Conference Session

Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies: Best Papers

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Anahid Behrouzi, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Daniel Kuchma, Tufts University

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Diversity

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Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

perspective of a given field by: introducingfundamental engineering theory, examining historical/innovative design examples, as well asengaging students in hands-on laboratory and project activities. Students can select from any ofthe ES 0093 offerings; however, many utilize this opportunity to sample their intended major, orfor those who are undecided, to investigate one of many potential engineering options at theuniversity.The initial offering of Design of the Built Environment (hereafter “DBE”) in Fall 2015 wasintended to fill a void in the first year curriculum, as there was no structural engineering ES 0093option provided in Fall 2014 and offerings in prior years emphasized specialized topic areas ofbridge engineering or structural art. The DBE

Conference Session

Integrating Math, Science, & Engineering

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Leslie Keiser, University of Tulsa; William Hamill, University of Tulsa; Bryan Tapp, University of Tulsa; William Potter, University of Tulsa; Jerry McCoy, University of Tulsa; Peter LoPresti, University of Tulsa; Donna Farrior, University of Tulsa; Shirley Pomeranz, University of Tulsa

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Mathematics

Enhancing Interdisciplinary Interactions in the College of Engineering and Natural SciencesIntroduction and Project GoalsA team of faculty members in the College of Engineering and Natural Sciences at The Universityof Tulsa (TU) began work in July 2004 on a National Science Foundation (NSF)-funded Course,Curriculum, and Laboratory Improvement (CCLI) Project (Proposal # 0410653). This two-yearproject was based on the use of Interdisciplinary Lively Application Projects (ILAPs)1 as avehicle for strengthening connections among science, engineering, and mathematicsdepartments2. The concept of ILAPs originated from a consortium of 12 schools led by theUnited States Military Academy (USMA) with an NSF funded project, Project

Collection

1997 Annual Conference

Authors

Jerry W. Samples; Robert Martinazzi

curriculum, student life and activities, academic performance,education support services, and administrative policies and procedures. These five areasconstitute the foundation for the freshman seminar series3,4. CONCEPT DEVELOPMENTOnce the five areas of concern were identified, each area was analyzed in detail so meaningfulcontent could be established to satisfy student needs. The first area of study introduces thefreshman student to the Engineering Technology Division and the three ET departments. Thisintroduction receives the highest priority since the students will commit to a particulardepartment at the end of the freshman year. Consequently, four seminar sessions in the Fallsemester are devoted to the department’s

Conference Session

Assessment and Continuous Improvement

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Qudsia Tahmina, The Ohio State University; Kathryn Kelley, The Ohio State University

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Engineering Technology Division (ETD)

committee and stakeholders, it was obvious that the curriculumdeveloped should not only address the needs of the manufacturing industry but also meet the ABETstandards of high-quality education that prepares our graduates for the professional practice ofengineering. Since it is the Engineering Technology (ET) degree with a manufacturingconcentration, the focus of the curriculum is the foundational knowledge, skills and abilities (KSA)in manufacturing and mechanical processes, electrical and electronics, programming, industrialautomation, robotics, operational excellence and leadership and safety and security. Figure 1: Curriculum for the Engineering Technology ProgramStudents are required to complete 121 credits of undergraduate

Conference Session

Pre-College: Organizing Instruction Around a Theme

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Chelsea Monty, University of Akron; Alvaro A. Rodriguez, University of Akron; Zach Griffith

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Pre-College Engineering Education Division

previous work by Berland and Trauth-Nare et al, the purpose of thisstudy was to (1) increase knowledge among high school students about the factors associatedwith corrosion, specifically vehicular corrosion, (2) increase student understanding ofengineering principles behind corrosion prevention and mitigation, and (3) engage students inmultiple interactive, hands-on activities to reinforce their learning (Berland, 2013, Trauth-Nare,2016). The CEC curriculum is an example of a project-based curriculum as it was designed touse corrosion engineering and science concepts to solve an authentic question (vehicularcorrosion). Students were presented with the corrosion problem and relevant backgroundinformation as well the implications of their work on

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First-Year Programs Division (FPD) Work-in-Progress 2: Skills Development and Career Preparation

Collection

2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Woorin Hwang, University of Florida; Andrea Ramirez-Salgado, University of Florida; Rohan Reddy Kalavakonda, University of Florida; Yessy Eka Ambarwati, University of Florida; Pavlo Antonenko; Swarup Bhunia

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First-Year Programs Division (FPD)

discovering opportunities inhardware-related engineering professions. To address this question, we leverage the SocialCognitive Career Theory (SCCT) based on Bandura’s social cognitive theory.This paper discusses a novel hardware AI curriculum and its implementation aimed atimproving students' hardware engineering self-efficacy beliefs, outcome expectations, andinterest in the hardware industry. Within this project-based 8-week curriculum, studentsengage with a custom-made AIoT learning board that includes an ESP32 microcontroller, abreadboard, a battery, power management components, and several sensors. The activities ofthis curriculum encourage students to collect data using the board's sensors and leverage edgeartificial intelligence (edge AI

Conference Session

Interdisciplinary Engineering Education

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Naiqian Zhang

to defineapplications, to establish specifications, and to test the systems in real-case applications.With a systematic training, they can serve as an important bridge betweenhardware/software design engineers and machinery system design engineers. To prepareBAE students for these jobs, fundamental knowledge and training on real-time embeddedsystems need to be included in the BAE curriculum.Prompted by these needs, a faculty member in the BAE Department joined an effort of aninterdisciplinary team in research and curriculum development on real-time embeddedsystem design. Participants of the project included three faculty members in Computingand Information Sciences (CIS) and a faculty member in Electrical and ComputerEngineering (EECE

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division (LEES) Technical Session 2: Identity, Professionalization, and Belonging I

Collection

2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lazlo Stepback, Purdue University at West Lafayette (COE); Matthew W. Ohland, Purdue University at West Lafayette (PWL) (COE); Amanda Katz, Utah State University

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division (LEES)

on the latest research bywell-trained instructors. Engineering educators should be partners with organizations likeASPIRE and NREL to bring learning about the latest technology into the classroom. Sociologicalperspectives can also be integrated into the curriculum, as suggested by Galpin et. al [16], to giveengineering students a more holistic understanding of how infrastructure impacts people.AcknowledgementsThis material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No.1941524, NSF Engineering Research Center for Advancing Sustainability through PoweredInfrastructure for Roadway Electrification (ASPIRE).References[1] H. Ritchie, (2024). “Tracking global data on electric vehicles.” Our World in Data, Feb

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Energy Conversion and Conservation Technical Session 1: Innovative Approaches to Teaching Energy-Related Concepts

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Abhishek Verma, University of Wisconsin - Stout; Kenan Baltaci, University of Wisconsin - Stout; Monika Herrmann, University of Wisconsin - Stout

of renewable energies has been a majorbarrier to advances in the field [3]. It has been important to train engineering students in the fieldof renewable energy sources or improve students’ awareness of renewable energy sources [4].There are several studies on renewable energy education in engineering programs [5-12]. Forexample, Corey et. al [5] proposed a renewable energy program that can be adapted to existingmechanical engineering programs. Mohamed [6] presented a curriculum at the University ofWashington that integrates renewable energy education with its electrical engineering program.Marian and Lise [7] presented a design workshop course in the electrical and computerengineering department at the University of Minnesota Duluth, in

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session I

Collection

2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joseph Richard Midiri, Rowan University; Cassandra Sue Ellen Jamison, Rowan University; Smitesh Bakrania, Rowan University; Wei Xue, Rowan University; Mitja Trkov, Rowan University

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

Development Through Student-Designed Soft Robotics Learning ModulesAbstractAs soft robotics emerges in industry, the need for accessible educational material has also risen.Our project focuses on co-developing easy-to-implement soft robotics learning modules withengineering students through a credit-based design experience at our institution. Modules aredesigned to be easily integrated into courses across a mechanical engineering curriculum. Thispaper reports on the lessons learned and progress to date.BackgroundSoft robotics is a novel and emerging field of robotics [1]. Unlike traditional robot mechanics, softrobotics uses flexible, compliant materials instead of rigid parts and linkages [2], which has led totheir increasing

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

Authors

Victoria Bill, New York University Tandon School of Engineering; Rui Li, New York University; Jack Bringardner, Colorado School of Mines; Ingrid Paredes, New York University Tandon School of Engineering

engineering education. His primary focus is developing curriculum, mentoring students, and engineering education research, particularly for project-based curriculum, first-year engineering, and student success. He is active in the American Society for Engineering Education and is the NYU ASEE Campus Representative. He serves on the First-Year Programs Division Executive Board as well as the Webmaster for the ASEE First-Year Programs Division and the First-Year Engineering Experience Con- ference. He is affiliated with the NYU Civil and Urban Engineering Department and advisor for NYU student chapter of the Institute for Transportation Engineers.Ingrid Paredes, New York University Tandon School of Engineering Dr. Ingrid J

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

B.S. Sridhara

faced with difficult tasks such as recruitment and retention ofstudents, curriculum integration of the project, and fund raising. We built the Solaraider II in1997 and participated in the Sunrayce 97 qualifier in Indianapolis. Our car did not pass thebraking test because it weighed 1250 lb and the braking system was not adequate. Theoverweight of the solar car was mainly because of the fiberglass body, array and nose. TheSolaraider III team was faced with the task of reducing the weight, installing new brakes andreducing the friction at all joints. Unlike many big schools, we do not have resources to build thecar using carbon fiber and titanium. However, we have several industry sponsors whosefacilities and service we utilized to make necessary

Conference Session

Program Level Assessment

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Peter Young

Linköping, Sweden Belfast, UKIntroductionProject courses in which students design, build and test a device on their own are increasinglybeing used in engineering education. The reasons include that such projects do not only trainstudents skills in design and implementation but can also be exploited in order to increasestudent motivation, to give an improved understanding of engineering science knowledge and topractice non-technical skills such as teamwork and communication. However, design-build-test(DBT) experiences may also be costly, time-consuming, require new learning environments anddifferent specialized faculty competence (Malmqvist et al.1). In particular, design-build-test experiences play a

Conference Session

Software Engineering Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Shawn Jordan, Arizona State University, Polytechnic Campus; Cecilia La Place, Arizona State University, Polytechnic Campus

the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering at Arizona State University. He teaches context-centered electrical engineering and embedded systems design courses, and studies the use of context and storytelling in both K-12 and undergraduate engineering design education. Jordan is PI on several NSF- funded projects related to design, including an National Science Foundation (NSF) Early CAREER Award entitled “CAREER: Engineering Design Across Navajo Culture, Community, and Society” and “Might Young Makers be the Engineers of the Future?,” and is a Co-PI on the NSF Revolutionizing Engineering Departments grant “Additive Innovation: An Educational Ecosystem of Making and Risk Taking.” He was named one of ASEE PRISM’s “20

Collection

2024 ASEE North Central Section Conference

Authors

Omar H Albalawi, Innovation and Entrepreneurship Center , University of Tabuk; Ali Alhawiti, Western Michigan University

ASEE North Central Section Conference 2Copyright © 2024, American Society for Engineering Educationliterature review The literature review covers various studies that emphasize the importance of integratingvarious engineering disciplines, the role of project-based learning, and the benefits oftransdisciplinary knowledge in engineering education. A recent study [3] discuss the importance of integrating different engineering disciplinesin biomedical education. Traditionally, students learn subjects like mechanics, electronics, andprogramming separately and this makes them miss how these subjects connect to each other. Toaddress this challenge, the authors redesigned the curriculum at the

Conference Session

K-12 Experiences in Energy Education

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Liping Guo, Northern Illinois University; Mansour Tahernezhadi, Northern Illinois University

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Energy Conversion and Conservation

section in the ETI project. In particular, thepaper presents the experience of a structured problem-based learning approach to teachalternative energy to middle and high school teachers. First, the learning objectives wereidentified. Each participant will discuss the key facts and engineering applications related tosolar power; demonstrate understanding of the relevant electric safety when working with solarpower system; demonstrate understanding of basic concepts of electric voltage, current,resistance, power and energy; demonstrate understanding of correct procedure to measurevoltage, current and power in solar and wind power systems; have increased ability to designalternative energy systems; and write solar and wind technology-based lesson

Conference Session

Instrumentation in Education

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Wei Zhan, Texas A&M University; Joseph A. Morgan, Texas A&M University; Jay R. Porter, Texas A&M University

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Instrumentation

. Joseph A. Morgan, Texas A&M University Joseph A. Morgan has more than 20 years of military and industry experience in electronics and telecom- munications systems engineering. He joined the Engineering Technology and Industrial Distribution De- partment in 1989 and has served as the Program Director of the Electronics and Telecommunications programs and as the Associate Department Head for Operations. He received his B.S. degree in electrical engineering (1975) from California State University, Sacramento, and his M.S. (1980) and D.E. (1983) de- grees in industrial engineering from Texas A&M University. His education and research interests include project management, innovation and entrepreneurship, and

Conference Session

FPD11 -- Multidisciplinary Experiences

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mehrube Mehrubeoglu, Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi; Lifford McLauchlan, Texas A&M University-Kingsville

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First-Year Programs

multiplefreshman groups from two universities, Texas A&M University – Corpus Christi and TexasA&M University - Kingsville, encompassing electrical engineering freshmen, engineeringtechnology freshmen and freshmen students representing general engineering. The tasksinvolved in the cooperative learning project stimulated student interest and engagement inaddition to enabling the students to acquire information, knowledge and skills that the instructorsoutlined in their corresponding project objectives and outcomes. Evaluation was performed bythe successful completion of the project, student satisfaction surveys, and the studentacknowledgement and awareness of challenges and resolutions along the way. Studentdeliverables and presentations demonstrate

Conference Session

Capstone Design Pedagogy I

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James Pembridge, Virginia Tech; Marie Paretti, Virginia Tech

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Design in Engineering Education

address complexproblems in light of a broad spectrum of social, environmental, economic, and global constraints.Even when design experiences recur throughout a curriculum, capstone courses form animportant bridge between school and work as students bring their classroom learning to bear onthe process of conducting and managing a complex extended project.Past surveys have identified a number of logistical aspects for capstone courses, including topicscovered, assessment techniques, and course administration. The first survey was conducted in1994 by Todd et al. to understand other capstone design courses as a means to improving thecapstone course at BYU.2 A follow up survey was conducted by Howe and Wilbarger in 2005 toassess the trends in capstone

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Infusing Engineering with Art (and Vice Versa)

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David M. Beams P.E., University of Texas - Tyler; Kyle Gullings, University of Texas - Tyler; Catherine Elizabeth Ross Ph.D., University of Texas - Tyler

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Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

). They describe this project as “arecruitment dream—skilled engineers/musicians, performing to an open audience using devicesthey have constructed.” The authors report improvements in communication skills in addition tothose in student performance, engagement, and retention.The program ElectrizArte 16 described by Yu et al involves electrical engineering students in thedesign and implementation of projects involving electrical engineering (analog electronics,digital electronics, programming) to create artistic effects (e.g., photonic harp, LED cube).Completed projects were displayed publicly.Freeman et al 17 describe EarSketch, a programming environment and accompanying curriculumthat allow students to create their own music mixes. This

Conference Session

Network Administration and Security

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Recayi 'Reg' Pecen; Paul Gray; Jin Zhu, University of Northern Iowa

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Engineering Technology

science majors in the College of Natural Sciences. This paper also reports recentlydeveloped curriculum for the NaSA major and lists program requirements in detail. The authorsalso intend to discuss the curriculum with similar institutions and consider their suggestions forthe program enhancement.I. IntroductionAccording to the Bureau of Labor and Statistics, computer support specialists and systemadministrators are projected to be among the fastest growing occupations over the period of2002-2012 1. Due to this reason there are a number of Bachelor of Science in AppliedNetworking Technologies and System Administration degree programs developed andestablished all over the U.S. as well as Europe and Asia 2-3. There are also a number ofinformation

Conference Session

New Ideas in Energy Education

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Peter Idowu

required course typically coverstopics in transformers and classical rotating machinery. The practice has been on the declineover the last decade. It is now no longer unusual to have EE graduates enrolled in (for instance,)a graduate power systems control class without a thorough knowledge of three-phase generationsystems, or employed as circuit designers for adjustable speed drives for induction motorswithout ever sitting through a class on the theory of electric machines. The typical EE programnever saw the need to revise the curriculum and integrate emerging technologies that madepossible the appeal of alternative energy systems.This paper highlights a required undergraduate course in energy systems and conversion for EEstudents at Penn State

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2022 CIEC

Authors

MADDUMAGE KARUNARATNE; Christopher Gabany

ETD 525 Capstone Courses Enhanced to Suit Larger Industry Maddumage Karunaratne, Christopher Gabany University of Pittsburgh at JohnstownAbstractThe paper elaborates on assessments utilized in capstone projects to meet many of theaccreditation criteria and narrower individual components in student outcomes. It also describesthe structural components adopted recently into our electrical and computer engineering capstonecurriculum, which may be atypical at other institutions. Most engineering technology programsfollow similar engineering capstone project curriculum, thus there

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2021 ASEE North Central Section Conference

Authors

Steven T Rowland; Michael William Eckels; Ramakrishnan Sundaram, Gannon University

machines.IoT is enabling the following industries to function efficiently and productively at the highestpossible levels. • Manufacturing – production-line monitoring, detect equipment malfunction • Automotive – early notification of potential sensor/actuator failures • Retail – manage the inventory, optimize the supply chain, reduce operational costs, and improve the experiences of the customer • Healthcare – patient monitoring, access to medical recordsThe authors of this paper realized the need for IoT-related laboratory experiments and projectactivities in the Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) curriculum. Figure 1 illustrates theintent of the course. The first two authors had been managing and coordinating the

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Houshang Darabi, The University of Illinois at Chicago; Peter Nelson, The University of Illinois at Chicago; Shanon Reckinger, The University of Illinois at Chicago; Jeremiah Abiade; Renata Revelo, The University of Illinois at Chicago; Anthony E. Felder, The University of Illinois at Chicago; Rezvan Nazempour, The University of Illinois at Chicago; Betul Bilgin, The University of Illinois at Chicago; Didem Ozevin, The University of Illinois at Chicago

of scholars in Fall2019 after some minor modifications. This course was designed to create the opportunity forscholars to interact with professionals of different disciplines and cultural backgrounds andattend seminars and symposia on different subjects. The ENGR194 implementation and itsimpact on students’ academic success and retention were described in detail by Nazempour et al.[5].ENGR194 was offered for the cohort III of scholars in Spring 2021. We modified it based on ourevaluations of the earlier offerings. The course content included math and science discussiongroups, four-year study plan development, major selection, entrepreneurship challenge, time andstress management, introduction to undergraduate research projects and internship

Conference Session

ERM Technical Session 22: Perspectives and Evaluation of Engineering Design Education

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Hadi Ali, Arizona State University, Polytechnic campus; Micah Lande, South Dakota School of Mines & Technology

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Educational Research and Methods

who teach engineering design in project-basedlearning courses in an undergraduate general engineering program were interviewed, listed inTable 1. The instructors were selected both because of their expertise teaching design coursesacross mechanical, electrical, and robotics engineering concentrations and at one or more level inthe curriculum. This enables the capture of these educators’ perspective observing the students’progress through the curriculum. This pilot study builds on related work done by the authors thatpreviously investigated undergraduate engineering students’ conceptions of prototyping activitiesand process (REF). With educators participants, an interview protocol (see Table 2) wasfollowed through semi-structured qualitative

Conference Session

Laboratories in Engineering Technology

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Austin Asgill, Southern Polytechnic State University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

encountered in theBiomedical Engineering field makes it difficult to develop an effective laboratory component to aBiomedical Instrumentation course for Engineering Technology. In this paper a discussion of theapproach utilized to develop a meaningful laboratory experience for ET students in the BMEToption is presented.I. IntroductionThe Electrical Engineering Technology (EET) program at Southern Polytechnic State Universitywas recently approved to offer an option in Biomedical Engineering Technology (BMET). Thisoption was developed with the primary objective of producing graduates who will have therequisite skills for a successful career in the Biomedical Engineering/Technology field. One ofthe key courses proposed for the option was a course in

Collection

2025 ASEE -GSW Annual Conference

Authors

Byul Hur, Texas A&M University

courses are typically included in the EngineeringTechnology Curriculum for an electronics system program. At Texas A&M University, the ElectronicSystems Engineering Technology (ESET) program is offered. For the embedded systems courses thatthe author has been teaching, students learn about microcontroller architecture and microcontrollerapplications. For the class projects, students can be given comprehensive programming and projectdemo assignments as a class project toward the end of the course. And, some of the students wouldtake the Capstone project courses in the following semesters. In this paper, the author presented theskills and knowledge that can be used from underwater robots and boat platforms to benefit embeddedsystems courses and

Conference Session

Grad. and Upper Level Undergrad. BME Courses

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Dominique M. Durand; Dmitri Kourennyi

for practice and fundamental understanding as well as to advertisethe course wider to attract neuroscience and biophysics students.IntroductionNeural engineers – those who design functional electrical stimulation devices or develop novelbrain imaging techniques or try to construct reliable nerve regeneration systems – all must haveexcellent background in fundamental processes governing the function and pathology of thenervous system. The EBME 517 “Quantitative Neurophysiology” course has been introducedinto the graduate curriculum in the BME Department to provide detailed and deep understanding Page 7.964.1 Proceedings of the 2002

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2008 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Arthur Heinricher; Brian Savilonis; David Spanagel; Robert Traver; Kristin Wobbe

-1-provide a solution, and that great problems will be solved only through the efforts of many smallsolutions coming from many disparate directions.There is a national trend toward more active, project-based learning in engineering education thathas been (slowly) gaining momentum for more than 40 years. (See Felder, 2004.) A recent, andwidely publicized, illustration of the trend was the creation in 1997 of the Olin College ofEngineering. The Olin Foundation made a $300 million investment to establish a new college ofengineering that would integrate project work in all four years of the new curriculum.(Somerville, et al, 2005).For almost 20 years, there has been significant investment by the National Science Foundationintended to increase