Conference Session

Mechanical Engineering Poster Session

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Craig Somerton, Michigan State University

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

the curriculum.With mechanical engineering programs needing to provide engineers for the aerospace industry,it seems wise to include aerospace engineering courses as technical electives. Such is the case atMichigan State University, where a course entitled Aerospace Engineering Fundamentals isavailable to the students. This paper deals with how one instructor developed such a course.This paper begins with the formulation of course goals. How these course goals were addressedis then presented. This will include sample assignments and handouts. Special emphasis isplaced on how students were motivated for studying aerospace engineering. The paperconcludes by presenting and discussing student feedback.Development of Course GoalsME 440 Aerospace

Conference Session

First-Year Programs Division Technical Session 8: Ways to Measure "Things" About Your Course(s)

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Matthew A. Verleger, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University - Daytona Beach

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

Paper ID #14779Just Five More Minutes: The Relationship Between Timed and Untimed Per-formance on an Introductory Programming ExamDr. Matthew A. Verleger, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University - Daytona Beach Matthew Verleger is an Assistant Professor of Engineering Fundamentals at Embry-Riddle Aeronauti- cal University in Daytona Beach, Florida. His research interests are focused on using action research methodologies to develop immediate, measurable improvements in classroom instruction and the use of Model-Eliciting Activities (MEAs) in teaching students about engineering problem solving. Dr. Verleger is an active member of

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Kandace K. Martin; Carol Fulton; Barbara L. Licklider

; homework still consists of assigned exercises at the end oftraditional texts; and assessment of student outcomes is still, for the most part, ascertained by theadministration of standardized tests.Why the paradox? Why do we say one thing and do another? Why haven’t we made any headway withinstructors? Why do they cling to old methods? Why the resistance on the part of faculty to join the"learning revolution"?Undoubtedly there are many reasons, lack of time being among the top contenders. The teaching andlearning enterprise does not happen in a vacuum. While calls for improved teaching and learning mayhave gone up, calls for research have not gone away. Both endeavors take time. Doing top notch researchwith all that it entails (e.g. writing

Conference Session

Construction Engineering Advances I

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Virendra Varma

Session 1121 Web-Enhanced Teaching of Construction Management Using Current Educational Technologies V. K. Varma Missouri Western State CollegeAbstractThe evolution of teaching in higher education has brought us from the old conventionalblackboards to the most sophisticated forms of educational technologies using computers andelectronic blackboards. Computer technology is now considered as the very basic, andfundamentally essential form of technology to enhance teaching and learning. With the explosionof internet and the world-wide web, and

Conference Session

Energy Curriculum Advancements

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David Zietlow, Bradley University

Tagged Divisions

Energy Conversion and Conservation

least fouradditional equations will be needed to solve the problem. In Table 1 this is added to the twoequations that were previously needed. Systematically moving from left to right in Equation 5,Newton’s law of cooling will provide one of the equations for the inside thermal resistance of theair as shown in Equation 6. 1Ri = (6) hi Awhere,hi is the convective heat transfer coefficient on the inside surface of the wall [kW/m2-°C]A is the area the wall normal to the direction of heat transfer [m2]For Equation 6 it is possible to specify the area but since the area is not directly measured it isbetter to count it as an unknown and write an additional equation

Conference Session

Design in Engineering Education Division (DEED) Technical Session 10

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nicholas A. Baine, Grand Valley State University; Karl Brakora, Grand Valley State University; Christopher P. Pung P.E., Grand Valley State University

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education Division (DEED)

of the student team and their communication materials is neat and professional.  Style: The team focuses its communication on its intended audience and can maintain audience attention and interest. The presentation is clean, clear, and aesthetically pleasing. If it is a presentation, dress and attire is appropriate.  Prescribed Length and Format: The team does not provide an over-abundance of information to the intended audience while addressing the most pressing concerns and interest of that audience. Technical documents will follow a prescribed and expected format.There are several taxonomies of “audience” in technical writing style manuals [6]. We have useda simplified definition of “a

Conference Session

Issues and Direction in ET Education and Administration: Part II

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Shekar Viswanathan, National University, San Diego; Howard Evans, National University, San Diego; Lal Tummala, San Diego State University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

fundamental role of an engineering faculty is alsolikely to change. Some of the factors that are bringing about the change are the need to balancethe increasing pressures from shrinking budgets, growing costs, the proliferation of onlineinstruction, competition from schools that offer similar programs, the emergence of for-profitinstitutions, high expectations from students and administration, and other factors. Also,innovation and technological breakthroughs in the 21st century are driving rapid changes in bothengineering content and in modes of content delivery, thus requiring engineering faculty to behighly adaptive to constant changes. Besides the need for a growing number of engineers toacquire skills such as communication, collaboration and

Collection

1996 Annual Conference

Authors

Dr. John W. Nazemetz; Dr. John B. Solie; Dr. David R. Thompson

more teams in the class has a different device configuration and that the performance of thesedevices varies greatly.Students Are Frustrated By The Design Process Which Is Fundamentally Different From TheirPrevious Approach To Problem Solving Almost all of the students in the class have been trained byour educational system to believe that there is a straight line step by step linear method of solution toall problems and that all problems have a single solution. Most students initially believe the designprocess (define problem, develop alternatives, analyze alternatives, select best solution, implement),also implies a nice, linear progression to a solution. The students feel that they have failed if theymust step back and repeat a step because

Conference Session

Unique Laboratory Experiments & Programs

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Hyun Kim

that reinforce students’ understanding on fundamentals of “Proceedings of the American Society for Engineering education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright 2003, American Society for Engineering Education” 1thermodynamics and heat transfer. The course emphasizes design of thermal systems andcomponents and experiments that students create for themselves. The laboratory is equipped witha number of commercial bench-top, wall-mounted, and stand-alone experimental equipment whichallows students to conduct a variety of experiments on temperature measurement, calorimetry,heat conduction, forced and free convection, heat exchangers, radiation heat transfer

Conference Session

ECE Pedagogy and Assessment I

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael Golanbari, University of the Pacific; Rick Garlikov, Garlikov.Com

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

self-directed and independent, yet collaborative, learners who possess animproved ability to speak, write and listen and the mental discipline needed to applysound judgment and problem-solving skills to novel problems.Motivation for Using the Socratic Questioning and Some Specific Techniques forImplementing the Socratic MethodTeaching occurs not just through imparting information but also through arousingintellectual passions and enthusiastically presenting an example of thought in action. Allknowledge, like all education, is ultimately driven by the questions asked. Asengineering educators, one of our tasks is to pose the right questions, and help students tolearn to ask the right questions and to learn to formulate reasoned answers. These

Collection

2025 ASEE PSW Conference

Authors

Xianglong Wang, University of California, Davis; Vincent Tran, University of California, Davis; Gabriela Lee, University of California, Davis; Sadie Jean Davis, Mariko Chang Consulting, Inc. and Sadie J Davis Consulting LLC; Mary Spooner; Mariko Chang; Andrew X Stewart, NextSense EEG; Christopher John Nitta, University of California, Davis; Tiffany Marie Chan, University of California, Davis; Angelika Aldea Tamura, University of California, Davis; Xin Liu, University of California, Davis; Gene Gurkoff, University of California, Davis; Wilsaan M Joiner, University of California, Davis; Erkin Seker, University of California, Davis; Karen A Moxon, University of California Davis

Tagged Topics

Diversity

neuroengineering To practice and improve communication skills around the Seminars+ and FS, Comms, understanding and interpretation of recent advances in 1-3 2-4 hours/month Lunch & Learn Ethics, Career neuroengineering To practice fundamental skills through immersive problem-solving Introduction to with consideration of ethical implications, develop scientific writing 2 hours in class/4

Conference Session

Thermodynamics, Fluids, and Heat Transfer II

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mark Patterson, San Diego State University; Christopher Paolini, San Diego State University; Subrata Bhattacharjee, San Diego State University

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

., Canada, U.K., France, Germany, Japan, Australia, and New Zealand.concentrations, partial pressures, or mole and mass fractions of species in a steady-statecombustion reaction is a fundamental skill that must be learned by engineering students. Onexams and homework assignments, students are often given problems where one is presentedwith an equilibrium reaction, given some thermochemical data and thermodynamic stateinformation, and asked to use the data to calculate an unknown quantity such as the equilibriumconcentration or mole fraction of one or more species. Having an Internet accessible tool thatallows students to verify manually computed answers and obtain rapid solutions to what-if?-typecombustion problems facilitates meaningful learning

Collection

ASEE Zone 1 Conference - Spring 2023

Authors

Martin Nieto-Perez, Pennsylvania State University

fission. Two courseshave been designed and already offered: one devoted to the physical principles of plasma physics,and one focused on the specifics of magnetic confinement fusion. This latter course is the focus ofthe present paper.Content Development Strategy.The overall goal of the introductory fusion engineering course is to give the student a globalperspective on the technological requirements of a nuclear fusion device. In order to understandthe material, some prerequisites need to be established. Given the nature of the content, theprerequisites established were: • Fundamentals of modern physics • Vector calculus • Ordinary differential equations • Fundamentals of electromagnetic theoryBeing cognizant of the

Conference Session

Tablet and Portable PCs for Education

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David Bowman, Clemson University; Lisa Benson, Clemson University

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education

effectively increased interaction between students working in pairs, and appear topromote positive interdependence for the students in this study. More long-term studies arebeing conducted to assess effects on learning and student attitudes over time, and to improve theinter-observer reliability statistics.IntroductionPen-based technology is a powerful tool in engineering and science education, as it allowsstudents to write freeform symbols, structures and equations. Students can work throughproblems, take notes, organize class materials, and store these materials electronically without anequation editor or concerns about formatting. Through a 2007 Hewlett Packard Technology forTeaching grant, our program has acquired 36 Tablet PCs for students to

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert Pierce, Sweet Briar College; Hank Yochum, Sweet Briar College

write a designreport describing their work. The design reports from all three groups were entered into theNational Scholar Award for Workplace Innovation, a design contest sponsored by NISH(www.nish.org) NISH is a national nonprofit whose mission is to create employment Page 15.468.6opportunities for people with severe disabilities. Our students who designed the tooling for thethird stage of assembly of the contact block were rewarded with a tie for the third place award inthis national design competition.Assessment of Student WorkStudent grades for the course were based on: - Grading of reading journals. Grades were based on degree to

Conference Session

Software Engineering Constituent Committee Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Vignesh Subbian, University of Cincinnati; Carla C. Purdy, University of Cincinnati

Tagged Divisions

Software Engineering Constituent Committee

this hypothesis, wehave developed a novel pedagogical strategy called UnLecture that uses concepts from activelearning and peer instruction to fully integrate students' co-op experiences into their classroomactivities. This technique can also be applied in courses where students have worked ininternships.UnLecture Overview An UnLecture consists of a reflective writing component and a participant-driven discussion.Each UnLecture session is based on a theme directly related to one of the course topics.Typically, an UnLecture on a topic is scheduled after that topic has been covered in an in-classlecture. A rubric is provided to the students a few days prior to the session. The rubric is thecentral element facilitating various components of

Conference Session

Influencing the Next (Third!) Edition of the Civil Engineering Body of Knowledge for the 21st Century

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stephen J. Ressler, Education Consultant; Thomas A. Lenox , Dist.M.ASCE, F.ASEE, American Society of Civil Engineers

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

in two significant respects: o Through its direct references to Knowledge Profile elements WK1, WK2, and WK3, IEA Attribute WA1 provides valuable descriptions of the types of mathematics, natural sciences, and engineering fundamentals to be applied. Knowledge of the natural sciences and engineering fundamentals is to be systematic and theory-based; and the mathematical knowledge is to include “conceptually-based mathematics, numerical analysis, statistics, and formal aspects of computer and information science to support analysis and modelling….” EAC Outcome (a) simply specifies “knowledge of mathematics, science, and engineering,” with no further

Conference Session

Programming, Simulation, and Dynamic Modeling

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Shanon Marie Reckinger, Fairfield University; Scott James Reckinger, Brown University

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

), fundamentals of engineering, mathematical analysis in MATLAB.Dr. Scott James Reckinger, Brown University Scott Reckinger is a postdoctoral research assistant in the department of Geological Sciences at Brown University. Scott received his PhD in Mechanical Engineering in May, 2013 at the University of Col- orado Boulder (UCB). His research interests include climate modeling, computational fluid dynamics, and numerical methods. He has taught and guest lectured in fluid dynamics, numerical methods, classical physics, mathematics for engineers, and computational fluid dynamics at Fairfield University and UCB. Page

Conference Session

Embedded Systems and Cybersecurity in ECE

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Dominic Zucchini, Missouri University of Science and Technology; Justin Chau, Missouri University of Science and Technology; Matthew Neal Mutarelli, Missouri University of Science and Technology and Missouri State University; Rohit Dua, Missouri University of Science and Technology

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

decoded.Data Router (DR) Multiplexer Figure 8 shows the DR block diagram. The microprocessor accesses and moves data fromthree different locations: the ALU, immediate data from an instruction, and data in the registers. Figure 8: The DR block, which is an 8-bit 4:1 MUX The destination is always one of the “ddddd” registers defined in the opcode mentionedin Figure 1. One notable difference, as seen in the opcodes mentioned in Figure 1, is that LDIallows data to be only written into 16 registers, whereas other instructions can write data into 32registers. The self-loop path, seen in Figure 8, is the default path used when the currentinstruction is neither LDI, MOV nor an ALU instruction.ALU Instructions

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael Rywalt, Florida Tech; John Hadjilogiou, Florida Tech

Page 11.132.2I. Teaching/Learning Methodology"Attachment A" summarizes the teaching/learning methodology for the first year ECE1551/1552 course sequence required for the freshman electrical/computer engineeringand computer science students.The main theme of this teaching methodology is to keep the students actively involved bygiving them the task of writing and illustrating their own textbook for a topic that theyinitially know nothing about. Writing the textbook instills the students with confidencein the development and application of their abilities; beneficial beyond anyone'sexpectations. By treating students as resourceful individuals with talents, intelligence,capabilities, and creativity, they will reach extraordinary heights.Under the

Conference Session

BME Laboratory and Project Experiences

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Pamela Bhatti, Georgia Institute of Technology; Jessica Falcone, Georgia Institute of Technology; James McClellan, Georgia Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Biomedical

. Page 15.1214.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 The Coding of Sound by a Cochlear Prosthesis: An Introductory Signal Processing LabAbstractAn innovative and pedagogically appealing real-world application—a cochlear implant signalprocessor—forms the substrate for a laboratory exercise in design, simulation, and qualitativeassessment of an engineering problem. In an introductory signal processing course, students areable to write MATLAB code that mimics the operation of a cochlear implant signal processor inwhich sound information is extracted and then coded for input to a neural stimulator.Fundamental concepts such as sampling continuous-time signals, discrete-time filter design,filter

Collection

1997 Annual Conference

Authors

Jose A. Macedo

. Introduction Being able to document design projects and communicate results is an important skillfor practicing engineers. There are reports in the literature 2, 3 that discuss methods to improveteaching these skills to undergraduate engineering students. Audeen Fentiman 2 indicates thatstudents do not learn much by writing final reports poorly and receiving feedback in the formof instructor comments and a grade. Students can benefit the most by doing it properly.Therefore students should be given the opportunity to correct deficiencies, which requiresinstructors to plan report deadlines a week or two earlier than normal to allow enough timefor grading by the instructor and make corrections by the students. The approach presented inthis paper

Conference Session

Embedded Systems and Mobile Computing

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Richard G. Helps, Brigham Young University; Scott Pack

Tagged Divisions

Computing & Information Technology

Education, 2013 Introducing Information Technology Students to Cyber-Physical Systems Using a Lab ExperienceAbstractCyber-Physical Systems (CPS), or embedded computers, are not traditionally emphasized inInformation Technology (IT) majors. However as these systems evolve they include more andmore topics that are of fundamental interest to IT majors. Some key areas include networking,security and human-computer interaction. They are also evolving into large, heterogeneousdistributed systems requiring significant integrative design skills to implement successfully;integration is another key area of interest to IT designers. In addition to including multipleaspects of interest to IT, CPS is rapidly growing to take ever

Conference Session

Recruitment, Retention, and First-year Programs in ECE

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Constance D. Hendrix, U.S. Air Force Academy; Marcus L. Roberts, U.S. Air Force Academy; William J. Eccles, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Jeffrey Butler, U.S. Air Force Academy; Randall Deppensmith, U.S. Air Force Academy

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

. Yet,students that possess a fundamental understanding of how electronic systems work will be betterdecision-makers in our technologically advanced military. This understanding will combatignorance of devices that most people, both civilian and military, depend on daily in today’smodern society.Within this contextual framework, our course was developed and has morphed with the audiencein mind. (A syllabus is attached to this paper.) From 2004-2007, the course was assessed to beone of the lowest rated courses at the Air Force Academy in terms of both relevancy and studentenjoyment. Great strides have been made in improving the course in order to make it morelearning-focused. Feedback and assessment data from the past two years confirm that a

Conference Session

Instructional Technology in CE 1

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Douglas Schmucker; Charles Camp; Anna Phillips; Paul Palazolo; Susan Magun-Jackson

? __Very little __Some __Something every day ___LotsHow much math information do you believe you have really learned in this program? __Very little __Some __Something every day ___LotsDid writing in your journals help you organize or plan your bridge/car designs? __Yes __NoWhich of the following statements do you agree with? __Engineering is more interesting to me than it was before __Engineering is about what I expected __Engineering is not for mePerception QuestionsWhat would you describe as your favorite thing about this program?What would you describe as something you’d like to change about this program? How would you changeit?Would you be interested in attending other programs similar to this one

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Matthew Morris, Brigham Young University; Dawn Conniff; James Ledlie Klosky, United States Military Academy

theoretically possible. In terms of time spent, the phonevaries from very good (easy problems requiring a quick, readily-explained answer) to very poor(complex issues where the student has a fundamental misunderstanding).In summary, the phone is a mediocre tool for out-of-classroom additional instruction. Simplequestions are answered quickly with great satisfaction for both parties involved and tremendoustime savings, yet complex questions often lead to the end of the phone conversation being “Whattime can I come by your office to discuss this?”E-MailE-mail has become as ubiquitous on campus as phones, and most instructors and students arevery familiar and comfortable using the technology. This is a critical feed into Comfort Level, asalmost all

Conference Session

Mobile Robotics in Education

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

R. Stephen Dannelly; Carl Steidley

. Page 8.995.3 Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2003, American Society for Engineering EducationOdometry As A Dead-Reckoning Navigation MethodOdometry is the most widely used navigation method for mobile robot positioning. Odometry isbased on simple equations that are easily implemented and that utilize data from inexpensiveincremental wheel encoders. It is well known that odometry provides good short-term accuracy,is inexpensive, and allows very high sampling rates. However, the fundamental idea ofodometry is the integration of incremental

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

John Schmalzel; Steven H. Chin; Shreekanth Mandayam; Ravi Ramachandran; Linda Head

proposed educational material development aims to cut across traditional courseboundaries and embodies cross-platform, interdisciplinary knowledge necessary for today′sstudents. The main focus is to first write a laboratory manual which describes the Page 7.185.3 “Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2002, American Society for Engineering Education”interdisciplinary laboratory experiences and includes the relevant theory and conceptualrelationships linking COMM, DSP and VLSI. A long term goal is to use the laboratory manual

Conference Session

Unique Laboratory Experiments and Programs

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Williams, University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign

Tagged Divisions

Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

manager is directly responsible to the AssociateDean for Academic Affairs for the College of Engineering. An advisory committee reviews laboperations and makes suggestions for equipment acquisition and lab procedures. Everydepartment that has labs in the facility has a member on the committee. Operational funding is provided through tuition surcharges levied on all engineering students.These funds are designated for computer accessibility and laboratories and can only be used forinstructional purposes. Two-hour slots are permanently allocated to individual departments on a semester basis andare periodically reviewed for redistribution. Fridays are kept open for TA training sessions.Departments write their own lab manuals and assign their

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship and NSF's PFI

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ken Vickers; John Ahlen; Ron Foster; Greg Salamo

formed, based aroundUniversity IP – an increase from a base of virtually zero spin-off companies formed over the past20 years. Increased activity is seen as a key early indication of progress relating to policy changesin the management of intellectual property by the University’s Sponsored Research office.The incubator makes the case that progress has been made in a manner that is entirelycomplementary to ongoing education and research. The Incubator is fundamentally designed tohave high student involvement. Research in many areas has increased in relevance asentrepreneurial faculty and students increasingly relate their research to application needs. The I2applicant screening process is fundamentally linked with education goals, since graduate