Conference Session

FPD3 -- Professional Issues for First-Year Courses

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Karen High, Oklahoma State University; Rebecca Damron, Oklahoma State University

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

material, test-taking skills, and college survival skills. • Professional Success – career planning and effective presentations. • Engineering Information – career and advisement information and research presentations/laboratory tours. • Engineering Design and Problem Solving – creativity, effective teams, brainstorming, process design, and product design. • Societal Issues of Engineers – ethics, diversity/international issues, environmental issues/sustainability, medicine and bioengineering. • Personal Development – stress management and other wellness issues.This course is a particularly good class to do problem-based, cooperative activitiesbecause it addresses the goal of giving students engineering

Conference Session

BME Curriculum Development

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jay Goldberg, Marquette University

Tagged Divisions

Biomedical

, clinical research and research integrity, and patient rights and confidentiality.• Product Development of Medical Devices Activities required for the design, development, and commercialization of new medical devices. Design, testing, regulatory, and legal requirements are presented along with project evaluation and management methods. Issues involving management of the product development process are discussed.• Special Topics Seminar Fall Semester: Communication Skills for Technical Managers Spring Semester: Making the Transition from Engineer to Manager• Independent Study/Internship Project or internship experience designed by the student to meet their career goals. Students will have faculty and industry or

Conference Session

Attracting Young Minds: Part I

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Aurenice Menezes Oliveira, Michigan Technological University

Tagged Divisions

Minorities in Engineering

weeks of summer 2010. In this case, the student took a 3 credit course indata communications, and the goals for the undergraduate research were closely alignedwith the topics that the student was learning in that class. The project focused on Fourieranalysis of periodic signals and its applications to data communications. This particularproject was tailored to fit the short time window of the program, which was total of sevenweeks with research posters due by the end of the 5th week. The project and the 3-creditcourse provided the student with the opportunity to:  Apply knowledge of mathematics to solve engineering problems;  Design and conduct experiments in the laboratory;  Use laboratory equipment to solve engineering

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Benjamin Flores; Walter Fisher; Pablo Arenaz; Connie Della-Piana

• Math Refersher • Design Project/Science Laboratory Experience • Factors-Course Catalog • Math Anxiety Workshop • Tim Management; Cost of Tuition • Lunch with Professors • Taking Personal Responsibility Workshop • Academic Center for Engineers & Scientists • College Open Hours • Programs in Science and Engineering SessionThe CircLES orientation contains two major activities in addition to the standardactivities designed to connect students to the university and the colleges. The

Conference Session

Manufacturing Education Curriculum

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Derek M. Yip-Hoi, Western Washington University; David Gill P.E., Western Washington University

Tagged Divisions

Manufacturing

gage how students felt the targeted skillswere enhanced through course activities. This helps to engage students as partners indevelopment of these skills and as this strategy is advanced, it provides valuable feedback to theprogram as to whether the skill set being used is the most appropriate. The impact on faculty asthey shape course experiences to integrate in awareness of the use of these skills will also bediscussed.IntroductionThe question of “What is a Workplace Skill?” and how engineering curriculums are designed todevelop these is one of great importance. The expectation by employers is that graduates willhave acquired broad exposure and significant practice of these before entering the workforce.But there is always some fluidity in

Conference Session

Manufacturing Materials and Processes

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Arif Sirinterlikci, Robert Morris University; Selin Frances Sirinterlikci, Carnegie Mellon University

Tagged Divisions

Manufacturing

manufacturing competitiveness and understand how to create competitive advantage through manufacturing planning, strategy and control.M4. Graduates are able to design manufacturing systems through the analysis, synthesis, and control of manufacturing operations using statistical and calculus based methods, simulation, and information technology.M5. Graduates have had laboratory experiences which enable them to measure manufacturing process variables and make technical inferences about the process.Only M2 and M3 were employed during the assessment process. However, this portion of the Page 24.1354.9assessment needs to be improved by including measures

Conference Session

Mechanical Systems

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Hugh Jack

final experiment uses a proportionalfeedback controller to control the motor speed. When the laboratory sequence is complete stu-dents are able to build and analyze basic feedback controllers.2. The ControllerThe controller the students analyze and build is based upon a transistor which switches power tothe motor. To allow the effective voltage to be varied, a pulse width modulation method is used, asshown in Figure 1. The power is switched fast enough so that the dynamic effects of the motor fil-ter out the effects of the rapid switching. Typically this can be a frequency as low as 100Hz,although a higher frequency is better, and above 20KHz puts it above the audible range. Thismethod does require some sophistication to generate the PWM signal

Collection

15th Annual First-Year Engineering Experience Conference (FYEE)

Authors

Mohammad Heshmati, Mississippi State University; Bill B Elmore, Mississippi State University

findings, discuss design success or failure, and Figure 2: Solar energy conversionpropose improvements. After adjustments, experiments setupare repeated for comparison.GEOTHERMAL ENERGY PRODUCTIONA double-pipe heat exchanger (DPHE) project (Figure 3a) is adapted for geothermal energyproduction. The setup simulates the transfer of heat from hot underground rocks to cold surfacefluids (in this case, water). Teams use thermometers to monitor temperatures of hot and coldsources. Multi-meters are used to measure the voltage and amperage of a thermoelectric generatormodule (Figure 3b) before exposure to hot and cold sources and after exposure, over time. Studentteams then calculate the generator's output power over time and

Collection

2023 Fall Mid Atlantic Conference: Meeting our students where they are and getting them where they need to be

Authors

Doug Kim, Farmingdale State College

the analysis of the applicationsusing them. This approach is used in many different areas of electrical engineering and withsuccess in engineering science programs. However, many of the engineering technologyprograms would not be able to implement this approach easily due to the limitations on extracourse credits available, and the time needed to complete prerequisite courses in math andphysics as well as the higher levels of math and physics required compared to engineeringscience programs. Another obstacle to a practical teaching approach is a lack of properlyequipped laboratories because of the prohibitively higher prices of the equipment used in RFengineering compared to other areas in electrical engineering [2].Curriculum Design

Collection

1996 Annual Conference

Authors

Craig Gunn

concerns. The Writing Across the Curriculum movement has focussed on making writing apart of every classroom. Writing Centers have taken the role of guides to writers who need an additionalaudience for their texts. Freshman composition courses have tried to get students involved with writing asthey enter colleges and universities. And writing-intensive courses have been designated by an individualdepartment to handle the writing experience for the department’s students. There is never a loss to find someone to say something about communication, from broadgeneralizations about speech patterns to highly specialized notions of exactly which word to use in atechnical document. One of the most important realizations that we can ever make is that

Collection

1996 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard M. Felder; Philip R. Dail; Leonhard E. Bernold; John E. Gastineau; Ernest E. Burniston

several times during each semester “workshops” on specific topics (e.g. statistical analysis and angular motion) are team-taught by the full faculty.• The course instruction makes extensive use of active (experiential) and cooperative (team-based) learning, de-emphasizing but not completely eliminating formal lecturing. All laboratory experiments and most homework and in-class activities are done by teams of students. Exercises are set up to provide for positive interdependence, individual accountability, and periodic self-assessment of team functioning.• Homework and examinations contain a mixture of closed (single-answer) problems designed to test understanding of specific methods and skills as well as open-ended

Conference Session

Active Learning in ECE

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Scott L. Post, Bradley University

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

as paper oncurricular design for development of electric vehicles7, there were no other papers found besidesthat of Niemi for active learning activities that could be used in the regular daily lectures for anelectronics course.Fisher et al.8 conducted a survey of the service courses that electrical engineering departmentsoffer for students from other majors. They received responses from 26 schools. They found thatin 19 of the 26 schools the electrical engineering department offered a separate course for non-majors, and the courses were typically targeted for juniors, with the standard 3-lectures per weekformat being common. A majority of the schools also had a laboratory experience integrated intothe course. They also found the textbook by

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Proulx Denis; Martin Brouillette; Jean Nicolas; Charron François

Exposition Copyright © 2002, American Society for Engineering Education Session 1566remained practically unchanged since around 1970, albeit for the piecewise and uncoordinatedintroduction of a number of new subjects such as computer science into traditional curricula. Dueto lack of equipment and support, laboratory work has been eliminated or confined to specialtycourses and design has taken the back seat to analysis. The perceived quality of engineeringundergraduate programs has shifted from excellence in education to accomplishment in research.However, since the 1980s, many warnings have been sounded regarding the inadequacy

Conference Session

Pre-College Engineering Education Division Technical Session 8

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Emel Cevik, Texas A&M University; Bugrahan Yalvac, Texas A&M University; Michael D. Johnson, Texas A&M University; Mathew Kuttolamadom, Texas A&M University; Jay R. Porter, Texas A&M University; Jennifer Whitfield, Texas A&M University

Tagged Divisions

Pre-College Engineering Education

years. Yalvac’s research is in STEM education, 21st century skills, and design and evaluation of learning environments informed by the How People Learn framework.Dr. Michael D. Johnson, Texas A&M University Dr. Michael D. Johnson is a professor in the Department of Engineering Technology and Industrial Dis- tribution at Texas A&M University. He also serves as Associate Dean for Inclusion and Faculty Success in the College of Engineering. Prior to joining the faculty at Texas A&M, he was a senior product de- velopment engineer at the 3M Corporate Research Laboratory in St. Paul, Minnesota. He received his B.S. in mechanical engineering from Michigan State University and his S.M. and Ph.D. from the Mas

Conference Session

Computer and Informtion Technology-related Issues

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Warren Rosen, Drexel University; M. Eric Carr, Drexel University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

AC 2012-4164: A GRADUATE ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGY COURSEIN NETWORKS FOR THE INDUSTRIAL ENVIRONMENTDr. Warren Rosen, Drexel University Warren A. Rosen received his Ph.D. in physics from Temple University in 1978. Between 1978 and 1985, Rosen served as Assistant Professor of physics at Colby and Vassar colleges, where he carried out research in optical physics, solar physics, and medical physics. From 1985 to 1996, he worked at the Naval AirWarfare Center, Aircraft Division in Warminster, Penn., where he established an optical communications laboratory for development and characterization of optical components, systems, and protocols for high-performance avionics data networks. Rosen is currently an Assistant Clinical

Conference Session

Visualization and Computer Graphics

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Eric Wiebe; Theodore Branoff; Nathan Hartman

configurations as it moves through the simulated engineeringdesign process. Students now experience the complete cycle of model definition, comparison todesign goals, and modification based on needed changes. The ease of making these geometricmodifications are a primary driving force for industry to adopt these constraint-based modelingtools, however, many companies will readily admit that their engineers and designers are oftenill-equipped to build robust models that truly capture the geometric design constraints 12.Successful solutions to modeling problems now hinge on addressing three key elements. First,the solution will depend on correct initial geometry; this is usually as far as most assignments go.Second, it will depend on embedding the correct

Collection

2013 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Amaka Waturuocha; Laura Ford; Christi Patton Luks

sharing knowledge (academia) grew. Her variousresearch and teaching experiences as a graduate student informed her decision to pursue a moreacademic career path with the possibility of industry involvement in the capacity of a consultant.Her department, like majority of the other chemical engineering doctoral programs, did not offerany structured program for PhD students interested in academia. So, she proceeded to design apersonalized program to prepare herself for a successful teaching career with the guidance of amentor. This program included a variety of targeted experiences that would culminate in acompetitive teaching portfolio and a more confident prospective professor.IntroductionAcquiring a PhD does not confer upon an individual the

Conference Session

Materials Division Poster Session

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Somnath Chattopadhyay, Georgia Southern University

Tagged Divisions

Materials

mechanical design areas within the mechanicalengineering program, students are made aware that of the fact that for machine components suchas rotating shafts, gears, crankshafts containing no preexisting cracks, the majority of life is spentin initiating or starting fatigue cracks. The fatigue process in this case is therefore described asinitiation controlled.A rotating beam fatigue test is traditionally performed as a laboratory experiment in the juniorlevel materials course. The rotating beam fatigue test provides the experimental determination ofthe S-N curve. The S-N curve graphically shows the stress amplitude (S) as a function of thenumber of cycles to failure (N). This test also helps the students to understand the concept ofendurance limit

Conference Session

Global Engineering in an Interconnected World

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Eck Doerry

accessible to all engineering undergraduates. Leveraging recent technologicaldevelopments, our aim is to create, in essence, a single engineering college offering access to thecombined courses and resources of NAU and our foreign partner institutions; students at oneuniversity will be able to participate - via an appropriate combination of direct (in person)participation and internet technologies (distributed teaming) - in engineering design coursesoffered at any partner university. An important side benefit in this age of dwindling educationalresources is that students will have access to a much wider array of specialized elective topics,laboratory equipment and practical experiences (the totality of courses/facilities available at allpartner

Collection

1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Charles W. P. Finn; William E. Cole

to incorporate design projectswithin the technical classes: A group design project, with a final written report, requires the use(and hence learning) of all of these skills. A second opportunity to emphasize these skills is inlaboratory reports. It is easy to fall into the mode of providing detailed directions for eachlaboratory experiment and to require individual written reports from each student. However, byproviding only superficial directions and goals for the experiment, the students must developtheir problem solving skills (how to do the experiment). Secondly, by requiring group reports,the students will develop their teamwork skills. On the basis of this survey, the authors haveincorporated design projects into all their courses and

Conference Session

Recruiting/Retention Lower Division

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Malika Moutawakkil; Lisa Hunter; J.D., Christine Andrews; Leslie Wilkins

students a basis for further work in STEM fields at some later date, therebyexpanding student options rather than closing them off.4Other recommendations for reform of the undergraduate STEM curriculum focus oninvestigative learning, technology, laboratory experience, and collaborative work. Programs thathave provided students an opportunity to engage in hands-on, real-world projects have beensuccessful in increasing female enrollment and retention.1 Establishing the relevance and socialvalue of these fields is another effective retention strategy. Smith College, Rensselaer Page 9.294.4 Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Manufacturing ET

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jeffrey Newcomer

An Ergonomics Course for Manufacturing Engineering Technology Students Jeffrey L. Newcomer Engineering Technology Dept. Western Washington UniversityIntroductionErgonomics has become an important part of manufacturing process design, for even without anOSHA standard in the area, the potential savings of having an ergonomics program in place aresignificant. As such, it is important for students in a Manufacturing Engineering Technology(MET) programs to be versed in the basics of ergonomic process design. To address this need,the Engineering Technology (ET) Department at Western Washington University

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Electrical ET

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Walter Banzhaf

Session 3247 Electrical Fundamentals - Make Them Come Alive for Students Walter Banzhaf, P.E. College of Engineering, Technology, and Architecture University of Hartford, West Hartford, CT 06117IntroductionMany laboratory experiments we ask students to perform in electrical fundamentals laboratoryclasses are unnecessarily unexciting. Such tasks as determining the current through R7 of aladder network with eight resistors (does a first-semester student really care about R7, or itscurrent?), or verifying Kirchhoff's Voltage Law in a circuit with only resistors

Conference Session

Innovations in Nuclear Education I

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ivan Maldonado; Henry Spitz; John Christenson; Eugene Rutz

Scholar at the Halden Nuclear Reactor Project.G. IVAN MALDONADO is an Associate Professor in the University of Cincinnati Nuclear & Radiological EngineeringProgram. Most recently a Technical Program Manager with GE Nuclear Energy / Global Nuclear Fuel, and formerly anAssistant Professor at Iowa State University, Dr. Maldonado has worked as a core designer for the GE Knolls AtomicPower Laboratory and as a Visiting Research Scientist with Electricité de France in Paris.EUGENE RUTZ is director of Distance Learning And Professional Development in the College of Engineering at theUniversity of Cincinnati. Mr. Rutz has worked in industry as a mechanical design engineer and nuclear engineer. Hisacademic experience includes program development

Conference Session

Training Faculty to Teach CE

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Decker Hains, U.S. Military Academy; Mark Evans, U.S. Military Academy; Stephen Ressler, U.S. Military Academy

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

projects and laboratory exercises within a course and especiallyduring a capstone design experience. The development of the ability to function as a memberof a team may not be limited to the classroom or even to engineering. Additionally, studentsshould seek opportunities and faculty members should encourage students to work as membersof team in a myriad of other activities, such as student government, civic and serviceorganizations, employment opportunities, etc.CommunicationEffective communication is a critical skill for civil engineers and the BOK-2 states that upon Page 12.1371.11graduation from a baccalaureate program, an individual must be

Conference Session

Robotics, Mechatronics, and Control Systems - Multidisciplinary Perspectives

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Li Tan, Purdue University, North Central; Jean Jiang, Purdue University, North Central

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

course and control system laboratory which arerequired in the EE curriculum are two of them. In the traditional EE feedback control systemcourse, the topic of dynamic system modeling is lightly treated. On the other hand in the MEcurriculum, students are required to take the dynamic system modeling course, in which controlsystem theory is lightly covered. It can be seen that there some overlapping portions between theEE feedback control system course and the ME dynamic system modeling course. Hence, amultidisciplinary course is designed to combine these two EE and ME courses into one course.The motivation is to increase learning efficiency for ME students pursuing an EE minor, sincethere is no need for them to take a dynamic system modeling

Conference Session

Chemical Engineering Education: Underclass Years

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sundararajan Madihally, Oklahoma State Univ.; Marcus Duffy, Oklahoma State University; Lynn Franzmann, Stillwater; Rebekah Reece, Stillwater; Karen High, Oklahoma State University

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

middle school teachers (teaching Biology and Math) were selected toparticipate in research dealing with tissue engineering. Teachers worked for six weeks (fourdays a week) within the research laboratory on formation of porous structures usingbiodegradable polymers. Teachers were exposed to the technique of forming porous structuresusing chitosan and gelatin solution in various shapes using the apparatus available in thelaboratory. A low cost freeze drying system that is safe for operation by sixth grade students wasdeveloped. The overall cost of performing the experiment is also significantly cheap and lesstime consuming.An envisioned project for the current academic year under implementation in the sixth grade isfreeze drying chitosan-gelatin

Collection

2010 ASEE Zone 4 Conference

Authors

Reza Raeisi; Sudhanshu Singh

37 Curricular Innovation for Real-Time Embedded Systems Course Reza Raeisi Sudhanshu Singh, Graduate Student California State University, Fresno Electrical and Computer Engineering DepartmentAbstractThe objective of this project is to experience and develop rapid prototypes of System-on-chip(SoC) using soft-core processor in the undergraduate laboratory. We will share the experience ona reconfigurable hardware-software co-design environment and µClinux embedded Real TimeOperating System (RTOS). A soft

Conference Session

Environmental Engineering Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sharanabasaweshwara Asundi, Old Dominion University; Gregory C. Bernard, Tuskegee University; Willard E. Collier, Tuskegee University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Environmental Engineering

, scope for career advancement, and skill development is realized by thestudents of the first iREP-4-PACE program, they will encourage/motivate their peers/juniors totake their path and benefit from it.Research-Based Education Approach: Research based undergraduate education has been shownto be effective in engaging students’ learning (Dekker and Wolff 2016). Studies also suggest thatundergraduate research experiences (UREs) can be critical for keeping underrepresented sciencestudents on the pathway to a scientific career. One large-scale, 10-year, longitudinal, multi-institutional, propensity-score-matched study designed to compare the academic performance andpersistence in science of students who participated in UREs with those of similar

Conference Session

Electrical and Computer Division Technical Session 5

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ramakrishnan Sundaram, Gannon University

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

participants were not required to know advanced engineering design concepts. Thetraining offered by this workshop will consist of (a) overview and only the necessary detail of theSTEM concepts that apply to electronic circuit design and analysis (b) application of theseconcepts to hands-on project-based laboratory activities. The participants build the essentialknowledge base from basic STEM principles and are expected to see and experience the linkbetween the theory and practice of electronics. The educators work with kits containing electricalcomponents which can be placed on the circuit assembly board using snap connectors andconnected together to create basic and advanced circuits. The survey questionnaire administeredupon conclusion of each