Conference Session

Student Learning and Teamwork

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Amy Miller, University of Pittsburgh-Johnstown

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

Methods and Measurements. Page 11.1.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006 “FE Exam” – The First “Reality Show” Encounter for Engineering and Engineering Technology UndergraduatesAbstractThe first “Reality Show” facing engineering and engineering technology undergraduatesinvolves their ability to adequately demonstrate technical competence in the field of engineering.A nationally accepted measure for assessing a student’s broad base of technical knowledge of theengineering field is the Fundamentals of Engineering (FE) exam.As with every “reality show” certain rules and guidelines apply that each person must

Conference Session

Learning and Assessment II

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Amir Karimi, University of Texas, San Antonio; Randall D. Manteufel, University of Texas, San Antonio

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

the frequency of the examinations requires more work by the instructor in writing andgrading examinations. This is especially true for classes having large enrollments. In the lastfew semesters, we have tried new ways of assigning homework problems and assessing studentknowledge in our introductory thermodynamics course. Our experience includes large classeswith enrollment exceeding 120 students. This paper describes our experiences in teaching anintroductory thermodynamic course and its effect on student learning outcome. Students weresurveyed in recent semesters to get their feedback on the methods used in teaching the courseand the assessment of student knowledge. This paper provides a summary of the survey results.IntroductionMechanical

Conference Session

NSF Grantees’ Poster Session

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sheng-Jen Hsieh, Texas A&M University

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Automation laboratory at Texas A&M University, a state-of-the-art facility for education and research in the areas of automation, control, and automated system integration. Page 26.459.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 Design and Preliminary Evaluation of Portable Kit for Programmable Logic Controller EducationAbstractPLC control programming is a complex cognitive skill that requires hands‐on experience todevelop proficiency. Successful automation/control engineers must know how to write PLCprograms to control and troubleshoot the process being

Conference Session

Improving ME Education: Trends in Mechanical Engineering I

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Efstathios Michaelides, University of North Texas; Reza Mirshams, University of North Texas

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

engineering education. The explicit addition of Energy to the MechanicalEngineering curriculum is a new model of engineering education that parallels the innovations ofour current Learning to Learn (L2L) project oriented concept course with the addition ofinnovative approaches for mechanical engineering and emphasis on energy engineeringeducation. The new Mechanical and Energy Engineering (MEE) baccalaureate-level programwill provide the intellectual foundation for successful career preparation and lifelong learning forthe students. This innovative curriculum has been designed with a system-level approach to ME-based design, on the fundamentals of undergraduate level energy engineering within themechanical engineering discipline, and will provide

Conference Session

Instrumentation and Control Applications

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Charles Knight

) to expand the student's computer application skillsthrough use of word processing, spreadsheets, and graphics, (5) to develop the student's oral andwritten communication skills through oral presentations and technical report writing, and (6) todevelop student team coordination skills.The laboratory experiments consist of three modules (common, thermal, and mechanical) withthe common labs being related to thermodynamics, fluid mechanics, and heat transfer that istaken by all mechanical engineering students. The thermal labs cover thermal sciencecurriculum content while the mechanical systems labs contain content that is related to the Page

Conference Session

Sustainable Energy Issues in Education

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

lana El Chaar, Petroleum Institute

Tagged Divisions

Energy Conversion and Conservation

introduced at an early level, several US and European universitieshave modified their engineering curricula accordingly and added courses related to renewabletechnologies.II. Integration of renewable energy in curriculumEnergy is one of the most fundamental matters of our universe. The concept of Energy and itstransformation is extremely useful in explaining and predicting most natural phenomena4. Oneform of energy can often be readily transformed into another with the help of technology.Recognizing the importance of such technologies and the consequences of integration in thecurriculum in a suitable way, the goal was to initiate such programs carefully in a well designedmanner, for an efficient and successful outcome.The mission of any respectable

Conference Session

Design in Freshman and Sophomore Courses

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Susan Masten, McMaster University; Robert Fleisig, McMaster University

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

) and because we found that first-year engineering students did not have thewriting skills that allowed them to effectively write two 1000-word essays, we replaced thesetwo assignments with two shorter pieces of writing and a number of in-lecture workshops toemphasize quality writing. In the first of the assignments, the students were asked to write apiece of professional correspondence, usually in the form of an e-mail to a professor. Inaccomplishing this task, the students are exposed or culturally sensitized to the communityvalues present in both the academic community and the community of professional practitionersthey will join upon graduation. The work is evaluated on its tone, punctuation, spelling,grammar, capitalization, succinctness

Conference Session

ELOS Best Paper Nominations

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Ridgely, California Polytechnic State University; Brian P. Self, California Polytechnic State University

Tagged Divisions

Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

transducers to be used to measure the force generated by a rehabilita-tion patient. As the required capacities of load cells for which the students' design method mustbe usable vary from 5 to 100 pounds, a single design is not acceptable; the students must create adesign algorithm. The algorithm is then used to design a single transducer which the studentsbuild, calibrate, and test in the laboratory. The memo (shown in the Appendix of this paper) isdeliberately somewhat vague, imitating the instructions often given to engineers by customers.The students are told that the owner is not an engineer, and therefore the students need to com-municate with the business owner in terms that he or she can understand. Students also write asimple program to

Conference Session

Experimentation and Laboratory-oriented Studies Division Technical Session 4

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Natasha Smith P.E., University of Virginia

Tagged Divisions

Experimentation and Laboratory-Oriented Studies

fundamental principles to higher level skills of synthesis and creativity. For example, writinga full detailed lab report requires a synthesis of knowledge about the principles involved in anexperiment, mastery of experimental design and analysis techniques, and effective writing skill.This is a tall task for students working with new principles and concepts for the first time. Byadding another semester to the experimental lab sequence, there is time to build upon studentexperimental skills incrementally. In the Mechanics Lab, students focus on concepts and how touse tools and sensors for mechanical measurement; there is minimal writing, but students regularlypresent and interpret graphical results. The Thermal Fluids Lab expands upon

Conference Session

New Approaches and Applications to Enhance Technological Literacy - Part I

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mani Mina, Iowa State University

Tagged Divisions

Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering

 in  critical  thinking,  in  mathematical  reasoning  and  analysis,  a  firm  grounding  in  scientific  and  engineering  methodologies  and  knowledge  to  address  the  complex,  multidisciplinary,  and  multidimensional  problems  that  humanity  faces  now  and  will  in  the  future.  Of  course,  educators  in  all  fields  are  actively  trying  to  change  and  be  more  effective.  However,  most  engineering  schools  have  not  gone  through  fundamental  changes  since  1970’s.    Although  engineering  is  fundamentally  pragmatic,  hands-­‐on,  and  project  and  application  driven,  engineering  education  has  been  drifting  away  from  that  approach  since  1970-­‐80s.      By  the  end  of  1980’s  most  major

Conference Session

Technical Sessions 1

Collection

2024 Fall ASEE Mid-Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Heather Louise Lai, State University of New York at New Paltz

Tagged Topics

Diversity, Professional Papers

designs. Introducing these toolswithin this course exposes students to modern computational methods that are becomingincreasingly relevant in real-world mechanical engineering applications.Additionally, Kinematics of Machines, though fundamental, provides a well-defined problemspace with clear inputs and outputs. This structured environment allows for the gradualintroduction of ML/AI, providing students with digestible and understandable applications ofadvanced techniques without overwhelming them. MATLAB, which is commonly used in thecourse, serves as an accessible platform for integrating these tools, given its extensive support forboth numerical analysis and machine learning toolkits.Modification 1: Position Analysis using computer based

Conference Session

Programming for Engineering Students

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Scott Schneider

solely focused on teaching algorithmic development, to those who use eitheran academic programming language or one which is easier to grasp, to those that have come to arealization that students are unable to be taught the fundamental logical or algorithmic thoughtprocesses. The greatest success seemed to come from the respondents who have a pure logicsand algorithms course in their curriculum.In our Engineering Technology Department we must provide a sufficient proponent of syntax inthe course since this course is the only one that many of our students receive in softwareprogramming. Having a hands-on and applied curriculum precludes us from a strictly logic andalgorithm development course. The ability to break problems apart and develop

Conference Session

Laboratory Development in ECE II

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lihong (Heidi) Jiao, Grand Valley State University

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

transmittinginformation successfully. Hence in order to be able to characterize and design the opticalcommunication systems, it is essential that students learn the fundamentals of individual networkcomponents, communication system concepts, and methodologies of system design. Page 23.653.2 The goal of the course is to introduce students to the field of fiber optics and optical fibercommunication systems. The contents of the course include fundamentals of fiber optics;properties of optical fiber; optical fiber testing; active components like transmitters, receivers,and optical amplifiers; passive components like splices, couplers, and connectors; applications

Conference Session

Instrumentation and Laboratory Systems

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Adam El-Mansouri; Kevin Buck; Herbert Hess

often associated with introducingintegrated software and digital hardware design. In that way, they could have the studentscreating new “things” quickly and with a “personal touch”, a strong motivator for them to beginto understand what engineering is. As such, we began with a Field Programmable Gate Array(FPGA) learning system designed for college sophomores and juniors. In this environment, wedeveloped some fundamental modules for a range of projects. Then we provided a few examplesof increasing difficulty on how to assemble these modules to perform a useful function. Afterseeing these examples, the high school students are encouraged to try themselves, first at aspecified project and then to create their own task and solution.Hardware

Conference Session

Approaches to Teaching Entrepreneurship

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

William Sherrill, University of Houston; Thomas Duening, Arizona State University

Tagged Divisions

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

. Page 11.1208.3This paper presents a logico-deductive analysis of the leading approaches to entrepreneurshipeducation. We have identified the six leading approaches as: • The Business Plan approach • The Resource Based approach • The Entrepreneurial Mindset approach • The Case Study approach • The Simulation Experience approach • The Entrepreneurial Personality approachSince entrepreneurship education has only recently become a focus of academic scholarship,little empirical data exist on which curricular approach works best to convey the fundamentals ofentrepreneurship.3 Worse, there is little agreement among scholars and other interested partiesabout the fundamental ends

Conference Session

Computer-Based Measurements

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Timothy Cooley; Jeff Randall; Terrence O'Connor; Nghia Le

Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Education”Electrical Circuit DesignGeneral DescriptionThe circuit design consists of several different sections. The fundamental part of the circuit is athermocouple signal conditioning IC. The output of the thermocouple signal conditioner IC isthen fed into an Analog to Digital converter. The digital output is then inputted into the PC. Amultiplexer is used to switch one of the 8 thermocouple inputs to a common output and then intothe thermocouple conditioning IC. A 3-bit binary counter is used to supply a sequential countsequence of a binary 1 through 8, which is connected to the decoder on the multiplexer. Thisprovides

Conference Session

Materials Science for Nonmajors

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jamie Workman

introductory Materials Science course their very first semester. Lacking the basicchemistry and engineering mechanics fundamentals, most of the concepts presented inthis course are completely foreign to the students. The absence of the fundamentalscoupled with the students’ naiveté about materials, products, and processes requires aslightly different approach in the classroom.The MET program is a manufacturing based curriculum that emphasizes mechanicaldesign, processing, and analysis. The information the students receive in the materialscourse will be encountered again in several of their major classes, but more from a designor manufacturing standpoint. The students need something they can relate to nowbecause it is uncommon to have the foresight and

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Kathryn Jablokow

length.5.0 Delivery TechniquesIn most cases, each class meeting is divided into two segments. During the first segment,fundamental concepts and important points related to the designated topic and assigned readingare discussed. In many cases, discussion questions are provided to the students the previous weekas homework items, so students can come to class prepared to voice their views and answerquestions effectively.The second segment of class is devoted to in-class activities that highlight the appropriate casestudy listed in the syllabus. These activities are typically conducted in small groups of three tofive students, depending on class size. Figures 2 and 3 illustrate two examples of these classroomactivities, relating specifically to

Conference Session

NSF Grantees' Poster Session

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rebecca L. Damron, Oklahoma State University; Sohum A Sohoni, Arizona State University, Polytechnic campus; YoonJung Cho, Oklahoma State University; Kerri S Kearney, Oklahoma State University

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees Poster Session

students experience how concepts in different computer engineering courses are related toeach other. Other highlights of the PLP system are a ‘hands-on’ experience with real hardwareearly in the computer engineering curriculum, a focus on class-wide collaboration, and anemphasis on communication.Typical PLP-based courses have a large active learning component, with instructors working onPLPTool in the classroom and students working on large projects. PLPTool is a programmingenvironment/tool in which you can write assembly code, run it, test it, and visualize it as it runson the simulated hardware. Course grades are determined through documentation of the project

Conference Session

Teaching Outside the Box

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

R. Artigue; M. H. Hariri; M. Misovich; M. Anklam; David Miller

© 2002, American Society for Engineering Education In solving problems related to these topics, the same solution approaches are required:development of process diagrams, determining degrees of freedom and writing the appropriatebalance equations. By stressing the similarities between different types of conservationproblems, we reinforce the basic concepts, which are so fundamental to engineering problemsolving, yet are often so difficult to develop. Once these concepts are firmly established, wemove on to single-phase systems and condensable systems in the first course and reactivesystems, heat capacities, and transient systems in the second course. In addition to developing greater proficiency in formulating and solving

Conference Session

Empowering Students and Strengthening Community Relationships

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gianina Morales, University of Pittsburgh; Universidad de Valparaíso, Chile; Emily C. Rainey, University of Pittsburgh

Tagged Divisions

Community Engagement Division (COMMENG)

-centered engineering design for 1) supporting and engaging students with community needs asthey learn disciplinary practices and 2) advancing social change through the teaching andlearning of engineering.IntroductionDesign is recognized by practitioners and educators as an essential attribute of engineering [1],[2]. In recent decades, human-centered design (HCD) has arisen as a method for developingdesign thinking in engineering. This approach to design places human needs at the center ofdesign processes, valuing users’ experiences and perspectives as fundamental for the solutionscreated [3], [4]. Barlow and Levy-Bencheton describe HCD as “the opposite of the mad scientistscenario, in which a solitary genius working in a laboratory comes up with a

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Valentin Razmov, University of Washington; Richard Anderson, University of Washington

and providingfeedback:‚ Post-milestone project discussion meetings. Shortly after each milestone, the instructors meet with each team for 30 minutes to clarify any issues, discuss their impressions on the state of the project and make concrete suggestions, as well as to gauge student spirits and inquire about problems or concerns. This interactive meeting replaces the more traditional practice of instructors evaluating the merits of student projects while having limited visibility of the context, followed by writing a “verdict” email to the team about the instructors’ opinion on the state of the project. The informal atmosphere of these project meetings is critical for putting students at ease and for achieving

Conference Session

Ethical Cases and Curricula

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kenneth R. Leitch P.E., West Texas A&M University; Rhonda B. Dittfurth, West Texas A&M University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Ethics

homeworkassignments is that students benefit from discussing ethical issues with one another. Students were encouraged todiscuss multiple alternatives to ethical issues and document these in the homework assignments. Students were alsorequired to submit twelve weekly summary memos documenting the weekly readings, class discussions,supplemental readings, and/or video clips. Grading the memos was very time intensive, but did serve to improvestudents’ technical communication skills and helped them to learn how to write more succinctly. Some studentswrote very little and some were far too verbose in their memos; by the end of the semester, most students wereproficient in writing summary memos that were approximately one-half page in length and captured the

Conference Session

TIME 7: ABET Issues and Capstone Courses

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Wei Zheng; Dong Young Jang; Donald Harby; Yuyi Lin

design by the students, and some donot. Unlike the textbook in mechanisms or machine components, current choices for textbooks ofmechanical engineering capstone design courses are also wide and large. These differences exist amongengineering schools not only in the US but also in other countries [Hsu, 2003]. If the capstone designcourse is more different than other courses, such as Statics and the Fundamentals of Thermodynamics,then why are we trying to assimilate and build common ground in this course? Why should we put theeffort in internationalizing this course in particular? In ABET requirements and most engineeringcurricula, the students are required to apply and demonstrate knowledge obtained from otherundergraduate courses in the capstone

Collection

1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Daina Briedis

explanation of the relationship of the device(or concept) to the fluid flow and/or heat transfer fundamentals discussed in class, and a technicaland, where possible, quantitative analysis of the parameters of the problem. Commentary on Page 3.384.2safety, environmental or societal impact is required as appropriate for the project. The papers aregraded with typical standards for written work (content, organization, style, grammar).In addition to the above requirements, the oral presentation must also show evidence of goodpreparation: a) smooth flow from one speaker to another and good budgeting of allotted time;b) clear speaking and effective visual

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Dave Williams

programs, they learn to appreciate the importance of proper stylistic coding.Most students will be amazed at how long their programs will run for some suspected primes,even on ultra-fast machines, and the speed enhancement attributable to algorithm improvementswill be even more pronounced.Once the module has concluded, the instructor has been known to incorporate a lightly-disguisedversion of these same algorithm fundamentals on a subsequent programming exam. Students areasked to write and debug a short program during an in-class exam to calculate the greatest factor(other than itself) of an input integer. This is simply the primality algorithm in with a twist.Solutions which begin by testing the largest possible factors less than S (which is

Conference Session

Instrumentation Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Asad Yousuf, Savannah State University; Mohamad A. Mustafa, Savannah State University; Alberto G. De La Cruz; Alfredo Villanueva; Mir M. Hayder, Savannah State University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Instrumentation

required positions given in the Lab.The position of the 3R Robots end effector is physically measured to insure it is in the correctposition, using the joint angles predicted by the inverse kinematics routine.In Lab 4b, students will be using ROS Kinect Kame to control basic movements of a drone.Students will write python scripts to have the drone move autonomously forward and backward.This teaches the ROS fundamentals of publishing and subscribing to nodes in ROS.Fundamentals of the available ROS topics are provided in the bepop_autonomy repository,which will be used to make basic connections to a Parrot Bebop 2 drone.http://bebop-autonomy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/installation.htmlIn Lab 5 students use ROS and python to convert between Euler

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Tristan Utschig

results professionally. This conclusion is supported by student evaluations ranking thecourse between 4.0 and 4.75 on a five-point Likert scale over several years and by retention ratesnear 80%, which well exceed overall college retention rates of below 60%. By organizing muchof the material in this course around computer applications, a unique introduction to engineeringgeared towards helping students with under-prepared backgrounds to succeed has been created.IntroductionA general introductory engineering course, Fundamentals of Engineering Analysis and Design,has been developed to serve the needs of a broad range of students in the pre-engineering transfer

Conference Session

Educational Research and Methods Potpourri I

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Hyun Kyoung Ro, Pennsylvania State University

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

research question is as follows: How do students’ demographic characteristics (gender and race/ethnicity), math proficiency prior to college, and level of confidence in engineering knowledge and skills (fundamental, communication, teamwork, and leadership skills) influence their graduate school plans in engineering?MethodDesign, Population, and Sample I employed data from the Prototype-to-Production (P2P) study which investigatedcurricular, instructional, and organizational practices and policies as well as the educationalexperiences of engineering alumni, in a nationally representative set of engineering programs.The institutional population was defined as all four-year engineering schools that offer two ormore ABET

Collection

2024 ASEE North Central Section Conference

Authors

Yingxiao Song, Muskingum University

rubric, employing a quality scale ranging from 0(Unacceptable) to 3 (Exceptional), is utilized to assess students' technical writing skills[4]. ThisProceedings of the 2024 ASEE North Central Section Conference 4Copyright © 2024, American Society for Engineering Educationrubric is bifurcated into two main sections: a) Report Mechanics: This aspect of the rubricfocuses on the structural and presentation quality of the report, including the organization ofcontent, aesthetic layout, adherence to the specified format, and the correctness of spelling,grammar, and punctuation; b) Report Content: This section delves into the substantive elementsof the technical report. Evaluated components include the abstract or