Conference Session

Curricular Issues in Computing and Information Technology Programs II

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Emre Tokgoz, Quinnipiac University

Tagged Divisions

Computing & Information Technology

Matlab);• Senior level undergraduate level Numerical Methods course in the School of Computer Science (required using N.I. LabVIEW).The rest of this section is devoted to the three questions that are related to participants’ technologypreference. Majority of participants’ written responses to these questions as well as the interviewresponses will be displayed for each question.Research Question 1Sketching the graph of a function is one of the fundamental calculus concepts that all STEM majorseither learned prior to their undergraduate education or during their freshman year. Use oftechnology to sketch the graph of a function is not taught by every calculus professor at universitiesand use of technology can have an important role in the

Conference Session

Innovations in Computing Education

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Thomas J. Hacker, Purdue University, West Lafayette

Tagged Divisions

Computing & Information Technology

provides an interrupt to the operating system when the processorencounters a soft correctable error or a hard error. Virtualization systems tend to explicitly maskthis information from guest operating systems. In VMware, for example, the hypervisor willconfirm the existence of MCE banks to the guest VM when it boots and queries the processorcapabilities, but indicates that it supports no MCE banks when the kernel tries to access them.Subtle differences such as this example can complicate the process of exploring and usinghardware features of the physical system.Another fundamental difference between virtual and physical systems is in the approach tosystems management. For physical systems without virtualization, the mapping of host toservice and

Conference Session

First-Year Programs: Unique Projects & Pedagogies

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Tyler Milburn, Ohio State University; Cassondra Wallwey, Ohio State University; Michael Parke, Ohio State University

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

Paper ID #31284Introducing Industrial Systems Engineering to First-Year Students viaMr. Potato HeadTyler Milburn, The Ohio State UniversityCassie Wallwey, The Ohio State University Cassie Wallwey is currently a Ph.D. student in Ohio State University’s Department of Engineering Edu- cation. She is Graduate Teaching Associate for the Fundamentals of Engineering Honors program, and a Graduate Research Associate working in the RIME collaborative (https://u.osu.edu/rimetime) run by Dr. Rachel Kajfez. Her research interests include engineering student motivation and feedback in engineering classrooms. Before enrolling at Ohio

Conference Session

Industrial Collaboration and Applications

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nasser Alaraje, Michigan Technological University; Aleksandr Sergeyev, Michigan Technological University; Joanne E. DeGroat, Ohio State University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

courses. The exposure to industry-taught courses will help the facultymembers to impact the learning experience of his/her undergraduate students by providing themwith skills that are highly marketable and appreciated by industry. II. Research BackgroundHistorically, electrical engineering technology Baccalaureate programs have included atraditional logic design course that covers topics in combinational logic and sequential logiccircuits. The course is usually based on discrete components (such as TTL and CMOS), andalthough these topics represent fundamental concepts in logic design and optimization theory,they are far from most current industry practice in logic design. Topics that are traditionallytaught in logic design courses are less

Conference Session

Assessment-Driven Practices in ECE

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Thomas Garrison, Portland State University; Yuchen Huang, Portland State University; Branimir Pejcinovic, Portland State University

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer Engineering Division (ECE)

industry. Making matters more complicated is the fact that manyprograms focus on teaching engineering fundamentals and leave “soft skills” to otherdepartments. Given this environment, an approach tailored to engineering communication isneeded to meet the unique requirements for engineers in industry.The purpose of this paper is twofold. 1) examine various forms of communication engineersmust possess and their importance, and 2) describe the design, implementation, and assessmentof a new senior-year and first year graduate ECE course which is specifically aimed atdeveloping the critical communication skills for engineers in industry. For the first part we useda survey of managers and executives at Intel Corporation to determine the most important

Collection

2010 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

Hudson V. Jackson P.E.; Kassim M. Tarhini P.E.; Corinna Marie Fleischmann P.E.; Nathan Rumsey; Sharon Zelmanowitz P.E.

Selection and Execution of Civil Engineering Capstone Design Projects at the United States Coast Guard Academy Hudson Jackson, Kassim Tarhini, Corinna Fleischmann, Nathan Rumsey, Sharon Zelmanowitz United States Coast Guard Academy, New London, CT Session: Teaching project based courses and design courses, including senior design courseAbstractCivil engineering students at the United States Coast Guard Academy (USCGA) must completea capstone project as a graduation requirement. The main objective is to enable students toexperience real life engineering problem solving, design, team work, project execution andmanagement. To satisfy program and accreditation requirements, the projects must have

Conference Session

NSF Grantees’ Poster Session

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ravi P. Ramachandran, Rowan University; Liang Hong, Tennessee State University; Sachin Shetty, Tennessee State University; Kevin D. Dahm, Rowan University; Richard J. Kozick, Bucknell University; Robert M Nickel, Bucknell University; Robi Polikar, Rowan University; Ying Tang, Rowan University; Steven H Chin, Rowan University

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees Poster Session

various conferences, international journal articles, book chapters in research and pedagogical techniques. He is the director of the Cyber Defense and Security Visualization LaboratoryDr. Kevin D. Dahm, Rowan University Kevin Dahm is a Professor of Chemical Engineering at Rowan University. He earned his BS from Worces- ter Polytechnic Institute (92) and his PhD from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (98). He has pub- lished two books, ”Fundamentals of Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics” and ”Interpreting Diffuse Reflectance and Transmittance.” He has also published papers on effective use of simulation in engineer- ing, teaching design and engineering economics, and assessment of student learning.Dr. Richard J. Kozick

Conference Session

Understanding Students: Cognition

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Thibault; Noel Boutin

support : Texts on learning strategies, small group discussions andthe use of a learning journal in which students are invited to write their thoughts. As mentioned byJolly and Radcliffe 4 , « While training in reflexion may be achieved through a variety oftechniques, the act of transferring thought into words may lead to higher levels of abstraction andanalysis, thus rendering the reflective journal a particularly appropriate tool for the developmentof such skills. »Furthermore, there is a good chance that many of the learning strategies students have developeduntil now and which brought them success in the past would be inappropriate for that new learningcontext and for the heavier than normal (considered from their past experiences) workload

Conference Session

GIFTS II

Collection

FYEE 2025 Conference

Authors

Patrick Thornton, New Jersey Institute of Technology; Jaskirat Sodhi, New Jersey Institute of Technology; Ashish D Borgaonkar, New Jersey Institute of Technology

Tagged Topics

FYEE 2025

Paper ID #49771GIFTS: Using Robotic Arm Project to Introduce Students to EngineeringDesign Through Experiential LearningMr. Patrick Thornton, New Jersey Institute of Technology Patrick Thornton works at NJIT as the Director of Robotics. Currently teaching and developing lab modules for the Fundamentals of Engineering and Design course to set up students for continued success at NJIT.Dr. Jaskirat Sodhi, New Jersey Institute of Technology Dr. Jaskirat Sodhi is interested in first-year engineering curriculum design and recruitment, retention and success of engineering students. He is the coordinator of ENGR101, an application

Collection

1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Jack Zecher

layer at atime. Page 3.359.2 Figure 1 Solid Model discretized into triangular facets (STL data).After the Genisys rapid prototyping machine has finished building the part, it canimmediately be removed from the machine. Any support structures that were added arethen broken away, leaving the finished part. TG 110 – The student’s first look at rapid prototypingThe basics concepts of rapid prototyping are first introduced in the MET curriculum aspart of a first semester course – TG 110-Drafting Fundamentals. This is a 3 credit hourcourse that concentrates on the procedures and practices used in technical graphics, sothat design

Collection

1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Spillman

credit semesterclass). By this time the students have a basic understanding of the fundamentals of combinational logicdesign. The initial lecture is designed to introduce the structural options available in VHDL. For example,Figure 1 is the slide used to illustrate the two components of all VHDL code: the entity and the architecturesegments. The entity segment is easy to visualize since it describes the inputs and the outputs of the circuit. Forstudents that have programming experience (which is assumed of all students in this class), the entity Page 3.612.2segments is much like the variable declaration statements of PASCAL or C

Collection

1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Charles Roth

developed a self-paced course in logic design of digital systems 8 starting in 1971,and the course is still going strong today. Initial development of study guides and unit testsrequired a very substantial amount of time and effort. When there are no lectures to patch thingsup, defects in the textbook become very apparent. I started writing supplements to the text, andthese evolved into a new textbook, which is now in its fourth edition. The PSI method providesexcellent feedback to the instructor compared with the lecture method. When mastery of thecourse material is required, student questions provide detailed feedback about ambiguous partsof the study materials. Using this feedback, study units were improved, and students achievedmore rapid

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Computer ET

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Gregory Dick

locations in the course. It can be presented early, before user written functionshave been covered. In this case the students might be required to read one data set,compute and display the RMS value; the project acts as a “teaser” to hint to the studentsearly that there are interesting microprocessor projects lurking here. A modified versioncan be used later in the course. In this case the students write a function to compute theRMS value of a data set of length “n.” The main program, a test harness, is then: while (moreData){ read fDataBlock of length n fVrms = fRms(fDataBlock, n) /* the required function */ display fVrms }The students learn that their functioning code could be

Conference Session

Innovative Teaching Techniques in Mechanics

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Christopher Papadopoulos; Josh Bostwick, Cornell University; Andrew Dressel, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

Tagged Divisions

Mechanics

mechanics.These issues are (1) multiple-method problem-solving, in which a given problem issolved in more than one way, (2) writing equations in a standard form that is amenable tocomputation, and (3) careful address of assumptions. Strategies to address these issuesare referred to as the “targeted strategies”.Considering the first issue, can material be developed in a general manner such that thechoice of method is presented as a fundamental part of the problem-solving process? Ormust certain problems be “pigeon-holed” such that their solutions are hard-wired to only Page 12.1206.2a certain approach? We probe these questions using the example of solving

Conference Session

Approaches to K -12 Engineering

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Steven Barrett, University of Wyoming; Jerry Hamann, University of Wyoming; Dennis Coon, University of Wyoming; Paul Crips, Laramie Middle School; John Pierre, University of Wyoming

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

, and embedded controller systems. He is a registered Professional Engineer in Wyoming and Colorado. He co-wrote with Dr. Daniel Pack “68HC12 Microprocessor: Theory and Application,” Prentice-Hall, 2002; “Embedded Systems Design and Applications with the 68HC12 and HS12,” Prentice-Hall, 2005; and “Microcontroller Fundamentals for Engineers and Scientists,” Morgan-Claypool Publishers, 2006. In 2004, Barrett was named “Wyoming Professor of the Year” by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching.Jerry Hamann, University of Wyoming Jerry C. Hamann received the B.S. in Electrical Engineering with a Bioengineering Option from the University of Wyoming in 1984. He then worked

Collection

2021 First-Year Engineering Experience

Authors

Cassondra Wallwey, The Ohio State University; Abigail Clark, The Ohio State University; Rachel Louis Kajfez, The Ohio State University; Mahnas Jean Mohammadi-Aragh, Mississippi State University; Shaylin Williams, Mississippi State University

. Mahnas Jean Mohammadi-Aragh, Mississippi State University Dr. M. Jean Mohammadi-Aragh is an assistant professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Mississippi State University. Dr. Mohammadi-Aragh investigates the use of digital sys- tems to measure and support engineering education. Current projects include leveraging writing to support programming skill development, using 3D weather visualizations to develop computational thinking skills for K-12 students, and exploring how instructors impact attention in large, computer-infused lectures. Dr. Mohammadi-Aragh also investigates fundamental questions about community, identity, messaging, and diversity, which are all critical to improving

Conference Session

Innovative Practices in NRE Education

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jerome Davis; Charles Bittle; Mitty Plummer

C. Results of students taking the Fundamentals of Engineering Examination D. Feedback from the Industrial Advisory Board E. Graduating student exit interviews F. Employer satisfaction surveys G. Graduate satisfaction surveysIn the author’s opinion, the feedback from the Fundamentals of Engineering Exam shouldbe excluded because no student of the NUET program has ever taken the examination.There is a commitment to encourage students to take the exam, however.IV. Incorporating the feedback into assessment processes.The department has solicited assistance from the university’s Planning and InstitutionalResearch operation in the data reduction process. The university maintains a database ofthe location of

Conference Session

Thermal Fluid Related

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Siu Ling Leung, Pennsylvania State University; Eric Marsh, Pennsylvania State University; Stephen Lynch, Pennsylvania State University; H. J. Sommer III, Pennsylvania State University; Sean N. Brennan, Pennsylvania State University; Tak-Sing Wong, The Pennsylvania State University; Brian M. Foley, The Pennsylvania State University; Jean-Michel Mongeau, Pennsylvania State University; Daniel H. Cortes, Penn State University; Karen A. Thole, Pennsylvania State University

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

-levelundergraduate mechanical engineering laboratory course to provide rich thinking opportunities forstudents to apply fundamental mechanical engineering knowledge to solve modern engineeringproblems. To gradually develop higher-order thinking skills in students, our approach is to developa multi-level laboratory course by utilizing Bloom's taxonomy. Bloom's taxonomy is a hierarchyof thinking, in which higher-level skill builds from lower-level foundations. Good judgmentrequires turning knowledge into understanding. [10] Students need to practice applyingengineering principles to solve a simple problem before analyzing a complex one. Applying theRevised Bloom's taxonomy's terminology, the course begins with "Remember, Understand, andApply," followed by

Conference Session

Innovations in Teaching and Research in Physics or Engineering Physics II

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gary P. Hillebrand, University of Detroit Mercy; Meghann Norah Murray, University of Detroit Mercy; Jenna Ross; Robert A. Ross, University of Detroit Mercy; Cherron Tarter, Ford Motor Company

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Physics & Physics

modified thecurriculum to incorporate additional activities.1 This paper will describe a physics laboratoryexperiment to simulate the operation of the touchscreen on a smartphone.A detailed description of the activity will be provided. The simulator is fabricated usingcommon office and laboratory supplies and is inexpensive enough that students can keep themodel. We describe how the simulator is used in two different courses. One course is designedfor high school students attending a university enrichment program, the other is a second-semester undergraduate general physics laboratory course.In addition we present the results of an open-ended assessment of student learning. Students areengaged to write to a specific prompt and we assess the

Conference Session

Innovative Laboratories in BME

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joe Tranquillo

Tagged Divisions

Biomedical

helpful for groups to compare their results after then turn in their reports. Trends in the data can lead to class discussions. 5) The lab write-up should include a preliminary design for the open-ended lab.These labs require students to tie the lab exercises back to the theory and calculationsfrom lecture. Quantitative labs are also an opportunity for students to confront the manyforms of experimental error and statistical analyses as well as gain an appreciation forwhat can be completed in the allotted lab time. Grading for the quantitative lab can be thesame as for a traditional lab. The preliminary design helps students think beyond thesurface level of following a precise lab protocol.Open-EndedAn ABET requirement is that all

Conference Session

K-12 Experiences in Energy Education

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Liping Guo, Northern Illinois University; Mansour Tahernezhadi, Northern Illinois University

Tagged Divisions

Energy Conversion and Conservation

’ knowledge and skills, which in turn leads to changesin instruction and ultimately improves student learning [1]. The Emerging Technology Instituteincorporates the professional development context, process, and content standards of the Page 25.1066.2National Staff Development Council [2]. The context standards are met by the learningcommunity approach and involvement of academic leaders in ways that can lead to improvedinstruction based on action research. A critical aspect of ETI is its approach to teaching advanced technology. The goal is tohave engineering educators communicate directly to the teachers about both fundamental andemerging

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Civil ET

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

David Cottrell; Joseph Cecere

destined to join. This paper discusses thetransition from the current single-tracked curriculum into a program with three separateacademic options – Structural Design, Construction Management, and GeneralEngineering and provides a comparative analysis of the separate tracks.Current Curriculum Supporting a Bachelor of Science Degree in SDCET This program is designed to ultimately prepare students for careers in a highlyspecialized construction industry. Table 1 details the current academic requirements forgraduation from the program. SDCET is currently accredited by the TechnologyAccreditation Commission of the Accreditation Board of Engineering and Technologyenabling graduates to continue their professional development by sitting for

Collection

1999 Annual Conference

Authors

W.V. Wilding; J.N. Harb; Ronald E. Terry; W.C. Hecker

education by focusing onthe product (student attributes) rather than the process (teaching). Although the formality ofoutcomes-based education may be unfamiliar to some, the fundamental ideas are not new, andare routinely incorporated into our day-to-day efforts to improve student learning. ABET 2000provides the formal context needed for broad application of these ideas and, of course, thedriving force needed to facilitate change.At issue, then, is how we will respond to this opportunity. On one hand ABET 2000 may beviewed as an unpleasant and perhaps unnecessary task that must be accomplished to achieveaccreditation. Alternatively, it may be viewed as a catalyst for making significant improvementsto engineering education. It is our opinion that

Conference Session

Environmental Engineering Curricula

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Angela Bielefeldt, University of Colorado, Boulder

Tagged Divisions

Environmental Engineering

cognitive levels and five situation levels (within discipline, acrossdisciplines, complicated and complex situations). The document in general follows the model ofthe American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) BOK for Civil Engineering.3 However, theEnvE BOK document is more complex due to the addition of the knowledge domains andpractical relevance levels.The need for a BOK to guide the discipline is particularly relevant for licensure. In the past, theadditional skills and knowledge that should be acquired after the ABET accredited B.S. degreeand the Fundamentals of Engineering exam (FE) were not clearly defined. Thus, states couldhave significantly variable expectations for the requirements during the 4-year practicalexperience phase. In most

Conference Session

Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies - Bring Your Own Experiment

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Garth V. Crosby, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale; Marcelene Allecia Cunningham

Tagged Divisions

Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

student hassufficient mathematically capability and or background to fully grasp the models and equationsdiscussed in class. Software such as MATLAB and Simulink are sometimes utilized in lecturesto make it more appealing through visual representations of communication signals and systems.Nevertheless, students may struggle to understand some of the abstract concepts. This isespecially true in the electrical engineering technology classroom where the focus is more on a‘hands on’ approach with less mathematical rigor. In such a scenario as this, the question wasasked, “how can students be engaged in the classroom in a way that enhances their learning oftelecommunications fundamentals?” A novel approach was presented as a response to thepreceding

Conference Session

Ocean, Marine, and Coastal Engineering Topics

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Barb Howe, FishSafe B.C.; Gina Johansen, Fish Safe

Tagged Divisions

Ocean and Marine

outcome for fishermen is: You will take ownership of fundamental principles of stability, and they will be central to your every day reality when making any decision that affects your vessel’s operations.A learning outcome is a broad statement of what participants will take away from a program. Page 12.1427.6Curriculum development with learning outcomes has its origins in systems theory andconstructivism, and includes authentic assessment. In contrast, curriculum development with acontent approach, is situated in liberal philosophy, and assessment is with norm referencedexams. The competency approach stems from behaviourist

Collection

1999 Annual Conference

Authors

S. M. Miner; R. E. Link

Session 2520 Complementary Usage of Mathematica and I-DEAS in Mechanism Design R.E. Link, S.M. Miner United States Naval AcademyAbstractAll mechanical engineering majors at the Naval Academy are required to take a course inComputer Aided Design during their senior year. The underlying philosophy of the course is touse the computer to solve problems that would be impractical to solve by hand. The vehicle usedto illustrate this is the design of four bar mechanisms. During the first part of the course thestudents write programs using Mathematica to

Collection

2008 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

Sarosh Patel; Manan Joshi; Lawrence Hmurcik

all of the microscopiccontacts between the molecules at the contact surface of the two objects [5,6,7,8]. Aeff is directlyproportional (i) to the geometrical contact area A between the two objects as well as to (ii) thedegree of surface-to-surface bonding. The first condition tells us that Aeff increases with anincrease in contact area. The second condition says that Aeff increases with an increase in pressure(P) at the contact surface. With these new concepts, we can re-write (1) as f = μAF(P) . (2)F(P) is a function of the pressure between the two contacting surfaces. It may be linear ornonlinear. If we assume it is linear, then we can let F(P)=P, where we assume that

Collection

2023 ASEE GSW

Authors

Krishna Kumar

taking the course inFall 2020 reflected the above sentiment; less than 12% of the students were interested in learningabout Geotechnical Engineering. As students delay taking the course, very few would then continuein the field of geotechnical engineering choosing other more familiar streams of civil engineering.Unlike all the other engineering courses, this is the first time the students will deal with particulatesystems (soil) rather than continuum (the more familiar concrete, steel, and water). The coursecovers fundamental concepts of soil behavior and the students learn how to design foundations andunderground structures upon which all civil engineering structures are supported. The course is verydemanding, with a lab and an assignment due

Conference Session

Engineering Physics and Physics Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Itzel H. Armenta, Tecnologico de Monterrey; Jorge Eugenio de la Garza Becerra, Tecnologico de Monterrey (ITESM); Angeles Dominguez, Tecnologico de Monterrey, Monterrey, Mexico and Universidad Andres Bello, Santiago, Chile

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Physics and Physics

fundamental misconceptions. For example, depending on thephysics textbook, gravitational force and weight might convey the same meaning, but they maydrastically differ. Some books, like Giancoli's [16], refer to weight, expressing it always as mg inthe free-body diagrams used as illustrations, while Young [17] calls it Weight and symbolizes itwith a W. Mazur [18] calls it gravitational force, naming it such according to the object on whichforce is applied in his discussions.As most teachers probably have experienced, there is a real-life misconception around the dailyuse of the words mass and weight. It is essential to think about how these discrepancies affectstudents’ learning, as seen when a word evokes an unexpected or unreliable meaning