Conference Session

Capstone/ET Projects II - General

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Austin B. Asgill P.E., Kennesaw State University; Jorge Luis Portillo Rodriguez; Rebeca Feregrino Rodriguez, Kennesaw State University

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Diversity

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Engineering Technology

Paper ID #30446Industrial Wire Cutting Machine: A Senior Capstone Design ProjectDr. Austin B. Asgill P.E., Kennesaw State University Dr Austin B. Asgill received his B.Eng.(hons) (E.E.) degree from Fourah Bay College, University of Sierra Leone, his M.Sc. (E.E.) degree from the University of Aston in Birmingham, and his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of South Florida. He is currently a Professor of Engineering Technology (Electrical) at Kennesaw State University (KSU). Prior to joining the faculty at KSU (formerly SPSU), he was an Associate Professor of Electronic Engineering Technology at Florida A&

Conference Session

ET Pedagogy I

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Maher Shehadi, Purdue Polytechnic Institute

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Engineering Technology

programs. Students gained analytical and experimental skills, applied science and technology toengineering theories and applications, worked in a team, and developed their communication skills suchas oral and written skills.Keywords: energy conservation, thermostat temperature effects, human thermal comfort, actualmeasurements, home smart meters.IntroductionCommercial and residential buildings are the largest contributors toward the total energy consumption inthe world [1]. Energy consumption in buildings significantly increases on a yearly basis due to increasedhuman comfort needs and services [2]. Residential and commercial buildings comprise 40% of the US 1primary energy of which 75% is

Collection

2019 ASEE Zone I Conference & Workshop

Authors

Jiayue Shen; Weiru Chen

the old-fashioned way replies on repetition andmemorization of information to educate students, the students typically will lose their attentionafter 15 mins of a continuous lecture. Intentionally breaking the lecture into discrete segments maybe an effective way to draw the students’ attention back and improve the students’ engagement.Most importantly, with the CEM, it is quite challenging to develop critical thinking skills, thehighly desired ability for an engineering technology student. To enhance the student engagement and learning experience and effectively improve theiracademic performance, conventional clicker-based personal response system (PRS) are initiallyintroduced and used in the classroom for years. To overcome the

Conference Session

Construction Engineering Division Technical Session 5

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Kelli R. Kopocis-Herstein, University of Nebraska, Lincoln; Terry L. Stentz, University of Nebraska, Lincoln

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Construction Engineering

“leadership style” were two (2) of the top six (6) factors influencing siteproductivity [5]. Additionally human factors has been identified as key component of effectivesafety management [6] [7] [8] on construction sites which has been attributed to increased laborproductivity [9] [10].Course DesignIn an effort to equip senior-level undergraduates with the skills necessary to manage themultitude of issues related to human factors affecting safety and productivity on constructionsites, faculty collaborated with industry to identify fourteen (14) major topics related to humanfactors, safety management, and productivity. The curriculum is regularly shared with localindustry to determine relevance and discuss the inclusion of new topics necessary for

Conference Session

Anything New in Dynamics?

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Geoff Rideout, Memorial University of Newfoundland

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Mechanics

integration routine is provided or generated by the student.The remainder of the paper is organized as follows. Section 2 develops an example of the typeof problem that would frustrate the typical undergraduate, and proposes that a means of handlingconstraint forces between connected bodies is the missing link. Section 3 describes a formalismbased on stiff springs and dampers in place of ideally rigid joints, and illustrates the approachusing a slider-crank mechanism. Section 4 discusses implementation issues and studentdifficulties. Section 5 contains a summary and conclusions. Page 13.1168.3The ProblemThe freshly minted engineer, if asked to predict

Conference Session

Ensuring Access to K - 12 Engineering Programs

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Benita Comeau, Georgia Institute of Technology; Marion Usselman, Georgia Institute of Technology; Donna Llewellyn, Georgia Institute of Technology; Michael Pastirik

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K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

biophysics from Johns Hopkins University and has taught in the Biology Department at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte. She focuses on equity issues in education and K-12 educational reform. Marion is co-PI of the STEP NSF grant.Donna Llewellyn, Georgia Institute of Technology Dr. Donna C. Llewellyn is the Director of the Center for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning at the Georgia Institute of Technolgy. Donna received her doctorate from Cornell University in Operations Research and spent ten years on the faculty in Industrial and Systems Engineering at Georgia Tech. Her primary research interests now are in the educational domain, specifically improving access and equity in STEM

Conference Session

Feedback and IT: Improving Student Learning

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James Ledlie Klosky; Decker Hains, U.S. Military Academy; Jason A. Evers, U.S. Military Academy; Jared B. Erickson, U.S. Military Academy; Stephen Ressler, U.S. Military Academy

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Civil Engineering

Beginning Strongly Disagree Disagree Neutral Agree Strongly Agree 0.00% 5.00% 10.00% 15.00% 20.00% 25.00% 30.00% 35.00% 40.00% 45.00% Figure 3. Comfort Level IM’ing an Instructor.If this increasing comfort level of students with online interaction with the instructor isduplicated by increasing comfort in the classroom with the instructor, then it could be anextremely helpful phenomenon. Developing interpersonal rapport with students is one of thequickest ways to gain their trust and respect, and the resulting improvement in classroom climatetends to motivate

Conference Session

Innovations in Electrical Engineering Courses

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Theresa Mae Swift, Missouri University of Science & Technology; Barbara Jean Wilkins, Missouri University of Science and Technology

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Electrical and Computer

Missouri S&T campus. A member of both IEEE and ASEE, she is also a Past-Chair of the Midwest Section of ASEE.Mrs. Barbara Jean Wilkins, Missouri University of Science and Technology Barbara Wilkins is an Instructional Designer in Educational Technology at Missouri S&T. She supports faculty in the effective use of technology in the classroom as well as blended/online course development. Barb has a B.A. in History with a Minor in Mathematics and an MST in Mathematics earned from the University of Missouri - Rolla, now Missouri S&T. In addition to her work in Educational Technology, she teaches college algebra for the Missouri S&T Department of Mathematics. Prior to joining S&T, Barb taught in a local

Conference Session

FPD X: Addressing Retention in the First Year

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Brian P. DeJong, Central Michigan University; Joseph Langenderfer, Central Michigan University

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First-Year Programs

document the start-up of engineering programs. Peterson18(Western Michigan) has described the development of an off-campus manufacturing engineeringprogram from an established on-campus degree program. Additionally, Director et al.19(Carnegie Mellon) have published on the transition from traditional electrical and computerengineering as separate degrees to the introduction of an interdisciplinary degree in electrical andcomputer engineering. Page 25.578.4CMICH's programs are unique when compared to those above. With respect to age, CMICH'sprograms are newly accredited; the programs cited above are well established. With respect tofreshman

Conference Session

Methodological & Theoretical Contributions to Engineering Education 1

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Scottie-Beth Fleming, Georgia Institute of Technology

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Educational Research and Methods

: Homophily in social networks. Annual Review of Sociology, 27(1), 415-444. 7. Borrego, M.J., and Newswander, L.K. (2008). Characteristics of successful cross-disciplinary engineering education collaborations. Journal of Engineering Education, 97(2), 123-134.8. Borrego, M.J., and Bernhard, J. (2011). The emergence of engineering education research as an internationally connected field of inquiry. Journal of Engineering Education, 100(1), 14-47.9. Borrego, M.J. (2007). Development of engineering education as a rigorous discipline: A Study of the Publication Patterns of Four Coalitions. Journal of Engineering Education, 96(1), 5-18.10. Jesiek, B.K., Newswander, L.K., and Borrego, M.J. (2009). Engineering education

Conference Session

Problem- Project- and Case-Based Learning in Environmental Engineering

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Andrew Jason Hill, University of Southern Indiana; Zane W. Mitchell Jr., University of Southern Indiana

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Environmental Engineering

• Filter media: anthracite coal, sand, and gravel • Filter materials: 3 ft section of cylindrical pipe and perforated cap Students constructed granular filters and developed flexible chemical dosing schemesprior to the competition. Design variables also included jar test operational parameters (mixingtime and speed). A flexible treatment scheme was necessary since the quality of the water to betreated (turbidity, pH, etc.) was not known ahead of time. On the day of the competition, eachteam was provided with 35 L of raw water and required to produce 6 L of treated water. Eachteam was scored based on the quality of the treated water, efficiency of treatment (teamwork),experimental techniques, response to questions by the instructor, and

Conference Session

FPD 2: Building Community

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nora Honken, University of Louisville; Patricia A. Ralston, University of Louisville

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First-Year Programs

Paper ID #8864Informal Peer-Peer Collaboration, Performance, and Retention for First SemesterEngineering StudentsNora Honken, University of Louisville Nora Honken holds degrees in industrial engineering from Virginia Tech and Arizona State University. She will receive a PHD in Education Leadership, Foundations and Human Development from the Uni- versity of Louisville in May 2014. She has held positions in engineering and management for Axxess Technologies, Varian, Amoco and Corning, and has taught in industry, at community college and at the graduate and undergraduate levels. Her research interests include

Conference Session

Electrical & Computer Engineering Poster Session

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

R. William Graff

Session 1532 Forty Years of Teaching Circuits I: A Tribute to Dr. Hayt R. William Graff LeTourneau UniversityAbstractThe author has had the experience of teaching Circuits I for forty years, using Dr. William H.Hayt’s book, Engineering Circuit Analysis, in all six of its editions. Certain teaching principleshave been developed to give consistency to the grading and teaching of the material, so thatsome trends in student performance can be traced over that time. Some of these trends arereflected in the paper, as well as comments concerning ways to communicate the

Conference Session

Computers in Education Poster Session

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

G Kohli; S P Maj; D Veal

consistently oversubscribed and attracts many cross-institutional enrolmentsfrom other universities within the Perth area and cross faculty enrolments from within ECU.There are no unit prerequisites and consequently many students come from non-technologicaleducational backgrounds 20. Students are exposed to a range of PCs using sets ofdecommissioned PCs, which considerably reduces the equipment costs 11, 19. Page 9.1080.2 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2004, American Society for Engineering EducationFor most computing units at ECU only the

Conference Session

BME Courses

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

John Wagner; Daniel Cavanagh

Engineering EducationIntroductionWith the implementation of a new major in biomedical engineering at Bucknell University,faculty from the biomedical engineering program have become an integral part of theintroductory engineering course required of all first-year engineers. This course, ENGR 100Exploring Engineering, is designed to provide the students with an introduction to Bucknell’s sixengineering disciplines as well as overarching concepts such as engineering design, ethics andteamwork. This is accomplished by dividing the course into 4 components includinga group design project assessing wheelchair accessibility on campus, two student-chosen topicalseminars and the reading and analysis of engineering related books. As the topical seminars

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Sima Parisay

ensures achievement of theeducational goals. The nature of subjects covered in a course and the students’ background andtheir learning styles will also play an important role in deciding how much and in which mannerwe can incorporate multimedia in our courses. The issue is not only the incorporation ofmultimedia, but also how every pedagogy tool used in a course will weave together. Upgradinga course in this direction requires tremendous amounts of time and dedication from theinstructor’s side. Universities that are interested in moving in such directions should consider asystematic support and encouragement for faculty members.7. AcknowledgementI would like to thank the Instructional Technology and Academic Computing (ITAC)administrators and

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Migri Prucz

the faculty,along with direct, unrestricted access to teachers and advisors, throughout their first yearin college. By in large, the students seem to be more prone than the parents to let elements ofrandomness guide, or influence the process of choosing one career path or another, at oneinstitution of higher learning or another. This observation may be linked, to some extent,with the nationwide high rates of attrition in the freshman year (about 30% of theincoming students), as well as with the high percentage of engineering students whoremain still undecided late into the freshman year. A survey of incoming engineeringstudents at WVU reveals that the percentage of students who are undecided as to themajor field in which they choose

Conference Session

Thermodynamics, Fluids, and Heat Transfer II

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Andrew L. Gerhart, Lawrence Technological University; Philip M. Gerhart P.E., University of Evansville

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Mechanical Engineering

AC 2011-1722: USING FAMILIAR ANALOGIES TO TEACH FUNDAMEN-TAL CONCEPTS IN THERMO-FLUIDS COURSESAndrew L. Gerhart, Lawrence Technological University Andrew Gerhart, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Lawrence Technological University. He is actively involved in ASEE, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, and the Engineering Society of Detroit. He serves as Faculty Advisor for the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Student Chapter at LTU, chair for the LTU Leadership Curriculum Committee, director of the LTU Thermal Science Laboratory, coordinator of the Certificate in Energy & Environmental Man- agement and Certificate/Minor in Aeronautical Engineering, and member

Conference Session

Design Cognition II

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Vimal Kumar Viswanathan, Texas A&M University; Nicole Elise Esposito; Julie S. Linsey, Texas A&M University

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Design in Engineering Education

data collection for this study.References[1] Thagard, P.," Analogy, explanation, and education", Journal of Research in Science Teaching Vol. 29, No. 6, 1992, pp. 537-544.[2] Holyoak, K.J., and Thagard, P.," Analogical mapping by constraint satisfaction", Cognitive science Vol. 13, No. 3, 1989, pp. 295-355.[3] Otto, K.N., and Wood, K.L., Product design: Techniques in Reverse Engineering and New Product Development, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2000.[4] Kelley, T., and Littman, J., The art of innovation: lessons in creativity from IDEO, Page 25.1372.11 America's leading design firm, NY: Crown Business, 2001.[5] Christensen

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Ash Miller; Jeffrey Honchell

most popular method of teaching antenna design at most majoruniversities. It is understandable that most would choose this method due to the greatexpense of the antenna fabrication and test equipment required, not to mention theuniversity resources of faculty and laboratory space. Page 6.195.2 Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2001, American Society for engineering EducationII. Approaches ConsideredA considerable amount of time was devoted to considering various approaches to solvingthe problem of effectively teaching antenna design, fabrication

Conference Session

Engineering Economy Division (EED) Technical Session 1

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ted Eschenbach, University of Alaska ; Neal A. Lewis, University of Nebraska

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Diversity

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Engineering Economy Division (EED)

. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 A Student Case Study on What is the Return on FICA Taxes?AbstractOne of the most common taxes is the Federal Insurance Contributions Act (FICA), which weoften know as our social security tax. Nearly three quarters of taxpayers pay more in FICA taxesthan they do in income tax. These taxes determine the social security benefits that an individualcan receive, and the earning record determines whether an individual qualifies for Medicare.This paper’s analysis is presented from the perspective of a graduating engineer, so that it can beused by faculty in their classes. The case can be analyzed by students individually or in teams. Ituses key concepts and tools from engineering economy. Because

Conference Session

IE Technical Session I

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Abhijit Gosavi, Missouri University of Science & Technology; Jane M. Fraser, Colorado State University, Pueblo

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Industrial Engineering

Department of Engineering at Colorado State University-Pueblo. She was formerly on the faculty at the Ohio State University and Purdue University. She has a BA in mathematics from Swarthmore College and MS and PhD in industrial engineering and operations research from the University of California-Berkeley. Page 22.1587.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011 Use of Buzzwords in Industrial Engineering EducationAbstractBuzzwords or buzz phrases have been used in the content of numerous industrialengineering courses for several years now. Buzzwords have a finite life, which can

Conference Session

New Research & Trends for Minorities in Engineering

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rigoberto Chinchilla, Eastern Illinois University; Harold Jay Harris, Eastern Illinois University School of Technology

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Minorities in Engineering

AC 2011-259: FACIAL RECOGNITION SYSTEM SCREENING EVALUA-TION METHODOLOGY FOR COMPLEXION BIASESRigoberto Chinchilla, Eastern Illinois University Dr. Rigoberto Chinchilla (PhD in Integrated Engineering, Ohio University) is an Associate Professor in the School of Technology since 2004 and Current Interim Coordinator of Graduate Studies for the School of Technology at Eastern Illinois University. His teaching and research interests include Applied Statistics, Quality Assurance, Computer and Biometric Security, Information Systems, and Automation. Dr. Chinchilla has been a Fulbright scholar, a recipient of a United Nations scholarship, chosen as a Faculty Marshall for the Graduate School, and received an Achievement and

Conference Session

Teaching Circuit Theory and Electronics

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James W. Bales, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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Electrical and Computer

analog optical communication link and a color organ. Our goal is to engage students inbuilding and hacking simple circuits that give immediate satisfaction, then use those circuits toillustrate a rule-of-thumb approach to the theory behind them. Our expectation is that, havingengaged the students in electronics, some of them will be motivated to enroll in more advancedcourses to learn how to use circuit theory to develop their circuit design skills.Rationale and GoalsThis subject was inspired by the recognition that high-school students with little formal trainingin electronic circuit theory can (and do) build fairly sophisticated electronic circuits1. They do sothrough simple models of how devices operate and rule-of-thumb design practices

Conference Session

Best Zone Papers

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Arne Weigold; M. P. Sharma; Edward Anderson; Roman Taraban

) References1. Taraban, R., Anderson, E.E., Sharma, M.P., and Weigold, A., “Developing a Model of Students’ Navigations in Computer Modules for Introductory Thermodynamics,” ASEE Annual Conf. and Exp., Nashville, TN, 2003.2. Anderson, E. E., Taraban, R., & Sharma, M. P. (in press). Implementing and Assessing Computer- Based Active Learning Materials In Introductory Thermodynamics. International Journal of Engineering Education. Also in on-line version at http://www.ijee.dit.ie/OnlinePapers/Interactive_Papers.html3. Cengel, Y. A. and Boles, M. A., Thermodynamics: An Engineering Approach, 4th Edition, McGraw- Hill, Boston, MA, 2001.4. Taraban, R., Rynearson, K., and Kerr, M., “College Students

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2024 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Charles Baukal

ABET a-k Student Outcomes [15].An increasing number of engineering projects are cross-disciplinary. Communication is furthercomplicated by multiple time zones, cultures, and sometimes even languages. Engineers mustlearn to work in teams; however, they do not get a lot of practice doing that as undergraduates,except for labs and capstone projects. Part of the reason for this is that many engineering coursesare theory-based where problems have a single correct answer, with faculty trying to assess theperformance of individual students. Back and Sanders wrote, “engineers at all levels must beable and willing to function in a team environment, and to accept that the team, not theindividual, will succeed or fail” [16].Learning how to work

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2013 GSW

Authors

L. Massa; P. Jha

Friday Afternoon Session 1- Faculty Teaching thermo-chemical equilibrium using a MATLAB algorithm L. Massa and P. Jha Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department University of Texas at Arlington AbstractComputers are an integral part of learning in different fields of education. The ability ofscientific computing to solve realistic problems can strengthen engineering education byallowing the students to analyze complex systems. To improve the quality of learning along thispath, educators must take a step to make their teaching style flexible and

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2010 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Alfred A. Scalza

teachers and administrators would agree thatmore and more regulations on how to teach and what to teach have created more and morepassive learners. Also, the social environment the students learn in is often so time consumingand compelling that they easily fall into the passive category. Therefore, some effort is requiredby the professor to change this mindset to active learning and this takes time. Professors aretasked with the responsibility to re-teach students how to be self learners. • Passive Learners This is a philosophy that “expects” the faculty to teach them what they need to know to pass the course (and only what they need to know). They “expect” the library to have the article, journal or book when they need it and they

Collection

2009 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

Thomas J. Impelluso

term memory after first beingproperly integrated, by working memory, into a mental structure that represents the schema ofthe material. However, the faculty of working memory has limits and this, unfortunately, canhinder learning, especially when many extraneous facts compete to challenge the cognitivelearning loads (which, in the case of programming, encompass text editing, operating systemsand compilers). CLT posits that there are three basic types of cognitive loads placed on alearner: • “Intrinsic cognitive load” was first described in 1991 [2] as the essential material to be learned. Accordingly, all instruction has an inherent difficulty associated with it and Proceedings of the 2009 American Society for Engineering

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2010 Northeast Section Meeting

Authors

Alfred A. Scalza

teachers and administrators would agree thatmore and more regulations on how to teach and what to teach have created more and morepassive learners. Also, the social environment the students learn in is often so time consumingand compelling that they easily fall into the passive category. Therefore, some effort is requiredby the professor to change this mindset to active learning and this takes time. Professors aretasked with the responsibility to re-teach students how to be self learners. • Passive Learners This is a philosophy that “expects” the faculty to teach them what they need to know to pass the course (and only what they need to know). They “expect” the library to have the article, journal or book when they need it and they