Conference Session

Curricular Innovations in Computing -2

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ramakrishnan Sundaram, Gannon University

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer Engineering Division (ECE)

students inthe Electrical and Cyber Engineering (ECE) department at this institution. The primary goal of thecourse is to emulate the internship learning environment and experience for students. Studentswork on a supervised project and in a team setting to learn workplace fundamentals, teamwork,and project management skills. Topics include teamwork assessment, management versusleadership, critical thinking for design of experiments and project management techniques. Thestudents proposed the design of the subsystems of the project and understood project managementprinciples.IntroductionThe knowledge and training required and expected from the graduating engineering studentpreparing to join the global engineering workforce is significantly different

Conference Session

ECE Pedagogy and Assessment II

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jean-Claude Thomassian, State University of New York, Maritime College; Anoop Desai, Georgia Southern University

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

4.0 4.2 3.0 4.0 more involved in the subject matter. (0.9) (1.4) (0.9) (--) (1.0) 12 I was encouraged to experiment and learn more 4.1 4.0 4.1 3.0 4.1 due to technology based instruction. (0.8) (1.4) (0.7) (--) (0.8) Number of Respondents 22 2 10 1 35Note: Standard deviations in parentheses below averagesStudent RemarksStudents were instructed to write some remarks regarding media based modules at the back ofthe survey. Some of the student remarks are included as follow:≠ Media based instruction is new to me but is good teaching method. The most part I enjoyed learning from this class was

Conference Session

Educational Research Initiatives at NSF

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

William Robbins; Rajapandian Ayyanar; Paul Imbertson; Ned Mohan; Ben Oni

changing as many of the items discussed in thesecourses are becoming commodity items being outsourced to low-wage areas of the globe.Therefore, the role of our future graduates would mainly be system integration where controlwould play a key role, based on solid understanding of the fundamentals. The courses in theseareas, however, have not changed in decades and fail to deliver relevant information in light ofthe current industrial practices.For example, power electronics courses fail to show the commonality between various Page 9.1135.1topologies and do not include discussion of their feedback control, which is essential to their

Conference Session

International Collaborative Efforts

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Sören Östlund; Johan Malmqvist; Ingemar Ingemarsson; Edward F. Crawley; Doris Brodeur

parallel efforts at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Stockholm,Linköping University (LiU) in Linkoping, Chalmers University of Technology (Chalmers)in Göteborg, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). The vision of theproject is to provide students with an education that stresses engineering fundamentals setin the context of Conceiving-Designing-Implementing-Operating (CDIO) real-worldsystems and products. The collaboration calls for three face-to-face meetings per year,alternating venues among the four institutions. Videoconferencing, email, and a dedicatedWeb page facilitate collaboration between meetings. This paper describes the results ofthe first year of the collaboration, the impact of the reform efforts, and the

Collection

2003 GSW

Authors

Shantanu Bhattacharya; Jordan M. Berg; Darryl James

MicrofluidicsThe project is carried out in three parts: design, fabrication and test. The fabrication portion isintended to introduce some fundamental processes for producing microfluidic devices. The test Proceedings of the 2003 ASEE Gulf-Southwest Annual Conference The University of Texas at Arlington Copyright  2003, American Society for Engineering Educationportion is intended to provide hands-on experience in microscopic observation of microflows,and basics of LabView programming for device command and control. We will discuss thesebriefly below, but our main focus herein is the discrepancy between the students’ expectations inthe design phase and the results they observe in

Conference Session

New Course Development Concepts in ET II

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

J. William White AIA, Indiana University Purdue University, Indianapolis; Veto Matthew Ray, Indiana University Purdue University, Indianapolis; Dan D. Koo, Indiana University Purdue University, Indianapolis

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

cited Freeman when she offered a definition which ispragmatic and easy to apply. She identified four characteristics which are common to manydefinitions. Specifically an innovation must be new / novel to the institution (in this case, theconstruction industry), it must be non-trivial, it can apply to a process, product or system andperhaps most importantly, it must be used.1 It is important to note that an innovation does nothave to be new to the world, just new to the industry that adopts it.Another common thread involved trying to answer the most fundamental of questions, “why?”While there are some contrarian studies that support the premise that construction really isinnovative and that it’s unfairly maligned, (reference Slaughter, Builders

Conference Session

Innovations in Experiments and Modeling

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Clint Guymon, Brigham Young University; Joseph R Tuft

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering Division (ChED)

students subsequently analyze thetransient CO2 response to determine the rate of CO2 uptake by the terrarium plants given the rateof CO2 production by the soil bacteria and the diffusion rate of CO2 from the terrarium. As partof the assignment, the students are also asked to reflect on the similarities between the terrariumand the earth's atmosphere. This multifaceted project not only emphasizes fundamental chemicalengineering principles but also explores the broader context of environmental sustainability andclimate change. This activity is part of a recent curriculum change in the chemical engineeringdepartment with a greater emphasis on a larger quantity of focused laboratory activities in placeof fewer and longer unit operation experiments

Conference Session

Division for Experimentation & Lab-oriented Studies Technical Session 1

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Emine Celik Foust, York College of Pennsylvania

Tagged Divisions

Experimentation and Laboratory-Oriented Studies

others have only laboratory time assigned to the class during the semester. Thispaper summarizes the common practices used at various schools and explains the details of theclass that is being offered at the current institution. Finally, the outcomes of student surveys, gradedistributions and the recommendations for future offerings of this class are included.INTRODUCTION In many institutions, an instrumentation and measurements class is being offered in themechanical engineering core curriculum. Most of the schools have a format of combination oflecture and laboratory. The class is typically offered during third year of their study. During thelectures, students learn the fundamental topics in the areas of measurement systems

Conference Session

Best Practices for Two-Year Students Majoring in Engineering & STEM Fields

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

April K. Andreas, McLennan Community College; Paulina Z. Sidwell, McLennan Community College

Tagged Divisions

Two Year College Division

space to provide for adequate testing of prototypes.Another serious impediment to conducting research can be the lack of an Institutional ReviewBoard (IRB), whose involvement is fundamentally required for any research involving humansubjects.The philosophy of two-year colleges, with its focus on teaching, may also pose its ownchallenges to the inclusion of research in the curriculum. Talented individuals are often drawnspecifically to the community college due to their passion for instruction, as opposed to a driveto produce research. Some faculty members may not have had exposure to research, as not allwill hold doctoral degrees and some may have non-thesis master’s degrees. This lack ofbackground in formal research may make the idea of

Conference Session

Clearing up Student Misconceptions in Materials

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rebecca Rosenblatt, Ohio State University; Andrew Heckler, Ohio State University

Tagged Divisions

Materials

Cosmology and Astrophysics. In the past eight years, he has focused on Physics Education Research, studying fundamental learning mechanisms involved in learning physics, the effects of representation on learning and problem solving, and the evolution of physics understanding during and after a physics course. As part of the education component of an NSF MRSEC center, he is also leading a project to identify and address student difficulties in learning materials science. Page 15.1126.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 Student Understanding of the Mechanical Properties of Metals in an

Conference Session

Tablet PC use in Education

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James E. Lewis, University of Louisville; Jeffrey Lloyd Hieb, University of Louisville

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education

AC 2011-940: PROMOTING FACULTY ADOPTION OF TABLET PCS INUPPER LEVEL ENGINEERING COURSESJames E. Lewis, University of Louisville James E. Lewis, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Engineering Fundamentals in the J. B. Speed School of Engineering at the University of Louisville. His research interests include paral- lel and distributed computer systems, cryptography, engineering education, undergraduate retention and technology (Tablet PCs) used in the classroom.Jeffrey Lloyd Hieb, University of Louisville Page 22.1196.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011

Conference Session

Aerospace Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gene L. Harding, Purdue University

Tagged Divisions

Aerospace

principles governing the EM spectrum arethe same for both military and civilian applications, and many of the issues are the same. Thiscourse, Military RF Electronic Applications, is based on the premise that a study of EW can bean interesting way to learn such radio frequency (RF) fundamentals as antenna principles, RFpropagation, EM interference, and signal location. Moreover, many military applications havedirect counterparts in the civilian sector: radar, navigation, and communication systems are usedin both sectors, and military identification-friend-or-foe (IFF) shares some modes with civilianair traffic control (ATC) beacons. Thus, study of these systems provides useful background inboth arenas.Although there are a number of electronic

Conference Session

Mechanical Engineering Division Technical Session 8

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Anahita Ayasoufi, Auburn University; Rick Williams, Auburn University; Golbou Makki

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

favorable feedback.IntroductionFrom the experience of multiple instructors shared in course coordination meetings forMechanics of Materials and Machine Design, it was observed that students particularly struggledwith different stages of working with combined loading. This struggling included fundamentalprerequisite issues on drawing the correct free-body diagrams in three dimensions, connectingthe loads with their respective normal and shear stresses, and resolving the correct directions andstress distributions for combining the calculated stresses.The issue is particularly important because the topic is a fundamental building block for MachineDesign and any solid design project that engineers tackle. Furthermore, the issue was particularlydeemed

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade II

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sean Moseley, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

New Engineering Educators

. Page 23.640.3A significant limitation of the processes described above is that they are fundamentally gearedtowards screencasts of software demonstrations and slide presentations (where capturing ascreen’s display is sufficient). A screencast that focuses on handwritten analysis, similar to whatan example problem or derivation on a whiteboard would look like, requires some kind ofhardware to capture these handwritten notes. Figure 3 shows the addition of handwritten notehardware to the three-step process just described. While handwritten note capability could beadded to the simpler two-step process described in Figure 1, a screencast involving handwrittenanalysis is likely to require an editing step. Figure 3. Screencasts of

Conference Session

Experimentation and Laboratory-Oriented Studies Division Technical Session 2: Instructional/Learning Resources and Pedagogies

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Yevgeniy Yesilevskiy; Annika Thomas, Columbia University in the City of New York; Jessica Oehrlein, Fitchburg State University; Melissa Wright, Barnard College of Columbia University; Michael Tarnow, Columbia University in the City of New York

course used sophisticated apparatuses to have students explore fundamental fields withinmechanical engineering. These fields included fluids, heat transfer, thermodynamics, and materialproperties. The lengthy experiments succeed in exposing students to a variety of fields withinmechanical engineering and a variety of analytical tools.Since the apparatuses used in that course format were relatively complex, the existing instructionswere very detailed (e.g. one experiment had students perform a detailed image analysis of pointson a piece of metal as it is stretched to assess how different regions deform). While theseinstructions ensured students were able to correctly conduct the experiment, they had negativeconsequences. Students did not get to

Conference Session

Biomedical Engineering Division: Best of Works in Progress

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alexander Carroll, Vanderbilt University; Joshua Borycz, Vanderbilt University; francisco.d.juarez@vanderbilt.edu Juarez, Vanderbilt University Library; Amanda Lowery, Vanderbilt University

Around: Meta- Analyses of Practice Effects in Neuropsychological Assessment,” The Clinical Neuropsychologist, vol. 26, no. 4, pp. 543–570, May 2012, doi: 10.1080/13854046.2012.680913.[15] A. R. Rezaei and M. Lovorn, “Reliability and validity of rubrics for assessment through writing,” Assessing Writing, vol. 15, no. 1, pp. 18–39, Jan. 2010, doi: 10.1016/j.asw.2010.01.003.[16] C. C. Barratt, K. Nielsen, C. Desmet, and R. Balthazor, “Collaboration is key: Librarians and composition instructors analyze student research and writing,” portal: Libraries and the Academy, vol. 9, no. 1, pp. 37–56, 2009, doi: 10.1353/pla.0.0038.[17] A. M. Robinson and K. Schlegl, “Student Bibliographies Improve When Professors Provide Enforceable

Conference Session

Civil Engineering Division Poster Session

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Matthew William Wooden, Purdue University Northwest; Jiliang Li P.E., Purdue University Northwest; Evan Laviolette, First Group Engineering, Inc.; Yun Liu, Purdue University Northwest

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

important in their future careers. The demonstrated effective stress conceptscould also be used in developing new ground improvement technique and equipmentsuch as the compaction by vibroflotation process [8]. The developed laboratory can alsohelp connect between classroom knowledge and real world seepage issues. This paperand Li and Zeytinoglu (2018) writings partly help bridge the connection of engineeringgeology class and demonstration of how risky the danger is if ignoring or neglecting topay the attention of fundamentals of geotechnics, herein quick condition staticliquefaction induced by mother nature with proper engineering geology situationoverlying a kettle lake [6]. The developed laboratory demonstration equipment could alsobe improved

Conference Session

Structural Education Applications in Architectural Engineering

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sinead MacNamara, Syracuse University

Tagged Divisions

Architectural

who would boast in public of not understanding Shakespeare's HAMLET, but you find thousands of people who boast about not understanding mathematics at all”1A lack of understanding of fundamental structural ideas can stymie the creativity ofarchitectural design. But an aversion to mathematics does not preclude an understandingof, and an intuition for, how structures work. Plesums argued ”knowledge ofmathematical methods, however, does not assure a feeling for structural behavior.”2Severud stated that it is more important for architects to have a sense of the basicfundamentals of how structures work and that the figures can be left to the engineers.3 Ifurther argue that it is this very intuitive understanding of structural form and

Conference Session

Graduate Student Experiences

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stacy Eisenman, University of Maryland; George List, North Carolina State University

Tagged Divisions

Graduate Studies

they finish at the end ofthe 3rd year, but the opportunity does exist. The new found independence from classes incombination with the daunting task of writing a dissertation often leaves the third yearstudents lost again. Students typically have a hard time defining the research in theirdissertation and getting started.The Third Year (and Beyond) StudentYou made is through two years, now is the tough part. By the third year you have shouldbe a fairly independent researcher. At this point you need to start working on yourdissertation. (Your own research problem and solution.) If your advisor is nice he/shewill help you get started by working with you to lay out your dissertation, but this is notalways the case. If your advisor doesn’t sit down

Conference Session

The Ever-Changing Course

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kathleen Harper, Denison University; Richard Freuler, Ohio State University; Stuart Brand, Ohio State University; Craig Morin, Ohio State University; Patrick Wensing, Ohio State University; John Demel, Ohio State University

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

AC 2009-1777: COMPARING THE USE OF A GRAPHICAL PROGRAMMINGLANGUAGE TO A TRADITIONAL TEXT-BASED LANGUAGE TO LEARNPROGRAMMING CONCEPTS IN A FIRST-YEAR COURSEKathleen Harper, Denison University Kathleen A. Harper is a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Physics & Astronomy at Denison University and has actively taught in the Fundamentals of Engineering for Honors (FEH) Program. She has also been an Instructional Consultant with Faculty & TA Development at The Ohio State University. Dr. Harper earned her BS in Electrical Engineering at Case Western Reserve University and her Ph.D. in Physics at The Ohio State University, specializing in physics education. Following her Ph.D

Conference Session

Best of the NEE

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David Chesney, University of Michigan

Tagged Divisions

New Engineering Educators

not the same as, skillsrelated to writing a good story. Another realization is that, as scholars, we are generally trainedand experienced in relying on the written word. So the question becomes, what is unique aboutstories that are told rather than written.Preparing to tell the story. The first step in telling the story is to ensure that you know the story.Stories are told much better when they are not a memorized recitation. Also, every detail shouldnot be written down. Instead, think of your story in terms of the key points, or ‘scenes’. Alwaysremember, and if necessary, write down the key scenes. Story details may be altered, or skippedaltogether, but the key scenes are the glue that holds the story together. Worded differently, thekey

Conference Session

Issues in Computer Education

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John K. Estell, Ohio Northern University

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education

2006-94: USING A JAVA CERTIFICATION BOOK AND MOCK EXAM IN ANINTRODUCTORY PROGRAMMING COURSEJohn K. Estell, Ohio Northern University JOHN K. ESTELL is Chair of the Electrical & Computer Engineering and Computer Science Department at Ohio Northern University. He received his doctorate from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His areas of research include simplifying the outcomes assessment process, user interface design, and the pedagogical aspects of writing computer games. Dr. Estell is a Senior Member of IEEE, and a member of ACM, ASEE, Tau Beta Pi, Eta Kappa Nu, and Upsilon Pi Epsilon

Conference Session

Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering Division (TELPhE) Technical Session 3

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Haley Williams, University of California, Berkeley; Denia Djokic, University of Michigan

Tagged Divisions

Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering Division (TELPhE)

fundamentally. More abstractly,through the understanding that the authority of the field lies in its factual truth rather than in thehands of decision-makers, a sense of the objectivity of the nuclear sciences is cultivated, shiftingthe responsibility away from individuals to the indisputable higher authority of facts. Table 3. Some excerpts analyzed from the textbooks, our interpretation of theexcerpt, and discussion on the implications of our reading of the text. These excerptscontribute to the theme of the authoritative nature of knowledge. Text analyzed (emphasis added Authors’ interpretation of the Discussion of the authors’ by the authors) text’s claims interpretation “published

Conference Session

Computational Tools and Simulation II

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Brianno Coller, Northern Illinois University

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education

computational methods course. Part ofthis may be explained by an unusual traumatic event that profoundly affected everyone on ourcampus a year ago. However, we suspect that part may lie in fundamental differences betweenthe two courses. We suspect that the particular game-based instructional model that worked sowell in the computational methods course might not be appropriate for the game-based DS&Ccourse. In the current paper, we explore this possibility more deeply and describe changes weare making in Spring of 2009, when the course is offered the second time.What Makes the Game-Based Computational Methods Class WorkAs described in the previous section, our success in using the EduTorcs video game in ourcomputational methods course served as

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Baum; Karen Thornton; David Barbe

is now being popularlyreferred to as the “eDorm.”5. Seminars and WorkshopsStudents participate in weekly presentations offered by outside guest speakers from theentrepreneurial community, including successful entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, legal experts,technologists, and service providers. Speakers are also drawn from University of Marylandeducators who specialize in the areas of business plan writing and review, financing, businesslaw, ethics, startup company incubation and other essential subjects for the aspiring entrepreneur.The programming of this component is facilitated by a Program Committee that consists ofconstituents from inside and outside the University.Student CEOs are expected to attend weekly seminars and workshops in

Collection

2025 ASEE -GSW Annual Conference

Authors

Matthew Kuester, University of Mary Hardin-Baylor

3 Course ObjectivesENGR 4150 is taken concurrently with ENGR 4350 (Fluid Mechanics; three-hour lecture format),and the main objective of ENGR 4150 is to supplement the lecture course. This is evidenced in thecourse’s catalog description: “This lab investigates the fundamental concepts of fluid mechanics with hands-on experiments in the areas of fluid statics, viscosity, buoyancy, Bernoulli’s equation, friction losses, and the concepts of lift and drag.”All course activities were designed with this description in mind. Three additional objectives arealso emphasized: technical writing, uncertainty analysis, and experimental design. The followingsubsections describe each of these

Conference Session

Impact of the Gulf Coast Oil Spill on Chemical Engineering Education & Misc.

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Daniel Knight, University of Colorado, Boulder; Frances C. Ray-Earle, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado Center for Biorefining & Biofuels (C2B2); Nancy S. Tway, University of Colorado

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

studentswith greater training in the videoconferencing equipment so they can troubleshoot any problemsthat arise.Mentors rated students’ research skills in their labs. Ratings were made on a five point scale (1-5scale, w/5 = Excellent) on nine research skills. Results indicated > 80% rated as “good” or higheron eight of nine skills. The strongest ratings were for presentations skills (100% rated good orhigher) while the weakest ratings were for writing skills (72% rated good or higher). One mentorcommented, “(Student) is a very good researcher for someone at her stage. Although only on theproject for a few weeks, she became conversant in the jargon associated with her project and wasable to evaluate competing hypotheses specific to the field. She

Conference Session

Technology, Communication, & Ethics

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Sageev Pneena; Kathy Bernard; Carol Romanowski

onrhetorical principles and grammatical constructions, our students start by clearly articulating aproblem and offering a well-argued solution. Beginning on familiar technical ground, theycontinue through a process of inquiry: How much technical detail should I include to convincemy audience without confusing them? Should I introduce this chart when I discuss my technicalsolution or should I put it in an appendix? Should I write out these findings or put theinformation in a table? Will my audience be confused if I use this technical term or offended if I“talk down” to them? Does my approach parallel corporate objectives? What are alternativesolutions? What are the risks and rewards of each approach? Is my evidence sound? Will myaudiences consider my

Conference Session

Community Building and Student Engagement

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ilya Mikhelson, Northwestern University

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer Engineering Division (ECE)

hardware timer peripherals. Students write most of the codeindependently, provided light scaffolding.2.1.6 Laboratory Assignment 6: Audio spectrum visualizer part 1 - prepThe sixth laboratory assignment involves creating a filter bank for audio input. This is inpreparation for displaying an audio spectrum visualization using a larger version of the LEDmatrix built in Laboratory Assignment 5 (Sec 2.1.5).In the assignment, students build a filter bank of four passive RC bandpass filters. They first testthe filters by inputting a signal created by the waveform generator, and then substitute in ananalog microphone. Students view the inputs and outputs on an oscilloscope to fine-tune theirdesigns.2.1.7 Laboratory Assignment 7: Audio spectrum

Conference Session

Accreditation and the BOK

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Brian J. Swenty P.E., University of Evansville; Matthew K. Swenty, Virginia Military Institute

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

BOK2, the NCEES changes in FEexam testing methods, and EAC-ABET’s changes to the civil engineering program criteria 1)hindered innovation in civil engineering curriculums and 2) resulted in a standardized civilengineering curriculum.BackgroundThe year 2018 marks the 100th anniversary of the Mann Report [1], a fundamental engineeringprogram analysis that helped shape the civil engineering profession. The portion of the Mannreport dedicated to curriculum and specialization made specific curriculum recommendations:  The number of required credit hours per week should be less than 18 and preferably 16.  College students do their best work when the number of different subjects studied at a given time is not greater than five