Conference Session

Computing and Information Technology Division Technical Session 4

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Stephany Coffman-Wolph, Ohio Northern University

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Diversity

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Computing and Information Technology

Pedagogy,vol. 3, no. 1, pp. 86–106.[4] Coffman-Wolph, S., & Gray, K. (2020, June), Work in Progress: Student-generated Materialfor Artificial Intelligence Course Paper presented at 2020 ASEE Virtual Annual ConferenceContent Access, Virtual Online. 10.18260/1-2—35685[5] Miller, H. (2007). Designing effective writing assignments. Teaching with writing.University of Minnesota Center for Writing. Retrieved Mar. 8, 2021, fromhttp://writing.umn.edu/tww/assignments/designing.html[6] Coffman-Wolph, S., “Online/Hybrid/Flipped EM Learning in a Programming 1 Course andBeyond (2021 KNC Session).” Engineering Unleashed,https://engineeringunleashed.com/card/2403.

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Military and Veterans Constituent Committee Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Keith A. Landry, Georgia Southern University; N. Mike Jackson, Georgia Southern University; Kevin Gavin Finley, Georgia Southern University - College of Engineering and Information Technology

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Diversity

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Military and Veterans

versionused in this study is widely accepted as a measure of chronic stress due to ongoing lifecircumstances and expectations about future events. In this format, responses to 10 questions, ratedon a scale of 0 (Never) – 1 (Almost Never) – 2 (Sometimes) – 3 (Fairly Often) – 4 (Very Often),are scored to yield a number which serves as a measure of the respondent’s stress level. Individualscores are then grouped to determine the average and standard deviation. High stress levels areconsidered to be indicated by scores more than one standard deviation above the mean in thisstudy.It is generally recognized that high stress levels, experienced over an extended period of time, willnot prove beneficial to successful academic performance. An effective

Conference Session

Computing and Information Technology Division (CIT) Technical Session 5

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Wookwon Lee, Gannon University; Joseph Mendez; Naveen Kumar Manimaran

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Computing and Information Technology Division (CIT)

not limited to, embedded technology, autonomoustechnology, edge and end-point technologies. Compared to cybersecurity in general, however,cyber engineering still requires further refinement in its curriculum coverage. The currentcurriculum for the cyber engineering program at our university is centered on cyber physicalsystems (CPS) and their security including device-level security, boot security, and attack-resilienthardware/middleware. As an engineering curriculum, cyber engineering also requires a variety ofhands-on laboratory-based learning as well. To better facilitate hands-on learning in a curricularsetting, we have been developing a 1/5th-scale autonomous vehicle as a framework of cyberphysical systems for a set of cyber engineering

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Mechanical Engineering Technical Session: Assessment and Accreditation: Making the Grade!

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Vallorie Peridier, Temple University

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Mechanical Engineering

technical-writing coursecoordinator is recruited for the SO-3 (“communication”) committee, and the curricular-labfaculty are recruited for the SO-6 (“experimentation”) committee. Beyond this, faculty mayvolunteer for a specific SO committee based on personal interest or pedagogical expertise.Finally, for the “technical” student outcomes (SO-1, “engineering problem solving”; SO-2,“engineering design”; and SO-6, “experimentation”) the Assessment Coordinator recruits boththermal-systems and mechanical-systems faculty for each of the corresponding student-outcomecommittees. This is because the accreditation criteria specific to mechanical engineeringidentifies thermal and mechanical systems as the twin core topic areas for BS ME students.The Assessment

Conference Session

Architectural Engineering Division (ARCHE) Technical Session 1

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ryan Solnosky P.E., Pennsylvania State University; John J. Phillips, Oklahoma State University

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Architectural Engineering Division (ARCHE)

minimum. One school did indicate that as long as they can“finish” the designs required and are confident they can proceed, but that students may be advised it’s notthe best use of their time. Table 1: Studies Faculty Recommend to Students to Avoid doing in Capstone. General Categories Specific Technical Task Discipline Specific Categories Categories  Non-critical systems  Arc Flash  Advanced structural design that is “in  Students cannot just have software do  Complex structural models that are the weeds” within design everything it must be justified not necessary

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Joint Technical Session: Engineering Leadership Development Division and Engineering Management Division

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Brian J. Novoselich, United States Military Academy; Meg Handley, Pennsylvania State University; Meagan R. Kendall, University of Texas, El Paso

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Engineering Leadership Development Division (LEAD), Engineering Management Division (EMD)

Generation”, 2) “Bug” OpportunityDevelopment, 3) Solutions Development, and 4) ID Next Steps. After a brief orientation to the session agenda, the participants wereprompted following sensitizing question, “What “Bugs” you about the EL Body of knowledge?” Participants were asked to writedown their resulting “Bug Lists” in sticky notes while two of the authors provided two 10-minute talks which oriented the participantsto 1) a recently published book [13] and 2) a literature review paper [8]. These orientations served as sensitizing experiences thatprovided context regarding the current state of research topics within the EL education community. Following the talks, theparticipants were given fifteen minutes to conduct affinity diagraming and mapping

Conference Session

College Industry Partnerships Division Technical Session 3

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sonya Overstreet, EASi

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Diversity

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College Industry Partnerships

knowledge, skill, and experience are alsoleaving the workforce. The electric utility industry, like many others, is feeling the effect of babyboomers’ exodus to retirement. A variety of factors, including the growing retirement eligibilityand “…the generational shift in the traditional utility workforce…”1 is having an adverse effecton the utility industry.According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor, 46.2 million baby boomers, 46.9 million generation xand 46.4 million millennials were employed in the fourth quarter of 2014. Baby boomers beganto reach retirement age, 65, in 20112. All baby boomers will be over 65 by 2029 and will makeup more than 20 percent of the U.S. population3.To get ahead of the curve, EASi partnered with one of the largest electric

Conference Session

Engineering Physics & Physics Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert A. Ross, University of Detroit Mercy; E. Prasad Venugopal, University of Detroit Mercy; Meghann Norah Murray; Gary P. Hillebrand, University of Detroit Mercy; Matthew Gonderinger, University of Detroit Mercy, Wayne State University

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Diversity

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Engineering Physics & Physics

electrical circuits,” Am. J. Phys. 72 (1) 98-115 (2004); doi: 10.1119/1.1614813.26 R. Ross, E.P. Venugopal, G. Hillebrand, M. Murray, and M. Gonderinger, “Results of a Multi-Year Assessment of Inquiry-Based Second Semester General Physics Laboratory Activities,” in Proceedings of the 2014 American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Annual Conference & Exposition, Indianapolis, IN, (2014).27 R. Ross and P. Venugopal, “Inquiry-based Activities in a Second Semester Physics Laboratory: Results of a Two-year Assessment,” in Proceedings of the 2007 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition, Honolulu, HI, (2007).28 Kuder–Richardson Formula 20. (2016, November 18). In Wikipedia, The

Conference Session

ECCD - Technical Session 2 - Solar Energy

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Saeed Sean Monemi, California State Polytechnic University Pomona

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Energy Conversion and Conservation

Paper ID #31473Prototype Automated Solar Tracking with Power Generation SystemDr. Saeed Sean Monemi, California State Polytechnic University Pomona Dr. Sean Monemi is a Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering and Director of Smart Grid Laboratory at Cal Poly Pomona. He has many years of industrial experience and practiced engineering profession as an electrical engineer for Litton Industries. His professional experience includes working as a senior engineer and supervisor in one of the largest power company, Tennessee Valley Authority, in the areas of Substation Deign and Metering

Conference Session

Software Engineering Division (SWED) Technical Session #2

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Maura Lyons, Codio; Elise Deitrick, Codio; Joshua Richard Coughlin Stowell Ball, Codio

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Diversity

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Software Engineering Division (SWED)

. A. Alipour, and S. S. Ragavan, "Towards Characterizing Trust in Generative Artificial Intelligence among Students", in Proceedings of the 55th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education V. 1: ACM, 2023. pp. 67-73.[11] D. Baidoo-Anu, and L. Owusu Ansah. "Education in the era of generative artificial intelligence (AI): Understanding the potential benefits of ChatGPT in promoting teaching and learning." Journal of AI 7, no. 1: 2023. pp. 52-62.[12] N. Agarwal, V. Kumar, A. Raman, and A. Karkare. "A Bug's New Life: Creating Refute Questions from Filtered CS1 Student Code Snapshots", in Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Global Computing Education Vol 1: ACM, 2023. pp. 7-14.

Conference Session

Biomedical Engineering Division (BED) Technical Session 2: Experiential Learning in Biomedical Engineering

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rebecca Alcock; John P. Puccinelli, University of Wisconsin, Madison

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Biomedical Engineering Division (BED)

related to biomaterials and tissue engineering, as well as design. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Benefits of a low-stakes Show and Tell session in BME DesignObtaining valuable feedback from various sources in engineering design is a critical part of thedesign process. Within our design curriculum, teams obtain feedback from their faculty advisor(on written and presented work) and peers (on presented work) at two points each semester: fiveweeks into the semester in a classroom presentation and at the end-of-semester poster session.Their peers are generally hesitant to offer comments during the classroom presentation, and theposter session comes too late to be useful. To take advantage

Conference Session

Biomedical Engineering Division (BED) Poster Session

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Amy N Adkins, North Carolina State University; Naji S Husseini, North Carolina State University; Lianne Cartee, North Carolina State University

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Diversity

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Biomedical Engineering Division (BED)

Department of Biomedical Engineering at the Univ. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and North Carolina State University. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 Work in Progress: Understanding Student Perceptions and Use of Generative Artificial Intelligence for Technical WritingOpen generative artificial intelligence’s (AI’s) ability to craft human-like text concerns educatorswho fear students will complete assignments without meeting course objectives. Currently, AIdetection is unreliable, adding to educators’ concerns. While these fears are valid, we believe thebest way forward is to teach students how to use this powerful technology ethically andeffectively. Best practices for using AI

Conference Session

Track 1 - Student Development

Collection

2012 ASEE International Forum

Authors

Michael Richey, The Boeing Company; Fabian Zender, Georgia Institute of Technology; Daniel P. Schrage, Georgia Institute of Technology; Greg Jensen, NSF Center for e-Design –BYU Site; Barry McPherson, The Boeing Company; James Fehr, The Boeing Company; Matthew M. Symmonds, The Boeing Company; David E French, The Boeing Company

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Track 1 - Student Development

the modeling, analysis and manufacturing of four working Formula-1 type racecar. Dr. Jensen has also conducted research in Engineering Design and Modeling found in the specific areas of Computer Aided Geometric Design, Parametric CAx Modeling, and Multi-discipline CAD-centric Design Optimization. He is currently involved in the development next generation CAx tools, curvature matched machining methods, parametrics and customization of CAx tools for industries like Boeing, GM, Pratt & Whitney, ATK, Ford, Belcan, etc.Mr. Barry McPherson, The Boeing CompanyJames Fehr, The Boeing Company James Fehr is currently the Learning, Training and Development (LTD) Senior Manager responsible for Engineering Learning

Collection

1997 Annual Conference

Authors

Scott J. Amos; James L. Otter

Session 2348 “Real-World” Approach To Construction Education: Phase 1 -- Construction Graphics James L. Otter, Scott Amos Pittsburg State University/Weber State University INTRODUCTIONWhat happens when successful professional construction company practices are directlyintegrated into an established four-year construction education program? Hopefully, the resultwill be a highly skilled and educated construction professional prepared to respond to the everchanging fast-paced world of construction. This desired result can be

Conference Session

Engineering Physics & Physics Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert A. Ross, University of Detroit Mercy; E. Prasad Venugopal, University of Detroit Mercy; Gary P. Hillebrand, University of Detroit Mercy; Meghann Norah Murray; Matthew Gonderinger, Wayne State University, University of Detroit Mercy

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Engineering Physics & Physics

. Page 24.1051.2Our students construct a model for electric current and use their model to predict the behavior ofsimple circuits containing lantern batteries, flashlight bulbs, light bulb sockets, connecting wireand switches. They develop operational definitions for all technical terms. Students use theirobservations to construct rules for the behavior they observe. The exercises guide the students toformulate Kirchoff’s Current and Voltage Laws. Other laboratory activities give students theopportunity to measure the resistance of a lamp and to determine if the lamp obeys Ohm’s Law.They are generally surprised to find that the graph is nonlinear and that the resistance of the bulbis a function of the current through it. A simple extension of

Conference Session

IE Curriculum Design

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Harvey Svec, South Dakota State University; Harriet Svec, South Dakota State University

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Industrial Engineering

of time.Engineering education faces significant challenges in an attempt to meet the demands on theengineering profession in the 21st century. At a national level, a number of well-know reports,circulated during the mid to late 1990s have stressed reformation in engineering education formore relevance and compatibly with a technically inter-connected workplace. The reports –national and international – call for curricula that include, among other areas, integrated andexperiential activities. The rejuvenation of the project begins the process for student engagementin the technical workplace.Further, engineering facilities across the nation focus on new and better technology. Design andmilling processes continue to be the basis of good

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Karen Wosczyna-Birch, CT College of Technology and the Regional Center for Next Generation Manufacturing; John Birch III; Mehrdad Faezi, Manchester Community College

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NSF Grantees

AC 2011-2670: REGIONAL CENTER FOR NEXT GENERATION MANU-FACTURINGKaren Wosczyna-Birch, CT College of Technology and the Regional Center for Next Generation Manufactur-ing Karen Wosczyna-Birch, a national award winning Professor of Chemistry, is the statewide director for Connecticut’s College of Technology, which includes all 12 Connecticut community colleges, six uni- versities and partner high schools including the technical high school system. She is also the executive director of the Regional Center for Next Generation Manufacturing, a National Science Funded Advanced Technology Center, where she provides leadership for the advancement of manufacturing and related en- gineering and technologies. Karen also has

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Katerina Goseva-Popstojanova, West Virginia University; Robin A.M. Hensel, West Virginia University

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Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

Cybersecurity.2.0 BackgroundThe two-fold goal of the NSF Division of Undergraduate Education (DUE) S-STEM fundedAttracting and Cultivating Cybersecurity Experts and Scholars through Scholarships (ACCESS)program is: (1) to increase cybersecurity-related STEM degree completion of low-income, high-achieving undergraduate students with demonstrated financial need (including women andminorities) and (2) to generate knowledge about academic success, retention, persistence,graduation, and career pathways of these students to improve the education of futureCybersecurity-related STEM workers. Specifically, ACCESS aims to contribute towardsaddressing the tremendous governmental and industry need for highly skilled cybersecurityexperts by addressing the following

Conference Session

ECE Division Technical Session 8: Effective Teaching and Learning in Post-Pandemic Classrooms and Other Curricular Innovations

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Martha Torres, University of Texas at El Paso; Hector Erives, University of Texas at El Paso; Virgilio Gonzalez, University of Texas at El Paso

COVID-19 crisisStudents worked individually in the virtual lab sessions at home on the calculations, simulation,implementation, and final report. They learned by themselves (with instruction tutoring) how touse and wire the electronic components and devices, get the measurements from the circuits, andanalyze the circuit's behavior while developing their troubleshooting methods. These skills weredeveloped in sessions 1 to 4 and made the lab work more efficient and more manageable,decreasing the implementation time by 30% for the remaining sessions (we estimate average 60-minute savings). The demonstration part took a maximum of two hours, and the approval rate was88%. This data was collected via Blackboard. This LMS system generates assistance

Collection

2014 ASEE Zone 4 Conference

Authors

Armineh Noravian; Patricia Irvine

help students acquire technical capital. Tounderstand how students might acquire technical capital, this study investigated the perspectivesof students enrolled in technician level pre-engineering programs that incorporated well-structured and ill-structured problems at North-West Community College (NWCC). Thefindings suggest that scaffolding experiences – moving from very well structured problems toill-structured problems – allow students to acquire technical capital, which can help themsucceed in pre-baccalaureate engineering education.Introduction“Engineering has a diversity problem” (p.74) 1, causing national concern about the consequencesand solutions to this problem. On the one hand, creative engineering solutions are a product ofthe

Conference Session

Track 4: Technical Session 5: Using a Summer Bridge Program to Develop a Situational Judgment Inventory: From Year 1 to Year 2

Collection

2024 Collaborative Network for Engineering & Computing Diversity (CoNECD)

Authors

Malini Josiam, Virginia Tech Department of Engineering Education; Walter C. Lee, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

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CoNECD Paper Sessions, Diversity

student, and then 1 studentin each of the following categories: SE Asian, E Asian, S Asian, and Middle Eastern orNorth African student. Pilot Results 33Furthermore, the sample was a little over half first generation college students (51%). Gender 34First we will walk through some of the scenario results by gender. Your first round of tests did not go well and your usual studying habits are not working Women’s top two choices: Men’s top two choices: 1. Spend more

Conference Session

NSF Grantees’ Poster Session

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

J. Patrick Abulencia, Manhattan College; Margot A Vigeant, Bucknell University; David L. Silverstein P.E., University of Kentucky

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

 at  their  own  and  two  collaborating  institutions.  We  are  studying  changes  in  students’  conceptual  learning  as  a  result  of  participation  in  this  program,  and  are  building  a  repository  of  accurate,  engaging  videos  for  thermodynamics  learning  that  will  ultimately  be  shared  with  other  instructors  and  the  public.    Background  and  Methods    This  work  is  a  component  of  a  broader  study  between  three  institutions  that  seek  to  evaluate  the  effect  of  video  generation  and  viewing  on  student  understanding  of  several  thermodynamics  concepts:  1)  Entropy  and  the  Second  Law,  2)  Reversibility,  3)  Steady  State  vs  Equilibrium,  4)  Internal  Energy  vs  Enthalpy,  and  5

Conference Session

Design Methodologies 1

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Jin Woo Lee, California State University, Fullerton; Shanna R. Daly, University of Michigan

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Design in Engineering Education

that lead to reducing the quantityand diversity of possible solutions, the results of the study can support engineering instructors toprovide scaffolding as they provide lessons on concept generation for their students.IntroductionWith the increasing complexity of problems in the world, engineers must develop innovativesolutions to pressing problems, as described by the National Academy of Engineering [1]. Toequip students with important design skills, design education has adopted project-based coursesthat require students to tackle open-ended problems [2]. However, despite the changes in thecurriculum, studies have indicated the challenges of teaching students how to innovate [3], [4].Engineers engage in concept generation in design, which

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

John Mingle; Tom Roberts

Session 1351 ORGANIZING THE DEPARTMENT FOR GENERATIONAL TEACHING & LEARNING OF ENGINEERING KNOWLEDGE John O. Mingle, Ph.D., J.D., Tom C. Roberts, P.E. Kansas State UniversityAbstractModern times mean the cybernetic revolution, which is composed of the latent information age,the rising knowledge age, and the future wisdom age. These changes will make current engi-neers trained only in information obsolete – replaced by computers. Therefore, to prepare engi-neers for the future, engineering faculty must master knowledge teaching.Students will be members of the

Conference Session

Engineering Physics and Physics Division Technical Session 3

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bala Maheswaran, Northeastern University; Andrew Bard, Northeastern University; Andrew Sozio, Northeastern University; Samuel Haggans, Northeastern University; Nicholas Tarallo, Northeastern University; Timothy Bennett, Northeastern University

0 2 Ease of 1 1 0 1 -- 0.5 3.5 Installation 8 Simplicity 1 0.5 0 1 0.5 -- 3 7 Table 1: Rank order comparison for our chosen design objectives.The objectives we decided on are described below, in order of weight: 1. Efficiency. Because our goal was to generate electricity from previously untapped sources of energy, efficiency in generating this electricity was the most important objective we considered. Without efficiency, all of the other objectives were unimportant, so we chose

Conference Session

Engineering Physics and Physics Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bala Maheswaran, Northeastern University; Yifan Guo; Alejandro Hervella; Aleksei Pavlov; Minh Duc Dinh

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Diversity

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Engineering Physics and Physics

After receiving our purchased mini generator via the postal mail, it was very apparent that the device was meant for water hoses and needed a significant amount of pressure to get the turbine spinning. No matter what faucet was used, the turbine would not spin and could not generate a voltage due to the small hole at the nozzle of theFigure 1: Generator components device. As a result, when 3D parts were

Conference Session

Engineering Physics and Physics Division Technical Session 4

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Bala Maheswaran, Northeastern University; Liza Brooke Russell, Northeastern University; Cailey Moy Denoncourt, Northeastern University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Physics and Physics

Paper ID #28840Navigating and Energy Generating Insole: Vibrating Walking DirectionsProf. Bala Maheswaran, Northeastern University Bala Maheswaran received his M.S. and Ph.D. in experimental solid state Physics, and MSEE in Electri- cal Engineering from Northeastern University. He is currently a senior faculty at Northeastern University. He has contributed and authored about seventy publications consisting of original research and education related papers, and conference proceedings. He has over twenty-five years of experience in teaching at Northeastern University. He is the Chair of the Engineering Physics Division, ASEE

Conference Session

ECCD Technical Session 5: Energy and Wind and Design

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Bala Maheswaran, Northeastern University; Alya Abd Aziz, Northeastern University; Evan Alexander, Northeastern University; Laura Brigandi, Northeastern University; Cole Branagan, Northeastern University

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Energy Conversion and Conservation

development of medicine dispens- ing pumps.Cole Branagan, College of Engineering Northeastern University c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020 Power Generation through Small Scale Wind Turbine Alya Abd Aziz, Evan Alexander, Cole Branagan, Laura Brigandi, and Bala Maheswaran College of Engineering Northeastern UniversityAbstractAs the world and technological advancements move forward, people continue to look to new formsof energy.1-2 Fossil fuels are finite and will eventually become depleted, so renewable energy, suchas wind energy, is becoming more common. Large scale wind turbines are an efficient way toharness energy

Conference Session

First-Year Programs Division Technical Session 1: It's All About Teams and Teamwork

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James E. Lewis, University of Louisville; Gerold Willing, University of Louisville; Thomas D. Rockaway, University of Louisville

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First-Year Programs

seen in Table 1, there wasn’t a statistically significant difference between the twogroups in 2012 suggesting that the UTAs didn’t have a negative impact in the course. The storyis much different in 2013 as there is a significant difference between the two groups where thosewho attended at least half of the SI sessions (80% of students) outscored their counterparts by 13points on a 150 point exam (P value of 0.0265 in an unpaired t-Test). At this time, it is unclearas to why there was a drop-off in final exam scores between 2012 and 2013, but work iscurrently being done to examine the students in each of the years more closely based on gradesin the pre-requisite course (General Chemistry 2) and time between the two courses. Table 1

Conference Session

Session 7 - Track 2: IBM Pathways Program - Empowering technical talent to grow and succeed

Collection

2023 Collaborative Network for Computing and Engineering Diversity (CoNECD)

Authors

Callistus Ndemo, IBM; Laura Casale, IBM

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CoNECD Paper Sessions, Diversity

twoother distinction programs, 1) Distinguished Engineer and 2) Distinguished Designer, which areappointments that lead to being a Fellow. All 3 positions are at the executive level and areoften referred to as IBM’s technical executives and thought leaders. They are the company’s“most exceptional” technical professionals and visionaries who are recognized inside andoutside IBM as experts in their field. They have won five Nobel Prizes, five Turing Awards, andbeen responsible for nearly 10,000 U.S. patents. This pre-eminent community of technicalprofessionals has since been emulated by other organizations as well.Today, this community acts as the “technical conscience” of the company, responsible formaintaining IBM’s technical edge. They also