Conference Session

Problem-Solving & Project-Based Learning

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Neal Ninteman; John Natzke

engineering design problems. Electrical and mechanical (machining)laboratory experiences are also in the process of being incorporated into the course. Thefollowing are the course objectives: 1. To learn and apply the processes, methodologies, and skills useful in engineering design. 2. To gain experience in and become skilled in the engineering problem solving process. 3. To become proficient in the various analyses often utilized in the engineering design process (e.g. cost analysis and graphical analysis in Excel). 4. To acquire a foundational understanding of engineering graphics and become proficient in the use of SolidWorks solids modeling software. 5. To become proficient in structured programming techniques, through the

Conference Session

FPD2 -- Highlighting First-Year Programs

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Marc Christensen, Southern Methodist University; David Willis, Southern Methodist University; Scott Douglas, Southern Methodist University

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

courses. InSpring Semester 2005, students responded strongest to the team/project managementcomponent of the design experience. All of the responses are generally positive as well.In all three semesters, students appreciated the design experience. Moreover, they wereself-motivated to achieve substantial outcomes as first-year students with these activitiesin place.4. Recommendations for Adopters and Future WorkAdministering a cross-disciplinary design experience between first-year courses frommultiple engineering disciplines requires coordination between the faculty and teachingassistants of both courses. Scheduling of common laboratory times is the most importantlogistical issue to allow easy collaboration across disciplines. As the intervention

Conference Session

Innovations in Teaching and Research in Physics or Engineering Physics I

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Harold T. Evensen, University of Wisconsin, Platteville; W. Doyle St.John, University of Wisconsin, Platteville

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Physics & Physics

. Page 23.140.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013 Adapting an Engineering Physics Measurements Laboratory to Incorporate Metrology ConceptsWe are restructuring an existing required, two-credit advanced laboratory course around thesubject matter of metrology and design of experiments. This is being done for several reasons:to provide a unifying theme for the course, which previously was a collection of unrelatedexperiments; to more clearly identify the purpose of the course to students, faculty, and outsideobservers; and to provide a clearer link between the skills a student gains in the course and themethods and skills desired by industry. The course – “Engineering

Conference Session

Problem- Project- and Case-Based Learning in Environmental Engineering

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Andrew Jason Hill, University of Southern Indiana; Zane W. Mitchell Jr., University of Southern Indiana

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Environmental Engineering

water from river water. Laboratory sessions were used to conduct a variety ofrelevant water quality tests and examine different treatment methods. Relevant drinking waterregulations were presented to provide a treatment goal. A water treatment competition wasdesigned to provide a creative outlet for presenting the final treatment schemes. The competitionrequired each team to integrate experience from previous laboratory sessions. Each team wasscored based on the quality of the treated water, efficiency of treatment, experimental techniques,and the final design report. The second problem concerned evaluating the performance of anactivated sludge wastewater treatment plant. Students visited a local plant and obtained samplesfor testing. Both

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14th Annual First-Year Engineering Experience (FYEE) Conference

Authors

Gloria Ma, Wentworth Institute of Technology; Abhishek Kumar, Wentworth Institute of Technology; John Peter Voccio

, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Technology, Wentworth Institute of Technology, Boston, MA 02115, Phone: 617-989-4258, Email: voccioj@wit.edu, Specialization in Mechanical Design, Finite Element Analysis and Superconduct 14th Annual First-Year Engineering Experience (FYEE) Conference: University of Tennessee in Knoxville, Tennessee Jul 30 Work In Progress (WIP): Introducing a Research Project to a First-year Mechanical Laboratory CourseIntroductionThe first year of an engineering program typically serves as an introduction to fundamentalengineering concepts and principles, with laboratory work playing a crucial role in thiseducational process. The significance of

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

W. Ed Howard; Stephen Rather; Joseph C. Musto

final day, parents were invited to tour the laboratory areas. A slide show detailing the events of the week was available. Figure 4: Completed car bodyIII ConclusionsBased on the first implementation of the RP Derby, the following conclusions have been drawn: • SolidWorks is an invaluable tool for this type of short program. In just a few hours, the high school students were able to gain sufficient proficiency to design a simple scale model vehicle body. • Rapid prototyping technology is an ideal tool for a design/build/test experience. Students can bring their designs to realization without having to use shop facilities, or resorting to alternatives such as the use of

Conference Session

Mentoring and Development of New Faculty

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Donna Llewellyn, Georgia Institute of Technology; Marion Usselman, Georgia Institute of Technology; Richard Millman, Georgia Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

New Engineering Educators

research to communities beyond the laboratory and address the work’s possible“Broader Impacts” to society. NSF CAREER awards and many of the NSF Research Centergrant solicitations are even more explicit, requiring that grantees craft educational initiatives thatare based in best practices, bring the academic research to the broader community, and positivelyimpact the pipeline of students pursuing science, technology, engineering and mathematics(STEM) education and careers. For new faculty, and even veteran faculty, these requirementsfor creative educational initiatives that significantly affect a community outside the confines ofthe laboratory can be very daunting. This paper addresses how to design an effective educationalplan that incorporates

Conference Session

Graduate Student Experience

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Janet Y Tsai, University of Colorado at Boulder; Daria A Kotys-Schwartz, University of Colorado Boulder; Beverly Louie, University of Colorado, Boulder; Virginia Lea Ferguson, Mechanical Engineering; University of Colorado; Boulder, CO; Alyssa Nicole Berg, University of Colorado Boulder

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Graduate Studies, Student

Paper ID #6667Am I a Boss or a Coach? Graduate Students Mentoring Undergraduates inResearchMs. Janet Y Tsai, University of Colorado at Boulder Janet Y. Tsai is a doctoral student at the University of Colorado, Boulder, whose work examines and develops initiatives to encourage more students, especially women, into the eld of engineering. Currently, Tsai’s research focuses on understanding the dynamics of how status and prestige are constructed among novice engineers.Dr. Daria A Kotys-Schwartz, University of Colorado Boulder Dr. Daria Kotys-Schwartz is the Design Center Colorado Co-Director and an Instructor in the

Conference Session

Instructional Innovations in AEC Education

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2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Khaled Mansy, Oklahoma State University; Mohammad Bilbeisi, Oklahoma State University

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Architectural

AC 2008-672: INTERDISCIPLINARY DESIGN, A CASE STUDY ON STUDENTS'EXPERIENCE IN THE P3 COMPETITIONKhaled Mansy, Oklahoma State University Prof. Mansy is an Associate Professor teaching Sustainable Design and Environmental Control in the School of Architecture, Oklahoma State University.Mohammad Bilbeisi, Oklahoma State University Prof. Bilbeisi is an Associate Professor teaching architectural design in the School of Architecture, Oklahoma State University. Page 13.787.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2008 Interdisciplinary Design A Case Study on Students’ Experience

Conference Session

Innovations in the ChE Laboratory

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Felecia Nave, Prairie View A&M University; Michael Gyamerah, Prairie View A&M University; Irvin Osborne-Lee, Prairie View A&M University

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

2 2 1 1 -Finally, in 2006, the department was awarded the NSF Targeted Infusion Project to establish abioengineering concentration within the department. This grant provided the last integral piece inproviding the department of funding it needed in order to move forward. One component of thegrant focused on purchase of laboratory equipment and re-design of undergraduate chemicalengineering lab 1.Curriculum DevelopmentThe current Chemical Engineering curriculum is designed to prepare engineers who are wellqualified to design and operate chemical processes. The undergraduate baccalaureate degreerequires that students complete 138 hours, of which 20 hours of chemistry and 42 hours ofchemical engineering specific courses

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade in Research

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Matt Eliot, University of Washington; Roxane Neal, University of Washington; Jennifer Turns, University of Washington

Tagged Divisions

New Engineering Educators

Yellin forserving as internal advisors as part of the Laboratory for User-Centered Engineering Education atthe University of Washington.We would also like to thank the many people who developed the web sites, articles, research,guides, and other teaching-related resources that we have linked to on our web site. Our sitecould not exist without their expertise and hard work.References 1. De Jong, M. and Van Der Geest, T. (2000). Characterizing web heuristics. Technical Communication, 47(3), pp. 311-326. 2. Van Duyn, D.K., Landay, J.A., and Hong, J.I. (2003). Making the most of web design patterns. In The Design of Sites: Patterns, principles, and process for crafting a customer-centered web experience. Addison-Wesley

Conference Session

The Best of Design in Engineering

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mark W. Steiner, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Junichi Kanai, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Cheng Hsu, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Richard Alben, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

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Design in Engineering Education

AC 2011-331: ANALYSIS OF REFLECTIVE MEMOSMark W. Steiner, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Mark W. Steiner is Director of the O.T. Swanson Multidisciplinary Design Laboratory in the School of En- gineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) and Clinical Professor in the Mechanical, Aerospace and Nuclear Engineering department. Mark graduated from Rensselaer with a B.S. in mechanical engi- neering in 1978 and a Ph.D. in 1987. He has been a member of the Rensselaer faculty since May 1999. Mark worked at GE Corporate from 1987 to 1991, consulting and introducing world-class productivity practices throughout GE operations. In 1991 he joined GE Appliances and led product line structuring efforts resulting in

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jianyu Dong, California State University, Los Angeles; Nancy Warter-Perez, California State University, Los Angeles

laboratories where they will explore in more detail the concepts of digital design and implementation through more in-depth laboratory experiments. Table 1 provides a summary of the in- class projects including the digital logic knowledge objectives, and the targeted design Page 14.337.5 skills and tools. 4 Table 1. In-class Design Projects using Tablet PCs, Verilog, Xilinx ISE, and Digilent FPGA Board. Class Knowledge Objectives Design Skills and

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Terry Beck

University1.II. The Design/Build/Test (DBT) ProblemThe DBT experience described in this paper is a hands-on laboratory activity, where theparticipating students are confronted with a design objective, and asked to formulate a solution,construct their proposed solution, and ultimately test their design in a wind tunnel facility. Theapproach is intuitive and experimentally based. At the same time, they are in friendlycompetition with their fellow students to achieve the best design. The students are assigned towork in teams of two (or at most three). Typical class size ranges from about six to about 15students. Philosophically, the importance of the hands-on experimental approach is clear whenone considers that the Wright brothers developed

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stacy Gleixner, San Jose State University; Elliot Douglas, University of Florida; Olivia Graeve, University of Nevada-Reno

component of San Jose State University’s Introduction toMaterials class, listed in Table 1, were a series of one week lab experiments. Theexperiments were very typical to those used in most other Introduction to Materialscourses. The laboratory class was redesigned using multi-week modules with anemphasis on realistic engineering projects. The goals of doing so were similar to the re-design of the lecture modules described above. Creating a more open-ended nature to thelabs will increase students’ ownership of the labs and their motivation to learn. Thecontext of a real world engineering setting will help students see how the fundamentalconcepts relate to their future careers as engineers. Especially in a service course wheremost of the majors are

Conference Session

Solar and Wind Energy-System Initiatives

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Adeel Khalid, Kennesaw State University; Christopher Douglas Roper, Kennesaw State University

Tagged Divisions

Energy Conversion and Conservation

laboratory experience. Performed engineering and scientific appli- cations under engineers and scientists as a materials intern, physics and engineering researcher/teacher’s assistant, and mechanical engineer coop. Placed 2nd in the 2015 FRC Technical Research Exhibition Poster Presentation and 3rd in the 2015 FRC Technical Research Exhibition Oral Presentation in Region III for National Society of Black Engineers. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Research Learning Experience while Designing Wind Turbine for Low Speed Wind ApplicationsAbstractExtracting the maximum amount of energy in various slow wind regions using low-speed windturbines has provided

Conference Session

Exporting of Higher Education to Developing Countries

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

William Jordan, Baylor University

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International

secondary school. These two experiences have driven me to desire the continuation of my studies in mechanical engineering and particularly in the studies of fluids and heat transfer to be able to develop applications of these phenomena to serve and benefit the people in places like Africa.Second student The opportunity to travel to Rwanda during May of 2009 allowed me to grow not only as an engineer, but also as a person. The technical aspects of designing and implementing engineering projects provided me with real life experience and the chance to use the technical knowledge that I have gained in a classical engineering educational environment to make an impact on the lives of those less fortunate

Conference Session

Writing and Communication I

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Emre Selvi, Jacksonville University; Sandra Soto-Cabán, Muskingum University

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

electromagnetic simulation of underground contaminants, material characterization, and engineering education. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Experiences in Teaching Writing Unit Design Course to Engineering Students Using Advanced Rube Goldberg ProjectsAbstractTeaching design and communication skills to engineering students is always a challenging andevolving process. Many design courses compromise a project in order to provide students ahands-on experience to address different aspects of design. Project selection is very important tomotivate and encourage creativity in the students. It also alters the teaching efficiencysignificantly.Principles of Design course has been taught

Conference Session

TC2K Issues and Experiences

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Ronald Land

. Page 10.867.3 Excerpt from Analog Electronics Standard Course Outline Program Outcome #31: Students should be able to plan and conduct experimental measurements, use modern test and data acquisition equipment, and be able to analyze and interpret the results. (Outcome 31) Course Course Outcome Statement Outcomes Students will be able to assemble and demonstrate2 the correct operation4 of standard-design op-amp circuits and, using standard laboratory test 3a equipment3 (i.e., oscilloscope, DMM, etc.), measure their DC

Conference Session

Experiences with Experiential Learning

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Christensen; Scott Dunning

, American Society for Engineering Education”A final common challenge for faculty is to provide “hands-on” experience with new technologywhile teaching core concepts. Typically, this challenge is addressed through the inclusion oflaboratory sessions that reinforce concepts taught in lecture. Unfortunately, the laboratories havea tendency to be scientifically-oriented and are often completed on equipment that is notcommon to industry. Experiments are designed to minimize thee effect of assumptions on thestudents’ analysis of the experiment. This is an effective way to demonstrate a concept, but itdoes not represent a typical industrial environment.3The AMC SolutionThe AMC program was designed to meet all three challenges while also fulfilling the

Conference Session

Improving Technical Understanding of All Americans

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Daniel Engstrom, ITEA/Cal U

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Technological Literacy Constituent Committee

learning resources based onselected technological and science literacy standards; and disseminating the units to teachers intraining workshops and distance learning. Each unit has standards-based content, suggestedteaching approaches, and detailed learning activities including brainstorming, visualizing, testing,refining, and assessing technological designs. Students learn how inventions, innovations, andsystems are created and how technology becomes part of people’s lives.The primary goals of the project were to: 1. Create a model for standards-based instructional units addressing the study of technology and science to be implemented in grades 5 and/or 6. 2. Align contemporary classroom/laboratory instruction with technological literacy

Conference Session

The Best of Design in Engineering Education

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Christopher Williams, Virginia Tech; Erin Crede, Virginia Tech; Janis Terpenny, Virginia Tech; Richard Goff, Virginia Tech

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

AC 2010-2201: EFFECTS OF STUDENT-CUSTOMER INTERACTION IN ACORNERSTONE DESIGN PROJECTChristopher Williams, Virginia Tech Christopher B. Williams is an Assistant Professor at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University, where he directs the Design, Research, and Education for Additive Manufacturing Systems (DREAMS) Laboratory. His joint appointment in the Mechanical Engineering and Engineering Education departments reflects his diverse research interests which include layered manufacturing, design methodology, and design education. As a member of an instructional team that orchestrated a service-learning design project for the first-year engineering program, Professor

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1997 Annual Conference

Authors

Ronald E. Yoder; D. Raj Raman

Session 1608 Relevant Design Experiences for Agricultural and Biosystems Engineers: Team Focus through Competition. D. Raj Raman, Ronald E. Yoder The University of Tennessee, Knoxville AbstractThe multitude of specializations within biosystems engineering makes traditional capstonedesign courses, which typically focus on a single topic, less relevant. In our department, our year-long capstone design experience involves machine component design. While this experience isuseful to students in all

Conference Session

Portable/Embedded Computing I

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Joanne DeGroat; Jeffery Radigan; Jeff McCune; Andrew O'Brien; James Beams; Matt Gates; Craig Morin; John Demel; Richard Freuler

computer programming with the C/C++ and MATLABlanguages, and engineering problem solving involving computer programs and computer tools.Both courses have hands-on lab experiences designed to further explore the engineeringdisciplines, and both have a mini-design/build project usually carried out by 2-person teams overa one-week period at the end of the academic quarter.The last course in the FEH sequence is the Engineering Fundamentals and Laboratory 3, nowcalled ENG H1933. Prior to taking this course, the students will also have completed as a part ofthe FEH program two math courses and two physics courses, all of which are coordinated withthe engineering courses. As a culminating course for first-year engineering honors students, theENG H193

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Gilbert Wedekind; Christopher Kobus

not introduce any newfundamental principles in the fluid and thermal sciences. Instead, the lectures serve to reviewand apply principles that have already been taught in introductory classes in thermodynamics,fluid mechanics and thermal energy transport. The laboratory component is strictly gearedtoward design, synthesis and evaluation, utilizing knowledge, and comprehension learned inprevious courses.The Fluid and Thermal System Design course was instituted in the 1970’s to be the primary fluidand thermal design experience for graduating seniors. As a four-credit course, the class meetstwice a week for approximately an hour and a half. The lectures consist of a variety of design-oriented applications. The lecture is broken up to include

Conference Session

Innovative Project-Based Learning Practices in Manufacturing

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sheng-Jen Hsieh, Texas A&M University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Manufacturing

Director of the Rockwell Automation laboratory at Texas A&M University, a state-of-the-art facility for education and research in the areas of automation, control, and automated system integration. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Research Projects and Lessons Learned from Research Experiences for Undergraduates Program in Automated System DesignAbstractAutomated systems affect the way we do things and impact our daily lives. Designing andbuilding automated systems is complex and requires an integrated skill set. The knowledgeneeded cuts across multiple disciplines of mechanical engineering, control/electrical engineering,and manufacturing engineering. U.S. manufacturers are

Conference Session

Capstone Design Pedagogy II

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

M. Reza Emami, University of Toronto; Michael G. Helander, University of Toronto

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

allows distributed users to access powerful softwareapplications collectively, and extends the capabilities of a traditional computer laboratory to acompletely virtual deployment. Furthermore, given the many uncertain factors in the physicalsystems, such as sensor noise, actuator imperfectness, structural flexibility and damping, etc., amore realistic knowledge of the system being designed is obtained if the simulation incorporatesdirect links to the hardware components, forming a hardware-in-the-loop simulation (HILS)platform19,20. Therefore, an effective eDesign architecture should not only provide distributedstudents with software simulations but also enable them to experiment with a HILS platformremotely.Application Publishing: Access to

Conference Session

The Best of Design in Engineering

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Betsy Palmer, Montana State University; Patrick T. Terenzini, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Ann F. McKenna, Arizona State University, Polytechnic campus; Betty J. Harper, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Dan Merson, Pennsylvania State University

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

of diversity and global awareness are often separateobjectives on university campuses, ASU has integrated these two concepts into a singular focus.The demographics of ASU and the surrounding community may contribute to this unique visionof diversity awareness. The global emphasis is exemplified by the creation of the Office forGlobal Engagement within the Fulton Schools of Engineering. The mission of this office [28, 29] isto “structure an integrated and comprehensive portfolio of opportunities, programs, andpartnerships that provide students and faculty the resources needed to become leaders in theglobal and professional arena”. Faculty members are also finding ways to integrate students‟hands-on global design experiences in the curriculum

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1997 Annual Conference

Authors

Saleh M. Sbenaty

Session 1280 RIDING WITH THE SUN: MTSU’S EXPERIENCE IN SOLAR CAR DESIGN AND THE IMPACT ON COMMUNITY Saleh M. Sbenaty Department of Engineering Technology and Industrial Studies Middle Tennessee State UniversityABSTRACT This paper describes Middle Tennessee State University (MTSU) efforts in:x promoting its Basic and Applied Sciences programs in general and the Engineering Technology program in particular,x demonstrating the impact of engineering physics and technology on the community, andx boosting environmental awareness in the Middle Tennessee area.The

Conference Session

Enhancing the Underrepresented Student Experience

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kari L. Jordan, Ohio State University; Sheryl A. Sorby, Ohio State University

Tagged Divisions

Minorities in Engineering

, generating items, conducting a pilot study, refining the scale, item analysis, andvalidating the instrument. The results of the study indicated that there are 9 factors representingstudent-professor interaction: 1. Respectful interaction 2. Career guidance 3. Approachability 4. Validity 5. Caring attitude 6. Off campus interactions 7. Connectedness 8. Accessibility 9. Negative experiences These studies provide support for the use of these instruments in the current study. There have been several studies aimed at improving retention of first-yearunderrepresented minority engineering students. For example, Knight et al. (12), found thathands-on, team based design projects during a student’s first-year in the