Conference Session

Non-Technical Skills in ET

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James Brown, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis; Richard Pfile, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

sexualharassment in any situation.The second goal will be to describe how ABET program outcomes (i) and (j) are addressedthrough this ethics course content.COURSE CONTENTThe course content for a one credit ethics course sheds light on the areas that require the greatestconcentration of discussion and effort. A sample course schedule can be seen in the syllabuslocated in the Appendix. The course begins with the discussion of what ethics is in the narrowscope of the American “baseball, apple pie and mom” mentality and deals with issues that arerelatively straightforward. This approach addresses ethics from a fundamental moral standpointand uses case studies surrounding issues such as Ford Pinto’s exploding gas tank of the late1970’s and the space shuttle

Conference Session

What Else do Environmental Engineers Need to Know

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mahbub Uddin, Trinity University

Tagged Divisions

Environmental Engineering

also give a five minutes presentation and conduct class discussion/debate on acontemporary environmental issue as soon as it appears as a news item. Students maintain aportfolio/journal of all the articles on contemporary environmental issues they read over thesemester. At the end of the semester each student is required to submit his/her portfolio of sevenarticles along with his/her reflections and assessment of each articles. In addition, studentsconduct environmental caucuses similar to town hall meetings, and write two term papers oncontemporary environmental issues.Course OverviewThe Fundamentals of Environmental Engineering course is intended for sophomore /juniorengineering students at Trinity University1. This course is also open for

Collection

2010 ASEE Zone 4 Conference

Authors

Devlin Montfort; Shane Brown

Education 334the explanatory and predictive power of their understanding. Synthetic models are key tounderstanding why it is more difficult to acquire conceptual understanding. Vosniadou writes,“[w]e argue that many science concepts are difficult to learn because they are embedded withinscientific framework that violate fundamental principles of the naïve, framework theory ofphysics within which everyday physics concepts are subsumed” 12.Chi’s Types of LearningMichelene Chi’s describes three types of learning that are of key importance in scienceeducation: belief revision, mental model transformation and categorical shift 14. Chi states thatbelief

Collection

2007 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

James Finne; John Carpinelli; William Barnes

equipment, however, wasbecoming troublesome and was no longer supported by the manufacturer.The 8085 is a good teaching tool. The architecture and language are both simple enough that astudent can understand and visualize the fundamental principles, yet complex enough tointroduce important concepts, including programming structures, memory and port datatransfers, interrupts, stacks and indirect addressing .The questions that we set out to answer were: • Is it appropriate to abandon this excellent teaching tool in favor of a more modern and more complex processor? • Is it appropriate to teach assembly code (and machine op code) instead of using a compiled language such as Basic or C? • How would we use a more complex

Conference Session

Innovative Adult and Technology Enhanced Programs

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Suzanne M. Kresta, University of Alberta; Uttandaraman Sundararaj, University of Calgary; John A. Nychka, University of Alberta

Tagged Divisions

Continuing Professional Development

teaching fundamentals sessions weregiven by Kresta. Kresta continued to offer three of those sessions for eight of the next thirteenyears. Over the period these forums ran, over 120 new faculty members were introduced to basicknowledge about educational fundamentals, and more importantly to the idea that the Faculty ofEngineering expects a well grounded approach to teaching. The text by Wankat and Oreovicz5was provided to all participants while it was in print; the on-line version is now referenced. The impact of these sessions was documented in two short articles, and shared with othercolleagues in several conference presentations and invited talks 1,2. A summary of the teachingsessions is included as an Appendix.Active Learning WorkshopDr

Collection

1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Sherra E. Kerns; Robert T. Nash; David V. Kerns

engineering students.Vanderbilt University’s Management of Technology Minor program of study is designed to provideour students the opportunity to gain a working knowledge of the fundamentals of business andengineering management. The program is open to students majoring in one of the traditionalundergraduate engineering programs offered within the Vanderbilt University School ofEngineering (VUSE). Approximately one-half of the students graduating from VUSE assume someform of management position within five years after graduation. Babcock’s 1989 study concludesthat "two-thirds of today's engineers will spend two-thirds of their careers as managers". Clearly,engineering programs have a responsibility to prepare their students for management and

Conference Session

Graduate Studies Division (GSD) Technical Session 8: Professional Development for Graduate Students

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sanjeev M Kavale, Arizona State University; Adam R. Carberry, Arizona State University

Tagged Divisions

Graduate Studies Division (GSD)

onmindsets that are discipline-specific, including maker mindset [8] and the entrepreneurialmindset [9]. The extant literature on mindsets is abundant and highlights the need for relevantmindsets toward specific task performance [9] – [11].The term ‘research mindset’ has been used by some researchers [10]–[12], but has yet to beexplicitly defined. A few studies call out the presence of research mindset and the relatedconstruct of researcher identity [13], [14]. Efforts in this space aim to better understand howmindset plays a role as researchers engage in various research tasks like defining researchproblems, conducting literature reviews, designing and conducting experiments, writing upresults, and working on a research team. Research is a task, or

Conference Session

Improving Mechanics & Structural Modeling Courses

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Natasha Smith, University of Southern Indiana

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

forlaboratories requiring written reports. With a renewed focus on setting a standard forprofessional writing, experiments were crafted with a straightforward technical objective inmind. Then, students were lead to think and write critically through their exploration of thisobjective.This paper presents a beam deflection lab designed primarily for the purpose of introducingprinciples of sound engineering reasoning and establishing standards for professional reporting.The following section provides a procedure for a straightforward four part mechanics laboratoryinvolving beam deflections. The exercises are designed specifically to engage students’engineering reasoning skills and form a standard for effective communication. Each part of theexperiment is

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics Division Technical Session 3

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

A. J. Hamlin, Michigan Technological University; Valorie Troesch, Michigan Technological University; Amber Kemppainen, Michigan Technological University; Jonathan T Riehl, Michigan Technological University; Douglas E. Oppliger P.E., Michigan Technological University; Mary A. Fraley, Michigan Technological University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Ethics

Paper ID #11707Using a Phenomenological Approach to Teach Engineering Ethics in a First-year Engineering CourseDr. A. J. Hamlin, Michigan Technological University AJ Hamlin is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Engineering Fundamentals at Michigan Technolog- ical University, where she teaches first-year engineering courses. Her research interests include engineer- ing ethics, spatial visualization, and educational methods. She is an active member in the Engineering Design Graphics Division of ASEE and is currently serving as the Associate Editor of the Engineering Design Graphics Journal.Prof. Valorie Troesch

Conference Session

Unique Student Opportunities in BME

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Steven Abramowitch, University of Pittsburgh; Mark Redfern, University of Pittsburgh; Richard Debski, University of Pittsburgh; Alejandro Almarza, University of Pittsburgh; Harvey Borovetz, University of Pittsburgh; Savio Woo, University of Pittsburgh

Tagged Divisions

Biomedical

undergraduate education is to provide students with an opportunity to receiveindividualized training in bioengineering while meeting the following objectives. Objective #1: Graduates will have a strong foundation in fundamentals of life sciences (biology and physiology), mathematics, engineering principles and the humanities. Objective #2: Graduates will have both a broad knowledge of the technical and social principles of bioengineering as well as a focused education in one concentration area within bioengineering. Objective #3: Graduates will be prepared for careers through educational experiences beyond the classroom, which will deepen an understanding of the technical and non- technical issues in bioengineering, process and design

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Ray Bachnak

autoexec.bat files, and settingProgrammer’s WorkBench and CodeView options. Second, they create a templateprogram, compile it, and then build the executable file. The template program, with allinstructions removed, is shown in Fig. 1.Exercise 3: Students learn about the addressing modes by tracing the execution ofinstructions and monitoring their effects. This is done in CodeView, where they alsoverify the segments referenced and the effective addresses used.Exercise 4: Students examine the effects of executing many of the 8086/88 instructionsby tracing the execution of a program in CodeView. The program includes a call to aprocedure that converts from upper case to lower case letters.Exercise 5: Students write their own program that reads a list of

Conference Session

Faculty Development Division (FDD) Technical Session 7

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ashley R Taylor, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Josh Iorio; Kelly Scarff, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Angelo Biviano, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Christine Burgoyne, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Caroline Finlay Branscome, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Kathleen Carper, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Sara L Arena, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Tagged Divisions

Faculty Development Division (FDD)

structured.Grammatically correct and stylistically appropriate writing is important, but well-structured andlogical reasoning is fundamental to creating effective (written) arguments.Solution. The approach adopted in this case study situates presentation design as an initialcomponent of the writing process rather than as an outcome. By starting the writing process withpresentation design principles, students focus their attention on the structure and logic of theirwriting before focusing on grammar and style.6This case approach builds on the Assertion-Evidence Model (Alley, 2013) of presentation design. InAlley’s model, slide content is limited to two key elements: 1) an assertion or claim, and 2)supporting evidence. The presenter is then responsible for

Conference Session

Energy Laboratory Development

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Henry Foust, Nicholls State University

Tagged Divisions

Energy Conversion and Conservation

mechatronics and its role in this research? Mechatronics is theapplication of electrical and computer principles to mechanical systems [1]. Oneexample is the application of sensor, actuator, and micro-controllers to automotiveengines. Mechatronics can be used in alternative energy conversions in respect tosensor selection, actuators, control methods, and the implementation of optimizationschemes where a system approach develops the dynamic models and constraints onthe optimization. Another component of the research is that the mechatronics laboratory worksin conjunction with a material science laboratory for a summer undergraduate re-search experience. The governing idea is to take the students through the processof writing a publishable research

Conference Session

Issues in Computer Education-HDL

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ronald Hayne, The Citadel

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education

other models of that hardware. A program of instruction has been developed which augmentsthe classroom instruction with VHDL homework exercises and a capstone design project. Thefocus is kept on demonstration of architectural concepts, rather than turning into a VHDL“programming” course.Course ContentThe existing course and text cover a wide range of computer architecture constructs which canbe supplemented with homework exercises. A fundamental concept is the discussion of variousaddressing modes used to specify the location of operands in an assembly language program.These addressing modes are first discussed generically and then specifically for several moderncomputer architectures. Visualization of the addresses and operands is often

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

N. W. Scott; B. J. Stone

firstdiscussed and it is concluded that such applets should encompass what has been found to beuseful in previous non-WWW platforms. Thus animation and the ability to vary parametersare a prime consideration. However the ability to animate some shapes on a computer screencan be abused; a static diagram is open to misinterperetation and a moving diagram even moreso. Each new animation has to be thoroughly tested and revised to ensure that students learnwhat was intended. The latter part of the paper gives helpful hints on writing Java appletswhich include animations.1. IntroductionIn a companion paper [1 - in these proceedings] a description is given of the current state ofteaching vibration via the WWW. A comprehensive set of WWW notes, animations

Conference Session

Track 2 - Curriculum and Laboratory Development

Collection

2012 ASEE International Forum

Authors

Yongming Tang, Southeast University; Susan M Lord, University of San Diego

Tagged Topics

Track 2 - Curriculum and Laboratory Development

inengineering in China take 4 years. At SEU, 150 credits are required for graduation. More than90% of students graduate on time at the end of their 4th year at SEU.There are three semesters per year at SEU as shown in Table 1. Many practical training coursesare arranged in the short semester, such as advanced C++ programming, fundamental Electricand Electronic practice, fundamental of Mechanical fabrication, printed circuit board computeraided design (CAD), introduction to scientific writing, fundamentals of innovation and patentapplication, etc. Table 1. Time schedule for academic year at SEU Short Semester Autumn Semester Spring Semester Semester Name (1st

Conference Session

Biomedical Engr. Design and Laboratories

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

John M. Sankovic; Dmitri Kourennyi

requirements serve as a foundation for such competence, the development and enhancement of writing skills must be demonstrated through student work in engineering work and other courses. Oral communication skills in the English language must also be demonstrated within the curriculum by each engineering student” - The ethical considerations (I.C.3.j.): “An understanding of the ethical, social, economic, and safety considerations in engineering practice is essential for a successful engineering career. Course work may be provided for this purpose, but as a minimum it should be the responsibility of the engineering faculty to infuse professional concepts into all

Conference Session

Trends in Nuclear Engineering Education I

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Frank Wicks

noted that these are the experiments that were devised by Enrico Fermi and LeoSzilard as part of their December, 1942 demonstration of a nuclear chain reaction. Theyare repeated to confirm satisfactory performance at the time of the initial fuel loading andthe refueling for any power plant.2. Experiments These experiments also demonstrate nuclear principles at the fundamental andoperational level. Students write a lab report for each experiment comprised of theory,measured data, analysis, results and discussion. This paper section will further describe theexperiments and demonstrated principles and practices.a. Neutron Measurement Fundamental to nuclear control and safety is the monitoring a reactor is to measurethe rate of fission

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Yosef Gavriel; Robert Broadwater

conceptsintroduced in the lecture. An example of such a question isWhen you write code, one way you communicate with other programmers is to embed___________ in the code.By picking on the hot spotted blank in the above statement, the student would see the word“comments” appear in a popup window. All together, over 400 hot spotted questions weredeveloped for the course.IV. Software development practices and principlesThroughout the course, emphasis was placed on nine software development practices andprinciples [1,2]: • Experiment in small programs • Step through the code line-by-line • Programming is first of all communication • Analyze and plan before you act • Clearly understand your program

Conference Session

Uses for MATLAB in Mechancial Engineering

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Roche de Guzman, Hofstra University; John Carmine Vaccaro, Hofstra University; Alexander Hans Pesch, Hofstra University; Kevin C. Craig, Hofstra University

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

ofgenerator action).3.5 f - Writing assignment example Drop a magnet down a copper pipe such as is shown in Figure 9. The magnet “floats” downthe copper pipe defying gravity. There are five fundamental laws of nature demonstrated here.What are they? See Maxwell’s Equations and Newton’s Laws of Motion and Gravity.Communication of complex technical concepts in simple terms is the hallmark of anaccomplished scientist and engineer. Explain what you observe to a lay person in a 250-worddocument. Organization, grammar, and style are just as important as accurate content. Figure 9. Magnet dropping through a copper tube, an example of a motivating experiment for a writing

Conference Session

Curricular Developments in Electrical and Computer Engineering

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Wei-Jer Han, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

on the SAP model found in the textbook in reference [9]. This project is built on Multisim and students can understand the basic Von Neumann architecture. The third project was based on the textbook in reference [10]. This project is also built on Multisim first then implemented with Verilog HDL in a FPGA. The fourth project was to write the code with assembly language to test the built simple computer. After students learned the fundamentals of all logic components, we start building registers. We built registers with bidirectional data lines with load enable (LE) and output enable (OE) to get ready to design a SAP computer as in [9]. Since the SAP computer is a Von Neumann

Conference Session

First-Year Programs Division (FYP) - Technical Session 7: Making

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Brian Scott Robinson, University of Louisville; Thomas Tretter, University of Louisville; Nicholas Hawkins, University of Louisville; James E. Lewis, University of Louisville

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs Division (FYP)

Paper ID #37282Assessing Various Pedagogical Features of Remote Versus In-PersonIterations of a First-Year Engineering, Makerspace CourseDr. Brian Scott Robinson, University of Louisville Brian Robinson is an Associate Professor with the Department of Engineering Fundamentals at the Uni- versity of Louisville. His primary research focus is in Engineering Education, with highest interest in first-year (and beyond) engineering retention & the effects of value-expectancy theory on student persis- tence.Dr. Thomas Tretter, University of Louisville Thomas Tretter is professor of science education and director of the Gheens

Conference Session

Concurrent Paper Tracks Session I - Courses I

Collection

2017 ASEE International Forum

Authors

F.C. Lai, University of Oklahoma; Dong Liang, Laboratory Engineer; Al R Evans, Sichuan University - Pittsburgh Institute

Tagged Topics

Main Forum (Podium Presentation)

Education, 2017 SCUPI Derby – A New Approach to “Introduction to Mechanical Design” D. Liang and A. Evans Sichuan University – Pittsburgh Institute Chengdu, Sichuan, People Republic of China F. C. Lai Anadarko Presidential Professor School of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, USAAbstractThe sophomore class of “Introduction to Mechanical Design” in SCUPI is rather unique in thesense that it pairs a traditional mechanical design class with an English writing class that iscentered on technical writing. To the

Conference Session

Programming for Engineering Students

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ramzi Bualuan, University of Notre Dame

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education

. The wrapper functions – which we will call“project functions” – act as black boxes to the students, who therefore only have to worryabout what the functions’ inputs and outputs are, and what the functions do. Due to thenature of Matlab, students do have access to the project functions’ source codes. Most ofthem do not care to even bother to look, but some are very interested in how things aredone “under the hood”, and have the incentive to do things on their own. Incidentally, atthe end of the module, and after finishing their project, students have the option to write agame of their choice, which is not graded but for which the top three games get an award.About ten percent of the class take on that challenge, to very impressive results

Collection

2011 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

H.T.X. Truong; E.M. Odom; C.J. Egelhoff; K.L. Burns

of a shaft is simple and well covered in textson mechanics of materials and machine component design.However, when the shaft cross section becomes practical it includes changes of diameter toprovide steps that can be used to accurately mount bearings and gears. It can have overhangingends and tapered cross sections. The determination of the deflection of these practical shafts hasbeen historically cumbersome and intractable. Until now. A method of solution for thesepractical shaft geometries and loadings is presented. The method stays generalized, using anengineer’s knowledge of free body diagrams, writing moment equations, and Castigliano’stheorem to set up the problem solution into a form that is solved in an engineer’s favoritecomputer

Conference Session

ECE Division Poster Session

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tokunbo Ogunfunmi, Santa Clara University; Mahmudur Rahman, Santa Clara University

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

. Page 22.367.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011 Concept Inventory Assessment Instruments for Circuits CoursesAbstractElectric Circuits course is a core component of undergraduate curricula in electrical engineeringprograms worldwide.The Electric Circuits Concept Inventory (ECCI) is a set of multiple-choice questions that we aredeveloping to measure students’ understanding of fundamental concepts such as DC and ACCircuits. First and Second-order circuits, etc. and Advanced Circuit analysis topics are covered.These questions do not test problem solving steps but test major concepts and ability of studentsto understand the concepts in the context of the problem and apply the required

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James P. Becker, Montana State University; Carolyn Plumb, Montana State University

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees Poster Session

this course are EELE 101,Introduction to Electrical Engineering Fundamentals and Calculus II. The emphasis of the pre-requisite electrical engineering fundamentals course is on providing students an overview of thefields of electrical and computer engineering; in addition, students are briefly introduced toOhm’s law, KCL and KVL as well as to introductory programming concepts. Approximatelythree 50-minute lecture sections are devoted to basic electrical concepts in the course. Theintroductory circuits course at Montana State University covers basic circuit quantities, Ohm’slaw, KCL, KVL, nodal and mesh analysis, circuit theorems, ideal operational amplifier circuits,the complete response of first-order circuits, sinusoidal steady-state

Conference Session

MINDing Our Business

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Friedman; Fadi Deek; Howard Kimmel

important part of this project.An important component of the instructional method included a problem solving andprogram development process to assist beginning computer science students fulfill thecomplex, multiple tasks of programming. After working through the process, studentswill have produced a carefully designed and fully documented solution to a problem. Inthe composition component, the writing process was the basic procedure through whichstudents gain skills in and an understanding of what is necessary to produce effectiveexpository prose written to respond to specific problems. Measurements of success andproblem areas in the implementation of this program will be presented and methods forovercoming obstacles in such programs suggested.I

Conference Session

Methods, Cases, and Directions

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joseph C. Hartman, University of Florida

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Economy, Engineering Management, Industrial Engineering, Systems Engineering

impact the investment decision.Of course, these steps must occur after an initial estimate of fiscal feasibility has beenestablished, such as computing the net present value (NPV) or rate of return (IRR) from an initialestimate of project cash flows.Unfortunately, most engineering economy courses at the undergraduate level focus theircoursework on the financial mathematics and eventual computation of the NPV or IRR of a cashflow stream1. This is evidenced by the number of “fundamentals” or “essentials” textbooks onthe market that generally have only one or two chapters dedicated to risk analysis.With the use of spreadsheets becoming ubiquitous in practice and commonplace in teachingengineering economy, it is time to change the focus of our

Conference Session

Integrating Sustainability Across the Curriculum

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sarah Kathryn Bauer, Rowan University; Andrea Rose McFarland, Rowan University; Mary M. Staehle, Rowan University; Kauser Jahan, Rowan University

Tagged Divisions

Environmental Engineering

patients due to chemical leakage from anearby chemical treatment facility. The selection of six films, including “A Civil Action”,“Pelican Brief”, “Erin Brockovich”, “Whale Rider”, “An Inconvenient Truth”, and “BhopalExpress”, covers a wide array of topics, but in the end, the plot is fundamentally aboutovercoming the disasters that follow unethical procedures.Sustainability in the Sophomore Engineering ClinicRowan University’s Engineering Clinic centers around engineering design and the developmentof communication skills, as shown in Table 14. Throughout Sophomore Engineering Clinic,sustainability is a core theme. Sophomore engineering students work in multidisciplinary groupsto develop their writing and speaking skills. A sample Sophomore