Conference Session

Social Responsibility and Social Justice I: Pedagogical Perspectives

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ricky T. Castles, East Carolina University

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

dorm nextyear. The group found that students who live in traditional hall-style dorms tend to have moresocial interaction with others and more friends on their hall. Suite residents reported a bettersense of belonging and a more desirable experience. Those living in traditional hall-style dormsalso reported being more adversely affected by noise in the dorm. The students believed thatmore studies should be done on overall student satisfaction with dormitory living and this shouldbe used to influence the policy driving decisions about university residence hall architecturallayout and design.Waste Disposal AccuracyA group of five students consisting of an engineering major, a design and industrial engineeringtechnology double major, a finance

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Eakalak Khan; Sayeda Ummeh Masrura; Bimal P. Nepal, Texas A&M University; Om Prakash Yadav, North Carolina A&T State University

Tagged Topics

Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

STEM can participate in a collaborative research environment abroadthrough the IRES Track I program (IRES Sites). In most cases, the overseas host institution isanother research university or a laboratory that can supply expert guidance in the student'schosen IRES fields. The IRES Track II (Advanced Studies Institute) program is a brief (15-21days) yet intensive course designed specifically for graduate students. This is more narrowlyaimed at cutting-edge research, and the engagement of eminent scholars in the relevant field isrequired to justify the choice of a foreign location.This paper discusses how international research benefits engineering students. The projectevaluation results showing how this experience has improved students

Conference Session

Aerospace Curriculum and Collaborations

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Valana L. Wells, Arizona State University; Jenefer Husman, Arizona State University; Praveen Shankar, Arizona State University; Wen-Ting Chung, Arizona State University

Tagged Divisions

Aerospace

significant finding indicates that students’ self-perception of their ability to master course material and to succeed in the class was virtuallyuncorrelated with their actual success in the class for students taking the traditional version of thecourse. In contrast, by the fall of 2010, there is a strong correlation between students’ self-perception of their abilities and their performance in the class.IntroductionInitially, motivation for revising the junior-level aerodynamics course stemmed from the needfor preparing aerospace engineers to use state-of-the-art tools in aerodynamic analysis. Currentpractice in the industry relies almost exclusively on computational methods for design andanalysis of wings and bodies. Rarely, if ever, are the

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Electr-Mech ET

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

James Rehg; Bruce Muller

Teaching PLCs with the IEC 61131 Standard Languages James Rehg, Bruce Muller Penn State AltoonaAbstractProgrammable Logic Controllers are the de facto standard for sequential control of discreteautomation systems and are fast becoming the system of choice for control of analog processsystems. The new languages introduced in the IEC 61131 PLC standard will increase the numberof applications suitable for PLC control. This paper provides a description of the new standardand describes a laboratory at Penn State Altoona that supports a two course sequence for PLC.The laboratory has 16 student stations and 4 automated assembly systems linked by an

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division – Entrepreneurship Education in New Contexts

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert A Heard, Carnegie Mellon University; J F Whitacre, Carnegie Mellon Univerisity

Tagged Divisions

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

significant international business and project experience. He has served on the Board of Directors of the AIST, worked on several committees in professional societies, and is a member of AIST, ASM, TMS, Sigma Xi and ASEE. He has authored 28 technical papers on a wide range of activities in materials science, including education, innovation management, environmental issues, nano-materials, steelmaking, casting, plasma and alternate iron technologies and authored a book on the Horizontal Continuous Casting of Steel.Dr. J F Whitacre, Carnegie Mellon Univerisity Professor Whitacre started his career at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, where he worked on energy tech- nologies ranging from functional materials to systems

Conference Session

Electromechanical Curricula

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joseph Fuehne, Purdue University-Columbus; Kathy Bradley, MotoTron, Inc; Eric Bradley, MotoTron, Inc

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

a mathematics review class combined with an introduction to spreadsheet analysis.There is nothing much in the first two semesters of the MET program to create excitement infirst-year students, and this presents something of a retention challenge for the program.In order to provide a real-world experience and an enjoyable competition to motivate students,the MET department at Purdue University in Columbus, Indiana partnered with a local company,MotoTron (www.mototron.com), to present the Mechatronics Career Discovery Challenge.Mechatronics combines mechanical, electrical, and software design to produce complexmachines. This particular challenge involves writing the software to program a vehicle tonavigate a course using a global positioning

Conference Session

Developments in BME Pedagogy and Assessment

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Deborah Won, California State University, Los Angeles; Huiping Guo, California State University, Los Angeles; Jianyu Dong, California State University, Los Angeles

Tagged Divisions

Biomedical

Page 22.571.3 margins was illustrated as a method for detecting neural action potentials. A couple slides on the design of the circuit are displayed here.traditional forms of digital media as with the Tablet PC’s inking capability. A Tablet PC user canwrite and draw on the screen utilizing the attached stylus and digital ink feature with almostlimitless flexibility. A variety of colors, highlighters, and line thicknesses can be selected tocreate text and figures digitally and in real-time. This allowed for equations to be easily writtenand technical diagrams sketched easily in real-time for students to process the information as theinstructor was writing and drawing.For example, a Schmitt trigger circuit to detect neural action potentials was

Conference Session

Technological Literacy and the Educated Person

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

R. William Graff, LeTourneau University; Paul Leiffer, LeTouneau University; Martin Batts, Le Tourneau University; Maria J. Leiffer, LeTouneau University

Tagged Divisions

Technological Literacy Constituent Committee

social impacts of design. Is there a way to return the favor? Not so muchconsideration has been given to the opposite issue, which is that of helping liberal artsmajors to understand some of the technical aspects of our society. Some technicalconcepts can be communicated with a relatively slight dependence upon mathematicalunderstanding, and these concepts may even be helpful to liberal arts professors in theirteaching of liberal arts courses. While there is definitely value in engineers learningsomething about the liberal arts there is also definitely value to liberal arts majors inlearning something about engineering. Are there some things that “fuzzies” (a nickname heard on National Public Radio forhumanities people, apparently popularized at

Conference Session

Mentoring Graduate Students, Diversity, and Assessment

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Wes Stone, Western Carolina University

Tagged Divisions

Graduate Studies, Minorities in Engineering

Using Undergraduate Research as a Recruiting Tool for Graduate StudyAbstractThis paper focuses on using the undergraduate research experience as a recruiting tool forgraduate study. One undergraduate Engineering Technology student researched the machiningcapability of a laser micro-machining center on piezoelectric materials. With high-precision cutsof 31 to 80 microns wide and 12 to 24 microns deep, the laser provides an outstandingopportunity in the field of transducer design. This student is in the process of completing his ETdegree and is currently weighing the possibility of graduate study. Seventeen of the 22 graduatestudents in this program came through the undergraduate ranks at the same institution. Theaccess

Conference Session

Flipped Electrical and Computer Engineering Classrooms 1

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Steven G Northrup, Western New England University; John J. Burke P.E., Western New England University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

Electromagnetics, Physics of Semiconductor Devices, High Frequency Circuit Design, Antenna Design and Analog Electronics. Prior to joining WNE, Dr. Burke was with the EM Observables Division of Mission Research Corporation (MRC) from 1995 to 2000. From 1992 to 1995, Dr. Burke was with the MacNeal-Schwendler Corporation (MSC) Corporation. From 1990 to 1992, Dr. Burke was with Compact Software as a senior research engineer. From 1987 to 1990, Dr. Burke was with the Microwave Electronics Laboratory at the University of Massachusetts. From 1984 to 1986, Dr. Burke was with the Hughes Aircraft Corporation. Page 26.57.1

Conference Session

Engaging Families and Exciting Girls with Engineering

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Aikaterini Bagiati, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Demetra Evangelou, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Jennifer Dobbs-Oates, Purdue University

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

AC 2011-1695: EXPOSURE TO EARLY ENGINEERING A PARENTALPERSPECTIVEAikaterini Bagiati, Purdue University, West Lafayette Having acquired a Diploma in Electrical Engineering and a Masters Degree in Advanced Digital Com- munication in the Aristotle University in Greece, and after having worked as an educator both in formal and informal settings for 10 years now, I have, since January 2008, started the PhD Program in the School of Engineering Education at Purdue University. My research interests are : Developmental Engineering; Engineering in PreK-3; Early Engineering Curriculum Development; Use of Art to enhance Engineering Design; Educational Software; Educational RoboticsDemetra Evangelou, Purdue University, West

Conference Session

Teaching Dynamics

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Brianno Coller, Northern Illinois University

Tagged Divisions

Mechanics

immediate and unambiguous feedback on how well they areprogressing. Information becomes available to players at just the time they will be able to makesense of it and use it.Within the highly engaging techniques that game designers employ to get players to “learn” thegame, one finds echoes of modern learning pedagogies such as constructionism, inquiry-basedlearning, and anchored instruction. Much of the emerging scholarship on video game design6-8 isexplicitly grounded in scholarship on cognition, including concepts such as Vygotsky’s zone ofproximal development.Over the past half decade, I have experimented with integrating video games into coreundergraduate mechanical engineering courses. In particular, I developed an automobile/bicycledriving

Collection

2007 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Alfred A. Scalza

classroom” and how they differfrom the “Organizational Behavior in the office”We will attempt to consider learning parameters such as student’s individual personalities, and values andhow they fit into team rather than individual dynamics.We’ll consider cultural background and how it affects teamwork, including team communication, andteam dynamics such as leadership. We’ll look at the effects of peer review in this arena.qIntroductionNo paper on Organizational Behavior in the Classroom can start without the mention of “ExperientialLearning” and no mention of “Experiential Learning” can start without understanding the work of DavidA. Kolb. He is perhaps the guru of the subject. His publication “Experiential Learning: Experience as theSource of

Conference Session

First-Year Programs Division Technical Session 7: Retention & Success

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Krystal Corbett Cruse, Louisiana Tech University; Carl Boyet, Louisiana Tech University; James D. Palmer, Louisiana Tech University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs Division (FYP)

supplemental instruction sessionsstrategically designed to provide support in both their engineering and mathematics courses.These sessions were led by upper-level peer mentors. Students were connected with facultymentors in their discipline through lunches that the SSP faculty team provided each week. Theselunches helped reduce food insecurity while also providing an inviting atmosphere for interactionbetween peers and faculty. Lunches also offered an opportunity to have career discussions andbring in professional development speakers like student organization leaders and graduatestudents.At the start of the first quarter of their sophomore year, nineteen students were either still ontrack or just one quarter behind in their engineering curriculum

Collection

1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Tze-Leong Yew; Kian-Huat Tan; Kurt C. Gramoll

, companies, research laboratories, homes and government offices.The World Wide Web is the graphical user interface to the Internet. One can access theInternet using a wide variety of applications; the most common of which are the Webbrowsers.The amount of data that can be transmitted increases as the bandwidth of the Internetgrows. This allows for more 3D-model visualization over the Internet that can be CPUintensive in addition to accommodating large file sizes. For example, even in VRML, acommon 3D file format for web use, the files are generally designed to be small but eventhese files can quickly become complex when trying to realistically model an actualobject or system. Thus, it is expected that the increase in bandwidth will be offset bymore

Conference Session

Engineering Technology Division (ETD) Technical Session 3

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David Michael Labyak, Michigan Technological University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology Division (ETD)

, skills and modern tools of mathematics, science, engineering, and technology to solve broadly defined engineering problems appropriate to the discipline; (d) 2. an ability to design systems, components, or processes meeting specified needs for broadly defined engineering problems appropriate to the discipline; (d) 3. an ability to apply written, oral, and graphical communication in broadly defined technical and non-technical environments; and an ability to identify and use appropriate technical literature; (r) 4. an ability to conduct standard tests, measurements, and experiments and to analyze and interpret the results to improve processes; and (r) 5. an ability to function effectively as a member or leader

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Mohammad Zaharee; Gregory Neff; Susan Scachitti

paper discusses how to make the process of program improvementcontinuous by “closing the loop.” Closing the loop is institutionalizing the process of findingprogram improvement initiatives and repeating it continually. Various methods of assessmentcan be used to stimulate individuals to continually generate program improvement initiatives.Much can be accomplished if faculty members are immersed in a continuous improvementculture. The paper draws on the authors’ program accreditation experience and discusses effortsto create a continuous improvement culture in the METS Department at Purdue UniversityCalumet through annual report requirements deciding pay raises, promotion & tenure, creationof a continuous improvement advisory team, and

Conference Session

Computing Tools for Engineering Education

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Saroj Biswas, Temple University; Musoke Sendaula, Temple University; Sesha Yeruva, Temple University; Krishana Priya Sannidhi, Temple University; Ravi Shankar Dwivedula, Temple University

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education

non-commercial e-Learning systems3, 4, 5 that have been developed at various academic institutions.Web based interactive laboratory experiments have also been developed for electrical circuits5,6,electronics7,8, fluid mechanics, and control systems courses9, 10, 11, 12, and various other courses.Some of these systems also allow certain level of interactivity through the use of whiteboard,chat, email, and other interfaces, however, lack an interactive environment for monitoredproblem solving, and feedback. On the other hand, an e-tutoring system is ideally an electroniccounterpart of a human tutor. The e-tutoring system must be capable of guiding the studentwhen he or she stumbles on a problem, suggest background or prerequisite material

Conference Session

iSTEM

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stacy S Klein-Gardner, Harpeth Hall School and Vanderbilt University; Crystal Tricia Chukwurah, Duke University

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

as an adjoint professor of the Practice of Biomedical Engineering, Teaching & Learning, and Radiological Sciences at Vanderbilt University where she partners with other universities in NSF-funded research to develop the Engineering Design Process Portfolio Scoring Rubric . She ran an NSF-funded programs such as Research Experiences for Teachers (RET) for nine years. She served as the Associate Dean for Outreach in the Vanderbilt School of Engineering from 2007-2010. She established the Metropolitan Nashville Public Schools (MNPS) engineering pathway from K-12 with Race to the Top funding in 2010-2011 and is working with the state of Tennessee on potential adoption plans for the new Next Generation Science

Collection

2014 EDI

Authors

Phil Regier

% 0.8% 0.7% to 25 26-30 31-35 36-40 41-45 46-50 over 50Online Students by Gender 2013 63% 37% Female MaleWhat seems to matter . . . Demographic Factors Geographic Factors Probability Economic Factors of Persisting Academic Experience Academic

Collection

1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Bernd S. W. Schroeder; Jenna Carpenter

decided to pilot an integrated engineering curriculum at Louisiana Tech University. For papers that describe experiences with integrated engineering programs cf. [Aetal], [BF], [Cetal], [FR], [Mor], and [RPC] (freshman year); [GRGG], [HM], and [RR] (sophomore year); and [CEFF] and [MW] (managing the transition to a new curriculum). The goal was and is to build an integrated engineering curriculum that produces engineers who can function, succeed, and provide leadership in today’s rapidly evolving engineering workplace. This goal is to be achieved with the same type of students who currently enter Louisiana Tech. In mathematics this means that about 5% of the students are ready for calculus, another 55% are ready for

Conference Session

Interdisciplinary Integration at the Program Level

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James T. McLeskey Jr., Randolph-Macon College; Deonna Woolard

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division (LEES)

Treatment) Genworth Financial Pillar Construction (Civil Engineering) HMI (Civil Engineering) Martin Marietta Materials Norfolk Southern RailroadFuture plansFrom the beginning of the Engineering Physics program at Randolph-Macon, there has been adesire and an intention to seek ABET-accreditation. The Director of Engineering Physics (Dr.McLeskey) was hired, in part, because of his experience with ABET.Building upon the success of the EPHY major (Figure 1) as well as a greater appreciation for therole that Engineering can play in a liberal arts curriculum, the faculty approved a new major inEngineering (ENGR) in March 2019. This new ENGR major is designed to earn ABET-accreditation in 2023 and was formally announced in December 2019 [17]. As is clear

Conference Session

Interdisciplinary Education

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jay Porter, Texas A&M University; Jorge Alvarado, Texas A&M University; Joseph Morgan, Texas A&M University; John Poston, Texas A&M University; Kenneth Peddicord, Texas A&M University; John Crenshaw, STP Nuclear Operating Company

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

Science from Washington University in 1991. From 1991 to 1995 he worked at University of California, San Diego and Wayne State University. From 1995 to 2006, he worked in the automotive industry as a system engineer. In 2006 He joined the Electronics Engineering Technology faculty at Texas A&M. His research activities include control system theory and applications to industry, system engineering, robust design, modeling, simulation, quality control, and optimization.Jorge Alvarado, Texas A&M University Dr. Jorge Alvarado is an assistant professor in the Department of Engineering Technology and Industrial Distribution at Texas A&M University. He teaches courses in the areas of thermal

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Shasta Ihorn, San Francisco State University; Anagha Kulkarni, San Francisco State University; Michael Savvides, San Francisco State University; Ilmi Yoon

Tagged Topics

Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

to maintain and institutionalize its benefits; to do so, itis often necessary to seek further funding to continue work towards the full integration ofprogram components and ensure that they are sufficiently embedded in the university culture.This case study will outline how the most successful components of an NSF-fundedinterdisciplinary computing program at San Francisco State University (SFSU) - the PromotingINclusivity in Computing (PINC) program - have been expanded and strengthened throughfurther grant-funded efforts to create widespread improvements in Computer Science (CS)education at the university and discuss lessons learned from this process over the last five years.Though our experience may be unique to our university in some ways

Collection

2021 First-Year Engineering Experience

Authors

Tracy Anne Hammond, Texas A&M University; Shawna Thomas, Texas A&M University; Charles Patrick Jr, Texas A&M University; Pauline Wade, Texas A&M University; Donna Jaison, Texas A&M University; Janie M Moore, Texas A&M University; Lance Leon Allen White, Texas A&M University; Randy Hugh Brooks, Texas A&M University; Samantha Ray, Texas A&M University; Karen E Rambo-Hernandez, Texas A&M University; Karan Watson P.E., Texas A&M University

hospital.Prof. Pauline Wade, Texas A&M University Pauline Wade was formerly the assistant director for the Craig & Galen Brown Engineering Honors and Grand Challenge Scholars programs. Previously, she was a tenured faculty member at the University of the Philippines, Cebu (UP), in the Department of Computer Science. Wade has over 25 years’ experience in the software industry working in a variety of environments, starting with working as a systems engi- neer for AT&T Bell Laboratories Government Systems and the AT&T Wireless Network group. After AT&T she started an IT consultancy working on a diverse set of projects including enterprise-wide sys- tems development, business process re-engineering, software

Conference Session

New Trends in ECE Education I

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ricky T. Castles, East Carolina University

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

periods were changed to include hands-on activities such ascompleting worksheets to assess lecture content knowledge, practice writing subroutines thatcould be used as part of the weekly lab assignment, or building circuits to interface externaldevices with a microcontroller. Each of the in-class activities was designed to measure studentunderstanding of course topics and to offload some of the laboratory work done during previoussemesters to the lecture period.This paper assesses the differences in student outcomes between the traditional and flippedformat of the course. Common final exam question responses from the traditional and flippedoffering are compared to showcase the differences in student comprehension of course topics.Student survey

Conference Session

Improving Statics and Dynamics Classes

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Govind Puttaiah

2268 AN INTERACTIVE DISTANCE LEARNING COURSE ON DYNAMICS Govind Puttaiah(1) West Virginia University Institute of Technology Montgomery, WV 25136Abstract An interactive distance learning course on Dynamics was developed and offeredto groups of on- and off-campus undergraduate engineering students using a multi-mediaapproach and a combination of teaching tools. The course was presented to a liveaudience on campus in a specially designed class room and transmitted to off-campus sitesin real time using modern information transfer equipment. The paper

Conference Session

Refining Manufacturing Education Practices

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Huachao Mao, Purdue University; Yujie Shan, Purdue University; Hamid EisaZadeh, Old Dominion University

Tagged Divisions

Manufacturing Division (MFG)

educational institutions to incorporate this technology intotheir curriculum. This ensures that students are adequately prepared with the skills and knowledgeneeded for future career opportunities. One crucial task is to teach students how to use moderntechnology to evaluate the quality of AM parts because AM has not reached the point of competingwith traditional manufacturing in terms of surface finish and repeatability. Moreover, the printedparts are often treated as black boxes with invisible defects, such as pores and cracks. Such non-transparency significantly challenges the qualification and certification of additively manufacturedparts. In this paper, we present a semester-long project designed for a new AM course offered atUniversity A to

Conference Session

Modeling in Materials Education

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Sergey Yarmolenko; Jagannathan Sankar; Juri Filatovs; Devdas Pai

prepare students for thesechallenges. We have developed a graduate course on microstructural characterization, analysis,and modeling that is based on concepts of stochastic microstructures and uses model systemsbased on spatial geometry concepts of point processes, packings, and tessellations. Using discreteconstituents such as discs, we develop the fundamental ideas of spatial geometry and imagealgebra more transparently to aid student comprehension. Once these principles are covered, weextend them to more complex structures such as multiphase materials.IntroductionThis paper discusses our experiences with a 3-semester-hour (2 lecture and 2 laboratory hours)course taught to graduate students in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at NC A

Conference Session

Instrumentation Division Technical Session 4

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Dale H. Litwhiler, Pennsylvania State University, Berks Campus

Tagged Divisions

Instrumentation

microcontroller. The students incorporated the previouswind tunnel calibration data into their embedded software to provide a complete solution with asimple serial data output interface.A Pitot-static probe was chosen as the first project due to its simplicity of design and previoussuccessful experience with students designing similar probes. The inherent nonlinearity of thepressure sensor output voltage with respect to the air speed provides an opportunity for studentsto apply theory and achieve very good results.4 The nonlinear nature of the probe also lends itselfwell to the use of an embedded lookup table to simplify its use.Managing a multi-year project involves a little forward-thinking and resource planning. Thestudents are given the requirement