Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Madara Ogot

Publishers, making it unnecessary to purchase four books to cover the material.Instructors unfamiliar with these tools could themselves complete the projects and readthrough the background material and be prepared to introduce the tools into their courses.AcknowledgmentThe author would like to acknowledge the National Science Foundation for support ofthis project through a grant number CCLI0088891.References 1. Vest, D., Palmquist, M. and Zimmerman, D., “Enhancing Engineering Students’ Communication Skills Through Multimedia Instruction,” Journal of Engineering Education, vol. 84, no. 4, October 1995, pp. 383-387. 2. Dahir, M., “Educating Engineers for the Real World”, Technology Review, vol. 96, August/September, 1993

Conference Session

Where Are Tomorrow's Civil Engineers?

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Sean Buchholtz; Reid Vander Schaaf

started this summer, I was unsure if I wanted to stay a civil major. After all of the hands on experience, talking with professional engineers, and seeing some of the classes being applied to the real world, I became positive that this is what I want to study. Also, I am a very visual person, and the hands on experiences will give me a lot of scenarios to draw upon when I begin studying those areas.The summer student programs at West Point are achieving their objectives. The cadets whoparticipate gain a much broader understanding of engineering and are much more likely to stay thecourse as an engineering major. Additionally, the cadets are more likely to select the Corps ofEngineers

Conference Session

Preparing Engineering Students for the Global Workplace

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Catherine T. Amelink, Virginia Tech; Nicole P. Sanderlin, Virginia Tech; Elizabeth M. Tront, Virginia Tech; Joseph G. Tront, Virginia Tech

Tagged Divisions

International

global engineer different from someone who is not practicing so broadly? 37.4 48.2 Total Score 123.8 153.4 In the pre-writing, students identified the ability to solve problems, understandengineering content (science, math) and creativity as key skills for an engineer. Upon review anddiscussion of the writing assignments, the reviewers felt that lacking from pre-writing was anindication that students needed to consider the impact of solutions provided in a professionalsetting to real-world situations. There was a very absolutist view expressed by students aboutknowledge, that there was a clear right or wrong answer and that

Conference Session

High School Students Thinking and Performance

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Matthew D. Lammi, North Carolina State University; Theodore J. Branoff, North Carolina State University

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

to leave the work areato eat, answer cell phones, or use the restroom. Perhaps this could have been done out of respector propriety, but following the challenge, each student designer expressed that the challenge was“real world” and that it had application to their everyday lives. All of the student design teams struggled with the ill-structured nature of the challenge.Eric went on to say, “I hate problems like this.” However, Braden chided Eric and stated that inorder to have a realistic design problem, it had to be broad. Douglas, et al.7 found thatengineering students faced discomfort with open-ended engineering problems as well.Concept Maps Concept maps may be used for evaluating and assessing student work8. The concept

Conference Session

Innovations in Teaching Transportation and Geotechnical Engineering

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James L. Hanson, California Polytechnic State University; David J. Elton, Auburn University

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

Page 25.957.6 “it’s hard to judge because this was the only lab where was behind the schedule in we hadn’t learned the curriculum yet.” terms of technical status of the Students thought the experience would have been course. better if done later in the course Students thought the experience was a helpful introduction to real world engineering work Students recommended that the experience start with a This method had been whole-class interactive video between campuses to integrated to other aspects of introduce the project the broader project when

Conference Session

Design Tools and Methodology II

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nathan Delson, University of California, San Diego; Mark Anderson, University of California, San Diego

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

have the unintendedconsequence of encouraging unguided trial and error rather than analysis. It is often easier forstudents to simply build a range of hardware solutions, try them out and keep the one solutionthat works without ever fully analyzing the system or justifying their design decisions. We wishto convey the lesson that in real-world design, each trial can be very expensive, and thereforeexperimentation should be guided by theory. These educational challenges have led us to choosea two project approach. The first project still uses low cost hardware and has tight timeconstraints, yet the design challenge starts with a working baseline that is specifically selected sothat analysis can improve optimization results. The working baseline

Conference Session

Capstone Design Pedagogy I

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Howard Eisner, George Washington University

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

open enrollment model. Both innovative approaches have Page 15.738.8been utilized in the real world for more than ten years, and have thereby established their value.In addition, the suggested architectural approach has been examined in the light of ways tosystematically “think outside the box”. There is also room for future expansion of both innovative approaches. In the case ofarchitecting, expansions may be expected in matters involving interoperability, complexity,requirements, decomposition, and systems integration. For the approach to engineeringeducation, new ideas may be expected with respect to integrating the Internet, greater use

Conference Session

Poster Session

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lily Laiho, California Polytechnic State University; Richard Savage, California Polytechnic State University; James Widmann, California Polytechnic State University

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

valuable industryfeedback to students on their progress. Students were able to obtain a well-roundedinterdisciplinary design experience focused on real world engineering problems.In order to increase the success of the course, there are several recommendations that could beimplemented. The majority of students belonged to the home departments of the instructors.This was partly due to the ease which faculty could promote the new course within their owndepartment through their colleagues and own classes. In addition, due to the late approval of thecourse, student recruitment started late. Now that the course is firmly established, recruitment Page

Conference Session

New Electrical ET Course Development

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Walter E. Thain Jr.

, Rutledge explains the philosophy behind his approach to the textbook asproviding a practical, real-world connection between communication theory and circuitimplementation, a connection that is often lost in modern Electrical Engineering curricula.Indeed, Electrical Engineering Technology programs seek to include this connection as much aspossible in their courses and this is one of the key motivations behind the introduction of thiscourse at SPSU. One important difference in philosophy between the Caltech and SPSUimplementations is that at Caltech, the course serves to familiarize students with basic ElectricalEngineering concepts through experimentation with a practical system; while at SPSU, it is usedmore as a capstone course that draws

Conference Session

The Best of Interdisciplinary Programs

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ralph Ford; Jana Goodrich; Robert Weissbach

of the Small Product Realization class is that one has to be able to negotiate and compromise in order for the project to be completed…. Overall, Small Product Realization was a mini version of the real business world. I would highly recommend this class to anyone who is in business or engineering fields and is interested in generation of new product ideas and a deeper Page 9.859.3 understanding of the processes involved.” “Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society

Conference Session

Innovative Teaching Methods in Engineering Economy

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Kevin Dahm

traditional homework problems.There were some additional benefits to the project that became evident during these twosemesters. One point was that the project exposed students to some real-world phenomena thatare not necessarily covered by a traditional engineering economics course. The best exampleswere price-fixing and monopolies. The game contained no rules against these practices. Page 9.1176.5Inevitably, people engaged in these practices, and in fact during one semester some students Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American

Conference Session

NSF Grantees’ Poster Session

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kathryn F. Trenshaw, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Renata A. Revelo Alonso, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Katherine Earl Earl, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Geoffrey L. Herman, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Tagged Divisions

Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

projectsinstead of exams positively impacted students’ sense of competence. Student 7 expressed how asense of being part of something “bigger” as a member of a team resulted in better preparationfor working in a real world environment. I feel like the exams don’t always necessarily test your knowledge or maybe the kind of knowledge that you would need in a work environment. I feel like working in a group and solving a bigger task is more beneficial in the long run than just being able to crank out twelve problems in an hour. - Student 7Students 5 and 16 noted the difficulties with the time pressure of exams and expressed feeling asthough they had learned more from the semester long projects than they would have fromtraditional

Conference Session

Issues in ET Education I

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert Joseph Michael PE, Gannon University; Fredrick A. Nitterright, Pennsylvania State University, Erie; Robert Edwards, Pennsylvania State University, Erie

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

easily reached temperatures of 900oF with crown the sheet Page 24.599.10 exposed. If the steam turned to superheated, pressures between 195 psi up to 400 psi could have resulted. 2. The exposed crown sheet could have vaporized at least 5 lbs of water which could have resulted in pressures of 690 psi up to 1,200 psi! In addition to the technical aspects of the forensic analysis, after the completion of the project,students have a great appreciation for how complex real-world forensic problems can be and themany aspects of mechanical engineering that must be used. They also appreciate the importanceof working in groups and how

Conference Session

Materials Division Poster Session

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

William Joseph Stuart P.E., Oregon Institute of Technology; Natalie Rachel Sheffield, Oregon Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Materials

but also more effective as they evolve with each newterm of applying them. This paper will also address the steps involved in developing and usingthe tools and some methods of making this process user friendly to both the students and theinstructor.JTF NEED:Engineering students studying ‘Material Science’ have to struggle when learning new concepts,how they might apply them in the real world design challenges as well as learn a new language,the language of ‘Material Science’; this language includes the vocabulary of material selectiontechniques, manufacturing processes and much more. This learning process is particularlydemanding for students with a heavy load of engineering coursework. The most rapid andefficient way for students to learn

Conference Session

Materials Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Matthew Cavalli, University of North Dakota; Jeremiah J. Neubert, University of North Dakota; Deborah Worley, University of North Dakota

Tagged Divisions

Materials

following semester provides insights into themotivations and backgrounds of distance students in the program. Implications of the findingsfor distance engineering course design are discussed.IntroductionThe University of North Dakota (UND) offers ABET-accredited undergraduate distanceengineering programs in chemical, civil, electrical, geological, and mechanical engineering. Theprograms began with industrial collaboration in the early 1990s and have grown to compriseapproximately 1/3 of the total enrollment in the UND College of Engineering and Mines. Theyenroll students from across the country and around the world. While originally developed forworking professionals with technical experience looking to finish a degree, increasing numbersof

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Courses and Projects

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cyrus Habibi P.E., Minnesota State University, Mankato; Motahareh Tina Alaei, Minnesota State University, Mankato; Michael Ryan Lynch

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

worth one credit. Some of these competencies were core competenciesand were mandatory to be enrolled in. The rest were elective technical competencies in which thestudents enrolled and completed in order to gain knowledge and skill required to complete theirdesign project. This type of learning helped the team reinforce learning while working withsubjects that related to real world engineering project. The following is the description ofproject-related competencies taken during spring semester 2012 by the team:Three Phase power systems & AC Fault AnalysisThese competencies helped students learn how to calculate fault currents that could occur at thesubstation and allowed the team to suggest switchgear ratings and circuit breakers

Conference Session

Best Practices and Lessons Learned in Capstone Design Projects

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Arif Sirinterlikci, Robert Morris University

Tagged Divisions

Manufacturing

types,followed by the planning, execution, and control actions. The team structure including team sizeand the method of working on the same problem with two different teams are included. Thisapproach allows collaboration and competition along the execution of projects. On the contrary,individually student driven projects were by handled the originator of the concept alone andlimited number of patent applications or discussions on start-ups were experienced. In addition,the paper will address the benefits of continuing projects over multiple semesters, reporting anddocumentation requirements including oral and written progress reports as well as final reportand its supporting presentation, and peer reviews. The issues arising during the

Conference Session

Capstone Projects and Experiential Learning

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nasser Alaraje, Michigan Technological University; Aleksandr Sergeyev, Michigan Technological University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

exercise. The circuits, and its inputs, are then simulated and the participant isinstructed on how to view the resulting waveforms efficiently. The testbench file is then edited totest other input conditions and the results are viewed after simulation.Lab 5: Capstone Project: This lab acts as a capstone to the entire VHDL and FPGA DesignWorkshop. This integrating experience develops participant competencies in applying VHDLand FPGA technical skills in solving a design problem. It covers various topics previouslydiscussed and adds some even more advanced techniques and algorithms, it gives a good real-world application of what can be accomplished with FPGAs.IV. AssessmentAssessment is a vital part of any curriculum reform project and helps

Conference Session

FPD 3: Research on First-Year Courses

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jess W. Everett, Rowan University; Maggie A Flynn M.A., Elizabethtown College

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

by less than 75 % was building student-faculty relationships.Other goals mentioned in open-ended responses included awareness of diversity issues,appreciation of the real-world applicability of engineering, improved technical writing skills,having fun, etc.Responding institutions were 18.7 % private and 81.6 % public. ELC size ranged from 8 to 1000,with a mean of 146 and median of 60. Twenty five percent were smaller than 40 students, whiletwenty five percent had 225 students or larger. Regarding the size limit mentioned in theliterature, 43 % of the ELCs were larger than 75 students. The significant number of largerprograms could lead to reduced effectiveness of ELCs. Program coping strategies may includedividing large ELCs into sub-groups

Conference Session

Trends in Engineering Economy

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

John Ristroph

2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineeringprovide an organized, easy-to-use method for professors to offer high quality, convenient, activelearning sessions for their students. Such an outcome would serve engineering education in gen-eral and specifically deal with growing trends of distance learning and students with jobs. Bibliography1. Terpenny, Janis P., William G. Sullivan, Harpreet Singh, and Kimberly Sward, "Utilizing the Internet to Improve Student Learning in a First Course in Engineering Economy with Real- World Unsolved Problems in Collaboration with Industry

Conference Session

Women in Engineering Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Barbara Bogue

, integratedpipeline program designed to recruit, retain and develop future women engineers throughintegrated activities, introducing girls to fields and opportunities that will encourage them toenter, continue and excel in engineering. Primary delivery of information is through hands onactivities that: Emphasize interdisciplinary activities Introduce key technologies and practices related to engineering Develop problem solving, teamwork and business skills Emphasize real world engineering experience through hands-on projects and case study focused activities Provide contact with engineering professionals through networking and related activitiesTo assess the initial offering, we administered pre- and immediate

Conference Session

Nontraditional Ways to Engage Students

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Kathy Brockway; Greg Spaulding

technology, aviation (including professional pilot), and business. Theacademic programs are designed to directly prepare participants for the world of work,and the programs are very application oriented and laboratory intensive. KSU-Salinastudents learn by doing. Over the last five years, the college has placed 96% of itsgraduates, and each year several employers actively recruit on campus.With the size of the campus, the diversity of study, and the large number of activeentrepreneurs in the local community, this campus provides the ideal environment forimplementation of a broad-based entrepreneurial transformation. With very little fanfare,this transformation has already begun and will continue to be implemented, untilentrepreneurship permeates

Conference Session

Project Management and Team Issues

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Zbigniew Pasek

China Syndrome” (1979).Another student in his commentary found a lot of relevance to the issues of today: “Even though the movie is bordering on 25 years old, some of the same ethics questions that were brought out in the movie are still continuing today. Movies like these tend to raise the questions of company loyalty vs. professional ethics or even personal ethics. The business world can be a very difficult area to do the right thing at times because of the emphasis placed on companies making money even if it means cutting corners, disrespecting fellow workers or lying to investors or the public”.Other movie title and issues they covered are listed in Table 2. In addition, a number of

Conference Session

Retention: Keeping the Women Students

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Meredith Aronson; Marie Reyes; Jeff Goldberg

this work,describes the specific approaches, goals, and outcomes of our early program activities, andreports on our early evaluation efforts.The Problem: Recruiting and Retention of WomenIn a world of expanding technological demands, the US is facing an increasing shortage oftechnologically-trained workers. At the same time the National Science Foundation (NSF) has Page 8.598.1published biannual reports documenting that women, Blacks, Hispanics, Asians and Pacific -1-Islanders, and persons with disabilities are underrepresented in this labor force, highlighting ourinability to engage many talented

Conference Session

Trends in Construction Engineering Education

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

David Riley

research tothe hands-on construction of a green building in a “real world” context, students develop anethical knowledge of their practice, thereby joining scholarship with the public.Broadly, the educational goal of the proposed program improvement is to promote an activelearning process of research, experimentation, application, and assessment that cycle yearly forcontinuous improvement of the building technologies employed on AIHI building projects.Specifically, the AIHI course series at Penn State seeks to meet the following educationalobjectives: 1) Introduce students to green technologies through small-scale experimentation seeking to ultimately explore the integration and relationship of these technologies in concert; 2) Through

Conference Session

Introduction to Engineering and More

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Craig Gunn

the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Education”industry foci to investigations of the required number of crisplets on the top of a breakfast cerealand how to maintain those numbers. The senior students are given time to make a case for theirparticipation in the specific design team. The teams are then matched to the projects that willmost closely utilize their skills. The freshmen were also given a chance to select the project thatwas most interesting to them. They did not need to have any real expertise in the specific projectarea. It involved more of a topical interest that would then allow them to get past the issue

Conference Session

Retention: Keeping the Women Students

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Jackie Sullivan; Daniel Knight

learn the designprocess and build engineering projects in diverse topics such as assistive technology, RubeGoldberg contraptions and robots. The projects have real world relevance and are interesting tothe students who work on them in small, multidisciplinary teams. Within teams, students areencouraged to learn new skills, such as computer-aided drawing, hands-on machining andassembly, engineering analysis, and communications skills, which will benefit them throughouttheir college experience. Another FYEP course goal is to provide a context for first-yearengineering students to evaluate their decision to pursue engineering, as many students have beenadvised to become engineers without knowing what an engineer does, and about 30% of the first

Conference Session

Assessment of Graphics Programs

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Sheryl Sorby

transformations, multi-view projection of 3-Dobjects, scales, sectional views, and dimensioning practice. Students also spent a significant por-tion of time on understanding/interpreting real-world engineering drawings supplied to us byindustry. Students maintained a sketching journal throughout the course. They were required tosketch 3-D objects of their choosing approximately 15-20 minutes each night in their journals.Hand-held models and instructional manipulatives were used throughout the course where appro-priate.GN135:Introduction to Computer Aided DesignGN 135 was a 2-credit solid-modeling course in Computer Aided Design. It met for one hour oflab lecture and one two-hour computer lab per week. The students were required to complete ninelab

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Donald Wilcher

in which the P-Brick can be use to stimulate logical thought processes for the freshman EC engineering student in the design, build, and test of mechatronics based architectures using Hately/Pirhbai and structural analysis methods used in industry. By using the LEGO P-Brick, advanced concepts of assembly language programming, microcontrollers, and circuit analysis can seamlessly be integrated into the student's EC engineering curriculum. It is hoped that these laboratory based projects will excite the EC engineering educator to explore developing other dynamic experiments in embedded controller applications like mechatronics based Real Time Systems (RTS), robotics based instrumentation, and intelligent machines using

Conference Session

Global Engineering Education

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

William Paterson; Samantha De Bon; Jean-Yves Chagnon; Deborah Wolfe

forward by private sector, often involving the submitting firms in both advisory and evaluation roles. This seems to acknowledge the need for “real life” projects as a break from the strictly academic, theoretical framework and the involvement of non-academic engineers to provide the “applications” perspective. It also often provides students with valuable experience in presenting their cases outside the classroom environment. Such experience often provides the only exposure to such things as codes and their requirements, assessments of loadings for which there are no handbooks and the realities of limited budgets and project phasing, that students get. Given the earlier mentioned