Conference Session

Chemical Engineering Division Poster Session

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Matthew W Liberatore, University of Toledo

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

paper textbooks, interactive alternatives are starting tobecome available in engineering. Interactivity, which creates learning by doing situations, is afeature of many electronic resources. For example, interactive web-based content led tostatistically significant learning gains compared to static web-based content [8, 10]. In addition,students have also shown preference for the diverse set of resources on the Internet compared to asingle, text-heavy textbook [15, 20].When methods use interactive components, these methods should be considered active learning,which defines the set of techniques that continue to show in single studies and meta-analyses thatstudents learn more through doing [12, 21-23]. In addition to the benefits of active

Conference Session

New Trends in Engineering Management Education

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Zbigniew Pasek, University of Windsor

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Management

AC 2008-1466: IT'S ALL THERE: TEACHING COMPLEX MANAGEMENTCONTENT USING FEATURE FILMSZbigniew Pasek, University of Windsor Zbigniew J. Pasek is an Associate Professor in the Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering Department at the University of Windsor. His interests include industrial automation, informal engineering education and engineering applications in health care. Page 13.820.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2008 It’s All There: Teaching Complex Management Content Using Feature FilmsAbstractWe all learn in a number of different ways and the

Conference Session

Mechanical Engineering Poster Session

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Yaomin Dong, Kettering University; Jacqueline El-Sayed, Kettering University

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

expensive to pay more than one professors to teach one class. It would be difficult for all parties involved if the professors weren’t compatible, and faculty should never be forced into something like team teaching. Class projects will be more “on the fly” instead of thoroughly prefabricated.The Need to Team up with Industrial ExpertsKettering University offers one of the largest co-operative educational programs in theUnited States. Our students rotate their academic and work terms every three months.They conduct research through their co-op projects leading to graduation thesis. It isvery important to bring the real life projects and industrial experts to the classroom inorder to stimulate the students' skills of creative

Collection

1996 Annual Conference

Authors

John H. Damell

grants, maintain a list of grantingagencies, and/or list grants given by the university. Another excellent resource is the university library whereone can find various information services which provide details about grants or contracts from the federal, state,and local governments, business and industry, intrauniversity funds, and other sources. Also, the Internet andcomputer services such as e-mail provide information on available grants from many sources. To helpprospective grant writers write a successful proposal, numerous workshops and guides are available and can be 2located either in the library or through computer sources.Writimz A Successful Prot)osal A successful grant

Collection

1996 Annual Conference

Authors

John H. Damell

grants, maintain a list of grantingagencies, and/or list grants given by the university. Another excellent resource is the university library whereone can find various information services which provide details about grants or contracts from the federal, state,and local governments, business and industry, intrauniversity funds, and other sources. Also, the Internet andcomputer services such as e-mail provide information on available grants from many sources. To helpprospective grant writers write a successful proposal, numerous workshops and guides are available and can be 2located either in the library or through computer sources.Writimz A Successful Prot)osal A successful grant

Conference Session

The Best of the Computers in Education

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

J.w. Bruce, Mississippi State University; Ryan A. Taylor, Mississippi State University

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education

- chronous circuit synthesis. In the past he has served as a graduate research assistant at Mississippi State University as well as the instructor of record of multiple courses at both UA and MSU. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 Using Information Gap Learning Techniques in Embedded Systems Design EducationIntroduction Commercial market trends tend to trickle into engineering program curricula. In thecomputing systems marketplace, customers are demanding ever more complex features ascomputing systems become more capable and affordable. Today, engineering educators arefeeling the pressure to provide more realistic, comprehensive, and complex lab

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Autar Kaw, University of South Florida; Renee M. Clark, University of Pittsburgh; Eleonora Emma Delgado, University of South Florida; Nicholas Abate, University of South Florida

Tagged Topics

Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

implementing and assessing them at multiple universities to obtain a diverse studentpopulation. A proposal for this was submitted to the National Science Foundation in December2018 with the goal and hope of continuing this needed research in the area of adaptive learningin the university STEM classroom. Two journals papers [13-14], one in print, and anothersubmitted for review provide extensive details of what is summarized in this paper.AcknowledgmentThis material is based upon work supported partially by the National Science Foundation underGrant Number 1609637, and the Research for Undergraduates Program in the College ofEngineering at University of South Florida (USF). Any opinions, findings, and conclusions orrecommendations expressed in this

Conference Session

Circuits & Systems Education I

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Fred W. DePiero, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; K. Clay McKell, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Bridget Benson, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

the circuit in its most simplified equivalent version,for example having a voltage source and single equivalent resistance. CATE randomlypicks a source current and total resistance that are integer-valued, resulting in an integer-valued source voltage. This and subsequent steps overwrite original component values.Step by step CATE then reverses the process of circuit simplification. As series andparallel reductions are each undone, component values are selected that maintain integervalued components and currents. If components become less than one, then allcomponents are scaled up in value. (For parallel resistors, a separate program wasdeveloped that predetermined a number of cases having integer-valued combinations ofresistors.) As

Conference Session

Academic Standards and Academic Issues

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Mysore Narayanan

subject matter in question. Atthe lecture meeting, a one-page handout was distributed wherein the ideas andformulae pertaining to filter design were reinforced. The instructor then solved asample problem and this was immediately followed by an in-class exercise. Thisincluded a graphical plot of filter characteristics, such as a ‘Bode Plot.’ Later,the students were asked to surf the Internet to find out a website that providedexhaustive details regarding different filter designs. For the homework thestudents were required to solve additional problem sets, utilize software such asMATLAB, write research reports about the various scientists, compare the meritsand disadvantages of different designs, indicate real world applications, etc

Conference Session

Teaching Innovations in Architectural Engineering

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Wafeek Wahby

visualization skills of on-campus undergraduate students. (2)Microsoft PowerPoint software capabilities can be utilized to create simple but effective,animated, multi-media, graphical presentations that enhance students’ visualization skillsand give them the know-how to hand-solve a variety of projection problems, geometricshapes drawings, and architectural engineering concepts, in an easy and affordable way.RationaleSince their infancy, this generation of on-campus undergraduate students grew up withdifferent forms of multimedia ranging from toys to video games, electronic gadgets,computers, Internet, radio, television, video, CD/DVD, and a long list of appliances.Reaching out to students “in their own language” naturally calls for the use of multi

Conference Session

Engineering Technology Poster Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Mukasa Ssemakula

comfortable with the new technology. To help accomplishthis, Wayne State University makes creation of distance education courses voluntary. Eachdepartment decides what courses or sections of courses it would like to offer via distancelearning. Incentives for faculty to participate are also left to the department to decide. Theuniversity offers training programs to help interested faculty understand the basic mechanics ofpreparing and delivering a distance-learning course.To get myself ready for delivering distance courses, I participated in a two-day workshop forWSU faculty that was taught by Virginia Ostendorf 5,6. This workshop orients instructors to thedemands of the video classroom. The prospective instructor gains familiarity with the layout

Conference Session

Faculty Set the Preliminary Standards for Co-ops

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Daryl Caswell, University of Calgary; Sarah Lockwood, University of Calgary; Jane Leung, University of Calgary

Tagged Divisions

Cooperative & Experiential Education

impacts of their work as professional engineers. The design challenges arestructured to take advantage of the large class size through project management trainingand multi-faceted project outcomes.The Capstone project for the 2009/2010 academic year is a collaboration with TheMustardSeed (hereafter MS), a non-profit outreach group that runs shelters, food andclothing banks and education and retraining programs for the homeless. The partnershipis aimed at assisting the MS’s educational division with GED studies and life skills. Asmany of the clients of the MS have difficulties with focus and with understanding andrelating to material, the students’ challenge will be to use their engineering knowledge todevelop physical or computer-based aids

Conference Session

Trends in Engineering Economy

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

John Ristroph

to be very difficultto implement. Professors who have developed such systems [1, 2, 3] understand the benefits tostudents, but the development time can be prohibitive. This paper describes an Excel-based sys-tem named Coach that uses Visual Basic for Applications to provide a single platform for bothimplementing and conducting interactive learning sessions.There are two levels to the design of such a system. The first consideration is how the final endproduct will appear to students, and the second dimension is to provide an effective developmen-tal environment for professors. The next section shows the system from a student’s viewpointusing a fairly basic example. Then the following section explains a professor’s implementation,and provides

Conference Session

Assessing with Technology

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Andrew J. Wiesner; Jonathan P. Mathews; Sarma Pisupati

apply question types) that runsfor 25 minutes. Access to the examination is restricted to computers in the room. Accessis controlled by the Internet Protocol (IP) address. Exam security is enhanced bypreventing printing via a JavaScript code. Secure windows prevent saving the browserpage. The right-click mouse button is also disabled to prevent copying and pastingcontent. When the time limit expires (based on when the student accessed the exam) theexam is automatically submitted. Teaching assistants and the instructor grade the writtenportion of the exam with one person grading all the submissions for a specific question,to ensure consistency.ResultsLow-Stakes (Quizzes)In a class of 333 students (spring 2004), 854 submissions were made to one

Conference Session

BME Courses

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Yu Song; Niranjan Chakravarthy; Leon Iasemidis; Andreas Spanias

embedded in the ASU J-DSP visual programming environment. We have developedJava-DSP modules to present basic concepts about nucleotide character sequences. Specific J-DSP functions to analyze DNA sequences include: Numerical Mapping, FFT Power Spectrum,and Amino Acid Sequencing. Using the Numerical Mapping function, nucleotide sequences canbe transformed into the numerical domain through binary, complex or integer number mappings.The FFT Power Spectrum block is used to compute the power spectrum of mapped sequences,and further classify them as belonging to either protein coding or non-coding regions. The aboveJ-DSP blocks can also be integrated to form an internet visualization tool to identify genes inunannotated DNA sequences. A typical scenario

Conference Session

Interactive Technology in the Classroom

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Susan Kowalski; Luke Campagnola; Frank Kowalski

questions that probe misconceptions andcomprehension, reinforce main concepts and problem-solving strategies, and encourage higher-level thinking skills. This feedback, particularly written responses, increases studentmetacognition and guides the instructor in addressing student misconceptions.IntroductionThe pedagogical potential for interactive teaching techniques has increased dramatically with theadvent of new technologies1. This progress can be divided into two main categories. One iscontent enhancement, such as the development of applets which allow students to utilize thepower of computers to manipulate different variables and thereby visualize otherwise difficultconcepts. The wealth of free applets available on the Internet continues to

Conference Session

Trends in ME Education Poster Session

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

M. Grant Norton; Charles Pezeshki

Session 1566 Preparing Undergraduate Mechanical Engineering Students for the Global Marketplace—New Demands and Requirements Charles Pezeshki, Russell T. Frame, and Brian Humann School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering Washington State University Pullman, WA 99164-2920AbstractWith the maturity of such technologies as the Internet, advanced design and analysissoftware, and database management software, more and more companies are shifting to aProduct Lifecycle Management (PLM) software base in which engineering activities arenow located in cyberspace, as

Conference Session

Current Issues in Aerospace Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Oktay Baysal; Mehti Koklu; Ahmed Noor

number of additional facilities for automating all routinetasks and satisfying the user preferences. Each course within the network is divided into self-contained learning modules. These self-contained learning modules provide flexibility and interdisciplinary curricula. Advancedinstructional technology, modeling, simulation and visualization facilities and authoring tools areused in the development of the modules. The learning modules are then packaged intodisciplinary and interdisciplinary courses and training programs to satisfy the needs of diversegroups. In the individual learning environment, the learner navigates through the large database ofcourse modules with the help of concept maps. Concept maps are tools for organizing

Conference Session

New Electrical ET Course Development

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Aaron Gold; Walter Banzhaf

Session 2548 The Evolution of an EET Program’s Introductory Course in Electricity/Electronics Walter Banzhaf, Aaron Gold Ward College of Technology, University of HartfordIntroductionA new course (EL 110) was developed in 1999 for first-semester students entering our four-yearbaccalaureate programs in electronic and audio engineering technology. In recent years we hadnoticed that very few of our entering students had experience with technical aspects of electricityand electronics, and we realized that students found the traditional first-semester DC

Conference Session

What's New in Engineering Economy

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Ted Eschenbach; Mike Loose; John Whittaker

exogenously defined financial measures. Our intent is toexamine a broader group of firms on an industry by industry basis to better delineate these Page 8.279.1limitations. This paper examines a single industry, steel fabricators and extends our analysis over Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition  2003, American Society for Engineering Educationtime. Then, emboldened by our observations we advance some tentative conclusions of theveracity and applicability of the measures.Background ReviewTexts in finance and engineering economy suggest numerous techniques for

Conference Session

Special Session Celebrating the 10th Anniversary of the MATE International ROV Competition

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Thomas R. Consi, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee

Tagged Divisions

Ocean and Marine

phaseduring which more experienced students recruit and train new students who will carry on theteam as the older students graduate, and 3) the dissolution phase when pipeline of new studentsdries-up and team becomes reduced to a dysfunctional level. These three phases will be used toorganize the following discussion of student and team dynamics and the evolving role of theadvisor.ROV team formationThe start-up phase is the founding of the team. Here the advisor must play a very active role inrecruiting students. The overall goal is to develop a cadre of dedicated students who will takeover as the active leaders of the team. There are two primary areas that the advisor needs toaddress: 1) introducing the concept of ROVs, their applications and the

Conference Session

Innovative Learning, Comparative Learning Analysis, and Lessons Learned

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Quamrul H. Mazumder, University of Michigan, Flint; Md. Rezaul Karim

Tagged Divisions

International

. Hamrin, JR., E. Jacquelin Dietz, “ A Longitudinal Study of Engineering Student Performance and Retention.III. Gender Differences in Student Performance and Attitudes,” Journal of engineering education; April 1995, pp. 151-163.4. P.A Rosati, “Comparison of learning preferences in and Engineering Program,” Frontiers in education conference, 1996, vo1, pp.1441-1444.5. R. Felder and J. Spurlin, “Applications, Reliability, and Validity of Index of Learning Styles,” International Journal of Engineering education, 2005, pp. 103-111.6. Paul Andrew Watters and Sarah Boslaugh, “Statistics in a Nutshell: A Desktop Quick Reference,”O'Reilly 2008.07.25.7. Richard M Felder; Rebecca Brent, “Understanding Student Differences

Conference Session

Design Tools and Methodology II

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Richard Cozzens, Southern Utah University

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

Greatly improved Yes Surfing/Skimming Not included in Site dependent. Yes phase ITable 1: Comparison between Phase I, Phase II and Phase III*(Artino and Stephens (2009) stated “ To succeed in autonomous online learningenvironments, it helps to be a highly motivated, self-regulated learner.”) Page 25.1502.43. Methodology3.1 The ProcessThis information was obtained using action research. Action Research is a specific variationof Evaluation Research. McMillan and Schumacher state (2001) ”Evaluation Researchfocuses on a particular practice at a given site(s). The practice may be a program, a product,or a

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

James Wade; Virginia Elkins; Roy Eckart; Catherine Rafter; Eugene Rutz

didnot have a significant influence on the grades. The small sample size resulted in an inability todetect the role that LSI learning styles may have on student performance in a specific technologyclass.I. IntroductionMany colleges and universities are using the new instructional technologies, such as streamingvideo, the internet (web) and interactive video, to deliver educational material to students. Thesenew technologies are very impressive and portend the future direction of higher education.Although the technologies are becoming widely used, no one has measured their effect onstudent learning. No one has measured how different learning styles and personality types affecthow students respond to the new technologies. This project

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Charles Nippert

the startup,total reflux operation, production of product, through shutdown. The control scheme isincluded so that users can operate and tune controllers. In spite of numeroussimplifications, the model preserves the essential features for a real time simulation. Theentire applet is only approximately 70K and is used for Internet based laboratoryinstruction. This paper focuses on the derivation of the model. A more completediscussion of the results will be presented at some other time.BackgroundA process simulation of a binary batch distillation column was desired for a portion of theon line Virtual Chemical Engineering Laboratory (VCEL) being developed at WidenerUniversity1. The model was to be used to acquaint students with the operation of

Collection

1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael D. Ciletti

need for pointtools serving the pedagogical needs of individual courses within an overall curriculum. Thispaper identifies key features that can be used to compare software tools for the introductorycircuits courses, and then describes features of a new software tool for students and faculty inthe undergraduate circuits course sequence. I. BackgroundCircuits courses provide a foundation for undergraduate electrical engineering education, and areoften taken by other engineering majors to satisfy curriculum requirements. In many accrediteddegree programs one or two courses cover, as a minimum, the fundamentals of Ohm’s Law,Kirchhoff’s Laws, time-domain (transient) analysis, power, sinusoidal steady-state

Conference Session

Innovation in Design Education

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Robin Adams; Jennifer Turns

and analyzing the citations data.ReferencesAccreditation Board for Engineering and Technology [ABET] (1998). Engineering Criteria 2000: Criteria for accrediting programs in engineering in the United States (2nd edition ed.). Baltimore: Engineering Accreditation Commission, Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology.Clement, J. (1993). Using bridging analogies and anchoring intuitions to deal with students’ preconceptions in physics. Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 30, 1241-1257.Frisby, C. L. (1998). "Formal Communication Within School Psychology: A 1990-1994 Citation Analysis." School of Psychology Review 27(2): 304-316.Garfield, E. (1972). "Citation Analysis as a Tool in Journal Evaluation." Science 178(4060

Conference Session

Innovations in Teaching Mechanics

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Hall; Nancy Hubing; David Oglesby; Vikas Yellamraju; Ralph Flori; Timothy Philpot

. Philpot, T. A., “MDSolids: Software to Bridge the Gap Between Lectures and Homework in Mechanics of Materials”, International Journal of Engineering Education, Vol. 16, No. 5, 2000. 4. Hubing, N., Oglesby, D.B., “Animating Statics: Flash in the Classroom”, American Society for Engineering Education Midwest Section Conference, Manhattan, Kansas, March 2001. 5. Gramoll, K. and Sun, Q., “Internet-Based Distributed Collaborative Environment for Engineering Education and Design”, Proceedings of the ASEE Annual Conference, Albuquerque, NM, June 2001. 6. Jong, I-C. and Muyshondt, A., “Interactive Web-Based Tests with Immediate Auto-Feedback via E-mail to the Instructor: Software and Illustration”, Proceedings of the ASEE Annual

Conference Session

Materials and Mechanical Engineering

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Sanjeev Khanna

Civil Transport (HSCT) vehicle, theinternational space station, or the future automobiles. All of these applications involve joining(welding) of a host of dissimilar or similar materials.It may be noted that though knowledge of welding engineering and design of welded structuresis central to the optimum and reliable fabrication of a large number of critical structures, to thebest of my knowledge, almost all the mechanical engineering curriculums in the country do noteven remotely address this issue. The proposed course will bridge different aspects ofmechanics, materials science, metallurgy, manufacturing, and design. It will train the students tothink critically in designing welded structures and in other design situations, and will

Conference Session

Potpourri

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lea Marie Eaton, Stanford University; Sheri D. Sheppard, Stanford University; Helen L. Chen, Stanford University

Tagged Divisions

New Engineering Educators

. From 1999-2008 she served as a Senior Scholar at the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, leading the Foundation’s engineering study (as reported in Educating Engineers: Designing for the Future of the Field). In addition, in 2003 Dr. Sheppard was named co-principal investigator on a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant to form the Center for the Advancement of Engineering Education (CAEE), along with faculty at the University of Washington, Colorado School of Mines, and Howard University. More recently (2011) she was named as co-PI of a national NSF innovation center (Epicenter), and leads an NSF program at Stanford on summer research experiences for high school teachers. Her industry experiences