Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James Hanson, California Polytechnic State University

) establishing the importance of standardizedtesting methods and scale of experiments, and 4) higher level technical content related togeotechnical analysis and design. Pedagogical benefits included: 1) exploring the importance ofthe global engineering community, 2) bringing use of advanced video technology into theclassroom (both for conferencing and film productions), 3) technical, yet casual interaction witha practicing professional, 3) requiring students to use different learning styles in completing theassignments, and 4) requiring students to utilize unconventional communication and graphicsmodes in team settings.The participation of Nippon Koei in the classroom led directly to the development of a newexperiment included in the laboratory course

Conference Session

Chemical Engineering in Silico

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James P. Abulencia, Manhattan College

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

the LITEE case study involving ethics within an engineering framework. The selectedLITEE case study was the Lorn Manufacturing case study developed by Chet Plank [7]. Thiscase describes an incident involving Jim Russell, a maintenance worker at WMS Clothing, wholost three of the fingers on his left hand during a routine maintenance procedure on a cottonmanufacturing device called the Lap Winder. This occurred when the Lap Winder he wasmaintaining suddenly came on. He was suing Lorn Manufacturing Inc., the designers of the LapWinder device used in the textile mill, for negligence. The ultimate question to be decidedamong the students of the unit operations laboratory course in this case is whether Jim Russell,the Lorn Textile Manufacturing

Conference Session

Software Engineering Course Content

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sushil Acharya, Robert Morris University

Tagged Divisions

Software Engineering Constituent Committee

employ. Industry may also benefit by using academic facilities for their employee training in this field. At the moment only a few industry partners have expressed their requirements. More industries should be invited to advise academia fostering a strong sense of partnership between the two. • Role of Laboratory: Physical laboratories are important entities in academia where hands-on experience is imparted. It is important to keep this entity up-to-date. At the moment a Software Design Studio has been setup. However more hardware and software tools need to be installed. More operating system platforms and case-based videos are necessary to strengthen the activities conducted in this

Conference Session

Mentoring, Outreach, & Intro BME Courses

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Luke Herbertson; Daniel Cavanagh

courses. At Bucknell University, we have devised a seriesof laboratory experiments for our introductory course which is targeted for first-semestersophomore engineering and science students. Here we present two experimental laboratoryexercises that have been designed to provide students with hands-on experiences in the areas ofbiotransport and biomaterials. For the biotransport laboratory, we have designed, constructedand implemented a hemodialysis simulation unit. This system consists of a recirculating “blood”side consisting of an ionic aqueous solution, a single-pass “dialysate” flow path utilizingdeionized water, commercial hemodialyzers and various pressure and flow tranducers. With thesystem, students are able to analyze the effects of

Collection

2019 CIEC

Authors

Afshin Zahraee; Lakshman Mapa

Materials class, but it can also turn into a laboratory experiment. Students can perform these tests to observe the tensile properties of something other than a standard specimen they generally work on. They can see failures up close and personal and connect what they learn in the classroom to a hands-on experience as seen in Figure 2. • This is a perfect example of experiential learning for the undergraduate students. Students are performing industry projects and can become familiar with industry standards and are performing potential tests they may encounter in the field. This particular project also allows students to use design concepts they learned in class to create fixtures for the Tinius Olsen

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Weis

curriculum and newlaboratories meet industry, American Chemical Society, and TAC-ABET standards.I. IntroductionThe State of Delaware has a critical need for high quality advanced education in chemicalengineering technology. The chemical industry, which is a major part of the state’s economy, isvery diverse with businesses ranging from pharmaceuticals, to specialty and commoditychemicals, to large scale processing of plastics and petroleum products. With the rapidmodernization of the chemical industry, these companies require technicians entering theirworkforces to have greater academic knowledge and laboratory-based experiences related tocurrent and future job responsibilities. In addition, these firms will need trained candidates toreplace expected

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Douglas Goetz; Darin Ridgway; Ben Stuart; Valerie Young; Michael Prudich

safety,documentation, and planning. Each laboratory report grade represents an amalgamatedassessment of students’ progress towards all goals, so it cannot be used to assess progresstowards any of them. Assessing student progress in our course is additionally complicatedbecause students rotate through experiments supervised and graded by different professors.A criterion-based grading system, inspired by Walvood and Anderson’s Effective Grading: ATool for Learning and Assessment,1 was introduced at Ohio University. A standard gradingsheet for all experiments specifies “traits” indicative of progress towards each course goal (e.g.,the student’s proposed test matrix indicates ability to design an experiment) and criteria forgrading each trait. The

Conference Session

Experiential Learning in Chemical Engineering

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Susan M. Stagg-Williams, The University of Kansas; Molly McVey, The University of Kansas; Andrew David Yancey, The University of Kansas; Akash Anand, The University of Kansas; Arthur A. Lee, The University of Kansas

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

projectaccounts for approximately 35% of the course grade.Details of the Fall Semester Laboratory Component The design of the fall semester laboratory course started with a grant from the KansasSoybean Commission titled Beyond the Book: Active Learning through Biodiesel (#ALT-B).The specific goals of adding the laboratory were to: 1) Expose each student to the integrated nature of chemical engineering concepts by having them work on laboratories that were integrated from feedstock to product. 2) Increase material and concept retention so that students would remember the laboratory experience when presented with theoretical material and concepts in future courses. 3) Increase retention to the sophomore year. 4) Increase opportunities

Conference Session

The Computer, the Web, and the ChE

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

John Bell; Scott Fogler

laboratory.IntroductionPeople who are given a long list of written laboratory safety rules will follow those rules for onlya certain length of time before they become complacent and forgetful. Anyone who has everexperienced an actual accident, however, will remember that experience much longer than anyset of written rules. Obviously, it is not practical to deliberately cause accidents just to illustrateand emphasize lab safety procedures. Virtual reality offers an alternative that lies somewherebetween written rules and real experiences for its overall effectiveness.Virtual reality, ( VR ), is an interactive immersive three-dimensional computer technology withthe overall goal of creating a first-person experiential simulation so realistic and believable thatusers

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Yarrow Nelson; Charles Tritt

Session 1109 Rabbit Season – A Battery Based Laboratory Exercise for Engineering Students Charles S. Tritt, Ph.D. Milwaukee School Of EngineeringA laboratory investigation suitable for college freshmen is provided (see Appendix A). In thisexperiment, students investigated the performance of ordinary consumer batteries underspecified discharge conditions. The discharge conditions were those described in a internationalstandard for battery performance.1,2 The experiment was intended to introduce students theimportance and utility of

Conference Session

NSF Grantees' Poster Session

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Yalcin Ertekin, Drexel University (Engineering Technology); Irina Nicoleta Ciobanescu Husanu, Drexel University (Tech.); Radian G Belu, Drexel University (Tech.); Jack G. Zhou, Drexel University (Eng.)

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees Poster Session

aerospace engineering that encompasses both theoretical analysis and experimental inves- tigations such as designing and testing of propulsion systems including design and development of pilot testing facility, mechanical instrumentation, and industrial applications of aircraft engines. In the last eight years, Dr. Husanu gained experience in teaching ME and ET courses in both quality control and quality assurance areas. Dr. Husanu has addressed a broad spectrum of students. After instructing various levels of education, she was granted experience in thermal-fluid, energy conversion and mechanical areas. She also has extensive experience in curriculum development.Dr. Radian G Belu, Drexel University (Tech.) Dr. Radian

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Jr., Vernon Lewis; Carol Considine

coursesin the CET curriculum: CET 345, Testing & Inspection of Construction Materials, CET 341,Soils Testing and Inspection, and CET 400, Computer Applications in Structures, that do not fitinto the synchronous delivery format. CET 341 and CET 345 require laboratory equipment toperform the experiments, and CET 400 requires that students have access to a computer. In mostinstances, neither the laboratory equipment nor the computers for students are available at thebroadcast sites. Page 6.213.1 Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2001

Conference Session

Computers in Education Division Poster Session

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Todd D. Morton, Western Washington University; Ying Lin, Western Washington University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education

Paper ID #15677WORK IN PROGRESS: An Integrated DSP and Embedded MicrocontrollerLaboratory CurriculumProf. Todd D. Morton, Western Washington University Todd Morton has been teaching the upper level embedded systems and senior project courses for West- ern Washington University’s Electrical Engineering and Electronics Engineering Technology program for 27 years. He is the author of the text ’Embedded Microcontrollers’, which covers assembly and C pro- gramming in small real-time embedded systems and has worked as a design engineer at Physio Control Corporation and at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory as an ASEE-NASA Summer

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Phillip J. Cornwell; Charles Farrar

and their abstracts are listed below:• Characterization of Damping in Bolted Lap Joints Abstract: The dynamic response of a jointed beam was measured in laboratory experiments. The data were analyzed and the system was mathematically modeled to establish plausible representations of joint damping behavior. Damping was examined in an approximate, local linear framework using log decrement and half power bandwidth approaches. In addition, damping was modeled in a nonlinear framework using a hybrid surface irregularities model that employs a bristles-construct. Figure 1 - Instrumented lap joint Experimental and analytical results are presented.A picture of the lap joint studied is shown in Figure 1

Collection

2015 ASEE Zone 3 Conference

Authors

Sreelatha A. Subramanyam; David Beams; James K. Nelson

for implementation as software-based virtual laboratories while othersmay involve physical experiments that can be controlled remotely. Other laboratories require physicaltesting and experimentation methods that cannot be conducted remotely. The first type might includecircuit laboratories like VELVET; materials laboratories would be examples of the third type.Mechatronics laboratories would be examples of second type(a physical laboratory suitable for remotemanipulation). Laboratories which can be virtualized or made suitable for remote operation, allow moreengineering courses to be offered through distance education, thereby increasing the availability ofengineering education. The focus of this paper is a virtualized electronics laboratory

Conference Session

Bioengineering laboratories: Bringing research into the classroom

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alvin Post, Arizona State University; Qiang Hu, Arizona State University; Milton Sommerfeld, Arizona State University

Tagged Divisions

Biological & Agricultural

systems will prove more productive, but they are also more costly andthey present different technical challenges.Figure 1: Algae seeded into a full bioreactor tank.These systems are not particularly complex, but they do pose challenging and educationallyuseful engineering problems. Efficient algal production requires environmental control oftemperature, CO2 and pH levels, nutrients, aeration and mixing, and light. Design andconstruction of a reactor that maintains optimal environmental conditions and resists corrosionposes standard engineering problems that engineering students can successfully work through, Page 12.309.2with a sense of real

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Susan Sharfstein; Patricia Relue

Copyright  2001, American Society for Engineering Education• Students will learn laboratory techniques, to design and conduct experiments and to analyze and interpret data.• Students will apply concepts learned in previous courses to the design and analysis of experimental problems.• Students will prepare written and oral reports on laboratory results and findings.• Students will work in groups in the laboratory.• Students will gain an overview of the biotechnology industry, its role in society, and the role of bioengineers in the biotechnology industry.This paper will discuss the laboratory experiments in detail, the written and oral presentations bythe students and the outcomes of the laboratory. This laboratory course was

Conference Session

Understanding Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion from Students' Perspectives

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Shannon Massie Chance, University College London & Dublin Institute of Technology; Bill Williams, Instituto Politécnico de Setúbal

Tagged Topics

ASEE Diversity Committee, Diversity

6 9 47For this paper, we explore experiences described by women from the Middle East. Wecollected their first interviews, reviewed them, and considered the content usinginterpretive phenomenological methods. Then we designed this study and conductedfollow-up interviews with them during their third year of study. We use these interviewsto report here. Alongside the activity of analysing and reporting findings of that subset ofdata, we continued collecting interviews with them during their (current) fourth year.This work-in-progress aims to understand what this subset of students has experienced andhow they have experienced it. We use phenomenological methodologies to investigate andinterpret the

Conference Session

Identity and Engineering: ERM Roundtable

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Allison Godwin, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Gerhard Sonnert, Science Education Department, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics; Philip Michael Sadler, Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

DiscussionSignificant differences were found in male and female engineering students’ indicated out-of-school interests or experiences during grades 9-12 of high school (Table 2). More male studentsreported tinkering with mechanical or electrical devices, reading or watching science fiction,playing computer/video games, and writing computer programs or designing web pages. Morefemale students reported interacting with the natural world and participating in sciencegroups/clubs/camps. There were no significant differences by gender in engaging withchemistry, taking care of animals, participating in science/math competitions, reading orwatching non-fiction science, and talking with friends or family about science. Many math andscience competitions or programs

Conference Session

Nontraditional Ways to Engage Students

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Andrew Czuchry; W. Andrew Clark

living laboratories has not been fully utilized. The purpose of this paper is tosuggest a conceptual framework for closing this gap. This framework is based upon ourexperience working with graduate student teams on projects with the Oak Ridge NationalLaboratories Center for Entrepreneurial Growth and East Tennessee State University’s (ETSU’s)Innovation Laboratory. Both are high-technology business incubators striving to commercializetechnology developed in university or government laboratories. High-technology businessincubators present an excellent experiential learning opportunity for engineering and technologystudents faced with the challenge of translating theory to practice. Our experience, gainedthrough personal observation and via a

Conference Session

Multimedia and Distance Learning

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Steve Hsiung, Old Dominion University; John Hackworth, Old Dominion University; Richard Jones, Old Dominion University; June Ritchie, Old Dominion University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

Iowa State University in 1992.John Hackworth, Old Dominion University JOHN R. HACKWORTH is Program Director for the Electrical Engineering Technology program at Old Dominion University. He holds a B. S. Degree in Electrical Engineering Technology and a Master of Science Degree in Electrical Engineering from Old Dominion University. Prior to joining Old Dominion University, John had about 20 years of industrial experience. He is one of a few faculty members holding the special designation of University Professor.Richard Jones, Old Dominion University RICHARD L. JONES has been teaching at ODU since 1994. His areas of interest include digital and linear systems including hybrid circuits as

Conference Session

ECE Online Courses, Labs, and Programs

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Salvatore Morgera; Hanqi Zhuang

: classroom lecturing andhands-on practice through a remote setting; and (c) the course materials can also beoffered after modification to gifted high school students and, thus, be used as a vehicle toattract students to engineering disciplines. Since July 1, 2002 (the official starting date of the project), we have been activelyinvolved in developing the WIC Laboratory. After the laboratory is set up, it will have10 workstations that are inter-connected via campus LAN. Each workstation will consistof a PC, a data acquisition board, and other instruments. A web server and a processserver will run on every workstation. A number of web cameras will be installed in thelab. Students will be able to conduct WIC experiments, and Internet users will be

Collection

2021 Northeast Section Meeting

Authors

Ryan C Cooper

skills were evaluated with six problem-based learning (PBL) laboratories and aProject-based learning (PjBL) contest that had a cash prize. The technical writing skills wereimproved using specifications grading in all seven laboratories. Students were given a detailedrubric with a pass-fail threshold. Reports that did not meet the specification for pass, were revisedand resubmitted. The specifications grading provided a method for students to learn from failure.Over 50% of students increased technical writing quality. The Jupyter notebooks helped to closethe gap between rational and empirical design. In project-based learning, the students designedtheir own set of experiments including finite element analysis and experimental procedures

Conference Session

Service - Learning Projects

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Paul Boyle, Rice University; Brent Houchens, Rice University

Tagged Divisions

Environmental Engineering

light disinfection.Accompanying educational materials include lessons on contaminants, background informationon the methods, seven laboratory experiments and study questions. The Lab has beendemonstrated to over 300 students at several Houston-area schools (3rd -12th grade), thusdisseminating knowledge on sustainable water use while receiving valuable feedback to improvethe design. In addition to interactive demonstrations by students from Rice University, thesystem has been independently used by high school students in Houston for an Earth Daypresentation. The use of the Adaptive WaTER Lab for an independent project, supervised by theauthors and carried out by an underrepresented minority high school student, will be discussed.The student

Conference Session

Electrical & Computer Engineering Division Poster Session

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Christopher Carroll, University of Minnesota, Duluth

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

implemented, however, the display generatorprovides a good example of how basic digital components can be combined in innovative waysto produce a result that is not intuitive. Students who are initially dazzled by the puzzle ofcreating a seven-segment display on an analog oscilloscope learn something by understandingand using this circuit. That’s the goal.Described here are some applications that have been used in a digital design laboratory that eachemploy a distinctive seven-segment display produced on a standard analog oscilloscope. Thedisplay is unconventional, and probably not suitable for commercial implementations, but it is awonderful tool for inspiring students to study and understand digital applications. When studentssee a familiar

Conference Session

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

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ronald Welch, University of Texas, Tyler

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

engineering skills, and use modernengineering tools to solve problems.2. Can design and conduct experiments, as well as analyze and interpret data in more than one civilengineering sub-discipline.3. Can design systems, components, and processes and recognize the strengths and areas for possibleimprovement of their creative designs within realistic constraints such as regulatory, economic,environmental, social, political, ethical, health and safety, constructability, and sustainability.4. Can work independently as well as part of a multidisciplinary design team.5. Can identify, formulate, and solve engineering design problems using engineering models in the four ofthe five sub-disciplines civil engineering: structural engineering, transportation

Conference Session

Statistics in the CHE Curriculum

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Darin Ridgway; Valerie Young; Michael Prudich

placed on the use of the senior-level unit operations laboratory experience as acapstone statistics usage and assessment tool. This course provides the students with anopportunity to break out of the “chapter box” which is often characteristic of stand-alonestatistical methods courses. The courses also emphasize the point that experimental planningand design includes not only the selection of the experimental parameters to be studied, but alsothe planning of the data analysis and statistical treatments to be utilized in the interpretation ofthe experimental data that is acquired. The proper assessment of statistics-related performancein the senior-level laboratory courses provides end-of-program assessment data on studentstatistical skills and

Conference Session

Engrng Edu;An International Perspective

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

John Johansen; Jens Riis; Henrik Jorgensen; Claus Balken; James Luxhoj

Copyright © 2002, American Society for Engineering Education`Production System Design Laboratory that encouraged the integration of different manufacturingperspectives and viewpoints. Central to the laboratory design was the creation of a Model Bankthat was intended to be a knowledge repository of production theories and models, methods andtools, case examples, and practical experience. This framework was an important precursor tothe Experimental Laboratory for Production (ELP). Since 1996, researchers at AalborgUniversity through multiple case studies with Danish companies in the P+5 project havedemonstrated that it is possible to develop a manufacturing vision in practice (see Riis andJohansen1). During these series of industrial cases

Conference Session

Diversity and Global Experiences

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jamie Gomez, University of New Mexico; Vanessa Svihla, University of New Mexico

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Chemical Engineering

is a method that was developed toaddress the limitations of laboratory experiments in the social and behavioral sciences. Findingthat very few, even well-tested laboratory studies had impact on actual teaching and learning,researchers developed DBR as a way to test theories about how learning can be supported. DBRinvolves building a theory that takes context seriously and instantiating the theory into a designfor learning [46]. Iterative testing of the design under real world conditions provides anopportunity to assess both the design and the theory [5], [6].We were guided by the following research questions:RQ 1: How do sophomores’ and seniors’ assessments of their collective team’s professionalskills differ?RQ 2: Do sophomores show

Conference Session

Integrating Curriculum and Labs in ET Programs

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Warren A. Rosen, Drexel University (Eng. & Eng. Tech.); Irina Nicoleta Ciobanescu Husanu, Drexel University (Tech.); M. Eric Carr, Drexel University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

experimental setup may be devised as an open-ended design. In this way students gainknowledge about designing an experiment at physical and virtual level that should answer certainpre-designed requirements.Figure 6. Elevator VI.ResultsThe course, with revised laboratory exercises, was offered in the spring of 2014. Twenty-fourstudents completed the course. All but a few had no experience with either C or LabVIEW.The efficacy of the course was assessed using homework, lab reports, and midterm and finalexams. Scores for the first and last half of the term were evaluated separately. For the first half,the average scores were 80.7, 82.6, and 86.4 (100 maximum) for homework, lab reports, and themidterm. In addition, at the end of the first half of the