Conference Session

Project-based Learning and Other Pedagogical Innovations

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Huanmei Wu, IUPUI

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

multidisciplinary projects.Bibliography1. R Miller and B Olds, A Model Curriculum for a Capstone Course in Multidisciplinary Engineering Design,Journal of Engineering Education, vol. 83, no. 4, pp. 311—316, 1994.2. Paul W. Holley and Christian Dagg, Development of Expanded Multidisciplinary Collaborative ExperiencesAcross Construction and Design Curricula, International Journal of Construction Education and Research, 1550-3984, Volume 2, Issue 2, August 2006, Pages 91 – 1113. Dutson, A. J., et al. "A Review of Literature on Teaching Engineering Design Through Project-OrientedCapstone Courses," Journal of Engineering Education, vol. 86, no. 1, 1997, pp. 17--28.4. Todd, R. H., et al. "A Survey of Capstone Engineering Courses in North America," Journal of

Conference Session

Projects,Teams & Cooperative Learning

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Samuel Daniels; Bouzid Aliane; Jean Nocito-Gobel; Michael Collura

courses withexposure to content in areas such as mechanics, electrical phenomena and programminglogic. In addition the course contributes significantly to the development of timemanagement, teamwork, and oral and written communication skills. Page 9.1025.1Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition Copyright ©2004 American Society for Engineering EducationIntr oductionTeaching and learning may be enriched by integrating new technologies in theengineering curriculum, particularly in laboratory-based courses. Traditional pedagogicalapproaches of teaching theory before

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Christine Delahanty, Bucks County Community College; Vladimir Genis, Drexel University; Susan Herring; Tracy Timby, Bucks County Community College

thegrowing need for a diverse, capable workforce (See Figure 1). The ET major is now more cross-curricular within the technical electives, requires a business focused writing course, and anintroduction to entrepreneurship. Cross curricular technical electives include mechanical,electrical, chemical, biotechnology, biology, nanotechnology (through Penn State University),computer, environmental, and brewery concentrations. Table 1 highlights notable changes to thecurricula. ENGR112, Engineering Design, was recently added to our general educationcurriculum as an Arts/Humanities elective, which allowed for an additional elective course.Enhancement to ENGR112 is discussed within grant goal #2.Figure 1. Comparison of old and new ET majors. Bucks is a

Conference Session

Energy, the Environment, and Nano Technology

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Julanne K. McCulley, Weber State University; Dustin Scott Birch, Weber State University; Megumi Usui Leatherbury, Weber State University; Kelly A. Harward, Weber State University

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

proposed proprietary process involvingthermo-forming and blow-molding. Also, she designed other tables and chairs in both plastic and metalconfigurations using ProE (Wildfire 2.0). For Back to Basics Products, Inc. (Focus Electrics/West Bend),she was a Principal Engineer/Product Manager, Product Development, Bluffdale, Utah, Dec. 2003-Aug.2005. She designed blenders, smoothie makers, food processors, toasters, and cocoa and coffee machinesusing SolidWorks and Pro/E. She was recently listed as one of the inventors on several patent applicationsand awarded a patent for the Slushie Maker. She designed and implemented a number of engineeringmanagement projects including a part naming convention, an engineering file management system, anda product data

Conference Session

Integrating Systems Engineering into the Capstone Project

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Fred J. Looft, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering, Systems Engineering

Paper ID #15385Systems Engineering and Capstone ProjectsDr. Fred J. Looft, Worcester Polytechnic Institute Prof. Looft earned his B..S, M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering at the University of Michi- gan. After a brief period on industry, he joined the faculty of WPI 1n 1980 where he is now a professor in the ECE department and a founder of, and Academic Head of the Systems Engineering program. His interests include projects based education, curriculum development, international study abroad programs and mentoring, and autonomous robotic systems.. c American Society for Engineering

Collection

2004 ASEE North Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Deepti Suri; Eric Durant

Teaching Requirements through Interdisciplinary Projects Deepti Suri, Eric Durant Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Milwaukee School of Engineering 1025 North Broadway Milwaukee, WI 53202-3109 {suri, durant}@msoe.edu AbstractRequirements Engineering (RE) is the process of determining, analyzing, documenting,validating, and maintaining the services and constraints of the systems that need to be designed.Because of the high importance of RE in the design of software systems, the need to exposestudents to

Conference Session

Energy Conversion and Conservation Division Technical Session 4

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Reg Pecen, Sam Houston State University; Faruk Yildiz, Sam Houston State University

Tagged Divisions

Energy Conversion and Conservation

consortium that includestwelve universities, seventeen industry partners, and two national labs in order to enhancecurriculum development and education in the study of electrical power and distributed energyresources [13]. Belu et al. suggested methods to revitalize a power engineering program with anenhanced major and a new minor program development, while promoting new concepts of smartgrids, energy management, and renewable energy systems with support from local and regionalindustry [14]. Powell and Hayt developed a low-voltage microgrid for experiments in renewableenergy distribution that exposed undergraduate engineering students to power generation, grid,and distributed related topics early in a power curriculum that enhanced the

Conference Session

Design Methodolgy

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Hugh Jack, Grand Valley State University

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

terms the method can bedescribed as “Group students on teams with similar challenges, and everybody will benefit”.IntroductionThe engineering program at Grand Valley State University has a strong industrial focus. In sup-port of our mission, projects have always been used extensively throughout the curriculum. Theproject process begins in the freshman year using formalized project management experiences forthe students, and management procedures for the faculty. The typical sequence for a project isgiven below2. 1. Team formation 2. Needs identification 3. Conceptual designs 4. A detailed design proposal 5. Approval Page 12.62.2

Conference Session

Investigating Instructional Strategies

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Harold R. Underwood, Messiah College

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

Paper ID #18886Formalizing Experiential Learning Requirements in an Existing Interdisci-plinary Engineering CurriculumDr. Harold R. Underwood, Messiah College Dr. Underwood received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign (UIUC) in 1989, and has been a faculty member of the engineering Department at Messiah College since 1992. Besides teaching Circuits, Electromagnetics, and Communications Systems, he su- pervises engineering students in the Communications Technology Group on credited work in the Inte- grated Projects Curriculum (IPC) of the Engineering Department, and those who

Collection

2012 Northeast Section Meeting

Authors

Keith M. Gardiner

projects solving problems unlikeanything encountered in the classroom. These factors highlight the importance of, and necessity for non-disciplinespecific Project-Based Learning to afford realistic and fully professional cross-disciplinary problem solvingexperiences. INTRODUCTION TO ENGINEERING PRACTICEThere became a point a decade or so ago that a student desiring to study engineering at Lehigh could be compelledto fill the first two semesters with courses not taught within the College of Engineering. There was an elective‘Engineering Project,’ but this was only readily accessible to students entering with Advance Placement (AP)credits. Another ‘gap’ in the curriculum also implied that it was possible for a student to

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Marilyn Barger, National Science Foundation ATE Centers (FLATE); Richard Gilbert, University of South Florida; Mori Toosi

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Engineer in Florida.Dr. Richard Gilbert, University of South Florida Richard Gilbert is a Professor of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering at the University of South Florida’s College of Engineering . Richard is the Co-PI for the grant that supports the NSF designated Center of Excellence for Advanced Technological Education in Florida, FLATE. FLATE, now in its 10 year of op- eration, addresses curriculum, professional development, and outreach issues to support the creation of Florida’s technical workforce. Richard has over 30 years of experience working with the K-14 education community. Other funded efforts include projects for the NIH and the US Department of Education. The latter was for the development of an

Conference Session

Teaching Tools: Problem Solving and Hands-On Teaching (NEE)

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Craig Altmann, Virginia Military Institute; Jon-Michael Hardin, Virginia Military Institute

Tagged Divisions

New Engineering Educators Division (NEE)

presented. In addition, a discussion of the results is presented coupled withthe post survey results from the students. Lastly, lessons learning from the projects along withrecommended future improvements are presented.IntroductionWith advances in technology and a heavier use of computers in industrial settings, it has beenobserved that programming is a necessary skill for all engineering majors to develop. Inaddition, to knowing the basic programming skills it is imperative that students graduate with theability to utilize programming tools to solve complex engineering problems.In the mechanical engineering curriculum, dynamics is a critical course that all students musttake and it focuses on the analysis of objects in motion when acted upon by

Conference Session

Innovative Curriculum & non-Technical Skills

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Austin Asgill, Southern Polytechnic State University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

(ECET) 7 3 3 4 BMET Elective* 8 3 3 4 BMET Capstone Project/Internship* 8 3 3 4 *Indicates added Biomedical ET course Table 2. EET courses vs. proposed BMET courses. EET BMET Biological Principles I (3) Principles of Chemistry I (3) Introduction to Biomedical ET (3) Survey of Electric Machines (3) *Health Care Safety (3) Signal and Systems Analysis (4) Probability and Statistics I (3) Differential Equations (3

Collection

2024 CIEC

Authors

Darrell Nickolson

ETD 315 Partnering with Industrial Advisory Board to Create Zero Energy Curriculum Certificate Darrell D. Nickolson Indiana University Purdue University IndianapolisAbstractThis paper describes the Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) Departmentof Engineering and Technology’s multidisciplinary program’s development of a Zero EnergyCertificate program that maximizes its active Industrial Advisory Board (IAB) expertise.Combining our programs community engage project approach along with a highly active IAB, weare developing a

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship, Design, and PBL

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Ken Ports

Senior Design Project Commercialization and Entrepreneurship Ken Ports, Carmo D’Cruz, Muzaffar Shaikh, Carolyn Fausnaugh Florida Institute of TechnologyAbstractThis paper describes the development and growth of an innovative new program that is asynergistic combination of Florida Tech’s technology commercialization-related course offeringsin Engineering Management, its Senior Design course curriculum, and its new businessaccelerator, Florida TechStart. The program is designed for the subset of senior design coursestudents who desire to leverage their design course experience by commercializing theirinnovative products and technologies and creating start-up companies.Florida Tech’s

Conference Session

Engineering Technology Division (ETD) Technical Session 9

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Salih Sarp, Old Dominion University; Murat Kuzlu, Old Dominion University; Otilia Popescu, Old Dominion University; Vukica M. Jovanovic, Old Dominion University; Zafer Acar

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology Division (ETD)

engineeringproblems. This paper will discuss introducing a new data science curriculum in an EngineeringTechnology (ET) program with a focus on Electrical Engineering Technology (EET)program.IntroductionA typical data science curriculum covers various topics such as data processing, featureengineering, regression, classification, and natural language processing. However, it does notcover concepts related to data acquisition and processing from the standpoint of technology andhardware. In the last decades, data-driven models have significantly affected almost everyindustry. There are various courses across different programs and curricula in the nation thatfocus on introducing data science topics. However, a complete Engineering Technology (ET)curriculum that

Conference Session

Interdisciplinary Education

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Seth Bates; Patricia Backer

budget andtime constraints. Another multidisciplinary curriculum project, IME Inc, developed by Simpsonet al20 targeted juniors in industrial engineering, electrical engineering, and mechanicalengineering. IME Inc featured a two-semester sequence that covered product design andmanufacturing process design and production.A product-oriented manufacturing curriculum (Liou et al4, 5) was developed and tested at theUniversity of Missouri-Rolla (UMR) and St. Louis Community College at Florissant Valley(FV) with students from UMR’s two BS programs and one MS degree in manufacturing and themanufacturing engineering and technology programs at FV. In this curriculum, interdisciplinaryteams with students from various technology and engineering disciplines

Conference Session

Design Pedagogy

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Elissa T. Morris, Texas A&M University; Daniel A. McAdams, Texas A&M University

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

., Engineering education: designing an adaptive system. 1995: National Academies Press.3. Dym, C.L., et al., Engineering design : a project-based introduction. 3rd ed. 2009, Hoboken, N.J.: John Wiley & Sons. xxi, 327 p.4. Dutson, A.J., et al., A Review of Literature on Teaching Engineering Design Through Project ‐Oriented Capstone Courses. Journal of Engineering Education, 1997. 86(1): p. 17-28.5. Wilczynski, V. and S.M. Douglas, Integrating design across the engineering curriculum: A report from the trenches. Journal of Engineering Education, 1995. 84(3): p. 235-240.6. Kartam, N.A., Integrating Design into a Civil Engineering Education. International Journal of Engineering Education, 1998. 14(2): p. 130-135.7. Dym

Conference Session

Teaching Design

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Douglas Sterrett; Richard Helgeson; Robert LeMaster

design project. Lovas1 developed workshops that focused on integrating design intothe engineering curriculum. Fronczak and Webster2 and Thompkins3 describe a sequence of sixdesign courses that biomedical engineering students start taking during their first semestersophomore year and finish in their last semester senior year. This design course sequence isintended to provide the students a sustained opportunity to develop their creativity and judgment.Sheppard and Gallois4 describe a “design spine” of eight design courses that run through all eightsemesters of a student’s education. The goal of these eight courses is to achieve greaterintegration of design with the science and engineering science courses. Brousseau, etal5,describes a similar

Conference Session

Accreditation and Related Issues in ECE

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Hue Van Tran; Steven Reyer; James Friauf; Owe Petersen; Katherine Wikoff

Session 2004-2532 Evaluating the Communication Component of an Engineering Curriculum: A Case Study Katherine Wikoff, James Friauf, Hue Tran, Steven Reyer, Owe Petersen Milwaukee School of EngineeringAbstractThis paper describes the evaluation process and findings for teaching and learning ofcommunication skills in the Electrical Engineering Program of the Milwaukee School ofEngineering (MSOE). While the teaching of both written and oral communication skills arefostered in a wide variety of courses, only writing can be claimed to be substantially integratedinto the curriculum. A

Conference Session

Environmental Engineering Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alexa N. Rihana Abdallah, University of Detroit Mercy; Mark Schumack, University of Detroit Mercy

Tagged Divisions

Environmental Engineering

concepts. Miller (2004) reportedthat a slightly higher proportion of U.S. adults qualify as scientifically literate as compared toadults in Europe and Japan, and he attributed this to the fact that the U.S. is the only major nationthat requires general education science courses for liberal arts students. Hobson (2003)suggested that a scientific literacy course for a nontechnical audience should have four elements:a focus on concept rather than calculation, an “interactive, inquiry-oriented” teaching strategy, aninclusion of scientific findings that define a modern scientific world view, and presentation ofmaterial that is socially relevant. Zografakis et al. (2008) described a project showing thepositive effectiveness of “energy-thrift” education

Conference Session

Reaching Out to the Community

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Wayne Groff; Paul Greger; Kim Groff; Joseph Orlins

solutions to local and state engineering issues.These goals are similar to those used in other community-based projects for undergraduate civilengineering students (Padmanabhan and Katti, 2002).A Student-Centered Project: Student involvement in the new hydrologic analysis began in FallSemester of 2001as part of the upper level Engineering Clinic. The engineering curriculum atRowan University contains a core of Engineering Clinic classes (Clinics), which cross overdisciplinary boundaries and span the entire four-year undergraduate education. The origins ofthe Clinic program at Rowan have been described previously [Schmalzel, et al., 1998]. Thecontent and nature of the Clinics vary over the four-year curriculum, as shown in Table 1

Collection

2013 North Midwest Section Meeting

Authors

Cory J. Prust; Stephen M. Williams

. Bibliography 1. Petersen, O., Reyer, S., and Williams, S., “Addressing The Future: Development of an Electrical Engineering Curriculum,” Proc. 2005 ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, June 2005. 2. Born, R., “A Capstone Design Experience for Electrical Engineers,” IEEE Trans on Education, vol. 35, no. 3, Aug. 1992, pp. 240-242. 3. https://faculty-web.msoe.edu/prust/EESeniorDesign/ , MSOE web page, last accessed July 16, 2013. 4. Farr, J., et. al, “Using A Systematic Engineering Design Process to Conduct Undergraduate Engineering

Conference Session

Best Practices in Industrial Technology

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Austin Asgill, Southern Polytechnic State University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

* 5 3 0 3 High Frequency Systems 6 3 3 4 Embedded PCs 6 3 3 4 Biomedical Instrumentation* 7 3 3 4 BMET Elective (ECET) 7 3 3 4 BMET Elective* 8 3 3 4 BMET Capstone Project/Internship* 8 3 3 4The curriculum adds five new technical courses to a core of ECET, mathematics, English,science, and social science courses. The program is structured within the 130 credit-hour limitset by

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bonnie Ferri, Georgia Tech; Jill Auerbach, Georgia Institute of Technology; Joel Jackson, Georgia Tech; Jennifer Michaels, Georgia Institute of Technology; Douglas Williams, Georgia Tech

. This particular project is an update of the project described in [Heck, et al, 2004] using the LEGO Mindstorm kit. A PIC-based platform for motor control and frequency response was also developed that is a variation on the module described in [Durfee, 2005]. The new version is smaller than the original experiment and is powered from the computer USB connection rather than requiring an AC adapter. The PIC platform is cheaper than the LEGO platform and is more transparent to students in terms of parts, but is more fragile. Gain = 3 120 100

Conference Session

Construction Engineering Division Technical Session 4

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Chengyi Zhang P.E., University of Wyoming; David Arditi, Illinois Institute of Technology; Peng Liu

Tagged Divisions

Construction Engineering

. Understand the legal implications of contract, common, and regulatory law to manage a construction project. 18. Understand the basic principles of sustainable construction. 19. Understand the basic principles of structural behavior. 20. Understand the basic principles of mechanical, electrical, and piping systems.Since laser scanning technology was not considered a measurable SLO by ACCE explicitly,most construction engineering programs do not focus on teaching laser scanning applications.Students have only few opportunities to access and take advantage of this new technology.Affordable 3D laser scanners and software can improve the construction education in fivemajor areas : (1) accelerating three-dimensional learning on building and

Conference Session

Teaching Design

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rashmi Jain, Stevens Institute of Technology; Anithashree Chandrasekaran, Stevens Institute of Technology; Bernard Gallois, Stevens Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

acquisition ofknowledge (in the humanities, management, the sciences...) and analytical techniques and skillsin engineering, usually within a specific discipline or domain (e.g. mechanical, electrical, etc...).The rigorous application of such skills and knowledge to engineering elements is usually calledpartial design, and is often exemplified in some senior capstone design projects. But in today’sworld, industry is concerned with total design: the integration of numerous technical and non-technical disciplines toward the development of new products, systems and services. In thisregard, a misdirected engineering rigor, overtly focused on a discipline, will always give rise tosub-optimal total design. Furthermore, and this is a major factor when

Conference Session

Energy Conversion and Conservation Division Technical Session 5

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Reg Pecen, Sam Houston State University; Faruk Yildiz, Sam Houston State University; Ulan Dakeev, Texas A&M University, Kingsville

Tagged Divisions

Energy Conversion and Conservation

, trigonometry and analytic geometry, and finally CalculusI enhance learning objectives in this renewable energy class. In addition, a laboratory manual fromFESTO-Didactic provides detailed review information on related fundamentals before thelaboratory activities.This curriculum update serves as a major and minor class for multiple degree concentrations suchas Electronics and Computer Engineering Technology (ECET), construction management, safetymanagement, and engineering design and development in the department of engineeringtechnology. The university’s recent strong partnership with a major energy services company alsomakes electrical power and renewable energy curriculum central to the University and College’sstrategic planning that will produce

Conference Session

IS and IT Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Sandra Gorka; Reza Kamali; Jacob Miller; Han Reichgelt; Eydie Lawson; Barry Lunt; Joseph Ekstrom

representatives from 15 undergraduate informationtechnology (IT) programs from colleges/universities across the country gathered together inAspen Grove, Utah, to develop a community and begin to establish academic standards for thisrapidly growing discipline. The first Conference on Information Technology Curriculum (CITC-1) was also attended by representatives from two professional societies, the Association forComputing Machine (ACM) and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc.(IEEE), and also the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology, Inc. (ABET). This Page 9.370.1invitational conference was the culmination of an

Conference Session

Assessment in BME Education

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

John Gassert

based on the knowledge and skills acquired in earliercourse work and incorporating engineering standards and realistic constraints that include mostof the following considerations: economic; environmental; sustainability; manufacturability;ethical; health and safety; social; and political.”1 The goals that were defined for the program and the constraints that were placed on theprogram by ABET begged the question; How/When Should Design Be Taught? Dutson, et. al.,reviewed over 100 papers that described the design curriculum at universities across the country.Although Dutson reported inclusion of design aspects in various curricula as early as thefreshman year, without exception, the capstone design courses were begun in the senior year