Conference Session

Digital and Embedded System Design

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kevin Bolding, Seattle Pacific Univ; Dave Van Ess, Cypress Semiconductor

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

ormemory space needed for their application. In the ’06-’07 course, projects exhibited these flawsat a significantly lower rate. This is most likely because many students chose to use the PSoC, inwhich they were experienced, and they were able to relate the concepts of the PSoC-based coursedirectly to other modern microcontrollers. Overall, the small sampling of student teams hasshown an association between the PSoC-based course and higher quality system designs in the Page 12.1521.13senior design course.ConclusionBecause success in microcontroller system design course can be very important for manyelectrical and computer engineering students

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Narayanan Komerath

heard by all the other teamsand the NASA personnel quite clearly8. The multi-presenter strategy appears to have been a largemorale-booster, judging from the following performance. Later in the Spring, Ms. JoyceCarpenter, NASA's Mentor for the Georgia Tech team visited GT, discussed the project with theteam, and presented NASA program plans to a faculty/student audience.b. Final Presentation and ReportThe Strategic Plan presentation of the team involved thorough preparation. The Dean andAssociate Dean of the College of Engineering at Georgia Tech came observe a draft version ofthe presentation and gave excellent pointers to the team, which were used to prepare the finalpresentation. For the Final Customer Interaction Conference, the team

Conference Session

Teaching & Learning Dynamics, Vibration, and Mechanics More Broadly

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Geoff Rideout, Memorial University of Newfoundland

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Mechanics

would not feel that the course content was going beyond what was appropriate for a 3 credit-hour course. 5. Recognizing that some students simply do not need to avail of problem-solving sessions or instructor assistance. 6. Motivating students to watch the videos, in an institutional culture where pre-lecture assigned readings (or assigned videos) are unusual.Choice of CourseMechanical Vibrations is a compulsory fourth year course taken by approximately 80Mechanical and 30 Ocean and Naval Architectural Engineering students in their sixth of eightacademic terms in a co-op program. Lecture slots were 9:00-10:15 Tuesdays and Thursdays,with no extra tutorial period. A laboratory slot was scheduled from 2:00-5:00 Tuesdays

Conference Session

Innovations in Advanced Fabrication Technologies

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

R. Radharamanan, Mercer University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Manufacturing

well as watching onlinetutorials and reading related articles. Focus and dedication of the student team was the key tosuccessfully complete the project and make the drone flying.RecommendationsAs recommendation for anyone who wants to make their own drone the following suggestionsare made: Take proper training in CAD and use of 3D printers; conduct background research onrapid prototyping and drone technology; read carefully the related materials (reference manuals,books, articles, internet resources, etc.) and watch online tutorials; never do anything when youare not sure; and take proper safety measures while conducting the flying tests.AcknowledgementsThis project was funded by the Mercer Summer Engineering Experience (MeSEE) program

Conference Session

Professional Papers

Collection

2025 ASEE Southeast Conference

Authors

Fazil T. Najafi, University of Florida; Rajarajan Subramanian, Pennsylvania State University, Harrisburg, The Capital College; Sofia M Vidalis, Pennsylvania State University, Harrisburg, The Capital College; Ashish Sunny Abraham

Tagged Topics

Professional Papers

, Construction Engineer, Structural, Mechanical, and Consultant Engineer. Dr. Najafi taught at Villanova University, Pennsylvania, and was a visiting professor at George Mason University and a professor at the University of Florida, Department of Civil and Coastal Engineering. He has received numerous awards, such as Fulbright scholarship, teaching awards, best paper awards, community service awards, and admission as an Eminent Engineer into Tau Beta Pi. The Florida Legislature adopted his research on passive radon-resistant new residential building construction in the HB1647 building code of Florida. Najafi is a member of numerous professional societies and has served on many committees and programs; and continuously

Conference Session

Web-Based Education

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mahmoud Quweider, The University of Texas at Brownsville; Fitra Khan, U of Texas at Brownsville; Juan Iglesias, The University of Texas at Brownsville

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education

configuration to more advanced topics such asfirewalls, streaming media, parallel computing, and distributed processing. The paper describesin detail the lab modules and how they relate to different competencies and course objectives setup by the department and based on accreditation authorities in the field.Since its inception and based on enrollment figures NDPL has played a vital role as a catalyst inretaining students in CS/CIS by allowing them to create and work in realistic real-worldenvironments. Such unprecedented exposure is facilitating certification and licensure and isincreasing the students’ competitiveness in the job market as well as preparing them for graduatestudies in Science and Engineering should they choose to pursue that

Conference Session

Aerospace Technical Session 2

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

M. Christopher Cotting, United States Air Force Test Pilot School

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Aerospace

reference previous test programs as well as their ownknowledge of aerospace engineering to create new test programs that will properly evaluatemodern aerospace vehicles.While a typical Master’s level graduate degree often takes 18 months to 2 years to complete, thegraduate program at USAF TPS is accomplished in just 11 months. This compressed schedulerequires a very rigorous and disciplined approach to creating the new curriculum. Due to the Page 26.193.2nature of the school requiring both educational as well as training outcomes, and the need tomaximize efficiency of learning, the new curriculum was designed with learning objectives thataimed to

Conference Session

Instrumentation Technical Session

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mustafa G. Guvench, University of Southern Maine; mao ye

Tagged Divisions

Instrumentation

Engineering Education, 2016 Automated Measurement of Power MOSFET Device Characteristics Using USB Interfaced Power Supplies M.G. Guvench* and Mao Ye** * University of Southern Maine, Gorham, ME 04038 **Texas Instruments, South Portland, ME 04106 AbstractThis paper describes use of USB interfaced multi-source DC power supplies to measure the I-Vcharacteristics of high current, high power devices, specifically Power MOSFETs and PowerDiodes. The LabVIEW GUI program we developed enables the user to run the measurement,automatically, over the user specified current and voltage ranges while protecting

Conference Session

Materials Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Matthew Cavalli, University of North Dakota

Tagged Divisions

Materials

Paper ID #11161Comparison of Learning Gate Completion Requirements in a Flipped Class-roomDr. Matthew Cavalli, University of North Dakota Dr. Cavalli is Chair of the Mechanical Engineering Department at the University of North Dakota and Assistant Dean for Outreach and Recruiting. He regularly teaches engineering mechanics courses along with upper-level courses in materials behavior. Page 26.379.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 Comparison of Learning Gate Completion

Conference Session

Faculty Development Division (FDD) Technical Session 3

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Selen Güler, University of Washington; Rae Jing Han, University of Washington; Elizabeth Litzler, University of Washington; Eva Andrijcic, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Sriram Mohan, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

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Faculty Development Division (FDD)

[14], and CoTs provide an ideal organizational context for faculty toengage in critical reflections that support agentic perspective and action.Faculty exercise agency when they take specific action toward their personal or collective goalsfor systemic change [15], [14]. The exercise of agency refers both to agentic perspective, that is,reflections on how specific actions would impact goals related to engineering education change,and agentic action, which is taking steps toward the achievement of those goals [14]. Pastresearch has explored the connection of these components to show that agentic perspective has alarge impact on how individuals take agentic action [15].Building on these conceptualizations, we introduce Sewell’s [16] theory of

Conference Session

Materials Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Heidi A. Diefes-Dux, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Aisling Coughlan, Purdue University, West Lafayette; David R. Johnson; Kerrie A Douglas, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Tanya Faltens, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Materials

Paper ID #11715Students’ Struggles to Explain the Atomic Behavior of Metals in a TensileTest Lab Supported by a Molecular Dynamics SimulationProf. Heidi A. Diefes-Dux, Purdue University, West Lafayette Heidi A. Diefes-Dux is a Professor in the School of Engineering Education at Purdue University. She received her B.S. and M.S. in Food Science from Cornell University and her Ph.D. in Food Process En- gineering from the Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering at Purdue University. She is a member of Purdue’s Teaching Academy. Since 1999, she has been a faculty member within the First- Year Engineering Program

Conference Session

Hybrid and Online Learning

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Susan P. Gentry, University of California, Davis; Gianmarco Sahragard-Monfared, University of California, Davis; Edward Thomas Conley, University of California, Davis

Tagged Divisions

Materials

the preparation andtraining of engineers. A 2002 colloquy identified thirteen objectives that are fundamental for allengineering teaching laboratories, including instrumentation, experiments, data analysis,communication, and learning from failure [3]. The literature further discusses the importance ofmaintaining these objectives in undergraduate programs with distance learning programs.However, the COVID-19 pandemic has caused some schools to teach lab courses entirely onlinewithout any in-person activities due to local health orders. Engineering programs took variedmethods to adapt to the changes. One electrical engineering course mailed experiment kits tostudents [4], while a dynamics course replaced two experimental modules with machine

Conference Session

Potpourri

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gretchen G. Achenbach, National Center for Women & IT; Leslie G. Cintron PhD, University of Virginia; J McGrath Cohoon, University of Virginia; Philip Michael Sadler, Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics; Gerhard Sonnert, Harvard University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Computing & Information Technology

Virginia Leslie Cintron is a Research Scientist in the Program in Science, Technology & Society, Department of Engineering and Society at the University of Virginia. Cintron earned a PhD in Sociology from Harvard University. She has held faculty positions at Harvard University, Oxford University, Washington and Lee University and the University of Virginia. Her areas of expertise are in the study of inequality, work/family and organizations & careers.Dr. J McGrath Cohoon, University of Virginia Joanne McGrath Cohoon: Senior Research Scientist at the National Center for Women & IT (NCWIT), and Associate Professor of Science, Technology, and Society at the University of Virginia. Cohoon con- ducts

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Carla Lopez Del Puerto, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez ; Humberto Eduardo Cavallin, University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras; Luisa Guillemard, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez ; Fabio Andrade Rengifo, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez ; Ruben Esteban Leoncio Caban

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Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

course. Keywords: Interdisciplinarity, RISE-UP, Capstone, Design Project1. Introduction.Academic learning settings have often failed on providing students with scenarios that resemblefuture experiences that they will face in their professional life. In fields related to infrastructuraldesign, rarely are designers and engineers involved in academic multidisciplinary scenarios.To address this important void, we have developed the Resilient Infrastructure and SustainabilityEducation Undergraduate Program (RISE-UP), a collaborative academic and research project fundedby the Hispanic Serving Institution (HSI) program of the National Science Foundation (NSF). RISE-UPis a program that developed an interdisciplinary curricular sequence that is

Conference Session

Technical Session 10: Simulation and Modeling

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sanish Rai, West Virginia University Institute of Technology; Thomas Keith Carter; Bimarsh Sharma

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education

of simulation, agent-based programming and built a preliminary building model tosimulate interactions between two different groups of people. Here, we present the model, thesimulation achieved and also briefly discuss the development process.RELATED WORKSAgent-based models are well suited for smart environment simulations as agents can model thehuman and their characteristics naturally. Agents have been used in [3] to simulate user behaviorin domestic settings dynamically and to identify the context, beliefs, and facts impacting energy-related behavior. The agent-based framework is used to develop energy efficient strategiesimplemented through social campaigns, ubiquitous computing or centralized and distributedapproaches. In [4] a multi

Conference Session

POTPOURRI

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Duke Mejia Bulanon, Northwest Nazarene University; Stephen A. Parke P.E., Northwest Nazarene University

Tagged Divisions

Computing & Information Technology

-up opportunity at Boise State University. He was the first EE faculty hired in the newly created College of Engineering. He initiated several university/industry partnerships to design, fund, construct, and equip the Idaho Microfabrication Laboratory and was the director of this lab for the first few years after it opened in 1998. He became ECE Department Chair at Tennessee Tech University in 2006, where he implemented ”The 20/20 Vision” for improved curriculum, research funding, lab facilities, and engagement with indus- try and alumni. Since 2010, Dr. Parke has been the Engineering Program Director at Northwest Nazarene University, in Nampa, ID and Professor of Electrical Engineering. His research spans the

Collection

1981 North Midwest Section

Authors

David A. Carlson; Clyde E. Work

type devices(5). The vector refresh terminals (IBM 325l's and Adage4250's) each have a light pen, alpha-numeric keyboard, and alighted 32 key function keyboard. The storage tube devicesare used singly or in pairs as in the IBM 3277 dual screenwork stations. The software available includes the CADAM drawingsystem, Fortran and APL compilers, and related graphicalsupport libraries. In addition, Michigan Tech is acquiring,through an educational arrangement with Structural DynamicsResearch Corporation of Cincinnati, Ohio, its' state of theart analysis software tools for a computer aided engineeringthrust in the Mechanical Engineering-Engineering Mechanics

Conference Session

Faculty Development Division (FDD) Technical Session 8

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jacob Michael Elmasry, The University of Sydney

Tagged Divisions

Faculty Development Division (FDD)

Paper ID #42718The Idea Acceptance ModelMr. Jacob Michael Elmasry, The University of Sydney Jacob is a PhD student at the University of Sydney, specializing in Engineering Education. Jacob is a passionate educator, having been a Teacher’s Assistant in over 10 different subjects over the course of his degree as well as the primary lecturer for a Civil Engineering Transport Systems unit. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 The Idea Acceptance ModelAbstractWhat influences a student’s acceptance of an idea? Is it the persuasiveness of an argument?The clarity of

Collection

2008 GSW

Authors

Richard Bannerot

Session 11-4 XXXX Homework or Quiz? Richard Bannerot Department of Mechanical Engineering University of Houston AbstractThe test performances of students in three classes of the second course in engineeringthermodynamics in a BSME program are compared on the basis on whether closed book quizzes(two classes) were used in place of the more traditional homework (one class). There were

Collection

2016 ERC

Authors

Douglas Friedman

Safe Science: Promoting a Culture of Safety in WATERAcademic Chemical SCIENCE AND Research TECHNOLOGY BOARD Douglas Friedman Board on Chemical Sciences and Technology Briefing to the ASEE National Meeting of Engineering Research Deans BOARD ON CHEMICAL SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGY March 9, 2016 The Task at Hand• Examine laboratory safety in chemical research in non- industrial settings.• Compare practices and attitudes in these settings with knowledge about promoting safe practices from the

Collection

1996 Annual Conference

Authors

Karl P. Trout; Charles A. Gaston

Department of Education. The goal of this project is to improve technology education. The mechanism is to developinteresting, team-based, hands-on educational modules that can be incorporated into existing courses. Thefocus is on associate degree programs in Engineering Technology, but a major thrust also goes towardsecondary school programs that might lead into associate degrees, and many of the modules could apply aswell to four-year engineering and technology programs. Four independent teams began late in 1994 to develop the modules that were the de] iverable itemsfor this grant. Theoretically, each team could have representation from seven different viewpoints: bothfaculty and students from the university, the high school and the

Conference Session

Innovations in ECE Education II

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Thomas Richter, Technische Universitat Berlin; Sven Grottke, Technische Universitat Berlin

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

lectures,seminar talks to be prepared and held by the students, and a programming part.The design goal of this course has been to provide all the necessary theoretical knowledge tounderstand the concepts behind image compression technologies, such as JPEG2000. We arealso aiming at simulating the work-flow as found within an IT company as realistically aspossible, preparing electrical engineers and computer scientists as well as possible for theirprofessional life. This training does not only include the technical, but also the social skillsrequired to successfully complete larger projects.The subject of image compression offers the advantage of requiring a solid knowledge on termsof information science such as entropy, distortion, quantization

Conference Session

Mathematics Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Guo Zheng Yew, Texas Tech University; Aimee Cloutier, Texas Tech University; Stephen Michael Morse, Michigan Technological University; Audra N. Morse, Texas Tech University

Tagged Divisions

Mathematics

. However, just because we have calculators to perform thesecomputations does not “trivialize” the importance of knowing how to compute sample statistics,for example, by hand. Computational thinking relies a lot on being familiar with these “trivial”methods to create programs that can automatically execute these methods for specific problems.Observations at Texas Tech UniversityAs students enroll into university with varying proficiency in mathematics, an introductorycourse in engineering is taught to first-year students at Texas Tech University. The courseintroduces the concepts of computer programming and provides adequate leveling inmathematics to students before they proceed with upper level courses. Leveling is provided ontopics such as

Conference Session

Laboratory Development in ECE II

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Greg N Droge, Georgia Institute of Technology; Bonnie H. Ferri, Georgia Institute of Technology; JillL L. Auerbach, Georgia Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

implementation of a control system. The sample testquestions on the website relate the experiment back to standard test questions that might beasked in a lecture-based course. Finally, the web support was designed with the goal of loweringthe threshold for instructors to adopt these experiments into their courses, especially instructorswho do not typically use experiments.Acknowledgement: This work was supported by NSF CCLI Project Number 0618645. Theauthors wish to thank Olivia Chiu from National Instruments for her support in writing the VIs.REFERENCES1 B. Ferri, J. Auerbach, J. Jackson, J. Michaels, D. Williams, “A Program For Distributed Laboratories In The ECECurriculum,” the 2008 ASEE Frontiers in Education Conference.2 B. Ferri and J. Auerbach

Conference Session

Military and Veterans Constituent Committee Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Srujal Patel, Georgia Institute of Technology; Maria-Isabel Carnasciali, University of New Haven

Tagged Divisions

Military and Veterans

Paper ID #19252Training to Understand, Diagnose, Adapt, and Repair Electromechanical Sys-temsMr. Srujal Patel, Georgia Institute of Technology Mr. Srujal Patel serves as the research faculty at Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering (AE) at Georgia Institute of Technology. Mr. Patel earned his dual M.S. degrees in Aerospace Engineering and Applied Mathematics at Georgia Tech with specialization in Applied Numerical Analysis and Computa- tional Fluid Dynamics/Aerodynamics. After joining as the research faculty, Mr. Patel worked as project manager for the Manufacturing Experimentation and Outreach (MENTOR) program - an

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joi-lynn Mondisa, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Junaid A. Siddiqui, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Mel Chua, Purdue University; Linda Vanasupa, California Polytechnic State University; Roberta J Herter, California Polytechnic State University; Robin Adams, Purdue University, West Lafayette

Tagged Divisions

Student

generally addressed the same broad questions aboutbackgrounds, accomplishments, goals, and theories about change (related to an image of afeedback loop model of change processes). Vanasupa sent a copy of the interviews to Adams in the spring of 2010, who promised toread them and share her thoughts. As the nature of such projects goes, Adams did not have timeto look at the interviews until the summer and fall term of 2011. By that time, Adams waslooking for a small team-building research project that would build on some of her work withSiddiqui (whose thesis project was also in the “change space”), and Mondisa and Chua, studentsin their first year of their PhD program in engineering education who were looking foropportunities to learn about

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2009 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Jeanne Radigan

becoming a qualified medical doctor. Engineering programsacknowledged the benefits of having students participate in outside work environments onprojects that reinforced the theory and concepts taught in the classroom. However it was notuntil the 1960s that colleges and universities broadly supported the expansion of theseopportunities to be incorporated into their institutions’ curriculums [2]. Today internships have exploded in popularity with three out of four college studentsparticipating in an internship program before they graduate, up from one in 36 in 1980[3]. Value of Internships Internships have grown in popularity over the years for several reasons. They are oftenconsidered a win

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Matthew Ohland; Richard Layton

studies—one at a majority-black institution(NC A&T) and the other at a majority-white institution (NC State)—are consistent, showing noeffects relating to gender, but significant effects relating to race/ethnicity. We concur withKaufman et al. that, while racial prejudice cannot be ruled out, a more likely explanation of thisresult is that students tend to give low ratings to those who are weaker academically. Studentsseem to base ratings on perceived abilities instead of real contributions. To overcome this ten-dency, we suggest that instructors teach the behavioral characteristics of good teamwork and fo-cus student peer evaluations on those characteristics.I. IntroductionA well-known drawback of group projects in engineering is the

Conference Session

Pedagogical Developments in BME

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sara Koehler, Northwestern University; Wendy Murray, Northwestern University

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Biomedical

AC 2010-1764: FROM REMEDIATION TO APPLICATION: AN INVESTIGATIONOF COMMON MISCONCEPTIONS ASSOCIATED WITH VECTOR ANALYSIS INAN UNDERGRADUATE BIOMECHANICS COURSESara Koehler, Northwestern University SARA R. KOEHLER is a Ph.D. candidate in the Biomedical Engineering Department at Northwestern University and a participant in the Graduate Teaching Certificate Program at Northwestern University's Searle Center for Teaching Excellence. Her research focuses on the biomechanics of transfemoral amputee gait.Wendy Murray, Northwestern University WENDY M. MURRAY is an Assistant Professor at Northwestern University, with joint appointments in Biomedical Engineering in the Robert R. McCormick School of Engineering

Collection

2022 ASEE Gulf Southwest Annual Conference

Authors

A. Anil Kumar, Prairie View A&M University

” approach coupled with a computer simulation (or even better, in a virtual realityrendering) will provide a true learning experience, in addition to enhancing retention of knowledgegained. The engineering program at Ashesi University in Accra, Ghana, stipulates a two-semestercourse in the freshman year on Foundations of Design and Entrepreneurship, that provides a greatenvironment “to cultivate within students, the critical thinking skills, the concern for others, andthe courage it will take to transform the continent.”19 AssessmentThe assessment of student progress should accompany instruction. Typical summativeassessments do not serve the purpose of helping students to improve their performance during