Collection

2010 ASEE Zone 4 Conference

Authors

Kurt Colvin; Jim Kish

1 Bicycle Frame Building for Engineering Undergraduates Kurt Colvin, Ph.D., P.E. and Jim Kish Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo / Kish FabricationAbstractThe common safety bicycle design first appeared in Brittan in the 1870s. In the 130 years since,engineers and craftsmen have created hundreds of new bicycle designs, fabrication methods,materials and components. However, the simplistic diamond frame design has survived, is stillcommercially available and fully functional. The bicycle itself provides a rich learning platform inwhich to illustrate topics such as design

Conference Session

New Research & Trends for Minorities in Engineering

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Maria M. Larrondo Petrie, Florida Atlantic University; Ivan Esparragoza, Pennsylvania State University

Tagged Divisions

Minorities in Engineering

http://www.ashe.orgthe American Hospital AssociationAmerican Society of Highway Engineers http://www.highwayengineers.orgASHRAE American Society of Heating, Refrigeration and http://www.ashrae.org/Air Conditioning EngineersASM International (The Materials Information Society) http://www.asm-intl.org/ASME American Society of Mechanical Engineers http://www.asme.org/ASNE American Society of Naval Engineers, Inc. http://www.navalengineers.org/ASNT American Society for Nondestructive Testing, Inc. http://www.asnt.org/ Page 15.874.4ASPE American Society of Plumbing Engineers

Conference Session

Engineering in the Elementary School

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Elizabeth Parry, North Carolina State University; Laura Bottomley, North Carolina State University; Elizabeth Miars, Rachel Freeman Elementary School; Lizette Day, Rachel Freeman Elementary School

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

AC 2008-1728: GEARING UP FOR THE FUTURE: A K-12/UNIVERSITYPARTNERSHIP TO CREATE AN ENGINEERING MAGNET ELEMENTARYSCHOOLElizabeth Parry, North Carolina State University ELIZABETH A. PARRY is currently the Project Director of RAMP-UP, a K12 math outreach program funded by the GE Foundation and the National Science Foundation GK-12 Program. She obtained her BS degree in engineering management with a minor in mechanical engineering from the University of Missouri-Rolla in 1983. After over 10 years with IBM, she has spent the last 20 years working on K-12 engineering and STEM issues and initiatives, particularly in support of underrepresented groups.Laura Bottomley, North Carolina State University

Conference Session

Systems Engineering Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sanjay Jayaram, Saint Louis University; Michael A. Swartwout, Saint Louis University

Tagged Divisions

Systems Engineering

Paper ID #12760Systems Engineering Entrepreneurship Modules Across Aerospace Engineer-ing CurriculumDr. Sanjay Jayaram, Saint Louis University, Parks College of Eng. Dr. Sanjay Jayaram is an associate professor in the Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering Department of Saint Louis University. He obtained his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from University of Central Florida in 2004. He teaches control systems/mechatronics, space systems engineering and astronautics related courses as well as engineering sciences courses. He has published several peer reviewed journal and conference papers in these areas. His research areas

Conference Session

Electrical Engineering Technology Design Projects & Curriculum

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Youakim Al Kalaani, Georgia Southern University; Frank Goforth, Georgia Southern University; Shonda Bernadin, Georgia Southern University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

resolution positioning.Shonda Bernadin, Georgia Southern University Shonda L. Bernadin is an Assistant Professor of Engineering Studies in the Department of Mechanical & Electrical Engineering Technology at Georgia Southern University. Dr. Bernadin received her B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from Florida A&M University, her M.S. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from University of Florida, and her Ph.D. degree from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Florida State University in 2003. Her research interests include speech signal processing, wavelet analysis and speech recognition

Conference Session

Electrical and Computer Engineering Division (ECE) Poster Session

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mohammad Ashraf Khan, Saginaw Valley State University; Yu Zou, Saginaw Valley State University; Wesley Beck, Saginaw Valley State University

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer Engineering Division (ECE)

].Circuit Theory course is a required and basic course for many disciplines. In the day and age,vehicle technology is transformed into autonomous vehicle. This transformation became possiblebecause of the multi-disciplinary effort by Electrical, Mechanical and Computer Engineering andScience and it continues [2]. Therefore, the course is of great importance not only in Electricalengineering, but also in other engineering fields. The challenges faced by students aremultifarious; however, the non-Electrical engineering student face unique [3] ones because of theperspective and need of the respective departments. The challenges students face in the courseare mostly because of the nature of it. Even though it is an introductory engineering course

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division Technical Session 7

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Constanza Miranda, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile; Isabel Hilliger, Pontificia Universidad Catholica de Chile

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

research was conducted to inform engineering education about team negotiationpatterns embedded in project-based courses in engineering design. A qualitative approach wasused to describe boundary objects and trading zones emerging from engineering students’teamwork.    Participants Research Site 1: Students from Northern California University    During 2011-2012, we launched an ethnographic 9 month-long study with a particularcommunity of students taking a mechanical engineering design course. This course worked inlocal and global teams (as it partnered with foreign universities) to solve ill-defined challengesproposed by (usually) a Silicon Valley based company. The course looked to yield innovativesolutions from an engineering design point of

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Catherine Mcgough Spence, Minnesota State University, Mankato; Emilie A. Siverling, Minnesota State University, Mankato; Michelle Soledad, Virginia Tech

Tagged Topics

Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

State University, Mankato. She has a Ph.D. in Engineering Education, an M.S.Ed. in Curriculum and Instruction - Science Education, and a B.S. in Materials Science and Engineering.Dr. Michelle Soledad, Virginia Tech Michelle Soledad, Ph.D. is a Collegiate Assistant Professor in the Department of Engineering Education at Virginia Tech. Her research and service interests include teaching and learning experiences in fun- damental engineering courses, faculty development and support initiatives – including programs for the future engineering professoriate, and leveraging institutional data to support reflective teaching practices. She has degrees in Electrical Engineering (B.S., M.Eng.) from the Ateneo de Davao University

Conference Session

ERM Technical Session 17: Student Cognitive Development

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Eunsil Lee, Arizona State University; Adam R. Carberry, Arizona State University

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

toward Engineering Education a year later. Her research interests currently focuses on engineering doctoral students in underserved populations such as women and international students.Dr. Adam R. Carberry, Arizona State University Dr. Adam Carberry is an associate professor at Arizona State University in the Fulton Schools of Engi- neering Polytechnic School. He earned a B.S. in Materials Science Engineering from Alfred University, and received his M.S. and Ph.D., both from Tufts University, in Chemistry and Engineering Education respectively. His research investigates the development of new classroom innovations, assessment tech- niques, and identifying new ways to empirically understand how engineering students and

Conference Session

Abroad Educational Opportunities in Engineering

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Fazil Najafi

each responsibility can now satisfy the “Four Pillars ofResponsibility”. The basis for the proposed curriculum comes from the United States Navy’sEducational Skill Requirement’s (SR’s) for receiving a Facilities Engineering SubspecialtyProfession Code (P-Code) 2. While the Navy does not directly categorize their SR’s into the 4pillars of responsibility as we have delineated, an analysis shows hat they do indeed fall into the 4pillars.The Navy’s Educational Skill Requirements are as follows:1. Understand the principles of and be able to organize, plan, direct, coordinate, and controlactivities where people, money, and materials are efficiently and economically combined toprovide effective engineering and facilities support services. Implicit is

Collection

1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Shirley Pomeranz

1998 fall semester represented the Departments ofMathematical and Computer Sciences (five students), Mechanical Engineering (four students),Petroleum Engineering (two students), and Chemical Engineering (one student). My experiencesand observations, as well as student comments, are presented in the following sections of thispaper.2. Mathematica version of the courseThe new features of the course this 1998 fall semester, included the use of a text that specificallychooses Mathematica as its associated software package. The text is Numerical Solutions forPartial Differential Equations, Victor Ganzha and Evgenii Vorozhtsov, CRC Press, 1996. Theauthors provide a disk with Mathematica notebooks that is integrated with the text. The text's useof

Conference Session

Classroom Management

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bridget M. Smyser, Northeastern University

Tagged Divisions

New Engineering Educators

with an internet connection, the problem could be reframed as, “You studiedsomething like this in Mechanics of Materials. If you can’t remember how this works, trylooking it up online.” This often led to considerable discussion among the students as they triedto remember their past courses, debated the merits of various online sources, and checked witheach other and with the instructor about whether a particular approach made sense. Another gooduse of technology was to have them look up sensor specifications on manufacturers’ websites.These specs are often confusing to students who are new to them, and they can be difficult to Page

Conference Session

Instructional Design

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Naveen Seth, New Community College at CUNY; Donald P. O'Keefe, Farmingdale State College

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Economy, Engineering Management, Industrial Engineering, Systems Engineering

graduate level and Aa and Ab underABET’s Criterion 3.Conceptual clarityPurposeEngineering Economics courses integrate and build on material and concepts from several fieldssuch as mathematics, statistics, economics and/or finance, depending on the structure of aparticular program of study. Some of these concepts may be encountered in prerequisite courses;others may be directly addressed in an engineering economics course.Bringing together all these strands of information in a meaningful and coherent way can bechallenging. However, it is important to do so to enable students to make the relevantconnections and to incorporate them into exercises and assignments in their EngineeringEconomics course.For example, learning the mechanics of computations

Collection

1996 Annual Conference

Authors

William W. Predebon; Peck Cho; Diana George; Linda M. Ott; Philip Sweany

form and policy ò Attribution Theory applied to faculty in their teaching ò Myths about teacher evaluations - facts and fiction ò Characteristics of effective teaching5, 6SESSION II: MTU Students and Learning Differences The objective of this session is to access and address assumptions about students in order to discusslearning needs of MTU students. The topics in this session will help faculty to connect with the following: (1)teaching and learning are inseparable, (2) teachers can't teach students they don't know, and (3) the longerteachers teach, the more they tend to leave out because the material seems self-evident. It included: ò student assumption workshop with data on MTU

Conference Session

First-Year Programs Division (FYP) - Technical Session 8: Skill Building

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Matthew J. Haslam, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University - Prescott; Jonathan M. Adams, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University - Prescott; Robert Gerrick, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University - Prescott

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs Division (FYP)

apply an approach used for oneproblem to similar problems. Although their depth of understanding was superficial, they provedcapable of communicating the analyses. Their final reports and presentations described theanalyses clearly, and when questioned about their analyses by outside reviewers, they answeredcompetently.Besides giving the students the tools to solve the immediate problems for their projects, thisinstruction will provide them with context as they dive into the concepts more thoroughly in theirlater courses. Because they will have seen how to apply the concepts to real-world applications,they should better see the value in the material. They should also recognize that each course doesnot exist in a vacuum. Rather each real-world

Conference Session

Math and K-12-Freshman Transitions

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Tan-Yu Lee; John Dantzler; Robert Leland; Jim Richardson

difficult, but well defined problems because this is a majordeficiency in the students we see.To develop problem solving skills, it is important for students to solve problems in which theymust select the mathematical tools to solve the problem11. The use of cumulative reviewproblems, drawing on all previous material, resulted in increased problem solving ability9. Incontrast, typical textbook exercises rely mainly on recent content, and give students sufficientclues to select solution techniques without understanding the concepts well enough to apply themin new contexts.Problem solving courses for engineers exist at many universities. Specific instruction about theproblem solving process has had positive effects, but often did not transfer to

Conference Session

International Engineering Education II

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Saeed Foroudastan, Middle Tennessee State University; Lee Poe, Middle Tennessee State University; Olivia Dees, Middle Tennessee State University

Tagged Divisions

International

2006-704: INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATION FOR INDUSTRYSaeed Foroudastan, Middle Tennessee State University Dr. Saeed D. Foroudastan is the Associate Dean of the College of Basic and Applied Sciences and Professor of Engineering Technology. He received his B.S. in Civil Engineering (1980), his M.S. in Civil Engineering (1982), and his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering (1987) from Tennessee Technological University. Professor Foroudastan's employment vitae includes: Assistant professor of Mechanical Engineering for Tennessee Technological University, Senior Engineer, Advanced Development Department, Textron Aerostructures, and Middle Tennessee State University. Professor

Collection

2024 ASEE North East Section

Authors

Brian Patrick Murphy, SUNY Buffalo State University

Paper ID #44988Seeing Sustainability in The Community, Practices on Campus, and How toEnergize the EffortsProf. Brian Patrick Murphy, SUNY Buffalo State University Brian P. Murphy, PE, SSBB, is currently a lecturer in Engineering Technology at the State University of New York (SUNY) Buffalo State University and has taught Mechanical Engineering Technology for about seven years at the community college level prior to his current role. Brian is earning his Dr. of Education in Educational Leadership and Change at SUNY Empire State University, expected in May of 2025. Brian is a retired Commander U.S. Navy, having served as a

Conference Session

FPD2 - First-Year Advising and Transition

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jean Kampe, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Whitney Edmister, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Christi Boone, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Bevlee Watford, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

Academyof Engineering and the National Research Council has concluded that “…community collegetransfer may be the primary mechanism for increasing the number of students pursuingengineering degrees, particularly under-represented minority students.”5 There are also studentswho transfer from one four-year institute to another, and these moves include both in-state andout-of-state transfers. Additionally, in the United States, several states have many small (e.g.,satellite) campuses that compose, in part, a state network that offers engineering only at a fewlarger universities in the system. Such state systems are typically designed to smoothlyaccommodate articulation to the larger university in order to provide ready access to highereducation across

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship Education: Cases and Models

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jane Laux, Arizona State University; Anshuman Razdan, Arizona State University

Tagged Divisions

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

vehicle that:• Advances life-cycle applied interdisciplinary research: from conceptualization through development.• Advances development of economic affairs by connecting small and medium size (technology) industries with ASU.• Is small in “R”, large in “D” and enormous in applied knowledge.• Promotes the concept of technology embeddedness in the community.• Taps into an underutilized knowledge capital (faculty and students) at ASU and is a revenue mechanism for ASU.• Acts as a funnel for incoming technology requests from SMEs.• Creates an umbrella or federation of participating labs with a uniform front and back end (contracts, IP, etc.).• Networks and provides outreach in the SME community to raise

Conference Session

Related Engineering Programs

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Laurie Cormier; Kelly Clark; Emily Ryan

cardboard box and brass pushpins. Three pins were pushed into the side of the box, andeach pushpin was connected to a small lamp with wire. A fourth pushpin was connected to thepower source. By touching one of the three pushpins in the box with the fourth pushpin, one ofthe lamps would light. The design for the switch is simple enough for a fifth grader to build andthe materials used are usually found in the classroom or can be purchased for a nominal cost.The undergraduate fellows are made of a diverse group of engineers. Among the fourundergraduates working with the GK-12 program, we have a chemical engineer, a civil engineer,a mechanical engineer and a biomedical/mechanical engineer. These undergraduates bringtogether their diverse backgrounds

Collection

1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Narayanan Komerath

decide that engineering is not for them. A greater fraction, being goodat anything they do, find themselves following their classmates, the majority of whom areenrolled in Mechanical and Electrical Engineering. They hear too often that these disciplines aremuch more “general” than A.E., and that A.E. is “too hard”. These superstitions are general, bothworldwide and through the decades. In the mid-90s, attrition rates climbed as bad news keptpouring in from the traditional employers of A.Es.Getting into TroubleThe Introduction to Aerospace Engineering course has existed for a long time, intermittently. Itsadvocates pointed to the perspective and motivation it provided; its detractors called it an “easy-A” waste of a good 3 credit hours on PR

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session I

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rebecca A Atadero, Colorado State University; Christina Paguyo, Colorado State University; Karen E Rambo-Hernandez, West Virginia University; Heather Lysbeth Henderson, West Virginia University

Tagged Topics

Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

placed by 50-minute lecture periods. In ENGR 101 we had a panel of threeengineers representing electrical engineering, mechanical engineering and materials engineering.In fact the materials engineer was actually a materials scientist who emphasized the need forengineers to work on teams with other disciplines. (Civil engineering was not represented as thecourse instructor is a civil engineer). In CIVE 102 we had a panel of four engineers representingsub-disciplines of civil engineering: transportation, structures, water resources andenvironmental engineering. Each panel had two women participants. The ENGR 101 panel hadone African American woman, and the CIVE 102 panel had an Asian American male. Wedeveloped panel questions with the intent of

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Steven Chapra; Gary Huvard; David E. Clough

strength ofmaterials.The course plan includes 2 weeks on Web page creation using HTML. This is followed by themajor, 10-week segment on Excel and VBA. Of this, five weeks will be devoted to writing VBAfunctions and subroutines. A final 3-week segment introduces the use of Kaleidagraph for dataanalysis and the creation of publication quality graphs.For chemical engineers, the freshman course will set the stage for teaching advanced problem-solving and programming skills using Excel, VBA, and Mathcad in the sophomore mass andenergy balances course and beyond. Mechanical and Electrical Engineering will introduceadvanced skills using Mathcad and Matlab, respectively, through the sophomore and junior year.Computer Science courses on programming

Collection

1996 Annual Conference

Authors

W. Bernard Carlson; Karin Peterson

, we challenge the students to think about thenature of engineering by having them build a mechanical clock timer kit and then preparing a series of writing andspeaking assignments related to the clock. The writing assignments include maintaining an engineering notebook,revising the kit’s assembly instructions, and preparing an illustrated technical description. The students also workin teams to design an improved clock timer, draft a patent application, and prepare a proposal for manufacturingand marketing their improved versions. To hone their public speaking skills, the student teams are required topresent their patents and manufacturing proposals before the class. By combining this hands-on exercise withcommunications assignments, this

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Computer ET

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Jay Porter; Joseph Morgan

Annual Conference and Exposition, Copyright  2003, American Society for Engineering Education • the evaluation of the wireless 802.11b infrastructure’s ability to support real-time control and full-motion video while the platform roamed from access point to access point. Beginning with the very first semester, student feedback was extremely positiveconcerning the new laboratories and course project. However, to remedy several student-identified mechanical and electrical problems with the technology, the mechanics of theplatform were redesigned over the winter break and two second generation MPII mobileplatforms, each with a common suite of hardware, were designed. At the onset of theSpring 2002 semester

Collection

2015 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Matthew J. Traum; Christopher F. Anderson; Christopher M. Pastore; Michael J. Leonard

ABET (d) outcome, an on-linerubric-style assessment (Appendix A) is being used. It was developed from templates created byReid and Cooney18,19 and evaluated in a previous interdisciplinary project for an outside clientinvolving industrial engineering and mechanical engineering content.20 It has not yet beenapplied to the program currently being evaluated since it is meant to gauge the cumulativeproject team experience at the end of the term. In addition, an instructor-completed rubric(Appendix B) was created to address all three ABET (d) outcomes. It was applied to midtermoral presentations in which student teams elucidated their design and down-selection processesfor project clients and course instructors. The results are given in Figure 3

Conference Session

New Trends in ECE Education I

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Daniel Raviv, Florida Atlantic University; Luan Leao Gloria, Florida Atlantic University/ Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

related to the process of gamification, which according to Professor Karl. M.Kapp3 is close to “adding game elements to non-game situations or to learning situations.”Gartner Group4 predicted, back in 2012, that “By 2015, 40 percent of Global 1000 organizationswill use gamification as the primary mechanism to transform business operations.” Sharing aconceptually similar approach, it is expected that introducing Control Systems concepts bymeans of puzzles is a strategy that can foster the learning process.It should be noted that the basic concept of relating the educational material to something thatstudents can relate to has being recently promoted in some other subjects. For example, TylerDeWitt, a student at MIT, and a high school teacher has

Conference Session

Program Evaluation Studies

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sara Boukdad, Bowman Creek Educational Ecosystem; Amy Blue Cuevas, Bowman Creek Educational Ecosystem; Marty Kennedy, Bowman Creek Educational Ecosystem

Tagged Divisions

Pre-College Engineering Education

as the targetdemographic for the program.In order to focus the educational research and feedback channels of the Academy, the followingresearch questions were developed:1) Is a non-formal learning environment beneficial to engaging students’ interests in STEMfields?2) What are the primary mechanisms of engaged learning?3) How can intermediate and early high school students best be engaged in place-basedlearning?The overarching objective was equipping BCA students with the knowledge and empowermentto make a difference in their neighborhoods. BCA decided to focus on two pillars: environmentalsustainability and youth empowerment. By drawing on the research questions, an hourlybreakdown of the technical aspects of the program was created. This

Conference Session

Molecular and Multiscale Phenomena

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Jason Keith

2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright @ 2004, American Society for Engineering Educationstudents and can take the time to attend one or two sub-team meetings throughout thesemester.Description of Fuel Cells ModuleWith the formation of the AFE Enterprise, students could take up to 8 credits of projectwork in the area of alternative energy. However, there is still a missing link between thestandard curricula for AFE’s student population (students come from chemicalengineering, electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, and materials science ofengineering majors) and alternative energy. Therefore, a one credit-module course will bedeveloped (and taught for the first