Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Richard Forbes; Mary Emplaincourt

. Standards can even take the effect of law if they appear, for example, in building codes.Cities and municipalities in the south adopt the building codes developed and published bySBCCI almost universally. Many engineering students receive the B. S. degree with little or no exposure toengineering standards. This deficiency can easily be corrected by introducing standards (orportions) during appropriate sections of conventional technical courses or laboratories. Forexample, the author has required laboratory students to perform portions of the performance testsfor audible back up alarms used on some construction equipment (SAE standard). Note thatOSHA requires these alarms on certain equipment. As a minimum, students should be madeaware of the

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Jay Porter; James Ochoa; Rainer Fink

well as interdisciplinary projects in meeting their goals. This paperdescribes several examples of collaborative research efforts and their benefits.II. Examples of collaborative efforts among EET faculty.In 1998, the EET Program, through Dr. Fink, created a state-of-the-art mixed signal test researchfacility that is unique among universities. The laboratory, established through a significantfinancial donation by Texas Instruments and equipment donation by Teradyne, yields numerousbenefits to the EET Program and semiconductor test engineering community. Texas Instrumentshas realized benefits through research results and greater access to engineers that are moreprepared for semiconductor test positions. The nature of the partnership with TI

Collection

2022 ASEE St. Lawrence Section Annual Conference

Authors

Shivaun D Archer, Cornell University

atherosclerosis, fat build-upcan lead to hardened arteries which is associated with increase in peripheral vascular resistanceand decreased blood velocity as arteries narrow [4]. Microfluidic devices can study effects ofshear stress and resulting elongation of endothelial cells [5]. A single chip can test multipleshearing regimes.Using microfluidics in a teaching environment specifically doing hands on microfluidicsexperiments combined with modeling has a number of advantages. It allows students tocontextualize research level techniques in an approachable learning environment and providestudents with useful experimental and computational skills.For this experiment, a microfluidic vascular model was designed to model the vascular systemrepresenting

Conference Session

Student Teams & Active Learning

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Knecht

Session 2131 CAN PEERS BE USED EFFECTIVELY TO ASSESS TEAMS: TASK/TEAM FUNCTION OBSERVATIONS DURING TEAM BUILDING EXERCISES Robert Knecht Colorado School of MinesAbstract – This presentation describes a model used to illustrate functions that team membersassume during teambuilding exercises. The Design (EPICS) program introduces teams ofengineering students to design, technical communications and teamwork processes through anopen-ended, client-based project. Teams conduct a series of exercises in which half perform theexercise

Collection

1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Heidi Diefes; William LeBold; William Oakes

single department, FreshmanEngineering, and then matriculate to the engineering professional schools after completing thefreshman requirements. Page 4.287.1The individual advising interview is designed to help each freshman develop a personalizedacademic program tailored to the student’s abilities and interests. The advising effort is carried-out by a diverse advising staff that includes faculty, professional counselors, graduate students,peer undergraduate students, and support staff. Student abilities are accessed based on highschool grades, SAT or ACT scores, and the results of AP exams, Purdue placement exams, andthe a trigonometry and algebra

Conference Session

Energy Learning through Simulation and Analysis

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Timothy Skvarenina, Purdue University

Tagged Divisions

Energy Conversion and Conservation

techniques, skills and modern tools of their (b) an ability to design and conduct experiments, as disciplines, well as to analyze and interpret data b. an ability to apply current knowledge and adapt to (c) an ability to design a system, component, or emerging applications of mathematics, science, process to meet desired needs engineering and technology, (d) an ability to function on multi-disciplinary c. an ability to conduct, analyze and interpret teams experiments and apply experimental results to (e) an ability to identify, formulate, and solve improve processes, engineering problems

Conference Session

Cooperative & Experiential Education Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Chris Plouff, Grand Valley State University; Nael Barakat, Grand Valley State University

Tagged Divisions

Cooperative & Experiential Education

focusing on the ethics instruction during the co-op program is theopportunity for students to apply concepts in the workplace, while practicing engineering. This isideal since engineering ethics by definition is a type of applied ethics, and learning about ethicswhile „doing‟ engineering is important to understanding how to apply the concepts in realsituations. Not unlike having an engineering design course without a hands-on project or labcomponent to practice and apply the theoretical concepts, teaching engineering ethics from apurely theoretical vantage point leaves students without the experience of „doing‟ that is neededfor engineering education.[10] Interesting observations were collected directly from students, aswell as from their journals

Conference Session

Engineering Libraries Division Technical Session 1: Diversity

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Shalini Ramachandran, Boise State University; Steven Matthew Cutchin, Boise State University; Sheree Fu, California State University, Los Angeles

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Libraries

experts within the fields on their assessment of scenarios andethical problems. The students notably disagreed with the trained experts in half of theidentified scenarios. The disagreement between students and experts possibly shows thatfurther exposure to real-world scenarios may be needed in engineering ethics courses. Thesekinds of disagreement may have implications for algorithm bias instruction as well becausestudents are not trained to respond to cases of systemic bias but may be responding to scenariosfrom an individual perspective.A paper by Bowers, Maccarone, & Ricco [7] discussed their experiences integrating ethical,legal and societal issues within a senior design computing capstone program. The courseintegrated consideration of an

Conference Session

Women in Engineering Division Technical Session 7

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Leanne Kallemeyn, Loyola University Chicago; Gail Baura, Loyola University Chicago; Francisca Fils-Aime, Loyola University Chicago; Jana Grabarek; Pete Livas Jr, Loyola University Chicago

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Women in Engineering

, students are introduced to patient monitoring through a cardiograph projectin the freshman design course. A cardiograph is a medical instrument that accurately acquiresand displays a patient’s electrocardiogram (ECG). Obtained from the surface of the skin, an ECGis the summation of cardiac currents, used to diagnose abnormal cardiac rhythms. Thecardiograph project is an expansion of two lab experiments in the Director’s medical devicetextbook [41]. Over three years, each student builds a functional cardiograph (specifically foreducational use only, which is exempt from Institutional Review Board approval), which she willown after junior year. Social Justice Case Studies. Engineering case studies sensitize students to experiencesoutside of

Collection

1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Douglas G. Schmucker

be re-stated orthe answer can be explained. It is particularly important, however, that whomever was finally“selected” to answer the question be given an opportunity to acknowledge their newunderstanding of the question or that they be given a follow-up question to which they cansuccessfully respond.The Intermediate questions are designed to keep the students “on their toes.” The MisdirectedQuestion refers to looking at one student while actually asking a different student the question.The Blind Question is one in which an individual (or everybody) is asked a question while theinstructor's “back” is to the class, erasing the chalkboard, for instance. The Expert questionrefers to a student who has previously demonstrated expertise. For

Conference Session

Computing and Information Technology Division Technical Session 7

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Hassan Rajaei, Bowling Green State University

Tagged Divisions

Computing and Information Technology

for Engineering Education, 2020 An Empirical Study of Multi-Level Cache AssociativityAbstractMost CPUs architecture use multi-level caches with different associativity. A cache plays anessential role by providing fast access to the instructions and data to improve the overallperformance of the system. To demonstrate the complexity of the issue in an advanced computerarchitecture course, we used an empirical simulation study to focus on performance of multi-levelcaches and their associativity. This paper presents the result of such study. Designing andpredicting caches behavior has been subject of numerous simulation studies. Cache simulationtools provide support for diverse configurations of the system with multiple scenarios to

Conference Session

Technological Literacy I

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Paul Predecki; Albert Rosa; George Edwards

types of knowledge that one expects from a college graduate in the areas of Arts and Humanities, Social Sciences and the Natural Sciences. That experience (and legitimacy) is not immediately available regarding the area of Technology. Believing strongly in the need to help produce a technologically literate citizenry, in 1988 the Department of Engineering at DU set out to create a course designed to fit into this new quadrant. We will describe that course next. III. Technology 21 – A Course for Leadership in the New Millennium With the above background in mind several engineering faculty met and created the pedagogy Page

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division Technical Session 8

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stuart G. Walesh P.E., S. G. Walesh Consulting

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

what you want, but this predisposition to familiarity may preventconsideration of creative-innovative approaches.Engineering professor and author Richard McCuen30 explains what we are referring tohere as the Einstellung Effect or design fixation by putting it in the context of thefollowing four-step process: 1. Observation: “…facts are collected and observations are made on the system.” 2. Recollection: “…past experience is reviewed and solutions to similar problems in the past are identified.” This is the left brain at work and the die is cast. 3. Reasoning: “the pros and cons of the possible decisions are identified and the implication of each alternative stated.” 4. Decision: “…the best

Collection

2013 North Midwest Section Meeting

Authors

Thomas Shepard; Michaela Andrews; Cole Harris

designs that canbe built more easily, better understanding of the time required, and potentially more designiterations as there may be less time lost to tool training or uncertainty in the shop. In anindustrial setting confidence with tools can additionally result in higher utility of an engineer inthe fabrication, development, and maintenance of test set-ups. 110There are a number of additional motivations for instructing first-year engineering students intool use. First, there are significant numbers of incoming first-year engineering students whohave little experience with hand tools, or have been so far removed from any training they mighthave received during K-12 that their comfort remains low5-7

Collection

2013 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

Lucia Riderer; Harmonie A. Hawley

in the engineering field.The primary mission of EEWIE was to foster interest in Citrus College female students inengineering through interaction with undergraduate female students majoring in engineering atbaccalaureate institutions and faculty mentors who possess a deeper understanding ofengineering in a welcoming environment conducive to discovering engineering disciplines8.MethodologyThe EEWIE program operated for the entire calendar year of 2012. EEWIE was a multi-component program designed to create a support network and community for women enrolled inmathematics and science courses at the Junior College. Mathematics and physics courses werechosen as the most conducive courses to transfer to a 4-year, baccalaureate degree

Conference Session

Perspectives for Women Faculty

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stacy Birmingham, Grove City College

Tagged Divisions

Women in Engineering

a significant change inprofessional direction, toward undergraduate teaching and individual scholarship, this was anideal opportunity. Without doubt, many of my friends and colleagues thought—to not put toofine a point on it—I was crazy. Yet, I have found great satisfaction being at my current, smallerinstitution: I am able to focus on undergraduate scholarship and thus play a large role in shapingthe intellectual lives of students and in actively mentoring the students.In this paper, I share my experience at both institutions. While I gave up tenure and thetremendous institutional resources that foster cutting-edge research, I gained more flexibility forbalancing my career and my family, in addition to the benefit of a smaller institution

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Katie Shakour, Clemson University; Kapil Chalil Madathil, Clemson University; Eliza Gallagher, Clemson University; Karen Johnson, Southern Illinois University Carbondale; Jonathan Beck; Rebecca Short, Clemson University; Tim Ransom, Clemson University; Gayatri Anoop, Clemson University

. Combining her passion for teaching with her experience with computers and consulting, her research interest includes developing engaging learning platforms and digital tools with positive user experience for students and teachers.Kapil Chalil Madathil Kapil Chalil Madathil holds the Wilfred P. Tiencken Endowed Professorship at Clemson University. His area of expertise is in applying the knowledge base of human factors to the design and operation of human-computer systems that involve rich interactions among people and technology. He draws on qualitative and quantitative methodologies including ethnography, contextual inquiry and controlled behavioral experiments to understand how humans perceive, make sense of, and interact

Conference Session

Balancing Personal and Professional Life

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Vladimir Goncharoff; Patrick Troy; John Bell; Dale Reed; Cathleen Theys; Ann Ford; Susan Montgomery

neverhappened. While at UM I initially taught a variety of chemical engineering courses, includingsenior plant design, reactor design, and unit operations laboratories. Later I taught college-levelcomputing courses including introductory freshman computing and graduate courses in scientificvisualization and virtual reality programming. I also conducted research, in conjunction withH. Scott Fogler, into the use and development of virtual reality for chemical engineeringeducation. This research was conducted with undergraduate student programmers, and produceda number of virtual-reality based educational modules. Papers were written predominantly forASEE and AIChE annual conferences[1-3], plus a few journal articles[4-6

Conference Session

Lessons from Entrepreneurship Programs

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

John Wierman; Lawrence Aronhime

customer. Such projects, for which student employees will be paid modest sums,enhance the overall learning experience and, we believe, will distinguish them among candidatesseeking employment in companies at the nexus of technology and business.To accomplish the second goal, the agency will support those students participating in theBusiness Opportunity Program with resources such as office space, telephones, voice mail,bookkeeping, general business advice from alumni mentors, and assistance from CLE facultyand staff. Given the fairly low probability of success for any student-launched venture, theagency framework is designed to help the venture gain a little traction and then “graduate” into alocal incubator. Through the end of the 2004 fall

Conference Session

Women in Engineering Division Technical Session 4

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Angela M Kelly, Stony Brook University; Doreen Aveni, Stony Brook University; Monica Bugallo, Stony Brook University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Women in Engineering

Engineering and Applied Sciences (CEAS) and remains a flagshipprogram to promote diversity in STEM at the University [8].WISE Honors fits the definition of an academic program as defined by Lattuca and Stark: “aplanned group of courses and experiences designated for a specific group of students” [9, p.127]. The Program has both planned courses and a set of experiences for high achieving womenstudents pursuing degrees in STEM. No other institution of higher education offers such aprogram, with its strongcurricular focus in addition to 16 14research, service, leadership, 12and internship. The curriculum 10consists of a sequenced 8academic plan that

Collection

1996 Annual Conference

Authors

Lucian P. Fabiano

over two semesters. Eachsemester consists of fourteen weeks . During each week of the firstsemester two hour lectures are given on the basic topics related to theproject development process. The topics covered including thefollowing: - Projects and their .inter-dependencies . - Th~ project life cycle and- its phases. - Project life cycle deliverables. - The development process as its relates to the project life cycle. – Project management. - The-concurrent engineering design process. – Design review meetings. - Project development evaluation and reporting.The second semester consists of two hour, weekly laboratory

Conference Session

TIME 5: Solid Mechanics

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Peter Schrader; Jawa Mariappan; Angela Shih

competencies.Information and reference modules are presented in context when required or requested.Mistakes can be made and the resulting scenario will allow the user to make subsequentdecisions. Learning still occurs if a user takes a wrong path all the way through. Thus learningbecomes an experience and not blindly following a set of rules, or learning by rote. Fig. 1 showsan example of a SBL model showing how a scenario branches into various possibilities.Our premises for using SBL area as follow: • Reality is the ultimate and best learning experience. • Learning must be fun and enjoyable like playing a favorite sport just as in real life. • Learning must allow for mistakes. No one has ever learned anything without doing mistakes. However

Conference Session

Research Informing Teaching Practice II

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jeremi S. London, Purdue University, West Lafayette

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

experience of all learners; and provideexamples of awards they had cyberlearning elements and have had compelling results. I designed thesurvey instrument and incorporated feedback from mentors before conducting the interviews. Theinterview responses were analyzed using the Qualitative Process of Data Analysis6 (p. 244) whichinvolves iteratively reading through the data and coding the texts such that recurring themes are identifiedand described.Qualitative FindingsDescription of Cyberlearning During the interviews with POs, they were asked to describe cyberlearning; share the names ofcyberlearning awards with compelling results; discuss ways to assess the impact of cyberlearning and inwhat ways they saw potential to improve the educational

Collection

2009 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Dennis Audo; Seth O'Brien

see how much tension is required to pull them forward. The propertiesof differing materials are discussed in regards to their properties and to which loads that they aremost capable of holding, either tension or compression.The properties of concrete material are explored along with the ingredients that make upconcrete. Students then go into the materials laboratory and mix up the proportions of rock,sand, cement and water to make up a concrete mix. The students then make a test cylinder usinga plastic mold. Their test specimen is then tested in compression in a later session so they can seehow the strength of their mix is performing.Students are then taken to the computer lab to use AutoCAD Revit Architectural to design theirdream house

Collection

Chemical Engineering Education

Authors

Satyen Gautam; Sachin Jangam; Kai Chee Loh

. inognize themselves as stakeholders instead of mere recipients chemical engineering from NUS in 2011. Heof knowledge can be a productive, beneficial, and agreeable teaches courses in kinetics, process design, and food technology, and is enthusiasticalternative for all. Stakeholders as defined by Nuseibeh and about the use of technology in teaching andEasterbrook[1] are “individuals or entities who stand to gain learning and promoting student engagement

Conference Session

Mentoring Graduate Students

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Audeen Fentiman, Purdue University; Susan Fisher, Purdue University

Tagged Divisions

Graduate Studies

not allowed in the laboratories, and they are not very patientwhile their parents look at poster presentations of research. Another lesson learned was thatwhile some students are interested in hearing about research in other disciplines, most studentsneed some incentive beyond curiosity to take a lab tour. Because interdisciplinary research is soimportant, the College wants to encourage interdisciplinary exchanges, and the lab tours are oneway to do it. Efforts were made to identify a way to encourage students to participate in thetours.The third college-wide event, lab tours followed by a reception, took place in the fall semester of2008. This event was designed to promote professional interaction among graduate studentsfrom the various

Conference Session

Two-Year College Special Topics Potpourri

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gary J. Mullett, Springfield Technical Community College

Tagged Divisions

Two Year College Division

engineering by the life sciences’ understanding of complex evolutionary systems.“Convergence is the result of true intellectual cross-pollination.”5It is this author’s contention that there are strong parallels between the effect of convergencescience on advances in basic research (and the subsequent creation of new knowledge) and the Page 22.936.3convergence of technology in the creation of heretofore, unthought-of, complex, networkedsystems (implemented with electronics devices and components) designed to improve processesand other systems and in the final analysis, the condition of humankind. At this point, it shouldbe pointed out that some in the

Conference Session

New Concepts for Alternative and Renewable Energy Courses

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Craig J. Hoff, Kettering University; Jennifer Aurandt, Kettering University; Matthew R. O'Toole, Kettering University; Gregory W. Davis, Kettering University; Steven Nartker, Kettering University

Tagged Divisions

Energy Conversion and Conservation

. Ultimately they will not have anyone to walk themthrough the process when they go to graduate school or industry. They will learn how to designexperiments and how research works. They will be better scientists for it.Finally, it should be noted that the Anaerobic Digestion and Verification Laboratory ismaintained in collaboration with a company Swedish Biogas International. Consequently, thestudents are exposed to the expectations of industry while they work in the lab. The studentsparticipate in hosting corporate collaborators, the students learn much more than the laboratorytechniques.Bioethanol Usage in Student Competition ProjectsKettering University students participate several of the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE)Collegiate Design

Collection

1997 Annual Conference

Authors

Karen Frair; Karan L. Watson

Engineering students and faculty take Several FC faculty have volunteered time and design activities to the 5th and 6th materials grade campuses at local schools TAMU Tours of campus and laboratory One FC faculty arranged with MEP and WEP activities for local community the tours and raised funds for the buses. centers serving 2nd through 4th graders. ASU Collaboration with girl scouts to WISE offer 1 week camps for 1&2, 3&4, and 5&6 graders.Middle School TAMU SWE one week residential camp FC

Conference Session

Pedagogy and Assessment III

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jay Wierer, MSOE; Steven Reyer, MSOE

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

do an acceptable job in the analog course they wouldoften express displeasure regarding the level of rigor required by the course. It was suspectedthat the calculus content of this first course dealt a blow making the material somewhat abstract.Plus, the course had no laboratory, so the only exposure to signals problems was “on paper.”Four years ago the EE program was changed significantly1,2 to a model that includes teachingmaterial on an as-needed basis. For example, we teach the ideal op amp topic to freshmen,delaying the details of the internal workings to a later course. The freshmen could then see theutility of, and use in simple designs, a powerful circuit tool.Another change was to institute DSP as a required course, and to be taught