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1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Mark Schulz; DeRome Dunn; Abhijit Duraphe; Samuel Owusu-Ofori; Ajit Kelkar; Devdas Pai; Richard Layton

environment, but also toencompass mentoring and cooperative learning by using more experienced students to help andguide less experienced students. Upper-level students become role models without a“generation gap.” Past research (Dale, 1969) has proven the efficacy of active learning andFelder (1992) and Felder and Brent (1996) provide insight into the structuring of team activitiesand student-centered teaching. This paper describes our approach to this type of verticalintegration, its implementation involving seven courses in mechanical engineering at NorthCarolina A&T State University, and student feedback and perceptions of our early efforts.ApproachThe theme of our approach to vertical integration is to consider as customers both the students

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1999 Annual Conference

Authors

John E. Shea; Thomas M. West

manufacturing Faculty innovations to incorporate quality IBM Total Quality concepts into the 1993 classroom Grant (5 year project) Curriculum design 1995 research including survey of constitutents Student Advisory 1996 Board Realign curriculum topics to match input from constitutents

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1999 Annual Conference

Authors

A. J. Baker; Z. Chambers; M. B. Taylor

highfidelity lapel mike was found necessary. Complete information and details on the selected brandsare given in the companion paper6.Personnel effort required for creation of the courseware benefited from initiation of the design ofthe system based on several years of organizing industrial and short course presentations. Startingwith the traditional vu-graphs that support an oral presentation, requests from participants to haveback-up material led to the creation and design of the companion text material organized on apage-by-page basis. A rather complete rough draft of this material was present at the beginningof the course.However, to tune content to a truly comprehensive graduate course presentation required a

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1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Kenny Fotouhi; Ali Eydgahi

membership functions for eachfuzzy quantities are defined. Then, the program generates the fuzzy decision tablebased on all inputted information and in a descriptive fashion.Finally, the decision table can be used for on-line control of the system. We usedMATLAB® and SIMULINK® to simulate and construct two identical control loops.The fuzzy knowledge-based tuning is implemented in one of the controller loop andthe other control loop uses a conventional PID. The same initial values are applied toboth systems. Total time of the simulation is 100 seconds. In the system with fuzzytuner, response error is sampled each 0.05 second and 300 samples are used fordiscovering the status of the response error. In other words, every 15 seconds tuningaction is

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1999 Annual Conference

Authors

James . McDonald

briefly (for several seconds) on the screen. Total hits, misses, and shots fired so far areindicated on the screen at all times.Implementation. This game uses only the text mode of the LCD module, as this is sufficient tosupport game play and considerably simpler than the graphics mode. The 10×10 ocean grid islocated in the lower right-hand corner of the overall 16×16 text mode character grid. Initially allsquares contain tildes (˜) to represent ocean waves; once fired upon they’re marked with either Hor M as appropriate. Hit, miss, and shot totals are displayed in the upper 16×6-character rectangleof the character grid, and indications of sunken ships in the lower left-hand 6×10-characterrectangle. Player input is from five standard momentary

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1999 Annual Conference

Authors

W. Benard Carlson; Takeo Higuchi

and problem-solvers.3 Consequently, inour sections of the first-year course (TCC 101), one of us (Carlson) requires the students to builda small cardboard clock kit and asks them to record their ideas for improving, manufacturing,and marketing the clock in a notebook.4 Initially, I simply specified the kind of notebook andannounced that I would periodically collect the notebooks. Much to my surprise, most studentsfound it extremely difficult to come up with ideas to write down in their invention notebooks.Unlike Edison, they did not automatically see the notebook as a cognitive artifact, as a tool tohelp them to think and create.5 What the students needed was some guidance--a system--thatwould help them to learn how to use a notebook in

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1999 Annual Conference

Authors

P. M. Wild; B. W. Surgenor

by] graduate-level work in systems design and control theory”[3]. On the other hand,one might argue that very few people have the ability to assimilate and integrate the breadth ofknowledge required to become a “mechatronics engineer”. If this premise is accepted, thenmechatronics education should be about technical specialization with teamwork skills.Over the past decade, many mechatronics courses and programs have come into existence. Asfar as we can determine, every one of these initiatives has originated in a mechanical engineeringdepartment. This is particularly significant in light of the fact that engineering curricula, in Page

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1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Randall L. Ness; Carl A. Erikson

results and reactions are evaluated.Introduction Assessment of the graduate engineer’s capabilities is part of gaining ABET accreditationfor an engineering program. There are many means to do this including standardized tests suchas the GRE or FE examination, interviews with students and/or employers, major research papersand projects, and locally developed essay tests [1]. Another method that the Messiah CollegeEngineering Department has begun to explore is the use of portfolios. Portfolios are commonly used tools in certain professions like art or photography,whereby artists or photographers seek to present collections representative of their best works tocustomers, clients or potential employers. Just as a photographer uses the

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1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Bahador Ghahramani

constructed, their advantages, and disadvantageswill bring to the surface this dilemma. The only real advantage to landfills is that, in short term, they are very cost effectiverelative to the other methods. The average cost per acre of landfill over its entire lifetime is about Page 3.499.3$200,000. This cost is distributed over the entire lifetime by only excavating and utilizing landthat is needed at that particular time. One initiative is to increase the capacities of the landfillsand to reduce the cost of opening a new one. Table 1 shows that between 1986 to 1991, onlythree states have expanded capacity and have more than ten years

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1998 Annual Conference

Authors

J.P. Agrawal; Omer Farook; Chandra R. Sekhar

. TEAM BUILDINGTEAM CHEMISTRY A project team should be comprised of members who share common views, can meetoften and have easy access to communication. All three objectives are very difficult to achievewhen the class is comprised mostly of the part-time students. Students, being busy as they are Page 3.540.5with job and family, have hard time in knowing, leave alone developing understanding of, fellowstudent’s views. Hence, the group is initially formed by the students with physical proximity in the class room. A few modifications in

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division (ENT) Technical Session 3

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lynn Dudash, University of Mount Union

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division (ENT)

in drawing free body diagrams, but to a lesser extent. However, despitecorreclty determining that the “Power Lever” increased the mechanical advantage of the clippers,students felt less confident in solving for the members of a frame or machine. This loss ofconfidence was unexpected and might be explained by students feeling uncomfortable with theintentional ambiguity of the problem or being overconfident in their analysis skills at thebeginning of the activity. Nonetheless, feeling more confident in the initial steps of the analysisprocess could be a meaningful positive outcome of the activity because it may give students theconfidence to practice more of these types of problems. Overall, this activity demonstrates how technical

Conference Session

Engineering Technology Division Curriculum Development

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Doug Kim, State University of New York, Farmingdale

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Engineering Technology Division (ETD)

SZ6145TR • Oscilloscope, Multimeter, DC Power Supply • Additional set with Ka-Band capabilities for research and technology development Figure 8: RF/Microwave Lab EquipmentPreliminary Results – Assessment and Feedback from RF Course 1The RF Course 1 was run as a pilot course in Fall 2023 with 8 students enrolled. Theassessments for the student learning outcomes included two exams and four hands-on tests with atarget for performance of 70% of students earning a score of 75% or higher. 7 students met orexceeded the target performance. The end-of-semester course survey showed that 100% ofstudents either strongly agreed or agreed on the course organization, positive learningexperience, and relevance to

Conference Session

Chemical Engineering Division (ChED) Poster Session

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Riley Jackson Fosbre, Washington State University; Bernard J. Van Wie, Washington State University; Prashanta Dutta, Washington State University; David B. Thiessen, Washington State University

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering Division (ChED)

Washington State University since 1994. His research interests include fluid physics, acoustics, and engineering education. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024Work in Progress: Glucose Analyzer Learning Module for the Classroom Fosbre, RJ, Dutta, P, Thiessen, DB, Van Wie, BJ Washington State University Violand School of Chemical Engineering and BioengineeringFosbre, RJ, Dutta, P, Thiessen, DB, Van Wie, BJ, Work in Progress: Glucose Analyzer LearningModule for the Classroom, American Society for Engineering Education, June 23-26, 2024,Portland, OR The goal of the greater project is to provide students with hands-on learning experienceswhile

Conference Session

MECH - Technical Session 10: Special Topics and Innovative Methods in Mechanical Engineering

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bo Yu, Utah Valley University; Anne-marie A Lerner, University of Wisconsin, Platteville; Mike Zampaloni, University of Wisconsin, Platteville

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Mechanical Engineering Division (MECH)

area of curiosity (industrial, commercial,research). Students were encouraged to find inspiration from their daily life and to conduct bothindividual idea generation and then to move on to group idea generation and winnowing. Toreinforce EM principles, for each idea generated they were required to identify at least oneopportunity and relate it to potential stakeholders. By the end of part one of the project, studentssubmitted sketches of their ideas and explained how their projects utilized or reduced vibrationsfor specific probable customers.The second part of the project involved modeling their idea via both theoretical and numericalsimulation tools. Each team’s final idea was modeled using single or multiple degree-of-freedomsystems or

Conference Session

Computers in Education Division (COED) Poster Session

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jiping Li, University of Toronto; Zhiqiang Yin, University of Toronto; Hamid S Timorabadi P.Eng., University of Toronto

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Computers in Education Division (COED)

Paper ID #42251Board 44: CampNav: A System for Inside Buildings and Campus NavigationMr. Jiping Li, University of Toronto Jiping Li is an ECE undergraduate at the University of Toronto.Zhiqiang Yin, University of TorontoDr. Hamid S Timorabadi P.Eng., University of Toronto Hamid Timorabadi received his B.Sc, M.A.Sc, and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Toronto. He has worked as a project, design, and test engineer as well as a consultant to industry. His research interests include the applicati ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 Work In Progress: CampNav: A

Conference Session

Computers in Education Division (COED) Poster Session

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Daniel Limbrick, North Carolina A&T State University; Laura Marcela Garcia Suarez; Deriech Cummings II, North Carolina A&T State University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education Division (COED)

-transferlevel (RTL). This RTL description is then mapped to a specific technology library as a netlist ina process known as logic synthesis. Exact locations for the circuit components in the netlist areassigned during the placement step. Finally, the routing step adds the wires needed to properlyconnect the placed components while obeying all design rules for the circuit. An example of this design step can be seen in Figure 2. An active area of research is tofind ways to connect modern devices in a given space with wires. The length of the wire mustbe minimized to reduce power and delay. Additionally, unrelated wires cannot intersect in orderto prevent shorted signals. Finally, the ability to route a design is influenced by the resources

Conference Session

MECH - Technical Session 5: Virtual Learning and Technology Integration

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Matt Gordon, University of Denver; Irvin R Jones, University of Denver

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering Division (MECH)

Paper ID #41447Using Oral Exams to Assess Individual Contributions on Team ProjectsDr. Matt Gordon, University of Denver Dr. Matt Gordon is Professor of the Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering. His research areas include numerical and experimental plasma physics, chemical and physical vapor deposition, electronic packaging, and bio-medical engineerIrvin R Jones, University of Denver ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 Using Oral Exams to Assess Individual Contributions on Team ProjectsAbstractMost, if not all, mechanical engineering programs recognize the value in

Conference Session

Strategies and/or Approaches to Engage Students in Agricultural, Biological, or Similarly Named Programs

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lucie Guertault, North Carolina State University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Biological and Agricultural Engineering Division (BAE)

students andprofessionals [1], [2], [3]. Learning to program is difficult, and undergraduate engineeringstudents are required to learn it regardless of their initial interest and motivation for it. Theytraditionally take their programming course in the computer science department, a course thatgenerally delivers to a mixed audience of multiple majors and relies on generic problems for theapplication of coding skills.Research suggests that motivation plays a key role in student success in programming courses[4], [5]. Interest in the content and activities, and relevance or usefulness, i.e. the content isuseful for students’ short or long term goals, are among the factors that contribute to academicmotivation [6], [7]. Students perform better in

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2024 CIEC

Authors

Melissa Symanski; Molly Pobiel

to be informal conversations and I would like to see more structure in termsof managers having specific questions and just being more prepared.” and “I definitely wishedthat there was more feedback, particularly early on. I only received feedback in quarterly reviewsand would have liked it more regularly, not just during the quarterly reviews.”Conversely, the employee experience mapping workshops indicated that those more likely tostay at SGH took the initiative to schedule quarterly meetings, ask for regular feedback fromtheir supervisors and teams, and seek mentorship and support from other teams, which allowedthem to avoid the typical lows in the new hire experience. One structural engineer with two yearsof tenure remarked, “I wasn’t

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2007 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

M. R. Wilhelm; J. P. Mohsen

degree programs in Bioengineering were initiated inFall 2005.The total enrollment in Speed School is approximately 2100 consisting of approximately 1500undergraduates and 600 graduate students (including the fifth-year MEng program students).Annually, Speed School places about 600 students in cooperative internship assignments.Currently, Speed students earn a baccalaureate degree in discipline after four calendar years ofstudy, including 3 alternating cooperative internships – but the B. S. is not accredited! Thefaculty of the School designed all of the undergraduate programs to meet EAC of ABET basic Proceedings of the 2007 American Society for Engineering Education Pacific Southwest Annual Conference Copyright © 2007

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2013 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

Thomas M. Korman; Hal A. Johnston; Lloyd Crask

price bids while commercial bids are lump sum.Phase 1 - Project Planning and DesignStudents begin the simulation in Phase 1 by being presented with a list of potential projects toreview. Considering market conditions, student teams proceed by selecting a project to plan andthen designing a project control system for the project. This is accomplished by selectingmethods for each project activity and balancing the schedule and cost considerations. In Phase 1,students compete against their peers as well as the simulation’s virtual companies for award ofthe project. Award of projects is based on the team’s accuracy and proximity to the simulation’sinternal estimate. Teams that are not initially awarded a project for their efforts must continuewith

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2013 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

Andrew Siefert; Jonathan Hoy; Keith Christman; Kevin R. Anderson

3801 West Temple Ave, Bldg. 17-2353 Pomona, CA 91768 USAAbstractThe use of ARDUINO microprocessors allows for a very top level approach to teachingMechatronics. The focus on this paper is to motivate the use of ARDUINO microcontrollers toteach Mechatronics and Control Systems in Engineering Education. This is not a research paperper say, rather it is a detailed explanation of an example of “hands-on” pedagogy. The goal ofthis paper is to merely share the outcomes of an experiential learning environment with theacademic community. This paper will present the results of using ARDUINO microcontrollerbased projects to teach a senior level Mechanical Engineering Mechatronics/Robotics course.The use of "hands-on

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2013 GSW

Authors

David H. K. Hoe

Engineering EducationFirst, we present results for the first two peer interaction exercises involving the multiple choiceconcept questions. In these exercises, the students were asked to study the problems on their ownand select an answer. Then they were directed to discuss the problem with a peer, and select ananswer again. Table II summarizes the responses which are grouped into four categories, basedupon whether the initial answer and second answer after peer interaction were correct or not. Table II. Student Responses to the Concept Exercises Both Incorrect- Correct- Both Question Correct Correct Incorrect Incorrect

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2016 Rocky Mountain Section Conference

Authors

Nebojsa Jaksic; Nikolas D'Angelo; Gabriele Vigano

are included as a part of Computer-Aided Manufacturing (CAM)topics in the Computer-Integrated Manufacturing (CIM) course. The above three courses aremandatory for both undergraduate programs. Graduate students often take Engineering ofManufacturing Processes and CIM courses at the graduate level. While undergraduate studentsexperiences with 3D printers culminate in their senior design projects, for graduate students, thetwo graduate level courses coupled with available 3D printers often result in inspiration for furtherstudies and research in these areas.Current Metal 3D Printing TechnologiesMetal parts produced by 3D printers are used in the aero-space industry, medical industry,automotive industry, and jewelry industry9. In general

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2005 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Kellie Schneider; C. Richard Cassady

other required undergraduate coursessuch as Calculus and Chemistry. Unfortunately, our initial data collection efforts have been quitediscouraging. Last fall, 35 PrinIE students were also enrolled in University Chemistry I, and 16of those students will be repeating Chemistry because they either withdrew from the course ormade a D or an F. Similarly, 26 PrinIE students were also enrolled in Calculus I, and 11 students Proceedings of the 2005 Midwest Section Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education 6will be repeating the course. Therefore, we are working closely with the Enhanced LearningCenter and the

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2013 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Richard Zajac

to number their various program revisions can foster organizational skills. Productivementoring can be as simple as a volunteer’s taking the initiative to bring in some electrical tapeto draw a line course, turning an abstract challenge into a concrete reality.References1. Club Contact person: Barbara Livengood, Gifted Coordinator, Salina South Middle School,2040 South 4th Street Salina KS, 67401.2. Western Kansas Lego Robotics Competition, Contact: Adams P., Maseberg J., Smith M.,Science and Mathematics Education Institute, Fort Hays State University, 600 Park Street, Hays,Kansas 67601.Proceedings of the 2013 Midwest Section Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education

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2007 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Ramesh V. Narang

: greater concentration on ANOVA method as applied to determining sourcesof measurement variation, initial practice on instruments as a review of the introductory course,more examples on determining measurement uncertainty, and introducing the basics of CMMprogramming. Overall the course appears to be meeting its objectives and learning outcomesaccording to the student feedback and assessment evaluation. Instructor feedback is that studentshave been engaged in the course, with satisfactory exposure to the theoretical and practicalaspects in the field of measurement science. The structure of first grounding in basic theory andthen hands-on measurement setups with some demonstrations, and finally with an independentproject work appears to have worked

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2013 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Robert Avanzato

avatars are demonstrating the robot for the instructor. Moreimportantly, the robot is being demonstrated in a virtual living area that was setup by theinstructor prior to the group exercise to simulate a typical home environment. It is critical thatthe initial robot prototypes are simulated in an environment which is realistic so that students cansee the effect of overall robot dimensions, speed, andthe potential interaction with humans andother objects with the robot. Second Life enables the user or team of users to edit and modifyobjects, such as the robots depicted in the figures, within the online environment in real-timewith other users “seeing” the model changes as they are executed. The home environment withliving room and kitchen can also

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2006 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Frank M. Clemente

understanding of geology and the principlesof soil mechanics.1,2 Knowledge of rock mechanics, flow of water through soils and theimportance of drainage3 is very important too.Typically, the applied geotechnical engineering process is initiated by a study of the regionalgeology, followed by planning and implementing a subsurface investigation program consistingof the drilling of boreholes in order to identify the soil, rock and groundwater conditions. Theborehole also permits an indirect measure of the density and shear strength of the soils by way ofthe Standard Penetration Test, which produces the number of blows per foot of penetration of astandard hammer to drive a standard split spoon sampler. There are many textbooks (Refs. 4-7),journals and

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2008 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Joseph Robert Yost; Randy D. Weinstein

content contributeto the knowledge and solution approach necessary for the semester project and competition.The general format of the two lectures and laboratory components are summarized as follows:• Lecture 1 Provide a broad overview of the engineering discipline at hand. Describe individual specialties within that discipline, and provide specific application examples that illustrate the skills and activities that professionals, educators and researchers active in the respective specialty areas require. For example, structural engineering is a specialty area within CEE, and structural engineers use math and physics to design and analyze buildings, bridges, and other structural systems fabricated from steel, concrete, timber