Conference Session

Mechanical and Architectural Engineering Laboratories

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Teodora Rutar, Seattle University; Gregory Mason, Seattle University

Tagged Divisions

Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

during lab session to evaluate the Lab 1 Electromechanical and x R performance of thermoelectric device. thermoelectric conversion Design, but don’t implement, an additional experiment as part of the lab report. Design and implement an experiment Lab 2 Energy Conversion x R during lab session to determine efficiency of an electric light bulb. Design and

Conference Session

Robotics, Mechatronics, and Control Systems - Multidisciplinary Perspectives

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jose Antonio Riofrio, Western New England University; Steven G Northrup, Western New England University

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

,methodology, and course structure. There are a few relatively well-known textbooks which aimto facilitate this instruction; however, due to the broadness and diversity of the field, theseattempt to cover too many different topics and are therefore most useful as references, and not ascourse outlines. In this paper, a project-based hands-on approach for teaching this course is presented. Sinceit is taught only to Mechanical Engineering students, the electronics, controls and computerscience elements of Mechatronics at large are simplified by the use of the Arduinomicrocontroller, which is a popular device amongst non-technical hobbyists and artists, and istherefore a perfect gateway for students to gain understanding and appreciation for this type

Conference Session

ERM: Conceptualizations of Engineering and Engineering Education

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Heywood, Trinity College Dublin

feeling in industry that in planningprofessional courses generally more attention should be paid to developing not only technicalknowledge and skill , but also a liberal outlook on life, some appreciation of the organisationof industry, and an interest in administrative problems” (para 11).It was argued that the technical college sector was particularly suited for this type of work,since it embraced the art of technology with the science, and training with academic study.Therefore, the sandwich course principle should be adopted, thereby allowing for an increasein academic study time particularly in the maths and sciences, and the planned integration ofacademic study and industrial practice. In this way Britain’s pre-eminence in

Conference Session

Underrepresented Populations

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Srinjita Bhaduri, University of Colorado, Boulder; Katie Van Horne; John Daniel Ristvey Jr., UCAR Center for Science Education; Randy Russell, UCAR Center for Science Education; Tamara Sumner

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Pre-College Engineering Education

promoting youth to reflect on their learning experiences and tounobtrusively gather evidence about youth’s interests, engagement, and knowledge. Before thestart of each session, a team member would paste prompts into the journals that included likert-style and open response questions (see Table 1 for examples). Several of these prompts formedthe basis of our embedded relevance intervention and encourage youth to build connectionsbetween their activities in Engineering Experiences and their interests and lives outside of theprogram. As youth arrived, they would take their flight logs and respond to the prompts at thebeginning of each session. Additionally, at the end of each session youth would reflect on theengineering practices they used during

Conference Session

Elementary Engineering

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nicole J. Glen, Bridgewater State University

Tagged Divisions

Pre-College Engineering Education

[1]. Missing from NGSS, but present in many state learning standards as well as thenational Head Start program’s Early Learning Outcomes Framework [2], is preschool scienceand engineering. In the northeast United States, where this study took place, the states ofMassachusetts, New York, Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Connecticut allhave science and engineering standards for children in preschool. In general, the standardsrecommend that children in preschool learn to identify and solve engineering-based problems.Many of the standards also recommend that children record their ideas and plans for engineeringand science through simple drawings and writing. What is most important to note is thatengineering is present in all of

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship Education: Experiential Learning and Economic Development I

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gerald Nelson, Mississippi State University; Byron Williams, Mississippi State University; Gary Butler, Mississippi State University

Tagged Divisions

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

received his Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge (Churchill College) and is a Senior Member of IEEE. Previously, Dr. Butler was a senior member of the technical staff of Cambridge, Massachusetts based BBN Technologies (the company credited with launching the ARPANET) where he generated more than $19M of DARPA research awards and was the principle investigator on advanced technology development programs in the areas of low power, long-endurance unattended ground sensor networks; ultra-wideband communications and radar; and advanced Page 14.61.1 signal processing

Conference Session

Assessment of K-12 Engineering Programs and Issues

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Petros Katsioloudis, Berea College

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

education and k-12 outreach through the expansion of research and knowledge in general. Visual-based learning courses have a great potential to become a significant part of k through 12 pre-engineering education. Current curricula used in grades k through 12 recognize its value and great efforts are being in place to increase the quality and quantity of visual based materials. However more research is needed to achieve the ultimate goal, which in this case is the effective knowledge transmission through alternative methods of teaching. Page 13.679.11References 1. Chaomei, C. (2005). Top 10 unsolved information

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Rebecca Blust

family andfriends. Together, these individuals have a responsibility to recognize the child’s talent andcuriosity as well as coordinate intellectual interests in science or technical fields. Personal Educators Participation Minority Gap Industry Figure 1. The Minority Gap TriadThe second leg of the triangle, Educators, includes primary, secondary and collegiate education.An Educator’s role may be twofold. First, this person is responsible for encouraging andchallenging

Conference Session

Teaching about New Materials

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Tadeusz Majewski; sudhakar vadiraja

, determination of inclusion content using image analysis technique, provideuseful technical information for evaluating merits and demerits of biomaterials.References 1. BECHTOL CO, FERGUSON AB, LAING PG: Metals and Engineering. In Bone and Joint Surgery. Baltimore, Williams & Wilkins, 1959 2. BRETTLE J: A survey of the literature on metallic surgical implants. Injury 2:26, 1970 3. LUDWIGSON DC: Requirements for metallic surgical implants and prosthetic devices. Metals Engineering Quarterly: American Society of Metallurgists 1, 1965 4. MEARS DC: Materials and Orthopedic Surgery. Baltimore, Williams & Wilkins, 1979 5. RUBIN L: Biomaterials in Reconstructive Surgery. St Louis, CV Mosby, 1983 6. VENABLE CS

Conference Session

TIME 4: Pedagogy

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Peter Avitabile; Charles Goodman; Jeffrey Hodgkins

intuitiveskills necessary to address real world problems. The third project is a group effort to identify thetime and frequency response characteristics of a first order RC circuit that can be used as a lowpass filter to address some of the measurement problems identified in the second project. Eachproject is discussed in more detail in the following paragraphs.III.1 Analytical Modeling Tools for Identification of a Second Order MCK SystemThe students are instructed to develop generic models to address the response of a second ordermass, spring, dashpot system using analytical closed form solutions by both ordinary differentialequations and Laplace transformation techniques; these solutions are to be compared to thesolutions obtained from both MATLAB and

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

S P Maj; D Veal

-servernetwork connected to the Internet, a wide range of PCs and associated equipment.Workshops include the installation and testing of: master-slave Hard disc, CD-ROM, DigitalVideo Disc (DVD), flat bed scanner, PC video camera, Infra-red communications link, ZipDisc etc. Other workshop exercises include establishing and testing a video conferencecommunications link via a local area network. With nearly over two hundred students everysemester the logistics associated with supporting this type of laboratory are non-trivial. Issuesinclude: initial equipment cost, student safety, damage to equipment and technical support,This paper presents details of how this new curriculum was designed and implemented at aminimum cost.1. IntroductionReports such as the

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Jeffrey L. Newcomer

Session 1625 Reassessing Design Goals: Using Design Projects to Meet Assessment Goals Jeffrey L. Newcomer, Ph.D. Engineering Technology Department Western Washington University Bellingham, WA 98225-9086AbstractThe ability to set and assess desired student learning outcomes is key not only to maintaining ac-creditation, but to providing students with a high quality education as well. This paper discussesusing integrated design projects to meet student learning objectives and also to provide

Conference Session

Educational Issues in Civil Engineering

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Anant Kukreti, University of Cincinnati

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

retention13 and the number of minority studentspursuing graduate degrees17. Attempts to determine an empirically established set of REU-generated benefits are fairly recent10, 14. U.S. NSF and Howard Hughes Medical Institute fundedthree studies to find the benefits of REU initiatives17-23. Lappotto23 compares how learning Page 14.1027.2occurs in an REU experience with that reported in How People Learn24. Various papers havedocumented successes of REU programs10, 25-38.Other disconcerting trends are emerging in the U.S., which includes: (1) The 19.3% of BSdegrees awarded to women in 2005-2006 was the lowest representation since 199839. This palesin

Conference Session

First-Year Programs: Wednesday Potpourri

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jack Bringardner, New York University, Tandon School of Engineering; Yona Jean-Pierre, New York University, Tandon School of Engineering

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

effective in creating consistency in the course content(Grossenbacher, 2011), which is critical to the introduction to engineering course because it has21 different lab sessions. Bishop and Verleger (2013) found in their extensive literature reviewof flipped classrooms that it is important to monitor student performance throughout thesemester. This research will investigate student performance related to the video content.Several studies on flipped classroom videos have compiled a list of best practices. Table 1 liststhe top summaries of best practices from three of the most relevant studies. Most researchersidentify short videos as essential, while 5 minutes is the most commonly recommended length.There is a common theme of relying on team

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade: Outside Class

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jason Keith

technically, but is also a good idea because (as you will soon findout) graduate students are expensive! What better way to do some research than to extendyour existing knowledge into a journal article.This idea-to-article time can increase by at least another year or two when you accountfor the following: ‚" find the correct funding solicitation (with a due date up to 6 months later) ‚" write a proposal (maybe 1 month) ‚" get the proposal funded (6 months later if funded the first time, 18 months later if you revise the proposal after receiving comments) ‚" recruit a student to work on the project ‚" start the project and actually do the researchTip #2: Set a plan and stick to it – to get tenure you will most likely be expected

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Philip Parker; Max Anderson; Michael Penn

objectives and uses the results of the assessment process toimprove the effectiveness of the program is also required. All accredited programs must alsomeet the EC2000 program outcomes a-k and demonstrate through their assessment process thatthese are being met.In addition to the program objectives and EC2000 program outcomes, it must be demonstratedthat the professional component and environmental engineering program criteria are met. Theprofessional component consists of (a) one year of a combination of college level mathematicsand basic sciences (b) one and one-half years of engineering topics, and (c) general educationthat complements the technical content of the curriculum and is consistent with the programand institutional objectives.The

Collection

1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Krzysztof Malinowski; Jerzy Woznicki; Andrzej Krasniewski

Session 2260 Shortening a Path to PhD – Impact on Quality of Engineering Education Andrzej Krasniewski, Krzysztof Malinowski, Jerzy Woznicki Faculty of Electronics and Information Technology Warsaw University of Technology1. INTRODUCTION1.1. Engineering education in PolandIn Poland, a university is an art and science oriented institution and has no engineering college orengineering departments. Programs of study in engineering are offered by other academicinstitutions: technical universities (also referred to as universities of technology or polytechnicinstitutes), technical academies

Collection

2024 ASEE-GSW

Authors

Adam Weaver, Baylor University; Joseph Anthony Donndelinger, Baylor University

. Donndelinger joined Baylor Universityˆa C™s School of Engineering and Computer Science as a Clinical Associate Professor after 23 years of experience in the automotive and cutting tool industries. During his 16 years as a Senior Researcher at General Mo ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 1 Session XXXX The Impacts of Reflective Writing on Peer Evaluations in Engineering Design Courses Adam D. Weaver Electrical and Computer Engineering Department

Conference Session

Remote Instruction/COVID-19 Strategies

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Steven Nozaki, Pennsylvania State University; David Clippinger, Pennsylvania State University; Yabin Liao, Pennsylvania State University; Nancy E. Study, Pennsylvania State University; Philip A. Jones, Pennsylvania State University; Shannon K. Sweeney, Pennsylvania State University; Susan Daigle; Adam Jeffrey Wielobob; Liyong Sun, Pennsylvania State University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

Engineering at Penn State Erie, The Behrend College. He received the B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from West Virginia University in 1986. Mr. Jones also earned the M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Case Western Reserve University in 1990. In addition, Mr. Jones graduated from the General Electric Advanced Course (A, B, and C courses) in Engineering as part of the Edison Engineering Program in 1989. Mr. Jones is a Licensed Professional Engineer, PE 054155E, in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Mr. Jones began his engineering career in 1986 with General Electric Company in Erie, Pennsylvania. Subsequent to that time he worked for Morrison Knudsen Co. in Boise, ID, and Atchison Steel Castings Co. in Atchison, KS. He

Conference Session

Graduate Student Experiences

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Reginald Rogers, University of Michigan; Anthony Lachawiec, University of Michigan; Jeffrey Ringenberg, University of Michigan

Tagged Divisions

Graduate Studies

students, the value-added aspects ofmembership must be highlighted with respect to the amount of time invested in participation.Analogous to means of improving retention of engineering students,1 we seek to offeropportunity, guidance, and a sense of community among those interested in the ASEE missionon our campus. In an effort to recruit both new general members and leaders to the organization,we are implementing an idea to advertise the benefits of ASEE Student Chapter membershipthrough alumni testimonials. These testimonials will promote the advantages of playing anactive role in the chapter such as professional development, networking, and preparation for anacademic career. The initial media format will be a paper-based supplement to our

Conference Session

First-Year Advising and Transition

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Charles McDowell, University of California, Santa Cruz; Adrienne Harrell, University of California, Santa Cruz

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

face many challenges bothacademic and non-academic9. One widely studied impact of these challenges is transfer shock, adip in the GPAs of transfer students during the first one or two terms after transfer6. Althoughbelieved to be nearly universal, transfer shock is generally not severe10 and Cantrell et al.1 havetheorized that pre-transfer support programs are one technique that can be used to help transferstudents get through their transfer shock and “experience the rewards of their efforts.”We were interested in comparing how well our transfer students were doing in comparison withtheir native classmates. One measure of success is how long a student takes to graduate and dothey ever graduate. The most commonly used metric for graduation and

Conference Session

Environmental Engineering Curricula

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kurt Paterson, Michigan Technological University

Tagged Divisions

Environmental Engineering

Page 11.292.4Analysis (EMMA), was built upon a nested modular framework. Each module is onePage 11.292.5Figure 3. The Paterson Learning Spiral depicts the general path of every module in theEnvironmental Monitoring and Measurement Analysis course.EMMA is organized in one-week long Learning Spirals each focusing on differentstatistical and analytical techniques, as well as environmental issues: lectures presentstatistical theory, laboratory and field sessions provide opportunities to acquire data, out-of-class teamwork sessions are used to analyze the data, presentations of findings allowstime to discuss the material, a quiz is used to check mastery of the topics, and resourcesare provided for advanced study. The Learning Spiral proceeds as

Conference Session

COED Modulus Topics

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Deng Cao, Central State University; Zhiqiang Wu, Wright State University; Bin Wang, Wright State University; Chi-Hao Cheng, Miami University

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education

. Zhiqiang Wu received his BS from Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications in 1993, MS from Peking University in 1996, and PhD from Colorado State University in 2002, all in electrical engineering. He has worked at West Virginia University Institute of Technology as assistant professor from 2003 to 2005. He joined Wright State University in 2005 and currently serves as full professor. Dr. Wu is the author of national CDMA network management standard of China. He also co-authored one of the first books on multi-carrier transmission for wireless communication. He has published more than 100 papers in journals and conferences. He has served as Chair of Acoustic Communication Interest Group of IEEE Technical

Conference Session

Real-World Manufacturing Education

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Donald Falkenburg; Tina Harkin

are skilled machinists and not just machineoperators. Focus:HOPE’s basic machining training is divided into two parts: Vestibule, a five-week introduction, and Core 1, which is 40 hours per week for 26 weeks. Both programs requireclassroom and computer work as well as hands-on instruction in the shop laboratory. Bothclassroom and lab instruction are geared to prepare students to be skilled machinists, and also tobe ready for further training and education in computer numerical control programming,computer-aided design and manufacturing engineering.In Vestibule the students are introduced to the topics and gain experience working on one typeof machine (lathes) in the lab. Courses include shop theory, shop math, blueprint reading,technical

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

William L. Scheller

span ofcontrol and only a single laboratory session needed to be scheduled with the course. A finishedprototype needed to be presented to the President of the University in 6 weeks. This project wouldrequire focused effort by both faculty members and the students.Students enrolled in the course were a mixture of manufacturing and mechanical engineers. Most hadcoop positions in manufacturing companies. The first step in assigning teams was to survey the students’knowledge and other attributes. This was performed with a questionnaire. The questions are listed inTable 1. Page 5.514.2 Table 1: Student

Conference Session

Lab Experiments in Materials Science

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Redfield; Michael Guarraia; Suzanne Keilson

September with completion by April. The Ni-Ti alloy exhibits two very unique properties that have almost endless potentialsfor applications. The first is superelasticity. This is the ability to undergo excessive stress (tothe point of radical elastic deformation) without plastic deformation. The other unique propertyof NiTi is the shape memory effect. This is the ability to return to a predetermined shape via aphase transformation, which is usually accomplished via heating the material. During the brainstorming sessions some project ideas that were generated included usingthe superelastic properties of NiTi in rock climbing gear, using the shape memory effect forsafety devices, or snake-like flexible objects. The final project idea

Conference Session

Computers and Software in Teaching Mathematics

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Zohra Manseur, SUNY Oswego; Adrian Ieta, SUNY Oswego; Rachid Manseur, SUNY-Oswego

Tagged Divisions

Mathematics

generalcurriculum that together constitute a complete degree program: 1. General education requirements – these courses provide a broad college education in the arts, humanities, social sciences, natural sciences, mathematics, and computer science. 2. Cognates – these are the courses in areas that provide essential preparation for the study of engineering. These consist of courses in mathematics, chemistry, biology, physics, and computer science. 3. Core – Core courses in engineering provide the education and training needed for the professional practice of engineering. 4. Electives – These are typically choice courses mostly in engineering or the cognate subjects that allow students to acquire deeper knowledge in a

Conference Session

Continuing Education for Faculty

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Waddah Akili, Iowa State University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

International

public colleges of engineering in the Region (Table 1) inaddition to several, recently established, private and semi private colleges and/oruniversities that offer engineering programs. These eight public colleges have, sincetheir inception, been guided by advisory boards made up largely from facultymembers and administrators drawn from US colleges. Previously, the Grinter’sReport (15) and the Goals Report (16) have been used to guide the educational process.Recently, ABET Engineering Criteria 2000(17) has been the subject of seminars andworkshops, intended to shed light and assist engineering colleges in the Region inmaking use of the EC2000 whenever possible. Indeed, the EC2000 has generated alot of interest and challenges in the Region

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Design in the Classroom

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jason Foster, University of Toronto; Alexandra Heeney, University of Toronto

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

instructors was accepting the ambivalence some students felttowards the notion of sustainability and the role of the engineer in addressing complex socio-technical issues. Both instructors spent significant time with each student team discussing thedifferent roles that engineers play in society and the different challenges that engineers arecalled upon to help solve. While some teams both accepted and embraced this expandedvision of the engineer, many did not. Such teams generally felt that their role should be toaddress purely technical, well-defined challenges identified and framed by others. For bothinstructors, who each believe that such a perspective diminishes the role of the engineer andis inappropriate given the emerging global challenges

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Yi Min Huang; Michael Trevisan

-funded engineering education projects are highlighted in this paper toillustrate the variety of reform-oriented projects supported by NSF as well as evaluation issuesthat challenge the success of these efforts. The projects include: (1) an engineering designcurriculum development project that specified the design expectations for the first two years ofengineering education, (2) a new master’s program in opto-electronics, and (3) an IGERT projectin environmental engineering. Evaluation issues faced by these projects are both technical andnon-technical in nature and are central to useful evaluation work. These issues are not onlypresent in NSF-funded projects but also within engineering programs more generally and thus,the NSF-funded projects