Conference Session

Capstone and Design Projects

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Eric John Addeo, DeVry University; Nugroho Iwan Santoso, DeVry University, North Brunswick; Chao-Ying Wang, DeVry University, North Brunswick; Raul San Martin Rivadulla, Graduate Education

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Diversity

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Engineering Technology

director at several universities. He is currently a faculty and program chair at DeVry University while continuing his function as an R&D consultant. He has authored numerous papers and granted many global patents. He is a member of ASEE and senior member of the IEEEDr. Chao-Ying Wang, DeVry University, North Brunswick Dr. Wang has been teaching in DeVry University EET program for the last 22 years. She worked as an Electrical Engineer for 3 years before teaching.She earned Ph.D EE and M.S. EE in Southern Illinois Uni- versity. She has been active in DeVry University to develop and update EET curriculum. She specializes in computer architecture and embedded design fields. She published a number of papers in the

Conference Session

California on the Move: A Robust Array of Student Success Initiatives

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nick P Rentsch, Cañada College; Amelito G Enriquez, Canada College

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Two Year College Division

Paper ID #10207Improving Engineering Curriculum and Enhancing Underrepresented Com-munity College Student Success through a Summer Research Internship Pro-gram ˜Prof. Nick P Rentsch, Canada College Nick Rentsch is an adjunct professor of physics, engineering, and computer science at Ca˜nada College, Skyline College, and San Francisco State University. He received his M.S. degree from San Francisco State University in embedded electrical engineering and computer systems. His technical interests include embedded control, electronic hardware design, analog audio electronics, digital audio signal processing

Conference Session

Active and Project-Based Learning

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John S. Lamancusa, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Laura L. Pauley, Pennsylvania State University, University Park

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Mechanical Engineering

specialized mechanical engineering coursesin the first two years. The B.S.M.E. curriculum contains 131 semester credits.The Department of Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering (MNE) is heavily involved in curricularimprovement, both in the college and in the department. College level programs such as theNSF-funded Engineering Coalition of Schools for Excellence in Education and Leadership(ECSEL), the Learning Factory, and the Leonhard Center for the Enhancement of EngineeringEducation have benefited from the involvement of departmental faculty in leadership positions.These organizations have inspired several department-level demonstration projects that havebeen highly successful. Through these initiatives, cost-effective ways to incorporate

Conference Session

Recruitment and Retention

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Tom Eppes; Peter Schuyler

Design I Design II4336 4336 4336 4336 3 1 5ed 6 4336ECT113Comp Appfor ET2112ECT112Prog IVB3224The changes to the curriculum in the core electronics courses were: • Core electronics courses were compressed (Fundamental of Electricity, DC, AC and Solid State and Analog Circuits courses went from four to three courses) • A second programming course, C language, was added • Network analysis course was dropped • Digital electronics course was moved forward to the freshman year • Second digital electronics course was added • Two senior project courses were addedThe department discussed each of these changes and the challenges faced by shuffling the coursesequencing

Conference Session

Laboratory Experiences with Thermal and Chemical Systems and Sensors

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alexander Joseph Plotkowski, Grand Valley State University; Lihong (Heidi) Jiao, Grand Valley State University; Nael Barakat, Grand Valley State University

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Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

the designof pressure sensors with different sets of diaphragm geometries. The design and analysisprocedures were documented and followed by students enrolled in the Nanosystems Engineeringcourse to design and analyze the sensor type of their choice.Keywords: MEMS laboratory, Nanotechnology education, Pressure Sensors2.0 Introduction The purpose of this study was to develop the procedure and streamline the steps for adesign project within an undergraduate course, focusing on an introduction to Micro Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS), combined with nanotechnology. The decisions concerning thecontent of this course faced numerous challenges characteristic of an introductory MEMScourse, as outlined by McAfee et al. [1]. These challenges

Conference Session

Community Engagement Division Technical Session 3

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

John Bernhard Kleba, ITA - Aeronautics Technological Institute (Brazil); Cristiano Cordeiro Cruz, Aeronautics Technological Institute (Brazil)

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Diversity

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Community Engagement Division

post-doctoral researcher) and one volunteer collaborator (a retired teacher from the Department ofHumanities). They have a background in Social Sciences (2), History (1), Psychology (1),Applied Linguistic (1), and Engineering and Philosophy (1). Further, some faculty ofEngineering and Sciences collaborate in the mentorship of LabCTS projects. LabCTS pursuestransdisciplinary projects between engineering and humanities as well as changing theinstitutional culture of ITA’s faculty, which never worked before with community engagementchallenges.The programLabCTS core curriculum activities in community engagement are the following: • The project “Engineering Education and Citizenship” (EEC) runs along with the compulsory discipline 'Technology

Conference Session

Alternative Energy Source Projects

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Peter Schubert, Packer Engineering

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Energy Conversion and Conservation

syngas, which can then be burned in a generatorset to provide electrical power and heat. In order to achieve this efficiency, a plasma torch isused to rapidly pyrolyze corn stover, producing high BTU content syngas and a dry ash rich insoil nutrients.A multidisciplinary team of four undergraduate researchers converted a commercially-availableplasma cutter into a plasma torch for use in a farm-scale biomass syngas reactor. This hands-onresearch project combined the best available published literature on plasma cutters and torcheswith the accumulated experience of professional engineers from industry to create a workingprototype. Following each major development, the student team reviewed their work, and near-term plans, with a review board

Conference Session

Capstone Projects in Manufacturing

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Irina Nicoleta Ciobanescu Husanu, Drexel University (Tech.); Michael G Mauk P.E., Drexel University; Perry B. Gold; Nando Tyler Orfanelli

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Manufacturing

investigations such as designing and testing of propulsion systems including design and development of pilot testing facility, mechanical instrumentation, and industrial applications of aircraft engines. Also, in the past 10 years she gained experience in teaching ME and ET courses in both quality control and quality assurance areas as well as in thermal-fluid, energy conversion and mechanical areas from various levels of instruction and addressed to a broad spectrum of students, from freshmen to seniors, from high school graduates to adult learners. She also has extended experience in curriculum development. Dr Husanu developed laboratory activities for Measurement and Instrumentation course as well as for quality control

Conference Session

Graduate Education and Undergraduate Research in ET

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Wei Zhan P.E., Texas A&M University

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Engineering Technology

; 2. Learning to use software, to use test equipment, and to conduct basic testing in the laboratory environment; 3. Completing part of a faculty member’s research project; 4. Using the results from the projects for curriculum development to bring the benefit to other students.With these goals in mind, the following two projects were selected: 1. DC motor speed control;2. Pump jack and AC motor control system design.The principles of DC/AC motors were taught in a course at the sophomore level, and bothstudents had successfully completed the course. The pump jack and AC motor control systemwas initially developed by a group of ET students as a capstone design project under theguidance of their faculty advisor10. It was

Conference Session

Digital and Embedded System Design

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Liang Hong, Tennessee State University; Md Hasanuzzaman, Tennessee State University

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Electrical and Computer

Electrical and Computer Engineering Tennessee State University 3500 John A Merritt Blvd, Nashville, TN 37209AbstractEmbedded systems are the fastest growing areas of computing in recent years. This growingpopularity calls for engineers with experience in designing and implementing embedded systems.This paper describes an undergraduate embedded system design course in our curriculum that isoffered as technical elective for senior students. The course contents, organization of thematerials and the laboratory are presented. This course is designed by introducing a balancedview of software and hardware concepts in the design process. The objectives of this course areto expose students to the field of

Conference Session

Frontiers in Engineering Management

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Suzanna Long, Missouri University of Science & Technology; Hector Carlo, University of Puerto Rico; Jane Fraser, Colorado State University, Pueblo; Abhijit Gosavi, Missouri University of Science and Technology; Scott Grasman, Missouri University of Science & Technology

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Engineering Management

management systems. She was a faculty researcher on a Business and International Education Grant funded by the Department of Education, completing projects on multimodal transport networks and international and global supply chain curriculum development. She completed preliminary work on global, multi-institutional collaborative student teams referenced in this proposal as part of the BIE grant award. Dr. Long is currently a co-investigator on a related Missouri DOT project and is an investigator on a sustainable waste water treatment project in EPA Region 7 funded by Missouri S&T’s Energy Research Development Center. Dr. Long has over twenty five conference and journal publications, is a

Collection

2024 CIEC

Authors

Md. Ali Haider; Jody Alberd

,” ieeexplore.ieee.org, Accessed: Sep. 28, 2023. [Online]. Available: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/8409216/[48] P. K. Malik et al., “Industrial Internet of Things and its Applications in Industry 4.0: State of The Art,” Comput Commun, vol. 166, pp. 125–139, Jan. 2021, doi: 10.1016/J.COMCOM.2020.11.016.BiographiesMD. ALI HAIDER received a BS in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from Bangladesh University ofEngineering & Technology. Afterward, he received an MS from South Dakota State University and a PhD from theUniversity of North Dakota, both in Electrical Engineering. Currently, Dr. Haider is serving as an assistant professorin the Department of Engineering Technology at Austin Peay State University, TN. His research

Conference Session

Mechanics Division Poster Session

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Wayne Johnson, Armstrong Atlantic State University; Priya Goeser, Armstrong Atlantic State University

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Mechanics

-friendly, time and memory efficient computer programs. In order to gainexperience in practical problem solving, examples from various engineering disciplinesincluding civil engineering, mechanical engineering and electrical engineering are used.After completing Computational Modeling, students are expected to be able to: • Formulate a problem, • Select the best solution approach, • Analyze it using computational modeling, • Perform an error analysis, and • Communicate the results in a user-friendly, written and graphical form.Course Integration ExamplesFour projects were selected for the course integration effort. The problems from the first threeprojects were first presented as example problems in the Statics course. In subsequent weeks

Conference Session

Energy Efficiency and Capstone Projects

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Hayrettin Bora Karayaka, Western Carolina University; Trevor Parrish, Western Carolina University; Robert D. Adams, Western Carolina University

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Diversity

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Energy Conversion and Conservation

basic loop tuningmethods were relatively easy to learn.In another comprehensive student team project, a university campus energy audit involvingHVAC systems and air handlers was specifically discussed by Jansson et al.8. The student teamof four majoring in electrical, civil/environmental and mechanical engineering learned the basicsof building energy analysis, how to perform lighting surveys and energy audits and developedrecommendations to the University's Energy Review Panel. Since all the energy being used oncampus is originally unknown for each specific building, the team also completed a sub-meteringanalysis to prioritize which buildings on campus should be investigated first based upon theirenergy consumption.The unique nature of the

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Two-Year Engineering and Engineering Technology Programs

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Amelito G Enriquez, Canada College; Erik N Dunmire, College of Marin; Nicholas P. Langhoff, Skyline College; Thomas Rebold, Monterey Peninsula College; Eva Schiorring; Tracy Huang, Canada College

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Diversity

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Two Year College Division

the exercises progress, to offer diminishing support and requiremore concept formation, experimentation and debugging.Although the CALSTEP project aims to develop a comprehensive lower-division curriculum thatis delivered completely online, the focus of this paper is the development of the course materialsfor the online Graphics course and its pilot implementation at Cañada College in Fall 2015.2. Developing an Online Engineering Graphics CourseWhen switching to an online teaching environment, faculty have identified issues and concernsin both areas of course design and implementation21. These issues include time commitment21,use of technology tools23, implementing effective pedagogical strategies24,25, and the switch infaculty role to

Conference Session

New Trends in ECE Education I

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert O'Connell, University of Missouri, Columbia; Pil-Won On, University of Missouri, Columbia

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Electrical and Computer

focus on thetechnical aspects of the design projects. Also, they would graduate with much strongerprofessional skills than at present.In order to develop self-directed independent learning and professional team work skills early inthe curriculum, we are using an adaptation of the learning strategy known as team-based learningin both courses in the required two-course electric circuit theory sequence, which is usually takenin the sophomore year. In the following sections of the paper we describe basic or textbookteam-based learning and explain why it was chosen over problem-based learning for thisinitiative. We then describe how the strategy has been implemented, evaluated, and subsequently

Conference Session

Recruitment, Retention, and First-Year Programs in ECE

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Eric A Freudenthal, University of Texas, El Paso; Art Duval, University of Texas, El Paso; Sarah Hug, University of Colorado, Boulder; Alexandria Nicole Ogrey; Kien H. Lim, University of Texas, El Paso; Catherine Tabor, El Paso Independent School District; Rebeca Q. Gonzalez, UTEP-Graduate Student and EPISD-Teacher; Alan Siegel, New York University

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Electrical and Computer

work supported by the National Science Foundation through grants IIS-0829683and DUE-0717877, the Department of Homeland Security through grant 2009-ST-000022 and gifts fromTexas Instruments Inc. and Calculex, Inc. Assistance in project planning and evaluation was providedby the NSF-BPC Computing Alliance of Hispanic Serving Institutions (CNS-0837556). Opinions,findings, and conclusions or recommendations in the paper are those of the authors and do notnecessarily reflect the views of the NSF, DHS, or other sponsors.References[1] Aharoni, Ron, Arithmetic for Parents, Sumizdat, 2001[2] Connally, Hughes-Hallett, Gleason et al. "Functions Modeling Change - A Preparation for Calculus. Wiley; 3rd edition, 2006.[3] Guzdial, Computing and

Collection

2022 ASEE Gulf Southwest Annual Conference

Authors

Janie M Moore, Texas A&M University; Jacques C. Richard, Texas A&M University

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Diversity

Values, Modules Lab 10, 10b 11 (11/5-11/9) Writing Functions, Scope Lab 11, 11b 12 (11/12-11/16) Functions and use in top-down/bottom-up design Lab 12, 12b 13 (11/19-11/20 ) Systematic Debugging Lab 13, Team Project assigned 14 (11/26-11/30) Topic TBD 15 (12/3-12/5) Last exam Finals Week NO FINAL Team Project due MethodsThe new engineering course's curriculum redesign was already complete. The purpose of this workwas to establish a pilot program to

Conference Session

Capstone Design & Project Courses

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Matthew Green, LeTourneau University; Paul Leiffer, LeTourneau University; Thomas Hellmuth, LeTourneau University; Roger Gonzalez, LeTourneau University; Stephen Ayers, LeTourneau University

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

must demonstrate that their students attain…an ability to function on multi-disciplinary teams.”1 This requirement can be met in a numberof ways, including a structured simulated experience or by an actual capstone project thatrequires the involvement of several disciplines.Our university offers a bachelor of science degree in engineering (general engineering) withconcentrations in biomedical (BME), computer (CE), electrical (EE), mechanical (ME), andmaterials joining engineering (MJE). Much of the curriculum is interdisciplinary. All engineerstake core courses including Statics, Dynamics, Circuits, Mechatronics, and Thermodynamics.Design projects have been included in several of these courses. In parallel, the Department ofEngineering

Conference Session

Undergraduate Research & New Directions

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Timothy Walsh; Sean Pearson; Jeffrey Cotton; Jane Hall; Robert Caverly

. ✂✁☎✄✝✆☎✞✠✟☎✟☎✡☎☛✌☞✎✍✑✏✒✔ ✆ ✓✖✕✘✗✙✛ ✟ ✚✢✜✎✜☎✣✥✤✧✦★✟✔✩ ✄ ✪☛ ✬ ✞ ✫☎☞★✭✮✆☎✞✬☛✪✯ ✟ ✕✘✰✱✓✂✆✔✳ ✄ ✲✎☞✎✍✯☛✌☞✙✟☎✟✔✄✩☛✌☞✎✴ ✍ ✲✙✡✎✵✯✞✬✫✎✕✘☛✪✆✔☞✥✤✧☞✎☞✢✵☎✫☎✶✢✷✙✆✔☞✎✓✂✟✔✄✝✟✔☞✙✞✠✟✱✸ ✲✑✹☎✺✻✼ ✆ ✽ ✏ ✾☛ ✕✘☛✪✆✔✿ ☞ ✷✙✆✽❀ ✺ ✰☎✄✩☛✌✍✯✗✢✕✳❁❂✚✢✜✎✜☎✣✑❃✢✤✧✦★✟✔✄✩☛✪✞✬✫☎☞★✭✮✆☎✞✬☛✪✟✯✕✘✰✱✓✂✆✔✄✳✲✎☞✎✍✯☛✌☞✙✟☎✟✔✄✩☛✌☞✎✍✴✲✙✡✎✵✯✞✬✫✎✕✘☛✪✆✔❅ ☞ ❄loss, Q, device coupling (electric and magnetic) and fringing become much more important at theintegrated circuit level than at the more ideal “macro” or discrete device level. Componentlayout, choice of conducting material and device size are more easily discussed in an EM course,with the added positive of the components being a topic of contemporary importance. The paperindicates locations in the EM course where these microelectronic component topics can beintroduced. Information on how to obtain sample course materials is found in the paperconclusion.II. Undergraduate Student Research in Silicon RF MicroelectronicsIIa. BackgroundMany universities have undergraduate students involved in faculty research projects, with someuniversities having

Conference Session

Mechanical Engineering Division (MECH) Technical Session 15: Automation and Machine Learning

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Yuhao Xu, Prairie View A&M University; Bo Zhao; Steve Tung, University of Arkansas; Han Hu, University of Arkansas

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Mechanical Engineering Division (MECH)

experiences or ongoing research projects, e.g., Honorsthesis, Honors College Research Grant project, undergraduate research project, etc. While thiscourse was initially developed for mechanical engineers, the machine learning skills andconcepts covered can also be useful for other departments. As such, we have students fromindustrial engineering, biological and agricultural engineering, and electrical engineeringenrolled in this course.Fig. 2 Student enrollment statistics of the Machine Learning for Mechanical Engineers course inFall 2021 and Fall 2022.Fig. 3 summarizes the statistics of students’ responses to survey questions related to theirfamiliarity with general programming in Python and MATLAB before the Machine Learning forMechanical Engineers

Conference Session

Experiential Learning in ET Programs II

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Aleksandr Sergeyev, Michigan Technological University; David Michael Labyak, Michigan Technological University; Vinh Nguyen, Michigan Technological University; Paniz Khanmohammadi Hazaveh, Michigan Technological University; Linda Wanless, Michigan Technological University; Mark Bradley Kinney, West Shore Community College; Scott A. Kuhl, Michigan Technological University

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Diversity

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Engineering Technology Division (ETD)

growth in automation and manufacturing in theUS and worldwide. Mechatronics is a common degree in Europe and Asia; however, it remainsunderdeveloped in the US, which limits industrial sectors, including biotechnology, advancedmanufacturing, and microelectronics. Due to the current growth of these sectors, whichencompass the hybrid technologies of mechanical, electrical, robotics, controls, cybersecurity,and artificial intelligence fields, the demand for mechatronics specialists is growingexponentially. Today, the labor supply does not meet the demand. During the last several years,Michigan Tech has been a leader in promoting mechatronics and industrial robotics, developingcurriculum and associated tools. Collaborators on this project have

Conference Session

Manufacturing Workforce Development

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sergio Luna, University of Texas at El Paso; Amit Lopes; Ahmed Bahabry, United States Military Academy; Aditya Akundi, The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley

Helix Project. In the manuscript “The Roles of SystemsEngineers Revisited” [Hutchison, Wade, and Luna, 2017] and Atlas 1.1 “An update to the Theoryof Effective Systems Engineers” [Hutchison, et al., 2018], researchers classified 15 systemsengineering roles into three main clusters as seen in Table 1: • Roles Focused on the System Being Developed – These roles are what may most quickly come to mind when describing a systems engineer. They are roles that align closely with the systems engineering lifecycle and the critical activities systems engineers must enable throughout the lifecycle. • Roles Focused on SE Process and Organization – These roles focus on the organizational context in which systems engineering occurs

Collection

2015 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Gary A. Gabriele; Edmond Dougherty

videos on DI; identify DI in electrical/computer engineering; did it provide customer value, how did it differentiate itself in the market, identify a company that was a “victim” of DI. Hands-on project using Sonar Sensor. Analog Electronics(EE) Lecture on Entrepreneurial Mindset; Difference between Disruptive vs Sustaining Innovations; Exercise for design of a DC power supply specifying business opportunity, market potential, and preliminary business plan. Mechanics of Solids (ME) Review of Entrepreneurial Mindset, design

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Milo Koretsky, Oregon State University; David L. Silverstein, University of Kentucky; Ronald L. Miller, Colorado School of Mines; John L. Falconer P.E., University of Colorado, Boulder

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NSF Grantees

Concept Warehouse,which ultimately could be used throughout the core ChE curriculum (Material and EnergyBalances, Thermodynamics, Transport Phenomena, Kinetics and Reactor Design, and MaterialsScience). Conceptual questions, both as Concept Inventories and ConcepTests, will be availablethrough an interactive website maintained through the Education Division of the AmericanInstitute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE), the discipline’s major professional society. The overallobjective is to lower the activation barrier for using conceptual instruction and assessment so thatmany more chemical engineering faculty will incorporate concept-based learning into theirclasses.The specific objectives of this project are to:1. Develop the AIChE Concept Warehouse

Collection

2005 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Larry N. Bland

hard, technical skills and advancing research in engineering sciences.Community and cultural activities have been performed in a voluntary, non-credit environment.Opportunities exist for these voluntary activities to be formalized into credit bearing learningexperiences that would be learning centered and increase knowledge retention. [10] The 2002 Project Kaleidoscope Report on Reports identified a consistent theme overseventeen years of reports: a vision of an environment where undergraduates develop anunderstanding of the role of science and technology in their world. [11] During that same timeperiod universities have seen the needs of their student change due to changing demographicsand diversity. Across the university curriculum we

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Capstone Design Projects

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Josef Rojter, Victoria University of Technology

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

andHarvey17 et al in a similar survey in Britain.However, placing the blame on university education is of cold comfort if engineeringeducation cannot meet professional needs. There is an evident and obvious need for the re-appraisal of engineering education and its fitness within the university institutional setting.The values of different pedagogical approaches are discussed below.Curriculum for Engineering EducationConstruction of a professional educational curriculum without the understanding of theprofessional contextual epistemology, and without of a professional ideology and philosophypresents a major problem for engineering. One commentator suggests that there is nouniversally accepted characterization of engineering knowledge18. Professional

Conference Session

Innovations in ECE Education I

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Christopher Greene, University of Saint Thomas

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Electrical and Computer

inquiry-based methodologies. In this project, the Signals and Systems class is beingtotally redesigned. Using Microsoft Excel® and Matlab®, in-class exercises have beendeveloped to motivate and demonstrate key concepts in Signals and Systems. This process hasbeen incremental with some changes made every year and was first described in “Studio-BasedSignals and Systems”. The current paper reports on the status of this transition and, mostimportantly, concentrates on an assessment of the effectiveness of the changes based on theSignals and Systems Concept Inventory (SSCI) published by Buck et al. Using the SSCI in apre- post-test format, we quantified the gain in concept understanding that the students get fromthis new classroom format. It also

Conference Session

BME Laboratory and Project Experiences

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Pamela Bhatti, Georgia Institute of Technology; Jessica Falcone, Georgia Institute of Technology; James McClellan, Georgia Institute of Technology

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Biomedical

was a member of the research staff at M.I.T.'s Lincoln Laboratory. He then became a professor in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department at M.I.T. In 1982, he joined Schlumberger Well Services where he worked on the application of 2-D spectral estimation to the processing of dispersive sonic waves, and the implementation of signal processing algorithms for dedicated high-speed array processors. He has been at Georgia Tech since 1987. Prof. McClellan is a Fellow of the IEEE and he received the ASSP Technical Achievement Award in 1987, and then the Signal Processing Society Award in 1996. Prof. McClellan is active in curriculum development for undergraduate education

Conference Session

Subjects in Renewable Energy and ET

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kenan Baltaci, University of Wisconsin, Stout; Faruk Yildiz, Sam Houston State University; Andy S. Peng, University of Wisconsin, Stout; Ulan Dakeev, University of Michigan, Flint

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Engineering Technology

from https://yearbook.enerdata.net/renewable-in-electricity-production-share-by-region.html[4] Jennings, P. (2009). New directions in renewable energy education. Renewable Energy, 34(2), 435-439.[5] Nahar, N.M. (1998). Role of renewable energy education in the development of arid regions. In A. Misra(Eds.), Renewable Energy Education Current Scenario and Future Projections (pp. 221-226). New Delhi, India: The Energy and Resources Institute.[6] U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). (2013, March 11). Energy 101: Science, technology, and society. Retrieved from http://www.eesi.org/files/Energy-101-Course-Framework-Summary.pdf[7] U.S. Energy Information Administration. (2012). Annual energy review 2011. Washington