Conference Session

COED Programming Education 2: Instructional Approaches

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Richard Whalen, Northeastern University; Joshua L. Hertz, Northeastern University

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education Division (COED)

presented papers on approaches and techniques in engineering education.Dr. Joshua L. Hertz, Northeastern University Dr. Hertz earned a B.S. in Ceramic Engineering from Alfred University in 1999 and then a Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2006. Following this, he worked at the National Institute of Standards and Technology as a National Research Council postdoctoral fellow. He joined the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Delaware as an Assistant Professor in September 2008, leading a lab that researched the effects of composition and nanostructure on ionic conduction and surface exchange in ceramic materials. In 2014, he moved to

Conference Session

PCEE Session 3: Robotics and Design Competitions

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Arif Sirinterlikci, Robert Morris University; Jason McKenna, VEX Robotics; Lauren Harter, VEX Robotics

practices that promote conceptual understanding in mathematics and teacher quality. © American Society for Engineering Education, 2022 Powered by www.slayte.com VEX V5 Workcell: Industrial Robotic Arm Model for STEM EducationIntroductionThe use of robotics in education has become an interdisciplinary, hands-on, authentic learningexperience for students of all ages. Robots not only are interesting and engaging to students, butthey also provide a physical representation of abstract concepts such as coding. With technologycontinuously evolving and programming becoming a desirable skill, secondary educationalinstitutions are wanting to prepare their students for the workforce by

Conference Session

Technical Session VII

Collection

2018 FYEE Conference

Authors

Dan Burleson, University of Houston; Erin J. McCave, University of Houston

Tagged Topics

FYEE Conference Sessions

student engagement (student perception) were given andare shown below. Analysis of these responses will be addressed as the work continues. • Using a likert scale, does your instructor care about your success in this course? • Using a likert scale, does your Undergraduate Teaching Assistant (UTA) care about your success in this course? • Using a likert scale, how helpful were the lectures in learning the material? • What is one word you would use to describe the course? • What is one word you would use to describe your instructor? • What is one word you would use to describe your UTA?Conclusions:Overall, the pilot section of the first year engineering computing course has proven that materialcan be delivered at the

Conference Session

Computing Technology Applications-I

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Yu Cai, Michigan Technological University

Tagged Divisions

Computing and Information Technology

also serves in the program committees of many international conferences. Dr. Cai received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from University of Colorado at Colorado Springs in 2005. He is a member of IEEE and ACM. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 Teaching Directory Services: Topics, Challenges, and ExperiencesABSTRACTDirectory service is used to organize and access information in an electronic directory. It becomes one of the essential network services intoday’s enterprise environment. However, there are not enough discussions on teaching directory services among computing community. Thispaper presents a course on directory

Conference Session

Web-Based Laboratories and Classes

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Abul Azad

reach more students usingspecialized instruction and self-paced learning. Integration of the Internet with educationalsystems is well described in Poindexter and Heck 3. In almost all the cases, web courses are only Page 8.770.1based on theoretical/simulation materials. While a good learning experience can be obtained “Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2003, American Society for Engineering Education”from such systems in many situations, effective and complete learning, especially in appliedengineering, requires a mixture of theoretical

Conference Session

Professional Papers

Collection

2025 ASEE Southeast Conference

Authors

Oguzhan Oruc, The Citadel; Eva Singleton, The Citadel Military College ; Andrew B. Williams, The Citadel; Kevin Skenes, The Citadel

Tagged Topics

Professional Papers

modeling, simulation,guidance and control at the undergraduate level. A small-scale UAV, a quadcopter, is modeled,simulated, and deployed during the semester. The course is planned as a 3-credit selectiveundergraduate 400-level module in Mechanical Engineering. It was delivered in Fall 2024semester for the first time and was offered by the Department of Mechanical Engineering of anational university. Due to the multi-disciplinary nature of the course topics, enrollment was alsoopen to Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering and Computer Science students.Prerequisites are defined based on major. For the Mechanical Engineering students, prerequisitesare Modeling and Analysis of Dynamic Systems I and II. Prerequisites for the other majors

Conference Session

ABET Accreditation, Assessment, and Program Improvement in ECE

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Larry L Wear, University of Washington, Tacoma; Orlando R. Baiocchi, University of Washington, Tacoma; Matthew Alden, University of Washington, Tacoma; Robert Gutmann, University of Washington, Tacoma; Jie Sheng, University of Washington, Tacoma

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

 tedious  tasks  such  as  soldering  and  finding  parts.  Freshmen  engineers,  on  the  other  hand,  had  expressed  a  desire  to  get  more  “hands  on”  time  in  with  projects  in  a  laboratory.  The  planned  solution  was  to  pair  freshmen  acting  as  interns  with  seniors  working  on  capstone  projects.  This  was  implemented  and  student  evaluations  were  studied.  Freshmen  reported  that  they  were  bored  the  first  quarter  of  the  capstone  because  the  seniors  were  spending  most  of  their  time  writing;  the  seniors  complained  that  they  were  distracted  early  on  by  having  to  try  to  find  something  for  the  freshmen  to  do  while  they  were  planning  their  projects.  The  second  process

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session II

Collection

2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Allison Antink-Meyer, Illinois State University; Matt Aldeman, Illinois State University; Jeritt Williams, Illinois State University; Jin Ho Jo

Tagged Topics

Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

Ph.D. from Arizona State University was the nation’s first in sustainability. His research, which has been widely published, focuses on renewable energy systems and sustainable building strategies to reduce the negative impacts of urbanization. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2025 Student Interest in STEM Careers: An NSF ITEST Project for High Schoolers’ Renewable Energy Technology EngagementThis NSF ITEST project (Award # 2148429) at Illinois State University focuses on engagingstudents in four Chicago Public High Schools in an afterschool STEM program,SUPERCHARGE, where they experience hands on activities with renewable energytechnologies and related sustainability-tied

Conference Session

Design Based Energy Education

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Oxana S Pantchenko, University of California at Santa Cruz; Tiffany Wise-West P.E., University of California Santa Cruz; Michael S. Isaacson, University of California, Santa Cruz; Ali Shakouri Shakouri, Purdue University

Tagged Divisions

Energy Conversion and Conservation

refrigerators on a chip, and waste heat recovery systems. He is also working on a new interdisciplinary sustainability curriculum in collaboration with colleagues in engineering and social sciences. He has initiated an international summer school on renewable energy sources in practice. He received the Packard Fellowship in Science and Engineering in 1999, the NSF Career award in 2000, and the UC Santa Cruz School of Engineering FIRST Professor Award in 2004 Page 23.537.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013 ENHANCING STUDENT LEARNING THROUGH A REAL­WORLD PROJECT IN A

Conference Session

Hardware Applications

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gary Spivey, George Fox University

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education

we developed a robot that is controlled byChirps boards. This robot is called the PUMA (see Figure 1) and it allows for hands on, exciting,and practical use of the Chirps boards by engineering students in the second semester of thefreshman engineering experience. Each PUMA contains a Macaw for control, and a Roadrunnerand Owl board for the motors and lights respectively. To control a PUMA, a user would makeuse of the Arduino IDE loaded with the Chirps libraries. Then by simply making the appropriateAPI calls, a user can use sensor input to control the motion of an autonomous robot. Page 22.1432.10 Figure 1

Collection

2024 South East Section Meeting

Authors

Ruba Alamad, Kennesaw State University; Garima Banerjee, Kennesaw State University

oflearner-centered approaches, hands-on activities, and collaborative education to facilitatemeaningful and authentic learning experiences. One limitation of this study is the small samples.It is unclear whether the redesign of this course will still be effective for larger classrooms. Morestudies are needed to investigate the combination of Robert Gagne's Nine Events of Instructionand constructivist principles in senior-level engineering mixed-modality courses.References [1] A. P. Wemhoff, “Restructuring a Pedagogical Course to Benefit Engineering Ph.D. Students and Faculty,” peer.asee.org, Apr. 09, 2021. https://peer.asee.org/restructuring-a-pedagogical-course-to-benefit- engineering-ph-d-students-and-faculty [2] A. B. Keating

Collection

1997 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas J. Cortina

invited to take our standardintroductory programming course, and their performances on assignments and tests wererecorded for comparison. Each student was required to have two years of high schoolmathematics and no prior experience with computer programming (with the exception of someminimal BASIC programming). Students chosen for this course represent typical collegefreshmen who may pursue undergraduate degrees in science and engineering fields. Page 2.40.1 1Students were separated into four sections randomly, where each section learned proceduralprogramming methodology using a different

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Leonardo Pollettini Marcos, Purdue University; Julie S Linsey, Georgia Institute of Technology; Melissa Wood Aleman, James Madison University; Robert L. Nagel, Carthage College; Kerrie A Douglas, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Eric Holloway, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

, 2018, p. 44‒53.[21] R. Curry, “Insights from a cultural-historical HE library makerspace case study on the potential for academic libraries to lead on supporting ethical-making underpinned by ‘Critical Material Literacy,’” J. Librariansh. Inf. Sci., vol. 55, no. 3, pp. 763–781, Sep. 2023, doi: 10.1177/09610006221104796.[22] J. Johannessen and B. Olsen, “Aspects of a cybernetic theory of tacit knowledge and innovation,” Kybernetes, vol. 40, no. 1/2, pp. 141–165, Mar. 2011, doi: 10.1108/03684921111117979.[23] National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, Infusing Advanced Manufacturing into Undergraduate Engineering Education. Washington, D.C.: National Academies Press, 2023, p. 26773. doi: 10.17226/26773.[24] K. M

Conference Session

Two-Year College Division Transfer Topics Part I

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

MD B. Sarder, University of Southern Mississippi

Tagged Divisions

Two Year College Division

, representatives, and salary data, (3)develop their content knowledge about current ET projects at the various campuses by workingthrough hands-on projects in groups, (4) provide classroom materials and activities the CCfaculty members can use in their STEM content courses (e.g. mathematics, computer science,physics, chemistry), and (5) increase their awareness of the professional opportunities in thecoastal region with a variety of site visits. Page 23.251.8Phase 2 - Retain and Increase the Number of Graduates in ETAt the university level, our ET program has a current retention rate of 70%. This rate does not,however, include the CC students who do not

Conference Session

NSF Grantees' Poster Session

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Andrew Kean, California Polytechnic State University; Brian P. Self, California Polytechnic State University; Mathew Bissonnette

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees Poster Session

authentic, real-worldproblems that small teams of students address. Our approach for this Phase 3 CCLI Project tookthe theoretical framework from mathematics education to create a strategic, scalable approachwhich addressed crucial goals in engineering education. As part of a multi-year and multi-University effort, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo (Cal Poly) hasdeveloped and tested several MEAs which use experiments (or other physical/hands-onactivities) to enhance student learning within the mechanical engineering curriculum. The threeprimary areas in which we have incorporated hands-on physical activities include a) usinglaboratory experiments to collect data for the models, b) as a method to provide self-assessmentof the

Conference Session

First-Year Programs Division Technical Session 6: Design and Design Chanllenges

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sean P Brophy, Purdue University, West Lafayette

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

doctor has an idea for a simple device therapist can use device to measure the progress of patients rehab after hand surgery. (Day 1 – initial attempt at engineering design) 4 Water horse system Develop a computational model of a water delivery (temporary public system currently being used and generate alternative drinking water system) solutions that increase performance of one or more during summer events on functional requirements of a drinking water system. campus (modeling a system) 8 Solar panel tracking Develop an autonomous tracking system that keeps solar system

Conference Session

Electrical Energy Courses, Labs, and Projects I

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Al DUPE Mundy, United States Air Force Academy; Andrew Laffely, US Air Force Academy; Bryan John Cooper, United States Air Force; George York, U.S. Air Force Academy; Herbert L. Hess, University of Idaho, Moscow

Tagged Divisions

Energy Conversion and Conservation

andexpanding the capabilities of the system thus requiring the capstone students to acquire in-depth, hands-on knowledge of many different systems and engineering problems including multiple voltage levels, ACand DC power conversion, energy storage, power distribution, and economics of energy. This paperdescribes the energy system, the STEM outreach benefits, and the relevance to undergraduateengineering. Page 23.1000.2IntroductionDuring the last several years, numerous studies and articles indicate the United States, as a nation, has aserious shortage of young people entering into college degree programs and careers in STEM relatedareas[1,2

Collection

ASEE-NE 2022

Authors

Najmus Saqib, University of Indianapolis

Tagged Topics

Diversity

open up new ways to solve engineering problems,provide alternative ways of thinking about engineering, and enhance the education and practiceof engineering [2]. Interpreting and constructing figures and representations can lead to betterunderstanding of concepts in science and engineering [3].Studies have shown that active or collaborative methods produce both statistically significant andsubstantially greater gains in student learning than those associated with more traditionalinstructional methods [4]. Collaborative learning has been defined in a number of ways but isgenerally understood to refer to small group learning where the group members actively supportthe learning processes of one another [5].If visual learning and collaborative

Collection

1996 Annual Conference

Authors

Christopher G. Braun

acquisition system can and willbe used. For example, a Civil engineering student could interface the data acquisitionsystem directly to a strain gauge on a concrete caseon while acquiring personal, hands-onexperience rather than passively watching an instructor perform a demonstration, as iscurrently done. A student Mechanical engineering student could attach an opticaltachometer to a flywheel on our Hybrid Electric Vehicle and gather information about theefficiency of power transfer. And a student in the Electrical specialty could use the dataacquisition system as part of motor control experiment to close a feedback loop. Every aspect of engineering and science that uses data acquisition and controlmay reap a benefit from this dramatic change

Conference Session

Distance, Remote, and Virtual Experiments

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Yaoye Li, Stevens Institute of Technology; Sven Esche, Stevens Institute of Technology; Constantin Chassapis, Stevens Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

Institute of Technology, Hoboken, NJ 07030, USAAbstractThe rapid spreading of broadband Internet access is enabling new methods of delivery formodern engineering and science curricula. This paper describes the design and implementationof a remote laboratory architecture, which allows the execution of experiments in real time.Contrary to previous remote-laboratory implementations based on a batch mode of operation, inthis new system the students can interactively control the experiments and obtain thecorresponding outputs (including raw data, data plots, video/audio streams and recordings) in anintegrated browser-based user interface. Furthermore, this real-time system was designed in aplatform-independent

Conference Session

Design and Research in BME

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Yawen Li, Lawrence Technological University

Tagged Divisions

Biomedical

collaborative ligament tissue engineering project. Three BME studentsstarted the project from designing and building a bioreactor that can output cyclic mechanicalstimulation for a tissue engineering construct. The students each logged in approximately 10hours per week during a two-semester period. They did not receive financial compensation forthe time and effort they spent on the project; instead, they received a total of 5 course credits astheir senior design.This model has since been used by 4 student teams in subsequent years, as shown in Table 1.Each team took on a subtopic to continue/expand our ligament tissue engineering research, suchas scaffold material selection and synthesis, biomechanical testing, biocompatibility evaluation,electrospun

Conference Session

Works in Progress: Faculty Perspectives and Training

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Tingerthal, Northern Arizona University; Fethiye Ozis, Northern Arizona University

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

activities after the in-person seminar, most notably the post-assessment,made seminar effectiveness difficult to gauge.Participants commented that timing was a problem and that they would have preferred to nothave it during the first week of the semester. They also mentioned that online modules tooklonger than expected. Although in general the articles in the online modules were seen asrelevant and engaging, new engineering faculty mentioned that the content on memory did notstick with them. They would have preferred learning about practical ways of applying thememory related research findings in the classroom.On the other hand, all four participants who attended the follow-up meeting agreed that "gettingstudents motivated” was the biggest challenge

Conference Session

ET Interdisciplinary Education

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

John Cremin; Terrence Kelly

position. 3. Understanding the role of atomic clocks in GPS satellites. 4. The purpose of coding in GPS. 5. The ability to develop an entrepreneurial application of GPS to a field of interest and write a paper on the application.Objectives 1 to 4 are evaluated by quizzes based on student reading and class discussions aboutthe material in three tutorials available on the Internet8, 9, 10. Students are also evaluated based onassigned Internet search topics and subsequent class discussion. Topics such as DifferentialGPS, Geographic Information Science, Remote Sensing, Attenuation of GPS Signals inBuildings11, and Pseudolites12 are examples of assigned topics. Students post the links they

Conference Session

Clinical, Patient, and Innovation Experiences in BME

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Daniel P. Cavanagh, Bucknell University; Joe Tranquillo, Bucknell University

Tagged Divisions

Biomedical

cause and progression, clinical diagnosisand treatments, and patient decisions and experiences. The course aimed to complement thetechnical and professional skills our students receive in our hands-on focused curriculum thatprovides each student with applied exposure to various core areas of biomedical engineeringincluding mechanics, materials, instrumentation, transport, and medical device design. Thecourse was structured to have one introductory and two in-depth projects that provided studentswith opportunities to explore and integrate diseases, devices, and patient experiences, and topropose novel health care innovations. To gain insights as to the impact of the course on thestudents, a culminating reflective exercise was also required of

Conference Session

Capstone Course in Industrial Technology

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

C. Ray Diez; Luke Huang; David Yearwood

manufacturing Page 9.301.7 “Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering Education”strategies are required courses that contribute specific objectives related to ProductDesign. Using Manufacturing as a second example one can see that courses such as:production processes: manufacturing, applied synthetics, industrial materials, principlesof graphic design and print production, manufacturing strategies, and industrial safety areinvaluable elements of that unit. Each unit is linked to courses for

Conference Session

Thermal Systems

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Edwards

world application for the theory being taught.Students often work in teams to produce a final report on their project. This helps to tie togetherthe course and give relevance to the material being taught.At Penn State Erie the open ended project has been taken one step further. A faculty memberwith expertise in some area of heat transfer is brought into the classroom early in each semesterto make a presentation related to the semester long project with the intention of creating interestamong the students in the project. The faculty expert remains available on an ongoing basis toserve as a consultant for the students, and comes back to the class one or two more times topresent more advanced information about the project. The students complete

Conference Session

Computers in Education Poster Session

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Jenelle Piepmeier; Kenneth Knowles; Bradley Bishop

systems in the MATLABenvironment. This paper discusses two approaches and representative laboratory assignments. I. INTRODUCTION Robotic textbooks such as those by Niku [5], Spong [6], and Craig [1] present common topicssuch as transformations, inverse and forward kinematics, Jacobians, manipulator dynamics, andtrajectory generation. Additional topics include control, sensors, vision, and artificial intelligence.The degree to which each of these topics is covered in a course depends on the level of the studentsand the departmental emphasis (electrical, mechanical, or computer science). Problem sets at theend of each chapter typically assign problems that are worked by hand. Craig [1] includesprogramming assignments such as software

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in EM ET

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

B. Zoghi; Robert Bolton

common prerequisite background that includes twosemesters of engineering physics and two semesters of engineering calculus. Upper-levelcourses in both degree programs list ENTC 395 as a prerequisite so most students enroll early intheir tenure in the department, generally in the sophomore year or the first semester of theirjunior year. The positioning of this course in our engineering technology curricula and thediversity of students leads to unique problems in the presentation of course materials. While allstudents share a common fundamental knowledge of physical laws from their prior courseworkin college physics that are necessary to formulate well posed electromechanical models, eachdisciplinary group shows distinct preferences for materials

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Zbigniew Prusak

, Seattle, WA.10. Baird, W.E., Borich, G.D., Validity Considerations for Research on Integrated-Science Process Skills and Formal Reasoning Ability, Science Education, vol.71, (1987), pp.259-269.11. Hall, D., Hadala, P., Roberts, F., Laboratory Exercises for Statics and Mechanics of Materials on a Shoestring, Proceedings of ASEE Annual Conference, June 28-21, 2000, St. Louis, MO.12. Braun, C.G., Experiments on the Cheap: Using a Student Data Acquisition System, Proceedings of ASEE Annual Conference, June 15-18, 1997, Milwaukee, WI.13. Jensen, D.D., Murphy, M.D., Wood, K.L., Evaluation and Refinement of a Restructured Introduction to Engineering Design Course Using Student Surveys and MBTI Data, Proceedings of ASEE Annual

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Scott Dennis; Jeff Ball; Martin Bowe; Daniel Jensen

ofacademic majors, abilities, etc. Each section responds, as a class, to a faculty preparedstatement-of-work (SOW). The SOW specifies requirements for a system the cadets mustdesign and build without mention of how to meet those requirements. Each section generally hasits own project, i.e., there is not a course-wide SOW. Cadets in one particular section of Engr410 were tasked to develop a teaching aid on the operation of an automatic transmission for apopular senior-level engineering course, MechEngr 490--Automotive Systems Analysis. Thefaculty provided the section of Engr 410 two fully assembled 42LE transmissions donated byDaimler Chrysler. The transmission is of course a major subsystem of the automobile and is apart of the MechEngr 490 syllabus