Conference Session

Professional Papers

Collection

2025 ASEE Southeast Conference

Authors

Bryn Elizabeth Seabrook, University of Virginia

Tagged Topics

Professional Papers

correct or capable of human-like decision making. In the context of higher education, students may elect to make theirassignments sound better, but it is unlikely that AI-generated work will perform well, especiallyon written assignments, because of this cognitive disconnect between creativity and constraint.Underscoring Concerns of AI Applications in Higher EducationA recent article in the Chronicle of Higher Education highlights faculty concerns about theauthenticity of student work. What should be concerning to educators are the motivating factorsthat create a student culture where they feel they have no option to succeed without using“perfect” work. As Beth McMurtrie writes, “Some institutions, including Middlebury College, inVermont, and

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Brett Hamlin; Gretchen Hein

Session 2453 Integration of Math, Physics and Engineering, A Pilot Study for Success Gretchen L. Hein, Brett H. Hamlin Department of Engineering Fundamentals, Michigan Technological UniversityAbstractThe inherent integration between mathematics, physics, and engineering is obvious to experi-enced engineers and faculty, however, many incoming students find it difficult to see the connec-tions. During the 1999-2000 academic year, a pilot study was conducted at MichiganTechnological University to determine the effect of cohort scheduling students into integrated sec-tions

Conference Session

Interdisciplinary Education in Engineering Technology

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joseph F. Kmec, Purdue University; Bryan J. Hubbard, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Martin A Lopez De Bertodano, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Benjamin Revis, Purdue University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

other countries are planning to add nuclearreactors with a generating capacity of 150,000 MW. These include first-time developing nationusers like Thailand, Turkey, and Vietnam6.Although tactical reasons behind growth in world nuclear usage vary, one expert7 points out thatthe fundamental reasons for global nuclear power growth are linked to population growth,technological progress and its concomitant need for more energy, depletion of hydrocarbons, anda pure and simple desire for improvement and growth in living standards. As a result of robustgrowth beyond its borders, U. S. dominance as world leader in nuclear power generation is beingchallenged. On the other hand, this global expansion provides the U. S. with reassurance thatnuclear energy

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Juan Caicedo, University of South Carolina; Joseph Flora, University of South Carolina; Charles Pierce, University of South Carolina; Andrew Nichols, Marshall University; Briana Timmerman, University of South Carolina; Wiley Graf, Midlands Technical College

skills, as well as conceptual change. In addition, she has developed a Universal Rubric for Laboratory Reports which measures students' scientific reasoning and science writing skills and has been demonstrated to be reliable regardless of biological course content area.Wiley Graf, Midlands Technical College Page 13.565.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2008 Environments For Fostering Effective Critical Thinking (EFFECTs).AbstractThe ability to make decisions based on solid engineering judgment is directly related to thesuccess of professional engineering careers. Engineering judgment results from acquisition

Collection

1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Kenneth Reid; Elaine Cooney

UniversityIndianapolis worked together with Diversified Systems, Inc., an Indianapolis electronicsmanufacturing firm, to develop and present a course entitled “Fundamentals of ElectronicsManufacturing”.I. Course Content Page 4.187.1The course is structured to be offered as a nine week course at the manufacturer’s site or as anon-campus course. The class consists of lecture with hands-on laboratories. The syllabus is asfollows: week topic lab 1 Introduction, components, basic electricity using multimeters 2 Basic electricity, DC circuits measure V, I, R, Ohm’s

Collection

2021 First-Year Engineering Experience

Authors

Aidan Matzko, The Ohio State University Engineering Education Department; Brooke Morin, The Ohio State University

Paper ID #35528Simulated Custom Microcontroller for a Remote First-Year Software DesignProjectAidan Matzko, The Ohio State University Engineering Education Department Aidan is a graduate teaching associate at The Ohio State University’s Engineering Education Department, where he teaches the freshman Fundamentals of Engineering Honors (FEH) class sequence. He will be graduating with a BS CSE and MS ECE, and has a focus on cybersecurity.Brooke Morin, The Ohio State University Brooke Morin is a Senior Lecturer in the College of Engineering at Ohio State University, teaching First- Year Engineering for Honors classes in the

Conference Session

Contemporary Issues in Chemical Engineering Education

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jason Keith, Michigan Technological University; Daniel Crowl, Michigan Technological University; David Caspary, Michigan Technological University; Jeffrey Allen, Michigan Technological University; Jeff Naber, Michigan Technological University; Dennis Meng, Michigan Technological University; Abhijit Mukherjee, Michigan Technological University; John Lukowski, Michigan Technological University; Jay Meldrum, Michigan Technological University; Barry Solomon, Michigan Technological University

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

by electricity. It is noted that the students also estimated greenhouse gas emissions as well as other environmental impact factors including chlorofluorocarbon, heavy metal, and carcinogenic emissions as well as acidification and eutrophication effects.Additional details of prior projects can be obtained in the literature7,8.Fuel Cell CoursesTo receive the hydrogen minor, students are required to take a course in fuel cells. Thecomponents of these courses will now be described.In CM / ENT 3974: Fuel Cell Fundamentals (1 semester credit hour), mostly undergraduatestudents are introduced to fuel cells and how to use concepts from their core curriculum topredict fuel cell operation. An emphasis is placed on proton

Conference Session

Web-Based Education

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

William Schleter, University of Tennessee-Knoxville; Richard Bennett, University of Tennessee-Knoxville

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education

2006-2279: USING WEB-BASED HOMEWORK IN AN INTRODUCTORYENGINEERING PHYSICS COURSEWilliam Schleter, University of Tennessee-Knoxville Instructor – Engineering Fundamentals Division – University of Tennessee, Knoxville Mr. Schleter received his BS in Mechanical Engineering and MS in Instructional Technology. He is a registered professional engineer in Tennessee and a full-time instructor in the Engineering Fundamental Division at the University of Tennessee.Richard Bennett, University of Tennessee-Knoxville Professor and Associate Dept. Head – Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering – University of Tennessee, Knoville. Dr. Bennett received his Ph.D. from the University

Collection

2024 CIEC

Authors

David Satterwhite

transformer). ChatGPT is one of the latest tools of AI (artificial intelligence). It is aneasy-to-use free online tool capable of writing complex essays, solving difficult math problemsor even producing advanced working computer code, all via a simple text prompt. ChatGPT isconsidered by many to be a revolutionary educational tool, while others would argue ChatGPT isa plague upon education, responsible for rampant student plagiarism and loss of critical andoriginal thinking skills. As of this writing, two versions of ChatGPT are available to the public.The original ChatGPT 3.5 version is the most popular and well-known version. It was initiallyreleased in November of 2022; it has already seen exponentially transformative growth from itsintroduction

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Electr-Mech ET

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Wm Evans

/write command blocks. To test the read/write block, a computer is set up assimple terminal for text transmission instead of a typical bar code reader.Handling Faults and Interrupts:To recover from a fault or handle an interrupt requires the same type of command fromthe PLC. A lab experience to cause a fault and then recover from the fault is required.Stepper Motor Configuration:The excitement of actually moving a device to an exact location is the object of this lab.Stepper motors may be configured manually using the data table of the stepper controllercard to manually enter configuration and control information and move the stepper. Thelab is enhanced when the HMI is programmed to enter the same information.Servo Motor Configuration:After the

Conference Session

Redefining the Boundaries of Engineering and Liberal Education: Contributions to the Year of Dialogue

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

William Grimson, Dublin Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education

be an important test in science but has noequivalent role in engineering. On the other hand the role that failure or partial failure plays inthe development of engineering design in fact is fundamental, as pointed out by Henry Petroskiin much of his writing and especially in his book To Engineer is Human: The Role of Failure inSuccessful Design4. In short, generalizing a Philosophy of Science to encompass Engineering is,at best, problematic. Instead of attempting to develop a Philosophy of Engineering an alternativeis to go back to the basics of philosophy and develop a set of attributes, characteristics or evenprinciples that collectively state something specific to or about engineering. Ludwig Wittgensteinconsidered that “Philosophy is not

Collection

2020 Gulf Southwest Section Conference

Authors

Abhaya Datye; Marina Miletic; Jamie Gomez; Eva Chi; Sang M. Han; Catherine Hubka; Yan Chen; Vanessa Svihla; Sung Kang; Heather Canavan

has threaded design challenges throughout the chemical engineering core curriculum to relate real-world Community-, Industry-, Research-, and Entrepreneurship-based projects to fundamental course work. Faculty, graduate students, and dozens of chemical engineering students have developed, implemented, and refined these design challenges which stretch through the core curriculum from the first year to some graduate-level electives courses. Our goal with implementing these varied design challenges is to allow a diverse set of students the opportunity to see the numerous applications of chemical engineering to local and globally-relevant problems [1], and to help them develop the engineering skills and confidence which will

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Geoffrey A. Wood

students whoneed to view the information.III. Multimedia SoftwareAuthoring SoftwareAuthoring Software is the glue that holds all the presentation elements together. It provides theauthor with the ability to create a user interface and to set the rules of the presentation. Thechoice of which authoring software to use is fundamental to the success of the presentation. Aspreviously discussed, the multimedia engine, or code that controls the presentation is subject tovarying amounts of freedom11. The more restrictive it is the easier it is to learn and the morelimited it is. The following list begins with the two authoring software programs that provide thebest compromise between control and ease of use

Conference Session

EM Skills and Real World Concepts

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Sam Geonetta

information technologyplays a role. 5. Learners should demonstrate professional attitudes and practices as participants inclass. 6. Learners should demonstrate an ability to communicate on several levels:1) rhetorically, as presenters within the atmosphere of a seminar in which there is an intensiveexchange of information and ideas; 2) interpersonally, as colleagues who are analyzing andassessing information and ideas presented by others, 3) interpersonally, as learners interactingwith professional practitioners of information technology, and 4) in writing, as learnerscommunicating their research-based analysis and evaluation of information and ideas. Management in Information Technology is built around the premise that most

Conference Session

Design, Assessment, and Curriculum

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Jon Dixon

second part of theassignment is for the student to write his or her own paper on ethics in design, selectingfrom any number of potential areas of ethical focus.This assignment directly addresses course objective V.Course Outline: Beyond Course ObjectivesWhile the course is never precisely the same twice in a row, unique issues not directlyrelated to the five course objectives are always discussed.§ The fundamental concept of excellence is approached using quotations from historical figures. Understanding the true essence of excellence in all endeavors strikes at the heart of the course. It is essential the student understand that excellence stems from a critical, inspirational spark. That spark may or may not be sustained depending

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Jeffrey B. Hargrove

courses in mechatronics, twomechatronics laboratories and a website to support the educational endeavors of themechatronics students. As will be described in this paper, the first course and its laboratoryexercises are designed specifically to provide the students with meaningful experiences in theapplications of mechatronics design principles. The knowledge gained in this first course willbe applied in the second course, where the fundamental focus is to provide a completeexperience in the innovation, design and fabrication of a new mechatronic product. This is alldone in a team environment. The long-term goal is to integrate business management studentsinto the product development team to provide marketing support.I. IntroductionThe consumer

Collection

1999 Annual Conference

Authors

J. W. Pierre; Robert F. Kubichek; Jerry Hamann

these exercises usethe signal processing and audio capabilities of MATLAB. A web page for these homeworkexercises is being developed at wwweng.uwyo.edu/electrical/dsp_audio.I. IntroductionDespite the instructor's best efforts, many students complete required signals and systems classesfeeling that the field has little or no practical application. This is not unlike typical studentreaction to electromagnetics courses where triple integrals and vector mathematics often obscureits fundamental importance. In contrast to student perceptions, signal processing technology isextensively used in a wide variety of applications including communications, control, and isespecially predominant in modern consumer electronics. Getting the student to make

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Jeffrey L. Ray

Effective Meeting Management 6 Time Management and Delegation 7 Resource Availability 8 Project ManagementThe remainder of the first semester is utilized for student teams to prepare a design proposal fortheir assigned project. In addition, teams must present their design choice, budget, and projectschedule to the sponsor for approval. The second semester course is utilized for design andconstruction of the project. A description of each module developed follows. Teambuilding – The module is designed to assist students in the fundamental knowledge of leading a team, including strategies for developing, maintaining, and building a

Collection

1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Colin S. Howat

by hand. (Objective 6 in Table 2 is to reinforce student understanding of the fundamentals. This helps to establish the understanding that chemical engineering is not magic. By estimating performance, the fundamentals are strengthened in preparation for the following.) • Have students perturb the process through estimation to project the effect of changes. (The students should write and justify their estimate of the impact of a specification on all aspects of the material balance before they run the simulator for any particular case.)Experiment Convince students to approach simulation as if it were a laboratory experiment. • Enforce experimental approach by having students

Conference Session

Mid Atlantic Papers

Collection

2017 Mid-Atlantic Section Fall Conference

Authors

Ashwin Satyanarayana, New York City College of Technology; Janusz Kusyk PhD, New York City College of Technology, CUNY.; Hong Li, New York City College of Technology

Tagged Topics

Mid-Atlantic Section Fall Conference

State BerksOur MethodologyTwo freshmen courses in networking and database fundamentals were selected with 24 studentsin each class of the summer of 2017. We used the publicly available national rubric called:Foundations and Skills for Lifelong Learning VALUE Rubric (AA&C). We chose this particularrubric as it is designed to assess the skills and dispositions involved in lifelong learning, whichwe felt would be ideal for assessing two foundational, related computing courses. Both coursesrequired students to write a common term project used for assessing five criteria, such asCuriosity, Initiative, Transfer, Independence and Reflection.The common assignment was divided into two parts. In the first part, students were asked todemonstrate their

Conference Session

Stories, Communication, and Convergence in Engineering Education

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ariana Turner, Georgia Institute of Technology; Hye Yeon Lee, Georgia Institute of Technology; Joseph M LeDoux, Georgia Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division (LEES)

the process of self-insight and the search formeaning as core principles of storytelling (Adams et al., 2007; Chandler, 2002; Gates et al.,2018; Hlalele & Brexa, 2015; Lengelle et al., 2013, 2014). Stories, as generated from our livedexperiences, provide us all the opportunity to make meaning and derive purpose from the thingsthat have happened to us—and, often, that meaning is focused on our understanding of the self. Hlalele and Brexa (2015) describe autobiographical writing as having the “potential forself-insight,” while Lengelle and colleagues (2013, 2014) similarly emphasize storytelling as amechanism for gaining self-insight. Moreover, both Gates and colleagues (2018) and Adams andcolleagues (2007) made the explicit

Conference Session

Computer Tools for Education

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Saroj Biswas, Temple University

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education

classroom,or if they have missed a lecture altogether. From the instructor’s perspective, it was a greatexperience with better than expected student acceptance and classroom interaction.1. IntroductionInstructional methods have evolved over the ages from traditional writing on blackboard to theuse of cellulose transparencies and overhead projectors to notebook computers and dataprojectors. The latest trend in instructional technology is the use of Tablet PCs and iPods in theclassroom. In recent years, Tablet PCs are making its headway into classroom instruction atevery level, from K-12 to colleges, as well as in business meetings of corporate America. Infact, Georgia Tech has recently announced that all engineering students must use a Tablet PC

Conference Session

Developing New Instrumentation

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Liping Guo, Northern Illinois University; Recayi 'Reg' Pecen

Tagged Divisions

Instrumentation

AC 2008-2550: STUDENT DESIGN PROJECTS IN A PROGRAMMABLE LOGICCONTROLLER (PLC) COURSELiping Guo, Northern Illinois UniversityRecayi "Reg" Pecen, University of Northern Iowa Page 13.1106.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2008 Design Projects in a Programmable Logic Controller (PLC) Course in Electrical Engineering TechnologyAbstractA Programmable Logic Controller (PLC) is a specialized computer used for the controland operation of manufacturing process and machinery. A junior/senior level PLC coursein a four-year electrical engineering technology institution mainly covers the followingtopics: PLC hardware components, developing fundamental PLC

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Manufacturing Engineering Technology

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Fred Vondra; Ali Sekmen; Ismail Fidan

possibility in MIT curriculum1-3. MIT 4500, ToolDesign course makes students’ learning more solid and hands-on since it involves most of thestudents’ past learnings.The fundamental tooling concepts are lectured during the lecture hours4-5. All student projectsare accomplished in the lab hours. First the projects are proposed by the teams and finalized bythe instructors. There is a pre-defined structure followed by the students for each project. Thefollowings are the main steps followed by teams formed: • Design the project part and its components on any CAD package. • Write a CNC program to cut out a part or pattern. • Simulate the alternative paths, methods and cycle time. • Finalize the process tooling, workpiece material, and

Conference Session

Real-world Applications in ET

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Mueller

manufacture of an item that fulfils the 3 fundamental components outlined above.The author in [3] does discuss some good ideas for establishing long-term commitments fromindustry for accepting students on a regular basis.To accomplish the administrative objectives of the course, the project team must providebiweekly written and oral progress reports on project design updates, schedule, and budget. Atthe end of the term, each project team is required to write a group project report detailing theproject’s design and budget. A formal demonstration of the project is also required. Page 7.103.1 “Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for

Collection

2021 First-Year Engineering Experience

Authors

Jenahvive K. Morgan, Michigan State University

important for these future engineers to be exposed to multicultural,multidisciplinary teams early on. Also, these future engineers need to gain the experience ofbeing faced with difficult open-ended problems within this team environment, having to worktogether in these teams to solve the problems they are faced with, and then come together tocommunicate their design results. All of these experiences form the foundation of the objectivesof EGR 100 [3], [4].In addition to these skills, there is an emphasis in EGR 100 to prepare students for theengineering coursework needed to complete the degree by covering the fundamentals ofmathematics, physics, and problem solving within the course. It is important for students tounderstand the relevance of these

Conference Session

Innovative Laboratory Approaches in ECE Education

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Wei-Jer (Peter) Han, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer Engineering Division (ECE), Experimentation and Laboratory-Oriented Studies Division (DELOS)

learned it before but the development tool is also easy to acquire and lots of applicationnotes are available to use after the soft processor or controller is implemented in FPGA. 3. Method of implementationThere will be three phases of learning with this proposal. The first part of the teaching and learningobjective in this sequence is to cover the fundamentals of digital electronics, namely, the logic gates andflip flops as well as their applications. It's not necessary to introduce advanced HDL at this level becausea HDL will not help students in understanding the application of digital systems, rather in theimplementation of a digital design. At this level, students are still needed to wire protoboards, to knowthe traditional MSI circuits

Conference Session

Course and Curriculum Innovations in ECE

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Massood Atashbar

new, their defining curricula continue to evolve. Traditional coursessuch as digital logic, and digital design, microcontrollers, computer interfacing and computerarchitecture are mainstays, but there continues to be many holes to fill. Part of the problem isthat Computer Engineering (CE) is still considered to be an interface between ElectricalEngineering (EE) and Computer Science (CS). Electrical Engineering, where it is usuallyhoused, embraces the notion that computer hardware is fundamental to the discipline whilecomputer science views computer software as the defining entity. The truth is that both arecorrect and computer engineering students need to understand both disciplines equally well. Atthe same time, this understanding needs to

Collection

2007 St.Lawrence Section Meeting

Authors

Susan J. Masten; Robert V. Fleisig

midterm (30%), in-lecture ReadinessAssessments Tests (10%), and the design project including interim work, presentation, and final report (40%). Students were given formal lectures on technical writing and oral communication skills, and asked to write two 1000-wordtechnical articles inspired by case study lectures, but including additional research that explored some particular aspect of thetopic in greater detail. Students were expected to express their own opinion on an engineering issue, present facts and evidence,and draw a conclusion. An important part of the learning process is the “peer evaluation”, in which students grade each other'swork and calibrate their own performance. A few students chose not to write one or both articles

Conference Session

Mechanical and Architectural Engineering Laboratories

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gerald Recktenwald, Portland State University; Jenna Faulkner, Portland State University; Robert Edwards, Penn State Erie, The Behrend College; Douglas Howe, Portland State University

Tagged Divisions

Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

is addedto each image by positioning a six segment LED display kit (USB7 from Fundamental Logichttp://store.fundamentallogic.com) in the field of view of the camera. Figure 3 is a photograph ofa tank draining measurement in progress. An enlarged image of the LED is also inset in theimage. The digits on the LED display are set from the internal time of the LabVIEW programrecording the pressure transducer output. Therefore, each image that records L(t), also indicatesthe time the image was captured according to the time base of the pressure measurements. Figure 3. Stepped-tank during draining. The seven-segment LED display at the base of the tank indicates the time in sections from the start of the pressure transducer