Conference Session

Sustainable Product Development and Manufacturing

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Priya Manohar, Robert Morris University

Tagged Divisions

Manufacturing

. Competitiveness may be achieved through variousmechanisms such as designing and building distinguished products, offering outstanding service,producing high product quality and of course by developing cost competitiveness1). In this regard,it is recognized that undergraduate education mainly focuses on the technical and design aspectsof the engineering profession while many other aspects including marketing, costing, project andfinancial management, which are the essential needs of the contemporary manufacturingbusinesses, receive much less attention2). While the subject of engineering economy has beenincorporated in undergraduate education for a number of years, it realized that the course contentand teaching methods have not kept pace with time. For

Conference Session

Laboratory Development in ECE I

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Victor P. Nelson, Auburn University; John Y. Hung, Auburn University

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

Background Debug Module, and a DigilentElectronics Explorer Board (EEBOARD), which integrates breadboard, power supply, andinstrumentation. Each team of two students is provided with a kit that contains their EEBOARDand related components. Detailed information on the lab projects and development environment,including weekly presentations, are available on the course web site [4].III. Assessing Student OutcomesThe eleven student outcomes of the EE and CPE programs are essentially identical, and arebased on ABET Criterion 3 (a)-(k) and the IEEE program criterion [1]. These outcomes are listedon the two program web sites [5,6]. While the knowledge and skills defined in most of theseoutcomes are exercised in this system design lab, the ECE Curriculum

Conference Session

Issues Affecting Engineering Program Development

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

George D. Ford, Western Carolina University; Aaron K. Ball, Western Carolina University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

. Forinstance, environmental, industrial, electronics and mining engineers are forecast to be thestrongest engineering curriculums which will provide jobs for graduates. For administrators whowant engineering programs at their institutions, initiating a program in one of these areas incoordination with a similar engineering technology curriculum might provide the best of bothworlds. Research funded engineering faculty may work in concert with engineering technologyfaculty teaching well enrolled courses with acceptable student contact hours thereby providingthe necessary state funding to maintain both programs. Administrators at each institution couldformulate plans which would synergize their programs. For instance, an environmentalengineering program

Conference Session

Professional Development and Scholarship

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

William J. Sawaya, Texas A&M University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

AC 2011-2795: SATISFYING THE MULTIPLE STAKEHOLDER REQUIRE-MENTS OF ENGAGED SCHOLARSHIP: THE CASE OF INDUSTRIALDISTRIBUTION AT TEXAS A&MWilliam J. Sawaya, Texas A&M University William J. Sawaya is an Assistant Professor in the department of Engineering Technology and Indus- trial Distribution in the Dwight Look College of Engineering at Texas A&M University. He teaches courses in quality management and process improvement. He has done work and research on the topics of inter-organizational collaboration, inventory management, new product development, product introduc- tion, healthcare products, transportation systems analysis-focusing on railroads and multi-mode container operations, product testing

Conference Session

Installation, Integration, and Development

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Greg Kremer, Ohio University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Energy Conversion and Conservation

, theprogram faculty consist of members from chemical engineering, electrical engineering,mechanical engineering, industrial and systems engineering, civil engineering, andenvironmental sciences and policy. Program faculty worked the remainder of 2011 and into 2012to develop a curriculum that integrated technical fundamentals and some advanced topics fromexisting courses, economic analysis from existing Engineering Economy and Economics ofEnergy courses, a revived Engineering and Public Policy course, a new Applied SystemsEngineering course, and a few Energy Engineering specific courses on Fuel and EnergyConversions. A flowchart of the current curriculum is included as an Appendix to this paper.It is important to note that the program is substantially

Conference Session

ECE Laboratory Development & Innovations

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Chiu Choi

gained good understanding of the fundamentals of feedback control systems.I. IntroductionThis section gives a brief discussion on the motivation of developing the controls laboratory courseand the enhancement of the controls area in the electrical engineering curriculum at the Universityof North Florida.It was the wish of the electrical engineering faculty at the University of North Florida to create acontrols laboratory in the Department of Electrical Engineering. One of the purposes was tostrengthen the controls area of the curriculum.For many years there was only one controls course (Linear Control Systems EEL4657, 3 credithours) in the electrical engineering curriculum. The controls course covered the design and analysisof feedback control

Conference Session

Understanding our Students & Ethical Development

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Denise Wilson, University of Washington; Mee Joo Kim, University of Washington-Seattle; Rebecca A. Bates, Minnesota State University, Mankato; Elizabeth Burpee

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Ethics

not a new one; it can be traced backto ancient Greece. But in contemporary society, the concept and the term seem to have newcurrency and many higher education institutions continue to renew their efforts towardgraduating “global citizens”. Despite the interest and motivation in global citizenship, very fewhigher education units have a uniform strategy in place for how to achieve such citizenship intheir graduates. This is especially true for undergraduate science and engineering curriculaalthough some programs have developed international engineering minors outside of thetraditional curriculum to encourage and support the development of global citizenship (e.g., theUniversity of Michigan, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and

Conference Session

Instrument Design and Development

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Felicity Bilow, Clarkson University; Mohammad Meysami, Clarkson University ; Jan DeWaters, Clarkson University

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods Division (ERM)

, Clarkson University Jan DeWaters is an Associate Professor in the Institute for STEM Education at Clarkson University, in Potsdam, New York. She teaches in the School of Engineering and her research area is engineering and STEM education. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Development of a Questionnaire to Measure Students’ Attitudes and Perceptions of Sociotechnical EngineeringAbstractThis research paper describes the development and initial validation of a questionnaire to assessstudents’ attitudes toward engineering and their appreciation of the sociotechnical nature ofengineering. The questionnaire was developed in light of the increasing need for a

Conference Session

Professional Development for Teachers

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sai Prasanth Krishnamoorthy, New York University; Sheila Borges Rajguru, New York University; Vikram Kapila, New York University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Pre-College Engineering Education

with engineers fromindustry. The key elements of our PD program are as follows.1. Introduce the multidisciplinary fields of mechatronics and robotics to teachers using a structured and integrated learning environment, consisting of training, mentoring, and real- world collaborative engineering research, to renew their science, math, and research skills.2. Provide teachers with experience, skills, and resources in hands-on, engineering research, prototype product development, entrepreneurship, and professional engineering practices so that they can: integrate project-based learning (PBL) in their science and math curriculum; enhance school labs with technology used by scientists and engineers; improve their communication

Conference Session

Laboratory Development in ECE Education

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Zorica Nedic, University of South Australia; Andrew Nafalski, University of South Australia; Ozdemir Gol, University of South Australia; Jan Machotka, University of South Australia

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

experience as an engineering educator in addition to his substantial industrial experience. His academic career has included teaching and research in electrical engineering at universities in Turkey, Australia, France, Switzerland, Greece, Belgium and Finland. He holds the holder of MESc, ME and PhD degrees, all in electrical engineering. His research interests have been focused on electrical machines and drives, and include modelling and simulation of electrical machines using numerical methods and the application of mathematical techniques to design optimisation of electromagnetic devices. He is particularly interested in the design and development of novel electromechanical energy conversion

Conference Session

Laboratory Development in ECE II

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Dale N. Buechler, University of Wisconsin, Platteville; Phil J Sealy Jr., University of Wisconsin, Platteville; John R Goomey, University of Wisconsin, Platteville

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

steadily moving throughthe core offerings. As a result, we have been allowed to develop the lab curriculum forstreaming video a few courses at a time instead of all at once.For entry-level courses such as Circuit Modeling I, traveling support staff can be used to assessproper usage of lab equipment and to evaluate the construction and performance of simplecircuits. The lab managers serve as a resource during the completion of the laboratories at theseregional sites. All of the lab assistants are either BS EE or BS ME so in our lower-level classesthe lab assistant can do the checkoffs where eyes, ears, mouths, and fingers are required.As the beginning distance students entered their mid- and upper-level course work whichincludes design, we had to

Conference Session

Professional Development in Materials Engineering

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Richard Griffin, Texas A&M University, Qatar; Reza Rowshan, Texas A&M University, Qatar

Tagged Divisions

Materials

, Mechanical, and Petroleum Engineering. The initial group of engineers graduated in2008. In steady state Texas A&M at Qatar is expected to have between 400 to 500 studentsenrolled in the four programs. Currently Mechanical Engineering has 67 students enrolled.TAMUQ follows the mechanical engineering curriculum at the College Station campus.Currently, the program has nine faculty members, and plans are to hire several more within thenext couple of years. Currently, our upper division classes have only been taught two or threetimes. The laboratory facilities were completed and available for use in fall 2007. The initialABET review took place during fall 2008

Conference Session

Professional Development Programs for Teachers

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Anant Kukreti, University of Cincinnati; Patricia McNerney, University of Cincinnati; Suzanne Soled, University of Cincinnati; Kelly Obarski, University of Cincinnati; Mingming Lu, University of Cincinnati; Richard Miller, University of Cincinnati; Daniel Oerther, University of Cincinnati; Heng Wei, University of Cincinnati; Thaddeus Fowler, University of Cincinnati

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

), traffic flow characteristics and microscopic traffic simulation modeling.Thaddeus Fowler, University of Cincinnati THADDEUS FOWLER, PhD., is a Professor Emeritus, Division of Teacher Education, College of Education, Criminal Justice, and Human Services, UC. Dr. Fowler has taught instructional methods courses at UC for 27 years, and has close relationships with many school districts. His administrative positions include program coordinator, director, and associate division head. He has worked as a consultant to technical corporations to develop their in-house training programs. Page 11.183.2

Conference Session

New Developments in ECE

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Saharnaz Baghdadchi, University of California, San Diego; Zoe Nemerever, University of California San Diego; Paul Andreas Hadjipieris, University of California, San Diego; Sheena Ghanbari Serslev; Carolyn L. Sandoval, University of California, San Diego

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

- fornia, San Diego. She earned a PhD in Adult Education-Human Resource Development. Her research interests include adult learning and development, faculty development, qualitative methods of inquiry, and social justice education. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Creating Environments for Critical Thinking in Electrical and Computer Engineering EducationAbstractFostering critical thinking is an important part of any course design in Engineering education. Itneeds deliberate attention, and the implemented interventions must be routinely monitored andassessed. The need for analysis skills is prominent in a wide range of lower division and upperdivision

Conference Session

Pre-Service Development Initiatives

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Daniel Tillman, The University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP)

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

enrollment. Students were informedthat participation did not affect their final course grades. The intervention groupcontained 28 participants total, and the comparison group contained 14 participants.Students enrolled in Section A and Section B sections participated in the intervention,and devoted approximately approximately 45 minutes each week to developing and usingdigital fabrication as a strategy for teaching elementary students content from the Page 23.517.4curriculum, with an emphasis upon science. Students in Section C participated as the  comparison group, and received a general curriculum that did not use digital fabricationactivities (and for

Conference Session

Laboratory Developments and Innovations

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Voigt; Robert Ives; Jesko Hagee

Session 2354information technology integration in today’s military systems. 1 This survey, part of acurriculum review, entitled “Curriculum 21,” was the primary reason for instituting a secondcourse and was an input into the process that defined the make-up of that course. The results ofthat study are reported in more detail along with the initial response to that study in the form of anew course.2 The Academic Dean’s desire was to look at how we could get this material into oneof the required courses in the technical core that all non-engineering students must take.II. Technical Core Improvement GroupIn the year 2000, the Academic Dean formed a committee, the Technical Core ImprovementGroup (TCIG), to examine the entire technical core. This

Conference Session

Developing the Design Skillset

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Daria A. Kotys-Schwartz, University of Colorado, Boulder; Shanna R. Daly, University of Michigan; Seda McKIlligan, Iowa State University; Daniel Knight, University of Colorado, Boulder; Madeline Polmear

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

Pawlas, G (2010, June 20-23). First-Year and Capstone Design Projects: Is the Bookend Curriculum Approach Effective for Skill Gain? Paper presented at the American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference (ASEE), Louisville, Kentucky.[31] Muci-Kuchler, K., Weaver, J., Dolan D. (2008). Teaching Concept Generation in Product Development Courses and Senior Design Projects. Paper presented at the American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference (ASEE), Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.[32] Pearl, J. (1984). Heuristics: Intelligent search strategies for computer problem solving. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley Pub. Co., Inc.[33] Daly, S. R., Yilmaz, S., Seifert, C. M., & Gonzalez, R. (2010, June 20

Conference Session

ECE Laboratory Development & Innovations

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jay Adams; Faramarz Mossayebi

almost every consumer electronic gadgets.Thus, one can argue that the field of DSP is now a mainstream field within the ElectricalEngineering discipline, and thus, it can be argued that all undergraduate electricalengineering students should be exposed to this field to gain a solid understanding of thefundamental issues. Currently our curriculum lacks this exposure. The only DSP course that we offeris not a required course and is tailored to senior/graduate level students. In order toalleviate this shortcoming a set of simple yet interesting and challenging experimentshave been developed for the junior level laboratory course, Intermediate Laboratory,which is a required one-semester hour laboratory course in our department. Theexperiments

Conference Session

Instrument Design and Development

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Euan Lindsay, Aalborg University; Mohammad Naser Sabet Jahromi, Visual Analysis of People Laboratory (VAP), Aalborg University

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods Division (ERM)

are potentially feasible in anoperational context, and the potential for significant overall reductions in the human markingload for this assignment.Keywords: Automated Grading, Natural Language Processing, ReflectionIntroductionAalborg University is well known for its Problem Based Learning (PBL) curriculum, with allenrolled students undertaking a semester long project course in every semester of their study.In this learning environment it is critically important that all students develop strong skills inPBL. To this end all first semester bachelor students enroll in a course on PBL skilldevelopment.A key summative assessment task for this course is an assignment where students presentreflections on their development of the competencies

Conference Session

Professional Development in Materials Engineering

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Katie Cadwell, University of Wisconsin - Madison; Wendy Crone, University of Wisconsin - Madison

Tagged Divisions

Materials

develop undergraduate-level training materials associatedwith the context of research. Topics covered include the scientific method, ethics in research,documentation and treatment of research data, publication practices, presentation of results, thestructure of the broader research community, the graduate school application process, effectivepresentations, and abstract writing. The “learning objects” (videos, readings, case studies, anddiscussion activities) we created have been used to introduce undergraduates to the conduct ofscience and engineering research. These resources have been tested in formal classroom andseminar venues, through an “Introduction to Engineering Research” course in our EngineeringPhysics bachelor’s degree program and a

Conference Session

Professional Development Programs for Teachers

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Julie Trenor, University of Houston; Jennifer Ruchhoeft, University of Houston; Frank Claydon, Unviersity of Houston; Stuart Long, University of Houston

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

sine and cosine waves, are used to create virtual electromagneticwaves that transmit digital voice signals from phone to phone through the air. Teachers maychoose to incorporate the Infinity Project™ kit they were given as part of the program into theirregular lesson plans. Alternatively, by securing funding for additional kits, their school canestablish a separate course using the Infinity Project™ curriculum in its entirety.In addition to research and Infinity Project™ training, teachers participate in periodicprofessional development seminars. At the end of the program, teachers are given a $100 giftcertificate to the Engineering Education Service Center web-store to purchase engineering-related materials for their classroom

Conference Session

Installation, Integration, and Development

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Herbert L. Hess, University of Idaho, Moscow; Saied Hemati, University of Idaho, Moscow

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Energy Conversion and Conservation

developed as an open global standard to address the uniqueneeds of low-cost, low-power wireless M2M networks. The ZigBee standard operates on theIEEE 802.15.4 physical radio specification and operates in unlicensed bands including 2.4 GHz,900 MHz and 868 MHz.4The microcontroller is the same one that regulates energy collection in both the photovoltaic andthe piezoelectric energy harvesting circuitry. From its analog inputs, it converts the voltagesensor signals from each analog voltage sensor (as described already) into a digital signal fortransmission by the Zigbee Transmitter.A Zigbee Receiver receives the data and sends the data to another Atmega 328 microcontrollerfor recording and display.3,4 A system block diagram is shown in Figure 5

Conference Session

Understanding Student Development in Design

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Andrew Joseph Bechtel, The College of New Jersey; Karen Chang Yan, The College of New Jersey

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

: Student Outcomes, and General Criterion 5: Curriculum [Online]. Availablehttp://www.abet.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Proposed-Revisions-to-EAC-Criteria-3-and-5.pdf[2] ABET. “Criteria for Accrediting Engineering Programs [Online]. Availablehttp://www.abet.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/E001-16-17-EAC-Criteria-10-20-15.pdf[3] Lozano, Rodrigo. "Diffusion of sustainable development in universities’ curricula: anempirical example from Cardiff University." Journal of Cleaner Production 18.7 (2010): 637-644.[4] Watson, Mary Katherine, et al. "Assessing curricula contribution to sustainability moreholistically: Experiences from the integration of curricula assessment and students' perceptions atthe Georgia Institute of Technology." Journal of Cleaner

Conference Session

Design & Development Projects and Practices

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jahangir Ansari, Virginia State University

Tagged Divisions

Manufacturing

University develop their skills for thevarious elements of the design process throughout the curriculum, culminating in their seniordesign project I and II courses during their senior year.The program offers at least six core courses in which engineering design is included. Thesecourses are: Engineering Graphics, CAD/CAM, Manufacturing Automation, Simulation, QualityControl, and Manufacturing Design Implementation. These six major courses and some othercourses distributed throughout the curriculum include elements of design that adequately definean integrated design experience for the students in the program. During their senior year,students also may gain additional design experience in their chosen ENGR/MANE electivecourses such as Special Topics

Conference Session

Robotics, Automation, and Product Development

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Scott A Kuhl, Michigan Technological University; Aleksandr Sergeyev, Michigan Technological University; James Walker, Michigan Technological University; Shashank Barkur Lakshmikanth, Michigan Technological University; Mark Highum, Bay de Noc Community College; Nasser Alaraje, Michigan Technological University; Ruimin zhang, Michigan Technological University; Mark Bradley Kinney, Bay de Noc Community College

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

Sergeyev is currently an Associate Professor in the Electrical Engineering Technology program in the School of Technology at Michigan Technological University. Dr. Aleksandr Sergeyev earned his bachelor degree in Electrical Engineering at Moscow University of Electronics and Automation in 1995. He obtained the Master degree in Physics from Michigan Technological University in 2004 and the PhD degree in Electrical Engineering from Michigan Technological University in 2007. Dr. Aleksandr Sergeyev’s research interests include high energy laser propagation through the turbulent atmosphere, developing advanced control algorithms for wavefront sensing and mitigating effects of the turbulent atmosphere, digital inline

Conference Session

Design Tools and Skill Development

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

William H. Guilford, University of Virginia

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

found that course evaluations were improved, thatstudents better connect learning to skills, and that students appreciated the opportunity to developa uniform skill set by the end of the semester. This is in contrast to a project-based class whereskills development was not uniform between or within teams, and students did not connectlearning to skills development. We further assessed this pedagogical approach by measuring thepsychological construct engineering design self-efficacy at the beginning and end of thesemester, since there are prior reports of gains in the confidence of students in their fabricationskills as a result of immersive design-build projects [10], [11]. We found that students’ belief intheir abilities improved significantly

Conference Session

Faculty Development: Tenure & Promotion

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Andrew Rose, University of Pittsburgh-Johnstown

Tagged Divisions

New Engineering Educators

2006-1826: CAREER OPTIONS IN ENGINEERING EDUCATIONAndrew Rose, University of Pittsburgh-Johnstown ANDREW T. ROSE is an Associate Professor of Civil Engineering Technology at the University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown (UPJ). Before joining the faculty at UPJ, he was a Staff Engineer with GAI Consultants in Pittsburgh. He holds a BS and MS in Civil Engineering from the University of Connecticut and Ph.D. from Virginia Tech. His teaching interests include soil mechanics, foundation design, structural steel design, structural analysis, and incorporating practical design experience into the undergraduate civil engineering technology curriculum. His research interests include soil behavior and

Conference Session

Newly Developed Engineering Courses

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Thomas Dobrowski, Purdue University-North Central

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

thedegree program. It makes more sense to group these types of courses within departments withparallel plans of study and common goals. It would therefore be logical that engineering andengineering technology colleges develop their own entry level freshmen courses to beadministered by in house faculty, with faculty of other departments coming as needed.Areas of concentration could include the importance and application of courses not directly in thedepartment (physics, math), communication (written and oral), ethics (both professionally), andcheating.IntroductionOver the past two years, this campus has been embroiled in a debate on offering a GeneralEducation (commonly referred to as “Gen Ed”) component to the curriculum. The intent is toexpose all

Conference Session

Course Development and Services

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Gregory Mokodean; Xiannong Meng; Maurice Aburdene

computer networks • Students learn how to develop network applications using a programming language • Students understand general architecture of computer networks and how layered protocols of computer networks work • Students are able to identify and explain current topics in computer networks, such as security and quality of service, among others Page 9.206.5 “Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2004, American Society for Engineering Education”While some course descriptions give more detailed goals or outcomes, most stated

Conference Session

Laboratory and Research Skill Development

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

George Prpich, University of Virginia; Natasha Smith, University of Virginia; Caroline Elizabeth Crockett, University of Virginia; Anukriti Shrestha, University of Virginia

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering Division (ChED)

Paper ID #44201Building Better Engineers: Teaching Chemical Engineers to Troubleshoot inthe LaboratoryDr. George Prpich, University of Virginia Dr. Prpich is an Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering at the University of Virginia. His primary pedagogical interests include professional skills development and laboratory safety training and culture. He has a B.Sc. from the University of Saskatchewan and a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from Queen’s University. Beyond his pedagogical research, Dr. Prpich has expertise in bioprocess engineering, environmental engineering, and environmental risk management. Outside academia