Conference Session

Design in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Florian Misoc, Southern Polytechnic State University; Jeff Wagner, Southern Polytechnic State University

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

responsibilityregarding professional competencies of engineering graduates.This study will be the foundation for the design and development of multi-functional laboratoryequipment, designed to accommodate most experiments associated with topics covered incourses of power electronics. The power electronics lab equipment will be employed as asupplement instructional aid, providing the students and instructors with a unique work-benchfor power electronic topics, exhibiting the required flexibility and safety for a large spectrum oflaboratory experiments. The power electronics equipment would exhibit the required flexibilityand safety for a large spectrum of laboratory experiments, and will include features that wouldaccommodate interfacing with embedded systems

Conference Session

Fostering Student Learning

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alexandra Emelina Coso, Georgia Institute of Technology; Reid Bailey, University of Virginia

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

program is toenable students to work on interdisciplinary engineering projects requiring an understanding ofelectrical and computer design and systems analysis. Over the course of three years in theprogram, students are required to complete coursework in both the SE and ECE departments,including two joint laboratory courses in the third year and a team-based, interdisciplinarycapstone project in the fourth year.Participants for this study were second-year engineering students within the SE and ECEdepartments. Data for this study was collected between October 2009 and March 2010, focusingon the first cohort of LEP students and their non-LEP counterparts. The first cohort to begin thisprogram started in the fall of 2009 with 14 students. Of those

Conference Session

Instrumentation Division Technical Session 3

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David R. Loker, Penn State Erie, The Behrend College; Stephen A. Strom, Penn State Erie, The Behrend College

Tagged Divisions

Instrumentation

College Stephen Strom is a lecturer in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Technology department of Penn State Behrend, and holds a B.S. in electrical engineering from Carnegie Mellon University. His career includes over thirty years experience in designing and programming embedded systems and has multiple patents for both hardware designs and software algorithms c American Society for Engineering Education, 2019 Innovative Laboratory Projects for a Measurements and Instrumentation CourseAbstractA typical Electrical and Computer Engineering Technology program includes a 3-credit upper-division Measurements & Instrumentation course with an embedded

Conference Session

Accreditation and Related Issues in ECE

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Lyle Feisel; George Peterson

at community colleges,and mature part-time students working their way through school. In response to this growinggroup of non-traditional students, many institutions are attempting to increase access to programsby experimenting with alternative educational delivery systems. Some courses employcorrespondence study, for instance, others one-way and two-way audio, video, or internet-basedlearning. Many are using a combination of both. In some cases, distance education may be asnear as the on-campus residence halls, the library, a student’s bedroom, or his or her workplace.One of the unique features of an educational program in a practice-oriented discipline such asengineering is that of the live, hands-on laboratory and design experience. If a

Conference Session

Engineering Student Experiences

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Janet Callahan Ph.D., Boise State University; Patricia Pyke, Boise State University; Susan Shadle Ph.D., Boise State University; R. Eric Landrum, Boise State University

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

engineering course including a special section formathematically underprepared students, research experiences for lower division andunderrepresented students, and a variety of other recruitment and mentoring strategies.Research on student success conducted during the grant illuminated various barriers encounteredby students. For example, in the 2005-2006 academic year, 52% and 49% of students who tookCalculus 1 and Calculus 2 at our university passed with a C or better, respectively – anextraordinarily low pass rate for these courses, given that the entry level ACT/SAT mathscores/prerequisites were not dissimilar to those set by other universities. The outcomes of thisresearch made us question our own assumptions, revealing that the level of

Conference Session

Implementation of the Civil Engineering Body of Knowledge and Recent ABET Experiences

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tomasz Arciszewski, George Mason University; Michael Bronzini, George Mason University; Mark Houck, George Mason University

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

Infrastructure Engineering (CEIE) in the Volgenau School of Information Technology and Engineering at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia, and is also the Chair of the CEIE Department. Prior positions include Director of the Center for Transportation Analysis at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Chair of the Department of Civil Engineering at Penn State University, Director of the Transportation Center and Professor of Civil Engineering at the University of Tennessee, and Assistant professor of Civil engineering at Georgia Tech. Bronzini holds the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Penn State and a B.S. degree from Stanford University, all in Civil Engineering. He has 42 years of experience in

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robi Polikar, Rowan University; Ravi Ramachandran, Rowan University; Linda Head, Rowan University; Maria Tahamont, Rowan University

accompanied by appropriate hands-on laboratory Page 12.972.5experience, has been shown to improve students’ motivation, help them better adapt to industry,make better connection between theory and practical design, and enhance creativity, analyticalthinking, and communication skills 8-12 . Towards this objective, we strategically selectexperiments that demonstrate solutions to multidisciplinary problems that students can associatewith their own daily experiences. We further believe that achieving this objective will also allowus to increase recruitment and retention of engineering students. This is because, introducingscience, engineering

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James L. Hanson, California Polytechnic State University; David J. Elton, Auburn University; Kirk Vandersall, Arroyo Research Services

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees

(PrimarilyUndergraduate Institution) and Auburn University (Research-1 Institution). Synchronous videoconferencing was conducted between university classrooms and practitioners. In some cases,international partners (both practitioners and universities) were involved in the conferencingactivities. Video productions were assigned and completed by students in lieu of conventionalwritten laboratory reports. For selected assignments, graphics-only (i.e., no words) or audio-onlydocumentation of laboratory experiences was required. All of the activities have been undertakento investigate the pedagogical benefits of incorporating unconventional learning styles intoteaching of geotechnical engineering laboratory courses. Assessment of these learning activitiesis

Conference Session

Professional Development Programs for Teachers

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Anant Kukreti, University of Cincinnati; Patricia McNerney, University of Cincinnati; Suzanne Soled, University of Cincinnati; Kelly Obarski, University of Cincinnati; Mingming Lu, University of Cincinnati; Richard Miller, University of Cincinnati; Daniel Oerther, University of Cincinnati; Heng Wei, University of Cincinnati; Thaddeus Fowler, University of Cincinnati

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

a.m. to noon each day with aCEE faculty member and a dedicated graduate student on a research project for six weeks duringthe summer in their laboratories. In the afternoon from 1:00 to 5:00 p.m. the teachers tookprofessional development seminars taught by education and engineering faculty members andpracticing engineers, and went on four field trips. They also worked with a team of engineeringand education graduate Fellows working for a NSF Graduate K-12 Fellows Grant to developlesson plans that would be implemented in their classrooms before they finished the summer Page 11.183.3RET summer experience. They presented their research findings

Conference Session

Biomedical Engineering Division: Supporting and Evaluating Student Learning in BioE/BME Courses

Collection

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Leann Dourte Segan, University of Pennsylvania

coursehistorically meets in person but was moved online due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The virtualGather space was designed to look similar to the bioengineering lab on campus (Figure 1). The20 students enrolled in the course had previously completed approximately ten months of virtualcourses due to the pandemic and therefore had experience with virtual learning platforms ingeneral.Figure 1: Screenshot showing part of the bioengineering Gather laboratory space includingnumbered lab benches, the image of a safety shower station and a sink. Other elements in thespace not shown are an entryway, podium and the instructor’s office. The instructor’s avatar canbe navigated through the space and would be able to video chat with other proximity-based users(not shown

Conference Session

Educational Strategies in Architectural Engineering

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Peter Laursen P.E., California Polytechnic State University; Cole C McDaniel, California Polytechnic State University; Graham C. Archer P.Eng, California Polytechnic State University

Tagged Divisions

Architectural

computersimulations. Weeks 9 and 10 are devoted to a student self-designed experiment. The experimentmust explore dynamic features of a real building and must involve comparison with analyticalmodels.Table 1 – Course outline Weeks Topic Description Equip- Analytical ment. * models required 1 Laboratory - Introduction to measurement E1, E3, measurements techniques for acceleration and M2 and signal signal processing processing - Use of the Fourier Transform and Power Spectrum 2 Ambient - Determination

Conference Session

Design Communications

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David Jonassen, University of Missouri; Tamara Knott, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Richard Goff, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

Page 13.1062.2text [4]. In that model, the design process includes problem definition based on clientstatement, conceptual design, preliminary design, detailed design, and designcommunication.In our research, we are attempting to scaffold meaningful conversations among designteams in order to improve the quality of their designs. While the construction of sharedknowledge occurs naturally in authentic work groups (project teams, scientificcommunities, etc.), the structure and methods employed in most university courses do notsupport these processes. Most instructional activities, such as laboratories and writingassignments, are individualistic. However, trends toward the integration of active andcollaborative learning methods in large

Conference Session

Civil Engineering Division Poster Session

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Matthew William Wooden, Purdue University Northwest; Jiliang Li P.E., Purdue University Northwest; Evan Laviolette, First Group Engineering, Inc.; Yun Liu, Purdue University Northwest

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

. Justin Salgado and Mingkun Yang are acknowledged forhelping participate and complete the laboratory design and demonstration activities. Thearticle is written with the purpose of emphasizing the critical importance of teaching soilmechanics lessons by involving students’ personal experience as students’ personalexperience may mean everything in their future professional career. The voice, opinionsand remarks conveyed in the paper does not reflect any organization’s endorsement butpurely the authors’ own observations and remarks.References1. Felder M., Richard & Silverman, Linda. (1988) “Learning and Teaching Styles in Engineering Education.” Engineering Education, 78(7), 674-681.2. Nieves, Marie. (2017), “Soil Investigation-What is it and

Collection

1998 Annual Conference

Authors

David M. Hata

a vacuum training system. They took Varian’s mini-pumpingstation design and added a baseplate/bell jar chamber, roughing line, and additionalgauges.Varian Vacuum Products, at their expense, built a prototype of the vacuum training sys-tems and made it available to the development team. Ten experiments were then writtenfor the Varian Trainer.In 1996, Portland Community College received an Instrumentation and Laboratory Im-provement (ILI) Grant to equip a five-station vacuum systems laboratory.4 The laboratorywas implemented and supported vacuum technology courses during the Spring quarter of1997 and again during the Fall quarter of 1997.In addition, Portland Community College and the Maricopa Advanced Technology Center(MATEC) are co

Conference Session

ET Pedagogy II

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sudhir Shrestha, Sonoma State University; Farid Farahmand, Sonoma State University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

highlypositive. In addition, the survey indicated that these laboratories helped the students acquire abetter understanding of engineering field, and to raise their interests in engineering programs.The developed laboratories, implementation methods, and assessment results, including studentfeedback and responses, are presented and discussed.IntroductionProject-based engineering laboratories have been widely accepted as more effective tools inimproving student engagement, learning experience, and understanding of the course materials[1-3] compared to laboratories with predefined experiments that do not motivate all students andoften result in missed learning opportunity [4]. Open-ended design experience has also beenshown to significantly improve

Conference Session

SPECIAL SESSION: Describing the Engineering Student Learning Experience Based on CAEE Findings: Part 2

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Russell Korte, The University of Texas-Tyler; Sheri Sheppard, Stanford University; William Jordan, CRL-Stanford University

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

experiences to their education.1. IntroductionMany in industry and academia judge the preparation of new engineers for work to be less thanadequate. Efforts to improve the curricula and practices of engineering education include morecollaborative and socially based pedagogies (e.g., design thinking, problem-based learning, andcooperative learning), as well as more experiences based in the workplace, e.g., ABET’sprofessional skills and the attributes of the Engineer of 20204, 5, 6.These efforts haverecommended significant revisions to engineering curricula by expanding the content ofengineering from its traditional focus on the application of math and science to broader, sociallyand design-based curricula. These discussions tend to focus on

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Xuemin Chen, Texas Southern University; Lawrence O Kehinde P.E., Texas Southern University; Yuhong Zhang, Texas Southern University; Shahryar Darayan, Texas Southern University; David O. Olowokere, Texas Southern University; Daniel Osakue, Texas Southern University

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees

AC 2011-914: USING VIRTUAL AND REMOTE LABORATORY TO EN-HANCE ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGY EDUCATIONXuemin Chen, Texas Southern UniversityProf. Lawrence O Kehinde P.E., Texas Southern UniversityProf. Yuhong Zhang, Texas Southern UniversityShahryar Darayan, Texas Southern University Dr. Darayan received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from University of Houston in 1993. He is currently a professor and the program coordinator of Electronics Engineering Technology program at Texas Southern University. His research area applies to electromagnetic and instrumentation, computer hardware and software design, progarm assessment, and laboratory development.David O. Olowokere, Texas Southern UniversityMr. Daniel Osakue, Texas Southern

Conference Session

New Faculty Issues and Concerns

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Juan Lopez; Roger Gonzalez; Paul Leiffer

objective of this paper is to elaborate on our experience and themethodology that we have found to be effective in developing a successful undergraduateresearch laboratory and research program at a strictly undergraduate engineering institution.MethodsWe have found that a minimum of three strategic objectives, as stated below, are needed toimplement an undergraduate research program with no support from graduate students.Supportive Educational CurriculumFirst, research must be woven into the broader educational curriculum – at a minimum during thesenior year. This is affected by how the department or division views the role of research in theeducational process. If it views it positively, how does it specifically seek to encourage it andsupport its

Conference Session

Engineering Libraries Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

William W. Tsai, California State University, Maritime Academy; Amber Janssen MLIS, California State University, Maritime Academy

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Libraries

presents a study examining the effect of direct information fluency instruction in aMechanical Engineering senior capstone laboratory course. An experiment was designed wherethe students examined different drag reduction techniques on heavy vehicles. This topic wasselected because the students would be forced to carry out a literature search beyond their fluidmechanics textbook. The study was designed to examine a) students’ attitudes toward researchpractices and b) whether supplemental instruction activities in information fluency wouldproduce measurable improvements in the students’ information fluency skills. A researchattitudes survey given to the course corroborated past research that online tools are the preferredresearch tool and perceived

Conference Session

Critical Conversations on Being Valued

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Minha R. Ha, York University; Jeffrey Harris, York University; Aleksander Czekanski , CEEA-ACEG

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Culture & Social Justice in Education, Equity

Paper ID #32371Engineering Students’ Experiences of Socially-mediated Exclusion andInclusion: Role of Actors and DiscoursesMs. Minha R. Ha, York University Minha is a PhD Candidate in Mechanical Engineering, whose qualitative research focuses on the socio- technical knowledge integration in engineering design practice. As an interdisciplinary researcher with formal training in Molecular Biology and Education Research, she integrates grounded theory and Critical Discourse Analysis methods in order to study the transdisciplinary aspects of responsible design. Inquiry learning and knowledge co-creation are at the heart of

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Manufacturing ET

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Manocher Djassemi

Session 3548 Using Cost-Saving Hard Automation Laboratory Projects in Manufacturing Education Manocher Djassemi Murray State UniversityAbstract This paper discusses the benefits of incorporating hard automation-oriented projects inmanufacturing laboratories. This approach enables academic programs with limited funding toprovide a valuable hands-on experience in factory automation to students while they are inschool, rather than leaving it to be learned in the workplace. Two examples of laboratory projectsinvolving high and low degrees of hard

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephen C. Crist

, and difference amplifiers. The properties of the transducers are also studied. Studentsare given laboratory exercises where they design such circuits to convert signals fromthermistors, strain gauges, and thermocouples to signals suitable for digitization. Students mustnot only learn the principles of the transducers and simple circuits; they must deal with havingonly certain parts available. The second half of the course covers the digital side of measuring systems. Studentslearn the basics of A-D and D-A conversion, and do one or two experiments using these devices.They also learn the basics of handshaking I/O. In the last experiment, students write a simpleBASIC program to accomplish handshaking input with their A-D converter using

Conference Session

Mechanics Division Technical Session 4

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Josue Njock Libii, Purdue University Fort Wayne

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Mechanics

about the open-ended nature of the assignment. 5. One student complained about the fact that working groups had to gather materials for the validation of their analyses on their own and about having to design experiments on their own. 6. Five students were not pleased and grumbled openly about the fact that they were required to write a report in a lecture course on mechanics.Discussion and ConclusionsOne can legitimately wonder about the relevance of this type of assignment in a Mechanics class.In our experience, the relevance of the assignment is threefold. It is relevant 1) as an applicationof theory: many students are attracted to engineering because they are “doers”; they want tomake things, and so, they want to see how

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Timothy McLaren

fabrication – are very different from traditional manufacturing processes. For this reason we believe that it is important for the students to have hands-on laboratory experience in the area of microelectronics manufacturing.2. Quality Principles: The experiments for the Microelectronics Learning Lab are structured around design, fabrication, and inspection (test). The students experience the entire process and are able to immediately use results to make improvements in the design and fabrication processes. This systems-level approach helps to illustrate total quality management (TQM) principles. Part of the lab experience entails detailed examination of not only the devices fabricated in the course, but also of various

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

John Hackworth

to the idea of VELs. As the process has evolved, however,most of these faculty have become more convinced that well designed experiences can be aseffective as, and in some cases even more effective than, traditional laboratories. In fact, anyoneteaching traditional laboratories is well aware that some students can get through the labs byleaning on a partner without ever experiencing the full value of the work.III. The EET 365 ModelThis particular paper deals with a junior laboratory course, EET 365, Electrical Power andMachinery Laboratory. This course requires as a co-requisite or prerequisite the lecture courseEET 360, Electrical Power and Machinery. The text for the course is Electric Machines, byCharles I. Hubert2.The EET365, Electrical

Conference Session

Energy Education Courses, Labs, and Projects II

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Hamid Arastoopour, Illinois Institute of Technology; Mohamed Shahidehpour, Illinois Institute of Technology; Joseph Clair P.E., Illinois Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Energy Conversion and Conservation

sustainability. All projects including IPROs and initiatives on-campus will include aspects that increase the students’ ability to interact with and learn from campus- wide energy and sustainability programs and initiatives. In this paper, we will discuss a few campus living laboratories/ initiatives namely: micro grids and renewable energy, composting, transportation, and recycling and reusing. These facilities not only will be used by students as a learning experience, but also are designed to motivate them to create new initiatives. Micro Grid -  In 2004-2006, the distribution system at IIT suffered 12 unplanned power outages that disrupted academic and administrative activities and damaged several

Collection

2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Thomas Hall

examined theeffects of sequencing of the instruction and the laboratory on teaching and learning. He foundthat there were no significant differences in posttest scores between the groups that usedcomputer simulation and those that used the hardware laboratory. Garren6 studied the use ofcomputer-aided design software to create digital electronics circuits and perform laboratoryexperiments compared with using actual digital components in the laboratory to perform thesame experiments. He found that the control and experimental groups were not significantlydifferent in their performance on a posttest at the completion of the semester. Moslehpour7evaluated the effectiveness of using computer-aided simulation to supplement traditionallaboratories in

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Elizabeth A. Stephan; Benjamin L. Sill; Matthew Ohland

described the pedagogical approaches used in these curriculum materials andhow those approaches were used in both sensor and non-sensor versions of the laboratories toisolate the benefit of using the sensors in the classroom.1 The pedagogical equivalency of thesensor and non-sensor versions is an assumption that underpins the research design.2 This paperfocuses on updates to one of the parallel (sensor / non-sensor) laboratories, the development of anew parallel laboratory, and the extension of what we have learned about using the sensors in theclassroom to exercises that cannot be designed as parallel laboratories because they cannot beconducted without the use of real-time sensors.Ongoing laboratory developmentThree lab modules are presented in

Conference Session

Using Technology and Research-based Instructional Practices in BME

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Casey Jane Ankeny, Arizona State University; Sarah E. Stabenfeldt, Arizona State University

Tagged Divisions

Biomedical

analysis appropriate for their custom experimental design, dependingon experimental design. Each lab was scaled to be completed in 90 minutes. This allows formultiple mini-sessions in the allotted period, resulting in smaller groups and a variety ofhypotheses. Further, this course design allowed students at a large institution to have a morepersonal, hands-on experience. This laboratory was developed for 120 students meeting duringthe same three hour block. Total costs per student for the four modules were $35 per student.A student knowledge and value survey called the Scientific Literacy and Student Value inInquiry-guided Lab Survey (SLIGS) was created, validated, and used to assess the inquiry-guided pedagogy. The SLIGS is comprised of two

Conference Session

Mobile Robotics in Education

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael Parten, Texas Tech University; Michael Giesselmann, Texas Tech University

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education

the project labs have the same basic objectives. At the completion of this coursestudents should be able to: 1. Identify, analyze and solve electrical or computer engineering problems by applying knowledge of mathematics, science and engineering with modern engineering tools. 2. Design a system, component or process to meet desired needs within realistic constraints 3. Communicate effectively through oral presentations and group discussions. 4. Communicate effectively through written reports and other documents. Page 12.1066.2 5. Design and conduct scientific and engineering experiments, and to analyze and interpret the