Conference Session

Civil Engineering in the Classroom

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Christy Jeon, Georgia Institute of Technology; Adjo Amekudzi, Georgia Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

Civil EngineeringResearch has shown that a study of ethics cases and dilemmas is one of the most effectivemethods for improving students’ ethical judgment. In addition, actual education experiencesreveal that engineering students are involved not so much in fictional case studies, even thoughthey are quite realistic, as in realistic stories. Through real-life case studies students can learn torecognize the presence of ethical problems in their profession and to develop the analytical skillsnecessary for solving them. They can understand that there may be some irresolvableuncertainties in ethical analysis and that in some situations rational and responsible professionalsmay disagree about what is right [4]. Below, we discuss the New York

Conference Session

Critical Success Factors for Technopolis Creation

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

William Nunnally, University of Missouri - Columbia; James Thompson, University of Missouri; Steve Wyatt, University of Missouri - Columbia

Tagged Divisions

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

the advanced electronics research group. In 1985, he joined the electrical engineering department at the University of Texas at Arlington where he was Director of the Applied Physical Electronics Research Center. During his 11-year tenure at UT Arlington as a principal investigator, Dr. Nunnally was responsible for external research funding of over 11 million dollars or approximately 1 million dollars per year. After 11 years at the University of Texas at Arlington, Dr. Nunnally moved to the University of Missouri - Columbia where he is currently the C. W. LaPierre Professor and interim chair of the electrical and computer engineering department. He is the author of over

Conference Session

Communication, Professional Development, and the Engineering Ambassador Network

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Johanna Gretchen Hatzell, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Melissa Marshall, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Michael Alley, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Karen A. Thole, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Christine Haas, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Renata S. Engel P.E., Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Joanna K. Garner, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

, University Park Dr. Renata Engel is Associate Dean for Academic Programs in the College of Engineering at Penn State and has been a member of the Penn State faculty since 1990. Dr. Engel’s research couples her interest in design and manufacturing with advanced materials, with a focus on computational modeling. She has also been involved in the scholarship of teaching and learning primarily to infuse design into the curriculum. For her contributions, she has received several individual and collaborative teaching awards, and is a Fellow of the American Society for Engineering Education. She has held several leadership positions in ASEE including those in the Middle Atlantic Section, and Mechanics Division. She has served on

Conference Session

Building a Better Program - Construction Curriculum Enhancements

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert G. Batson P.E., University of Alabama

Tagged Divisions

Construction

semester hours, or they may mandate no more than 16 hours per semesteras a full load of courses (charging extra for each additional hour). These sorts of constraintsaffect engineering curricula.Options for “Design for Safety” Course ContentEngineering course content is a mix of theory, methodology—processes to follow in design oranalysis, tools—typically mathematical or computational, and case studies. This content is drawnfrom textbooks, handbooks, and other published literature on the subject in question. Onesearching for such DfS material could start very broadly, looking at textbooks on the designprocess for their discipline, the systems engineering process in general, and perhaps books onDesign for X or the more recent movement known as

Conference Session

Curricular Issues in BAE

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

George Meyer

applications of Gibbs energy are included in the course. An overall goal is for the students tohave a preliminary working knowledge of Gibbs free energy and chemical potential. In fact, accordingto course pre-requisites, they have already been introduced to Gibbs in their introductory chemistrycourses. Gibbs energy combines the two state properties, enthalpy (H) and entropy (S), and thus is theapplication of all that has been learned in the course to this point. One might chose chapter 3 in Atkins 13 to introduce Gibbs energy. The level of coverage hasnot been completely agreed on, but it cannot go as far as Atkins. A key challenge for the syllabusdevelopment is to choose a set of example problems, which illustrate the application of Gibbs

Conference Session

Quality & Accreditation: Outcome Assessment

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Steve Hefley; James Lookadoo; Randy Winzer

pieces are finished; we plan to fold many of ourother program features into the same document. Our expectation is that we are now far enoughalong the learning curve that we can begin the first cycle of operations in the next academic year.We need a complete shakedown to our processes to test practicality. A copy of the manual was tobe appended to this paper but was rejected by the session reviewer. A complete copy is availableby e-mailing the authors.VII. Notes on What Did Not WorkIn this section, we list some of the counterproductive elements our program faced in attempting toreformat as an outcomes-based operation.• Isolation - Our program is located in rural Kansas. Our lack of opportunity for many contacts with other EET programs

Conference Session

Research and Graduate Studies

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Wayne W. Walter, Rochester Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Graduate Studies

their thesis, along with a working title.3. Submit a thesis proposal and statement of work, with approval from their advisor, to the department for review and approval.4. Prepare an academic curriculum vitae of courses to complete their degree5. Prepare a schedule for completion of their degree.6. Complete a preliminary literature review as a first start on their thesis.Topics Covered and Course DeliverablesTopics covered include: How to learn from the literature Conducting reviews of technical papers Annotating technical papers Conducting a literature search Creating bibliographical citations Page 25.608.3 Where does the

Conference Session

Curriculums in Transition

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Larry Stout; Ken Bosworth; Brian Williams; Habib Sadid; Mike Ellis

their time is past “ 1.The United Kingdom recently established a Learning and Teaching Support Network (LTSN).The aim of the LTSN is to provide support to academics in order to improve the provision oflearning and teaching. In 2001 the LTSN Subject Centre conducted a needs analysis survey of Page 9.892.1 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Educationboth industry and academia. There were 410 responses from industry and 315 responses fromacademia. This survey data suggests that: “The difference in the

Conference Session

Capstone Design II

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Vikas Jain; Durward Sobek

be combined: customer satisfaction and designquality should kept as separate measures of capstone project outcomes where such measures areapplicable.AcknowledgementsThis work was sponsored by National Science Foundation grant #REC-9984484. Many thanks tothe Brian Berg, Vic Cundy, Grey Lerner, Clark Mozer, Thad Orosz, Michael Wells, and the ME404 students for their assistance and cooperation.Bibliography1. Brackin, M. P., and Gibson, J. D., “Methods of Assessing Student Learning in Capstone Design Projects with Industry: A Five Year Review,” Proceedings of the American Society for Engineering Education Conference, 2002.2. Brackin, P., and Gibson, J.D., “Techniques for Assessing Industrial Projects in Engineering Design Courses

Conference Session

DEED Poster Session

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Mathew Hyre; James Squire

not be treated asan excusable emergency.It is not necessary for the poster presenters to submit electronic copies before the dry run(discussed below). However, a sample poster board should be set up at an announced locationseveral weeks before the symposium to allow students to try various poster arrangements and tocheck the size of the poster boards.Audio-Visual SupportAt this point some comments should be made concerning A/V support. Most universities havestudents who work in some capacity for the school IT department. This is a good place to findhelp with obtaining the necessary A/V equipment and personnel and coordinating thepresentations on the computers. We have found that it is important to use students who havebeen demonstrably

Conference Session

Design Experiences in Energy Education

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Petro Gogolyuk; Ilya Grinberg

a fixed one is important for developing analytical skills. Thorough calculations resultin better understanding of the processes in power distribution design and analysis and allow fordifferent variants in PDS configuration. One of the most important features is the relevance ofutilization factor from the number of loads.Students are involved in developing Excel® worksheets and computer programming to increaseefficiency of calculations especially if recalculations are required.There are no statistics available concerning any improvements in student learning through theuse of this method. Other methods5, 6, although discussed and implemented in assignments andprojects, do not have a comparative data base of coefficients for valid and accurate

Conference Session

Innovative Ideas for Energy Labs

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Swedish; Glenn T. Wrate P.E.; Frederik Betz; Emily Blakemore; Lee Greguske

creditfor their work on the project. They will be responsible for reporting the results of theproject upon its completion.Electrical Engineering GoalsVia the web, Electrical Engineering courses are now able to view power quality data forthe interconnection of the microturbine to the building electrical system (from the PowerMonitor II). Power Electronics classes can now view selected current and voltagewaveforms for the high-speed ac bus and the dc bus. Power on the high-speed ac and dcbus is also available (all from the Yokogawa Power Meter). With these data available on-line, this facility is a great supplement to textbooks and computer simulations in the areasof power electronics and power system design and analysis.Recent world events have made

Conference Session

Innovative Teaching in Engineering/Technology II

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Elsa Bruno; David Swanson; David Barnhart; David Richie; Jerry Sellers; Kenneth Siegenthaler

mission of the Astronautics Department is to produce the world’s finest Air Force officerswho live our core values of integrity, service, and excellence and understand space. In keepingwith this mission, the Department has created the Space Systems Research Center (SSRC) andthe FalconSAT program1. Our philosophy of “Learning Space by Doing Space” is carried outthrough the SSRC. This center provides a facility in which our astronautics majors can design,assemble, test, and operate small, scientifically relevant satellites. FalconGold, FalconSAT-1,and FalconSAT-2 were the first spacecraft in a series of projects created by cadets. In recentyears, the program has expanded to include select management, physics, computer science, andelectrical

Conference Session

The Nuts & Bolts of TC2K

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Randy Winzer

2 1 NR Proceedings of the 2004 American Society of Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Page 9.225.5 Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering EducationJ. Coverage of specific knowledge in your program 5 4 3 2 1 NRK. Exposure to appropriate tools/equipment 5 4 3 2 1 NRL. Appropriate applications of math in your courses 5 4 3 2 1 NRM. Appropriate application of computers and software 5 4 3 2

Conference Session

IE Accreditation and Program Issues

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Eleanor Nault; Michael Leonard

Busy People 11 uniquely reflects the proposed definitions forobjectives and outcomes; although her model and assessment strategies do not differentiate apoint in time at which the data are collected. Yet, as an interesting illustration of how things willchange with the adoption of the proposed definitions, alumni surveys would not be appropriatefor program learning outcomes as suggested in an earlier Rogers’ reference 15 Neither wouldobjectives be assessed by evaluating a product created in an integrated, multidisciplinary designcourse. Thus, identification of appropriate methods for objectives evaluation and outcomesassessment must consider at what point in time the data are collected.Unlike the snapshot approach recommended in most of the

Conference Session

MINDing Our Business

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Denise Hayman

rates, only nine of 118 schools computed retention at or above the 68.4% gross nationalrate for non-minority students. Additionally, the relative rate of graduation for students of coloris about half (52%) that of white students. When non-minority students opt out of the SEM theychange majors, whereas students of color drop out of school altogether. Of the institutions thatdo graduate minority students, public institutions enroll and graduate significantly more minorityfreshmen than privates but private engineering schools graduated a much greater percentage.Half of all minority graduates came from 36 engineering schools. Five institutions producedmore than 100 graduates and an additional 17 produced more than 50. Of these 22 institutions,five

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Knecht; Donna Carlon

Satisfaction Client Customer Figure 1: Schematic Representation of Teamwork using an Engineering FormatOur Sample Because of the data-intensive nature of these research questions, the researchers determinedthat a small sample, representative of first-years students at CSM would be preferable for stagetwo. Therefore, two EPICS sections were chosen from the spring 2001 semester, with 22 malestudents and 11 female students agreeing to participate from seven teams. To determine teamassignments, students were first asked to assess their own skill levels in areas such as writing,graphics, leadership, and computer literacy. Mentors then

Conference Session

Energy, the Environment, and Nano Technology

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Clifford R. Mirman, Northern Illinois University; Lesley Rigg, Northern Illinois University; Melissa Lenczewski, Northern Illinois University

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

technologies,and the human experience. This foundation will allow students to learn about the breadth ofknowledge in Environmental Studies. Students then will pick from one of six emphases:Biodiversity and Environmental Restoration, Energy Studies, Environment and the HumanExperience, Environmental Policy, Non-Governmental Organizations, and Water. The overallgoal of the undergraduate programs are to train students in the causes, scales, and remediationand mitigation approaches to major local, regional and global environmental problems.In addition to interdisciplinary environmentally based programs which have been created, severaltechnology based programs and minors have also been developed. The technical programs weredeveloped out of the College of

Conference Session

Mechanics Concepts II

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Xiaobin Le P.E., Wentworth Institute of Technology ; Richard L. Roberts, Wentworth Institute of Technology; Ali Reza Moazed, Wentworth Institute of Technology; Anthony William Duva, Wentworth Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Mechanics

AC 2012-3232: APPLICATIONS OF SOLIDWORKS IN TEACHING COURSESOF STATICS AND STRENGTH OF MATERIALSDr. Xiaobin Le P.E., Wentworth Institute of Technology Xiaobin Le is Assistant Professor, Ph.D., P.Eng., with a specialization in computer-aided design, mechan- ical design, finite element analysis, fatigue design, and reliability, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Technology, College of Engineering, Wentworth Institute of Technology, Boston, MA 02115, Phone: 617-989-4223; Email: lex@WIT.edu.Prof. Richard L. Roberts, Wentworth Institute of TechnologyDr. Ali Reza Moazed, Wentworth Institute of TechnologyProf. Anthony William Duva, Wentworth Institute of Technology P.E

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Caroline Hembel Beard

of success and failure. Rare is the program or institution that is not involved in a review,accreditation or strategic planning effort at any given moment. We conduct formative and summativeevaluations of student learning, student evaluation of courses, peer evaluation of teaching ability, andfollow-up studies from program level to institution. We review attrition, failure and completion rates.We compare student outcomes to stated course objectives, program goals in relation to the institution’smission statement. But how do we evaluate a program whose mission is to prepare students to leave theinstitution in order to reach the goal? Specifically, how does a pre-professional program — such as anengineering transfer program — account for the

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Perry R. McNeill; Charles Bittle

Bit 6 Bit 7 Bit 8 ANALOG DEVICES Bit 9 AD9760 EVALUATION BOARD Computer system Printer Figure 8. Block diagram of test equipment.VI. Software A LabView software program, developed by Texas Instruments, was used for dataacquisition, calculation of INL and DNL values, and instrument control. LabView (LaboratoryVirtual Instrumentation Engineering Workbench) is a graphical programming language that hasbeen adopted throughout industry, academia, and government

Collection

1997 Annual Conference

Authors

Susan M. Bolton; Scott D. Bergen; James L. Fridley

Systems Theory Computational Chaos Theory Electrical Biology Physical and Engineering Biological Fuzzy Systems Measurement Figure 1. Potential knowledge areas and skills for an ecological engineering curriculum culminating in a capstone design course.Ecosystems are complex, non-static systems. Significant ecological change is episodic

Collection

1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Paul D. Schreuders; Arthur T. Johnson

requirements.A common problem in engineering learning is developing relationships between a theoreticalpresentation of a subject matter and practical engineering skills. In our experience, studentsbenefit from developing these ties. By providing examinations in a “story” format, anexamination’s problems were placed within a context. That is to say that students could relate thetheoretical problem solution with the scenario in which the problem was presented.Engineering students are often visual learners and problem solvers. These learners prefer andintellectually respond to problems that they can visualize. Story problems let them perform thisvisualization. In fact, some students responded to the examinations in kind, and submitted “greatliterature

Conference Session

Military and Veterans Division (MVD) Technical Session 1

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jason M Newell, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University; Bryan Watson, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Military and Veterans Division (MVD)

as a member of both the Computation and Advancement of Sustainable Systems Lab, where he developed a new method for distributed system demand estimation, and at the Sustainable Design and Manufacturing lab, where his work focused on increasing System of System resilience. Bryan’s work has been published in the Journal of Industrial Ecology, Journal of Mechanical Design, and IEEE’s Systems Journal. At Embry-Riddle, Bryan’s current work is focused on investigating the use of biologically inspired design to increase the resilience of modern system. The goal of their work is more reliable services to users, increased user safety, and increased sustainability for connected manufacturing, energy, and infrastructure

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

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Economy Division (EED)

the inflation adjustment for the AIME, and the bend pointsare used in computing the PIA. The taxable limit, which is the maximum amount of incomesubject to FICA taxes, is also increased annually using the AWI.We believe that all of the concepts and acronyms must be part of the case study. However, socialsecurity is the subject of a very large literature, and any introductory case study must limit thescope of what is addressed. We simplify the case study by assuming that it is for a single [15]individual not a couple [16]. The different incomes and ages of spouses, and additional spousaland survivor’s benefits available to them are the scope of a graduate thesis not an introductorycase.We assume that benefits are started at NRA, which is 67

Conference Session

Engineering Libraries Division (ELD) Technical Session 4

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mark Chalmers, University of Cincinnati; Aja Rachel Bettencourt-Mccarthy, University of Cincinnati

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Libraries Division (ELD)

towards specific tasks. Importantly, custom instructions, user uploadedfiles, and inputs given to custom GPT instances are not used to train the underlying foundationmodels, GPT-4 in this case. Building custom GPTs is still new and there is much to learn aboutcreating instances of GPT4 designed to assist with specific tasks. Due to their ability to optimizeon a narrow task, custom GPTs were determined to be the best option for this project. Thecustom GPT was designed specifically to extract citations from MET capstone project reports viaimages of their bibliographies. Screenshots of the bibliographies were saved as local image filesand uploaded to the custom GPT one at a time to extract and build the citation information.While this worked well

Conference Session

Sustainable Construction Practice

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mark Shaurette, College of Technology, Purdue University

Tagged Divisions

Construction

toways in which existing structural systems impact the choice of demolition means and methods.Students also learn why demolition and reconstruction management decisions are heavilyinfluenced by existing project characteristics rather than solely by design documents. Because agreat deal of reconstruction activity is similar to new construction, a greater emphasis has beenplaced on the management of the demolition process in course development.To help guide the selection of course content, the author conducted a form of group needsassessment specifically designed to identify the course topics that the demolition industryidentified as necessary for students who would be hired in entry level management positions bydemolition contractors11. The needs

Conference Session

Frontiers in Engineering Economy

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Neal Lewis, University of Bridgeport; Ted Eschenbach, TGE Consulting; Joseph Hartman, University of Florida

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Economy

making process regarding multi-stage project funding. Some real optionsproponents29,30 have suggested that sequential compound options is a preferred method overdecision tree analysis for determining the value of multi-stage projects.The majority of work and the latest criticism regarding real options have been focused on thesimple deferral (single stage) option. As with single stage analysis, an option value for amultiple stage project can be computed. However, there is significantly more complexity inevaluating a multi-stage project when compared to a single-stage project. Because of thiscomplexity, closed form (and thus straightforward) solutions are generally not possible. Also,due to the complexity, many questions about multi-stage analysis

Conference Session

Concurrent Paper Tracks - Session II

Collection

2015 ASEE International Forum

Authors

Anders V Warell, Lund University, Industrial Design; Charlotta Johnsson, Lund University; Carl-Henric Lennart Nilsson, Technology management

Tagged Topics

International Forum

outlining the course and its content was intensified in the spring of 2012. The subject forthe course decided upon was “Innovations and Product Development”, being key words for both LU and ZJU.The pedagogical intention was to support the students learning in “relating parts of the subject matter to eachother and to the real world” and “comprehending the world by reinterpreting knowledge”. The course was titled“international Market-Driven Engineering (iMDE)”.The two universities already had cooperative agreements that the course could leverage upon. One such exampleis the Joint Centre for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (LU-ZJU JCIE), a platform aiming to help realize jointactivities of innovation and entrepreneurship. iMDE is a joint course

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade Outside of Class

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Manoj Patankar

evaluate them for tenure and promotion.This is a very weak position for any department.Substantial departmental resources are expended in developing a tenure-track faculty member.Besides the regular salary and benefits, typical start-up costs include equipment support,graduate assistants, release time to prepare for new courses and pursue funded research, etc.Based on my experience at a comprehensive public university, I would estimate the start -up costto be around $100,000: conference attendances ($18,000 for 12 conferences in six years), releasetime ($60,000 in 20 % release time for the first three years), and computer and/or other researchequipment ($10,000). At top-tier universities, the start-up cost can be as much as $250,0004.Needless to