Conference Session

Women in Engineering Division Technical Session 7

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lesley Cremeans, Texas Tech University; Audra N. Morse P.E., Texas Tech University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Women in Engineering

considerincorporating entrepreneurship education for students (Duval-Couetil et al., 2012; Duval-Couetilet al., 2016). According to Duval et al. (2012), most engineering students recognized theimportance of entrepreneurship education and entrepreneurship as a “worthwhile career option”(p. 429). Students with entrepreneurial experiences chose “satisfying a need in a market” as atop reason for entering an entrepreneurship career (Duval-Couetil et al., 2012). Students withentrepreneurship experiences ranked higher in self-efficacy and confidence per the student’sperspective of entrepreneurial ability.Further, the National Science Foundation Innovation Corps (I-Corps) program “preparesscientists and engineers to extend their focus beyond the laboratory” (NSF, I

Conference Session

Assessment, Course, and Curricular Development

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Glenn T. Wrate P.E., Northern Michigan University

Tagged Divisions

Energy Conversion and Conservation

Semester 2015 offeringof the course the students were given laboratory projects where they used a Doble F6150e PowerSystem Simulator to test either a Schweitzer Engineering Labs SEL-221F microprocessor-basedrelay or a Westinghouse (ABB) Type CO electromechanical relay. The test setup for testing theSEL -221F is shown in Figure 8 below. Figure 8. Protective Relay Testing Lab SetupBased on employer input, the electromechanical relays were not included in the Winter Semester2016 lab assignments, and will not be included in the future. Also based on employers’comments, the students performed the tests individually rather than in teams. This allowed thestudents to gain experience in all aspects of testing – setting

Conference Session

Electrical and Computer Division Poster Session

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kenneth A. Connor, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Dianna Newman, University at Albany - SUNY; Kathy Ann Gullie PhD, Evaluation Consortium University at Albany - SUNY; Yacob Astatke, Morgan State University; Mohamed F. Chouikha, Howard University; Charles J. Kim, Howard University; Otsebele E. Nare, Hampton University; John Okyere Attia P.E., Prairie View A&M University; Petru Andrei, Florida A&M University/Florida State University; Lisa D. Hobson, Prairie View A&M University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

,” and the 2012 ASEE Mid-Atlantic Region ”Distinguished Teacher” Award. He teaches courses in both analog and digital electronic circuit design and instrumentation, with a fo- cus on wireless communication. He has more than 15 years experience in the development and delivery of synchronous and asynchronous web-based course supplements for electrical engineering courses. Dr. Astatke played a leading role in the development and implementation of the first completely online un- dergraduate ECE program in the State of Maryland. He has published over 50 papers and presented his research work at regional, national and international conferences. He also runs several exciting summer camps geared towards middle school, high

Conference Session

Issues in Digital Signal Processing

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Cameron Wright; Michael Morrow; Thad Welch

. 4148–4151, May 2002. Paper 4024 (invited).[6] C. H. G. Wright, T. B. Welch, D. M. Etter, and M. G. Morrow, “Teaching DSP: Bridging the gap from theory to real-time hardware,” ASEE Comput. Educ. J., vol. XIII, pp. 14–26, July 2003.[7] T. B. Welch, C. H. G. Wright, and M. G. Morrow, “Experiences in offering a DSP-based com- munication laboratory,” in Proceedings of the 11th IEEE Digital Signal Processing Workshop and the 3rd IEEE Signal Processing Education Workshop, (Taos, NM (USA)), Aug. 2004.[8] Texas Instruments, Inc., “C6713 DSK,” 2004. http://focus.ti.com/docs/toolsw/folders/ print/tmdsdsk6713.html.MICHAEL G. MORROW, P.E., is a Faculty Associate in the Department of Electrical and Computer En-gineering at the University of

Conference Session

Computers in Education Poster Session

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

G Kohli; S P Maj; D Veal

Professor Dr S. P. Maj is a recognized authority in the field of industrial and scientific information systemsintegration and management. He is the author of a text book, 'The Use of Computers in Laboratory Automation', which wascommissioned by the Royal Society of Chemistry (UK). His first book, 'Language Independent Design Methodology - anintroduction', was commissioned 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 many national andinternational committees and was on the editorial board of two international journals concerned with the advancement ofscience and technology. As Deputy Chairman and Treasurer of the Institute

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Rebecca A. Pinkus; Craig A. Simmons

Session 3561 Professional Writing Seminar for Engineering Students: A Pilot Project and Evaluation Rebecca Pinkus, Craig Simmons University of Toronto1. Background and IntroductionThe ABET EC 2000 goals and the Canadian Engineering Accreditation Board both identify theability to communicate effectively as an essential skill required of graduates of engineeringprograms. Apparently, a large number of engineering students agree. In response to numerousstudent requests for additional writing courses, we have designed a pilot program for a non-creditwriting

Conference Session

Computer Education Management Tools

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Phil Rawles, Purdue University

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education

the course of several years the author has experimented with many methods of peerevaluation where students provide input to award credit among group members appropriate totheir level of effort and effectiveness. This work has lead to the development of a robust peerevaluation process that allows students to reward or penalize their peers based on their workwhile insulating students from reprisal and ensuring system integrity. The system has beenrefined over several years us by multiple faculty members in several courses.To enable the data and computationally intense process to be efficiently implemented, an on-linedata collection and scoring process has been developed. Using a web site, students evaluate theirpeers. This on-line data

Conference Session

Assessment Issues II

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ramon Vasquez; Anand Sharma

evaluatedduring November 2002 and have been successfully reaccredited. The experience gained wassubsequently utilized as a springboard to establish a new campus-wide Continuous ImprovementEducational Initiative (CIEI) lead by a multi-disciplinary team. The long-term objective of thisinitiative is to assess not only the student learning outcomes across campus, which also includesthe non-engineering disciplines, but to even develop a process by which the various supportservices could be assessed. This required the design and administration of customizedquestionnaires as instruments of assessment, including the development of an overallinstitutional assessment plan, and an institutional plan for student learning outcomes, for the veryfirst time.ObjectiveThe

Conference Session

Our Future in Manufacturing: STEM Outreach

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Terence Fagan, Central Piedmont Community College

Tagged Divisions

Manufacturing

volume as well as calculate density."6 Another example of creative learningcan be seen in the Adaptive WATER Laboratory design built by five Rice University seniors.The laboratory was used to implement educational outreach. "The aim of this outreach was lessto demonstrate the Lab itself, and more to generate interest among these students because of theconcerning numbers of minorities entering science, technology, engineering and math (STEM)fields."5The premise of the “How To” project was to utilize service learning in higher academia tosupport K-12 engineering education. The idea for service learning helps college studentsunderstand real word issues and utilize their specific skill set, which adds value to a broaderpicture. As is pointed out by

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Rabbitt; Douglas Christensen

undergraduate degree program in biomedical engineering at the University of Utahaccepted its first freshman class in fall 1999. An integral part of the curriculum is a sequence oftwo courses in the freshman year, Fundamentals of Bioengineering I and II, whose purpose is toexpose the students to the field of bioengineering as well as to introduce some importantscientific, engineering and physiological topics which help lay the foundation for later courses.Laboratory experiences in the form of a Major Project are included in each course. The firstsemester course covers biomechanical, bioelectrical, instrumentation and computer topics; thesecond semester covers biochemical, metabolic, cellular, and integrative (e.g., biosensors)subject material. We

Conference Session

Track 1 - Session 1

Collection

2014 ASEE International Forum

Authors

John Matthew Long, Deakin University; Simon William Cavenett, Deakin University; Eloise Gordon, Deakin University; Matthew Joordens, Deakin University

Tagged Topics

Curriculum and Lab Development

Cavenett is a Senior Lecturer and Director of Professional Practice (Engineering) at the School of Engineering at Deakin University. Prior to joining Deakin University in 2007 his 20 year career was based in industry. His career includes a number of significant achievements both in Australia and inter- nationally, particularly involving the design and implementation of leading edge telecommunications and IT technologies. Simon has extensive experience internationally; having worked professionally based the United States for over 11 years prior to returning to Australia to join Deakin University.Ms. Eloise Gordon, Deakin UniversityDr. Matthew Joordens, Deakin University Matthew A. Joordens (Member -IEEE, Fellow - The

Collection

2024 Rocky Mountain Section Conference

Authors

Loraine Glidewell; Marisa Mendoza-Maurer; Joseph L. Polman; Daniel Knight; Angela Bielefeldt

who have traveled along pathways into STEM at theuniversity level themselves. This has the potential for an especially important relationshipbetween first generation high school students and university mentors. Students attending therural high schools who participate in the projects are expected to benefit in terms of increasedknowledge of STEM and more specifically engineering, increased science and/or engineeringidentity, and understanding pathways to engineering in college and downstream careers. Research findings will contribute to the scholarship on science and engineering in ruralschools. The design research and evaluation will contribute insights into what programmaticfeatures of university student mentored research experiences

Conference Session

New Electrical ET Course Development

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Marvin Needler; Anna Shiver; Elaine Cooney

LabVIEW software for control and data acquisition.Background EET 371 Automation, Instrumentation and Process Control is a junior-senior level coursein the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Technology, IUPUI. The purpose ofthe course is to introduce ECET majors to automation concepts and control and instrumentationequipment and software. Emphasis of the course is on integration of hardware and software systems. It focuses ona major laboratory project to implement a model automated-assembly-line-style test system foran FM circuit board. (Figure 1) To update the course to provide for more experience with state-of-the-art technology,machine vision has been added and control of a Rhino Selective Compliance Assembly

Conference Session

Engineering Management Curriculum

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Waters

.4 It alsohas a genetic structure in the form of human knowledge and its prosthetic devices in the shape oflibraries, blueprints, computers, laboratories, and so on. As in biological evolution, knowledge isable to direct energy, to sustain temperatures, and to select, transport and transform chemicalelements into improbable structures, not only of skin, blood, and brains, but also of walls, waterpipes, and computers. 5The Process of Change in the Ecosystem- An ecosystem has innumerable niches for differentkinds of creatures and behaviors. A niche is the potential equilibrium population of a phenotype.The basic evolutionary process is the accumulation of knowledge, i.e. changes in genetic

Conference Session

Issues in Computer Education

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Helene Kershner; Debra Burhans; Deborah Walters; Carl Alphonce; Barbara Sherman

that the size of the testingfacility may be much smaller than the size of the class. On the other hand, if it is difficult todevelop a large number of good questions, then large numbers of students may need to take anon-line test simultaneously. This requires a very large on-campus laboratory that can be madeavailable for testing when needed. A particularly successful example of the use of a largelaboratory using on-line course materials with on-line testing is the Math Emporium at VirginiaTechnical University2.Our experience points to differences in the ease of creating large question banks for on-linetesting. There are many numerical types of problems that can be infinitely varied by s implychanging the numbers. Rather than specific

Collection

2007 North Midwest Section Meeting

Authors

William S. Helton; Michele H. Miller; Robert Pastel

students, for example,have a detailed understand of computer systems, but they have difficulty generalizingwhat they know about the computer system to human systems. CS students havedifficulty imagining an end user unlike themselves, and design interfaces for users similarto themselves. The students often neglect identifying the users, their needs andcapabilities. The students do better at identifying user tasks, but then the tasks have beendefined by their choice of projects. The students should also test and evaluate their UIs,but they have no experience with user testing and believe that testing is debugging aprogram. Consequently, the students can not objectively evaluate their interfaces. Similarproblems emerge in each discipline. HF

Conference Session

Materials Division Technical Session 3

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ethan Sclarsky, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute ; Tyler Marquis Cooper, Rowan University; Johannes Strobel, Texas A&M University; Jennifer Kadlowec, Rowan University; Andrea Jennifer Vernengo, Rowan University

Tagged Divisions

Materials

is meeting its goals.• Pre and post-tests: The questions (written and collected by PI) will be mapped to ABET and NCSES learning outcomes for pre-college and undergraduates.• Rubrics: For each experiment, the undergraduate students will design an experimental plan, state what measurements will be made, and how they will analyze and interpret the data. On lab reports and oral presentations, students will be graded with respect to how well they document, execute, and communicate their results. These outputs will be graded with rubrics mapped to learning outcomes from ABET.• Student pre and post-surveys and course evaluations: Pre and post-surveys before and after each experiment will probe achievement of project goals, such

Conference Session

Distance & Service Learning, K-12, Web & Work-Based Projects

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jamie Piacentine; Tonya Emerson

instructions for the facilitator . Excellent outreach activities can also befound at the National Engineer’s Week website and the Discover Engineering website. [3-4]GrowthDuring the past two school years, Minds in Motion has grown to allow over 4000 pre-collegestudents an opportunity to experience the excitement and fun of learning, designing, anddiscovering new things. The rapid growth of the event has forced the student leaders to becomehighly organized in their efforts. As such, the students have developed their own websitewww.ecst.csuchico.edu/mim that allows them to keep track of registered students, volunteers,sponsors, and registered booths. All event registration passes through the website. This meansthat mailing lists, booth requirements

Conference Session

Innovative Techniques for Freshmen (0630)

Collection

1996 Annual Conference

Authors

Mark A. Palmer, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; John B. Hudson, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

real data, with the assistance of an instructor, one is able to illustrateexperimental error.Demonstrations and Experiments As mentioned above, an integral portion of the interactive approach is the presentationof hands-on experiences both in the classroom and in an accompanying laboratory. A summaryof the demonstrations and laboratories developed for this course is given below:First Semester1. Conservation of Energy 1996 ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings Page 1.276.5 A putty ball was raised above a table top, then released. It was explained that as the ball fell, the initial potential

Conference Session

Computed Simulation and Animation

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Jessica Matson; David Elizandro

Page 10.482.2clear advantage to moving the course was that these tools could be used in subsequent courses. Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2005, American Society for Engineering EducationThe tradeoff is that the selection of laboratory assignments for the course becomes morerestrictive because of the student’s limited domain knowledge of industrial engineering topics.As reflected in this paper, the role and scope of Excel/VBA tools in the industrial engineeringcurriculum at Tennessee Tech continues to evolve.In previous years, the programming experience of students in the simulation course was a three-credit freshman course in FORTRAN

Collection

1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Diandra Leslie-Pelecky; Rochelle Payne Ondracek

-onactivities are Angular Momentum and Buoyancy. In Angular Momentum, participants sit on alow friction turntable and experiment with changing their speed using their arms, weights and abicycle wheel. ScienceWorks volunteers explain that simply changing the position of the armsvaries the speed of rotation. This is easily confirmed by the participant who can feel the changein speed that comes with a change of arm position. Volunteers relate this back to ice skaters thatmany have seen on television. In this activity, ScienceWorks demonstrates that Physics is usefulin everyday life and that physical principles can be understood.In Buoyancy, participants mold boats out of polymer clay in an effort to design a boat that canhold the most marbles before

Collection

2017 Gulf Southwest Section Conference

Authors

Luis Martinez Medellin; Edward Pines; Patricia Sullivan; Arthur Cox; Motoko Furuhashi

, the students assist with equipment maintenance, outreach programdelivery through pop-up workshops and one-day design challenges, technical mentoring,inventory control, and staffing of the AIS during normal hours of operation. The term pop-upworkshop is defined as a one to two-hour activity designed for students to learn and apply thebasic principle of an activity of interest such as soldering, design, prototyping, or additivemanufacturing. The topics covered in pop-up workshops are decided and delivered by the AISstaff with the overall objective of enhancing the overall experience of the students. Under thecurrent student-management model, the AIS has seen a significant increase in the demand for itsservices and overall use of the facility

Conference Session

First-Year Programs: Mathematics in the First Year

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cem Karacal, Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville; Ma Zenia N. Agustin, Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville; George Pelekanos, Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs, Mathematics

regular classmeeting, students who miss a regular class meeting were not eligible to participate in thecorresponding ES meeting.Peer MentoringThe peer-mentoring program initially envisioned as a Residence Hall Mentoring program isrevised to serve the objectives of the project better after the first year. The program is expandedto all engineering freshmen to increase participation level. After experimenting with a few otherideas such as project based mentoring, we have decided to use a traditional academic/socialinteraction based mentoring program. The design-build project centered mentoring programworked really well for a relatively limited number of highly motivated students, butunfortunately, the time and effort required in the projects were

Conference Session

Instrumentation Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Masoud Fathizadeh P.E., Purdue University Northwest; Anan Ismail Ayyad

Tagged Divisions

Instrumentation

well past 3:30 a.m. in an engineering laboratory,preparing for a competition that already has paid huge dividends for several of them. The PNWstudents’ car is powered by a lightweight 610 cc motorcycle engine in accordance with FormulaSAE Michigan regulations, and it is among the competition’s 120 registered vehicles. But thecompetition is more than auto racing. Crafted by college students from across the globe, thecompeting vehicles will be tested for endurance, speed, handling and acceleration. Before anycar’s rubber hits the track, each team will compete in static categories based on design, cost andfuel efficiency. Though Purdue Northwest’s College of Engineering and Sciences, College ofTechnology and a wide range of local sponsors

Conference Session

Track 5: Technical Session 1: Peru in State College

Collection

2024 Collaborative Network for Engineering & Computing Diversity (CoNECD)

Authors

Lauren A Griggs Griggs, Pennsylvania State University ; Julio Urbina, Pennsylvania State University

Tagged Topics

CoNECD Paper Sessions, Diversity

4Engineering degree at the University Park Campus, 4)active engagement in PSU CSP programmingScholars often engage in various activities within theircohorts. They are places in similar courses such asCalculus, chemistry, computer science, economics, andengineering design. Each year they take a seminar classtogether, based on the pillars of the program. They arealso engaged in a global experience together at the end oftheir first year, which is the topic of this presentation. 4 Penn State Clark Scholars Program Business and Leadership

Collection

1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Frank Wicks

electric power at the rate of more than $term Engineering Senior Project with the option of 1,000,000 per year to better understand the system andextending to three terms. The normal procedure is to identify changes in design or operating proceduresduring the junior year each faculty member provides the that could reduce this electric power bill.students with a list of their interests and then the The system was modeled, property tablesstudents can interview each faculty member that has a developed and analysis performed based upon the 1stproject of potential interest before making the final and 2nd law of thermodynamics. This resulted

Collection

2010 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

Peter S. Rourke

numerical control (CNC), oreven computer aided manufacturing (CAM) software and machine simulators. Indeed, most equipmentin an advanced machine laboratory does not have any actual handles at all, only virtual ones.This paper discusses how the exciting world of advanced manufacturing machine control can beintroduced when algebra topics are being studied at high school. While teaching the basics of theCartesian coordinate system a few simple numerical control machine codes are also explained. Thisenables students to compose the code required to complete simple movements of a cutter andunderstand concepts of computer related manufacturing. Free, easy to use simulation software allowsthe students to test their code.This approach has been used in a

Collection

1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Brian Jenkins; Cameron Wright; Thad Welch

) discussing the use of software such asMATLAB, as well as the number of textbooks, e.g. (4-8) that now offer companion disks or CD-ROMs clearly validates this statement. Where it is not at all uncommon for a Professor to requirethe use of commercially available software in a course or lab, the introduction of educationalsoftware designed to facilitate the understanding of a particular topic at the junior/senior level of theElectrical Engineering curriculum has not been as pervasive. For example, the use of MATLAB andits toolboxes has become commonplace at a large number of universities. MATLAB has allowedstudents to explore various aspects of the course material in greater depth, and Professors andtextbook authors regularly provide additional MATLAB

Conference Session

Pre-College Engineering Education Division Technical Session 6

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Francisco Cima, Old Dominion University; Pilar Pazos, Old Dominion University; Jennifer Jill Kidd, Old Dominion University; Kristie S. Gutierrez, Old Dominion University; Stacie I. Ringleb, Old Dominion University; Orlando M. Ayala, Old Dominion University; Krishnanand Kaipa, Old Dominion University

Tagged Divisions

Pre-College Engineering Education

teachers to integrate engineering into their classrooms [13]. The impact ofexposing elementary students to learning experiences based on engineering design activities isdependent upon teachers' understanding and effective integration of engineering concepts [14].Thus, pre-college educator programs that prepare future teachers become natural targets forengineering integration efforts. Education programs for PSTs need to provide the resources andopportunities to increase engineering knowledge and associated pedagogies to address the needfor effective engineering integration in elementary schools in light of the new science standards[2]. The integration of STEM disciplines through engineering design requires rich content andengaging practices to

Conference Session

Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) Poster Session

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joseph Lee Heyman, United States Military Academy; Wenli Huang, U.S. Military Academy; Guangming Xie, Peking University; Pongpat Taephanitcharoen, United States Military Academy

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

competition.6. Robotic Fish Class ScheduleIn this section we outline an example class schedule that we have created to support participationin the competition. This schedule has been modified and updated based on our experiences in thefirst year of conducting the class. The schedule is oriented around three blocks of material:Introduction, Basic Robotic Fish Control, and Design and Implementation of Game Strategies.Each block of instruction also includes recommended readings and references from a variety ofsources. For completeness, full bibliographic information for all suggested readings is providedin the references section. While courses at USMA follow a 40-lesson schedule, we do not breakthis course into the typical schedule of one specific topic