Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Norman Asper; Bijan Sepahpour

the past fiveyears at the College of New Jersey. The success rate of this approach is measured by theperformance and creativity level of the two generations of students/graduates who experiencedthe new environment with both the students/graduates of prior years and students/graduates ofother institutions. The foundation of the proposed model is laid in the first semester of thefreshman year by introduction of a formal course in fundamentals of engineering design andreinforced in the second semester by a course that brings the elements of liberal arts andhumanities into perspective. In the remaining three years of the curriculum, design projects andexercises are strategically incorporated all through the engineering courses - targeting the

Conference Session

ECE Curriculum Innovations

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mehmet Ozturk, North Carolina State University; Michael Escuti, North Carolina State University

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

capacitor are explained. Thisknowledge is then applied to analysis of first order RC circuits. Equations for capacitor chargingand discharging are derived using the circuit laws introduced in the previous chapter. Thesolution to the differential equation is given and verified without teaching the techniques used tosolve differential equations. Similar to the first chapter, the primary objective of this chapter isto emphasize the fundamental concepts such as understanding of the RC time constant asopposed to analysis of complex RC circuits, which are covered in the next course on circuits.In the laboratory, the students use the same experiment box used in the previous experiment.The experiment begins with measurements performed on a simple, first

Conference Session

Civil Engineering Education and Workforce Development Challenges

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Steven D. Hart, U.S. Military Academy; Ledlie Klosky, U.S. Military Academy, West Point; Joseph P. Hanus, U.S. Military Academy; Karl F. Meyer, U.S. Military Academy; Jason Allen Toth; Morgan Reese, U.S. Military Academy

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

West Point and recipient of ASEE’s 2010 National Outstanding Teaching Medal. Dr. Klosky writes regularly about engineering education, covering topics ranging from classroom tech- niques to curricular reform. Much of this work is focused on the use of internet communications and social networks for educational purposes.Joseph P Hanus, U.S. Military Academy Lieutenant Colonel Joseph Hanus is the acting Chair of the Civil Engineering Department at the United States Military Academy, West Point, NY. He received his BS from the University of Wisconsin - Plat- teville; MS from the University of Minnesota - Twin Cities; and PhD from the University of Wisconsin - Madison. He is an active member of ASEE and is a registered

Conference Session

Design Pedagogy and Curriculum 2

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Richard Cozzens, Utah Educational Network; Jeremy Ray Farner, Weber State University; Thomas James Paskett, Weber State University; Elias V. Perez, Utah State University Eastern; Isabella Borisova, Southern Utah University

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

) software not only provides fast and efficient tools togenerate these mechanical drawings, but provides tools for design review and evaluation. Thedesigner of today must understand the design intent and constraint requirements of the partand/or assembly being created. It is critical that these concepts be incorporated into the existingdrafting and design course without neglecting the fundamental concepts traditionally taught inthis course. Time in the classroom remains constant but the content has increased to include theuse of software. Although the technology has evolved significantly, the fundamental principlesof drafting and design have not changed. This course was designed to cover the fundamentalconcepts of drafting and design while

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Currin

incorporated into the curriculum at SPSU are the changes with which all civilengineering programs should employ to incorporate transportation engineering as a significantpart of the undergraduate engineering curriculum. The transportation engineering emphasis at SPSU is part of the civil engineeringtechnology program housed in the civil engineering technology (CET) department. The CETdepartment is somewhat unique in that it produces graduates who are as successful as themajority of the nation’s civil engineering graduates at passing the fundamentals of engineeringexam known to some as the E.I.T.. Graduates earn a TAC/ABET accredited 4 year Bachelor ofScience degree in civil engineering technology. Those wishing to carry on their studies at

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics Division (ETHICS) Technical Session _ Monday June 26, 1:30 - 3:00

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rosalyn W. Berne, University of Virginia

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Ethics Division (ETHICS)

thinking marked a major break in human cultural evolution. Most cultures tothat point did not, and many indigenous cultures still don't, see humans and animals asunequal or fundamentally different. Yet the Cartesian separation between mind and body– famously summed up as Cogito ergo sum (“I think, therefore I exist”), leads to theassertion that animals don’t exist in the way that humans do. This anthropocentricassumption implicitly places a boundary between “animals” and “humans” by assumingthat animals lack souls, intelligence, feelings, and consciousness, and can therefore betreated as objects that can be used for human purposes. This assertion is further supportedby the human supremacy worldview, wherein humans are deemed superior by

Conference Session

Project-based and Cooperative Learning in ECE

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stanley W. Hsu, University of California, Davis; Rajeevan Amirtharajah, University of California, Davis; andre knoesen, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, U C Davis

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

even zero energy footprint. Energyfootprint is defined here as the total energy required to implement and to maintain a solution fora particular engineering problem. To engineer a minimal energy footprint solution, engineersmust understand and be capable of making tradeoffs that reduce energy footprint; this requires anunderstanding of sustainability concepts, specifically the different modes of renewable energy,their fundamental operations and cost-effectiveness.To effectively educate current engineering students in sustainability early in their program ofstudy without modifying degree requirements, we revise the curriculum of an engineeringproblem solving course (Engineering 6, or ENG6) at UC Davis to incorporate topics inrenewable energy

Conference Session

Engineering Physics and Physics Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Huseyin Sarper P.E., Old Dominion University; Nebojsa I. Jaksic, Colorado State University, Pueblo; Ben J. Stuart, Old Dominion University; Karina Arcaute, Old Dominion University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Physics and Physics

Paper ID #28577ASSESSMENT AND APPLICATIONS OF THE CONVERSION OF CHEM-ICAL ENERGY TOMECHANICAL ENERGY USING MODEL ROCKET ENGINES ¨Dr. Huseyin Sarper P.E., Old Dominion University H¨useyin Sarper, Ph.D., P.E. is a Master Lecturer with a joint appointment the Engineering Fundamentals Division and the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia. He was a professor of engineering and director of the graduate programs at Colorado State University – Pueblo in Pueblo, Col. until 2013. He was also an associate director of Colorado’s NASA Space Grant Consortium between 2007

Conference Session

Fostering and Assessing Effective Teaming

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Senay Purzer; Dale Baker, Arizona State University; Chell Roberts, Arizona State University; Stephen Krause, Arizona State University

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

State University Stephen J. Krause is Professor in the School of Materials in the Fulton School of Engineering at Arizona State University. His teaching responsibilities are in the areas of bridging engineering and education, design and selection of materials, general materials engineering, polymer science, and characterization of materials. His research interests are in innovative education in engineering and K-12 engineering outreach. He has co-developed a Materials Concept Inventory for assessing fundamental knowledge of students in introductory materials engineering classes. Most recently, he has been working on Project Pathways, an NSF supported Math Science Partnership, in

Conference Session

CE Body of Knowledge

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Stuart Walesh

, Page 9.624.6 “Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2004, American Society for Engineering Education” geology/geomorphology, engineering economics, mechanics, material properties, systems, geo-spatial representation, and information technology. Increased exposure to or emphasis on biological systems, ecology, sustainability, nanotechnology and information technology is expected to occur in the 21st century. In imparting the common technical core, students should understand the fundamentals of several recognized major civil engineering areas. (Note: The portion of

Conference Session

New Trends in ECE Education

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Goodman; Maurice Aburdene

p. If a packet is damaged, it is retransmitted. Initially, weaddress the factors that determine p, the average number of packet transmissions for a successfulpacket transmission, and plots of the average number of transmissions vs. p. Here we alsodiscuss the Bernoulli and geometric distributions, and their means and variances. In addition, weaddress the probability that a packet is transmitted successfully in at most two tries and move onto N tries, and then address the design factors that influence the choice of N. Students write asimulation program to verify the analytical results. We then raise the issue of the number of Page

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Computer ET

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Brian Resnick

of theInstitute for Electrical and Electronic Engineers and the Association for Computing Machinery,describes six different strategies for teaching introductory computer science. The two mostwidely used are the traditional Imperative-first paradigm and Objects-first, the rapidly growingapproach that emphasizes objects and object-oriented design. Both place programming first andstart the student with a mainstream general-purpose language.For each strategy, Curricula 2001 provides a guideline for a two-course sequence, but stronglysuggests their three-course curriculum because “the two-course sequence is no longer sufficientto cover the fundamental concepts”. Two or three courses may be the recommendation, but thereality is, as Hankley [2

Conference Session

Trends in Mechanical Engineering I

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nidal Al-Masoud, Central Connecticut State University; Peter Baumann, Central Connecticut State University; Alfred Gates, Central Connecticut State University

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

) Examination (administered by the National Council ofExaminers for Engineers and Surveyors, NCEES) has been extensively used as a data source 7-11.The exam is the only nationally-normed test in engineering that can be used as a quantitativemetric for outcome assessment. The general exam covers most fundamental areas of science andengineering that can be directly mapped to ABET criteria 3. One of the critiques of the test is thatit is a pass-fail test, with no minimum passing grade in any subset of questions pertaining tocertain subject area, therefore, passing the test does not mean competency in any specificsubjects area 10.The model adopted for mechanical engineering in the department is different than the approachbased on the overall nationally

Conference Session

Global Engineering in an Interconnected World

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Narasingarao Sreenath

are connected, i.e., how the human system functions intime? This requires a proper representation of the process of interaction betweenhumankind as a system and the natural system and explicit recognition of the specific andunique character of human functioning as a system. The first aspect (the relationship of humankind and nature) is best understood interms of the reflexivity concept (Figure 2.1). Simply put, humanity is changing theenvironment while simultaneously being changed by it. It is a continuous feedbackrelationship. Humans are not outside observers of environmental change but rather areon the inside of the system being changed. This imposes a fundamental uncertainty (alimit to complete, objective knowledge or

Conference Session

Technical Sessions 1

Collection

2024 Fall ASEE Mid-Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Gonca Altuger-Genc, State University of New York, College of Technology at Farmingdale; Akin Tatoglu, University of Hartford

Tagged Topics

Professional Papers

students in theresponsible and acceptable use of AI platforms, providing them with opportunities and guidanceto explore and leverage this new technology. The potential of ChatGPT in the classroom has beenanalyzed in various studies [3-5], highlighting its applications as a writing assistant, study tool,and personal tutor [6]. However, there are also concerns that the overreliance on ChatGPT mayadversely affect students' critical thinking and problem-solving skills [7]. As AI becomes moreprevalent in higher education, it is essential for educators, curriculum designers, andpolicymakers to understand the implications of integrating these tools into the educationalcontext.According to research [7], ChatGPT has the ability to respond immediately to

Collection

2012 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Melissa Miller; Randall Reynolds; Ed Pohl

students in grades 6 through 12to the field of Industrial Engineering. This was accomplished through a competition called TheIE Challenge (https://sites.google.com/site/iechallengecompetition/). The IE Challengecompetition was originally designed as an RET project to provide an engaging format for middleschool and high school students to learn fundamental aspects of Industrial Engineering and isnow being improved and refined to help teachers and students stay relevant under CCSS.The IE Challenge has been held for the last five years at the University of Arkansas and has beenincreasing in student participation each year. The students compete in teams of two in either thejunior (grades 6-8) or senior division (grades 9-12). Each team is sponsored by

Conference Session

Track 1 - Session 1

Collection

2014 ASEE International Forum

Authors

Jonathan W. Valvano, University of Texas, Austin

Tagged Topics

Curriculum and Lab Development

with some knowledge of electricity aswould have been taught in an introductory college physics class. Secondly, it is expectedstudents will have some basic knowledge of programming and logic design. No specificlanguage will be assumed as prior knowledge but this class could be taken as their secondprogramming class.Learning objectives of the courseAlthough the students are engaged with a fun and rewarding lab experience, the educationalpedagogy is centered on fundamental learning objectives. After the successful conclusion of thisclass students should be able to understand the basic components of a computer, write assemblyand C language programs that perform I/O functions and implement simple data structures,manipulate numbers in multiple

Conference Session

Active Learning & Laboratories in Statics, Dynamics, and Mechanics

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Anu Osta, Rowan University; Jennifer Kadlowec, Rowan University

Tagged Divisions

Mechanics

Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Hands-on project Strategy for Effective learning and Team performance in an accelerated Engineering Dynamics courseAbstract: For many engineering undergraduate students a first course in Dynamics is oftenchallenging when learning about the fundamentals concepts, basic Newtonian physics, andassociated mathematical tools like vector algebra, trigonometry, and calculus. For educators thechallenge is, motivating the students and making the learning process enjoyable. A simple hands-on activity to supplement the classroom content could greatly aid in student learning. At Rowanuniversity an engineering dynamics accelerated course is offered every fall

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering Programs

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Mahbub Uddin

are required to take 33 hours of courses in the areas of Liberal Arts,Humanities and Social Sciences to satisfy university’s common curriculum requirement. The CommonCurriculum reflects Trinity’s commitment to the liberal arts and sciences and is meant to establish foreach Trinity student a basis for understanding the varied domains of human knowledge and experience.The Common Curriculum also includes skills necessary for active, critical and creative participation inthe academic life of the University. Paramount among those skills are the abilities to think creativelyand critically, and to express such thinking effectively both orally and in writing. The CommonCurriculum includes six fundamental understandings: Understanding the Intellectual

Conference Session

Software and Hardware for Educators I

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Chad Hager, United States Air Force Academy; Steven Barrett, University of Wyoming; Cameron Wright, University of Wyoming; Jerry Hamann, University of Wyoming

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education

Wyoming. Thissenior/graduate level elective course has only has one prerequisite—Digital Verilog Design. Inthe sophomore level Digital Systems Design course, students are provided an introduction toVerilog HDL during their two-hours per week laboratory. This course is typically taken early inthe student's undergraduate program, and Computer Architecture is usually taken as a graduatecourse. This results in a worst case time lag of two to three years between taking the two courses. The Computer Architecture course uses the textbook written by M. Morris Mano andCharles R. Kime entitled “Logic and Computer Design Fundamentals [2].” The textbookprovides an excellent coverage of computer architecture with many design examples provided.However

Conference Session

Exploration of Broad Issues and Promotion of Engineering and Technological Literacy

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

John Heywood, Trinity College Dublin

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering

sandwich (cooperative) principle of integrated periods of study and trainingin industry. The most popular was six months in industry followed by six months in collegein each of four successive years [4].A requirement of the NCTA was that all students for their diplomas should have participatedin programs of liberal study. This was reinforced in 1957 by a government edict that extendedthe idea of compulsory liberal studies to all levels of technical education even though muchof it was part time study [5]. By 1962 it was seen that the development of literacy, that is theability to read and write, was essential for the general education of all students. Thus, it wasthat in those colleges the term Liberal Studies came to be substituted by General

Conference Session

Teaching Mechanics

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ing-Chang Jong, University of Arkansas; William T. Springer, University of Arkansas

Tagged Divisions

Mechanics

supported beam AD● Using MoMF: In applying the method of model formulas to this beam, we must adhere to thesign conventions as illustrated in Fig. 1. At the left end A, the moment M A is 0, the shear forceVA is 5P/3, the deflection yA is 0, but the slope θA is unknown. At the right end D, the deflection yD is 0, but the slope θ D is unknown. Note in the model formulas that we have x P = L /3 forthe concentrated force P ↓ at B and xK = 2 L /3 for the concentrated moment PL  at C. Apply-ing the model formulas in Eqs. (3) and (4), successively, to this beam AD, we write − PL  2 ( 5 P/3) L2 P  L 2L

Conference Session

GSD 3: Pedagogy and Curriculum

Collection

2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mary E. Besterfield-Sacre, University of Pittsburgh; April Dukes, University of Pittsburgh; Susan K Fullerton Shirey, University of Pittsburgh; Götz Veser, University of Pittsburgh

Tagged Divisions

Graduate Studies Division (GSD)

of qualitative feedback fromthe SMEs, and (3) facilitate the results for direct use by the faculty. GCM consists of three primaryinteractive phases. Idea generation or brainstorming is the first stage. Participants contribute ideas (here,learning objectives) specific to a focus question or prompt. For our project, SMEs received the followingfocus prompt throughout the development of the BOK. The objective is to create a body of knowledge for graduate chemical engineering education focusing on six topics: Thermodynamics, Kinetics and Reactor Design, Transport Phenomena, Mathematical Methods, Ethics, and Safety. We desire to group the learning outcomes from these six topics into three levels: fundamentals, graduate

Conference Session

Innovative Teaching Methods and Learning Models

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ross B Kaplan, Wentworth Institute of Technology; Timothy M Johnson P.E., Wentworth Institute of Technology; Ralf Oliver Schneider, Wentworth Institute of Technology ; Shankar Muthu Krishnan, Wentworth Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

units, writing programs for initializingthe sensor then controlling the requesting of data from the sensor and passing the data to thenetwork, adding a temperature application to the Chronos watch display, and writing the peer-to-peer protocol. The wireless microcontroller software flow is shown in Figure 2. Page 22.34.6Figure 2. Wireless microcontroller software flow.Industrial design aspectsIn the present project, special effort was made to include team members from differentdisciplines. One of the disciplines was Industrial Design whose practitioners give form andfunction to objects. This creative science utilizes knowledge of the arts

Conference Session

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society Division Technical Session 4

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jeong-Hee Kim, Texas Tech University; Ryan C. Campbell, Texas Tech University; Ngan T.T. Nguyen, Texas Tech University; Roman Taraban, Texas Tech University; Danny D. Reible P.E., Texas Tech University; Chongzheng Na, Texas Tech University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

writes, “in the varied topography of professional practice, there is a high, hardground where practitioners can make effective use of research-based theory and technique, andthere is a swampy lowland where situations are confusing ‘messes’ incapable of technicalsolution” (p. 42). When graduate students in engineering are taught to become practitioners whowalk on a “high, hard ground,” they may function well as technical experts who can fix technicalproblems, but they may not function well in actual reality in a local setting in which problems arecomplex, uncertain, instable, unique and particular, and value-conflicting. A sole application ofgeneral theories and principles may not be possible in solving real life engineering problems.When there

Collection

2011 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

James G. Steuber

Design Manual Project.Most, if not all, of these skills are addressed by the Design Manual Project. Students will continueto acquire new tools with on-the-job experience including perhaps an increased ability to handleuncertainty or to make estimates–tools which require more hands-on experience. The primary tool developed by the Design Manual Project is a design philosophy. The num-ber of considerations that need to be made when designing or selecting a machine component issometimes overwhelming without some sort of plan or design philosophy. For example, whiledeveloping the design manual for springs a student must ask themselves: How does one select aextension spring? The answer is by asking the right questions! In writing a manual students

Conference Session

Research Frameworks for Identity and Equity: Equity, Culture & Social Justice in Education Division Technical Session 9

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Charles Riley, Oregon Institute of Technology; Franny Howes, Oregon Institute of Technology; Yasha Rohwer, Oregon Institute of Technology

Paper ID #37092Student Responses to a Gender-Neutral Engineering EthicsCase StudyCharles Riley (Professor) Professor and Graduate Program Director Civil Engineering Department Oregon Institute of Technology I conduct research in diverse areas of engineering education from professional skills, to writing, to gender and ethics. I also maintain a structures laboratory to conduct full-scale structural component testing and field investigations of highway bridges.Franny Technology Howes (Assistant Professor) Franny Howes (e/em/eirs) is an associate professor in the Communication Department at the Oregon Institute of

Conference Session

Manufacturing Engineering Technology Curriculum

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ramesh Narang, Indiana University-Purdue University-Fort Wayne

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

AC 2008-903: TEACHING APPLIED MEASURING METHODS USING GD&TRamesh Narang, Indiana University-Purdue University-Fort Wayne RAMESH V. NARANG is an Associate Professor of Industrial Engineering Technology program in the Department of Manufacturing & Construction Engineering Technology and Interior Design at Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne, Fort Wayne, IN. He has received both his M.S. and Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering from the University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA. His research and teaching interests include: automated feature recognition, lean manufacturing, metrology, ergonomics, cellular manufacturing, and statistical process control

Collection

1996 Annual Conference

Authors

Yung-Nien Yang; Julius P. Wong; Anup Kumar; William G. Sullivan; Herman R Leep; Hamid R. Parsaei; Gerald J. Thuesen

CD-ROM text books. We also make use of some Internet features that are not offered by CD-ROM, for example, the convenience in updating a web course, student notes facility, and a feedbackmechanism.. A web course is really a software package, therefore, it may be updated and/or revised every month.The revision of a web course is simiiar to software maintenance, which is a standard practice in computerapplications. The student notes facility will enable the student to write notes while accessing the webcourse. The notes are stored in the hard drive in the student’s PC. There are two types of notes: l) bookmark Page 1.48.2

Conference Session

Instructional Methods and Tools in BME

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ann Saterbak, Rice University; Tracy Volz, Rice University

Tagged Divisions

Biomedical

AC 2008-117: IMPLEMENTING CALIBRATED PEER REVIEW TO ENHANCETECHNICAL CRITIQUING SKILLS IN A BIOENGINEERING LABORATORYAnn Saterbak, Rice University Ann Saterbak is Director of Laboratory Instruction and Lecturer in the Bioengineering Department at Rice University. Dr. Saterbak teaches laboratory, lecture and problem-based learning courses. She is the lead author of the textbook, Bioengineering Fundamentals, published in 2007 by Prentice Hall. She received her B.A. in Chemical Engineering and Biochemistry from Rice University in 1990 and her Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign in 1995.Tracy Volz, Rice University Tracy Volz is the Assistant