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2008 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

Thomas N. Duening; Jeffrey R. Goss

describes efforts by the Fulton School of Engineering, center for GlobalOutreach and Executive Education (GOEE) to answer the call for professional educationin enterprise innovation. GOEE has a large number of clients who regularly contractwith the unit to pursue advanced education and training. Over the last two years, GOEEhas increasingly injected innovation training into the standard Six Sigma curriculum withimpressive results. This training effort eventually was transformed into a master’s degreeprogram titled “Enterprise Systems Innovation & Management” (ESIM). Before wedescribe that new program in detail, we begin with an overview of what we call the“innovation imperative”. The Innovation ImperativeRecent

Conference Session

Best Paper Presentations

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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

Tagged Divisions

Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

Curriculum: a Vertical and Horizontally Integrated Laboratory/Lecture ApproachBackground The field of Electrical and Computer Engineering is expanding at an exponentially increasingpace. In every aspect of modern life, the work of this profession is evident and even essential;areas as diverse as transportation, infrastructure, entertainment, health care, and energy are allfundamentally dependent on this foundational discipline, yet the basics of a typical curricularapproach have changed very little in the past decades. If we are to educate engineers for thecoming technical challenges as well as the capacity to work effectively in multidisciplinaryteams, new educational approaches must be considered1. The engineer of the

Conference Session

Promoting ET thru K-12 Projects

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Johnson

be competent in those areas addressedby the authors. After examining the high school curriculum currently in place, there has been arealization that a secondary school education as now constituted provides very little exposure tothe skills and general problem solving techniques that is emphasized in the technology standards.Interestingly, the identified skills are much like the ones that an engineer develops in completingan engineering degree. The problem we face in California is that the State mandates the primaryand secondary school curricula2, and getting any changes made to the comprehensive and well-established program is a Herculean task, one that is exceedingly difficult and time consuming.As an alternative approach, we have developed

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Proulx Denis; Martin Brouillette; Jean Nicolas; Charron François

Session 1566 The integrated mechanical engineering curriculum at the Université de Sherbrooke Martin Brouillette, Jean Nicolas, François Charron, Denis Proulx Department of Mechanical Engineering Université de Sherbrooke Sherbrooke (Québec) Canada J1K 2R1 Since 1996, the School of Engineering at the Université de Sherbrooke has been offering a totally renovated mechanical engineering curriculum. Starting from scratch, this new curriculum is based on a competency development approach which is

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2012 Northeast Section Meeting

Authors

Zhiyong Gu; Bridgette Budhlall; Hongwei Sun; Carol Barry; Alfred Donatelli; Jill Lohmeier

Lab-on-a-chip Nano-sensors Devices Nanoelectronic Bio Sensors Devices Figure 1: An Interdisciplinary Approach for the New Engineering Course in Nanoscale Transport Phenomena A BFigure 2: (A) Setup for measuring the thermal conductivity of nanofluids; (B) Al2O3 nanofluids (inset is an SEMimage).Keywords: Nanotechnology Undergraduate Education; Nanoscale Transport Phenomena; Interdisciplinary Course;Nanomanufacturing, Engineering Education.2012 ASEE Northeast Section Conference University of Massachusetts LowellExtended

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A Technology Potpourri I

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Vassilios Tzouanas, University of Houston, Downtown; Lisa Deane Morano, University of Houston, Downtown; Hung Pham; Anish Khatiwada, University of Houston, Downtown; Jonathan Lopez

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

also included multiple USDA-NIFA funded programs that have led to the creation of new curriculum and experiential learning opportunities through the CUAS. She teaches multiple courses in environmental biology and sustainability and she organizes an experiential learning program where students work in teams to build solar-powered technology that addresses a need in urban agriculture.Hung PhamMr. Anish Khatiwada, University of Houston-downtown Anish Khatiwada graduated with Suma Cum Laude honors from the University of Houston - Downtown with a Bachelor’s in science in the year of 2015. Anish majored in Control and Instrumentation Engi- neering Technology and has a minor in Mathematics. Anish was a member of the

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Outstanding Contributions to ME

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Hakan Gurocak, Washington State University-Vancouver

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

two-tiered project approach. A typical course projectrequires integration of various technical competencies. When students are assigned such aproject, they usually go through a major learning curve. Many of them often fail to complete theproject. In the two-tiered approach, student teams are first given small-scale projects that targetspecific competencies required by the more involved actual class project which is the second tier.After competing the first-tier projects, student teams teach the rest of the class what they learnedand share the materials they developed. We present the details of the new approach, providesample projects and discuss assessment of the projects and the course outcomes.I. IntroductionOur mechanical engineering

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Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael Rywalt, Florida Tech; John Hadjilogiou, Florida Tech

the material is covered makes it possible to apply this method to any course in Page 11.132.4any engineering curriculum. Once again, the key to the success of this approach is tohave the instructor introduce the goals of the course in one or two sentences and todescribe how this course fits in the overall goals of the program. The instructor needs tobe ready to start from the stated goals and tell the students that all the material in theirassigned textbook will be covered on an "as-needed basis."The "as-needed basis" is the key to the success of this approach. The instructor needs tocreate the need for new knowledge and by doing this, the students

Conference Session

Anything New in Dynamics?

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Thomas Nordenholz, California Maritime Academy

Tagged Divisions

Mechanics

is to reinforce and deepen students' knowledge of core subjecttheories in the mechanical engineering (ME) curriculum.Dynamics is not a traditional laboratory subject in the ME curriculum, probably because theanalysis of problems follows deductively from a pair of hypotheses (laws of linear and angularmomentum) which are time honored and well accepted. However, in recent years, there havebeen several efforts to introduce it into the laboratory. Most of these efforts involve themeasurement of one dimensional particle motion (using an accelerometer or LVDT) or planarrotation about a fixed point (using an optical encoder or RVDT).i (See, for example, 2,3,4.)The attempt of this paper is to facilitate experimentation with planar rigid body motion

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Virtual Instrumentation in ET

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Tom Eppes; Tanuj Oruganti; Peter Schuyler

Session 2550 Pilot Test Results of a New Distance Laboratory Platform Tom Eppes, Peter Schuyler and Tanuj Oruganti University of HartfordAbstractA number of laboratory pedagogies have been developed to support distance learning. Theauthors’ approach has been to develop a hands-on laboratory experience delivered via theInternet using an internally-developed system called ALTE (Automated Laboratory TestEnvironment). The system consists of a single management server and multiple lab stations, eachwith dedicated measurement and instrumentation equipment and a PC. At each lab station

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2005 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Joseph J. Rencis; Hartley T. Grandin

A New Approach for an Undergraduate Mechanics of Materials Course that Integrates Theory, Analysis, Verification and Design Joseph J. Rencis, Hartley T. Grandin, Jr. Department of Mechanical Engineering University of Arkansas/Worcester Polytechnic InstituteAbstract This paper presents a description of a first undergraduate course in mechanics ofmaterials. Although many of the features of this course have been used by other faculty andpresented formally in textbooks, the authors believe they have united them in a way thatproduces a course that is unique and innovative. The title of the paper includes Theory,Analysis, Verification and Design to

Conference Session

Laboratory Developments and Innovations

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Tom Conte; Mesut Baran; Joel Trussell; Jack Brickley; Griff Bilbro; Greg Byrd; Cecilia Townsend; Ben O'Neal; Amir Mortazavi; Mehmet Ozturk

Department. In this curriculum, students choose theirspecialization areas starting from the second semester of the junior year. The system is carefullydesigned to ensure that students acquire both breadth and depth in their studies. The flagship ofthis curriculum is a new laboratory course, which the students take during the first semester afterthe first year common to all engineering students. The objectives of the new laboratory are: i) Tointroduce different ECE specialization areas to encourage students to start thinking about whichspecialization areas appeal more to them ii) To motivate the students through practical, hands-onexperiments connected to real-life applications iii) To teach fundamental concepts and basiclaboratory skills. In this

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1996 Annual Conference

Authors

B. Grossman; William H. Mason

graduate degree program in Aerospace and Ocean Engineering at Virginia Tech.Responding to strong industry comments, five engineering departments (AOE, ME, ISE, MSE, and ESM) atVirginia Tech have established a new practice-oriented master’s degree (MEng). The new degree fit withinexisting guidelines so that no new administrative approval was required. On an individual department basis theaddition of several new courses each would have been impossible. By working together it became possible toadd two new college-wide courses. We believe that the new program is unique in that it is trulymultidisciplinary. Students from the five different college of engineering departments will be taking classestogether and working on the design project teams together

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Louis Cloutier; Jean-Francois Methot; Jean Brousseau; Bernard Larocque

work efficiently in a team.Over the past ten years, integrating design courses into engineering programs from the first to thelast year of the curriculum has attracted much attention6-22. Although there were concerns that thetechnical knowledge of new students might be insufficient to undertake a course in design,experience now shows that these courses can be successfully integrated into engineeringprograms as early as the first year7-12.Because design is a skill or behavior that is acquired with experience23 but also based ontechniques and tools10, it is advisable to offer students the opportunity to gain various experiencesthroughout their education from courses in engineering science and also from project-orientedcourses that specifically

Conference Session

Design Tools and Skill Development

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Annie Abell, Ohio State University; Kelly DeVore, Columbus College of Art and Design

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

the context ofthe necessity of repeating the entire process if a final design does not meet performance criteria. Based onthe author’s experiences in industry and the classroom, this process model by Kamrani and Nasr is aclassic and common representation of the view of the Engineering Design Process by those in the field ofMechanical Engineering.The text ‘Design Engineering’14 takes a slightly different approach to the general Engineering DesignProcess, which uses somewhat different terminology due to the authors being from the UK. 1. Concept [market research, identifying new technology] 2. Scheme Design [solution generation] 3. Detail Design [determining details of chosen design, testing] 4

Conference Session

Contemporary Issues in Manufacturing Education

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Mary Jo Cartwright; Allie Knowlton; Donald Falkenburg

deeper thinking; they challenge typical solutions, and provide practice of skillsnecessary to the practice engineering. This is exemplified in Greenfield Case Studies wherelearners are challenged to determine the scope of the problem, how it can be solved, and whatmaterials (textbook, Internet, instructor, knowledge and experience of peers) will be essential forcompleting the activity.Greenfield Coalition courses and case studies are designed to allow students to apply newknowledge and skills, test theories, make unique connections to previous knowledge, andorganize new concepts in a logical and relevant framework for themselves.Learning Object ModelThe Greenfield Learning Model (LOM) recognizes a hierarchy of objects. The curriculum objectis

Conference Session

Issues in Multidisciplinary Programs

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Ted Thiede; James Hereford

accomplished most of the objectives that wereestablished for it. By beginning with an Engineering Measurements course and expanding fromit into each discipline of mechanical engineering, students have a much more hands-on learningexperience than was formerly available. The most significant aspects of this approach are itsbreadth of activity, student involvement, and attractiveness to new students. The objectives thatneed more emphasis are improving the lab documentation and reducing the significantrequirements for equipment upkeep and setup. Because of the number of activities developed,the curriculum also needs to be revised to incorporate some of these activities into other courses.4. Development of Electrical Engineering LaboratoriesUnlike the

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Pre-College Initiatives in Engineering Education

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Lang Wah Lee; Tamer Ceylan

vehicle for disseminating education materials.ClosureThe workshop was a complete success. Teacher participants went back to their schools with manyideas and projects and education materials covered and developed in the workshops were usedsuccessfully in classroom teaching. The teaching units developed by the teacher (27 produced todate) have been posted on Blackboard so that teachers have access to all of the units. Many of theparticipants had shared their learning experience with their colleagues and played a leadership role indeveloping new approach and curriculum in their school districts. Working in a cooperative learningenvironment, participants gradually formed a community where they enjoyed great camaraderie andshared ideas and experiences

Conference Session

Learning to Communicate with Engineers and Non-Engineers

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Leslie Potter, Iowa State University; John Jackman, Iowa State University; K. Jo Min, Iowa State University; Matthew Search, Iowa State University

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education

futurecommunication. This assessment step is a key part of the communication skill set.Given the recognized need to improve communication skills by the engineering educationcommunity as well as curriculum assessments of our industrial engineering (IE) program(described by Potter, et al.19), we have developed an innovative communication course to addressthe skills gap. In this paper, we describe the new course and present assessment results from thefirst offering of this course during the Fall 2007 semester, including skill assessment, self-efficacy data, and qualitative feedback from students. Examples of student work and assessmentprocesses are included. Finally, we describe short term changes to the course and long termimpact expectations.Course content

Conference Session

Materials Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alina Kononov, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Pascal Bellon, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Timothy Bretl, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Andrew L. Ferguson, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Geoffrey L Herman, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Kristopher Alan Kilian, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Jessica A. Krogstad, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Department of Materials Science and Engineering; Cecilia Leal, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Robert Maass, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Department of Materials Science and Engineering; Andre Schleife, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Department of Materials Science and Engineering; Jian Ku Shang, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Dallas R. Trinkle , University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Matthew West, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Tagged Divisions

Materials

this paper, wedescribe our continued improvements to this curriculum and new results on its efficacy.2. Approach to Curricular ReformAs discussed in 15;16 , the curricular reforms described in this paper were supported by the StrategicInstructional Initiatives Program (SIIP) of the College of Engineering at UIUC. Inspired by theefforts of Henderson et al. 4;9–11 , SIIP catalyzes the creation of collaborative teachingenvironments that enable faculty to enhance instruction iteratively and sustainably, targetinglarge-enrollment core courses in particular 12;27;28 . A Community of Practice (CoP) forms such anenvironment, serving to share knowledge, experience, and resources among members and tolower the barrier to introducing, sustaining, and

Conference Session

Conceptual Learning

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Morris Girgis, Central State University

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Educational Research and Methods

AC 2010-1793: A NEW ENGINEERING TAXONOMY FOR ASSESSINGCONCEPTUAL AND PROBLEM-SOLVING COMPETENCIESMorris Girgis, Central State University Morris Girgis is a professor at Central State University. He teaches undergraduate courses in manufacturing engineering. He received his Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from Hannover University, Germany. His current research in engineering education focuses on developing and implementing new educational tools and approaches to enhance teaching, learning and assessment at the course and curriculum levels. Page 15.64.1© American Society for Engineering Education

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Infusing Engineering with Art (and Vice Versa)

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David M. Beams P.E., University of Texas - Tyler; Kyle Gullings, University of Texas - Tyler; Catherine Elizabeth Ross Ph.D., University of Texas - Tyler

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

in Tyler, TX, with his wife Terra and their dog Ollie.Dr. Catherine Elizabeth Ross Ph.D., University of Texas - Tyler PhD. University of Texas at Austin, 1998 Associate Professor of English, University of Texas as Tyler 1998 to the present c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 SEEKING NEW PERSPECTIVES: ENGINEERS EXPERIENCING DESIGN THROUGH CREATIVE ARTSAbstractThe engineering curriculum of necessity focuses heavily on technical subjects—mathematics,chemistry, physics, and the large body of discipline-specific material. The arts are frequentlypresent only in vestigial form and are regarded as tangential at best to the real engineeringcurriculum. However, an

Conference Session

Statics and Dynamics in Mechanical Engineering

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alan Bowling, University of Texas, Arlington; Ashley Guy; Frasier Jones, University of Texas, Arlington; Maria Adamuti-Trache, University of Texas, Arlington

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Faculty-Coached, Team-Based, In-Class, Problem Solving in a Systematic Approach Toward Undergraduate Dynamics Abstract This paper describes a new tool in active and participative learning that effectively teaches theory and practice in undergraduate dynamics using in-class problem solving. The proposed approach treats the entire class as a team while ensuring that all students participate in the problem-solving exercise. This approach addresses three key compo- nents that are known to be effective techniques in teaching and learning: 1) student engagement, 2) affective pedagogy, and 3) class

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Engineering Ethics Division (ETHICS) Technical Session _ Monday June 26, 1:30 - 3:00

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rosalyn W. Berne, University of Virginia

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Ethics Division (ETHICS)

anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks coincides with a much older yearly ritual: the migration of birds across New York City as fall approaches. The convergence creates a spectacle that is eerily beautiful, yet according to one study endangers some 160,000 birds a year, starkly illustrating the perils of humans and animals sharing an urban ecosystem.” [10]‘Making the world a better place’ and ‘improving the quality of life’ are commonly statedintentions of engineering research and are implicit in the professional codes ofengineering. But these codes explicitly preference human welfare, and are otherwisemute on responsibilities pertaining to non-human animals:• The National Society of Professional Engineering decrees that

Conference Session

Mobile Robotics in Education

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David Ahlgren, Trinity College; Igor Verner, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education

2006-2015: ROBOTICS OLYMPIADS: A NEW MEANS TO INTEGRATE THEORYAND PRACTICE IN ROBOTICSDavid Ahlgren, Trinity College David J. Ahlgren is Karl W. Hallden Professor of Engineering at Trinity College and is Director and Host of the Trinity College Fire-Fighting Home Robot Contest. His scholarly interests lie in robotics, modeling and simulation, and broadband communications amplifiers. He received the B.S. in Engineering from Trinity College, the M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Tulane University, and the Ph.D. in E.E. from The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.Igor Verner, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology Igor M. Verner is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Education in Technology &

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade for Teaching II

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Murray Teitell, DeVry University-Long Beach

Tagged Divisions

New Engineering Educators

integrated into onecourse in the engineering curriculum. This is an important course if the engineer is to beable to face the challenges of creating the competitive and innovative product of the future.A synopsis of the list of topics for the course is: 1. Design Repertoire 2. Generating a template 3. Identifying the variables 4. Finding the pre-conditions 5. Organizing the template into a database 6. Programming the database to generate new templates 7. Filling in the gaps; predicting what is missing. 8. Generating a higher level generic template 9. Determining the boundaries of the system 10. Final

Conference Session

Innovations in Teaching Physics or Engineering Physics

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Warren Turner, Westfield State College; Glenn Ellis, Smith College

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Physics & Physics

AC 2009-718: GRAPHICAL ANALYSIS AND EQUATIONS OF UNIFORMLYACCELERATED MOTION: A UNIFIED APPROACHWarren Turner, Westfield State CollegeGlenn Ellis, Smith College Page 14.657.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2009 Graphical Analysis and Equations of Uniformly Accelerated Motion - A Unified ApproachIntroductionHow do we teach physics?Sometimes looking at the textbooks we use can be revealing. While individual authors wouldundoubtedly protest, there are as many common features in textbooks as there are unique ones.This is especially true concerning the teaching and study of kinematics. To simplify thediscussion, it is possible to break

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

H. Scott Fogler; Michael Cutlip; C. Stewart Slater

engineering departmentsthroughout the world. In 1995 he was the recipient of the Warren K. Lewis award from the American Institute ofChemical Engineers for contributions to chemical engineering education. He is a former director and is a fellow ofthe AICHE. He is a former chair of the ASEE Chemical Engineering Division and a co-chair of the ASEE ChemicalEngineering Division Summer School in 2002 at the University of Colorado.C. Stewart Slater is Professor and Chair of Chemical Engineering at Rowan University where he has headed theefforts to establish a new department with innovative approaches to engineering education. His research andteaching interest are in separation and purification technology, laboratory development, and investigations for

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1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Mariusz Jankowski

New electronic courseware modules for selected upper-level electrical engineering courses. Mariusz Jankowski University of Southern MaineAbstractA recent award from the National Science Foundation (DUE-III program) was used toestablish a computer-integrated classroom to support instruction in selectedundergraduate electrical engineering courses. The new classroom is being used to addressthree pedagogically fundamental problems:(1) insufficient mastery of engineering mathematics by many students,(2) student passivity within the traditional lecture format,(3) insufficient use of computation and visualization in the learning process,New electronic

Conference Session

Collaborative & New Efforts in Engineering Education

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Thomas Jewell, Union College

Tagged Divisions

International

seriously jeopardizing their chances of finishing in fouryears. Union also bucks the national trend in that most of our students actually graduate in fouryears. Students who were successful in juggling their schedules invariably came back from theirforeign study saying it was well worth the effort, and many said that it was a life changingexperience. However, it took the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET)Engineering Criteria 2000 (EC2000), and their emphasis on a global perspective, to cause theengineering programs to think seriously about requiring a foreign study experience. A thorough curriculum review of all the engineering programs was undertaken as part ofour preparations for a pilot visit under EC2000. The