Conference Session

Technical Session 12: Teaching and Learning

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Florian Schmidt, TU Berlin; Franz-Josef Schmitt, Technische Universität Berlin; Laura Boeger, TU Berlin; Arno Wilhelm-Weidner, Technische Universitaet Berlin; Nicole Torjus

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education

applications in practical courses(mainly in physical chemistry, organic chemistry and synthetic biology) to research during thePhD or during laboratory work as a scientist who is employed in a research department of acompany.The materials therefore give a broad view on background, motivation, applications andjob perspectives which are related to certain topics in basic chemistry courses. We believe thatsuch approaches highly relevant for orientation studies and especially the student beginners in allSTEM courses to allow students not only to experience the different approaches of the differentgraduation programs, but also the reality they are facing during the whole program and aftergraduation. This enables them to judge early if such working

Conference Session

ECE-related Engineering Education

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Dennis A. Silage, Temple University; Keyanoush Sadeghipour, Temple University

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

not certainlybe pedestrian in nature.ME for EEs: Mechanical SystemsSuch an ME for EEs course (ENGR3334 Mechanical Systems) has been developed, presented,and assessed by direct and indirect methods for three semesters and contributes to the continuousimprovement of the EE program. The ME for EEs course replaced a requisite three semester hourcourse in statics without a laboratory in the Electrical concentration in our EE program. Thecourse topics and projects in MATLAB, Simulink and SimMechanics provide a reasonable hands-on experience that is directly extended in the course on digital control and the capstone seniordesign project.The ME for EEs course topics and the direct Engineering applications certainly counter the ironicsentiment that

Conference Session

Exemplary Outreach Programs in Engineering Education

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

L. Diane Hurtado, Texas A&M University; Andrew Conkey, Texas A&M University, Qatar; Thomas Blasingame, Texas A&M University; Christi Madsen, Texas A&M University; Cesar Malave, Texas A&M University

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

undergraduate students in the COE.Departmental Tours/DemonstrationsIn general the participants spent the mornings of the camp with the 12 departments in the COE.This time was intended to introduce the participants to the various engineering disciplinesincluding future career opportunities, and the types of classes they would be taking in that major.The tours varied in content and style from department to department. For the most part, theyincluded presentations, laboratory tours, and/or hands-on demonstrations.Design ProjectsThe afternoons and evening were used to prepare a design project. The participants at each campwere divided, roughly equally into 3 groups of approximately 20 participants, and assigned to aparticular design project. This division

Collection

2008 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Eileen M. Kowalski; Joe D. Manous

investigation of cognitive learning within the engineering profession is rather new, it hasbeen accepted by other fields of education with the most notable being the study of medicine. Untilrecently, the four-year medical school experience centered around lecture and laboratory work, somewhatsimilar to engineering education, with clinical work occurring primarily during the fourth year. Todaymany medical schools include clinical experience early in the medical school experience because studentshave demonstrated a better grasp of material when they are concurrently studying in “traditional” coursesand experience greater cognitive learning through the combination of clinical (problem-based learning)and lecture activities.1 A similar inclusion of

Collection

2008 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

Eileen M. Kowalski; Joe D. Manous

investigation of cognitive learning within the engineering profession is rather new, it hasbeen accepted by other fields of education with the most notable being the study of medicine. Untilrecently, the four-year medical school experience centered around lecture and laboratory work, somewhatsimilar to engineering education, with clinical work occurring primarily during the fourth year. Todaymany medical schools include clinical experience early in the medical school experience because studentshave demonstrated a better grasp of material when they are concurrently studying in “traditional” coursesand experience greater cognitive learning through the combination of clinical (problem-based learning)and lecture activities.1 A similar inclusion of

Collection

2008 Northeast Section Meeting

Authors

Eileen M. Kowalski; Joe D. Manous

investigation of cognitive learning within the engineering profession is rather new, it hasbeen accepted by other fields of education with the most notable being the study of medicine. Untilrecently, the four-year medical school experience centered around lecture and laboratory work, somewhatsimilar to engineering education, with clinical work occurring primarily during the fourth year. Todaymany medical schools include clinical experience early in the medical school experience because studentshave demonstrated a better grasp of material when they are concurrently studying in “traditional” coursesand experience greater cognitive learning through the combination of clinical (problem-based learning)and lecture activities.1 A similar inclusion of

Conference Session

ET Interdisciplinary Education

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Mark Clark; Donald McMurchie

homework assignments to teach both basicmetallurgy and the history of the industrial revolution.II. GoalsBased on our prior experience with teaching integrated classes, we set the following goals for ourcourse: 1) linkage of technical and historical material for engineering technology students 2) Improvement of communications skills for all students 3) fully integrating all classroom and laboratory instructionIII. PlanningPlanning for our course took into account a number of factors, most notably instructorbackground and experience, previous experience with integrated courses, the target audience forthe course, the overall course structure, and assessment.Dr. Clark's education and teaching experience is in the history of

Collection

1996 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert L. Avanzato

successfidly used by students with little or no prior programming experience. 4.0 “Robo-Hoops” Competition The objective of the contest, called “Robo-Hoops,” is to design an autonomous robot that can score points by picking up Nerf balls and shooting or dunking the balls into a basketball net in a head-to-head competition with another robot. The playing field is a flat surface 48 inches by 80 inches. The net is located 12 inches above the playing suflace on a vertical backboard, 48 inches long and 30 inches high. One point will be earned for dunking or dropping the ball into the net. Two points will be eanied for shooting the ball . . into the net. Each match in the

Collection

2010 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Christopher C. Ibeh

inpolymeric matrices, performed under the auspices of the Center for Nanocomposites andMutifunctional Materials (CNCMM) used a 2-level, 3-factorial DOE (Table 2) to verify theparameters that are important in the use of sonication (Figure 9C) for the dispersion ofnanoparticles and the creation of polymeric nanocomposites. This study was conducted using Table 2: Two-Level Three-Factor Factorial Design of Experiment (DOE) Study of Sonication Infusion of Polymeric Matrices Time: 10min; 40min Young’s Yield Ultimate Strain Temperature: 45oC, 85 oC Modulus Strength Concentration: 1%, 6% Main value a00 0.362

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Bret Van Poppel; Blace Albert; Daisie Boettner

heattransfer. The Engineering Dynamics and Controls track would consist of topics taken fromdynamics, vibration engineering, and dynamic modeling and control. The Engineering Design andCapstone track would integrate topics from introduction to design, mechanical design, andcomputer-aided design to support the capstone experience. There have already been efforts at integrating thermodynamics, fluid mechanics, and heattransfer into the field of Thermal Engineering. Two recent texts that integrate these topics areThermal-Fluid Sciences,13 by Çengel and Turner and Introduction to Thermal SystemsEngineering: Thermodynamics, Fluid Mechanics, and Heat Transfer14 by Moran, Dewitt,Shapiro, and Munson. As discussed later in this paper, one of the

Conference Session

Preparing and Retaining Engineering Students

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert Rabb, United States Military Academy; Margaret Nowicki, United States Military Academy; Elizabeth Bristow, United States Military Academy

Tagged Divisions

Cooperative & Experiential Education

andevaluation of the product. The bulk of student AIAD experience is in evaluation of concepts,actual product design through simulation or testing, and evaluation of a final product. Studentsalso have secondary tasks of ordering materials for constructing a product, running computerprograms and writing subroutines, constructing CAD models, and delivering informationbriefings. With these larger scale projects, students can personally experience a thorough, longerengineering process. Even though they may only see a limited portion of the overall project,students gain an understanding and appreciation of the time frame and requirements for a majorproject. With prior in-class projects limited to several weeks, they quickly change their firstimpression of

Collection

1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Don Lewis Millard

exercises (particularly in the Studio format of course delivery) and by studentsanytime, anywhere via the Internet. The ILMs allow the students to explore concepts in more detailand gain practical experience in design and application. They are developed to provide application-based motivation for learning, present fundamental concepts using animation and visualization,provide interactive practice on problem-solving, and open-ended design experience. This paperdiscusses the development, utilization and assessment of ILMs involving the 555 Timer IC, anElectrical Engineering Fundamentals Handbook (EE handbook), an Electronics Circuit CardManufacturing Handbook, Common-Emitter Amplifier Design, Electronic Filters, OperationalAmplifiers, and Convolution

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Deisenroth

address the areas of gathering and organizing information and data associated withmore general presentation. Rather, there is a strong emphasis presenting the solution they areproposing and on highlighting aspects of their methodology. While the initial studentpresentations given in ISE 3014 are informative in nature, presentations in the subsequentcourses emphasize persuasive arguments. From the above, it is fair to say that the OralCommunications Thread includes the concepts and skills necessary to present and explainconcepts of an engineering design. Both formal and informal communications are emphasizedthrough in-class and field-based experiences. While descriptive presentation concepts arecovered, persuasive arguments are emphasized.There

Conference Session

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

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Salvador A. Vargas, California State University, Bakersfield; Daniel Torres, California State University, Bakersfield; Alberto Cureg Cruz, California State University, Bakersfield

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Conservation and Nuclear Engineering Division (ECCNE), Energy Conversion

not intend to extract permeability from our images.II.A. Related Works in Education PBL is a well-studied educational method. It has often been applied to seniorproject/capstone experiences. Darren et al. [12] describes a model for a centrifugal pump testbed, originally a senior project/capstone experience, that, after multiple design iterations, can beused for project-based learning laboratory activities in other classes. Alptekin et al. [13]discusses the design of a prototype product developed as part of a manufacturing engineeringcapstone course at the California Polytechnic State University. The product is an autonomousparafoil surveillance platform equipped with sensors, controllers, mechanical components, andsoftware. The

Conference Session

Labs and Experiential Learning

Collection

2021 Illinois-Indiana Regional Conference

Authors

Rustin Webster, Purdue University, New Albany

Tagged Topics

Labs and experiential learning

Paper ID #35060Professional Certification Exam: An Alternative Method for a RemoteAdditive Manufacturing LabDr. Rustin Webster, Purdue University, New Albany Dr. Rustin Webster is an assistant professor in the Purdue Polytechnic Institute at Purdue University and specializes in mechanical engineering and computer graphics technology. Dr. Webster’s industry expe- rience includes time as a contractor for the Department of Defense as an engineer, project manager, and researcher. He holds a B.S. in Engineering Graphics and Design and a M.S. in Management of Technol- ogy from Murray State University, and a Ph.D. in

Conference Session

Reception & Poster Session

Collection

2013 ASEE International Forum

Authors

Lueny Morell, Hewlett-Packard Corporation

Tagged Topics

ASEE International Forum

engineering and IT undergraduate curricula. Based on the results of a2011 market research study on current gaps in IT skills, the program aims to developpartnerships to jointly address the needs identified by executives. The HP Institute provides acomplete learning system for students and professionals in the workforce — includingcourseware, hands-on real life experiences and labs, practice tests, and certification exams—that students can goes well beyond simple concepts and product knowledge and ends in theindustry’s first architect-level certification designed for academia, validating real-world skillsand prepares students for employment in small and medium business environments. Since itslaunch in mid-2012, the program has been adopted by dozens

Conference Session

Survivor: The First Few Years

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Adrienne Minerick, Mississippi State University

Tagged Divisions

New Engineering Educators

the “cookbook” undergraduate lab classes theymay have previously experienced). A previous REU participant summarized this feeling in his / her exit evaluationas, “It's called re-search - things fail, and you are supposed to try again. Otherwise it would just be called search.”The purpose of REU programs is to provide a meaningful, hands-on experience that hopefully excites students intopursuing advanced degrees in their field.Professional development and research skills training are typically interspersed with laboratory or simulationsresearch. Extracurricular activities including site visits of industry or national research labs, social activities,interactive workshops on essential topics such as diversity and research ethics, and an end

Conference Session

TIME 9: Thermal Fluids/Fluid Mechanics

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Hosni Abu-Mulaweh

engineering expose thestudents to heat transfer concepts learned in the classroom, but do not provide them with designexperiences similar to what they might face as thermal engineers in industrial positions. Inaddition, the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) accreditation criteriarequire that graduates of engineering programs possess “an ability to design and conductexperiments, as well as to analyze and interpret data” [1] and “an ability to design a system,component or process to meet desired needs” [1].Very recently, the Design-Build-Test (DBT) concept was suggested by Abu-Mulaweh [2] to beused in creating an experiment for a junior-level heat transfer laboratory. In that experiment,student teams design, build, and test a

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Floersheim; Stephen Ressler; Margaret Bailey

Session 2793 Course Assessment Plan: A Tool for Integrated Curriculum Management R. Bruce Floersheim, Margaret Bailey and Stephen J. Ressler United States Military Academy at West PointAbstractAs we enter the 21st Century in engineering education, a common desire exists toimprove curriculum structure, integration and assessment. Much has been written anddiscussed in workshops and professional journals concerning the top-down process forassessing and/or revising a program curriculum. Institutions are finally realizing theycannot afford to rely solely upon the senior capstone design experience to be theintegrator of all

Conference Session

Programming for Engineering Students I

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Christiaan Gribble, Grove City College

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education

study of parallel computing. To combat this situation, we have integrated thekey components of such a course into a 300-level course on modern operating systems. In thispaper, we describe a parallel computing unit that is designed to dovetail with the discussion ofprocess and thread management common to operating systems courses. We also describe a set ofself-contained projects in which students explore two parallel programming models, POSIXThreads and NVIDIA’s Compute Unified Device Architecture, that enable parallel architecturesto be utilized effectively. In our experience, this unit can be integrated with traditional operatingsystems topics quite readily, making parallel computing accessible to undergraduate studentswithout requiring a full

Collection

2005 GSW

Authors

M. M. Darwish; M. H. Akram; B. L. Green

students designcapability. Before graduation the student is required to have an equivalent of at least threemonths of field work in their area of study. The three month full-time experience is calledinternship and is mandatory for graduation.Student Choice with Professor ConsentIn the one credit-hour lab associated with a class, the students are usually allowed to selecttheir own lab partner. The laboratories are usually conducted with two-person teams. Thelab experiments are relatively simple, open-ended projects related to the associated class.The students research the scope of the project, design a prototype device, and constructthe prototype device. The prototype device is demonstrated and compared to the students’design specifications for the

Conference Session

Industrial Engineering Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Christian Enmanuel Lopez, Lafayette College; Omar Ashour, Pennsylvania State University; James Devin Cunningham; Conrad Tucker, Carnegie Mellon University; Paul C. Lynch, Pennsylvania State University

Tagged Divisions

Industrial Engineering

, and course virtual reality and gaming experience levels Myers-Briggs A questionnaire used to determine the students’ personality type. It At the beginning of Type Indicator involves 70 questions. It was designed to identify sixteen patterns the semester in the of actions and attitudes. The MBTI consists of four scored scales to course measure the following eight preferences: Extraversion (E)- Introversion (I), Thinking (T)-Feeling(F), Judging(J)-Perception(P), and Sensing(S)-Intuition(I) 52 Engineering Engineering identity is considered a significant indicator of At the beginning and

Conference Session

Tools, Identities, and Personality in Engineering Education

Collection

2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Imran Parvez, Texas A&M University at Qatar ; Osama Desouky, Texas A&M University at Qatar; Marwa AbdelGawad, Hamad Bin Khalifa University

Tagged Divisions

Student Division (STDT)

this multidisciplinary team.Osama Desouky, Texas A&M University at Qatar Osama Desouky is a Technical Laboratory coordinator at Texas A&M University in Qatar. Osama is currently pursuing his Ph.D. in interdisciplinary engineering from Texas A&M University at College Station. He is responsible for assisting with experimental method courses, 3D printing, mechanics of materials, material science, senior design projects, and advanced materials classes. Osama’s professional interests include manufacturing technology, materials science, 3D printing, experiments, and product design,Dr. Marwa AbdelGawad, Hamad Bin Khalifa University Dr. Marwa AbdelGawad joined Hamad Bin Khalifa University (HBKU) as an

Conference Session

Aerospace Division (AERO) Technical Session 4

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Dustin Scott Birch, Weber State University

Tagged Divisions

Aerospace Division (AERO)

undergraduate students involved,they will gain valuable experience and knowledge, and be much better prepared to engage effectively intheir own capstone project when the time comes. For the graduate students involved, the testbed is anexcellent opportunity to use and expand the skills learned during their own prior capstone experience.Students recruited into the testbed project are typically employed at a competitive wage for theduration of their enrollment at WSU. As part of the testbed design team, each student researchassistant will work a preset schedule weekly and report to a direct supervisor, simulating closely thework structure of a professional position in industry. The goal is that each student will recognize thelong-term benefits of

Collection

1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Sandra Courter; Ruthie Lyle; Ranil Wickramasinghe; Lisa Schaefer; Kevin Nickels; Jodi Reeves; David Noyce; Annie Pearce

developed to help participants experience collaboration in a cross-disciplinary and diverse environment. Finally, networking opportunities were designed to helpall interact naturally with other participants even after the summer program ended.Hands-on workshops were designed to explore learning theories and provide opportunities forparticipants to apply this knowledge to their own teaching. By the end of the program,participants prepared or revised a syllabus and at least one of the following materials: lecture,learning activity, reflective exercise, and assessment tool. In addition, participants discoveredbroader professional development aspects including the following: • learning and teaching styles, • undergraduate retention issues in

Conference Session

Assessment Issues in 1st-Yr Engineering

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Mark Urban-Lurain; Taner Eskil; Marilyn Amey; Timothy Hinds; Jon Sticklen

, the most common implementation of this instructional model isthat lecture introduces material of a given “unit” while laboratory (or recitation) sections areused to provide hands on, detailed experience with applying knowledge introduced inassigned readings and lecture. The paradigm on which this implementation is rooted wouldbe along the lines that students need a framework for understanding before they can applymaterial of a given unit, and that such a framework is best developed by students readingassigned material then hearing a professor go over the same material to emphasize importantpoints. There is a critical flaw in the standard lecture-before-lab implementation: it depends onstudents reading assigned material before lecture. If

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Ayyagari Janaki Rao

in the Indian curriculum.Apart from the differences in structures, two important factors differentiating the U.S.curriculum from Indian curriculum are in the nature of the flexibility offered and theinnovativeness inherent in project type laboratories. The flexibility enables to cater to theneeds of different categories of students those who will base their professional careers asengineers on the Bachelor’s degree with no further formal study; those who will proceedfurther for post graduate studies in engineering or an allied field, and those for whom theunder-graduate programme provides a broad base for further professional study in fields likemanagement.The use of open-ended project type laboratories instead of set laboratory experiments

Conference Session

Entrepreneurism in BME

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Wendy Newstetter; Paul Benkeser

, communications, etc. in the form of a course. Teaching these skills in isolation of theprofessional practice of engineering has been shown to be a less-than-ideal approach. In contrast,the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and EmoryUniversity has chosen to develop an approach in which these skills are developed in the studentsthrough the use of problem-based learning (PBL) experiences infused throughout the curriculum.Separate problem-based learning courses are positioned in the first and second years. PBLexperiences are incorporated into instructional laboratories associated with third-year systemsphysiology and biomedical sensors courses. The curriculum culminates with a two-semestersenior design course sequence

Conference Session

National and Multi-university Initiatives

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cynthia C. Fry, Baylor University; Sridhar S. Condoor, Saint Louis University; Timothy J. Kriewall, Kern Family Foundation; Christopher Kitts, Santa Clara University

Tagged Divisions

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

the forces of labor and delivery on the new- born. He has been in his present position since July, 2008. He is a life member of IEEE, a member of ASEE, and a Fellow in the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineers.Dr. Christopher Kitts, Santa Clara University Christopher Kitts is the Robert W. Peters Professor in mechanical engineering at Santa Clara University where he serves as Director of the Robotic Systems Laboratory. Kitts runs an aggressive field robotics program focused on the the design and operational control of robotic systems ranging from underwater robots to spacecraft. As part of this activity, Kitts serves as the Mission Operations Director for a series of NASA spacecraft, as an

Conference Session

Special Topics

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Mary Ayre; Julie Mills

inclusive (by including examples and applications from a range of cultures) then latertackle the issues arising in making the primary content inclusive.Providing help with adapting the curriculumWhen urging our colleagues to adapt their curricula to make them more inclusive, typicalreactions we have encountered have been: “We don’t know how”, “This stuff is easy for artscourses but not engineering” and “We haven’t got time”.Here we have found that it is helpful to suggest proceeding in small steps. We encouragecolleagues to experiment with the concept of inclusivity by applying its principles to individualcomponents of the curriculum, before considering initiating formal curriculum revision.Normally curricula are designed by considering the