Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kimberly Cook-Chennault, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey; Ahmad Farooq, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

mixed-method research design was used, which included quantitative datafrom a conventional course evaluation instrument and qualitative data from student interviews.The study was conducted at a research-one institute located in the northeastern region of the UnitedStates in a capstone senior mechanical and aerospace engineering laboratory course.2. What are Virtual Laboratories? How have they been assessed for effectiveness? Virtual laboratories use media formats to mimic action-oriented laboratories that aretraditionally designed for learners who participate in in-person laboratory settings. Virtual andremote laboratories may be divided into two categories: labs where real experiments arecomputer simulated and accessed online or

Conference Session

Chemical Engineering Division (ChED) Technical Session 4: Junior & Senior Year Curriculum

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joaquin Rodriguez, University of Pittsburgh; Schohn L. Shannon, University of Pittsburgh; Michael McMahon; Hseen Baled

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering Division (ChED)

catalysis, reactor design, and steady-state isotopic transient kinetic analysis.Michael McMahonHseen Baled ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023 Process Control Laboratory Projects: Technical Training, Team Development and Global CollaborationAbstractProcess Control has been established as a core course for the formation of chemical engineers.Very often, it is the only course dealing with the analysis of transient (time dependent)phenomena and conditions. It relies on difficult concepts requiring intensive mathematicalapproaches and simulations based on differential equations and Laplace transform. It iscommonly criticized for its level of abstraction and

Collection

1997 Annual Conference

Authors

Sema E. Alptekin

Studio" has recently been developed to support the Mechatronics andManufacturing Automation courses offered at Cal Poly's Industrial and ManufacturingEngineering Department. Laboratory experiments have been developed and several studentprojects have been completed. In this paper, an overview of the design studio and select studentprojects is provided.I. INTRODUCTIONMechatronics is a combination of mechanics, electronics and information technology intended toraise the intelligence level and flexibility of products and devices (Salminen et al). There is aneed to develop interdisciplinary programs in Mechatronics. The interdisciplinary nature of theIME Departments provides a natural home for Mechatronics programs. Development of aMechatronics focus

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Teams

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Durward Sobek, Montana State University; Carolyn Plumb, Montana State University

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

AC 2007-693: USING THE ENGINEERING DESIGN PROCESS TO RE-ENVISIONMULTIDISCIPLINARY EDUCATIONAL EXPERIENCES FOR ENGINEERINGSTUDENTSDurward Sobek, Montana State University Durward K. Sobek II is an Associate Professor of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering at Montana State University. He holds Ph.D. and M.S. degrees in Industrial and Operations Engineering from the University of Michigan, and an A.B. degree in Engineering Sciences from Dartmouth College. His current focus areas include new product development, engineering design education, and health care delivery systems.Carolyn Plumb, Montana State University Carolyn Plumb is the Director of Educational Innovation and Strategic Projects in the

Conference Session

The Best of Design in Engineering Education

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stephen Laguette, University of California-Santa Barbara

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

, hands-on experience, and integrates analytical and designskills acquired in the companion ME courses. The course objectives are (1) designproblem solving, creative thinking, project planning and teamwork through a challengingdesign and build project; (2) to provide experience in fundamental engineering reportingand communication including project plans, design reviews, and project reports. ACapstone Design program has now been developed and has become an integral andimportant component of the mechanical engineering curriculum. This program nowallows the students to address more significant and practical design projects.The ME Capstone Design Program added an Industry Partner Program for the 2005/06student projects. This program was successfully

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Musa Jouaneh, University of Rhode Island; William Palm, University of Rhode Island

instructional material in the form of take-home software and hardware kits thatcan be used to perform laboratory experiments and measurements at home to illustrate systemdynamics and control concepts. Rather than having students perform an experiment in theuniversity laboratory, the students are given a compact, low cost software and hardware kit withwhich they can perform an experiment at home using only their PC. The kits are designed so thatthe experiments can be conducted on the provided experimental apparatus. The take-home kitconsists of three components. The first is a hardware interface board that is built around aPIC18F4550 microcontroller which interfaces with the student’s PC and with the experimenthardware. The second component is a Windows

Conference Session

Automation Subjects in Manufacturing Education

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Christopher M. Greene, Rochester Institute of Technology; Scott J. Anson P.E. P.E., Rochester Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Manufacturing

/process design, and processimprovement. The curriculum restructuring involves the integration of previous laboratoryexercises with new exercises on existing equipment and the new equipment using manufacturingphilosophies such as lean, agile, and 5S. The paper will describe the new laboratory curriculumand how the manufacturing systems techniques were utilized to realize significant beneficialrestructuring.Background and MotivationA robotics course as a technical elective and a required course provide upper-level engineeringtechnology students with an interesting class experience within their desired curriculum atRochester Institute of Technology. Allowing students to gain applied knowledge of some of thecurrent robotics equipment is in the

Conference Session

Civil Engineering in the Classroom

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Philip Parker, University of Wisconsin-Platteville

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

ClassroomAbstractThis paper will describe recent innovations in the Fluid Mechanics course (CE3300) at theUniversity of Wisconsin-Platteville. The innovations include learning activities and feedbackmechanisms. Specifically, the innovations are: “Challenge Problems”; in-class “physicalmodels”; a “Create-A-Lab” exercise; and an effective grading rubric for laboratory reports.Significant Learning ExperiencesIn “Creating Significant Learning Experiences” (Jossey-Bass Publishers, 2003) by L. Dee Fink,guidelines are provided to help instructors create significant learning experiences for theirstudents. The basis of Fink’s model is the concept of “integrated course design.” In anintegrated course, the Learning Goals, Teaching and Learning Activities, and Feedback

Conference Session

Innovations in Mechanical Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jesse Maddren, California Polytechnic State University

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

with several unknowns and optimization problems with one ormore independent design variables. Over the years, the laboratory has been used to test othertypes of projects including longer term projects that are more applied, such as the design of asolar domestic hot water system for a dormitory and the design and construction of small thermalsystems, such as a soft drink cooler.This paper presents a survey of how thermal systems design is taught in mechanical engineeringprograms. The paper also outlines the author's personal experiences with teaching thermalsystems design, what has worked and what has not worked.BackgroundA brief investigation into different mechanical engineering programs across the United Statesshows that many programs offer

Conference Session

The Best of Design in Engineering

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael S. Trevisan, Washington State University; Denny C. Davis, Washington State University; Steven W. Beyerlein, University of Idaho, Moscow; Jay Patrick McCormack, University of Idaho; Phillip L. Thompson, Seattle University; Paul R. Leiffer, LeTourneau University; Howard P. Davis, Washington State University; Susannah Howe, Smith College; Jennifer E. LeBeau, Washington State University; Robert E. Gerlick, Pittsburg State University; Patricia Brackin, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; M. Javed Khan, Tuskegee University

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

design.Dr. Patricia Brackin, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Patricia Brackin is a professor of M.E. at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, where she teaches a vari- ety of design courses including capstone design. Her B.S. and M.S. are from the University of Tennessee in nuclear engineering and her Ph.D. is from Georgia Institute of Technology in M.E. Her industrial ex- perience includes Oak Ridge National Laboratories, Chicago Bridge and Iron, and Eli Lilly. She is a registered P.E.Dr. M. Javed Khan, Tuskegee University Javed Khan is professor and Head of the Aerospace Science Engineering Department at Tuskegee Uni- versity. He received his Ph.D. in aerospace engineering from Texas A&M, M.S. in aeronautical

Conference Session

Circuits & Systems Education II

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Andrew Danowitz, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Antonio Leija, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

paper discusses a Real Time Embedded System Course I designed that uses theXilinx Zynq platform to give students first-hand experience with modern System-on-Chip designmethodologies and the challenges that designers face in both hardware and software bring-up fora modern IP-based design.The first portion of this paper discusses how students were trained to use the Zynq platform. Thefirst weeks of the class were dedicated to teaching students the basics of real-time system andcustom hardware design. Students used a Zynq-based port of Free-RTOS to learn about Real-time operating systems. Through a series of laboratory assignments, students are taught how tointerface the RTOS with custom hardware that they place on the FPGA portion of the chip

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

V.M.S. Sathya Dev; Raghu Echempati

Session number 2793 EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN STUDY OF METAL FORMING Raghu Echempati and V.M.S. Sathya Dev Mechanical Engineering Department Kettering University, Flint, MI - 48504AbstractIn this paper, a statistical method of analysis based on design of experiments (DOE) andresponse surface has been used to study the optimum conditions of formability ofaluminum sheet metal. Sheet metal forming deals with deforming thin sheets in to usefulparts by stamping process. Usually the stamped parts undergo a combination of bending,drawing and/or stretching operations during a forming operation. A

Conference Session

Graduate Education and Undergraduate Research in ET

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Scott Schneider, University of Dayton

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

undergraduate research activities.The credits earned in these courses count as technical elective credits. In the EngineeringTechnology Department, SET 398 course entitled “Research and Innovation Laboratory”provides students a meaningful experience with engineering research and related activities.SET398 allows students to participate in the selection and design of technology, theinvestigation, collection and analysis of data and the presentation of research material. Withinthe course description, research can include, but is not limited to, developing an experiment,collecting and analyzing data, surveying and evaluating literature, developing new tools andtechniques including software, and surveying, brainstorming and evaluating engineeringsolutions

Conference Session

Thermal Fluid Related

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

John M. Pfotenhauer, University of Wisconsin - Madison; David J Gagnon, University of Wisconsin - Madison

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

learn key thermodynamicsprinciples. This virtual laboratory is designed to enhance the success rate of students grapplingwith the challenging array of thermodynamic property relationships. At the core of thislaboratory is a simulation of the IAPWS-95 and IAPWS-97 equation of state. The simulatorvisualizes these phenomena using the ubiquitous example of a piston-cylinder system as well asa 3D plot. This design affords input in terms of relatable processes such as adding a heater or aweight to a system and visualizes the results of the various processes (isothermal, isentropic,etc.) in terms of observable changes to the piston-cylinder system as well as movement of thestate within a 3D plot. Constant property lines, such as isotherms, isentropes

Conference Session

DEED Technical Session 2: Postcard Session

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Davor Copic, United States Coast Guard Academy; Nathan Barnes, United States Coast Guard Academy; Joshua Pennington, United States Coast Guard Academy; Alexandria Bass; Joseph Camean, United States Coast Guard Academy; Richard Freeman, United States Coast Guard Academy

Paper ID #37656STEAM student recruitment through a pre-college customer-centric design enrichment experience (WIP)Davor Copic (Lecturer in Engineering) Dr. Davor Copic is a Lecturer in Engineering at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy. His engineering education research focuses on developing quantitative techniques for assessing design activity outcomes and developing course collaboration policy underpinned by social network analysis. His current projects and capstones include 3D printing of flexible materials and drone-based surface water sampling. He previously taught at the University of Cambridge and can be

Conference Session

Teaching Experiences in OME

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Abhijit Nagchaudhuri

(MSGC). The research focusedon modeling and simulation of an Underactuated Surface Autonomous Vehicle (USAV).The small, low cost USAV development forms an integral part of the Ocean AtmosphereSensor Integration System (OASIS) project led by the NASA scientist who is also a co-author of this paper. The discussion is not exhaustive but provides a starting point for thedesign and real-time control efforts that will follow to develop a fully functional smalland low-cost USAV.Significant research efforts are being devoted to the design and control of UninhabitedAerial Vehicles (UAV)1 and Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) 2-4 largely driven Page

Conference Session

Architectural Engineering Division Technical Session

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ryan L. Solnosky, P.E., Pennsylvania State University; Moses Ling, P.E., Pennsylvania State University

Tagged Divisions

Architectural Engineering Division (ARCHE)

the profession [11], ABET has included mandatoryevaluation through Criterion 3’s Outcome 6 [12]: ability to develop and conduct appropriateexperimentation, analyze and interpret data, and use engineering judgment to draw conclusions. Outcome6 consists of four elements [13]: designing an experiment, conducting an experiment, analyzing data, andinterpreting data. According to Abdel-Magid [14], the last three elements can easily be addressed in atypical engineering laboratory course; however, the first element of “designing an experiment” is ratherdifficult to address in an undergraduate course. Some educators argue that it is better to have students runfewer but more open-ended experiments than many well-prescribed and guided experiments [13-15

Conference Session

Graduate Student Experiences

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Eugene DeLoatch, Morgan State University; Lueny Morell, Hewlett-Packard; Sherra Kerns, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering; Carla Purdy, University of Cincinnati; Paige Smith, University of Maryland; Samuel Truesdale, Rolls-Royce Corporation

Tagged Divisions

Graduate Studies

. As was the case whenwe began our discussions in 2004, the percentages of women and minorities earningengineering graduate degrees still lag behind the percentages earning bachelor's degrees.In our discussions we have looked at reasons why this continues to be so and we havealso examined policies and activities which can help to increase diversity. Here we focusspecifically on how students themselves rate the effectiveness of diversity initiatives ingraduate engineering programs and on what additional strategies they would recommendto attract a more diverse group of students to continue their engineering studies beyondthe bachelor's degree. We also describe some student initiatives designed to encouragegraduate study and to support graduate

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division Technical Session 9

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cristi L Bell-Huff, Lawrence Technological University; Donald D. Carpenter P.E., Lawrence Technological University; Andrew L. Gerhart, Lawrence Technological University

Tagged Divisions

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

of Mechanical Engineering at Lawrence Technological University. He is actively involved in ASEE, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, and the Engineering Society of Detroit. He serves as Faculty Advisor for the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Student Chapter at LTU, chair of the First Year Engineering Experience committee, chair for the LTU KEEN Course Modification Team, chair for the LTU Leadership Curriculum Committee, supervisor of the LTU Thermo-Fluids Laboratory, coordinator of the Certificate/Minor in Aeronautical Engineering, and faculty advisor of the LTU SAE Aero Design Team. Dr. Gerhart conducts workshops on active, collaborative, and problem-based learning, entrepreneurial

Conference Session

Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies: Laboratory Pedagogy

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Laura A. Garrison, York College of Pennsylvania; Timothy J. Garrison, York College of Pennsylvania

Tagged Divisions

Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

Mechanics. For the last thirteen years, she has been a professor at York College of Pennsylvania where she teaches thermal sciences, freshmen design courses, and computer programming.Dr. Timothy J. Garrison, York College of Pennsylvania Timothy Garrison is Chair of the Engineering and Computer Science Department at York College of Pennsylvania. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 A Laboratory Structured to Encourage Thoughtful, Task-Based ExperimentationAbstractIn the classic laboratory format, students follow detailed instructions to perform a lab and thenturn in a formal report the following week. Typically, the students blindly collect data with

Conference Session

Problem- and Project-based Learning in Engineering Mechanics

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kathryn Hasz, Carthage College

Tagged Divisions

Mechanics Division (MECHS)

, many lab experiments are still divorced from what worklooks like as an engineer. To encourage student engagement with engineering technical contentin a realistic manner, a set of laboratories is in development for a sequence of two coursescovering statics, solid mechanics, and material properties. These courses are part of a non-disciplinary engineering program and start second semester sophomore year and continuethrough first semester junior year. The labs are inquiry-based and meant to be completed in oneto two 100-minute lab periods, providing students with multiple distinct problems to addressthroughout the courses.The labs are motivated by design briefs providing a real-world problem. Students must apply thecontent learned in class to

Collection

2017 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Kim Fowler; Don Gruenbacher

Senior Design Experience in Electrical and Computer Engineering: Evolution and Lessons Learned Kim R. Fowler Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Kansas State University Manhattan, Kansas 66506–5204, USA Don Gruenbacher Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Kansas State University Manhattan, Kansas 66506–5204, USABackgroundThe Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) Department at Kansas State University hasdeveloped a Senior Design course over the past five years

Conference Session

Works in Progress: Chemical Engineering Education

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sarah Wilson, University of Kentucky; Tracy Carter, Northeastern University; Amy Karlsson; Janie Brennan, Washington University in St. Louis; Joanne Beckwith, University of Michigan; Samira Azarin; Chris Barr, University of Michigan

Paper ID #37019Work-in-progress: Identifying unit operations laboratorycurriculum needsSarah A Wilson (Assistant Professor) Sarah is an assistant profession in chemical engineering at the University of Kentucky. Her research is in engineering education and focused on understanding internal barriers to success within engineering.Tracy L. Carter (Part-time Faculty) Tracy Carter is a part-time faculty member in the Chemical Engineering Department at Northeastern University and the Communication Lab Coordinator for the College of Engineering. She has 15+ years of experience teaching unit operations laboratory and

Conference Session

Statics Fanatics 2

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Damon Kirkpatrick; Michael Anderson, United States Air Force

(-) ≤ 0.4 ≤ 10 1.5Built to the given specifications and loading condition, none of the materials that were tested inthe tensile test laboratory would meet the requirements. This was intentional, because it created ameaningful design experience for the students. In the report for this part of the project, thestudents needed to recommend a change to the specifications, namely the cable diameter, thatwould allow a cable made from the identified material to meet all the requirements. It isimportant to note that the students are not provided a template for this report and are instructed towrite a full technical report detailing the laboratory and their analysis of the cable performance.This is part of the fading [7] of the course

Collection

1996 Annual Conference

Authors

James Moller; D. Lee

measurement, analysis for design, prototype fabrication, inspection, testing,and evaluation. Laboratory sessions included creation of a product description, NC pattern machining, casting ofdies, injection molding, inspection, and testing. Students worked both individually and in teams. They beganwith brainstorming and had batches of products ready for testing two weeks before semester’s end. Futureofferings will include more active leadership through tasks, more review of important concepts from sciencecourses, and clearer communication of expectations.INTRODUCTION With the marketplace becoming increasingly competitive as notions of mass production and a serialdesign process have given way to lean, agile production and concurrent engineering

Conference Session

Capstone Design II

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joseph Hitt, United States Military Academy; Daisie Boettner, United States Military Academy; Stephen Suhr, United States Military Academy; Joel Dillon, United States Military Academy

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

proceeding to the team-based capstone projects. Coursefeedback and subsequent analyses provide insight to the effectiveness of these evolutionarychanges to the course, Mechanical Engineering Design. Faculty teaching engineering design indisciplines other than mechanical engineering can apply the underlying strategy to motivatestudent learning used in Mechanical Engineering Design.Introduction Most mechanical engineering curricula include an opportunity to design and build a productas part of a capstone design experience. As reported by Larson and Keat1, 93% of mechanicalengineering programs surveyed include a capstone design course while 91% of programs requirestudents to build a working prototype. The mechanical engineering program at the United

Conference Session

Instrumentation Division Technical Session 4

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David M. Beams P.E., University of Texas, Tyler; Hector A. Ochoa, University of Texas, Tyler

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Instrumentation

Paper ID #12799An Inexpensive Curve Tracer for Introductory Electronics Laboratory CoursesDr. David M. Beams, University of Texas, Tyler Dr. David Beams first became interested in electrical engineering through a passion for amateur radio in high school. He earned BSEE and MS degrees from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1974 and 1977, respectively, with two years of industrial experience separating the two. He then spent over fourteen additional years in industry before returning to graduate study, receiving the PhD from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1997. In 1997, he became one of the founding

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bonnie Ferri, Georgia Tech; Jill Auerbach, Georgia Institute of Technology; Joel Jackson, Georgia Tech; Jennifer Michaels, Georgia Institute of Technology; Douglas Williams, Georgia Tech

students.A goal of the experimental modules is to make them as accessible as possible to as wide a rangeof instructors as possible. These experimental modules are being designed primarily for facultywho do not want to spend a lot of money for experiments or time developing, building andmaintaining experiments. Moreover, the goal of these experiments is to help teach fundamentalconcepts, not laboratory procedures. Therefore, hands-on demos must be easy for students to use.We want the experiments to supplement material in existing courses and not require faculty tochange their standard assessment methods, such as in-class tests. Therefore, the supplementalweb material for each experiment contains a tutorial for students on the fundamental

Conference Session

Assessment of Graphics Programs

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Guerci; Douglas Baxter

teaching staff to run EG&CAD for 750-800 students/year has always been achallenge. EG&CAD runs twelve to twenty sections each semester; concerns aboutequality of instruction and evaluation between the sections always existed. Over the lastten years, several methods of instruction and teaching material have been developed tohelp ensure the uniformity of the learning experience for the students[2][3][4][5][6][7]. In thelast year, the focus of the course development has been on providing intervention tostudents who struggle in the early lessons[2]. In this paper, the software implementationdeveloped to provide students with immediate feedback to their laboratory work isdiscussed. By writing macro programs in Visual Basic and taking advantage

Conference Session

Electrical and Computer Engineering Curriculum Design and Evaluation

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cory J. Prust, Milwaukee School of Engineering; Richard W. Kelnhofer, Milwaukee School of Engineering; Joerg Mossbrucker, Milwaukee School of Engineering; Kerry R Widder, Milwaukee School of Engineering; Hue V. Tran P.E., Milwaukee School of Engineering; Stephen M. Williams P.E., Milwaukee School of Engineering

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

Paper ID #13632Impact of a First and Second Year Culminating Experience on Student Learn-ing in an Electrical Engineering CurriculumDr. Cory J. Prust, Milwaukee School of Engineering Dr. Cory J. Prust is an Associate Professor in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Depart- ment at Milwaukee School of Engineering (MSOE). He earned his BSEE degree from MSOE in 2001 and his Ph.D. from Purdue University in 2006. Prior to joining MSOE in 2009, he was a Technical Staff mem- ber at MIT Lincoln Laboratory. He teaches courses in the signal processing, communication systems, and embedded systems areas.Dr. Richard W