Conference Session

Design in Engineering Education Division (DEED) Poster Session

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Elizabeth A. Debartolo, Rochester Institute of Technology (COE); James Lucas Daly

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education Division (DEED)

DesignAbstractOne approach to look at student learning is to identify “threshold concepts.” These are conceptsthat, once grasped, allow students to engage with the material in a fundamentally different way.First described by Meyer and Land [1], these concepts are transformative, irreversible,integrative, and troublesome. The process of mastering a threshold concept (TC) meanstraversing a liminal space during which the student is changed. Looking inward at our owncapstone program, we identified three candidate TCs: (1) Complex engineering problems arebest solved by teams working together. (2) A team can learn a lot from a prototype, even(especially?) when it doesn’t work. (3) The goal isn’t to find the right answer, but to learn aprocess by which a

Conference Session

Improving Mechanics of Materials Classes

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Wilmorat Ratchukool; Arnold Lumsdaine

homework rather than traditional penciland paper methods. (Of course, care must be taken to assure that the student is learning, and notsimply “playing” with the software). So, integrating multimedia materials into a course creates afar richer medium than only traditional lectures on the one hand, or a purely online or softwarecourse on the other, each of which only accommodates certain learning styles.INTERACTIVE TUTORIALS AND ANIMATION One of the most fundamental means for the instruction of students with different learningstyles is the provision of asynchronous learning modules that can be performed by students intheir own time and at their own pace. To this end, Web-based tutorials were created that walk

Collection

2004 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Ing-Chang Jong

solving for Ay Referring to Figs. 2 and 5 and applying the virtual work principle, we write δU = 0: Ay (δ y) – 80(δ y) + By (δ y) = 0 ∴ Ay = 32 Thus, the reactions at A and B, respectively, are A = 60i + 32j lb B = 48j lb which are identical with the reactions obtained earlier by the conventional method. Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Midwest Section ConferenceIII. Advantages in Virtual Work Method: ExamplesIn solving a simple problem, the solution by the virtual work method seems to come across asmore “cumbersome” or even “funny” when it is compared with the solution by the conventionalmethod as shown in Example 1

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Curriculum Innovation

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Blair McDonald, SUU Integrated Engineering; William Pratt, SUU Integrated Engineering; Nicholas Winowich, SUU Integrated Engineering

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

faced byeducators and the result is often the sacrifice of engineering fundamentals that are unrelated to aprogram’s ultimate focus. There is a growing need for graduates that possess comprehensiveknowledge of engineering fundamentals from the full spectrum of engineering disciplines toaccommodate the increasingly integrated work place. Multi-disciplinary engineering degreeprograms are attempting to address this need, often by utilizing coursework from various“traditional” departments in well established engineering colleges. Integrated Engineering is anattempt to develop a comprehensive fundamental curriculum where all of the courseworkintegrally supports the overall course of study. With their broader, fundamental knowledgeIntegrated

Conference Session

Design Throughout the Mechanical Engineering Curriculum

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kenneth Lulay, University of Portland; Heather Dillon, University of Portland; Timothy A. Doughty, University of Portland; Deborah S. Munro, University of Portland; Shazib Z. Vijlee, University of Portland

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Mechanical Engineering

efficiency, renewable energy, and fundamental heat transfer. Before joining the university, Heather Dillon worked for the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) as a senior research engineer.Dr. Timothy A Doughty, University of Portland Dr. Timothy A. Doughty received his BS and MS from Washington State University in Mechanical and Materials Engineering and his Ph. D. from Purdue University. He has taught at Purdue, Smith College, and is now an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Portland. From 2009 to 2001 he served as a Faculty Scholar with Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories and has served as the Dundon-Berchtold Fellow of Ethics for the Donald. P. Shiley School of Engineering

Conference Session

ELOS Technical Session 3 - Diversity

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lei Miao, Middle Tennessee State University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

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Experimentation and Laboratory-Oriented Studies Division (DELOS)

Technologies/Legrand North America. From 2014 to 2015, he was with the State University of New York Farmingdale. He joined MTSU in fall 2015 as an assistant professor and was promoted to Associate Professor in 2020. He has had over 15 years R&D experience in system control and optimization, embedded systems, and intelligent transportation systems. He has had over 40 publications in referred conferences and journals. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 Introducing Arduino to mechatronics engineering students via lab activities and a hands-on signature-thinking course projectAbstractDigital Circuits Fundamentals is a junior course offered for mechatronics engineering students

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

William Clark, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; David DiBiasio, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

students. The teams are required to write a pre-lab report to ensure that they review thefundamental principles, “design” their own experiments, and communicate effectively bypreparing written instructions that a lab technician could follow. This pre-lab exercise is alsodesigned to help promote higher order thinking in the final report writing stage. Ideally, after thepre-lab stage, students will have a very good understanding of the fundamental principles and theexpected results and will be able to collect all the necessary data as well as do most of thecalculations and routine analysis of results while they are in the laboratory. That way, they havetime for high level interpretation and critical analysis of the results at the final report

Conference Session

Make It!

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joseph Michael Derrick, Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis; Michael Golub, Indiana University Purdue University, Indianapolis; Vaibhav R. Shrivastav; Jing Zhang, Indiana University Purdue University, Indianapolis

Tagged Divisions

Manufacturing

aerospace applications, I participate in many projects related to controls and heat transfer. Aside from my research, I focus heavily on the advancement of engineering education at the collegiate level. I work on revising and updating laboratory experiments to help improve student understanding of how concepts are applied and utilized. I also spend time writing design optimization MATLAB codes for various applications.Mr. Michael Golub, Indiana University Purdue University, Indianapolis Michael Golub is the Academic Laboratory Supervisor for the Mechanical Engineering department at IUPUI. He is an associate faculty at the same school, and has taught at several other colleges. He has conducted research related to Arctic

Conference Session

Engineering Economy -- Outside the Introductory Course

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

William Peterson, Arizona State University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Economy

evaluation tool for projects and programs. This is not anisolated occurrence. Recently, in a graduate engineering economy course being taught by thisauthor, part of the course required each student to write an application paper in which theyapplied engineering economy principles to evaluate a project – preferably one at work since mostof the students were working professionals. One student submitted a paper in which the studentevaluated a training program which the student was eager to initiate. The evaluation techniqueselected was ROI. This selection was based on the student’s use of a book on training – this booksaid use ROI because net present worth and internal rate of return were too difficult tounderstand, use or explain. The student was

Conference Session

Potpourri of Engineering Mathematics

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Feodor Vainstein; Mark Rajai

of the formula| 2 X | = 2| X | just a simple corollary of the fact that there exist exactly 2 n binary numbersrepresented by a binary string of length n. The later statement is well known to all computerengineering/science students and the proof creates a bridge between computer engineering andabstract mathematics. The existence of such “bridge” is hard to overestimate. It is especiallyinteresting when engineers present better proofs that those obtained by using traditionalmathematical approach. For instance an identity A I ( B U C ) = A I B U A I C can be provednaively by Venn’s diagrams or by reasoning like: Let x ∈ A I ( B U C ) , then… Engineeringapproach will be to write expressions for switching functions for both parts: A ⋅ ( B + C

Conference Session

Applications of Engineering Economy

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Benjamin Kelley, Baylor University; Robert Doty, Baylor University; Bill booth, Baylor University; Cynthia Fry, Baylor University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Economy

business students.On an interim basis, each ECS department approved that these two courses are permitted tosubstitute for two existing curriculum requirements. This is a similar arrangement as for theactual study-abroad ECS courses. The permitted substitutions vary by department and rangefrom courses in engineering economy, technical writing, history/social science elective, technicalelective, and even foreign language.The existing and required Engineering Economic Analysis course is offered by a faculty memberin the business school. It covers traditional engineering economy topics, including those that areperceived by some to be beyond what is tested on the Fundamental of Engineering exam.Because this course is somewhat isolated in the business

Collection

15th Annual First-Year Engineering Experience Conference (FYEE)

Authors

Kathleen A Harper, Case Western Reserve University; Kurt R Rhoads, Case Western Reserve University

Paper ID #45033Full Paper: One Tool to Support Attendance, Engagement, Metacognition,and Exam PreparationDr. Kathleen A Harper, Case Western Reserve University Kathleen A. Harper is an associate professor and has served as the assistant director of the Roger E. Susi First-year Engineering Experience at Case Western Reserve University since 2021. Prior to that, she taught as part of the Fundamentals of Engineering for Honors program at The Ohio State University. She received her M. S. in physics and B. S. in electrical engineering and applied physics from CWRU and her Ph. D. in physics, specializing in physics education

Conference Session

Projects in ECE

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joseph P. Hoffbeck, University of Portland

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

or DSP environment, and the recordings for these projects are available forfree from the author.BackgroundThe FFT and filter design are two fundamental techniques in DSP. Showing the students someexamples of how these techniques can be used in practice can help motivate them to learn themathematical theory. Some DSP courses incorporate laboratory experiments1,2,3, some useMATLAB/Simulink projects4,5,6, and some use web-based environments7. The projectsdescribed below are used in the author’s undergraduate DSP lecture course, which has a coursein signals and systems as the prerequisite. Some of the projects are assigned as part of ahomework assignment and some of them are standalone projects. The goal of the projects is toincrease the

Conference Session

Design in the Engineering Core

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Mark Palmer

), and by the time they graduate at the fifth level,Synthesis (tying together distinct concepts).Course StructureStatics is the most fundamental of the engineering courses. Because the scientific andmathematical principles are not difficult, it is a course where a student can be introduced toengineering practice early in their career. This exposure was continued in the more advancedstrength of materials course.Our original goals were ambitious. In addition to statics, we hoped to introduce the followingmaterial into the course.Linear Algebra - Due to reductions in the number of courses it was not possible to require asemester of linear algebra. Also we felt that students typically learned this subject so late in theirundergraduate careers that

Conference Session

Thinking Outside the Box! Innovative Curriculum Exchange for K12 Engineering

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Micah Stickel, University of Toronto; Bruno Korst, University of Toronto

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

context.As part of the high-school outreach effort within our Electrical and Computer Engineeringdepartment, we have developed a guided-inquiry exercise which is designed to enhance theunderstanding of these two fundamental laws. This hands-on exercise enables high-schoolstudents to discover through their own efforts the essential ideas behind these laws. At the sametime, the students gain a greater appreciation for the role of engineers in society by workingthrough the steps to solve a simple design problem.In order to share this exercise with as many students and teachers as possible we have begun topresent this as a workshop to high-school teachers at regional conferences of science teachers.The primary purpose of this paper is to fully describe

Conference Session

Engineering Education and Comparative Studies at Universities throughout Asia, Far East

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rajarajan Subramanian, Maryland State Highway Administration; Thavavigna Thanikachalam, University of Florida; Fazil T. Najafi, University of Florida

Tagged Divisions

International

, in addition to atranscript and the new SAT or ACT with writing results required of other applicants, they mustprovide results from the SAT II examinations in mathematics (Level II-C), foreign language,science and social science. For admission decision purposes, the university will use the result ofthe new SAT writing subscore, if the applicant has no dual-enrollment or virtual school Englishcomposition coursework, since 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.3In order to acquire admission to Anna University, students must be graduated from high school,or equivalent institutions. In addition, Indian students should acquire a

Collection

1997 Annual Conference

Authors

David J. Lilja

ability to dogood research may in fact require personal traits and characteristics that are beyond thecapability to teach, such as creativity and persistence, there are some fundamental skills that arenecessary (although not sufficient) to become a successful engineering researcher. These skillsinclude the ability to critically evaluate the work of others, a facility with the standard tools andtechniques of the given field of study, an understanding of appropriate statistical methods, andthe ability to clearly present new ideas and results through written and spoken communication. Since research is an integral component of the engineering design process, engineeringdegree programs should make a concerted effort to teach students how to

Conference Session

Engineering Laboratory Experiences

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

André J. Butler, Mercer University; William Moses, Mercer University; Stephen Hill, Mercer University

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

help solve problems. Laboratory experiences have practically always been used bymechanical engineering educators to instill those fundamentals in students;1-3 and it is,presumably, in the laboratory that undergraduate students learn to fill in for themselves the gapsbetween theory and practice. However, a common problem in the undergraduate laboratory isill- or under-defined learning objectives, which often lead to deficiencies in studentperformance.4 Such a problem existed in mechanical engineering at the Mercer UniversitySchool of Engineering. The overall goal of this paper is to examine the initial results ofcurriculum changes that were made in mechanical engineering to better align learning objectiveswith student performance.BackgroundThe

Collection

2008 GSW

Authors

Jiecai Luo; Pradeep K. Bhattacharya

9969, Baton Rouge, LA 70813 bhattach@engr.subr.edu AbstractEngineering Mathematics Course at Electrical Engineering Department of Southern University is afundamental core engineering course. This core course is taught in a way that shows how theengineering problems in the real world are related to the mathematic problems and how to solvethese related engineering problems by adopting different mathematical tools, which is one of thegreatest strengths of SU's EE curriculum- and having emphasis on fundamentals about how theyapply to real-world problems. There always are very many types of mathematical topics to becovered in this

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Rakesh Pangasa; David Scott; Marc Herniter

disservice to students if they solve trivialproblems by writing programs in a high level language rather then using application specificprograms. As an example, engineers would not write a program in C to solve a four transistorcircuit when they could have solved the problem in a few minutes with SPICE. With theproliferation of application specific programs, instructors can assign non-trivial problems thatcan be easily solved with application specific programs but are difficult to solve in a reasonableamount of time with a high level programming language. The result is that most engineeringcurricula teach a high level programming class in the freshmen year and most students areseldom required to use the language again. The Electrical Engineering

Conference Session

Innovations in Promoting Technological Literacy II

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Vazgen Shekoyan, Queensborough Community College, CUNY; Todd Holden, Queensborough Community College, CUNY; Raul Armendariz Ph.D., Queensborough Community College, CUNY; Helio Takai, Brookhaven National Laboratory; Sunil Dehipawala, Queensborough Community College, CUNY; Dimitrios S. Kokkinos Ph.D., Queensborough Community College, CUNY; Regina Sullivan, Queensborough Community College, CUNY; George Tremberger Jr, Queensborough Community College, CUNY; Paul J. Marchese, Queensborough Community College, CUNY; David H. Lieberman, Queensborough Community College, CUNY; Tak Cheung, Queensborough Community College, CUNY

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society, Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering

families. Health related topicssuch as microbes on Earth and perhaps elsewhere are most receptive to parents, but the teenagedlearners have more diverse interests such as pulleys, prism, and optics.What Is Literacy?What is literacy? In general being illiterate would suggest a person who lacks the ability inreading and writing, but has no trouble in listening and speaking in daily life. The ability to readand write is essential to fulfill the NAE criterion on critical thinking and decision making, thethird cognitive dimension on technological literacy. Recollection, being a fundamental elementin the critical thinking process, would be easier when reading and writing skills are available. Infact recollection belongs to the second cognitive dimension

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics Issues Part One

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Claire Komives, San Jose State University; Moira M. Walsh, Independent Scholar

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Ethics

to bemeasurable, even if they do not project to actual ethical practice on the part of the students. Forexample, students are required to write the six fundamental canons of the NSPE Code of Ethicson the midterm from memory. The performance criterion is to correctly scribe the six canonsalthough mistakes are allowed if they don’t change the meaning of the canon. The evaluation ofa case study is part of a paper assignment. The performance criterion is to identify correctly allof the ethical infractions described in the paper by comparison with the NSPE code. In the samepaper they are asked to describe a strategy for dealing with the infractions if they were to assumeto role of the supervisor of the perpetrator. Questions on the midterm probe

Conference Session

New Trends in Engineering Graduate Education

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David Wells, North Dakota State University

Tagged Divisions

Graduate Studies

has been well-defined as comprising product engineering and engineering materials,process science, quality engineering and production systems engineering.1,2 Other engineeringdisciplines are defined in parallel fashion.Engineering research, which is central to graduate study, is characterized by both discovery andapplication -- by creation of something new. This often leads the research into paths somewhatafield from traditional sub-disciplinary topical definition. One of the challenges, thus, of thefaculty advisor is to balance attention to recognizable disciplinary fundamentals with the creativespirit of the graduate student researcher. Experience suggests that recognized accomplishment inthe core competencies of the engineering field are

Collection

1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Svetlana Avramov-Zamurovic; Roger Ashworth

students and it is related to the ongoing research efforts of the faculty members. It is wonderful opportunity for the interested students to obtain some research experience and it provides students prospective to the faculty member. Very often the high level research is way beyond student’s comprehension. Having motivated student engaged in a project results in the focus on fundamentals. Through these discussions most of the time both the student and the teacher benefit. TVC FUNDAMENTALS TVC consists of a resistor, R, and a thermoelement (TE) connected in series. The resistor limits the current, I, through the TE. A TE consists of a low resistance heater to which a temperature sensor

Conference Session

Collaborative & New Efforts in Engineering Education

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Melany Ciampi; Claudio Brito, Council of Researches in Education and Sciences

Tagged Divisions

International

adding to the records of building companies. "Knowing how to do"of those workers happens in the building site and it is part of a structure of occupations, in whichunqualified workers apprehend an occupation side by side with more experienced workers.Finally to recognize that a better education degree is fundamental in the absorption of newtechnologies that demand new productive processes and consequently a new profile of handwork in the building site.1. IntroductionThe so called global work market has been changing drastically the workplace and the practices.Therefore reflecting about the data of the field research and of the permanent dialogue with thesubject of the investigation, it was built a referential to think the object study the worker

Collection

1998 Annual Conference

Authors

John K. Estell

address ‘addr’ INA 07 Read integer from input text field into accumulator OUT 08 Write integer in accumulator to output text field END 09 End programFigure 1. The simple instruction set.simulator class that extends the Applet class, and design the graphical user interface (GUI). In-class discussions are held to assist students in determining what methods and data structures areneeded for each module and as to what should appear on the GUI.The Flag class is the simplest to implement; it needs only a boolean instance variable to representthe state of the flag, and both get and set methods for accessing the value of the instance variable.A constructor method should be included so

Conference Session

Innovative Approaches to Improving Student Learning

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Matthew James Scarborough, University of Vermont; Katherine D. McMahon, University of Wisconsin, Madison

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Environmental Engineering

affective learning outcomes improved forchemistry-related outcomes in an introductory environmental engineering course. Furthermore,this study demonstrates that including writing assignments with case studies can benefit studentlearning. Case studies may be especially beneficial for motivating students to engage with andlearn material that could otherwise be deemed as unimportant for their chosen field of study.IntroductionEvery undergraduate student majoring in civil and environmental engineering at the Universityof Wisconsin - Madison is required to complete an introductory course in environmentalengineering. A major component of this course is applying chemistry to solve environmentalengineering problems. The specific problems relate to acid

Conference Session

Technological Literacy Poster Session

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rigoberto Chinchilla, Eastern Illinois University

Tagged Divisions

Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering

, 2012 Ethical and Social Consequences of Biometric Technologies in the USAbstract Biometrics can be defined as all the authentication techniques relying on measurablephysiological and individual human characteristics that can be verified using computers. Thispaper outlines fundamental biometric technical concepts, biometrics drivers, securityexpectations and current technical problems. The paper‟s main objective is to discuss thepotential social and legal consequences of biometric massive implementations in society. Whatmay be the consequences when the security of our biometrics is compromised? How willpopulations with disabilities be enrolled in biometric databases when they lack the physical

Conference Session

Electrical ET Laboratory Practicum

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Gendrachi

textbook problems limited tocreativity of the author. As good as some of these problems are, they are not “real” problems.For example, a student might encounter a “real” problem in the laboratory setting up a circuit fora fundamental AC or DC course. The student realizes something is wrong when he does not getthe expected results. The cause is usually a setup problem; something is not connected right.After checking the schematic, the student can determine the problem by inspection and correctthe error. However, this technique does not work very well when the circuit the student has toconstruct involves a significant amount of wiring and components as in a memory circuit addedto a computer. In the microprocessor, lab this is often the case.The

Collection

2010 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

John Adams

, save money, createeducational opportunities, and partner with external agencies.” 3 ASEE-NE 2010 Conference - WITAdams: Renewable Energy Education …As of this writing, the board is still in its early stages, with development of a coherentoverall strategy as the first order of business. A number of successful RE^3 strategieshave been adopted at the college in recent years, including the SHW installationmentioned above, an ice making installation incorporating state of the art heatreclamation, and more. Up to the present, these strategies have been pursued piecemealrather than as part of a coherent strategy.Role in Campus