Conference Session

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering Division: Research to Practice: K-12 Engineering Resources: Best Practices in Curriculum Design (Part 1)

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jonathan D. Hertel, Museum of Science; Christine M. Cunningham, Museum of Science; Gregory John Kelly, Pennsylvania State University; Cathy P. Lachapelle, Museum of Science

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Pre-College Engineering Education Division

derived sense of scientificliteracy); they note, however, that within science these senses are tightly interconnected due tothe importance placed on written documentation6. As the end product in engineering design isprimarily a technological product, this connection may not be as strong between the knowledgeof engineering and reading and writing about engineering, the fundamental sense of what couldbe deemed engineering literacy. However, when considering the epistemic practices ofengineering2, it is clear that the nature of engineering necessitates a certain facility withdisciplinary writing, particularly in the practice of recording data from testing and utilizing it indesign decisions.Research on whether writing holds the potential to bolster

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alice Squires, Stevens Institute of Technology; Mike Pennotti, Stevens Institute of Technology; Dinesh Verma, Stevens Institute of Technology

online Fundamentals of SystemsEngineering course. This paper compares results from four instantiations of this onlinecourse with no audio lectures delivered in 2004 to results from three instantiations of thesame online course with audio lectures delivered in 2005. The analysis addressesdifferences in student participation and performance, team project quality, and studentsurvey scores between the two types of course offerings. The objective of this analysis isto better understand the contribution of audio lectures to the learning process.1. OverviewIn converting classroom-based instruction to online instruction, it is natural to try tomimic, where possible, the classroom environment. With this strategy, however, onlinelearning is subjected to

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade for Research

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jerry Samples

. What are the downfalls and are there easily self-taught solutions? Are theresimilarities in both teaching and research situations?Pitfalls in the tenure processThere are a lot of distractions, situations and attention issues that cause professors to not stay ontask to tenure. The list below is mixed: some are distractions, some are situations and some arecaused due to lack of attention – some fit more than one category. Some of the more importantissues, such as teaching and proposal writing can be handled efficiently or inefficiently – thustheir inclusion in this section. Each issue is followed by a brief explanation. Once the issues areon the table, possible solutions will be presented for streamlining the process. What does thishave to do

Conference Session

Instrumentation Technical Session II

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Akram Hossain, Purdue University, Calumet (Tech); Tanima Zaman, Ivy Tech Community College, Northwest

Tagged Divisions

Instrumentation

decision to execute collision avoidance routine and returns to theprocess of reaching the destination point. The motion of the robot is controlled by two pairs ofmechanically geared wheels driven by two DC Servo Motors. The figure below shows anexample of the path of travel for the mobile robot: Page 23.1275.3 Figure 1: The Path of Travel for the Mobile Robot.NI Robotic Starter Kit 1.0:National Instrument’s Robotic Starter Kit 1.0 is an active learning module that helps to buildrobotics fundamentals such as sensor characterization, motor control, kinematics, path planning,data acquisition and other industrial robotics concepts. NI

Conference Session

Course and Program Assessment

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Kenneth Rennels

accreditation. The Department of MechanicalEngineering Technology at IUPUI has determined that a senior level “graduation exam” similarto the Fundamentals of Engineering (FE) examination will be the optimal student outcomesassessment tool for its Mechanical Engineering Technology (MET) and Computer IntegratedManufacturing Technology (CIMT) degree programs.This paper reports on the format of the graduation examination along with faculty experiencesand insights of using a graduation examination as one of the assessment tools in an engineeringtechnology program. Included in the discussion is how the graduation examination results arebeing used for course improvement and enhancement activities. The paper also includes astatistical analysis 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

Pradip Peter Dey, National University

Tagged Topics

Diversity, Pacific Southwest Section Meeting Paper Submissions

after discussing related easier concepts with intuitive representations.A Turing machine is an abstract machine proposed by the mathematician Alan Turing in 1936for defining fundamental aspects of computation [41]. The machine can elegantly present analgorithmic solution to any computable problem. Descriptions of Turing machines are includedalong with other automata such as Linear Bounded Automata, Pushdown Automata and FiniteAutomata, in modern automata theory textbooks [6, 11, 14, 16, 19, 21, 22, 24, 32, 36, 37]. Turing machinescan be used for modeling dynamic aspects of computation at various levels of abstraction.Dynamic aspects of software can be modeled with statecharts which are simplified Turingmachines proposed by David Harel [12, 13

Conference Session

Newly Developed Engineering Courses

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Thomas Dobrowski, Purdue University-North Central

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

datainto a form which is useful. The laboratory reports are to be written so that someone who isintelligent, but not necessarily an expert in this field, can understand the significance of why thetest was performed, and the outcomes of the test. This course is taught in the third year, so inaddition to the prerequisites for the course, the students have already had four semesters ofmathematics, as well as two semesters of English, including Technical Writing. The problemseems to be that the lessons learned in math and (especially) English are not being effectivelyapplied to later courses.Freshman Experience CourseOne of the courses proposed by the General Education Committee for the campus is a “FreshmenExperience” course to be taught as a two

Conference Session

Software and Hardware for Educators II

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James Lewis, University of Louisville

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education

AC 2010-1823: TWO TECHNIQUES FOR EFFECTIVELY PRESENTINGINFORMATION IN THE CLASSROOM WITH MULTIPLE TABLET PCSJames Lewis, University of Louisville James E. Lewis, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Engineering Fundamentals in the J. B. Speed School of Engineering at the University of Louisville. His research interests include parallel and distributed computer systems, cryptography, engineering education, undergraduate retention and technology (Tablet PCs) used in the classroom. Page 15.1283.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 Two Techniques for Effectively

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Rosalyn Berne

to them?How might students consider, for example, the writing of Ray Kurzweil, and others, whoput forth arguments that the evolving intelligent, ‘spiritual’ machine will soon be nearlyindistinguishable from its human creator? How do we teach the ethics of such a daunting,futuristic prediction? How might classroom instruction provide for probing, insightfulthinking which would equip our students with the tools they need to navigate suchunknown and unfamiliar moral terrain? One helpful pedagogical approach is the use offilm.This paper relates the use the film The Matrix as a teaching tool in Engineering Ethics. Itsuggests that the pedagogical power of using film for Engineering Ethics lies in its abilityto uncover otherwise elusive ideas and

Conference Session

Curricular Issues in Computing and Information Technology Programs I

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gene Lee Fisher Ph.D., California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

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Computing & Information Technology

for at least two ABET 6-year evaluationcycles. The primary focus of this paper is on accreditation of computer science, but issues fromsoftware engineering accreditation will also be taken into consideration where appropriate.Nationally there are a large number of computer science and software engineering degree pro-grams that are ABET accredited. As of this writing, there are 287 four-year degree programs incomputer science that are accredited by ABET in the United States [1]. For software engineer-ing, there are 26 such programs [1].It is difficult to obtain a precise national estimate of the percentage of computer science programsthat are accredited compared to those that are not. In the state of California, in which our owninstitution

Conference Session

Workshop, Program, and Toolkit Results

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Allen Estes; Ronald Welch

into four or six rectangular panels, each ofwhich represents a segment of chalkboard approximately three feet wide. In general, each panelcorresponds to one topic from the lesson outline.Figure 1 shows one page of board notes for a Statics lesson on dry friction (Ressler et.al. 2004).The page represents exactly what the instructor intends to write on six boards during a classroompresentation. The size of each panel in the notes is calibrated to correspond to what thatinstructor can reasonably fit onto a board in the classroom. The instructor is therefore notfumbling to squeeze an inordinate amount of material onto a single board and does not have toinadvertently break a topic at an illogical point. The entire classroom presentation has

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Caroline Barrière

"Fundamentals of Software Design" hasbeen described, to give a concrete example of using the Web to efficiently encourage criticalthinking. For the same course, we have shown how moving from a one-to-one physical presenceto a one-to-many virtual presence can provide efficient feedback and tracking with the use of asimple FAQ page. Of course this is not equivalent to face-to-face contact, but we would arguethat there is a way to make this virtual presence feel like a personalized contact by choosing theright type of language and style of writing. Using a non-formal language (both in the FAQ andwalk-through self-marking guide) gives the student reading the instructions and questions theimpression that they were written just for him or her.The

Conference Session

Labs & Hands-on Instruction II

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Pong P. Chu, Cleveland State University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

sophisticationand studied from different aspects and contexts, such as software implementation versushardware implementation, gate-level design versus system-level integration, etc. The overall work consists of three “themes.” The sound theme is one of the themes and thefocus is to use software and hardware to generate a music tone, essentially constructing a musicsynthesizer6. This theme is selected for two reasons. First, most students have a general ideaabout music instruments and many play some types of music instruments. Thus, they can easilyrelate to this theme. Second, a music tone is a periodic wave, which is the fundamental functionused in circuits and signal analysis, and its generation connects to many subject areas inelectrical and computer

Conference Session

MECH - Technical Session 8: Sustainability and Interdisciplinary Learning

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Deepika Ganesh, University of Michigan; Carissa Yim, University of Michigan

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering Division (MECH)

future, it is necessary to shift not only to clean energy but towards asustainable mindset – pedagogy is fundamental to achieve these transitions [25, 26, 27]. This workexamines how students experience writing a sustainable-technology focused, open-source case study (onthe Gala platform) compared to generating a term paper in a renewable energy course. The originality andpromise of the Gala module toward enhancing students’ engagement with sustainability in engineeringeducation lies in the ability to iterate the content, reach a broad pool of both authors and learners, andfoster collaboration. After publishing online, the case study remains accessible to all authors and viewersand simple to update, enabling the “living” module to keep up with

Conference Session

DELOS Best Paper Nominations

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Rogers, United States Military Academy; Robert Rabb, United States Military Academy; Christopher Korpela, United States Military Academy; Ryan Ebel, United States Military Academy

Tagged Divisions

Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

requiredfor the design of systems which haveelectrical, mechanical, and programmableaspects. A laboratory-driven approach wasdeveloped to bring together the differentsubjects and to relate classroom theory toreal world application. Four laboratoryexercises develop the students’understanding of the material, reinforceprerequisite knowledge, and develophands-on skills. Engineering mathematics,dynamic modeling of physical systems,Matlab / Simulink simulation, andteamwork are applied to solve several realworld problems. The first activity is aresistance-heating thermal system with on-off control for temperature regulation. The Figure 1: Mechatronics students learn through hands-onsecond activity requires students to write activities.program code to

Collection

2006 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Philip L. Brach; Ahmet Zeytinci

increase in production at theplant.At UDC we use this case study for the students to address this problem from both perspectives.First, the video of Gilbane Gold is shown and then the case is briefly discussed. Each student isinstructed to decide the ethical merits of the young engineer going public (whistle blowing) orseeking further administrative remedies to his concerns. They present their decision with reasonsin a short paper. An additional feature of our senior course is a requirement that the studentsprepare five short papers, called single concept papers (SCP). Each paper is on a single precisetopic. The papers are intended to improve the students’ writing skills and to “hone” theirpresentations to be succinct.The pièce de résistance is

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division Technical Session 5

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Daniel Raviv, Florida Atlantic University; Alyssa J. Harris, Florida Atlantic University

Tagged Divisions

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

Paper ID #15230Estimation as an Essential Skill in Entrepreneurial ThinkingDr. 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 25 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 contributions with profession

Collection

2022 ASEE Illinois-Indiana Section Conference

Authors

Hongli luo, Purdue University Fort Wayne

which accumulated into an IoT smart homeproject. © American Society for Engineering Education, 2022 2022 ASEE Illinois-Indiana Section Conference Proceedings | Paper ID 36136Different from the Internet of Things (IoT) courses offered in many universities [1][2][9], ourfocus is to teach fundamental data communication and networking technologies in the context ofa smart home IoT application. Instead of covering the technology at each network layerindividually, we introduced a wide range of topics, including sensor, microcontroller,networking, web application, and database, which were then integrated into an IoT application.Students are highly motivated into building a working smart home system which they canactually set up

Conference Session

Computers in Education Division Technical Session 4: Digital Learning Part II

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Ronald J. Hayne, The Citadel

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education

course at The Citadel [1], [2]. The simple architecture providessufficient complexity to demonstrate fundamental programming concepts. The entire system ismodeled in VHDL and can be simulated to demonstrate operation of the processor. Memory-mapped input/output (I/O) provides the external interfaces necessary to demonstrate examplemicrocontroller applications, when synthesized to a field programmable gate array (FPGA).Serial communication is widely used to connect external devices to computer systems. Thecommunication interface, which receives and transmits serial data, is commonly known as aUART (universal asynchronous receiver transmitter). The serial data format uses standard bittiming and framing. The protocol can be implemented in software

Conference Session

ELOS Technical Session 1 - Fluids, Wind, and Flow

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Blake Everett Johnson, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign; Partha Kumar Das, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign

Tagged Divisions

Experimentation and Laboratory-Oriented Studies Division (DELOS)

-style class. A lecture-style class is undeniably the focal point in designing amathematics rich course like fluid mechanics, but it’s equally demanding practical dimensions canonly be fully comprehended through the integration of a well-developed laboratory practiceconsistent with the lecture content. In this context, we developed a laboratory exercise for theME 310: Fundamentals of Fluid Dynamics, which is a required course for junior undergraduatestudents in the Mechanical Engineering major at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.The laboratory exercise that the authors developed focuses on the operation of centrifugal pumpsin three possible configurations: single, series, and parallel. To demonstrate the pumpperformances of these

Collection

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

Authors

Gretchen Scroggin, University of Arkansas; Heath Aren Schluterman, University of Arkansas; Aysa Galbraith, University of Arkansas; Leslie Bartsch Massey, University of Arkansas; Latisha Puckett, University of Arkansas

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Paper ID #45045GIFTS – Implementing High Impact Practices to Support Transition fromHigh School to First-Year Engineering CoursesMs. Gretchen Scroggin, University of Arkansas An Instructor in the First-Year Engineering Program at the University of Arkansas. I teach courses such as Fundamentals of Successes in Engineering Study and Introduction to Engineering I/II.Dr. Heath Aren Schluterman, University of Arkansas Dr. Heath Schluterman is a Teaching Associate Professor and theCoordinator for the First-Year Engineering Program at the University of Arkansas. Dr. Schluterman completed his B.S. and Ph.D in Chemical Engineering at

Collection

1997 Annual Conference

Authors

Barbara Mirel; Atul Prakash; Leslie A. Olsen; Elliot Soloway

to timeconstraints of a school term, and to bring the course more in step with industry approaches by thefollowing:• educating students on techniques for defining a vision of the product (what is it doing and for whom),• placing greater emphasis on the client’s and user’s perspective, the interface design, and interface’s effects upon the rest of the code, and• conducting iterative usability testing, starting early in the project cycle.From inception to completion of the software, these important issues are addressed by teachingstudents to write well-reviewed specifications and user documentation, by beginning this early inthe term, and by using these documents to inform the design.Problem With Software Design CoursesIn the computer

Conference Session

Current Issues in Information Technology

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

James Davis; Melissa Dark

better understand theirmultiple meanings in context. Throughout the undergraduate curriculum we should also discussexisting tools and resources such as BugTraq, and CERT Advisories, to name a few. Dependingupon the students’ interests, undergraduate programs might also want to discuss open researchissues. Students should be required to write large programs, maintain programs overtime, andwork in teams. Students are not trained to be professional programmers working in teams onlarge codes. This is perceived as a source of many security problems. IA education encompassesthe issues that arose from the military defense world and has grown to include e-commerce, e-government, e-learning (and others) and students need to understand this evolution and

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Samson Pepe Goodrich, East Carolina University; Teresa Ryan, East Carolina University; Colleen Janeiro, East Carolina University; Patrick F. O'Malley, Benedictine College

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Ethics

Paper ID #23781Interim Results of a Longitudinal, Multi-site Survey of Perceptions of Aca-demic IntegrityMr. Samson Pepe Goodrich, East Carolina University Samson is a junior studying bioprocess engineering at East Carolina University.Dr. Teresa Ryan, East Carolina University Dr. Teresa Ryan teaches mechanical engineering fundamentals such as Dynamics, Mechanics of Materi- als, Acoustics and Vibrations. She also focuses on technical communication skills within an engineering context. Her research interests include acoustics, the dynamics of complex structures, and the use of laser Doppler vibrometry for characterization of

Conference Session

Projects & Partnerships Result in Student Learning

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alberto Gomez-Rivas, University of Houston-Downtown; George Pincus, University of Houston-Downtown; Edward Sheinberg, University of Houston-Downtown

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

programs share the faculty, laboratories and facilities of the EngineeringTechnology Department. However they differ in methodology and fundamental principles.Fire Protection is a program in engineering technology based on the fundamental principles ofengineering science with strong emphasis on laboratory practical work. The laboratoryexperiments are a combination of computer simulation and small fire experiments. The computersimulation uses the FDS fire simulation system developed by NIST. Through experiments andsimulations students get familiar with the relation between science, physics and chemistry, andpractical fires. Historical fires are also studied to compare with the simulations. In summary, FireProtection is a science based

Conference Session

Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies: Electrical and Control Engineering

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Harry Courtney Powell, University of Virginia; Maite Brandt-Pearce, University of Virginia; Ronald D. Williams P.E., University of Virginia; Robert M. Weikle, University of Virginia; Lloyd R. Harriott, University of Virginia

Tagged Divisions

Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

Project TestingAs part of the final lab report submission process, students were asked to write an opinion ofwhat they learned from the project. The following is a typical response:"It was exciting to be able to get a functional, graduate-level project put together in a span of afew weeks. Especially since the material we learned in the Fundamentals courses played directlyinto the project. In other words, linking frequency domain topics like aliasing to circuittopologies like the Sallen-Key filter made the course come together."Electromagnetic FieldsThe studio model that has been implemented for ECE Fundamentals 1, 2 and 3 at the Universityof Virginia is being adopted by a broader range of courses in the undergraduate curriculum,notably our

Conference Session

Embedded Computing

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jeff Wiegley, California State University-Northridge

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education

department. Assessment feedback indicated stu-dent interest in a larger number of hands-on, laboratory based electives. The trendwas reinforced by further survey feedback that suggested possible improvement ty-ing in more electrical engineering fundamentals in its computer science offerings.Finally, industrial evolution is geared towards increasing the amount and intelli-gence of features in their products while reducing size and extending portability.Several of the industrial partners that serve on the Industrial Advisor Board forthe College of Engineering and Computer Science have demonstrated a move to-wards providing those features through software modifications rather than hardwaremodification. A growing need for capable software engineers in

Conference Session

High School Engineering Programs, Curriculum, and Evaluation

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Heath Tims, Louisiana Tech University; Krystal S Corbett, Louisiana Tech University; Galen E. Turner III, Louisiana Tech University; David E. Hall, Louisiana Tech University

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

electrical current, resistance and voltage. As Ohm’s law is introduced, multimeters are used to measure voltage and current in simple circuits constructed on the breadboard of the Boe-Bot. Students then build circuits containing LEDs, and they write BASIC computer programs causing the LEDs to blink with specified timings. Students then extend their skills to develop a countdown timer that utilizes a seven-segment LED number display. Fundamentals continue to be taught in this active classroom environment as projects unfold.Additionally

Conference Session

Assessment Methods and Learning Pedagogy II

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Shi Stan Lan, DeVry University, Tinley Park

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

on the fundamental definition of “credithour” and the common practice across colleges and universities, the definitions of thedifferent levels of virtual attendance used in this research were as follows.Since the English-writing class was a 4-credit/4-contact blended-learning course with 50%onsite and 50% online design, which was delivered in an 8-week academic session withfinal exam arranged at the end of the session, students were expected to attend no lessthan 30 hours of face-to-face activities and 30 hours of virtual learning activities; each Page 22.1141.5hour was consisted of 50 clock minutes,. Therefore, for the English-writing class

Conference Session

Experiential Learning in ET Programs I

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Billy Gray, Tarleton State University; Gloria M. Fragoso-Diaz, Tarleton State University; Olugbenro Ogunrinde, Tarleton State University; Tyler Rider, Tarleton State University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology Division (ETD)

problem solving methods within abalanced constructive team [2], [5]. Teamwork is an essential aspect of PBL which bringsindividualistic character requirement resulting in successful task delivery with team membersexpressing their various perspective to solving problems [5]. The teamwork setting has beenfound to positively increase student’s learning attitude towards technology and scienceapplications, shaping their skill development, knowledge compilation, and general ability as theymove from college to industry [2]. It is becoming necessary to get students up to the levelrequired to easily settle into industries upon graduation. According to [4] and [12] “project-basedlearning is the best way to fulfil industry needs” and PBL is a fundamental