Conference Session

Collaborative Programs and Courses

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Scogtt Magids; Sarah Djamshidi; Karen Thornton; David Barbe

regional experts and to exchange ideas.4.1. Fundamentals of Technology Startup VenturesThis multi-disciplinary, three-credit course helps students learn how to assess thefeasibility of a technology startup venture as well as how to apply best practices forplanning and launching tech companies. The course structure involves lectures onfundamental topics as well as insights by outside experts who speak about the practicalapplication of these concepts. Course content is organized into four parts: backgroundinformation on tech startups; assessing the commercial feasibility of a technicalinnovation; planning and launching technology ventures; and writing and presentingbusiness plans and presentations for investors.Students organize themselves into

Conference Session

Nontraditional Teaching Approaches

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cedrick Kwuimy, University of Cincinnati; Jeff Kastner, University of Cincinnati; Yuan Chen, Center for Enhancement of Teaching and Learning, Chongqing University, China

Tagged Divisions

International

. © American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 2017 ASEE Southeast Section ConferenceThe paper is organized as follows. The next section gives an overview of the class organization.In Section 3, we discuss the results of the survey and provide a comparative analysis of thestudents’ population perception of flipped classroom. The last section is the conclusion.2. Class organization Semiconductor Devices is a 3 Credits course within the Electrical Engineering curriculum. This course is said (by students) to be challenging and very fundamental. Students become familiar and get an understanding of the following concepts: (i) Fundamentals of semiconductor diodes and transistors; (ii) static characteristics, biasing

Conference Session

Automation in Manufacturing

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Shouling He, Vaughn College of Aeronautics & Technology; Sheng-Jen Hsieh, Texas A&M University

Tagged Divisions

Manufacturing

, I wish we learn more in depth about computer vision and image processing. Good better than the fundamental C++ class. After the lecture, I would like to learn more about the different applications Python has. Also that it is used for. Maybe have a course to learn Python. More information about Python (more lectures) and get a chance to write more codes. Good introduction of computer vision and basic Python. I would like to see more applications. I think it was very interesting. I wish it was more than just one lecture because it seems like this is the direction the industry is going. More computer vision less sensors. I think this class should be incorporated into the engineering program, Python. I have never practiced Python

Conference Session

Thermodynamics and Fluid Mechanics Instruction

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Laura Genik, Wayne State University; Craig Somerton, Michigan State University

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

4 Air Processing DeviceAir/Water Vapor In Air/Water Vapor Out 5 2 Liquid Water In Liquid Water Out Page 11.1220.7 6The students are informed that we would like this in a form that is a little friendlier with ourpsychrometric parameters. We recognize that m v = ωm airThen we write m  m  m  ω1 +  ∀, 2  +  stm,3  = ω4 +  ∀,5   m air   m air

Collection

1999 Annual Conference

Authors

John H. Ristroph

a manner that recog-nizes an assumption central to economic analyses: reinvestment. This basic criterion is extended to showthat present worth, equivalent annual worth, and future worth produce the same decisions, so they may beused as surrogate criteria. The next step is to explicitly consider the more complex nature of industrial in-vestments and capital accumulation. The development of industrial criteria parallels that of the bankingenvironment, but it addresses additional issues, such as how to determine the appropriate discount rate. Afinal section provides a summary and conclusions. IntroductionThis paper addresses a fundamental problem in teaching engineering economics. It is

Conference Session

Innovative IE Course Content

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John P. Mullen, New Mexico State University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Economy, Engineering Management, Industrial Engineering

the txt file to MS Excel or MatLab and then how toextract the individual times between arrivals and service times. Then, they check forhomoscedasticity among the data sets, estimate arrival and service rates, characterize the arrivaland service-time distributions, and compute 90% confidence intervals for λ, μ, and k. Finally,they write a one-page executive summary and publish their report online.I provide a number of self-checked exercises, as well as some discussion in lecture, of thedifferent elements of this exercise, but students need to assemble the different elements andpresent a coherent report. Because this is new to most students, the log includes redundantinformation students can use to check their work. In the example above, that

Conference Session

Teaching Technological Literacy - College Courses and Minors

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Richard Doyle, Penn State University; Richard Devon, Pennsylvania State University

Tagged Divisions

Technological Literacy Constituent Committee

: Why All Americans Need to Know More about Technology, describes the importance of being literate about technology in the 21st century2. In their 2006 report, Tech Tally3, the NAE defined technological literacy as “an understanding of technology at a level that enables effective functioning in a modern technological society.”5The report on an NSF sponsored workshop at the National Academy of Engineering in 2005includes the statement that technological literacy is important because, “We live in a technological world. Living in the twenty-first century requires much more from every individual than a basic ability to read, write, and perform simple mathematics. Technology affects virtually every aspect of

Conference Session

Accreditation

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Kenneth Brannan; Kevin Bower

students placed in stressful situations, thereare going to be dynamic group situations. The environmental capstone class was no exception. Page 10.724.9What was different was that students remained positive and quickly mended any problems. Theevaluations reflect some of the students’ thinking on group interactions. Student A writing about Student B: Student B works well with other team members and is better at incorporating other group member’s ideas into a proposed solution. Student B: We all need to work on telling other group members what is going on with our portion of the project. Student A on Student C: Student

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Borrmann

, each word8 bits wide). Individual words in the array are accessed by literal address (e.g., MEM’7)or by symbolic address (e.g., MEM’addr, where addr is the circuit variable carrying thedesired memory address). Memories with various read and write control structures canbe modeled by using SDL reg functions. For example, Listing 5 shows an SDL circuitfile describing a 16 × 8 memory module, with data input bus DIN, data output busDOUT, address input ADRS, chip select CS, and read/write input bit RW. -- Listing 5. A 16 x 8 memory module. circuit MEMORY -- 16 X 8 RWM with CS and RW control inputs port(DIN: in byte; CS, RW: in bit; ADRS: in nibble) port(DOUT, MEM’ADRS: out byte) MEM: regfile(16,8) begin

Conference Session

Electrical & Computer Engineering Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Steve Warren

) . n =1Here, a0 is the DC, or average, value of the signal over a given time interval of duration T0 = 1/f0seconds (f0 = ω0/2π is referred to as the “fundamental” frequency): Page 10.976.3 Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition Copyright ©2005, American Society for Engineering Education 1 t1 +T0 T0 ∫t1 a0 = f (t )dtThe coefficients an and bn represent the magnitudes of the cosines (even functions) and

Conference Session

Technical Courses and Liberal Education

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Dianne Grayce Hendricks, University of Washington

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

has been used to assess student learning in a variety of engineering contexts[8-9]. Reflection has been studied as an approach to help students identify the value of theirlearning about writing and the transferability of writing skills beyond the classroom [10]. For areview of student knowledge gains associated with reflection, see [11].In this work, our teaching innovation is using reflection to promote the development ofpresentation skills. We ask each student to reflect after getting audience feedback or watching arecording of their presentation, which has the added benefits of (1) allowing the student to seeevaluate their performance from the audience’s perspective, and (2) providing students with anadditional layer of quick, targeted

Conference Session

Been There, Done That: Advice for NEEs

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert Engelken, Arkansas State University

Tagged Divisions

New Engineering Educators

of when they may be needed in the future. Emphasis on computer simulations can also consume class time that historically was devoted to covering fundamentals. As with all of the trends discussed in this section, balance has to be struck between well-proven historical methodologies and new and (potentially) improved ones. Page 14.293.76. Hybridization of Academic Disciplines: Another recent trend is hybridization of academic disciplines, both in academia and profession(s). This offers certain advantages, for example, resource pooling and broader perspectives on problem solving. It reflects increasing hybridization of disciplines in the

Conference Session

Design Tools and Methodology II

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nathan Delson, University of California, San Diego; Mark Anderson, University of California, San Diego

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

demonstrate an increased understandingof how engineering fundamentals apply to their design. There is a sense among the students thatapplication of theory has a role alongside trial and error.Baseline Airplane ProjectThe working baseline airplane project was developed by modifying a commercially-availablemodel airplane kit. The baseline airplane has a wingspan of 46 cm, and fuselage length of about44 cm. It is powered by a small brushless motor coupled to a ten-ampere electronic speedcontroller. A student-built example of the working baseline airplane is shown in Figure 4. Theairplane is constructed of laser-cut balsa and plywood parts, and is covered with heat-shrunkplastic. The mass of the completed airplane is approximately 150 grams.Additional

Conference Session

Experiential Learning Programs and the Transition to Industry

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David Hoe, University of Texas, Tyler; Mukul Shirvaikar, University of Texas, Tyler

Tagged Divisions

College Industry Partnerships

, andthey can use the help function to reverse engineer it. By year two, the students will have had an     introductory course in structured programming and thus, will be expected to do more extensivewriting of the test code. For the digital systems class, the students will be expected develop a testplan for verifying the logic levels of a basic logic gate IC given the standard datasheet for thepart. As the students learn the fundamentals of sampling theory in Signals and Systems, moresophisticated labs such as testing a digital-to-analog converter (DAC) become possible. For theMicroprocessor class, the students will be required to write test scripts

Collection

2025 ASEE -GSW Annual Conference

Authors

Haiying Huang, The University of Texas at Arlington; Monica Franco, The University of Texas at Arlington

Tagged Topics

Diversity

developing theweekly PLTL package, the faculty liaison intentionally incorporated a six-step problem-solvingprocess following the DT pedagogy. The goal is to help students following the DT process in definingthe problem and developing creative solutions. 30.5% of students enrolled in the course signed up forthe PLTL sessions. A 19.3% increase in the passing rate was achieved for the students whoparticipated in PLTL as compared to those who did not. IntroductionEngineering Statics is a fundamental course for Mechanical, Aerospace, and Civil Engineering. Itcovers the fundamental concept of forces, moments, reactions, equilibrium, free-body diagram, etc.To successfully pass this course, the students need to

Conference Session

ERM Potpourri

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Howard Evans, National University; Shekar Viswanathan, National University

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

with student population of three hundred students. Dr. Viswanathan is an educator, researcher and administrator with more than twenty-five years of industrial and academic experience encompassing engineering and environmental consulting, research and development, and technology development. Career experience includes teaching at the University level, conducting fundamental research, and developing continuing educational courses. Page 13.907.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2008 Motivating Research in an Engineering Teaching InstitutionAbstractThis paper discusses multiple ways of

Collection

2022 ASEE Illinois-Indiana Section Conference

Authors

La'Tonia Stiner-Jones, The Ohio State University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Paper ID #36104Work in Progress: Effectiveness of an REU SITE at Preparing Students forGraduate SchoolDr. La’Tonia Stiner-Jones, The Ohio State University Dr. Stiner-Jones is Associate Dean of Graduate Programs and Associate Professor of Practice in Biomed- ical Engineering at The Ohio State University’s College of Engineering. As Associate Dean she pro- vides leadership of graduate affairs and professional development for graduate students and postdoctoral trainees. She also oversees strategic recruitment of graduate students with a focus on increasing diversity. As Associate Professor, she is responsible for

Conference Session

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

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kathryn A. Neeley, University of Virginia

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Ethics Division (ETHICS)

flexibility opens upthe possibility of increasing the number of faculty qualified to teach engineering ethics but alsocreates ambiguity about the knowledge base on which engineering ethics relies. One possibleexplanation for the lack of clarity is that engineering ethics is fundamentally interdisciplinary,which means that no particular area of disciplinary expertise is uniquely relevant.In their discussion of “Interdisciplinarity in Ethics,” Mitcham and Wang argue that “Ethics isinherently interdisciplinary, yet not always pursued as such” [21, p. 241]. Its strongestdisciplinary association is with philosophy, but “Especially in its contemporary applied orpractical versions, ethics is a hybrid of disciplinary concerns in, for example biomedical

Conference Session

Hands-on Laboratory and Design Experiences in Environmental Engineering

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Radian G. Belu, Drexel University; Irina Nicoleta Ciobanescu Husanu, Drexel University; Dunia Tania Periverzov, Drexel University (Tech.)

Tagged Divisions

Environmental Engineering

basic sciences,mathematics, and engineering sciences are applied to optimally convert resources to meet statedobjective1. The fundamental elements of the design process are: the establishment of theobjectives and criteria, synthesis, analysis, construction, testing and evaluation”. In our seniordesign classes we have placed this definition at the core of our courses. First we focus onobjectives and ask the student to write a short proposal stating these objectives, principles, andthe decisive factors to reach the stated goals. These projects involved elements of structuraldesign, wind and solar energy resource assessment, electrical, electronics and computerengineering system design. The second step is conceptualization and laying down how to

Collection

1996 Annual Conference

Authors

Harry Knickle

, This course received excellent ratings and obtained broad acceptance by the departments. During the Spring of 1996 a two credit course was introduced to also meet the same objectives. More than half of the engineering students signed up voluntarily for this course. For many others there were course conflicts. While the first semester course used Word, Excel, and Powerpoint, the second semester course uses MATLAB as the fundamental problem solving tool. One big advantage to the use of MATLAB was the introduction of decision making using FOR, IF, and WHILE. There were no reviews of the course by students at the time of writing this paper but we have received very positive feedback by the

Conference Session

Integrating Ethics into the Curriculum

Collection

1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael E. Gorman, University of Virginia

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education (LED)

andtechnological thinking, which is not one of the recognized specialties in psychology--though acolleague and I are trying to change that (Feist & Gorman, In Press).This paper is really the story of how I came to this unusual position--and why I like it. As anundergraduate psychology major, I spent more time on an independent study of scientific thoughtthan on my honors thesis in psychology. In graduate school, I combined social, cognitive, andhistory of psychology, and also took courses on advanced non-fiction writing. The reallyinteresting questions always seemed to slip between disciplines.My first job was at Michigan Technological University, an engineering school which wanted apsychologist who could teach writing. One of my many responsibilities

Conference Session

Integrated Humanities and Social Sciences Programs (3661)

Collection

1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael E. Gorman

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education (LED)

andtechnological thinking, which is not one of the recognized specialties in psychology--though acolleague and I are trying to change that (Feist & Gorman, In Press).This paper is really the story of how I came to this unusual position--and why I like it. As anundergraduate psychology major, I spent more time on an independent study of scientific thoughtthan on my honors thesis in psychology. In graduate school, I combined social, cognitive, andhistory of psychology, and also took courses on advanced non-fiction writing. The reallyinteresting questions always seemed to slip between disciplines.My first job was at Michigan Technological University, an engineering school which wanted apsychologist who could teach writing. One of my many responsibilities

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nasser Alaraje, Michigan Technological University; Aleksandr Sergeyev, Michigan Technological University; Fred Scheu, College of Lake County

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees

experience that will help them to be attractive in the job market and as employees withhigh-value skills in the workplace. The students will learn the design of major components ofdigital systems, such as arithmetic logic units (ALUs), floating points, memory, and controllerusing hardware description language (VHDL). In addition, the students will learn FPGA designflow starting from HDL design entry and circuit simulation to verify the correctness of theintended design, writing testbenches. To accomplish this in a one-semester course, the intent oflectures and labs is to have the students: 1. Gain the knowledge on programmable logic devices (PLD) and their design methodologies 2. Learn fundamental concepts of hardware description language

Conference Session

Electrical and Computer Engineering Division Poster Session

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jay Wierer, Milwaukee School of Engineering

Paper ID #36827WIP: Standards-Based Grading for Electric CircuitsJay Wierer (Associate Professor) Jay Wierer is an associate professor of electrical engineering at the Milwaukee School of Engineering (MSOE). © American Society for Engineering Education, 2022 Powered by www.slayte.com WIP: Standards-Based Grading for Electric CircuitsAbstractThe study of electric circuits is a common course (or courses) in most electrical and computerengineering programs. Several ECE courses depend on the fundamentals introduced andhopefully learned in the electric

Conference Session

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

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Mativo, University of Georgia; Jacob Lancaster, University of Georgia

configurations made toimprove air flow is presented. The perspectives for students and faculty from the University ofGeorgia are presented. The student main engineer took the lead to formulate this paper. Fiveother students that worked on the project were unable to engage in writing the paper.Introduction The Formula SAE activities at the University of Georgia are recognized as a platform thatprovides experiential learning to its undergraduate students. Most of the students in the FormulaSAE program come from engineering disciplines. Students range from Freshmen to Seniors.Freshmen, Sophomores, and Juniors participate as non-capstone members. Senior studentsmostly participate as cap-stone members. Regardless of one’s category, the students design

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Joe Hartman

fundamentals of redundancy arepresented to the class.The design project format selected was a request for proposal(RFP). The RFP is used for thefollowing reasons: • It is the most common way that programs or projects are awarded. • The students become familiar with the RFP format & procedures. • It allows for a competition between the teams and cooperation within the teams. Both are situations the student will commonly see in large projects. • The format allows for costs to be a part of the criteria for winning the competition.The criteria for the winning competition were was as follows:• Technical Merit 50%• Cost 40 %• Exceeding reliability

Collection

2009 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Robert I. Egbert

the freshman engineering courseto include topics such a teamwork, professionalism and ethics, and fundamentals of theengineering design process.This paper describes the development of an appropriate introductory engineering course forstudents on the Missouri State University (MSU) campus who are participating in thecooperative engineering program operated by Missouri University of Science & Technology(Missouri S&T) in cooperation with MSU.IntroductionOn August 21, 2006, the Governor of the state of Missouri, along with the Curators of theUniversity of Missouri, the Chancellor of Missouri University of Science and Technology(Missouri S&T), and the President of Missouri State University (MSU) signed a Memorandumof Understanding that

Conference Session

Off the Beaten Path

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cynthia C. Fry, Baylor University; Kenneth W. Van Treuren, Baylor University

Tagged Divisions

New Engineering Educators

to letting thestudents develop their own syllabus at the beginning of class (to include a grading rubric).Presentation 4 – Writing a good test and assessing the outcome This presentation focused on one faculty member’s methodology of writing testquestions which address the course outcomes on various levels of Bloom's Taxonomy. Amatrix was proposed upon which to evaluate questions to insure all outcomes were metand at the appropriate levels. Time factors were discussed for each question as well to givenew faculty some guidelines for test construction. After the test is administered, ananalysis of each test question must be done for assessment purposes. Some indication ofhow easy the question was (did everyone get it right) and its

Conference Session

Experimentation and Laboratory-Oriented Studies Division (ELOS) Technical Session 1: Laboratories in Mechanics, Thermofluids, Embedded Systems, and Controls

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Dan Kilula; Shivan Haran, Arkansas State University; Logan Riley Neal

Tagged Divisions

Experimentation and Laboratory-Oriented Studies Division (DELOS)

fromthe graduate assistant for the lab and undergo training exercises with LabVIEW(they are alsoencouraged to develop a couple of sample demo exercises which include signals and processing,display, and saving data as an Excel file and so on). Moreover, they are introduced to thehardware and how it is used for data acquisition and analysis. A sample system set-up isdiscussed and demonstrated to the class. Signal processing fundamentals are discussed in thelectures as well. Additional research may be required in some cases when it comes to furtheringtheir understanding of the problem, fabricating a set-up, writing the required software code, andso on.Between 25 and 30 students are divided into groups of 3 or 4 members each to work on variousaspects

Conference Session

Biological & Agricultural Technical Session II

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael E. Manoogian, Loyola Marymount University

Tagged Divisions

Biological & Agricultural

. Page 22.290.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011 Biology for First-Year Engineers, a New Course at Loyola Marymount University A new course “Biology for Engineers” was developed for first year engineeringstudents at Loyola Marymount University (LMU). The course is part of the sciencesequence for all first-year engineering students at LMU. The fundamental concept of thiscourse was to provide first-year engineering students with a basic background in focusedareas of biology as it applies to engineering applications. The course was first taught in2009 and again in 2010. It will again be taught in 2011. Topics for this course haveincluded, cell biology