Conference Session

Nontraditional Ways to Engage Students

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Andrew Czuchry; W. Andrew Clark

benchmarking study conducted in 2002, indicates thatincubators routinely utilize MBA students as at-large business counselors for the fledglingtechnology based businesses. In addition, businesses founded by university professors tend toattract recently matriculated technology graduate students, many of which served as advisees ofthe founding professor, as new hires in these startup ventures. However, the use of technologybusiness incubators as training ground for engineering and technology students seekingentrepreneurial business opportunities has not been fully exploited. New technology businessventures generally have strong research experience and intellectual property but little marketingand management experience. These businesses, many of which

Conference Session

Student Division Technical 1: Diversity, Equity, Inclusivity (DEI)

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Yagmur Onder, Purdue University at West Lafayette (COE)

Engineering Identity Model developed includes interest (the desire/curiosityto think about and do well in engineering), performance/competency (belief in the ability toperform required engineering tasks and understand engineering context), and recognition (feelingthat others see them as a good engineering student).Temporary Ethnic Disconnect TheoryThe Temporary Ethnic Disconnect, as described by Zerrin Bulut [16] building off of IlhanKaya’s [17] study of identity, is an ethnic assessment, generally during college years, in whichthe 2nd-generation individual is at a “crossroads”: either they choose to connect more ordisconnect to their Turkish identity as a Turkish-American. It’s a choice between completeassimilation into American culture or

Conference Session

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division Technical Session 3

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ramiro Jordan P.E., University of New Mexico; Indira Nair, Carnegie Mellon University; Kamil Agi, SensorComm Technologies Inc.; Donna M. Koechner, eNova Solutions, LLC

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

reviewer in the National Science Foundation (NSF) Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) program. Dr. Agi received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque. He received his MBA from the Berkeley-Columbia Executive MBA Program.Donna M. Koechner, eNova Solutions, LLC Donna Koechner earned her BS in Electrical Engineering at Kansas State University and her MS in Elec- trical and Computer Engineering at the University of New Mexico. She has worked in academia, research and industry on products and projects including image segmentation and pattern recognition, software design, software specification, development and testing, product engineering, technical writing, course

Conference Session

Thermodynamics, Fluids and Heat Transfer II

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John M. Pfotenhauer, University of Wisconsin, Madison; David J. Gagnon, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Michael Litzkow, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Christine Maidl Pribbenow, Wisconsin Center for Education Research

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Diversity

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Mechanical Engineering

sections of this report describe the details of the thermodynamic simulator with itsgaming features, its application within the course setting, the associated assessment tools, and itssubsequent redirected development.Game DevelopmentWeekly brainstorming sessions of a cross-disciplinary team featuring expertise in educationalgame development, web-based programing, educational assessment, and thermodynamics guidedthe iterative process of construction, testing, and revision that produced the “thermo-game.”The team used many of the same processes utilized in their development of the game “Coolit8”that teaches principles of cryogenic engineering. At various points in development, colleaguesand small groups of students (8-10) informally tested the game

Conference Session

The 2017 Zone Best Paper Session

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Eileen Haase Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University; Harry R. Goldberg, Johns Hopkins University

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Council of Sections

Paper ID #208682017 Zone I Best Paper: Molecules and Cells: A Model for Addressing theNeeds of Students with Varied Backgrounds and Diverse Learning StylesDr. Eileen Haase Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University Dr. Haase is a senior lecturer at Johns Hopkins University in the Department of Biomedical Engineer- ing and chair of the Applied Biomedical Engineering program. She is currently the interim Director of Undergraduate Studies.Dr. Harry R. Goldberg, Johns Hopkins University c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 Molecules and Cells: a model for addressing the needs of students

Conference Session

Poster Session-Electrical and Computer Engineering Division (ECE)

Collection

2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kenneth A Connor, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Miguel Velez-Reyes, University of Texas at El Paso; Barry J. Sullivan, Electrical & Computer Engineering Department Heads Assn; Elizabeth Hibbler, Conference for Industry and Education Collaboration (CIEC); Michelle Klein, Electrical and Computer Engineering Dept. Heads Assoc. (ECEDHA); Bruk T Berhane, Florida International University; Petru Andrei, Florida A&M University - Florida State University

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Diversity

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Electrical and Computer Engineering Division (ECE)

project, new programmatic elements are focused on the very different andgeographic distant student experiences at the 20 local hubs because transfer processes and local supportinfrastructures vary greatly by institution and state. Supported students will be brought together in-personin March 2025 to build their personal professional networks by working together on mentored teams.2TO4 assessment is focused on the extent to which each programmatic component isimplemented with fidelity and whether the program has built the necessary capacity to supportstudents. Formative feedback from each participant is collected and student progress is tracked.Key to the success of the project is building and maintaining trust and equitable partnerships,along with

Conference Session

Mathematics Division Technical Session 3

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Shirley B. Pomeranz, The University of Tulsa; Peyton James Cook Ph.D., The University of Tulsa

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Mathematics

universities,Columbia and The University of Tulsa, are quite different institutions with their quite differentstudent bodies. I shall attempt to place my observations in a more general framework.3. Calculus Course Descriptions3.1 Then and NowAs of spring 2017, both universities use the same calculus textbook by James Stewart [9], andthe university website academic bulletin descriptions of the calculus sequences of courses appearsimilar. One difference is that Columbia University (http://www.math.columbia.edu/)(http://www.math.columbia.edu/programs-math/undergraduate-program/calculus-classes/) usesfour semesters to cover the calculus sequence, whereas The University of Tulsa uses threesemesters. This means that Columbia University students have one

Conference Session

ELOS Technical Session 1 - Fluids, Wind, and Flow

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alireza Ebadi, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Ahmet Can Sabuncu, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

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Experimentation and Laboratory-Oriented Studies Division (DELOS)

andanalysis, whereas mI-PIV used their developed Android application. Furthermore, the currentsetup is designed to be replicated in large number increasing its accessibility and enhancing itscustomizability. The setup consists of a 10-gallon fish tank ($25), a small cart ($81), a USB camera($77), a hunting laser diode with mounts ($25) and a cylindrical lens ($43), summing to $251. Aschematic of the setup is illustrated in Figure 2.The setup is complemented with an application developed in Matlab to initiate the camera, recordimages, and process the recorded images to create two-dimensional vector fields using PIVlab(Thielicke & Stamhuis, 2014). The application provides visual instructions and tips for the user totroubleshoot and enhance their

Collection

2019 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Michael Hennessey

(EML) into an undergraduate Dynamics course within a mechanical engineering program. A “KEEN” team project was given to the students in which they were asked to pretend that they were members of a startup company that would design, build, test, market, and sell a product with some dynamics content to it. As part of the exercise, the 20 teams worked on idea generation, concept development and identification of required activities, in addition to writing a draft Business Plan. Product ideas varied across different economic sectors including power generation, sports technology, transportation, food and beverage technology, and health care. Grading of the resulting reports incorporated factors such as: (1

Conference Session

Software Engineering Division (SWED) Technical Session 2

Collection

2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Xiangxiong Kong, California State University, Fresno; Alex Fegely, Coastal Carolina University; George W Hitt, Coastal Carolina University; Dominique Nunez Garcia, California State University, Fresno; Kaleb Glenn Montgomery, Coastal Carolina University; Deify Law, California State University, Fresno

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Software Engineering Division (SWED)

CarolinaUniversity including 1) two class sections of Engineering Problem Solving which is an entry-level course that focuses on programming, robotics, sensing technologies, and engineering reportwriting [53]; and 2) one class section of Engineering Mechanics I: Statics which is an entry-levelengineering mechanics course. Most of the students in these courses are Engineering Sciencemajors; while a small portion of them are in other majors or non-degree-seekers. An incentive fora $10 Amazon gift card was given to the participant who completed all required activities.As shown in Figure 13a, we first visited two class sections of Engineering Problem Solving.During this meeting, we distributed the informed consent forms to the students, showed apromotional

Conference Session

NSF Grantees' Poster Session

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Marilyn Barger, National Science Foundation ATE Centers; Richard Gilbert, University of South Florida; Marie A. Boyette, FLATE

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

- secondary career and technical education programs; and provides a variety of professional development for STEM and technical educators focused on advanced technologies. She earned a B.A. in Chemistry at Agnes Scott College. She earned both a B.S. in Engineering Science and a Ph.D. in Civil Engineering (En- vironmental) from the University of South Florida, where her research focused on membrane separation science and technologies for water purification. She has over 20 years of experience in developing curric- ula for engineering and engineering technology for elementary, middle, high school, and post-secondary institutions, including colleges of engineering. Dr. Barger serves on several national panels and advisory

Conference Session

Engineering Career Attitudes

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Araceli Martinez Ortiz, Texas State University; Hiroko Kawaguchi Warshauer, Texas State University; Sara Garcia Torres M.Ed., Texas State University; Laura Rodríguez Amaya

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Diversity

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Pre-College Engineering Education

. However, since the total number of eighth grade students whoparticipated in the full program was only a total of eight, the quantitative sample size was limitedto those six students who completed both the pre-surveys and the post-surveys. There are certainlylimitations when working with small sample sizes as we are limited to examining only the bigdifferences or large effects. Since additional data is also considered, this additional layer of data isanalyzed to clarify the trends found in the case study analysis.Students took the Engineering Motivation Questionnaire (EMQ) adapted from the ScienceMotivation Questionnaire (Brickman, Armstrong, & Taasoobshirazi, 2011). This survey probedstudents on the constructs of motivation and self-efficacy

Conference Session

Computing and Information Technology Division (CIT) Technical Session 1

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Abdulmalek Al-Gahmi, Weber State University; Kyle D. Feuz, Weber State University; Yong Zhang, Weber State University

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Diversity

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Computing and Information Technology Division (CIT)

; 74% isconsidered a failing grade (i.e., they would need to retake the course to continue in the program),and a final score >= 74% is considered a passing grade. Furthermore, the horizontal steps aredetermined by the number of graded activities and how they are distributed throughout thecourse, while the vertical steps are determined by the weights of these assignments and activities. Figure 1: The progress of two students throughout a courseThe student's struggle in a course can be visualized by how big or how small the difference isbetween their cumulative score and possible score curves. One can also use the data to see whatprogress looks like for an average at-risk (failed) student compared to that of an average

Conference Session

Mathematics Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Angela Minichiello, Utah State University; Ted Campbell, Utah State University; Jim Dorward, Utah State University; Sherry Marx, Utah State University

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Mathematics

is currently pursuing a PhD in Engineering Education at USU. She is Principal Investigator for Online Learning Forums for Improved Engineering Student Outcomes in Calculus, a research project funded by the NSF TUES program. Her research interests include engineering student learning, distance engineering education, and alternative pathways to engineering education.Mr. Ted Campbell, Utah State University Ted Campbell is a Lecturer in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Utah State University (USU). He teaches undergraduate mathematics and statistics courses via synchronous broadcast to stu- dents at the USU regional campuses. Ted has a bachelor’s degree in materials engineering from the University of

Collection

Middle Atlantic ASEE Section Spring 2021 Conference

Authors

Kyle P Fuller, Northeastern University; Andrew J Lopreiato, Northeastern University; Raiden L Schodowski, Northeastern Univeristy; Alec W Silverman, Northeastern University; Samantha L Bowman, Northeastern University; Caitlynn E. Tov, Northeastern University; Joshua L. Hertz, Northeastern University

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Diversity

First Year Engineering program. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2021 Development of a Surgical Lamp for Ethiopia by Undergraduate Innovators for Global HealthAbstractFor populations in low-resource countries, access to proper healthcare is often hindered by a lackof functional medical equipment. In these settings, equity requires adjustment of traditionalengineering design priorities to maximize usability and benefit to the healthcare facility.Minimalism, efficiency, and on-the-ground practical value must be prioritized overembellishment, complexity, and state-of-the-art features.Northeastern University Innovators for Global Health (NU-IGH) is a student organization

Conference Session

Engineering Libraries Technical Session 6: Diversity

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sarah Lester, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Kelly Durkin Ruth

. Having takenthe Library Juice Academy Certificate Program in Diversity and Inclusion Skills, we wereinspired by the work of a number of librarian-authors, including both BIPOC and non-BIPOCwhose work is foundational to our understanding of DEI. We wanted to use a selection of theirpapers to begin understanding the citation politics at play in STEM journals. In her essay,“Making Feminist Points,” Sara Ahmed describes the politics of citations as “​​a rather successfulreproductive technology, a way of reproducing the world around certain bodies [3].” If thesefoundational authors writing about DEI aren’t being cited in research on DEI, who is?Literature ReviewDEI in LibrarianshipMuch of the literature on DEI topics in librarianship can be divided

Collection

2023 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Joel R. TerMaat; Kristopher J. Williams; Christopher D. Wentworth

graduates,particularly engineering majors? This question may be especially appropriate given the technicalcredit hour requirements (e.g., ABET) of professional programs transplanted into a traditionallyliberal arts context that may reduce the breadth of a liberal arts education.Due to their validity and ease of use, the Defining Issues Test (DIT) and the updated DIT2 arewidely used assessments of moral reasoning within the neo-Kohlbergian framework [5]. Theseassessments involve participants reading scenarios of moral dilemmas and then rating andranking items related to the dilemmas in terms of their moral importance. The multiple-choicenature of the assessments allows them to be used with minimal expense by educators unfamiliarwith interview-based

Collection

2011 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Daniel Schmalzel

bring significant reductionsin total system costs. The paper will describe the project in more detail and provide anassessment for the effectiveness of this education approach as measured by the maturity of thefinal design product and by the range and depth of experiences students gain from this project.The 10 MW system represents a major element of the University’s push to achieve carbonneutrality, diversify its energy portfolio, and provide enhanced learning experiences for students.The resulting system can serve as a reference model for other large-scale PV designs, studentproject structure, and represents a good example of sustainability engineering.IntroductionTypically, an undergraduate program consists of four years of acquiring

Collection

2009 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

B. Samanta; Chiraag Nataraj; Sanjeev Reddy; Mark Woods; C. Nataraj

robots. Once the target was detected the robots would reach the target using the PSO algorithm. Results of initial exploratory efforts were encouraging. The students got a first-hand experience of implementing swarm robotics as a real-time engineering application.Key words: Swarm robotics; swarm intelligence; Lego NXT; school students’ researchexperience; Java programming; demonstration.I. IntroductionRobotics is viewed as an emerging field that has potential to significantly impactthe nature of engineering and science education at all levels, from K-12 tograduate school [1-7]. A recent development in robotics is swarm robotics [8].The use of a large group (swarm) of small, simple and cheaper robots with

Conference Session

Mentoring Practices and Project Teams

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Emily Miller, University of Virginia; Reid Bailey, University of Virginia

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Diversity

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Educational Research and Methods

not universally held and can be driven by attributes of the judger, the individualbeing judged, the relationship between the two, and/or the group at large. Furthermore,behaviors considered unacceptable to students come in a myriad of varieties – previous worklists eleven distinct types. [1] This study uses a newly-created survey called the TeamBehaviors and Attitudes Survey to assess the subjective perceptions of teammates’ behaviorsusing a Social Relations Model to explore the potential underlying sources of variance ofthese perceptions.BackgroundEducators’ care toward their students is exhibited not only by supporting a student’s learningand performance, but also by optimizing their experience within the classroom. In theirseminal work

Conference Session

Civil Engineering Education and Workforce Development Challenges

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Chris R. Rehmann, Iowa State University; Diane T. Rover, Iowa State University; Mark Laingen, Iowa State University; Steven K. Mickelson, Iowa State University; Thomas J. Brumm, Iowa State University

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Civil Engineering

. He is also professor-in-charge of Engineering Online Learning (www.eol.iastate.edu) and Director of Assessment for the College of Engineering. His research focuses on biorenewables, student learning and outcomes assessment. Page 22.961.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011 Introducing Systems Thinking to the Engineer of 2020AbstractTo prepare the engineer of 2020 to address the grand challenges of engineering, the E2020Scholars Program at Iowa State University seeks to have students become proficient in four pillarareas: leadership, innovation, global awareness

Conference Session

Ethics across the Curriculum

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

William J. Frey; Halley D. Sánchez; Jose Cruz-Cruz

activitiesdesigned to respond to surface criteria (bean-counting efforts), ABET obliges engineeringschools to develop procedures to assess success in meeting these locally generated objectives andrequires that they show that they have implemented a continuous process of self-improvement.ABET has also made it clear that engineering programs must take engineering ethics seriously.The argument that engineers only make technical decisions, that they can (or should) delegateethical responsibility to others (management, directors, government) no longer holds weight. Ithas been shown, for example, that the decisions an engineer makes when designing (such astrade off decisions) have strong ethical implications. 1 Hence, an essential component of asuccessful program

Conference Session

Educational Research and Methods Division (ERM) Technical Session 2

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joanna Tsenn, Texas A&M University; Jonathan Weaver-Rosen, Texas A&M University; Mohammad Waqar Mohiuddin; Shadi Balawi, Texas A&M University; Carlos R. Corleto, Texas A&M University

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Educational Research and Methods Division (ERM)

Paper ID #43651Teaching Effective Communication for TeamworkDr. Joanna Tsenn, Texas A&M University Joanna Tsenn is an Associate Professor of Instruction in the J. Mike Walker ’66 Department of Mechanical Engineering at Texas A&M University. She earned her B.S. from the University of Texas at Austin and her Ph.D. from Texas A&M University. She coordinates the mechanical engineering senior capstone design program and teaches senior design lectures and studios. Her research interests include engineering education with an emphasis on capstone design and teamwork.Jonathan Weaver-Rosen, Texas A&M University

Conference Session

New Approaches and Applications to Enhance Technological Literacy - Part II

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

William R Loendorf, Eastern Washington University; Terence L Geyer, Eastern Washington University; Donald C. Richter, Eastern Washington University

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Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering

Page 23.1335.2of these contraptions or apparatuses also varied greatly. Some were quite small able to be held inyour hands while others were extremely large. A lot of these gadgets, mechanisms, andmachinery have disappeared over time. Unless they were made from stone or bone, they likelydecayed and decomposed leaving little or no trace of their existence. However, that does notmean they were unimportant and should no longer be studied. In order to rectify this situation an interdisciplinary course, TECH 393: Technology in WorldCivilization was created ten years ago. “This junior level course explores a historical perspectiveof the development of technology in a global context by tracing the interconnected events andcultures in which technology

Conference Session

Tech Tools and Tips

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Mohamad Alipour, University of Virginia; Devin K. Harris, University of Virginia; Mehrdad Shafiei Dizaji, University of Massachusetts Lowell; Zachary Bilmen, University of Virginia; Zijia Zeng, University of Virginia

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Civil Engineering

Virginia Dr. Harris is an Associate Professor of Civil Engineering within the Department of Engineering Systems at the University of Virginia (UVA). He is also the Director of the Center for Transportation Studies and a member of the Link Lab. Dr. Harris also holds an appointment as the Faculty Director of the UVA Clark Scholars Program. He joined the UVA as an Assistant Professor in July 2012. He had a prior appointment at Michigan Technological University as the Donald F. and Rose Ann Tomasini Assistant Professor in structural engineering. His research interests focus on large scale civil infrastructure systems with an emphasis on smart cities. Dr. Harris often uses both numerical and experimental techniques for

Conference Session

Bring Your Own Experiment: Experimentation and Laboratory-oriented Studies

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Mark Trudgen, University of Georgia; Dominik May, University of Georgia

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Diversity

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Experimentation and Laboratory-Oriented Studies

Port settings, and also provide a security code to Microcontroller #1 toenable the STAND. The student is then able to program as desired in the remaining Simulinkworkspace to interact with the inputs and outputs of that particular laboratory.For example, in Figure 5, the obfuscated code block also provides internal signal processingneeded to determine the resistance values of the light-dependent resistors (LDR) on the STAND.So, students receive the data as they would working with the ‘raw’ LDR as they would in aphysical laboratory where resistance changes with light level. Given the large number of sensorson the STAND, and the flexibility the obfuscated code blocks provide, this allows a multitude ofunique laboratories to be generated

Conference Session

Potpouri - A Mix

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Scott F. Kiefer, York College of Pennsylvania; Stephen N Kuchnicki, York College of Pennsylvania

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Mechanics

design onschedule and under budget constraints. They also must communicate their design intent as thedesign progresses and come together with the other subgroups to complete the fabrication phase.In both courses students must complete the product development sequence of designing,building, and testing their projects. The courses that are described in this paper were taught at two very different universities.The first was a large state university with a substantial research program and class sizes of sixtyto eighty students. The other was a small, private, undergraduate institution with class sizescloser to twenty students. While there were some adaptations that were made for the twodifferent venues, the basic principles of project-based

Conference Session

The Philosophy of Engineering and Technological Literacy

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

William R. Loendorf, Eastern Washington University; Jason K Durfee P.E. P.E., Eastern Washington University

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Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering

as demonstrationexhibits. They were reconstructed using the same materials, tools, and techniques that wereoriginally utilized centuries ago. However, typically these objects were small, no bigger than afoot or so. The challenges that would be encountered to recreate the much larger artifacts, due totheir size, were almost insurmountable. Nevertheless, that did not detract from their importance.In order to rectify this situation, a project was started over three years ago to build scale modelsof these very large relics for demonstrations (Loendorf, Geyer, & Richter16, 2013). Now they arepart of the many collections of ancient artifacts routinely utilized in the classroom.A series of scale models were initially built to test the

Conference Session

Engineering Design Graphics Division Technical Session 2: Instructional

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Myela A. Paige, Georgia Institute of Technology; Katherine Fu, Georgia Institute of Technology

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Engineering Design Graphics

similar scale.I. IntroductionAlthough engineering students specialize in a variety of specialized areas, one essential part ofthe curriculum is learning and understanding measuring and modeling techniques that expressthe relationship between objects and space. Being able to visualize and conceptualize objects in3-dimensional space is a skill that is critical to success in STEM coursework and retention inengineering programs over time [1]. Spatial conceptualization ability is the capacity to learn,understand, and reason about the relationships of objects as they relate to space or other objects.Learning to conceptualize spatial relationships is crucial to STEM education, as it is thefoundation of skills that drive measuring, designing, and

Conference Session

NSF Grantees’ Poster Session

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Shiwen Mao, Auburn University; Yingsong Huang, NetApp Inc.; Yihan Li, Auburn University

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

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Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

Undergraduate Wireless Engineering Curriculum Shiwen Mao1, Yingsong Huang2, and Yihan Li3Abstract – A software defined radio (SDR) is a modern radio communication system that can bereconfigured on-the-fly. In this paper, we describe a project on introducing SDR to the Bachelor ofWireless Engineering (BWE) curriculum at Auburn University. In particular, we focus on developing anSDR laboratory course based on the GNU Radio and Universal Software Radio Peripheral (USRP)platform. We describe the detailed lab course structure, compare it with existing approaches, and presentsample labs and results. A small scale assessment was conducted for the Spring 2013 offering withpositive student response observed.Keywords: Software defined