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

interdisciplinary process to ensure that the customer and stakeholder’s needs are satisfied in a high quality, trustworthy, cost efficient and schedule compliant manner throughout a systems entire life cycle”A more complete review of what people have in mind what they discuss the meaning of systemsengineering is provided by Fraser and Gosavi18 but for the purpose of this paper, we will focuson the key points that:  Systems engineering is an interdisciplinary, well defined and described process incorporating as series of steps that enhance the likelihood of developing a successful system.SE in the Undergraduate CurriculumBased on the above very basic definition and understanding of SE methods and importance, thereare fundamentally

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert J. Hofinger

another, and arrive at a “real world”application. This way, students will gain experience in seeing how a complicated design is builtup of many simple circuits. A set of laboratory courses, which are presently used in theElectrical Engineering Technology program at the Purdue University School of Technology siteat Columbus, will be presented to show how this has been achieved.IntroductionMany incoming students in the Purdue Statewide Technology program come to us withouthaving any experience with electrical or electronic pieces of equipment. They have spent moretime with interactive video, educational rock, and VCRs and minimal time with erector sets,with lawn mower engines, with the use of tools, and with the exploration of the fundamentals

Conference Session

ECE Laboratory Development and Innovations

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Daniel Beenfeldt; John Field; Eric Beenfeldt; Edward Williams

Copyright Ó 2002, American Society for Engineering EducationFigure 3. The hardware connected to a test vehicle with two DC motors.A detailed description of the custom software used in our laboratory exercises is presented next.V. The Ultimate Test Environment, (TUTE)Overview - TUTE is an integrated development environment used to expedite the writing andtesting of assembly language programs for the EVBU Board. It can also be used with any68HC11 board that has BUFFALO as a monitor. TUTE was originally written to develop videogame software using high level code in combination with assembly language and was altered foruse in ECE 171. As a result, there are a number of features that are not used, some that havebeen disabled, and some that are only

Conference Session

Learning styles affect on students in graphic and design courses

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jeremy V Ernst, Virginia Tech; Aaron C. Clark, North Carolina State University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Design Graphics

graphics class at a major university. The questionnaireindicates whether a person prefers one or multi-modal learning methods that include (V)visual,(A)aural, (R)read/write, and (K)kinesthetic. A demographic instrument was employed to gatherdata that assisted in classifying students as being at-risk of leaving college or not at-risk. Theresearchers used the Fisher exact test to analyze the collected data. The Fisher exact test is mostcommonly applied to evaluation of a hypothesis with data framed in a 2x2 contingency tablewhere chi-square assumptions are not individually met.1 The null hypotheses are evaluatedbased on the probability of determining a collection of “observed frequencies even moreextreme” than the set summarized in the contingency

Collection

2024 CIEC

Authors

Jiayue Shen; Daniel Jones; Kazi Imran; Xiang Wang; Weiru Chen; Lanju Mee

motor driver module with an Arduino UNO board, and to provide a basicunderstanding of servo motors and how to control their position using an Arduinomicrocontroller. The lab aims to demonstrate the use of Arduino Equipment: in controllingdifferent types of motors, which is a fundamental concept in mechatronics. By completing theseexperiments, the user will gain experience in connecting and programming the L298N motordriver module and servo motor, and learn how to adjust their speed and position using code.In this module, two experiments are conducted. The first experiment involves controlling TT DCmotors using an Arduino UNO board, L298N motor driver module, two TT DC motors, a 9Vbattery, jumper wires, and a breadboard. The second experiment

Collection

2013 GSW

Authors

Nripendra N. Sarker; Mohan A. Ketkar

setup forstudents to achieve fundamental knowledge on the logic gates, pin configuration of the chips andin building simple circuits on breadboard. However, too many connecting wires on thebreadboard make the circuit cluttered and almost impossible to trace bugs in case the circuitfails to work. The problems could be anywhere from a faulty circuit design to the connectionsbeing loose and the board itself getting bad due to aging. Two major undesirable outcomes wereobserved in using this traditional way of learning, i) dissatisfactions of the learners and therebyreluctance to learn the subject and ii) difficult to complete a planned syllabus on time. It hasbeen found that, as the circuits become more involved, it is a good idea to switch over

Conference Session

Mechanical Engineering Technical Session: Feeling the Heat - Thermodynamics and Heat Transfer

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Daniel Raviv, Florida Atlantic University; Daniel Ryan Barb, Florida Atlantic University

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

Paper ID #29075A Visual and Intuitive Approach to Teaching and Learning the Concept ofThermodynamic EntropyDr. Daniel Raviv, Florida Atlantic University Dr. Raviv is a Professor of Computer & Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Florida Atlantic University. In December 2009 he was named Assistant Provost for Innovation and Entrepreneurship. With more than 30 years of combined experience in the high-tech industry, government and academia Dr. Raviv developed fundamentally different approaches to ”out-of-the-box” thinking and a breakthrough methodology known as ”Eight Keys to Innovation.” He has been sharing his

Conference Session

Laboratory Developments and Innovations

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Tom Conte; Mesut Baran; Joel Trussell; Jack Brickley; Griff Bilbro; Greg Byrd; Cecilia Townsend; Ben O'Neal; Amir Mortazavi; Mehmet Ozturk

Department. In this curriculum, students choose theirspecialization areas starting from the second semester of the junior year. The system is carefullydesigned to ensure that students acquire both breadth and depth in their studies. The flagship ofthis curriculum is a new laboratory course, which the students take during the first semester afterthe first year common to all engineering students. The objectives of the new laboratory are: i) Tointroduce different ECE specialization areas to encourage students to start thinking about whichspecialization areas appeal more to them ii) To motivate the students through practical, hands-onexperiments connected to real-life applications iii) To teach fundamental concepts and basiclaboratory skills. In this

Conference Session

Programming and DSP Issues in Education

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Parten

from PSpice log files by writing a Perl script. Perl is a highlevel programming (scripting) language. It is a derivative of C as well as other languages. Perlwas designed for text and file manipulation. The reasons for using Perl are that the PSpice log islarge and verbose (~3500 lines), but the log is highly patterned. Perl is well suited for dataextraction in this case. To extract data with Perl, the input is read into an array by Open (In_File, “;The input can then be examined, looking for specific headers, by foreach $line (@lines) {} if $line =~ /’search material

Conference Session

Physics in the K-16 Classroom

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Budny Dan; Teresa Larkin

and reliable learning-style identification instrument. The PEPS is currently beingused as a research tool within the introductory physics course for non-majors at AmericanUniversity. Two teaching approaches that have been developed based on a learning-style approachwill be shared. These approaches include the use of writing as well as interactive, live online chatsusing Blackboard technologies. Ideas for effective adaptation of these approaches by educators inother branches of science, as well as mathematics, engineering, and technology (SMET) educationare discussed.I. INTRODUCTION The brisk changes that continue to occur in modern society, and in academia in particular,suggest that learning must be a continuous process. A growing body of

Conference Session

Academic Standards & Issues/Concerns & Retention

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Tobia Steyn

the curriculum of the extended study program so that the students can comply with the exitlevel outcomes for engineering graduates set by the Engineering Council of South Africa. Faculty is faced with thechallenge to redress and enhance the under-prepared students' understanding of the fundamentals underpinning astudy in calculus, to develop their personal, academic and communication skills and to introduce them to basic skillsin information technology.To meet this challenge and address these aspects, a developmental course, Professional Orientation, is presentedduring the first year of study. The main pedagogical approach in the Professional Orientation course is to develop theacademic potential of the under prepared students. Therefore, the

Conference Session

Curricular Developments in Energy Education

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Patrick Cunningham, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Energy Conversion and Conservation

fuel cell course has three 1-hour lecture periods per week and one 3-hour lab period perweek to make a 4 credit-hour course. One lecture period per week is devoted to discussion ofrelevant papers, which serves to reinforce the technical content and facilitate discussion of thebroader social, economic, and technical issues. The lab periods are used alternately for additionalclassroom instruction, experiments, recitation time, and modeling or project work. This adds adegree of flexibility to administering the course and provides the students with extra time toengage and reflect on what they are learning.Student learning assessment is based on homework, experimental lab write-ups, a midterm exam,a nonlinear dynamic fuel cell model, and student

Conference Session

Integrating Curriculum and Labs in ET Programs

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Matthew Turner, Purdue University, West Lafayette

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

fossil fuel plants such as combined cycle, distributedgeneration, and demand response technologies were chosen to be emphasized in lieu of more traditionalpower engineering topics. Additionally, as hands-on-learning is a fundamental component of allcoursework in Purdue Polytechnic, new laboratory activities were designed to support the course,focusing on the development of a familiarity with the major hardware components of, and the operationand control of, the electric power grid. This paper presents the laboratory content of the Modern EnergySystems course in which a functional micro-grid is constructed over the course of the semester,integrating both traditional power system technologies with emergent technologies such as renewablegeneration

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Sharon A. Jones; Indira Nair

suggest that thiscurriculum be used by the teacher in conjunction with a disciplinary text, or a reader ofenvironmental writings depending on the teacher’s course objectives. What our text does is toprovide teachers with materials that can be used in class to achieve a participatory, project-basedfocus that we feel enhance the instruction of environmental literacy.Target Audience: The potential audience for this text is large and varied. As stated in theintroduction, the curriculum in this text is designed to help the citizen gain a workingunderstanding of environmentally responsible decision making on several levels. The citizenmay be a student of engineering who needs to understand the impact that engineering decisionscan have on the

Collection

1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Ronald James; Janet L. Gooder; Charles Wisniewski; Brenda Haven; A. George Havener

interaction with all team members.(6) Demonstrated professional completion of Workshop 1.Task: Given a fundamental energy system, your team is to perform an energy analysis thatfulfills the above stated objectives. Entries for Table 2 should be written in the cells provided.Table 3 is designed to guide you through the process of reducing the power-balance equation foryour system. Your team must write the reduced form of the 1st Law of Thermodynamics in thebox following Table 3. Your team’s oral presentation will be presented to the class as 2 minutesummary by one of your teammates. Everyone will get to brief during the semester. Yourindividual and team performance will be evaluated according to satisfactory completion of theobjectives. A copy of the

Conference Session

PSW Section Meeting Papers - Disregard start and end time - for online paper access only

Collection

2019 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

Michael Gee, Canada College; Anthony Akash Lal; Alex E Hercules; Tyler Sheaves, San Francisco State University; Amelito G Enriquez, Canada College; Cheng Chen, San Francisco State University; Hao Jiang, San Francisco State University; Zhaoshuo Jiang P.E., San Francisco State University; Wenshen Pong P.E., San Francisco State University; Xiaorong Zhang, San Francisco State University; Hamid Mahmoodi, San Francisco State University

Tagged Topics

Diversity, Pacific Southwest Section Meeting Paper Submissions

research work the studentsconducted and may not be directly relevant to the education theme, but they represent a sample ofthe writing the student prepared at the end of the internship.2. Literature Review and Best Practices There are many works published on research internship as a vehicle for improving engineering education [4-11]. The target population for research internship varies from high school students [4], to undergraduate students [5], graduate students [6], and faculty [7]. A common observation in all these works is that internship experience does improve the educational outcome for the participants. When it is targeted for high school students, it can assist in increasing diversity in STEM disciplines by encouraging female

Conference Session

Cooperative and Experiential Education Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Diane L Peters P.E., Kettering University; Ronald E Kumon, Kettering University; Gabrielle Feeny

Tagged Divisions

Cooperative and Experiential Education

, a midwestern STEM-focusedinstitution, received an internal grant to develop a class in research for undergraduates. Thisclass, which is designed to be offered online either for cohorts or for individual students as anindependent study, contains information and resources on a diverse range of issues such asmotivation for research, research ethics, planning a research project, conducting literaturesearches, experimental procedures, keeping lab documentation for various types of projects, dataanalysis, technical writing, intellectual property, and issues relevant to scoping out one’s ownresearch project.This paper will give the background for the course development, evaluation of the requiredcontent and decisions on structure and format, and

Conference Session

Internet Programming and Applications

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Ralph Droms; John Jantzi; Daniel Hyde; Brian Hoyt; Xiannong Meng; Maurice Aburdene

, Prentice- Hall, 19995. Alberto Leon-Garcia and Indra Widjaja, Communication Networks, McGraw-Hill, 20006. David J. Wright, Voice Over Packet Networks John Wiley & Sons, 2001.7. Jonathan Davidson, Jim Peters, Voice Over IP Fundamentals, Macmillan, 1999.8. Peter Pacheco, Parallel Programming with MPI, Morgan Kaufman Publishers, 1996. Page 7.197.7 “Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright ã2002, American Society for Engineering Education”BiographicalMAURICE F. ABURDENE is the T. Jefferson Miers Professor of Electrical Engineering and

Conference Session

Teaching Design Through Projects

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Theodore Pavlic; Prabal Dutta; Michael Hoffmann; Jeffrey Radigan; James Beams; Erik Justen; John Demel; Richard Freuler

courses for first-year engineering fundamentals to a framework that involves two coursesequences with tightly coupled courses. Engineering orientation, engineering graphics, andengineering problem solving with computer programming are now offered in each of two coursesequences,1 one called the Fundamentals of Engineering and the other the Fundamentals ofEngineering for Honors. These course sequences retain part of the traditional material but nowinclude hands-on laboratory experiences that lead to design/build projects.2 Teamwork, projectmanagement, report writing, and oral presentations have assumed important roles in bothsequences. This paper describes the administrative and teaching experiences with a design/buildproject course in the

Conference Session

Capstone Experiences in OME Education

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Hang Choi

for graduationwas reduced by 10 credits to 130 credits. In general, one course is equivalent to 3 credit hourslecture including experiment per week. One semester extends to 16 weeks. The standardcurriculum is shown in Table 1. The first column of the table denotes the year, the second andthird ones correspond to spring semester and fall semester, respectively. In the table, thesymbols have the following meanings: ● mandatory for all engineering students ⊙ mandatory for NAOE students ◐ offered biannuallyAll students at SNU engineering college are required to take at least one course in computerscience and two courses in engineering mathematics. In addition, as NAOE students, they areobliged to study fundamental mechanics

Collection

1998 Annual Conference

Authors

James L. Greer; James P. Solti; James M., Jr. Greer

Incorporating Non-Traditional Teaching Techniques in a Technical Core Course James P. Solti, James M. Greer, Jr. and James L. Greer Department of Engineering Mechanics United States Air Force AcademyIntroductionThis paper describes motivating the implementation of non-traditional teachingtechniques, such as problem-based and cooperative learning, in a technical core course atthe U.S. Air Force Academy (USAFA). All students at USAFA are required to take acertain common “core” of courses. Among these courses is an Engineering Mechanicscourse covering the fundamentals of Statics and Strength of Materials (EM 200). Manyof the approximately 600 students who take the

Conference Session

Active Learning in ECE

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John W. Dyer, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Oklahoma; David Sandmann MSEE, University of Oklahoma; Chad Eric Davis P.E., University of Oklahoma

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

Page 24.891.10the students are not expected to produce ergonomically analyzed and tested interfaces they areencouraged through grading to put some effort into developing user-friendly interfaces. Anexample of well-executed code and poorly executed code is shown in Figure 4 below. The upperpanel shows poorly organized, non-functional code. Furthermore, the student did not write thecode so that it would execute until the user terminated it, something all the coding assignmentsrequired since monitoring data streams is a fundamental aspect of the course. On the other hand,the lower panel represents well-documented, functional code with an organized and easilyreadable layout. This student actually implemented a state machine for the project, though

Conference Session

Emerging Computing and Information Technologies II

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Yujian Fu P.E., Alabama A&M University; Md Hossain Shuvo, Alabama A&M University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Computing & Information Technology

a robot usingmobile based applications.In addition to this, as mobile platform especially Android is a growing trend in the field ofsoftware design and development as well as a great attraction in STEM learning to the students,from this work, students can learn several aspects of mobile application development. Though,this is basically on Android platform but it will help them to grab the fundamental concept ofmobile application development and make them aware of various development facts. As theRobot Control System works based on both Bluetooth and Wi-Fi communication, they will grabthe idea about several communication protocols. Besides, the software testing area of this workwill have a fruitful impact on developing their skill for

Conference Session

Engineering Professional Development for K-12 Teachers – II

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Marilyn Barger, University of South Florida; Richard Gilbert, University of South Florida; Robin Little, Douglas L. Jamerson Jr. Elementary School; Chuck Parsons, Douglas L. Jamerson Jr. Elementary School; Kim Parsons, Douglas L. Jamerson, Jr. Elementary School; Pat Van Driessche, Douglas L. Jamerson, Jr. Elementary School; Debbie O'Hare

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

Engineering Coach at Douglas L. Jamerson, Jr. Elementary School Center for Mathematics and Engineering. She earned a B.A. in Elementary Education and a M.Ed. in Educational Leadership from the University of South Florida. Her experiences include over 23 years in early childhood classrooms and seven years as a teacher resource and trainer. Robin has curriculum writing experience, including a nationally published teacher resource book integrating science and literature with other areas of the curriculum.Chuck Parsons, Douglas L. Jamerson Jr. Elementary School CHARLES PARSONS is the Science Coach at Douglas L. Jamerson, Jr. Elementary School Center for Mathematics and Engineering. He earned a B.A. in

Conference Session

Communication Across the Divisions I

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jessie Stickgold-Sarah, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Rebecca Thorndike-Breeze, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods, Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

Paper ID #15524Disciplinary Specificity in Engineering Communication: Rhetorical Instruc-tion in an Undergraduate Engineering Research ClassDr. Jessie Stickgold-Sarah, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Jessie Stickgold-Sarah received a joint B.S. degree in electrical engineering and computer science, and the Science, Technology & Society program, in 1997 from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and the Ph.D. degree in English and American literature in 2011 from Brandeis University. She is a lecturer in Writing, Rhetoric, and Professional Communication in CMS/W at MIT.Dr. Rebecca Thorndike-Breeze

Conference Session

Biomedical Division Poster Session

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Dianne Grayce Hendricks, University of Washington

Tagged Divisions

Biomedical

introductory and honors courses in bioengi- neering, tissue and protein engineering lab courses, bioengineering ethics, leadership, and bioengineering capstone writing and design courses. She is committed to enhancing diversity and inclusivity in engineer- ing, and creating opportunities for undergraduate students to engage in K-12 educational outreach. Dr. Hendricks has over a decade of experience leading educational outreach and summer camp programs at both Duke University and the University of Washington. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 Work-in-Progress: Making an Introductory Tissue Culture Lab Course Accessible to Novice StudentsThe ability

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Victoria Wike

reasons: (1)values are fundamental; (2) values are familiar; and (3) values are inclusive andpluralistic. Let me explain these briefly.By saying that values are fundamental, I mean that they are more basic than theories,codes, and laws. They are more universal, which is to say, less arbitrary and legalisticthan other approaches to ethics. With values, we don’t get as caught up in technicalities;instead we focus on what is of importance.When I say that values are familiar, I mean that values language is accessible andconcrete. It is language we use in ordinary conversation. Values are everywhere. Achoice to pursue a particular profession reflects values, a choice to speak to a colleague ina particular way reflects values, and so on. If, as I am

Conference Session

ECE Poster Session

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Vicky Fang, Cedarville University; Clinton Kohl, Cedarville University

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

not expose students to the hardware behavior or the internal instruction behavior. Likewise,FPGA simulation alone will not provide a good real-time visualization of the many digitalsignals which make up the microprocessor hardware. To avoid such drawbacks, we designed aproject that requires each student to implement a 16-bit general-purpose computer on a real timedigital logic simulator named Cedarlogic.Students are given an instruction set specified in the textbook and a short assembly level testprogram. Students will: 1) build the entire computer hardware using the Cedarlogic simulatorfrom fundamental logic gates; 2) write an assembler to translate the test program into binarycode; 3) load the program into the memory of their computers; and

Conference Session

Real-Time and Embedded Systems

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Sub Ramakrishnan; Mohammad Dadfar

multiprogramming environment where there are several processes running concurrently.The operating systems projects use different methods for process synchronization and cooperationincluding message passing and the use of semaphores. We use different methods for establishingcommunications between processes, including bi-directional pipes. Other projects are concernedwith data communications aspect of the course.1. IntroductionDue to the increasing demand for people with expertise in the area of data communications andnetworks and the importance of operating systems concepts, our department decided to include arequired undergraduate course that covers the fundamental issues in both areas (CS 327). Wehave been offering a course in each of these two areas for

Collection

1996 Annual Conference

Authors

Lawrence Genalo

effects of the changes were almost exclusively seen in a local-area-network of classrooms in the Engineering Fundamentals Division at Iowa State. Access to the courseware from the ISU dorms was difficult, and from off-campus it was impossible. Dissemination in such an environment is difficult as the interested parties meet several roadblocks and become discouraged in attempts to avail themselves of the material. Throughout all the years of changes, some major and most minor, the course has been taught to a large audience (more than 500 students per semester) by many instructors in multiple sections. This created the need for tracking the uniformity of the learning experience for our students from one section or semester to the next. Common exams