Collection

2011 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Frank M. Croft

that is verychallenging for the students, but also very rewarding. In the first course, Engr H191, students learnthe fundamentals of graphics through sketching and use of Autodesk Inventor, a GeometricModeling Program. They are introduced to hands-on labs and are required to do extensive labreport writing. There is a project in which two person teams design and build a cardboardmechanism (a bridge for a 16” span, or a Christmas ornament shipping carton). There is acompetition involving loading the mechanisms until they break and bonus points are awarded to thewinners. The second course, Engr H192, involves C and C++ programming. It also involvesadditional labs that require the students to do extensive lab reports. Another design project is

Conference Session

Innovations in Materials Education

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jacquelyn E. Kelly, Arizona State University; Stephen J. Krause, Arizona State University; Dale R. Baker, Arizona State University

Tagged Divisions

Materials

’ mental models would be incredibly challenging. Even when language isused, without a clear understanding of the student’s fluency in that academic language, it isdifficult to determine the validity of the mental model. This makes it imperative to understandhow students use academic language in the context of engineering design and applications. Page 25.1444.2Language as Foundation and MeaningMatthiessen, Slade, and Macken2 describe the challenge of assessing student writing. They reportthat, it is difficult to assess student writing because reliable objective frameworks often onlyassess the student’s written product, but subjective frameworks

Collection

1999 Annual Conference

Authors

George Stephanopoulos; Alan S. Foss

with which the physicsand phenomena of the process are identified and engineering science concepts placed into a modelstructure simply by declaration. Such declarations are made through use of our new software thatassembles the phenomena declared, builds the equations, and solves the equations numerically. Thesoftware is novel and unique; ModelLA is its name. With a functioning model, students can examineits characteristics and use such quantitative information to solve the engineering problem posed. Following such an encounter with the cause and effect among variables, students are muchbetter prepared than they were at the outset to write equations for the model. Through Q and A in aworkshop session, the instructor leads the students

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Jian-ren Li; Ahmad Zagari

components andwas interfaced to take full control of a stepper motor’s motion. In addition, the microprocessor’sapplication to generate and measure waveforms was examined. This manuscript attempts todescribe the basic architecture of a microcontroller system, and examine its interfacingtechniques as well as its applications in providing communication to the outside world.I. INTRODUCTIONThe knowledge of computers and their applications has become a fundamental technical skillsrequired of electronics engineering technology students. In order to provide students with anopportunity to develop microprocessor application skills, this course is focused on teachingprogramming and application of Motorola 68HC11-A8 microprocessor. Although students whohave

Collection

2011 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Lawrence Whitman; Karen Reynolds; Zulma Toro-Ramos

, “well-rounded Renaissance Engineer”[s] [3]. Turns, Atman, et al., [4] use thesereports as an input to what an engineer needs to know. Dym, et al. present how engineeringeducation is being challenged to require students to consider additional design constraintsrequired as part of “new fundamentals” [5]. In response to this challenge, the CoE at WSU is aleader in reshaping the undergraduate experience to prepare the engineer of 2020, and at thesame time make the educational experience more meaningful to the student and the student moredesirable to local and national industries. As such, the CoE requires that for an Engineering BSdegree at WSU, each student will complete the program course requirements and at least three ofthe following six

Collection

1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Karlesk; Hugh Jack

) devices to explore the equipment. At present studentscan simulate programs on the virtual robot. When the student is satisfied that a program isfunctional, he/she can download it to the real robot, and monitor the robot with a video link.Students are also able to read and write to a data acquisition card to read/write analog datavalues. The hardware architecture of the laboratory uses a number of networked computersrunning Linux and Windows NT. Software has been written in C/C++ as well as Java to interfacewith equipment and web clients. VRML (Virtual Reality Markup Language) has been used fordisplaying the geometry of the devices.1. INTRODUCTION: As part of a newly created manufacturing emphasis, we have added a number of coursesand

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Deborah Hwang; Anthony Richardson; Dick Blandford

section for electricalengineers, a section for computer engineers, and a section for computer science majors. Duringthe first four weeks of the class each section is taught concepts which are fundamental to theirmajor and which are essential to solving a problem involving an autonomous LEGO vehicle. Forexample, the electrical engineers are taught about sensors, amplifiers, and electronics. Thecomputer science majors are taught the rudiments of programming in C, and the computerengineers are taught micro-controller fundamentals. During the last ten weeks of the semester-long class, teams are formed that have at least one person from each major. Each team memberis assigned a unique responsibility on the team. The objective is to construct an

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in BIO Engr.

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Larry McIntire; Ka-yiu San; Ann Saterbak

willbe crucial to turning our knowledge into effective treatment strategies at the tissue, organ andwhole individual levels. Because of its tradition of applying the fundamentals of physics andmathematics to the understanding and control of biological systems, biomedical engineering isespecially well positioned to advance cellular and molecular-based medicine and technology. Toaccomplish this, the Bioengineering Department at Rice University is developing a curriculumthat educates students in cellular and molecular processes and their control.In this talk, we will describe the structure of a bioengineering undergraduate program at RiceUniversity begun in 1998. We will present the development of a series of new courses for thecell and molecular

Conference Session

Faculty Development and Research in ET

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Denton, Purdue University; Nancy Denton, Purdue University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

continued as a member of the inaugural certification question writing and exam review team. I wrote 25 questions for the exam. I then joined a question review team, where my team reviewed, edited and verified nearly a two hundred certification questions and answers for consistency, grammar, geographical/cultural bias, pertinence, accuracy, and industrial use. The WCET certification examination was first offered in Fall 2008, with its second examination for Spring 2009. The WCET certification is intended to be ISO certified as it passes the requirements for this standard6.MotivationEngineering technology graduates cannot be assured of access to professional engineeringlicensure but are eligible to sit for various certifications

Conference Session

Unique Laboratory Experiments & Programs

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

John Krupczak

18 distinct phases.The control unit can uniquely determine the next phase from the current phase. Although thissystem supports only the most basic CPU functionality and lacks many features found in modernCPUs (such as multiple addressing modes, variable-length instructions, and exception handling),it can be effectively used to illustrate a variety of fundamental computing concepts. Among theseare the fetch-decode-execute cycle, sequential execution, conditional and unconditionalbranching, and iteration.1 IntroductionThe quality of education in science and technology for all undergraduates is becoming an area ofincreasing concern [1]. In the United States, the National Science Foundation is requesting thatScience, Math, Technology and

Conference Session

Assessment & Quality Assurance in engr edu

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Sean Clancey; Anton Pintar; Jason Keith

thesucceeding six years. Three of the tools, the department skills test and the senior exit surveys andinterviews, were implemented for the first time in 1999. This paper will discuss the results of ourassessments, focusing on 1999-2001, and how the department is using those results to improveinstruction.The eight tools of the MTU Chemical Engineering Assessment Program are the following: skills test,analysis of design reports, senior exit interview, alumni survey, writing portfolio, oral presentationskills, safety program, and performance on fundamentals of engineering exam.Tool #1–Skills TestTool #1 in the department’s assessment plan is “department designed skills test to be given to thestudents in the Spring Quarter in the Unit Operations

Collection

2014 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

Richard Steven Colon; Prabir Patra; Khaled Elleithy

Proceedings of 2014 Zone 1 Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE Zone 1) Random Word Retrieval for Automatic Story Generation Richard S. Colon, Sr., Prabir K. Patra, and Khaled M. Elleithy If we consider the activity of creating literature, can a Abstract— Over the past forty years, significant research has computational system write a story such that a reader wouldbeen done on story/narrative generation in which the computer is not know the story was computer generated? Can the storiesthe author. Many existing systems generate stories

Conference Session

DEED Poster Session

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Will Cluett; Peter Weiss; Kim Woodhouse; David Bagley; Susan McCahan

part,through a seminar style approach. Overall, the resulting course is a departure from a typicaldesign course.Course OutlineThe course plan can be roughly broken down into four parts. The major material introduced ineach part is as follows: Part 1. Introduction to design, team skills, professional writing, and reverse engineering Part 2. Human, social, and environmental issues in the design process; Introduction to oral communication, and critical reading Part 3. Project management and project planning Page 9.1171.1 Part 4. Major design project“Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for

Collection

1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard R. Schultz

filters. However, practicalaspects of DSP can be taught to students at the sophomore level, since only a minimal proficiency inmathematics is required to understand concepts such as analog-to-digital (A/D) and digital-to-analog(D/A) conversion, sampling, and data analysis. “Computer Aided Measurement and Control” has beentaught to electrical engineering sophomores at the University of North Dakota during the past severalyears. This course has evolved as a means of not only introducing students to the C++ and LabVIEWprogramming languages, but also as a practical introduction to DSP fundamentals. Students begin thecourse by learning programming skills, writing simple Microsoft Visual C++ programs which performlinear circuit simulation, random

Conference Session

Promoting Communication Skills

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Kathryn A. Neeley, University of Virginia; Judith Shaul Norback, Georgia Institute of Technology; Charlie Bennett, Georgia Institute of Technology; Benjamin J. Laugelli, University of Virginia

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

-defined theoretical framework, forexample, “Vygotsky’s theory of scaffolding” and “zone of proximal development (ZPD),”[which is] “the learning zone between what students can do by themselves and what cannot beachieved without the explicit support of an instructor.” The authors also make interestingdistinctions such as writing as metacognition, writing as disciplinary meaning-making, andwriting as technical communication. All of these strategies both strengthen the researchpresented and increase the potential impact of the methods and findings reported in the paper.Conclusions: what does our analysis demonstrate or suggest and what should we do?Perhaps the most significant finding emerging from the research and analysis presented here isthat

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

writing. o Create a course structure that is clear and predictable to help students manage their remote work. • Set reasonable expectations for the instructors: o Select learning activities that can be done in the short preparation time and leverage the instructional team’s expertise.These priorities reflected the effect of the pandemic on both the students and the instructionalteam.The instructional team opted to reuse prior laboratory modules to ensure that each unit was well-planned. These modules already had lab manuals that provided background information,experimental procedures, and grading expectations. Data for these experiments was availablefrom past course offerings, and the

Conference Session

Environmental Engineering Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Craig Woolard, Montana State University - Bozeman; Catherine Kirkland, Montana State University - Bozeman; Kathryn Plymesser, Montana State University - Bozeman; Adrienne Phillips, Montana State University - Bozeman; Susan Gallagher, Montana State University - Bozeman; Michelle Miley; Kristen Intemann, Montana State University - Bozeman; Ellen Lauchnor, Montana State University - Bozeman; William Schell, Montana State University - Bozeman

Engineering Education for Modern Society grant, funded by the NSF Revolutionizing Engineering Departments program.Michelle Miley (Writing Center Director, Assistant Professor of English) Associate Dean - College of Letters and Science, Associate Professor - English, Writing Center DirectorKristen Intemann (Professor )Ellen Lauchnor (Associate Professor) © American Society for Engineering Education, 2022 Powered by www.slayte.comDeveloping an Integrated Environmental Engineering CurriculumAbstractMany of the National Academy of Engineering’s grand challenges are related to environmentalengineering. There is broad recognition that these challenges will require environmentalengineers to integrate

Conference Session

Think Outside the Box! K-12 Engineering Curriculum

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Heath Tims, Louisiana Tech University; Krystal Corbett, Louisiana Tech University; Galen Turner, Louisiana Tech University; David Hall, Louisiana Tech University

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

physics/pre-engineeringcurriculum.NASA-Threads integrates fundamental science and mathematics courses taught with engineeringapplications and the appropriate use of technology into a physics/pre-engineering curriculumtargeting the junior/senior year of high school. The threads of this curriculum includeFundamentals, Technology, Communication, and NASA Applications. The fundamentals, whichare grouped into blocks of similar topics, provide the backbone of the educational experience.NASA applications are strategically introduced to provide timely, hands-on reinforcement offundamentals, and the progressive development of technical knowledge and skills.The rigorous curriculum is designed to guide students through a systems-level understanding ofreal

Collection

1996 Annual Conference

Authors

Joseph J. Strano

Jersey Institute of Technology (N. J. I. T.) an ongoing process of integrating design into thefreshman program has continued. The first step of this process was the development of a required one- “semester course, namely Fundamentals of Engineering Design (FED-101). This paper discusses the elec- ‘ This project is related to the Gateway Engineering Education Coalition, (NSF Award EEC-9444246), which is Page 1.166.1 supported in part by the Engineering Education and Centers Division of the National Science Foundation. $iiii’ ) 1996 ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings

Conference Session

Student Learning Techniques & Practices in Engineering Technology

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

B. Sridhara, Middle Tennessee State University; Joseph Prince, Middle Tennessee State University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

Engineering Problems with Objects of Simple Geometry and Relatively Complex Mathematical FormulationAbstract: There are several interesting engineering problems related to objects of simple geometrythat involve relatively complex mathematics. We consider three different problems in the area ofMechanics. These problems are discussed in our undergraduate classes without getting into themathematical details. In the ET 1840 - Engineering Fundamentals class we discuss the“brachistochrone” (path of shortest time) which is a cycloid. This is the trajectory of a point on adisk that rolls without slipping along a straight line. The equation involves the radial distance,and sine and cosine functions. This

Conference Session

Improving Laboratory Education in Chemical Engineering

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joshua A Enszer, University of Maryland, Baltimore County

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

statistical analysis of their data andconsideration of relevant theory. The course is structured in such a way that students mustdetermine which statistical techniques are appropriate for processing their experimental data. Thecourse is also designed to meet the Writing Intensive requirements of our university, through acombination of individual lab reports, reflections on their ability to write in a technical context,and brief essays on engineering ethics and laboratory safety.Specific course logistics, including the sequence of activities, learning objectives, andconnections to student outcomes in junior- and senior-level courses, are considered here. Directassessment of student performance against specific learning objectives from the past three

Collection

1997 Annual Conference

Authors

John A. Orr; David Cyganski; Richard Vaz

on substantial interviews with faculty and students from acrossa broad spectrum of disciplines, including economics, English, history, chemistry, management,and biotechnology. This paper reports on the use of the World-Wide Web for preparation ofcourse materials, and on lessons learned to date in developing and offering the new type ofelectrical engineering service course.IntroductionOpportunities for fundamental changes in many professions have arisen due to new modes forinformation creation, storage, transmission, retrieval, management, and display. However,familiarity with the use of the technologies central to this revolution is often limited to a smallpopulation of individuals with a deep (and rather narrow) education in electrical

Conference Session

Teaching Problem Solving in a Multidisciplinary Context

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Katherine Hennessey Wikoff, Milwaukee School of Engineering; Cynthia Wise Barnicki, Milwaukee School of Engineering

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

Dieter in Engineering Design writes [2]: Probably the most critical step in the design process is the definition of the problem. The true problem is not always what it seems at first glance. Because this step requires such a small part of the total time to create the final design, its importance is often overlooked.Engineering students, especially first-year students, often overlook the importance of trulyunderstanding the actual problem that needs to be solved. Cursory attention to problemdefinition is even more likely if students are already familiar with the problem or it seemsstraightforward to them upon their initial examination. Yet, as this paper will show, moving pastthe problem-definition stage prematurely can have

Conference Session

Civil Engineering Division - Innovative Changes to the Typical Civil Engineering Coursework.

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jacob Henschen, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign; Arthur Schmidt, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign; Jeffery Roesler, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign; Jordan Ouellet, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign

deadlines Professional skills 4 Process and present data Data and computation 5 Communicate through written and oral Writing and communication presentations 6 Work as a team to complete a feasibility study Professional skills and Design thinkingObjective 1A critical objective for the course is to orient the students to the department and introduce thevarious areas of civil engineering, which was the primary objective of the prior introductorycourse. Civil and environmental engineering is a broad discipline with distinct sub-disciplines.Due to this breadth, our program allows students to take a broad or narrow set of courses in thesub

Collection

2024 ASEE North Central Section Conference

Authors

Mary M McCall M.A., University of Detroit Mercy; Nassif E Rayess, University of Detroit Mercy

Paper ID #44620Developing Teamwork Skills Across the Mechanical Engineering CurriculumMs. Mary M McCall M.A., University of Detroit Mercy I taught Technical Writing and Business Communication at the university and community college level for more than 30 years before retiring in May 2023. My current focus at Detroit Mercy continues to be the Embedded Technical Writing Program for Mechanical Engineering, now in its seventh year.Dr. Nassif E Rayess, University of Detroit Mercy Nassif Rayess is Professor and Chair of Mechanical Engineering at University of Detroit Mercy. He was part of the efforts to introduce entrepreneurially

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Douglas H. Baxter

capabilities of today's solid modeling packages, solid modelingexamples can be used to enhance the students' abilities to grasp fundamental engineering conceptsin their studies. The effective use of solid modeling for design and documentation of parts andassemblies is well established. In this paper, uses for solid modeling outside of traditional graph-ics courses are examined. It is shown how solid modeling can be used to visualize concepts taughtin undergraduate studies; including vector properties, differentiation as applied to shape optimiza-tion problems, and simple structural optimization. While the focus of this paper will be on devel-oping visualization skills at the freshman and sophomore levels, it will can seen how solidmodeling can be

Conference Session

Engineering Physics and Physics Division Technical Session 3

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Yumin Zhang, Southeast Missouri State University; David K. Probst P.E., Southeast Missouri State University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Physics and Physics

traditionalhomework in engineering education occurred [1-4], but the overwhelming majority ofengineering faculty members believe that homework is an indispensable component in thecourses they teach. As an analogy, students majoring in English need to write many essays forpractice, and they cannot master the skill of writing just by learning various writing skills andreading novels. In the same way, engineering students cannot grasp the necessary knowledge andskills without the struggling process in solving homework problems [5].Almost all the publishers of the textbooks provide the solution manuals to the instructors, andunfortunately, these materials are leaked to students through the internet. Some websites eveninvite students to provide quiz and exam

Conference Session

Instrumentation and Laboratory Systems

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Alex See

design was to allow students to write codes in LabVIEWTM software for data acquisition, signal measurements and perform some fundamental Digital Signal Processing (DSP), namely the FFT (Fast Fourier Transform). This paper reports that LabVIEWTM software may be employed as a useful tool for practical teaching and learning some DSP fundamentals to engineering undergraduates. A National Instruments PCI (Personal Computer Interface) 6036 E series DAQ (Data AcQuisition) device and a Connector terminal Block, CB 68LP were provided to the students for this work. This paper illustrates the gain of knowledge by the students who had worked on this project. Students had appreciated the DAQ functions to perform data acquisition, measurements and basic

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

William Guilford

American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Page 6.81.1 Copyright  2001, American Society for Engineering EducationWe present an outline for a course in Cell and Molecular Biology for Engineers in which humanpathologies are used as a clinical, problem-based context for teaching basic biologicalmechanisms. To further emphasize the interface between engineering and the biomedical sciences,students write “review articles” covering the application of engineering to a particular problem incell biology and engage in the process of peer review. A representative curriculum is providedwhich

Conference Session

First-Year Programs: Professional Skill Development

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David Alan Degenhardt, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Brian S. Woodard, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

improve technical writing skills. Instructor feedback and peer review are used to provideadditional benefits to students. These assignments culminate in a final written report for theglider design project. These changes will be discussed in Section 2.3, and an analysis of thebenefits they provided is in Section 3.2.Survey data for over 200 students taking the course in 2016, 2017, and 2018 has been collectedand analyzed for this paper. These surveys are taken at the start and end of the class to providespecific feedback for the course each semester it is taught, allowing a year-by-year analysis ofthe effectiveness of the course. Final reports from the modified and unmodified sections of thecourse have been compared, which allowed the researchers