Conference Session

New Trends in ECE Education

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bill Yang, Western Carolina University; Robert D. Adams, Western Carolina University; Aaron K. Ball, Western Carolina University

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

 Dependence  16  12/6  Last Lab report due Introductory LabVIEW session:In the introductory session the students engage in LabVIEW exercises involving different dataformats, 1D and 2D arrays, and saving data in spreadsheets. The purpose of these exercises is toallow the students to gain confidence in designing and implementing their own user interfaces.The first LabVIEW session is at the week 3 early in the semester. This session is one of twodedicated LabVIEW sessions in the whole semester. Other LabVIEW activities are integratedwith other main experiment lab sessions such as recording data sets for a frequency responseanalysis of BJT amplifier voltage gain. The main purpose of this first introductory session was tohelp the

Conference Session

Innovative Courses for ChE Students

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Basil Baltzis; Dana Knox

most common concern was that freshmanstudents already are required to take several one-credit courses. These include laboratory classesin both physics and chemistry, two freshman engineering design classes, physical educationcourses and the freshman seminar course, discussed below.“Too much work is required of freshmen”. Freshmen come to college used to the workloads ofhigh school. It is a big adjustment, and there should be a reluctance to add to that load. The Page 7.756.3 “Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright Ó 2002, American Society for

Collection

1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Daryl Boden

Session 2302 Satellite Artificial Intelligence Lab Daryl G. Boden, Associate Professor Department of Aerospace Engineering United States Naval AcademyAbstractThe Spacecraft Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (SAIL) is a joint Navy / NASA / Industry/Academia research and development project which uses existing facilities in the Department ofAerospace Engineering at the U.S. Naval Academy (USNA). The goals of the project are to testand evaluate automation and machine intelligence techniques for operating space systems. TheSAIL project is

Conference Session

Three P's in Introduction to Engineering

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Heidi Diefes-Dux; Robert Montgomery

-on" exposure to the course material and allow you the opportunity to experiment with the computer system and the various software packages The purpose of homework is to allow 3.8 3.5 3.7 you to practice using problem solving and computer skills developed in laboratory. Exams are designed to provide you 3.6 3.5 3.5 with opportunities to give evidence of your understanding of course topics. Team Projects are designed to 4.0 3.6 3.7 provide you with an opportunity to apply your newly acquired problem solving and computer skills to the solution of engineering problems. The purpose of teaming is to help you 4.0

Collection

1996 Annual Conference

Authors

Dianne Atkinson

informal short speeches, all intended for peer audiences.Engineering students, if they are to move toward competence in an increasingly media-intensive workplace,need experience with more professional tasks, e.g., technical collaboration on design projects. Considerableinstructional investments already support written communication skills; engineering schools have longemphasized formal laboratory reports. The agenda now is to find ways to build better oral communication skills.2 Design in the Curriculum The increased emphasis on design in engineering curricula does offer an important opportunity tosupport oral skills. One implication of incorporating more design work into the curriculum, especially designprojects carried out with small

Conference Session

TIME 8: Materials, MEMS, and Nano

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Adams

professor MichaelMcInerney, Tina Hudson and Ed Wheeler from the Department of Electrical and ComputerEngineering, Jameel Ahmed from the Department of Applied Biology and BiomedicalEngineering, Dan Morris from the Department of Chemistry and the author from the Departmentof Mechanical Engineering for the task.The newly formed MEMS group submitted a successful proposal to the Keck Foundation to fundthe MEMS center. During the 2001-2002 academic year, the MEMS group designed anintroductory course in MEMS and an associated laboratory. The first installment of the coursewas taught in the spring quarter of 2002 without a lab component. Construction of a new MEMSfabrication laboratory began soon thereafter and was completed in time for the

Conference Session

Learning and Assessment in ME

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sriram Sundararajan, Iowa State University

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

 in  a  mechanical  systems  design   course  and  heat  transfer.       experience  AND  thermal  systems  design   experience   2. Almost  all  lab  experiences  focused  on   Two  inquiry-­‐based  laboratory  exercises  were  designed   conducting  experiments  (specific   and  implemented  in  an  engineering  measurements  class   instruction-­‐driven)  and  analysis  of  data.   and  a  fluids  class.    In  both  these  exercises,  students  were   There  were  no  opportunities  for  students   posed  a  question  to  answer.    Students  would  then  design   to  design/construct  their  own   an  experiment  to

Conference Session

Starting the Last Day with New Ideas

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Natarajan Gautam, Texas A&M University

Tagged Divisions

Industrial Engineering

) Page 14.1130.7course B uses a homework which students tend to collaborate and not follow the logic, whereasin course A students are forced to pay attention in class when it is demonstrated and in course Cstudents individually perform experiments during a laboratory session; (2) in course B the quiz isthe 10th and last quiz of the semester by which time the students are burnt out by the semester,whereas in course A it is the 3rd quiz and in course C it is the 5th quiz; (3) students are exposed toCLT for the first time in course C, however in course A students are exposed to it for the secondtime (first time in course B) and in course C the students see CLT in a statistics prerequisitecourse. Therefore it reinforces the notion that by presenting

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Andrew Gerhart

theSummer Science Institute, is for high school juniors and seniors. The other program, calledSummer Odyssey, is for middle school students. Both programs explain what engineers are,explain what engineers do, and promote problem solving skills. The students also experiencevarious disciplines (or sub-disciplines) of engineering through a combination of presentations,laboratory experiences, and design work. In other words, much of the same material andactivities are used for both programs. Although neither of these programs are specifically forminorities or women, a large portion of the students are female and approximately half areminorities. A review of the material/activities for the summer of 2004 is presented. In addition,in the summer of 2004

Collection

2022 ASEE - North Central Section Conference

Authors

Wookwon Lee P.E., Gannon University; Nicholas B Conklin, Gannon University

course isincluded to cover electronic devices and circuits with laboratory experiments, leading to a total offour credit hours of coursework. Typical topics covered in Electronics can be largely grouped intothe following four categories: op-amp applications, diodes and applications, bipolar junctiontransistors (BJTs), field-effect transistors (FETs). Closely related to the electronic platform furtherdiscussed in this paper is op-amp applications. When op-amps are covered in the course, variousop-amp circuits are discussed starting with inverting op-amps and non-inverting op-amps and then,comparators, integrators, differentiators, summing amplifiers, instrumentation amplifiers, and someother op-amp circuits. It is generally expected that students

Conference Session

Early ChemE Education

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Polly R. Piergiovanni, Lafayette College

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

thetopics (shown in bold) concluded with a design experience, and the module culminatedwith a final design project combining several of the topics. Thus each studentparticipated in five design projects.Table 1. Topics taught in the Films, Foams and Powders module. The topics listed inbold included a design project.Topic Activity Science EngineeringFood Components Milk coagulation Fats, proteins, Process flow carbohydrates diagramsDrying Banana chips Water activity Wet and dry compositionStarch Chemistry Racing starches! Starch Material balances

Collection

2010 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

YoonJung Cho; Sohum Sohoni; Donald P. French

pedagogy prior to their first teaching experience. Given the importance of instructionin determining students willingness to pursue undergraduate degrees in engineering[4] and thecritical role the first year laboratory can play for students making the transition from high schoolto college[5], the pedagogical knowledge and skills of GTAs becomes even more critical. Sadly,while one would predict that the inexperienced would be aware of their lack of skill andpedagogical knowledge and would seek assistance, this does not always appear to be the case.Perhaps this indicates that GTAs are performing at the expected level for their profession. We Proceedings of the 2010 Midwest Section Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education

Conference Session

FPD2 -- Highlighting First-Year Programs

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lynnane George, U.S. Air Force Academy; Robert Brown, U.S. Air Force Academy

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

all students at the US Air Force Academy (USAFA). Ittakes an innovative approach to first-year engineering education by introducing engineering inthe context of the design process. Students are organized into teams and are given assignmentsgeared towards hands-on exposure to five engineering disciplines: astronautical, aeronautical,mechanical, electrical, and civil. The final project requires them to design, construct, and launcha rocket-powered boost glider. The boost glider is produced in a five-stage process whichbalances textbook and laboratory work, with each stage focused on one of the engineeringdisciplines. Faculty from each of the five engineering departments at USAFA teach the course,reinforcing the multidisciplinary nature of

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Rajan B Gujjarlapudi; Kaushik Hatti; Carl Steidley; Mario Garcia

that is designed to make the development of software to model human expertise easier.It represents (human) knowledge in three ways:1) Rules for experience-based, heuristic knowledge2) Deffunctions and generic functions for procedural knowledge3) OO programming, also for procedural knowledgeThe main reason for choosing CLIPS lies in its principal advantage as an efficient and flexiblerule interpreter, but has functional and object-oriented constructs also, making it an excellentdevelopment language. Compared with compiled C++, the development cycle is much faster,with application changes being apparent within seconds of changing source code.Since Qualitative Analysis requires the students to be in a constant conversation with the expert

Conference Session

Energy Conversion, Conservation and Nuclear Engineering Division (ECCNE) Technical Session 2

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael A. Palmateer; Jacob Plesums; Ryan Santiago; Austin Miller; Reza Rashidi, SUNY University at Buffalo

Tagged Divisions

Conservation and Nuclear Engineering Division (ECCNE), Energy Conversion

, doping, etching multiple layers,etc. The hands-on laboratory segment of the course provides students with a unique opportunityto work in a modern, clean room and physically perform the complex processes required todevelop MEMS wafers from scratch.As another assignment in this course, groups of students are expected to develop novel devicesthat utilize microsystem components for a particular application. This course segment requiresstudents to design, fabricate, test, and document a novel design in an application, which is energyharvesting in this paper. There are publications from similar course projects performed in thepast [1-6]. At the conclusion of this course, students are provided with a comprehensiveunderstanding of the practical

Conference Session

International Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Dong Liang, Sichuan University; Senbao Lin, Sichuan University - Pittsburgh Institute; Lurao Liu, Sichuan University; Wei Chen, Sichuan University - Pittsburgh Institute; Jared Yi Du, Sichuan University

Tagged Divisions

International

spaces.Thus, college students’ shortage mentioned above can not be improved, and they are leftunprepared for the future career.At the same time, for industry companies, they prefer to recruit graduates who are fastlearners and real-world problem solvers. Specifically, they hope their future employee to bestrong in hands-on skills, an excellent communicator, and highly adaptive. Unfortunately,none of the qualities above is well trained under Gaokao education system.To solve similar problems, maker education, started from 2005, became popular amongeducation institutes worldwide. Makers are such a group of individuals who are interested inthe creation, design, and building of new objects and are willing to share their experience. A“makerspace” is a

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Margarita Takach; Yiyuan J. Zhao; Reza Langari; Ray Taghavi; Mehrdad Ghasemi Nejhad; Luigi Martinelli; Linda Ann Riley; K. Krishnamurthy; Janet M. Twomey; Degang Chen; David Radcliffe

newengineering graduates to succeed in this environment were more fully appreciated by the Fellows.Several conclusions are advanced from our collective experiences that form the basis of thispaper. In essence, to best prepare our future engineers for success in the workplace, they must bebetter educated and trained in terms of:•Having a broad working knowledge of engineering design beyond what is commonly taught in asingle engineering discipline;• Appreciating a system's perspective of the organization and how the engineer interacts andworks in this cross-functional environment;• Developing the ability to work in teams, interact successfully with co-workers and communicateeffectively within and outside the engineering discipline; and• Having the

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Christopher Carroll

students.One can certainly argue that simply storing static information on the iPAQ is a waste ofthe technology. That is a valid argument, but as an initial way to make the iPAQs usefulin classroom or laboratory settings, it is an easy start. Such static information can matureand evolve into adaptive tables or interactive graphs, etc., that can conform to theparticular situation being addressed by the student user of the information. Suchenhancements would require development time on the part of the course instructor or anassistant, but would take better advantage of the iPAQ computing capabilities.Custom SoftwareFinally, the third category of applications used during Fall, 2001, in this experiment ofembedding the iPAQ into freshman classes involved

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Tim Coppinger; Ray Bachnak

implementation of a reasonably complex realworld problem. Feedback from students validates our belief that the project is an essential Page 6.68.10component of a comprehensive learning experience when teaching PLCs. In addition toallowing students improve their design and research abilities, we believe that studentslearn to work together more effectively as a result of the project experience.Bibliography1. M. Fotouhi, A. Eydgahi, and W. Cavey, “Design of a Programmable Logic Controller trainer,” 1999 ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings, Session 1620, 6 pages.2. T. Martin, “PLCs in the control systems laboratory,” 1999 ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings

Conference Session

Manufacturing Processes Education

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joel Dillon, United States Military Academy; Harold Henderson, United States Miliary Academy; Jeffrey Butler, United States Military Academy

Tagged Divisions

Manufacturing

equipment are introduced briefly in a hands-on laboratory setting, and then thecourse moves to five two-hour sessions devoted to a safe, hands-on experience working in amachine shop. Students have an opportunity to work with machines such as mills, lathes,grinders, belt sanders, drill presses, bandsaws, and a laser cutter in preparation for their finalproject. (This five-session machiningportion of the course is the focus ofthis paper.) The course culminateswith a team-based project thatrequires students to design andconstruct a water turbine using thetechniques, tools, machines, andequipment that were developed andtaught throughout the course. Theteams then compete during the finallesson of the course to see whichteam can lift the most weight

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Josh Goldowitz

unique “doing” approach for deeper understanding of groundwaterhydraulics. Each year, students in Introduction to Hydrology Laboratory at Rochester Institute ofTechnology install a groundwater monitoring network into a confined silty sand aquifer.Students working in small groups install wells to approximately 15 feet depth using hand augersand standard materials (well points, slotted screen, riser, lockable cap, sand pack, bentonite seal,cement grout, and concrete surface completion). Design elements include well placement, welldepth, well construction material, and well screen slot size. After preparing well logs andgeologic cross sections the students determine hydraulic conductivity, groundwater flowdirection, gradient, discharge and velocity

Conference Session

Military and Veterans Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Zachary Jordan Bunn, United States Military Academy; Julia Lyn Wyatt, United States Military Academy; Joshua N. Burns, United States Military Academy; Brian Riser, United States Military Academy; Kevin P. Arnett P.E., United States Military Academy; Michael Gerhardt Oesterle, Naval Facilities Engineering and Expeditionary Warfare Center

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Military and Veterans

Engineering and Expeditionary Warfare Center (EXWC) in Port Hueneme, California. The EE&C Division at EXWC seve as subject matter experts for the design and analysis of DoD facilities against blast and impact gener- ated by accidental explosions. Dr. Oesterle has been involved with many blast and impact experimental projects, including confined blast testing of hardened structures for the DoD. He has also conducted sev- eral research studies using advanced finite element models to analyze and design hardened facilities for the DoD Explosives Safety Board, Air Force Research Laboratories, and NAVFAC. Dr. Oesterle is also the technical lead for the layered hardening effort under the Hardened Installation Protection for

Conference Session

Electrical and Computer Engineering Division (ECE) Poster Session

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gon Namkoong, Old Dominion University; TIAN LUO, Old Dominion University

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer Engineering Division (ECE)

reach a single idea. Unsuitableideas can simply be crossed out and newer iterations can be drawn alongside the discardeddrawings. In this way, the practice of visual representations will stimulate creative thinking skills17 by paving new ways for idea generation in an individual generation-reflection-interpretationcycle 18.Similarly, students face many engineering problems that require first grasping the underlyingprinciples of the problems, reflecting and interpreting them from their own experiences andperspectives, and then transforming them into practical solutions. While confronting engineeringproblems, students need to nurture creative problem-solving skills in daily classroom settingswhere resources such as lectures, laboratories

Conference Session

Educational Research and Methods Division (ERM) Technical Session 26

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Christopher A. Sanchez, Oregon State University; Kahlan Fleiger-Holmes, Oregon State University; Brian John Zhang, Oregon State University; Naomi T. Fitter, Oregon State University

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods Division (ERM)

online, and in-person. The resulting data from approximately 200 consentingundergraduate mechanical engineering students in each of the synchronicity options (N > 600)showed that grades for certain lab experiences (i.e., early labs with high levels of skill-building)actually benefitted from an asynchronous online format, even above in-person offerings, while alater lab with deeper dives into specific skills produced better learning and ratings from studentswhen offered either in-person or synchronously online. The results of this investigation can benefitengineering educators, as well as those with interest in online physical labs in other disciplines.Keywords: Online Education, Laboratory Learning, Student ExperienceIntroductionSince the

Collection

2013 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Bryndol Sones

. This development culminates with (3) student research and project design in the capstone experience during the second year. Students enter the process as novices, and faculty use MCNP5/X to demonstrate fundamental interactions and to explore different scenarios that would be difficult to build experimentally. Later in the curriculum, students become licensed MCNP5/X users, and they make modifications to faculty-prepared MCNP5/X input files that support activities in the laboratory. This first year builds student confidence and demonstrates the merits and limitations of MCNP5/X. The next year begins with a two-week intensive MCNP5/X training program which includes

Conference Session

WiP: Hands-on Learning and Safety

Collection

2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Justin Vento, Villanova University

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering Division (ChED)

classroommade it easy to switch back and forth between lecture and lab in the same day, enabling theoption to run longer biological experiments that require more than a few hours to complete.A teaching assistant was assigned to the course to help grade assignments, prepare lab bencheswith materials, and analyze or run parts of experiments. The assistant was a full-time studentenrolled in a chemical engineering master’s program, and she dedicated 5-10 hours per week tohelping with the course, including attending most lab periods on Wednesdays.Overview of CourseOver the course of the 15-week semester, the course met 14 times on Tuesday and 14 times onWednesday. The course was designed in three modules that each had lecture topics, lab activities,and

Conference Session

Biology in Engineering

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mark McConkie, Utah State University; Timothy Taylor, Utah State University; David Britt, Utah State University

Tagged Divisions

Biological & Agricultural

research laboratories for capstone design projects as well as post graduation connections with industry and graduate programs.• Loss of Autonomy. Waiting for the community to define its standards before defining program curriculum dulls the edge and flexibility that attract students to a hybrid discipline. Standardized, seemingly inflexible programs unable to meet changing (local as well as global) interests and markets led to the name change in the first place.Restructuring USU Biological Engineering Core CurriculumThe goal of curriculum design is to create a plan that will enable the faculty to implement itsstated aims and goals. Not planning will lead to poor alignment in what Fenwick Englishdescribes as the real curriculum (what

Conference Session

Instrumentation Technical Session III

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Hugh Jack, Grand Valley State University

Tagged Divisions

Instrumentation

the differential equations explicitly, andnumerical methods. The course moves into feedback control, motion control, sensors, actuators,and LaPlace transforms. The course is a combination of 3 hours of lecture and 3 hours of lab perweek for a semester. The laboratories cover a variety of issues from basic modeling to systemcontrol.In the past the course has used a number of platforms including the Parallax Basic Stamp 2,Motorola 6811, and Atmel ATMega 16/32. In 2010, the Parallax Propeller system was tested inone laboratory experience. The outcome was very encouraging and this was expended to covermore laboratory experiences in 2011, and was fully deployed in 2012.HardwareStudents buy their own controller for the course, a P8X32A QuickStart

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Lynn Wang; Paul Klenk; Gary Ybarra

in math and science in highschool and ultimately more inclined to pursue engineering at the college level and as a career.These goals are accomplished through hands-on exploration of the four engineering disciplinesoffered at the Pratt School of Engineering: mechanical, electrical and computer, biomedical andcivil engineering. Curriculum development strives to incorporate technology to which studentswould not ordinarily be exposed to enhance the learning experience. For each unit, studentsdevelop teamwork and project management skills through completing hands-on projects ingroups and pairs. Students are encouraged to “think outside of the box” and be creative in theirapproaches to solving design challenges. Increasing the participation of

Conference Session

Nuclear and Radiological Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Masoud Naghedolfeizi, Fort Valley State University; Sanjeev Arora, Fort Valley State University; Nabil A. Yousif, Fort Valley State University

Tagged Divisions

Nuclear and Radiological

control, radiation shielding, radiation damage and reactor materialsproblem, nuclear heat transfer, nuclear safety and environmental considerations, and nuclearreactor design and licensing issues. The course materials will be offered in the form of threelecture hours and a two-hour laboratory session per week.The minor curriculum proposed above is comparable with that offered in various academicinstitutions in the country.Nuclear Science and Engineering LaboratoryTo support the curriculum of the proposed minor program, it was necessary to establish a basiclaboratory in nuclear science and engineering. The last two courses of the minor programinclude laboratory components to reinforce the focus of each course and provide hands-ontraining