Conference Session

Manufacturing Laboratory Experience

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Davis Charles; Tony Lin

injection moldingmachines have many parameters (factors) that affect the characteristics of finished products. Todetermine the appropriate process parameters’ setting, a traditional approach using trial and erroris no longer adequate. Design of Experiments (DOE) is a statistical tool that has emerged as oneof the most effective methods for investigating injection-molding in the R&D, product designand process phases. It can also be used when setting up new molds and trouble shooting problemjobs.A designed experiment involves systematic, controlled changes of input variables (factors) of aprocess in order to observe the corresponding changes in the outputs (responses). Experimentaldata are collected and analyzed so that valid and objective

Conference Session

Aerospace Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Adeel Khalid, Kennesaw State University; Christopher Douglas Roper; J. Andrew Pirrello Jr., Kennesaw State University ; Alain J. Santos

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Aerospace

in engineering courses is not new. 2D drivingsimulators are commonly utilized in vehicle dynamics courses for motion simulation. Likewise,flight simulators are favorably used in most aerodynamics courses. Advances in technology haveempowered pilot test program producers to create effective and real-time simulation based FlightTraining Devices (FTDs) [6]. Flight simulators draw attention as a training resource in aerospaceengineering curriculum. Several studies have been conducted on finding the most effective way ofexploiting flight simulators in courses. Meta-analysis was investigated to find effectivenesscharacteristics of flight simulators [7]. Huet et al. studied the performance of feedback in a fixed-base flight simulator [8,9]. In a

Collection

2006 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Ernest Y. Wong

appreciation for what they are learning, but I am also providing them with practicable skills which will help prepare them for life. Key words: education innovation, experiential learning, spreadsheet modelingIntroduction—the West Point Way Undergraduate cadets at the United States Military Academy are required to demonstrateproficiency in six domains of knowledge: engineering and technology, math and science,information technology, history, culture, and human behavior. To ensure they acquire therequisite skills in these six domains, every cadet takes a number of prescribed courses thatconstitute the core curriculum. While the academic program is very structured, it is intended toprovide cadets with “a broad liberal education

Collection

1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Timothy Holman

examples of thetechnique are provided on the Web.I. IntroductionIn recent years, the need to expand instruction beyond the traditional classroom has led to therapid growth of supplemental teaching methods such as videotaped lectures, classes via satellitebroadcast, and Internet delivery of lectures. In particular, the World Wide Web is receivinggrowing attention as a preferred medium for asynchronous delivery of course materials and pre-recorded lectures to remote students. Universities throughout the country are developing courses(and entire curriculums) specifically for Web presentation.However, the development of Web-based classes can be hampered by limitations of time andeconomics. Many instructors take a “presentation-style” approach to

Conference Session

Graduate Studies Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Nathalie Duval-Couetil, Purdue University at West Lafayette; Soohyun Yi, Texas Tech University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Graduate Studies

c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 Education and evaluation for the NRT:Accounting for numerous requirements, multiple disciplines, and small cohorts Education and evaluation for the NRT: Accounting for numerous requirements, multiple disciplines, and small cohortsABSTRACTThe purpose of this paper is to describe our approach to program evaluation for the National ScienceFoundation National (NSF) Research Traineeship (NRT) Program in Sustainable Food, Energy, andWater Systems at Purdue University. The NRT program is designed to educate and train the nextgeneration of engineers, agronomists and scientists to meet local food, energy and water managementneeds with solar

Conference Session

Instrumentation Technical Session III

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Hugh Jack, Grand Valley State University

Tagged Divisions

Instrumentation

an essential part of every electricaland computer engineering (ECE) program. Embedded control systems courses are increasinglyavailable for many other programs, such as Mechanical Engineering (ME) and ChemicalEngineering2. For the purposes of discussion the term Mechatronics will be used to describe amechanical engineering approach to industrial and embedded control.Student prerequisite knowledge varies by curriculum. At the lower end of the scale, studentshave not had a programming course, no digital circuits course, and little procedural problemsolving3. When the Mechatronics course does not require much prerequisite knowledge theinstructor often selects a system with a very shallow learning curve. There are a few approachesthat have been

Conference Session

Student Teams & Active Learning

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Knecht

9.284.1 “Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2004, American Society for Engineering Education” Hanna and Wilson6 noted that an instrument for measuring team operations shouldadequately cover four components central to team performance: 1. Task functions (approach to goals and decision-making processes) 2. Team functions (cohesiveness or general liking and attraction to team) 3. Outcomes (solution quality to open-ended problems) 4. Satisfaction (feelings about participation in the team)Satisfaction correlated closely to productivity (ability to accomplish goals) and cohesiveness (theteam’s pride, commitment and

Collection

2024 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

John W. Gibbons

University of Kansas' (KU) Electrical Engineering and ComputerScience (EECS) Department will begin offering a new course: EECS 623: InterdisciplinaryCollaborations. Although the Spring of 2025 is the first time this course will be offered, thedevelopment of the course began in the spring of 2020 amidst the COVID pandemic.When the shutdown began in the Spring of 2020, as not only a professor of Computer Sciencebut also a father, I found the status of worthwhile games/apps for young children wasdisappointing. Most games and apps aimed at children ages 6 and under were found to be eitherlow quality, filled with bugs, or outright predatory in the way they would place buttons that ledstraight to a point of purchase. So, I approached our Computer Science

Collection

2014 ASEE Zone 4 Conference

Authors

Edward Smaglik; Terry Baxter; John Tingerthal P.E.; Chun-Hsing Ho; Mark Lamer

performance,an increase in the number of students for which English is a second language (ESL), a desire tobetter utilize faculty time, and a desire to improve the quality of the learning experience. Withsupport from the university’s Provost Office and e-Learning Center, five faculty membersembarked on a curriculum redesign to address these factors. This paper summarizes the historyand development of the blended approach to these two courses and discusses some preliminaryresults. After one semester of implementation, we found that student performance did notimprove or degrade significantly and that the redesign required a great deal of effort to put intoplace. Now in its second semester, the faculty have implemented some changes based onobservations

Conference Session

ERM Technical Session 5: Assessment

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Heidi A. Diefes-Dux, University of Nebraska, Lincoln; Laura Melissa Cruz Castro, Purdue University, West Lafayette

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

Education, 2019 Validation of an Instrument to Measure Student Engagement with a Standards-Based Grading SystemIntroductionThis research paper presents the development and validation of an instrument intended tomeasure the engagement of students with standards-based grading (SBG) systems. Such systemscan complement the use of backwards design [1], [2], a curriculum development strategyintended to improve student learning which is taking hold in engineering education. Increasingly,engineering instructors are working towards more clear identification of intended learningobjectives, alignment of curriculum, and adoption of transparent, informative, and feedback richassessment strategies. Instructors are in essence creating

Conference Session

Mechanical Systems

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Firas Zeineddine; Ahmad Smaili

code allows one to analyze the synthesized linkage to assess its kinematicsperformance. This is an important step because mathematical solutions do not guarantee thatthe synthesized mechanism can traverse the positions in the desired order or it does not sufferfrom branching defects. The simulation option in SoftLink allows the designer to check finedetails in the kinematics before moving to the kinetics design and analysis.Matlab/Simulink is the platform of choice for several reasons: (1) It is a code familiar tostudents and faculty as it is already available and used in many courses in a curriculum tosolve a wide range of engineering problems including control, communications, DSP,optimization, etc.; (2) It has a vast library of functions

Conference Session

Innovative Instructional Strategies

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Schmeelk, Virginia Commonwealth University Qatar Branch; Jean Hodges, Virginia Commonwealth University Qatar Branch

Tagged Divisions

Mathematics

fororganizing experience and substantially strengthened the idea of using cross-curricularexpressive writing to enhance students’ learning (pp. 57-58).1Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, Emig’s and Britton’s work became the basis for recognizingwriting as a primary learning method, for examining writing in specific environments, forobserving the effects of different writing assignments upon learning, and for applying writing indifferent disciplines (WAC). During the New Millennium researchers have begun addressingethical issues involved with WAC programs. (For a more complete discussion of WAC history,refer to Chapter 5, “Writing to Learn,” of Reference Guide to Writing Across the Curriculum, byCharles Bazerman, et al.1) VCUR’s WAC program emerged through

Collection

1998 Annual Conference

Authors

K. Y. Maillacheruvu; D. Roy; Aaron A. Jennings

ABSTRACTUnderstanding and predicting the impact of air emissions form various sources are essentialcomponents of a typical course on Air Pollution in an engineering curriculum. Air pollutionteaching modules were developed to aid instructors and students with the basic ability to modelconvective-dispersive transport of air pollutants emitted from point and distributed sources. Themodules rely on basic “Gaussian Models” and use site specific input parameters on topography andmeteorological conditions such as wind speed and direction, atmospheric stability, ambienttemperature, and stack-gas properties.Modules provide instructions to set up and/or download the necessary software for classroomteaching activity and then demonstrate the application using typical case

Conference Session

Mentoring Graduate Students

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Elisabeth Cuddihy; Steve Lappenbusch; Jennifer Turns

voluntary PhD seminar to address this need for Page 10.686.1additional support. Due to student interest, the seminar continued into the autumn 2004 term. Inthis paper, we describe the seminar approach and talk about how we instantiated the seminar Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition Copyright © 2005, American Society for Engineering Education Session xxxx-xxxxduring the two different academic terms. In addition, we present a sampling of the insights wehave gained from

Collection

ASEE Mid-Atlantic Section Spring Conference

Authors

Daniel Blessner, Pennsylvania State University, Wilkes-Barre Campus

studentscan read the x-intercepts from the equation. The student graphs the polynomialwith the associated End Behavior and once again the solution is visually obtained.To simplify the procedure only linear factors with multiplicity one will be used.This is a work in progress (WIP) paper that aims to ensure that mathematicallyunder prepared engineering students succeed in their calculus series courses.Plans for a survey for the effectiveness of this new approach are planned for futuresemesters. Currently this new approach is available for anyone who wishes toimprove and reinforce basic graphing techniques. 1IntroductionThe ability to understand and interrupt graphs is critical for technical fields such

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Morgan M. Fong, University of Illinois, Urbana - Champaign; Liia Butler, University of Illinois, Urbana - Champaign; Abdussalam Alawini, University of Illinois, Urbana - Champaign; Geoffrey L. Herman, University of Illinois, Urbana - Champaign; Mariana Silva, University of Illinois, Urbana - Champaign

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Mechanical Science and Engineering Department, and the creation of the new computational-based linear algebra course, which was fully launched in Summer 2021. Silva research fo- cuses on the use of web-tools for class collaborative activities, and on the development of online learning and assessment tools. Silva is passionate about teaching and improving the classroom experience for both students and instructors. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2023Developing tools, pedagogies, and policies for computer-based collaborative learning activitiesAbstractCollaborative learning can improve student learning, student persistence, and the classroomclimate. Most of the

Conference Session

Metrology Laboratories

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Georgia Harris, National Institute of Standards & Technology; Christopher Grachanen, Hewlett Packard Company

Tagged Divisions

Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

for use as outreach handouts.Current Status and Insights: The Marketing team has a liaison member from the Outreachcommittee and is pursuing sponsorship of copies of American Society of EngineeringEducation’s (ASEE) “Engineering – Go for It” to distribute as another outreach resource. Theliaison between NCSLI Learning and Development and Marketing is still new. Currentvolunteers are in agreement about the need to have a common plan and to work together. But,we have limited insight on whether the marketing tools and resources are helping to attract newstudents to careers in metrology or to NCSLI as a professional organization based on thesepreliminary efforts.Summary and ConclusionsNCSLI has made progress in the past three-and-a-half years on

Conference Session

Manufacturing Laboratory Experience

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Glenn Blackwell

parts are placed in paste, progressing beyond hand soldering requires an oven. If atruly low-budget approach is desired, a toaster oven with a thermal probe can be usedsuccessfully12. One step above this is to have the electronic engineering students design amicroprocessor or PC control system for a toaster oven. This still keeps the cost of a batch reflowoven below $500. If a program has additional funds, stand-alone commercial batch reflow ovenswith adjustable profiles are available for around $4000 from some of the suppliers listed at theend of this paper. Programs that desire to teach reflow soldering as it is typically done in industrycan purchase commercial conveyorized reflow ovens starting around $8000. Inspection of the

Collection

1997 Annual Conference

Authors

Elizabeth A. Eschenbach

. Page 2.479.1There are others using peer evaluation for enhancing team work. For instance, the peerevaluation format that is described in this paper is a combination of methods used in a graduatedesign course of Professor Gregory Deierlein of Cornell University [5] and a first year designcourse taught at the University Colorado at Boulder [6].ENGR 111 Introduction to DesignHumboldt State University has one of the oldest and largest accredited programs inenvironmental engineering in the country. The Environmental Resources EngineeringDepartment was accredited in the 1970’s and currently has about 350 majors. Students work inteams throughout the curriculum of the ERE major. All majors are required to take ENGR 111Introduction to Design, which has

Conference Session

Undergraduate Research and Industry

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Yalcin Ertekin, Drexel University; Irina Nicoleta Ciobanescu Husanu, Drexel University; Mike Stine Jr.; Douglas Brian Forbes, Lockheed Martin; Benjamin Cohen; Ryan Buckley

Tagged Divisions

Manufacturing

testing of propulsion systems including design and development of pilot testing facility, mechanical instrumentation, and industrial applications of aircraft engines. Also, in the past 10 years she gained experience in teaching ME and ET courses in both quality control and quality assurance areas as well as in thermal-fluid, energy conversion and mechanical areas from various levels of instruction and addressed to a broad spectrum of students, from freshmen to seniors, from high school graduates to adult learners. She also has extended experience in curriculum development. Dr Husanu developed laboratory activities for Measurement and Instrumentation course as well as for quality control undergraduate and graduate

Conference Session

Track 8: Technical Session 7: Designing an open course to highlight the work of underrepresented STEM scholars

Collection

2024 Collaborative Network for Engineering & Computing Diversity (CoNECD)

Authors

Brianna B Buljung, Colorado School of Mines; Seth Vuletich, Colorado School of Mines; Madison Schaefer

Tagged Topics

CoNECD Paper Sessions, Diversity

Paper ID #40735Designing an open course to highlight the work of underrepresented STEMscholarsBrianna B Buljung, Colorado School of Mines Brianna is the Teaching and Learning librarian at the Colorado School of Mines. She collaborates with faculty to design and implement information literacy throughout the curriculum. Prior to her work at the School of Mines, she was the Engineering and Computer Science Librarian at the US Naval Academy and a contract Reference Librarian assigned to the National Defense University. She earned her MLIS at the University of Denver in 2011.Seth Vuletich, Colorado School of Mines Seth

Conference Session

Experimentation and Laboratory-oriented Studies Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Ahmet Can Sabuncu, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; John M. Sullivan Jr., Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Tagged Divisions

Experimentation and Laboratory-Oriented Studies

have introduced a new course:Online Project-Based Engineering Experimentation. The course is project-based and designed tooperate in both a blended format, online with classroom labs, and fully online.Recently the topic of project-based learning for first-year college experiences delineated how toincorporate project-based learning (PBL) into the classroom and curriculum [2]. Limiting thefield to engineering still involves numerous investigators. The work of Fini et. al. has quantifiedmuch of the PBL assessments in terms of self-efficacy, teamwork, and communication skills inthe civil engineering environment [3]. The work of Han et. al. on Hispanic students showed thatPBL had a significant impact on students who were not at risk, albeit the

Conference Session

Emerging Information Technologies

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

J. Wey Chen, Southern Taiwan University

Tagged Divisions

Information Systems

AC 2010-1620: A WEB-BASED BAYESIAN VAN HIELE PROBLEM SOLVER FORCOMPUTER PROGRAMMINGJ. Wey Chen, Southern Taiwan University Dr. J. Wey Chen is a Visiting Professor in the Department of Information System at Southern Taiwan University. He formerly served a two-year appointment (2007-2009) as the Department Chair of the Department of Information Management at Southern Taiwan University and was the Computer Science Department Chair at Western State College of Colorado. His scholarly interests range widely, from computer science curriculum design to e-learning and software engineering practices. Page

Conference Session

Assessment Issues

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Greg Kremer

assessment details for eachparticular outcome in a particular course, while those at the University of Maine use an ABETtemplate for “Course objectives, outcomes and assessment methods”4 to document courseinformation and assessment information in a compact form. The University of Iowa MechanicalEngineering program uses two templates for outcomes-based course design and continuousimprovement, a “Course outcomes worksheet” that deals with the instructional approaches usedto achieve the outcomes and a “Course assessment report” that summarizes assessment findingsand actions for improvement5.Although learning from these and other examples of what engineering programs have done toorganize their assessment process is highly recommended, it is important

Conference Session

NSF Grantees' Poster Session

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Olufunmilola Atilola, Georgia Institute of Technology; Erin M McTigue, Texas A&M University; Tracy Anne Hammond, Texas A&M University; Julie S Linsey, Georgia Institute of Technology

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees Poster Session

feedback to studentspracticing free body diagram and statics problems. The FBD Assistant was designed to beintegrated into the courseware suite at Vanderbilt University, which makes it very easy forprofessors to incorporate into the curriculum. The FBD Assistant, like Andes, provides a tool-and dialog-based diagram creation environment that the student must first learn how to usebefore they can attempt to solve a problem. The goal of Mechanix’s sketch recognition design isso that students do not need to learn how to use the software; they can focus on learning theengineering concepts required to solve the problems.Newton’s Pen has a very similar approach to Mechanix in that it allows the student to make asketch in order to solve statics problems

Conference Session

Space Side of Aerospace

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Thomas W. Arrington, Texas A&M University; Nicolas Federico Hurst, Texas A&M 2015 Capstone Design Spacecraft; David B. Kanipe, Texas A&M University; Joanna M. Schiefelbein , Texas A&M University; David Charles Hyland, Texas A&M University

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Aerospace

experience. The capstone design series provides the students with valuableexperience in their final undergraduate year by allowing them to participate in a team-oriented design project much like the world they will enter as professional engineers. Toprovide order to the organization and maximize the efficiency of performance, thefundamental principles and tools of Systems Engineering formed the foundation uponwhich the work was based. The students developed and refined the requirements,organized themselves into disciplinary teams, established milestone schedules, anddeveloped a working structure focused on communication and accountability.IntroductionThe Capstone Design series is critical to the undergraduate engineering curriculum interms of

Collection

1996 Annual Conference

Authors

N. A. Pendergrass

Seem Like Play," Syllabus, Engineering & Science, pp. 12-16, Number 2, Fall 1993.[8] “Sound Analysis Laboratory For Undergraduates,” Ismail Jouny, Patrick S. Hamilton, and G. Lyle Hoffman, ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings, pp. 654-657, June 25-28, 1995.[9] “The CUPLE Physics Studio,” Jack M. Wilson, Core Engineering, School of Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 1995.[10] “Cooperative Learning: Effective Teamwork for Engineering Classrooms,” Karl A. Smith, Proceedings of the Frontiers in Education Conference, November 1-4, 1995.[11] Linear Systems and Signals, B. P. Lathi, Berkeley-Cambridge Press, California, 1992.[12] Signals and Systems, Alan V. Oppenheim, Alan S. Wilsky, Ian T. Young, Prentice- Hall, New

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Otto Fucik; Michael McKenna; Bogdan M. Wilamowski

bedesigned and implemented using the Foundation Series Software and the XC95108PC84 CPLDfrom Xilinx, Inc. In the later part of the course, students are introduced to VHDL hardwaredescriptive language.I. Introduction The digital course is a required course in all electrical and computer engineering curricula[1][2]. Often this course is also required for the computer science majors. Laboratory is alwaysan essential part of this course [3][4]. The content of this course is constantly being modified.Several years ago the concept of the PLD was introduced [3][5]. HDL is now being introducedinto the digital design courses [6][7]. The digital design course at the university of Wyoming isoffered in the second semester of the sophomore year, for both

Collection

2003 GSW

Authors

Ifte Choudhury; Ricardo E. Rocha; Richard Burt

writing in the discipline (WID) 2.This method of writing allows students to become accustomed to the style of writingassociated with their disciplines and immerses them in the professional dialogue of theirfield 2.Writing across the curriculum at its onset uses the approach that every teacher, instructoror professor should become aware and should introduce into his respective classroom andcurriculum, the requirement of student participation by writing 6.Writing across the curriculum is a theory of writing rested on the basis of deemingwriting as a revised process, not a consecutively manufactured product. Other theoreticalcomponents of writing across the curriculum can be summarized as follows: 1. An interdisciplinary dialogue on writing that

Conference Session

Experimentation and Laboratory-Oriented Studies Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Matthew Vincent Bartolomeo, The Cooper Union; Amanda Lombardo, The Cooper Union; Michael Colella, The Cooper Union; George J. Delagrammatikas, The Cooper Union

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Experimentation and Laboratory-Oriented Studies

systems in Fall 2018, but has also unofficially been involved in helping the team with rapid prototyping for several years.Michael Colella, The Cooper Union I am a current senior Mechanical Engineering student at The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art. Throughout my four years as an undergraduate student, I have been an avid member of the Formula SAE team, working on various vehicle subsystems. For the past two years, I have been in charge of the frame subsystem.Dr. George J. Delagrammatikas, The Cooper Union George J. Delagrammatikas is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at The Cooper Union for the Ad- vancement of Science and Art in New York City. He is the Director of STEM Outreach which is com