Conference Session

STEM and the Two-Year College

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cheryl Martinez, Growth Sector; Gabe Hanzel-Sello; Ivanna Abreu

Tagged Divisions

Two-Year College Division (TYCD)

Growth Sector’s exponential scaling from his starIvanna Abreu ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 Paid STEM Core Internships: Impacting Skill Sets and Career Trajectories for Community College STEM Students Internships are a crucial milestone for college students in which their technical skills, careerpathways, and STEM aspirations are molded. Employers have come to expect that students willenter the workforce with relevant experiences and an understanding of the field. However,community college students are more likely to face unique barriers that hinder their participationin an internship throughout their academic career. Whether the challenges are socioeconomic

Conference Session

Green and Sustainable Manufacturing Practices

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Irina Nicoleta Ciobanescu Husanu, Drexel University (Tech.)

Tagged Divisions

Manufacturing

propulsion systems including design and development of pilot testing facility, mechanical instrumentation, and industrial applications of aircraft engines. Also, in the past 10 years she gained experience in teaching ME and ET courses in both quality control and quality assurance areas as well as in thermal-fluid, energy conversion and mechanical areas from various levels of instruction and addressed to a broad spectrum of students, from freshmen to seniors, from high school graduates to adult learners. She also has extended experience in curriculum development. Dr Husanu developed laboratory activities for Measurement and Instrumentation course as well as for quality control undergraduate and graduate courses in ET

Conference Session

Mechanical Engineering Division (MECH) Technical Session 8: Thermo-Fluids Theory and Computation

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Azar Panah, Pennsylvania State University, Berks Campus

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering Division (MECH)

is not the case in engineering design. This may discourage creative studentsfrom pursuing engineering, resulting in reduced intellectual diversity in students and possiblyreduced gender and cultural diversity as well. However, many universities now recognize theimportance of a comprehensive education that includes interdisciplinary studies. This has led to anew movement to turn STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) into STEAM, withthe A representing Art [9]. The authors wish to showcase their work in the national STEM toSTEAM dialogue as an example of how this movement can successfully unite art and science.The first showcase will be at the American Physical Society, Division of Fluid Dynamics (APS-DFD), as an education symposium

Collection

1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Ruane

Session 3353 Racing to Understanding: Instrumentation Lab with Radio-Controlled Cars Michael Ruane Electrical & Computer Engineering, Boston UniversityAbstractFreshmen engineering students are being introduced to electronic measurement and instrumentcontrol using radio-controlled cars in a new Introduction to Engineering module. The seven-week module is conducted as a hands-on laboratory experience using HP VEE, a commercialsoftware package for instrument control and graphical programming. Engineering contentincludes basic descriptions of signals, simple

Conference Session

Thinking Outside the Box! Innovative Curriculum Exchange for K12 Engineering

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael K. Swanbom, Louisiana Tech University; David E. Hall, Louisiana Tech University; Heath Tims, Louisiana Tech University

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

Page 22.1117.2show more advanced concepts such as digital filtering and image processing8.Most digital cameras also have the capability to capture video. With video capability, one cananalyze and collect data to study an event that happens very quickly. Several software packagesare designed to process video files to extract data regarding recorded events. A large body ofliterature describes the experiences of bringing these technologies into the K-12 classroom9-15.Video capture is very beneficial for analyzing time-dependent events in the classroom; however,the technology platforms (high speed hardware and/or commercial software) can be costprohibitive for many schools. Alternatively, consumer-grade low-cost digital cameras have videomodes

Conference Session

Innovative Curricula and Outreach

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Susan Powers

to their local schoolcommunity. Clarkson students developed curricula for 7th and 8 th grade science and technologyclasses and then worked with the middle school students throughout the year to reduce totransform solid waste into valuable products. The solutions to this problem – food waste tocompost and non-biodegradable waste as aggregates in concrete - provided a vehicle to teachfundamental science and math content as well as the process of doing science and solvingproblems.Placing college science and engineering students in the classroom proved to be a greatmechanism for engaging students in science topics and providing mentoring experiences thatdiffer greatly from those that a practicing professional can provide. It is clear, however

Conference Session

Materials Division (MATS) Technical Session 3

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Luciana Lisa Lao, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore; LAY POH TAN

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Materials Division (MATS)

has included some laboratory courses, these experiments were run largely as equipment demonstrations and/or operations. The design of experiments (DOE) concept was absent and students were merely acting as operators. Thus, the older laboratory courses were retired and/or integrated as laboratory demos during tutorial classes of relevant core courses. New laboratory courses ought to be designed where students are trained to perform their own Design of Experiments (DOE). In one of the new laboratory courses proposed, students are required to prepare their own samples, identify the types of testing and characterisations required, plan their own experimental flow/sequence, choose appropriate machines/equipment for testing and

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Malkin

, participants attend courses in instrument repair and participate in a laboratory designed to refine their abilities to diagnose and repair medical equipment. These sessions are guided by local volunteer engineers from area hospitals. Finally, the students construct some of their own test equipment which they can then donate to their host hospitals at the end of their stay.The training is put to use during a four-week internship in a foreign hospital. Internships arecurrently being offered in Nicaragua, but Haiti will soon be available. Students continue takingforeign language classes every morning, devoting the afternoons

Conference Session

Modern Software Measurement Techniques

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Akram Hossain, Purdue University-Calumet; Masoud Fathizadeh, Purdue University-Calumet

Tagged Divisions

Instrumentation

. from University of Science and Technology, in 1978, MSEE from University of Toledo, Ohio, 1982 and Ph.D. from Cleveland State University, Ohio in 1987 respectively. Dr. Fathizadeh has been with Purdue University-Calumet since 2000 as a visiting professor and from 2003 as an Assistant Professor. He previously worked for Argonne and Fermi National Laboratories. In 1995 he successfully established his own engineering and consulting firm to design, install and service electrical emergency back up systems. His areas of interest are process control, computer application, power and power electronics. Dr. Fathizadeh has extensive industrial experience in the field of power, power electronics and process

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Muniram Budhu

thatis done the weight is shown. The experiment continues interactively with the student placing thewet soil in an oven and is completed when the student calculates the water content and thenanswers a quiz to test short-term knowledge retention. The student can then select a differentsoil and repeat the experiment to compare the water retention capacity of different soil types. Anexperiment on a single soil type as described above will take about 24 hours in a physical lab buton the computer its takes less than 5 minutes and the student obtains all the required knowledge.A physical experiment can then be conducted for the student to get the feel of a real soil andoperating in a physical lab if laboratory facilities are available

Collection

1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard E. Pfile; Maher E. Rizkalla

toprogram a fixed-point processor so that it executes fast enough to continuously generatemotor outputs in real-time. Students, who choose motor control as their laboratory focus area, are required toimplement a closed loop fuzzy logic motor speed control algorithm. The fuzzy logicblock examines the motor load, slip angle, and velocity error to determine the nextoutput. The three-phase induction motor control techniques are presented in this paper.I. Introduction A course titled “Design of Electronic Instrumentation for Electric Vehicles” wasdeveloped with funding from Department of Education’s FIPSE program to teach electricvehicle technology to junior and senior EE and EET students at IUPUI. Engineering andtechnology students took

Conference Session

Introductory Materials Science for the 21st Century

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Dhananjay Kumar, North Carolina A&T State University; Devdas Pai, North Carolina A&T State University; Cindy Waters, North Carolina A&T State University; Jagannathan Sankar, North Carolina A&T State University

Tagged Divisions

Materials

D D (a) F (b) FFig. 3. Student performance in (a) Fall 2006 compared with (b) Spring 2006In the other section, the instructor is creating an active learning environment via several methods.The methods are based on a workshop by Dee Finks in which he worked through his book“Creating Significant Learning Experiences”.3 Based on this model, in-class and out-of-classexperiences are planned. The other principle of course design that is utilized is the need fordifferentiation and variety in the types of learning activities. Out of class experiences includedonline home work, text book home work, interactive Materials

Conference Session

Opportunities in Environmental Engineering Curriculum

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Zuhdi Aljobeh; Aaron Jennings

undergraduate institution (PUI) in Valparaiso, Indiana.These two universities are experimenting with a unique teaching/research partnership thatrepresents a new model for how National Science Foundation (NSF) Research Experience forUndergraduates (REU) programs can be designed. The program builds on the strengths ofpartner universities to expand the research opportunities for undergraduate students who mightotherwise not be aware of these possibilities and extends research activities to predominantlyundergraduate institutions. This manuscript describes the design of this program’s prototypeEnvironmental Engineering course titled “Heavy Metal Contamination in the UrbanEnvironment” (CE 490 B) that is being offered at Valparaiso University in the spring

Conference Session

Technical Issues in Architectural Engineering II

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Frank Yeboah, North Carolina A&T State University; Harmohindar Singh, North Carolina A&T State University; Shamsuddin Ilias, North Carolina A&T State University

Tagged Divisions

Architectural

AC 2007-2480: BUILDING SECURITY AND BIO-CHEMICAL TERRORISM ? ANINTERDISCIPLINARY COURSEFrank Yeboah, North Carolina A&T State University Research Associate and Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Center for Energy Research and Technology (CERT), North Carolina A&T State University. He graduated with a doctoral degree in Earth and Environmental Engineering, with focus on Energy Economics, from Columbia University in the City of New York in October 2004, and an ME degree in Mining and Mineral Economics from the Technical University of Clausthal, Germany. Currently, he co-teaches “Sustainable and Secure Building Design” in the Architectural Engineering Department. He is also the Project

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alison K Polasik, Campbell University

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Paper ID #39760Board 429: Variations in Motivation for Learning to Use MATLAB amongFirst-Year Engineering StudentsDr. Alison K Polasik, Campbell University Alison Polasik, Ph.D. joined the Campbell University School of Engineering in August 2018. Previously, she was an assistant professor of practice in The Ohio State University’s Materials Science & Engineering Department. She has a decade of experience teaching and designing curriculum and incorporating real- world scenarios in her courses. Her work in engineering education has been presented at conferences and published in peer-reviewed proceedings for the American

Conference Session

Outcome Assessment, Quality, and Accreditation

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

J. Shawn Addington

probability and statistics, including applications appropriate to electrical engineering"Program Outcome #13 : "A knowledge of advanced mathematics, typically including differential equations, linear algebra, complex variables and discrete math"Program Outcome #14 : "An ability to acquire new information, assimilate that information into a body of knowledge and apply that knowledge to the solution of problems"Program Outcome #15 : "An ability to function as a member of a team in project design and laboratory experiment

Conference Session

FPD9 -- Teaching Methods & Technology

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Margot Vigeant, Bucknell University; Karen Marosi, Bucknell University; Ronald Ziemian, Bucknell University

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

project laboratories, inside and outside of the facultymember’s discipline. For example, the electrical engineering faculty member wouldsupervise a lab on structural engineering. While these labs were at a basic level, somefaculty were uncomfortable teaching outside of their field. Faculty further observe thatstudents and faculty are pleased with the more intense experience in engineering designwithin a major field during the first semester. Contact-hours between individual facultyand students are greater in the seminar-version, allowing faculty the chance to closelyinteract with and get to know 60-90 members of the first-year class. The main downsidefor faculty in the seminar-course is the increased grading burden relative to the singlecourse

Conference Session

FPD4 - Teaching Methods for First Year Students

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael Haungs, California Polytechnic State University; John Clements, California Polytechnic State University; David Janzen, California Polytechnic State University

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

skills as opposed to directly lecturing about them. Over 60% of the students in ourclass had no prior programming experience, yet all of the student teams were successful indeveloping engaging Flash-based games. Student surveys revealed that nearly all studentscharacterize computer science as collaborative, multi-disciplinary, and creative. We believe ourclass can serve as a model to create other discipline-specific introductory courses.1.0 IntroductionProject-Based Learning (PBL) has been shown to improve student retention, increase long-terminterest, and improve performance in future design courses.2, 6, 9, 12 Capstone and cornerstone3courses are a common home for PBL in many universities. Capstone courses are well-known andcornerstone courses

Conference Session

Integrating H&SS in Engineering III

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Rosalyn Berne

beliefs held by some ofthe very people on whom the nanotechnology initiative depends[1] . The intention hasbeen to elicit their ideas and concerns, beliefs, fears and motivations, as those pertain totheir work as researchers in nanoscale science and technology. The aim here is to help“disparately interested parties overcome their language differences in order to join in acommon cause.”aMy studies follow these scientists over a period of five years, as they move deeper intotheir own abilities and understandings, and as they make more discoveries, broaden theircollaborations and facilitate the development of new technologies. The participants areprincipal investigators who are conducting nanoscaled research in their own laboratories,at universities

Conference Session

Issues in Digital Signal Processing

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

G Kohli; S P Maj; D Veal

Professor S. P. MAJ is a recognized authority in the field of industrial and scientificinformation systems integration and management. He is the author of a text book, 'The Use ofComputers in Laboratory Automation', which was commissioned by the Royal Society of Chemistry(UK). His first book, 'Language Independent Design Methodology - an introduction', wascommissioned by the National Computing Centre (NCC). Dr Maj has organized, chaired and beeninvited to speak at many international conferences at the highest level. He has also served on manynational and international committees and was on the editorial board of two international journalsconcerned with the advancement of science and technology. As Deputy Chairman and Treasurer of theInstitute of

Conference Session

Mentoring Graduate Students

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Wesley Stone, Western Carolina University; Chip Ferguson, Western Carolina University; Aaron Ball, Western Carolina University

Tagged Divisions

Graduate Studies

2006-2465: ENGAGEMENT IN INDUSTRY: PREPARING UNDERGRADUATEENGINEERING TECHNOLOGY STUDENTS FOR GRADUATE STUDYWesley Stone, Western Carolina University Wes Stone is an Assistant Professor of Engineering Technology at Western Carolina University. He earned his B.S at the University of Texas at Austin, his M.S. at Penn State University, and his Ph.D. at the Georgia Institute of Technology. His industrial experience includes manufacturing and six sigma quality, which are current areas of interest. He teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in solid mechanics, quality, and capstone design at Western Carolina.Chip Ferguson, Western Carolina University Chip W. Ferguson is an Assistant Professor of

Conference Session

Research On Student Teams

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Knecht; Jennifer Gale

; Tuckman5; and Fisher6). The Design EPICS (Engineering Practices Introductory Course Sequence) Program at theColorado School of Mines (CSM) guides teams of first and second-year engineering studentsthrough an authentic design experience that calls on decision-making to address technical, open-ended, client-based projects. Mentors guide students through these creative, interactive, andcomplex processes. Teams practice these processes as they synthesize information, their skills, Page 10.281.1and client values. Project solutions are showcased in written reports, oral presentations andgraphics demonstrations. Past projects include designing

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael Kaye, Baltimore City Community College; Yun Liu, Baltimore City Community College

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees

, manufacturing, and/or electronics technicians; (b) set up a state ofthe art robotics laboratory at the urban community college to offer students an abundance ofhands-on, practical experience that prepares them for immediate entry into the workforce uponcompletion of the program; (c) increase the success rate of the electronics, computer informationsystem, and computer aided drafting & design technician programs at the urban communitycollege by incorporating robotics-related activities and instruction into those curricula; (d)introduce robotics concepts to 11th and 12th graders in select high schools in the city’s publicschool system and improve their math problem solving skills through hands-on roboticsexercises; (e) develop an articulation

Conference Session

Materials Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alison K. Polasik, Ohio State University

Tagged Divisions

Materials

assignments and/or courses into therequired MSE curriculum, but not to the extent of 3 semester-long required lab courses. Bydeveloping new courses specifically designed to tie computational assignments to concurrent andpreceding courses in the undergraduate curriculum, OSU made use of significant facultyexpertise in modeling and simulation to develop and teach this curriculum. By operating thesecourses as weekly labs with significant instructor and TA oversight during extended hands-oncourse sections, the courses focused on the need for students to learn to use computational toolsby doing.This paper introduces the curriculum of this 3-semester computational laboratory sequence,discusses the largely qualitative analyses done to measure its efficacy

Conference Session

Strategies and/or Approaches to Engage Students in Agricultural, Biological, or Similarly Named Programs

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert Merton Stwalley III P.E., Purdue University ; Roger L. Tormoehlen, Purdue University

Tagged Divisions

Biological and Agricultural Engineering Division (BAE)

unfortunate effect of placing the agriculture program at the CTE into hiatus. Ithas been extremely difficult to secure a new agriculture instructor. Current data indicates thatcertified high school agriculture teachers are scarce overall [25], [26], which is also likelycontributing to the lack of students interested in agriculture at the collegiate level. The obviousirony of the situation is that an experience designed to stimulate an interest in agricultural careersfor students has been held-up by the lack of agricultural professionals teaching high schoolclasses. These newly developed course modules, which should have had their first test utilizationin the fall of 2023, will receive a partial utilization of the robotics and off-road vehicle

Conference Session

Emerging Computing and Information Technologies I

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tamer Omar, East Carolina University; Philip J. Lunsford II, East Carolina University

Tagged Divisions

Computing & Information Technology

of technologies. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 Networks Security Lab Support: A Case Study for Problems Facing Distance Education ProgramsAbstractCreating, supporting, and administering online laboratory experiences has become important inthe pedagogy of learning environments for online networking courses. A case study is presentedfor an online laboratory environment used in a fundamental network security course that coversthe competencies of the CompTIA Security+ certification. The online lab environment consistsof virtual machines connected in an isolated virtual network managed by VMware vCloudDirector. This online laboratory environment is used for both online and face-to-face

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Monique Osborn; Dilip Nag

a result, bothengineering academics and students have had to consider the merits of a process driven approachrather than an emphasis on product. For the Gippsland campus educators, an approach such asthis has taken sometime to develop, particularly for those who have limited pedagogicalknowledge and also equate in depth content knowledge with effective teaching practices. Forfirst year undergraduates, there was a need to reconsider how students personalise and internaliseinformation presented in lectures, tutorials and laboratories. Previously too many assumptionshad been made by both academics and students concerning the efficient processing of knowledge(4).MAJOR ASSUMPTIONS OF LEARNING AND TEACHING1. Held by Freshmen · the purpose of a

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering Division (MULTI) Technical Session 10

Collection

2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rebecca Martinez, Purdue Anthropology Programs; Sherylyn Briller, Purdue University; Greg J Strimel, Purdue University at West Lafayette (PPI)

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering Division (MULTI)

Technology Leadership and Innovation as well as the program lead for the Design and Innovation Minor at Purdue University. Dr. Strimel conducts research on design pedagogy, cognition, and assessment as well as the preparation of P-12 engineering teachers. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2025 What Would It Take to Achieve Convergence Education? Insights from Transdisciplinary Education ProjectsAbstract The shift towards convergence education, which integrates knowledge across disciplinesto address complex societal challenges, has gained momentum. Transdisciplinary approaches playa key role in this shift by fostering innovation, enhancing job readiness, and

Conference Session

Curriculum in Electrical Power Engineering Technology

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert Edwards, Penn State Erie, The Behrend College; Gerald Recktenwald, Portland State University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

Research is showing that student learning requiresmore than lectures and the use of “cookbook” type laboratory experiences11,12. One approach isinquiry-based learning. This approach places the responsibility on the students to posequestions, develop experiments to try to answer those questions, analyze information from thoseexperiments, and draw conculusions13. A variation of this approach is known as guided inquiry. Page 15.37.4A guided inquiry exercise poses leading questions to try to keep the students focused on the mainconcepts. This pedagogical approach is used by the authors for the entire suite of exercises ofwhich this is a part. In

Collection

2010 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

Chiara Silvestri; Adriana Hera; Malcolm H. Ray; Siamak Najafi

]. It canbe used for numeric computation, data analysis, data visualization and algorithm developmentfor a wide range of applications. Since, as its name suggests (MATrix LABoratory), Matlab isespecially designed for matrix operations, we found this software as the appropriate tool fornumeric computation to be integrated in a “Matrix Analysis of Structures” course. ANSYS is a family of products used to numerically solve, by using finite element (FE)method, a wide variety of engineering problem in the field of structural mechanics, heat transfer,fluid dynamics, as well as acoustic and electromagnetic and coupled field analyses [2]. ANSYSis one of the standard Finite Element Analysis (FEA) teaching tools in many universities. In“Matrix