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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard A. DeVries; Douglas C. Stahl

compression failure and ultimate tensile failure • Wood framed shear wall: panel failure, anchorage failure, diaphragm nail failure • Masonry shear wall: shear and tensile failures in reinforced and unreinforced walls.An example module follows this general description of each module’s of four parts:1. A structural component in contextThe goal of this part of the module is to help the user understand the relationships between thecomponent and the structure of which it is a part—to put the structural component intocontext. Information describes what the component physically is, how it is used, and whatvariations are common. Page 5.558.52

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Jeffrey Nadel; Dan Walsh

Session 1520 Advanced Technology Laboratories: A Crucible for Technology Enhanced Learning Jeff Nadel, Dan Walsh College of Engineering California Polytechnic State UniversityAbstractA partnership among industry, academia and government has led to the construction anddevelopment of a facility which provides a capstone experience for engineering students. Thepurpose of the ATL is to provide a vehicle that enables partnerships between industry, faculty, andstudents. This partnership is designed to produce

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2008 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

M. Ali Montazer

Helping Connecticut Aerospace Parts Manufacturers Become Lean M. Ali Montazer, Ph.D. University of New Haven – Tagliatela College of Engineering West Haven, Connecticut 06516 AbstractWith funding support from the Connecticut Center for Advanced Technology (CCAT) /National Aerospace Leadership Initiatives (NALI), a Center for Simulation Modeling andAnalysis has been established at the University of New Haven. The objectives of theCenter are (1) to bring modeling and simulation techniques and tools, through faculty andstudent teams, to the Connecticut aerospace parts manufacturers to support their efforts inimplementing Lean / Six

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2008 Northeast Section Meeting

Authors

M. Ali Montazer

Helping Connecticut Aerospace Parts Manufacturers Become Lean M. Ali Montazer, Ph.D. University of New Haven – Tagliatela College of Engineering West Haven, Connecticut 06516 AbstractWith funding support from the Connecticut Center for Advanced Technology (CCAT) /National Aerospace Leadership Initiatives (NALI), a Center for Simulation Modeling andAnalysis has been established at the University of New Haven. The objectives of theCenter are (1) to bring modeling and simulation techniques and tools, through faculty andstudent teams, to the Connecticut aerospace parts manufacturers to support their efforts inimplementing Lean / Six

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1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Akihiko Kumagai; Mukasa Ssemakula

combustion engines.Module 7 is the final project of this kinematics course. In this module, each candidate isexpected to demonstrate his or her proficiency in the technical materials covered in the previousmodules. Candidate will learn how to use basic features of Working Model [jon98, mor98]software and construct simple planar mechanisms, The validity of created mechanisms will thenbe examined through simulations under given kinematic and dynamic requirements.III. Examples of Instructional MaterialsModule 1 of this course gives an introductory overview of the subject of kinematics. In thismodule, students learn the terminology, definitions and basic concepts used in kinematics. Theseare the essential foundation on which understanding of the

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1997 Annual Conference

Authors

John T. Bell

Session 2313 Session 2313 Undergraduate Research Experiences Developing Virtual Reality Based Educational Modules John T. Bell Department of Chemical Engineering University of MichiganIntroductionOver the past several years a number of virtual reality ( VR ) based educational modules havebeen developed, using undergraduate chemical engineering students as the primary day-to-dayprogram developers. These students had minimal computer

Collection

2008 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

M. Ali Montazer, University of New Haven

Helping Connecticut Aerospace Parts Manufacturers Become Lean M. Ali Montazer, Ph.D. University of New Haven – Tagliatela College of Engineering West Haven, Connecticut 06516 AbstractWith funding support from the Connecticut Center for Advanced Technology (CCAT) /National Aerospace Leadership Initiatives (NALI), a Center for Simulation Modeling andAnalysis has been established at the University of New Haven. The objectives of theCenter are (1) to bring modeling and simulation techniques and tools, through faculty andstudent teams, to the Connecticut aerospace parts manufacturers to support their efforts inimplementing Lean / Six

Conference Session

S6A: Full Papers - Out with the Old, In with the New

Collection

14th Annual First-Year Engineering Experience (FYEE) Conference

Authors

Derin Ural, University of Miami

Tagged Topics

Full Papers

educationoften focuses primarily on technical knowledge and skills, neglecting the broader aspects ofstudent development and engagement. In recent years, there has been a growing recognition ofthe need to enhance engineering student success by creating a more holistic and supportivelearning environment [1], [4],[13].This paper presents a case for enhancing engineering student engagement and success through amulti-faceted effort at an Engineering College. Recognizing the importance of the first year as acritical transition period for students, the College has undertaken a comprehensive approach tosupport and empower first-year engineering students [2], [7], [11].To ensure that first-year students are well-prepared and connected to their engineering

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

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2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Edgar

Session 1793 Sophomore Introduction to Civil Engineering Systems Thomas Edgar, P.E., Ph.D. Associate Professor in Civil Engineering Department of Civil and Architectural Engineering University of Wyoming Laramie, WY 82071Abstract A sophomore level course is described which provides an introduction to the fieldCivil Engineering and Civil Engineering practice. It uses the area of Land Developmentas a model which naturally encompasses Surveying, Environmental, Transportation,Geotechnical and Water Resources Engineering and some aspects of

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Asad Yousuf

. • Create virtual instruments using LabVIEW • Use data acquisition systems to measure physical quantities. • Gain good understanding of General Purpose Interface Bus (GPIB) communication devices and drivers.The following topics are covered during the semester: 1. Introduction to LabVIEW 2. LabVIEW programming 3. Building an application 4. Instrument drivers 5. Writing a DAQ program 6. Process control application 7. Physical applicationThe following are the laboratory projects that students perform during the semester: 1. Creating a virtual instrument (VI) and sub VI. 2. Use While, For Loops, and a waveform chart for acquiring data in real time. 3. Create a VI that takes a number representing degree Celsius and

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard D. Wilk; George H. Williams

to provide continuity in the engineering programs.Students and faculty are encouraged to create their course portfolio in both hard copy and inWeb Page formats. Three major benefits of the portfolio are described: 1) allowing students andfaculty to review material from earlier courses, 2) allowing faculty to build on previous materialthat is archived in the portfolios, and 3) motivate students to appreciate the prerequisite coursematerial that is preparation for upper-level courses and senior design projects.BackgroundIn the last six years, the Engineering and Computer Science Programs at Union College wereextensively revised as part of a study funded by the General Electric Fund. One result is a first-year curriculum that includes a new

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Kathryne A. Newton; Duane D. Dunlap; Dennis R. Depew

development with maximum flexibility.The School of Technology proposes a flexible delivery system for graduate education that providesindividuals the opportunity to complete the Master of Science degree in technology in four semestersplus one summer session. The program requires students to come to the West Lafayette Campus forthree extended weekends each semester. These extended weekends begin on Friday afternoon andconclude on Sunday afternoon. Students take 1-7 credit hours of course work per semester. Purduefaculty teach the courses, although instructional methodology differs from that of the traditionalcourse structure because course content is delivered by technology in addition to traditionalclassroom lectures. While students are on campus for

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1997 Annual Conference

Authors

Jon E. Freckleton

drawings as one of the course deliverables.AssessmentAssessment is multiphased: l Immediate by both institue and instructor prepared, end of course, student reviews.The instructor form not only questions the technical content but also the problems andrewards associated with teamwork. Students find teamwork on a unique project to bedifficult, and often frustration, but universally a worth while learning experience. *Higher elvel courses use what was learned in this course as a required skill. Thetwo primary courses are: 1- DFMA requires sketching the redesign and often involves use of projectsponsors engineering drawings. 2-Senior Design requires preparation of drawings on a deliverable. SomeSenior

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1998 Annual Conference

Authors

David M. Hata

faculty enhancement activities.IntroductionVacuum systems are used in virtually every functional area of a wafer fab to create theproper processing environments for semiconductor manufacturing processes. Because ofthe pervasive of vacuum technology in the wafer fab, most two-year, associate degreecurricula require at least one course in vacuum technology. Unfortunately, support fortechnology level courses in this area are lacking in terms of textbooks, vacuum trainingsystems, and laboratory manuals.In 1995, Portland Community College, with funding from the National Science Founda-tion, began development of a generic vacuum technology course and supporting labora-tory.1 A team of community college faculty and industry experts was formed and

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Enno Koehn

to theincrease in educational criteria established by law and medicine approximately sixty years ago3.The increase in degree requirements would permit engineering programs to add course-work incommunications, leadership, and business skills while maintaining the technical base of thecurriculum.III. Assessment of ASCE CriteriaAs a segment of a continuing review of professional practice issues and the general engineeringcurriculum, a survey instrument involving the aforementioned concept of the First ProfessionalDegree was distributed to junior, senior, and graduate students enrolled in various coursesoffered by the Civil Engineering Department of Lamar University. Practicing civil engineerswere also given the opportunity to respond to the

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Migri M. Prucz

forcapturing the highlights of the educational programs offered by the college, with respect to boththeir contents and methods of instruction.I. IntroductionThe proliferation of advanced technologies throughout the global economy demands changes inall aspects of life, including industrial and academic activities. New market opportunities,competitive pressures, and government regulations have triggered a widespread wave of changesacross the industry, in regard with both its technical and business practices. The dynamics ofthese changes propagates, obviously, also to the area of engineering education, since the industryis the "ultimate customer" of universities, where their graduates are to be employed and expectedto pursue professional careers [1

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1997 Annual Conference

Authors

Vincent Allen; Bruce E. Segee; Scott C. Dunning

United States. The program utilizes 30 Universities which eachperform 30 assessments annually at firms within 150 miles of their respective campuses. It hasbeen highly successful in training students in energy efficiency and waste minimizationtechniques. The program has also been very successful helping the manufacturers that are servedby the program.In our desire to provide further assistance to smaller manufacturers, we began investigating waysto share technical expertise with these small manufacturers. At the national level, the U.S.Department of Energy has developed publications in conjunction with Rutgers University thatdocument typical energy conservation opportunities [1]. They also have developed a self-assessment workbook to assist

Conference Session

WIED: Community

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2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Elodie Billionniere, Miami Dade Community College; Farzana Rahman, Syracuse University

nearly34% over the past decade and employers are having trouble filling jobs in occupations thatdepend on skilled technical workers [need a source]. To address this gap, Syracuse Universitypartnered with Miami Dade College to develop the NSF RESET 2021 conference. The targetedaudience was (re-)entering women who have returned to the workforce or engaged in non-technology industries looking to enter and fill computing/tech jobs nationwide throughpreparation for EmTech field.The NSF RESET conference aimed to explore and discuss challenges encountered by returningwomen with the objective of better understanding their situations and identifying solutions totheir problems in accessing EmTech education and employment (see Figure 1). Objective 1

Conference Session

Unique Pedagogies for Mechanics Education

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Adrian Rodriguez, The University of Texas at Austin

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Mechanics Division (MECHS)

course delivery model is a mixture between asynchronous (82%)and synchronous (18%) modes. The online, asynchronous format can hinder EFL students fromparticipating or engaging in class since EFL students are traditionally passive learners and do nottypically learn on their own [1]-[3]. The EFL students in the present study enter the Mechanicsof Materials course with the additional challenge of having undeveloped skills and poorknowledge in Statics or Physics, despite being exposed to those subjects as pre-requisites forMechanics of Materials. Thus, the barriers to student learning faced by EFL students inMechanics of Materials and online courses in general must be addressed to ensure that theiracademic success does not decrease [4]-[6].In [7], a

Conference Session

IS and IT Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Cullinane; Baris Yanmaz; Ronald Perry

process that projects the need for IT workers to grow to 146,000 by 2008, a 90% in-crease over 1998 figures 1. National figures also predict an increased need for workers in the ITfield. Most studies show that the greatest need is for people who constitute the researchers, crea-tors and designers of the new and advancing technologies. Page 9.1121.1 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Education Cycles of layoffs and shortages have been the labor market reality for technical profession-als in recent

Conference Session

Before the Capstone: Project-based Experiences Early in the Curriculum

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Nicholas Andres Brake, Lamar University; Thinesh Selvaratnam

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

) the various sub-disciplines within civil engineering, ii) 3D CAD, iii)basic quantitative engineering analysis and programming with EXCEL® and MATLAB®, iv)engineering design with structural modeling software, and v) 3D printing.At mid-semester, the first-year students are placed into teams of 4 to 5 and paired with a fourthyear (senior) student peer mentoring team and tasked with completing an engineering designproject. The fourth-year students meet with the first-year students on a weekly basis for seven toeight weeks to i) help organize the project, ii) discuss effective time management strategies, iii)provide engineering technical expertise, and iv) provide general academic advice. Meeting notesand peer evaluations are recorded and

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2019 ASEE PNW Section Conference

Authors

David Pinkerton, Boise State University; Krishna Pakala, Boise State University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

moretraining/set-up than it is worth? Does it increase or decrease workloads of professors and staff?3. The engineering workforce?Will this student be a better worker and employee? Will they be responsible, safe, andcommunicative when called upon? Will the technologies used in the classroom carry over toindustry?4. General Society?Will this help the student be an engineer with good ethics? Will this help students speak up whennecessary? Will this uphold the professional engineering ethical responsibility of keeping thepublic safe?DefinitionsThe following terms are either used in, or are important concepts to, this paper:Access Point to Learning: A means by which students can obtain knowledge or skills. Exampleswould be: a tutoring session, a textbook

Conference Session

Professional Engineering Management Initiatives

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Donald Merino, Stevens Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Management

inclusion of material” will be “generally recognized as good practice on mostprojects most of the time.” ASEM criteria substituted subjects/topics for projects.In addition, the process to create a BoK needs to include input from both Subject Matter Experts(SMEs) as well as industry practitioners. Individual subjects and topics need to be based onstandard references in the field. These references should be easily available to anyone who seeksthem. Finally the process needs to include a peer review process that insures that the BoK has thebenefit of various experts to ensure against group think or individual bias. This is also needed tovalidate the EM BoK. Appendix I - Figure 1 and Appendix II illustrate the ASEM EM BoKdecision process.ASEM EM BoK

Conference Session

Cognitive and Motivational Issues in Student Performance I

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2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Paul Steif, Carnegie Mellon University; Jamie LoBue, Carnegie Mellon University; Anne Fay, Carnegie Mellon University; Burak Kara, Carnegie Mellon University; Steve Spencer, Carnegie Mellon University

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

C D F B 40 cm 20 cm 10 1000 N cm 500 N 2m A C 1m 1m Figure 1. Examples of problems used in study.Each participant first completes the Statics Concept Inventory on-line, and then attends twosessions approximately one and two weeks later, respectively. Each session lasts from 1.5 to

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Ribando; Gerald O'Leary; Timothy Scott

) toinclude what we call a “studio” session. The latter, a two-hour “hands-on” session heldin a room containing a computer for each pair of students, supplements the two lectureseach week that are held in a room having a computer and projection system just for theinstructor. Much of the studio session centers on a set of modules that we havedeveloped locally for use in our undergraduate and graduate heat transfer courses. Whileit would probably be possible to take the next step and teach this entire course in the“studio” mode, as has been done in many courses at RPI and several other universities [1-4], we have not taken so drastic a step as yet. Page

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1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Scott Wayne; Alfred Stiller; Kristine Craven

Session 2353 The Freshman Engineering Experience At West Virginia University Kristine Craven, Scott Wayne, and Al Stiller West Virginia UniversityAbstractThe freshman year of most engineering programs is confounded with mathematics and chemistrycourses. The students are rarely in contact with actual engineering situations. Therefore, studentsin the College of Engineering do not develop an understanding of the engineering professionduring their freshman year. Since most students entering the university have unsophisticatedbackgrounds, it is

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1999 Annual Conference

Authors

P. M. Wild; B. W. Surgenor

– IntroductoryElectric Circuits and Machines, Mech 215 - Instrumentation and Measurement, Phys 333 –Electronics for Scientists and Engineers, Mech 350 –Automatic Controls. Students entering thefourth year, in general, have not retained much of the material from these four courses. They are,therefore, poorly equipped to apply, let alone integrate, this material in the practice ofmechatronic systems design. As a starting point for Mech 452, therefore, only the most basicbackground in electrical circuits and no background in microprocessors are assumed.3.2 The mechatronic system – What are the most difficult issues?For the purposes of the course, a simple model of a mechatronic system is adopted, as shown inFigure 1. Sensors monitor the state of the “real world

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2010 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

Nathan Podoll; Kassim M. Tarhini P.E.; Hudson Jackson

MODEL ACTIVITIES FOR COORDINATING CORE ENGINEERING COURSES Nathan Podoll, Kassim Tarhini, and Hudson Jackson United States Coast Guard Academy, New London, CTSession: Tools, techniques and best practices of engineering education for the digital generation Alternate Session: All other topicsAbstractThe United States Coast Guard Academy (USCGA) is a small undergraduate institution ofapproximately 1000 cadets with eight majors. The four engineering majors require students totake basic engineering courses such as Statics, Mechanics of Materials, and Dynamics. Thesecourses are offered in multiple sections in a given semester and serve as the

Conference Session

Capstone Design Practices

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Kurt Stephen Stresau, University of Central Florida; Mark W. Steiner, University of Central Florida

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

individualcapstone project level based upon Pembridge and Paretti’s functional taxonomy [38] . Thequestions, based upon a 5 point Likert scale, were customized for the contextual setting ofcapstone and organized into five areas:1. Individual Student Interests a. My faculty advisor actively promotes my individual educational/engineering development. b. My faculty advisor adapts project guidance based upon individual student interests and capabilities.2. Technical Guidance a. My faculty advisor is engaged in and aware of the technical aspects of my project. b. My faculty advisor helped guide the team in finding relevant technical information. c. My faculty advisor provided specific technical knowledge related to

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering Courses II

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2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Katie Sullivan

. Luechtefeld, R., Watkins, S.E., & Rajappa, V. (2004). Differentiated team training in a multidisciplinary engineering projects course. American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition. Session 1340. 5. Wu, J.C., & Chang, P.F. (2004). Effectiveness of problem solving and teamwork skills for cultivating technological creativity within a team-based design course. American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition. Session 153. 6. Downing, C.G. (2001). Essential non-technical skills for teaming. Journal of Engineering Education, January 2001. 7. Katzenback, J.R., & Smith, D.K. (1993). The wisdom of teams: creating the high performance organization. Harvard