittsburgh

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Civil Engineering

need for laboratory space is forcing the closing of large scalelaboratories. This is the same basic problem within the Swanson School of Engineering at theUniversity of Pittsburgh. Thus we have replaced all the old equipment and laboratoryexperiences with small bench top experiments with a focus on applying the large body ofknowledge associated with better student learning experiences. This paper will describe theconcepts behind the design of the new experiments and the learning improvements discovered asa result of moving from a few large experiments to a larger number of smaller scale experiments.IntroductionThe redesign of the laboratory experiences for a class can be a daunting task. It is important tostart in a logical place and proceed

Conference Session

Real World Applications

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Mark French

Session 2249 Experience from a First-Time Offering of a Motorsports Technology Course Joseph F. Kmec Heather L. Cooper John R. Hartin Steven E. Widmer John R. Williams R. Mark French Purdue UniversityAbstractAs part of a continuing effort to enforce the multidisciplinary and applied character of thecourses offered, the department of Mechanical Engineering Technology (MET