Conference Session

Energy Education Courses, Labs, and Projects

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Teodora Rutar Shuman, Seattle University; Gregory Mason P.E., Seattle University

Tagged Divisions

Energy Conversion and Conservation

American Society for Engineering Education, 2012 Novel Approach to Conducting Labs in an Introduction to Thermodynamics CourseAbstractThis paper describes an easily implementable new approach to thermodynamics laboratoryinstruction that directly addresses ABET Criterion b) an ability to design and conductexperiments, as well as to analyze and interpret data. In a traditional lab, students conductpreconfigured experiments based on established procedures. They then gather, analyze andinterpret data, and write reports. However, little is done to train engineering graduates to designexperiments for a specific purpose and without a prescribed procedure. However, engineeringprofessionals are frequently tasked with

Conference Session

Experimentation and Laboratory-Oriented Studies Division Technical Session 1: Experiential Learning in Fluids, Structures, and Course/Lab Design

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Farhad Reza, Minnesota State University, Mankato

motion is developed for a simple mass on aspring. The first fundamental frequency of a cantilever beam with a concentrated mass at the endis provided as a reference.Three aluminum cross-sections having approximately equal masses are used as cantilever beams.Three-axis accelerometers are mounted at the free ends of the cantilever and connected to a dataacquisition system. Students provide a simple excitation to the beams and data is collected.Students are given the raw acceleration vs time data. They must then perform fast Fourier Proceedings of the 2022 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2022, American Society for Engineering Educationtransform analysis to

Conference Session

Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and Digital Systems Education 2

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Fernando Garcia Gonzalez, Florida Gulf Coast University; Janusz Zalewski, Florida Gulf Coast University; Gerardo Javier Pinzon P.E., Texas A&M International University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 An Educational Tool to Support Introductory Robotics Courses With the rising popularity of robotics in our modern world there is an increase in the numberof engineering programs that do not have the resources to purchase expensive dedicated robotsbut find a need to offer a basic course in robotics. This common introductory robotics coursegenerally covers the fundamental theory of robotics including robot kinematics, dynamics,differential movements, trajectory planning and basic computer vision algorithms commonlyused in the field of robotics. The nature of this material almost necessitates the use of robotichardware to allow the students to practice implementing the theory they

Conference Session

Thermodynamics, Fluids, and Heat Transfer I

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Natasha Smith P.E., University of Southern Indiana; Brandon S. Field, University of Southern Indiana

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

Thermodynamics CourseAbstractFundamentals courses play an instrumental role in developing undergraduate students into skilledproblem solvers. As such, these courses bear the responsibility of (1) instilling discipline in prob-lem solving and (2) familiarizing students with central concepts of engineering. The two goals areinextricably linked. Success in problem solving is contingent upon understanding a remarkablyfew fundamental principles. Upon first introduction to new concepts, however, students usuallylack the experience to understand how foundational those principles really are. In fact they can beadept at compartmentalizing information at the expense of building up a foundation of knowledge.While this tactic may present a hope for short term

Conference Session

New Trends in ECE Education I

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

J. Craig Prather, Auburn University; Haley Kay Harrell, Auburn University; Lesley Erin Bartlett, Auburn University; Stuart M. Wentworth, Auburn University

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

assistant in the department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Auburn University. She received a bachelor of electrical engineering degree in December 2015 and is currently pursuing a master of science in electrical engineering. Her research interests include electromagnetics and microelectronics.Dr. Lesley Erin Bartlett, Auburn University Lesley Erin Bartlett is Assistant Director of University Writing for the ePortfolio Project at Auburn Uni- versity, where she works with faculty and students from across disciplines. She completed her PhD in Composition and Rhetoric with a graduate specialization in Women’s and Gender Studies at the Univer- sity of Nebraska-Lincoln in 2014. She has developed and taught courses

Conference Session

Successful Outcomes of Student Entrepreneurship

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Timothy Faley, University f Michigan; Peter Adriaens, University of Michigan

Tagged Divisions

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

: Growing the business; • Phase VI: Exiting your business -- from succession planning to IPOs.Our current emphasis in the joint curriculum development is to focus on the early phases, wherethe complementary skills of both the engineers and the business students are crucial. In Phase I,for example, opportunity identification takes two forms: 1. Finding an optimal marketopportunity for a given technology and 2. Identifying an emerging market opportunity anddetermining what technology may be necessary to exploit it. Two new courses have been createdand taught to focus on each of these issues: Driving the Innovation Process, and EntrepreneurialBusiness Fundamentals for Scientists and Engineers. These courses complement previouslyexisting

Conference Session

Improving Mechanics of Materials

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Ing-Chang Jong

physics usually intheir freshman year. In mechanics, a body receives work from a force or a moment that acts on itif it undergoes a displacement in the direction of the force or moment, respectively, during theaction. It is the force or moment, rather than the body, which does work. In teaching and learningthe virtual work method, it is well to refresh the following fundamental concepts: Work of a forceThe work U1→ 2 done by a force F on a body moving from position A1 along a path C to positionA2 is defined by a line integral. It is given by 1-4, 6-7 A2 U1→2 = ∫ F⋅ dr (1

Conference Session

First-year Programs Division Technical Session 16: That Important Decision - Which Engineering Major?

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

M. Jean Mohammadi-Aragh, Mississippi State University; James Warnock, Mississippi State University; Amy Barton, Mississippi State University; Rani Warsi Sullivan, Mississippi State University; Bill B Elmore, Mississippi State University; Jane Nicholson Moorhead, Mississippi State University

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

and professional development.Mrs. Amy Barton, Mississippi State University Amy Barton (M.A. in English from Mississippi State University) is an instructor in the Technical Commu- nication Program in MSU’s Bagley College of Engineering. She teaches Technical Writing, a junior-level writing course required of all undergraduate engineering students. She has also taught high school En- glish, Freshman Composition, and Introduction to Literature. Through this varied teaching experience, she has learned to tailor instructional techniques to meet the needs of different types of learners. She focuses on implementing writing-to-learn strategies in engineering courses to keep students engaged and improve critical thinking

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Vincent Wilczynski

Session 3226 A Virtual Instrumentation Based Engineering Experimentation Course Vincent Wilczynski United States Coast Guard AcademyAbstractThe modern engineering experimentation course must not only cover experimental techniques,transducers, signal processing, and data analysis, but must also include fundamental concepts incomputer based data acquisition. Though this list of topics is large and each topic could be thesubject of an entire course, a single course introducing all of this material has been developedin the Mechanical Engineering major at the U. S. Coast Guard Academy (USCGA). In

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

David Silverstein

currently receive in FORTRAN programming while minimizing time spent in what isarguably the most time consuming task in simple programming projects, designing input andoutput.The premise behind the method is that students tend to spend significant amounts of timedeveloping code to handle basic operations in an application, things like reading formatted datafrom a file, writing console input routines, and then presenting output in a readable form, either toa data file, a printer, or to the console. That data often must then be imported into a graphingpackage to be useful. These tasks have little to do with developing skills in designing engineeringmodels, or in implementing the numerical methods required for the solution, or in understandingthe

Conference Session

Outstanding Contributions: Mechanical Engineering Education

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bobby G. Crawford, U.S. Military Academy; Daisie D. Boettner, U.S. Military Academy

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

. Page 22.917.2Description of the Thermal-Fluid Systems CoursesThe lesson content of both 40-lesson courses is shown in Table 1. A review of the first course inthe sequence (ME 311) shows content in the areas of the fundamental properties, the ideal gasequation of state, hydrostatics, conservation principles, cycle analysis, the 2nd Law ofThermodynamics, the Rankine cycle, internal flow, vapor compression refrigeration cycles, andtotal air conditioning. This clearly represents a thorough mix of fluid mechanics andthermodynamics topics that have been traditionally taught in separate courses. The second course(ME312) continues this practice, including exergy, reciprocating internal combustion enginecycles (Otto and Diesel cycles), combustion

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Cecelia Wigal

systems definition—and the relationship systemsthinking has with the problem solving process are discussed. In addition, specific tools andmodels used in systems analysis are introduced. Using some of these tools and models, the paperpresents the process being developed for the engineering program at the University of Tennesseeat Chattanooga (UTC) that introduces technical communication in the freshmen year anddevelops competency as the students’ programs advance through the senior year.Systems and Systems Analysis For every complex problem there is always a simple solution. And it is wrong. –H.L. MenckenSystems analysis fundamentally differs from traditional forms of analysis. It begins with

Collection

2024 Rocky Mountain Section Conference

Authors

Maila Hallare; Beth Schaubroeck; Kevin Treat

numerical solvers and visualization tools.Moreover, MATLAB is a common tool in Air and Space Force labs and research units. We adopted amodeling-based textbook called, “Differential Equations: A Toolbox for Modeling the World” publishedby Kurt Bryan, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, and published by SIMIODE (Systemic Initiative forModeling Investigations & Opportunities with Differential Equations) [2].Lesson Description. The lesson objectives on the first day are (1) Gain direct experience with deriving/creating a model using fundamental principles (Newton’s 2nd Law of Motion) in order to derive the Hill-Keller Model for sprinting; (2) Introduce fundamental ODE vocabulary: general solution to an ODE, specific solution to an

Collection

1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Kathy Bearden; Donald D. Harter; Jerry W. Samples

hiring manager of engineers. • Location.2. What will keep you here? • Variety of teaching assignments. • Caliber of students. • Time to pursue activities of interest (not necessarily fundamental research, but new skills and applications.) • Good work environment. • Acknowledgment of good work. • Raises. • Open dialog.3. What kind of assistance is appropriate to help you stay here? Mentor? • Mentor is excellent suggestion. • Keep me on the tenure track. • Guidance in finding the right stops along the tenure time-line, i.e., good committees, Page

Conference Session

Computers in Education Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Filsinger

. However, I have found in my Computer Architecture class that making the studentswrite their own simple simulator programs results in a better understanding of some of the designissues involved in CPU performance. In this way, students can study the effects of the pipelinewithout needing to worry about any of the other details.IntroductionAll students in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Technology programs at the Universityof Cincinnati take a Junior/Senior level course in Computer Architecture. One of the mostimportant concepts from this class is the effect of pipelining on Central Processing Unit (CPU)performance. This is one of the most fundamental issues facing CPU designers today.Unfortunately, it is difficult to demonstrate the

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

M. David Burghardt

belief system is thatwhile some informational knowledge is useful, its real value lies in its application in apurposeful activity. This is consistent with the active-learning, constructivist instructionalpedagogy employed in modern science education and in children’s engineering. Page 5.210.3 Session 2530III. Fundamental Tenets of Science EducationIn learning science, it is our hope that children will learn and understand scientific concepts,ideas, and scientific process--the how of science. A scientist may pose a hypothesis, e.g. forstatic equilibrium the sum of the

Conference Session

Technical Session 1: Issues Impacting Students Learning How to Program

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

S. Cyrus Rezvanifar, University of Akron

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education

’ performance and deeper understanding of core programmingtopics, without an adverse effect on their learning experience of programming in MATLAB. Theproposed approach agrees well with previously introduced techniques for teaching programming[3, 4, 6-8]. Although writing computer programs on paper were previously incorporated whenlimited number of computers were accessible, it should be noted that “programming withoutcomputer” in class exercises and exams is substantially different from solely writing the samepiece of code on paper. A multitude of students—mostly novice programmers—memorize sectionsof code as templates and try to “plug and chug” those templates into different programs withoutrealizing the fundamental syntax and formulation differences

Collection

1996 Annual Conference

Authors

Scott R. Short

support of funding from the National Science Foundation’sInstrumentation and Laboratory Improvement Grant Program and the State of Illinois, a laboratory sectionhas been added to the materials science course. Our students will now gain direct, hands-on, laboratoryexperience about the relationship between the processing, structure, properties, and performance ofengineering materials. This paper discusses the requirements of the laboratory, the equipment procured, theoverall laboratory layout, and the experiments to be performed.Introduction A fundamental knowledge of materials science and engineering is critical to the success of industriesthat are important to the strength of the U.S. economy and U.S. defensel. American industry has noted

Conference Session

Engineering Physics & Physics Division Technical Session 3

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Inci Ruzybayev, York College of Pennsylvania

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Physics & Physics

, Mechanics and Electricity and Magnetism (E&M), areamong the fundamental courses that students build their engineering career on. During thesecourses it is important to reinforce students’ critical thinking skills. Most students tend to acceptthe information given as it is, without questioning it. Although students are exposed to moreactivities and assignments in the upper level classes where they are required to show their criticaland analytical skills, the stronger the foundation the more prepared they are for the futurechallenges. For this reason, in the E&M course students were asked to submit their handwrittenhomework in a structured layout where they had to: First, state what is given and what has beenasked of them to find with a

Conference Session

Professional Ethics in the Classroom

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Houghtalen

class discussion that follows produces a lively debate about the ethicallapses of most of the engineering constituencies. This is followed with a summary of the code ofethics and a framework for ethical decision making.6 Then the students are asked to write a two-page essay on the ethical situation faced by the consulting engineers before and during the mockpublic meeting, the fundamental principles and cannons that apply to the situation, and theappropriate action(s) that should be taken by the consulting engineers. These essays are thensubmitted to the Rose E-Portfolio system for documenting student learning outcomes.Personal TestimonyAnother successful technique that I have used to introduce my students to the topic ofprofessional ethics is

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering Programs

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Elizabeth Pluskwik, Minnesota State University, Mankato

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

industry designprojects, scaffolding for the design process, mentoring, facilitating learning in technicalcompetencies, and the practice and assessment for selected fundamental principles ofengineering. This program changes every semester through strategic continuous improvement.Since the program was recently awarded the ABET Innovation Award and was named one of thetop ten emerging leaders in engineering education worldwide by the MIT-sponsored reportwritten by Dr. Ruth Graham, it seemed appropriate to share the program’s current practices withthe wider engineering education community. While the ”recipe” for this program is not 100percent replicable, many aspects can be adapted to other courses and programs. We describe herethe design process

Conference Session

Experimentation and Laboratory-oriented Studies Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Lijun Zhang, Beijing Institute of Technology; Dongxiao Wang, Beijing Institute of Technology ; Xiaofeng Tang, Ohio State University; Zhonglian Zhang, Beijing Institute of Technology; Hai Lin, Beijing Institute of Technology

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Experimentation and Laboratory-Oriented Studies

elective experimentation courses before graduation. The course reported in thispaper is redesigned as an exemplar of the elective experimentation course which can supportaccreditation in multiple programs.Prior to the redesign, the course had highlighted engineering operational skills, includinghands-on making, experiment, and test and technical communication skills, especiallytechnical writing skills, and it had been highly praised by students, who felt they achieved alot in this course, and the course portfolios—including the articles written by students and theartifacts completed in the class—were very helpful in job search or applying for theenrollment of a graduate school.The newly designed course was implemented for the first time in the

Conference Session

Engineering Education in the Arab World / Mid-East Region

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ulas Toros, University of Florida; George Younis, University of Florida; Fazil Najafi, University of Florida

Tagged Divisions

International

the SAT II in writing is no longer offered. Applicants whopresent G.E.D. scores must also present secondary school records and standardized test scores.3 Page 12.358.3In order to acquire admission to METU, students must be graduated from high school, lyceumsor equivalent institutions. In addition, Turkish students should acquire a sufficient score fromthe University Entrance Examination.International students should have sufficient scores from any one of the following exams: • A minimum score of 60 (2005 based score: 65.724) from the University Entrance Examinations for International students. • A total of 1100 out of 1600 from

Conference Session

Introductory Materials Engineering Courses of 2020

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Brian Mitchell, Tulane University

Tagged Divisions

Materials

down to a one-, ortwo-semester introductory level course. Such courses in Thermodynamics are also common, butthe First and Second Laws don’t change much from year to year. How we teach them might(and should) change, but the fundamental properties are universal. Similarly, new computerlanguages and programming codes replace older ones (C++ for Fortran, for example), but theend goal is the same: to write a program that performs a specified function and to understand theimplicit logic behind this process. Materials science, in contrast, is a cumulative discipline, andthe incorporation of new topics such as self-assembly and nanocomposites proves to be difficultif the fundamental topics such as structure, phase equilibrium and mechanical

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Anna Phillips; Paul Palazolo; Scott Yost

courses tointroduce the concept of a criteria-based assessment system to the students, and students werestrongly encouraged to provide feedback to either the engineering instructor or the writinginstructor at any point during the semester. Specifically, an online email account was created forthe students at The University of Kentucky to communicate with the writing instructor aboutthese things; because the writing instructor is based at the other university, students were free tointeract with her either in person or by email.Designing the Authentic and Criteria-Based AssignmentThe first part of integrating criteria-based assessment into established courses with existingassignments is customizing the assignments to reflect the changes and

Conference Session

Innovations in Teaching Physics or Engineering Physics

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jian Peng, Southeast Missouri State University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Physics & Physics

aprice. These software development tools hide many of the fundamental computer engineeringissues, so that the programmer can focus on his/her application. If your mission is to create andmarket products, then one can successfully argue that these software tools are effective. On theother hand, since our goal is to educate student to potentially work on future embedded systems,we must expose our students to the underlying hardware, let them program in low-level languagesuch as assembly or C, and force them to face real engineering tradeoffs. Such an approach isalso possible and desirable because our students have had exposures to digital logic and softwareprogramming

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Merredith Portsmore; Chris Rogers

-on activities whenever and wherever they want. The fundamental components ofthis set of materials are the LEGO RCX, a programmable LEGO brick, with the ability to store2000 points at up to 180 Hz and LabVIEW Student Edition. These materials, along with a set ofsensors, motors, and building components, are given to students at the beginning of the semester.The hardware, the RCX and LEGO elements, is small, portable, and relatively inexpensiveallowing students to use and program it in their dorm room using LabVIEW on their owncomputer. Projects have ranged from characterizing a spring to building and configuring ascanner. Labs addressed topics ranging from repeatability and uncertainty to Hooke’s law andFourier transforms. Eliminating the

Conference Session

Insights for Teaching ECE Courses - Session II

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alireza Kavianpour, DeVry University, Pomona

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

)-Python LanguageFor Embedding programming, Microprocessors, and Senior Project courses Python could be used.Python is a high-level object-oriented programming language. It is designed to be easy to program.Guido van Rossum started the design of Python in 1980. Over the years, Python has gainedpopularity in a broad range of fields from web development, games, scripting language, science,and engineering. Python is an open source software, and can thus be distributed freely, even forcommercial use. This openness makes that Python plays well with the other languages and is easilyexpandable. Python is a general purpose language, which means that many things are made easy.Examples are string processing, reading/writing files, sockets, websites, and

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Mechanical ET

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

George Yang

curriculum is designed to train studentsin the fundamentals of electronics applications via hands-on experimentation in a varietyof laboratory settings. Career opportunities for the graduates include positions incomputer maintenance/repair, design/testing, instrumentation, telephone companies andother companies that use electronic or manufacture electronic equipment. The students of the two programs come from diverse backgrounds with Page 8.1079.2significant difference in academic and industrial experiences and different careerobjectives. It is the purpose of this study to share our experience and approach in teachingthe two different groups of

Conference Session

Topics Related to Telecommunications

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Steve Hsiung, Old Dominion University; Walter F. Deal III, Old Dominion University; Lacides Agustin Osorio, Norfolk Ship Support Activity; Mathew Henderson, Tidewater Community College

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

Interface There are short and long addresses in the static RAM memory organization in theMRF24J40MA module that is accessible via the SPI interface protocol. The diagram shown inFigure 6 illustrates required communication formats.MRF24J40MA Short Address Read Figure 6. Short Address Read SPI ProtocolMRF24J40MA Short Address Write Figure 7. Short Address Write SPI Protocol The specifications state that there are only 6 bits needed in short address for either read orwrite to the memory in the MRF24J40MA. It is important to note that the communication withSPI protocols on the short address memory is not lined up. This requires a simple conversion byshifting the bits and package by zero or